MovieMan89
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Ben-Hur and Ghostbusters are just as big of hits adjusted for inflation as TLK. Didn't see their remakes smashing any box office records. Obviously I'm well aware that's not an apples to apples comparison to TLK by any stretch, but I'm saying that using the original's gross as why the remake "HAS" to gross that much or more is incredibly flawed logic. The BatB live action remake clearly struck some kind of chord with audiences in the marketing. Otherwise it never would have been able to do over twice as well as the animated one did. Again, the young female demo was out en masse for that movie, and people aren't realizing TLK won't have that. It is much more in Alice and Jungle Book's lane as far as demo goes.
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To me BatB is to live action fairytales what Avengers is to CBMs or Shrek 2 was for so long to animation: a bar set incredibly high that will take a long time, if ever, to pass. Using it as a comparison for any future live action fairytale is unrealistic, imo. And I still believe people underestimate just how much that tapped into the YA Twilight audience, and how much that boosted it at the B.O. That's an audience that probably won't care much at all about TLK.
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The trailers for my showing were just kind of odd. It was some low budget looking high school volleyball movie I'd never heard of and can't remember the name, an Aardman animated caveman film I'd never heard of and can't remember the name, a live action cave man and wolf film I'd never heard of and can't remember the name, Mortal Engines, Alita, JW, and IW. Only IW got a reaction and it was huge with tons of clapping/cheering throughout the whole trailer. Crickets for everything else, JW included.