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Loved the opening of the first episode playing a bit like New Hope with a twist but yeah agree with above that it was a bit out of place. Characters seem fine so far, some cool visuals but nothing groundbreaking ... does make me really want a big budget Pirates of the Caribbean series more than anything lol.

For your Jungle Book anecdote that is funny considering it is the biggest film of all time in Germany by a large margin: source:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/germany-original-jungle-book-biggest-885953/ As for Wizard of Oz, it's big in ANZ for sure was on TV in both countries very frequently and I imagine still is. Looking at Oz: The Great and Powerful that did $258m internationally in 2013 (hopefully Box Office Mojo numbers are right) and some of the big markets for the one were: France: $13m Germany: $15m Italy: $10m Spain: $8m UK: $23m Brazil: $12m Mexico: $15m Australia: $15m Japan: $18m Russia/CIS: $27m China: $25m Seems good, nothing crazy but I imagine Wicked will end up doing solid business aside from missing Russia and a drop in Chinese viewership of American films.

Those films especially Avatar should play well into 2026 though. It is one of the reasons I think 2026 will be huge in that it has a great start, is strong across a bunch of genres (horror, family, superhero, musical) plus new Nolan, Spielberg, Daniels and Peele plus there is likely still a bunch of unannounced and untitled films to come (although others might be delayed or removed in the same vein of unknowns)

May I introduce you to 2026 plus two year of

Full weekend numbers for Moana 2 here in New Zealand should be insane helps they launched in both English and Te Reo Maori. Edit: adding in an image of the Maori poster because it is pretty awesome!

No need to make it a competition between the two films, both look to be very profitable and be enjoyed by the audiences who are watching them. It's also fantastic for cinemas to have 2 hit films breaking records at the same time.

It will be way under 10%. Even back in Disney's FY2019 theatrical was only about 7%, studios as a whole was about 17% and that would be a modern peak of the company and back when they were only making about $70B in revenue. Will see if I can get rough data on percentages for FY2024 but Disney has changed so much on how they report numbers that it probably won't be a perfect like for like to 2019, hopefully they still break out theatrical numbers in the yearly report though. Edit: Theatrical was about 2.5% of revenue for FY24 and 3.6% for FY23, can't really work out studio revenue in modern times as they have included licensing revenue which includes TV sales to other streamers i.e. LOST being on Netflix which makes any comparisons to FY19 pointless.

Speaking of Stitch it is wild how much TV/DTV content the character got: Stitch: The Movie (2003) Lilo and Stitch 2: Stitch has a Glitch (2005) Lilo and Stitch: the Series (2003-2006) Leroy and Stitch (2006) Stitch! the anime (2008-2011+2012+2015) Stitch and Ai (2017)

It is a summer more for some of us

Turning Red maybe, Soul and Luca absolutely not unless you mean they should have pushed them back until after covid for release. I had been mentioning the whole sequel thing for ages especially when people were saying that Universal animation had supplanted Disney animation and Disney+ had trained audiences to wait and watch it there, glad those arguments are behind us ... crazy times.

Same as the other WDAS sequels in Ralph Breaks the Internet and Frozen II. Should do fine.

Possibly, although as you can see last year was a high point of entry for top 10 at over 6B minutes viewed vs. the previous 3 years which were all under 5B. I bet if Nielsen released the top 100 films for the year, around 75-80% would be family (both animated and live action) titles and at least half of those would be Disney. The others would be random Netflix action movies for the most part lol. So I think even though the don't appear other WDAS, Pixar and Disney holiday titles Hocus Pocus, Home Alone etc. do very well compared the vast majority of movies on streaming over a year long period they likely just have a smaller but more consistent viewership that doesn't show up on the weekly or yearly top 10 as much with the exception of those holiday titles.

Zootopia was amongst the most streamed movies of the Year in the US in 2020 and 2022, Inside out never made the list 2020: 2022: Also will add in 2021 and 2023 for fun. 2021: 2023: Edit: I think Inside Out and Inside Out 2 will both make the most streamed 2024 movies list though, which is a huge benefit of Disney releasing sequels that isn't talked about as much in that their older catalogue benefits from a boost of popularity with the IP being heavily marketed. I have seen that uptick consistently with the live action films like TLM, Mulan, Peter Pan and Wendy etc. boosting the old animated titles, The Lion King seems to be picking up steam as well with Mufasa marketing ramping up.

Moana I think could better later as well though, due to Hawaii + most Polynesian people being based towards the west coast most notably in California. I don't know how much Hawaii usually accounts towards the box office (I imagine rather small) but should be much larger for this. Hopefully all the films increase from the early numbers you gave and we get a crazy 5 day weekend 🤞🤪

Season 3, back to anime source: https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-visions-season-3-announce