Feanor

Yep, this also concerns me. I hope Disney & Lucasfilm don’t expect the new movies to reach $1bn right out of the gate just because 4 out of 5 Disney SW will have done so (assuming TROS reaches that mark too), cause otherwise they’ll probably go into panic mode and hectic short-term decisions is not what Star Wars needs right now.

Could TFA even have grossed significantly more than $936M? (I’d consider anything above $40M significant at that stage) Imo, TFA already had everything going for it: It had a great calendar configuration, great WOM and critical reception and weak competition. I feel like it pretty much reached the peak of what realistically can be reached at today’s domestic box office. Ofc I’m open for someone with more BO knowledge than me proving me wrong, but I think TFA already reached the highest possible gross at the domestic box office for today’s market.

Oh no, how will Taylor Swift ever recover? I agree with this. Nothing in the ST really looked that epic or futuristic tbh. For example, we never really saw a city as grand and as “modern” as Coruscant from the prequels. Unless we count the 10 seconds of that one planet that got destroyed in TFA. But it seems like hardcore SW fans prefer that old, dirty, western setting, seeing as how much they praise The Mandalorian.

Didn’t KK/Lucasfilm also request Solo to be released in December, but Bob Iger refused? Not that it would’ve made the movie a smash, but it maybe could’ve propelled Solo to at least reach $500M+

A live-action Frozen could probably gross over $2 billion if enough time passes by and nostalgia builds up. Then again, Disney is just burning through their animated classics right now. I mean 4 remakes in the same year? With 2 of those being the 2 biggest movies of the renessaince era? I wouldn’t be shocked if Disney releases a live-action Frozen in the next ~5 years tbh.

True, but Star Wars’ Chinese numbers are really just tragic. TLJ only grossed $42M and TROS is gonna gross even less. Star Trek is probably the closest thing to Star Wars, and even the last two Star Trek movies performed better there than the TLJ + TROS Not the mention the $100M+ grosses of GOTG2 and Interstellar. Sure, the former had the help of the MCU brand and the latter was more grounded and “realistic”, which may have helped. But it seems like other space sci-fi movies have no problems grossing over $50M in China, yet Star Wars will have failed to reach that with its 3 most recent movies. To me that seems like the Chinese really don’t like the franchise itself, on top of the lesser popularity of the genre.

I wonder what it will take to make Star Wars popular in China. I think a fresh start with new characters could help, but idk, it will still be associated with the ST simply due to the name and as we’ve seen, the Chinese don’t care for Star Wars, or at least for the ST.

So is 6M admissions still in play for Frozen 2?

Zero legs when her album is still in the top 10 on Billboard 3 months later? If everyone of her fans already bought her album in the first week, why has it then never left the top for the other 13 weeks? And why is her previous album and the one before also still charting, 2 and 5 years after their respective releases if her stuff has zero legs? And 1989 has far surpassed 10M in pure sales. Yes sales, not shipments. It’s at over 11M in pure sales globally right now. Yes having comments disables decreases IG activity. People tagging other people under posts is a major driver of traffic. And you said that “Taylor is done” clearly and explicitly in your post from a page ago, so idk why you’re trying to deflect now...

That list is already outdated. The newest list: 03 - 1,939,000 - THANK U NEXT - Ariana Grande (+15,000)04 - 1,913,000 - LOVER - Taylor Swift (+56,000) So as you can see, Taylor is selling faster than Ariana, and there are still 6 weeks left in the year. Therefore my statement about how Taylor is going to have the #2 album for female artists still holds true. Also if Taylor is "done" despite still being #3 overall and being only 200k units behind the biggest IT-Girl right now, than you really need to re-evaluate your standards lol

Taylor is done when she is about to have the 2nd biggest album of the year from a female artist? Behind only Billie Eilish, who is the It-Girl of the moment. Or when she was the #1 female artist in the US just last year? And Adele´s 25 has not sold more in the US than either Taylor's Fearless or 1989 have globally, so that statement is wrong. Also Taylor has been a huge presence in China for the past few years, so even your "never anything overseas" statement is wrong

I keep readinh on here how the video release cut Frozen´s legs in Japan Out of curiosity, how much more could it have grossed if Disney had pushed back Frozen´s home video release in Japan?

$180M would be insane...

I thought the songs in F2 were superior to the songs from F1 Then again, F2’s songs are much more theatrical so I guess that’s not everyone’s cup of tea.

Definitely. Frozen´s popularity in Asia is notably impressive

The improvement of the animation from Frozen to Frozen 2 is really insane

Maybe Cats will break out here lol

I still think this is going to hit $450M domestic. 3.54 multiplier just seems right to me. $450M domestic, $900M OS, $1.350M total.

So when can we expect Frozen 3? 🌝

I am sure that the Frozen live-action remake, which will definitely happen in the future, will benefit massively from the nostalgia factor.

And what kind of multiplier is likely for Frozen 2? The 10 you named or more?

Where do you think will F2 end up when all is said and done?

A Disney+ series would be amazing, but only if they kept the 3D animation imo, but that would probably be too expensive Then again, seeing as how F2 is likely to top F1 at the box office, and with various Arendelle themed lands coming to Disney’s theme parks throughout the 2020s, I wouldn’t be surprised if F3 happens somewhere in the mid/late 2020s tbh, just to keep the brand fresh

Has any number been thrown around regarding the budget of this movie?

So $37.4M true Friday