Jungle Cruise | July 30 2021 | Disney | Theaters and Premier Access

[Eric S'ennui]

 

Um...okay?

[Eric S'ennui]

 

[Eric S'ennui]

 

[filmlover]

6 hours ago, Eric Gardner said:

 

Mainly sounds like they're taking out the unflattering depictions of indigenous people, which was inevitable. They also took the bride auction scene out of Pirates of the Caribbean during the height of the #MeToo movement a couple of years back.

[filmlover]

Really curious how this was literally the only movie to not be included in the Disney release news today when pretty much their entire 2021 slate was given an update. Gotta wonder if they're working on a deal to either put it out there via theater/D+ PA hybrid or just going the Mulan route of releasing it as a D+ PA exclusive since this is the only other remaining title not out yet that was being promoted pre-pandemic and would have been long gone from theaters by now in an alternate universe.

[TerwillikerInst]

2 hours ago, filmlover said:

Really curious how this was literally the only movie to not be included in the Disney release news today when pretty much their entire 2021 slate was given an update. Gotta wonder if they're working on a deal to either put it out there via theater/D+ PA hybrid or just going the Mulan route of releasing it as a D+ PA exclusive since this is the only other remaining title not out yet that was being promoted pre-pandemic and would have been long gone from theaters by now in an alternate universe.

Guarantee the Rock has a massive profit participation deal with this film and he's pressing Disney to either wait and release it in theatres or pay him a ton of money to make up for the loss. 

[excel1]

If this is good, could be the random film that benefits big time

[TerwillikerInst]

2 hours ago, excel1 said:

If this is good, could be the random film that benefits big time

I know people who saw it at a test screening back in 2019 and it apparently played fairly well, lots of clapping/laughing/cheers in the right places, though most people seemed to "zone out" during the backstory stuff for the Rock's character.

 

 

Edited March 24, 2021 by TerwillikerInst

[filmlover]

1 hour ago, TerwillikerInst said:

Guarantee the Rock has a massive profit participation deal with this film and he's pressing Disney to either wait and release it in theatres or pay him a ton of money to make up for the loss. 

I mean I'm pretty sure it was reported Scarlett had a similar deal for Black Widow and yet here we are heh.

[cax16]

 

[Eric S'ennui]

Shang-Chi is next guys. Then Eternals, then Encanto, then all of 2022 and so on. Rip off that band aid Chapek!

[ThomasNicole]

12 minutes ago, cax16 said:

 

And people still think this PA thing isn´t working for them lol

 

Sadly we won´t get the numbers, but at this point it´s obvious they´re good.

[ThomasNicole]

I´m sad because from what i remember, this movie was extremely well received on test screenings, and the trailers are very good.

 

But since i won´t get vaccinated by July anyway i won´t complain.

[Legion Again]

By the time July 30 rolls around this is going to look pretty unnecessary, but this felt halfway like a D+ original to begin with. Maybe subscriber goodwill will make up for the diminished direct revenue, though I remain skeptical — the $30 price tag kills a lot of goodwill on these relative to the WB day and date model.   
 

The weirdest thing about this is a 4th movie and still no experimentation with a “PA after 1-5 weeks” kind of model.

[Legion Again]

3 minutes ago, ThomasNicole said:

And people still think this PA thing isn´t working for them lol

 

Sadly we won´t get the numbers, but at this point it´s obvious they´re good.

Nothing is obvious at this point, even to Disney itself, seeing as they have only one hybrid release of data to work off so far.    

[ThomasNicole]

6 minutes ago, WandaLegion said:

Nothing is obvious at this point, even to Disney itself, seeing as they have only one hybrid release of data to work off so far.    

It´s their 5th movie to be release with PA, it´s obviously not the failure some people claim.

[Legion Again]

2 minutes ago, ThomasNicole said:

It´s their 5th movie to be release with PA, it´s obviously not the failure some people claim.

It’s obvious they aren’t bad. It’s not obvious they’re good.   
 

As I said, Disney still only has one movie’s worth of data on the hybrid PA model — a kid’s movie during a period where the pandemic was still highly impactful. The upcoming movies using that model are doing so to collect further data and in hopes that it will work out, not based on clear presently available evidence (to Disney — obviously we have even less data by a less) that it *will* work out.

[filmlover]

Not even remotely surprised. This would've been on D+ months ago had its original release date gone as planned, and the fact this was literally the only movie to not receive a status update of any kind during the big Disney announcement in March meant they were still working on something.

[filmlover]

Also with this news Disney has officially taken a collective L on all the Disney-branded movies they touted at D23 two years ago with the exceptions of Frozen 2 and Maleficent 2 (which were the lucky ones to open months before the world turned upside down). Oh well.

[robertman2]

9 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Also with this news Disney has officially taken a collective L on all the Disney-branded movies they touted at D23 two years ago with the exceptions of Frozen 2 and Maleficent 2 (which were the lucky ones to open months before the world turned upside down). Oh well.

Didn't Maleficent 2 flop anyways?