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Why does everybody keep forgetting that the original Little Mermaid came out at a time where animated movies where just not popular at all and looked down upon. It revived interest in animation on its own. That is impressive enough.

Next week. But its not looking good there either.

Scott Mendelson from Forbes just tweeted on his twitter account that TLM is performing less like Aladdin and more like Solo A Star Wars Story due to its frontloaded nature and poor OS numbers. Yikes. Mena Massoud was right all along.

Disney Plus is losing 1,5 billion dollars to the company every year. It wont be profitable until late 2024 according to some sites. But the Hulu situation is complicating the situation. So no. Its not better.

TFA started with 2 billion, Rise ended with 1 billion. That is half of your audience lost. Plus, the nielsen ratings for Andor (despite being a decent show) and Mandalorian 3 where really bad, because of the reception that Boba Fett and Kenobi got. And Solo lost a lot of money.

I caught a lot of flak for saying that yesterday... Feels good to be vindicated.

Star Wars and Marvel are damaged brands... Avatar is the only saving grace they have right now.

Those Global numbers are just horrible. Its even worse than what Deadline predicted. Theres no way to sugarcoat this... But the Disney brand is far more damaged than we think.

Maybe off topic but... how do you think Ruby Guillman: Teenage Kraken is going to perform. Bad Guys level or Puss In Boots 2 level? Or maybe more?

Yes. In its initial release the movie made 100 million dollars overseas. 84 million domestically. Thats an 46/54 DOM/OS ratio. I think the VHS copies sold like hotcakes in LATAM and European countries.

Then maybe... just maybe... they should just stop rehashing mediocre crap and start focusing on diverse AND original stories. I know they can do it, they have done it in the past multiple time and did really well. But Disney is a creatively bankrupt company right now... and soon to be bankrupt for real looking at their stock market value and Comcast forcing them buy Hulu for 9 billion dollars when they still have not recovered from the massive Fox purchase.

All of those sites are fully review bombing each other out by the haters and the Halle Baley stans, cancelling each other out in the process. Not a conspiracy theory, it's just petty children fighting for another mediocre Disney movie as if it where the freaking Cold War 2.0

So if reviews are bad... they are racist alt right trolls review bombing. If reviews are good... they are bough Disney woke shill. Fucking hell man, you can't win either way. Stop acting like petty children. If you like, you like it, if you don't, you don't. It's just another damn mediocre Live Action Disney movie, it's not worth the fight.

So is the actress whos gonna play Nani in the live action Lilo and Stitch for being "too white", even though she is hawaiian of polynesian descent.

Beacuse Aladdin and BatB are visually more faithful to their original counterparts... and more colorful too Pinocchio and PPandW where trashed hard too but those are D+ production so I don't count them much

Both The Last Crusaide and Cristal Skull has a 40/60 DOM/OS ratio. That's pretty good for an aging franchise as this. (not a fan of Cristal Skull though)

Princess and the Frog had a very good DOM/OS ratio (40/60) and that had a black female lead set in 1920s New Orleans. I don't buy this narrative of TLM doing bad overseas because of racism.

The original Little Mermaid was coming off after a decade of mediocre to terrible box office grosses in the 80s like Black Cauldron and Great Mouse Detective (witch was beaten by AN American Tale in 86), that was the Disney Dark Age. Plus, animation was not seen in such a good light in general back in the day, so the fact that TLM made 184 million dollars in it's initial run and became the 9th highest grossing movie of 1989 when animated movies where lucky to even hit top 20 worldwide was a pretty big effing deal at the time. If anything, Little Mermaid helped Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King to become the monsters hits they where.

Wall-e is a sci-fi animated movie... It made 500 million worldwide.

It hurts me to say this because I love this company very much... But Disney is a tarnished brand. Star Wars is in the gutter, Marvel is overproducing too much mediocre products (I haven't seen Guardians 3 so I don't have an opinion about that) and Disney Animation is flopping hard in theaters (I hope Elemental and WISH break that trend). And the live action movies after TLK have been borderline unwatchable (i.e. Mulan, Pinocchio, Peter Pan and Wendy).

Even if the estimates does improve a little, its still opening below 100 million OS. That is still bad when you had a 289 million global opening for Guardians 3 and a 319 million for Fast X. Plus it's not just SpiderVerse, it's also Transformers, The Flash and freaking Disney's own Elemental cannibalizing TLM in the summer. It's just too much competition. Economy is not as great as it was in 2019 so families will be pickier than usual, that means no repeat business, witch helped Aladdin in the past.

Deadline Hollywood is predicting a 60 million overseas opening for TLM minus Japan. That is dismal, no matter how you look at it.

Yeah, I see another Solo A Star Wars Story kind of trajectory for TLM. I kown its weird to compare this movie to Star Wars but both are Disney movies opening on memorial day weekend. 220-260 Dom; 130-160 OS; 350-420 WW Total. Probably a decent Memorial OW, but the second weekend Spiderverse is going after the same family audience and will take away many PLF screens from TLM, witch will cause a 60 to 65 percent drop. International numbers looks really bad.

The new web design for BOM is absolute motherfucking garbage. I despise this change with all my soul. I have been visiting this site for 11 years now, since Dark Knight and Wall-e came out in the summer of 2008. This is heartbreaking, man. Change it back to the old design, damn it!

Sony's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is already looking like some of our pre-release signals were actually on to something as the film took in an impressive $5.8 million from Thursday previews beginning at 4PM in ~3,300 locations. The performance is actually $300k ahead of Dunkirk's preview grosses ahead of that film's $50.5 million debut in July two years ago. As we pointed out in our preview below, IMDb page views showed Once Upon a Time outpacing Dunkirk over the two weeks leading up to release. This is also well ahead of the $3.25 million in previews for The Great Gatsby, which opened in May of 2013 with $50 million. This is not to say Once Upon a Time is on its way to a $50+ million opening, but these preview grosses are a very good sign that a $40-45+ million opening may be in the future. We'll take a closer look at things tomorrow morning once Friday estimates come in. For now you can check out our weekend preview below. It's looking like a 50m+ OW.