PatrickvD

They’re not pandering to anyone, they’re just here to promote their own upcoming movie. Very transparent.

Dakota is so hilarious in all the press interviews. She knows it’s a flaming turd and she’s having fun with it. Watching her roast herself and the movie I’m thinking why doesn’t Hollywood cast her in comedies? They’ve obviously never figured out what to do with her. But nepo babies need work and maybe she’s more suited in comedy.

I think it looks nothing like the Nintendo character. That one has two black dots for eyes. I’m not offended, Disney has ripped off loads of things in the past, but whatever you’re saying is just not there in my opinion.

The creators have mentioned in various interviews that Star’s design is based on concept art for a cut sequence from the original Snow White, where she would dream of dancing with the prince in the clouds. Anthropomorphic stars would surround them. Its pretty much the same design and it predates Nintendo’s Luma by a good 60 years at least. Its facial expressions and general mimicry are inspired by 1930s Mickey Mouse. Not everything is a ripoff and Disney has a rich history to which they can look for inspiration. Especially if that’s the whole idea behind the movie.

This is such a nail biter. It’s looking optimistic now though!

Rachel is basically the new Lea Michele. I say instead of shutting up maybe she should double down go all in on the spoiled theatre brat attitude. And then make this movie the forefront of the culture war. Maybe Trump can chime in? Let’s get nuts folks.

PIXAR and WDAS just need to focus on making movies that stand out. The biggest mistake they made was reducing their films to Disney+ exclusives when they need to be experienced on the big screen. Elemental is the rebound that was needed to make their output feel like events again. Budget cuts should not be made.

A lot of these issues with the original fairytale or the 1937 adaptation could be solved by writing the screenplay in such a way that Snow White and the Prince develop a relationship before the Queen cuts in and forces her to flee into the forest. Instead they turn her into a #girlboss because she don’t need no man. This movie shouldn’t be made. There are some things that should remain sacred and Disney’s Snow White is one of those things.

Improved weather is hitting hard. But the Barbie drop is still relatively soft.

With Japan on board $500M is looking safe. Definitely Disney’s saving grace this summer and a reminder of what audiences want from them: great, original animation. Sometimes it’s that simple.

First schools won’t be back in session for another three weeks. Some regions won’t be back until early September. So both films have a clear road ahead. I can see them chugging along like this. Though better weather is coming which might slow them slightly. Will be interesting to see if Oppenheimer will close in on Barbie later on in the summer, but for now Barbie is indeed playing like crazy on weekdays. €20M looks in play for both. Hopefully even €25! That is James Bond / Avatar territory for NL Crazy to see two films of this size co-exist. Barbie is even expanding to art house theaters to keep up with demand and thereby reaching a whole new demo as well. Unprecedented stuff.

Hope it can make it to $500M. mat least it already outperformed all expectations.

Northern Europe is having rain and southern Europe is too hot to handle. So everyone is taking their kids to the movies. Elemental will keep chugging along because the forecast isn’t changing.

My problem with this movie is that it’s largely driven by conservatives that act like nobody else cares about child abuse. The same conservatives that looked the other way when the Catholic Church was exposed for doing the same thing they now pretend to be outraged by. It’s all selective outrage and virtue signaling. Regardless of the whole Qanon angle which I’m too exhausted to even dip into.

Christians burning Barbie dolls in anger over the movie is in essence a huge endorsement of it.

Yeah two films opening with these numbers is absolute insanity. Total weekend attendance was probably among the highest in recent memory. And it’s so close that it’s practically a tie. I know a lot of people were doing double features here as well.

Unpopular opinion maybe, but trailers for this, and marketing in general, were among the most lazy and uninspired in recent memory. Nobody was talking about this. They squandered all the goodwill Tom Cruise had from Maverick.

Is Margot Robbie now a Box Office draw?

This will clean up in Europe. Not sure about Asia.

The film is also very cleverly being targeted to a queer audience because of its campy nature. Every gay guy has seen the dance sequence and it’s been edited into RuPaul memes, etc. This is a broad 360 marketing campaign. Teens, adults, sci-fi, horror. I wouldn’t be surprised if it beats all expectations. Especially with these glowing reviews.

This is turning into a streaming juggernaut. Would be cool if Disney did one little theater push to get it past $100 million. The Oscar is most definitely in the bag.

UK, Germany and The Netherlands are dizzying. So nice to see these large numbers again. Box Office normality!

It’s still a staggering number for the Netherlands. Full on pre-pandemic sized juggernaut. Will very likely make around $20 million.

Awkwafina snub is ridiculous... the entire list of nominations feels completely out of touch.

Daisy Ridley acts circles around Hayden Christensen. But then so could a wet toilet roll.