Onward | Dan Scanlon directing | March 6, 2020 | Coming to VOD on March 20. Coming to Disney+ April 3

[dudalb]

I am just not seeing the kind of buzz for this you usually get for a Pixar film.

[JWR]

And I still say that that's subject to change in these next few weeks.

[john2000]

14 hours ago, dudalb said:

I am just not seeing the kind of buzz for this you usually get for a Pixar film.

in my experience, other than ts4, frozen movies, and incredible 2 , i have not see , pixar or walt disney animation , to have big buzz, they become big when the wom comes

[The Horror of Lucas Films]

Everytime a Pixar Original is about to open, there's always several persons claiming there's no buzz. I follow them since 2010, and the only original movie that got some buzz before the release was Inside Out, and yet, people never learn.

 

Remember when people said there was zero buzz for Coco and it would gross under Cars 3 both DOM and WW? It did the double of this movie WW. 

[Darth Lehnsherr]

Coco's DOM still disappoints me somewhat cause of its OW and A+ score. Thank god for China.

 

But yeah hard to gauge interest for an original kids film.

[john2000]

1 hour ago, Darth Lehnsherr said:

Coco's DOM still disappoints me somewhat cause of its OW and A+ score. Thank god for China.

 

But yeah hard to gauge interest for an original kids film.

imo coco was way bigger than i t thought, with the themes it had , and some good competition, 200+ dom from 50 weekd for an original animated film, is nothing to sneeze at and again coco without china would have made like 620 mill still, thats very good

 

coco also faced, thor 3, and justice league

Edited February 14, 2020 by john2000

[The Horror of Lucas Films]

2 hours ago, Darth Lehnsherr said:

Coco's DOM still disappoints me somewhat cause of its OW and A+ score. Thank god for China.

 

But yeah hard to gauge interest for an original kids film.

 

It wasn't HUGE only in China, take off China's gross and it made $410m OS which is huge for an original Animation even with China, let alone without them.

 

It did massive across the whole LA. 

[misafeco]

1 hour ago, john2000 said:

imo coco was way bigger than i t thought, with the themes it had , and some good competition, 200+ dom from 50 weekd for an original animated film, is nothing to sneeze at and again coco without china would have made like 620 mill still, thats very good

 

coco also faced, thor 3, and justice league

206M DOM is decent from that OW. You can compare it to other Thanksgiving Disney/Pixar animated openers it's in the middle of the pack. It had way better legs than The Good Dinosaur, slightly better than Ralph 2, slightly worse than Moana, and obviously worse legs than Frozen. Not great, not terrible as Comrade Dyatlov would say.

Edited February 14, 2020 by misafeco

[JWR]

When Jurassic World had the biggest OW ever at the time, I'm pretty sure most of us thought that Inside Out would be hit hard by the competition. Then, it opened up to $90M. 

 

It always comes down to the word of mouth.

[JWR]

The review embargo lifts around the 24th or 25th.

[DAJK]

With Disney realizing that they're going to be losing money from China over the next few months, and movies like Mulan are certainly not going to perform to some lofty expectations, I think they should really trying to be marketing the hell out of this. It could do very well in the US if it's quality, as well as in Europe and Latin America imo

[JWR]

1 hour ago, DAJK said:

With Disney realizing that they're going to be losing money from China over the next few months, and movies like Mulan are certainly not going to perform to some lofty expectations, I think they should really trying to be marketing the hell out of this. It could do very well in the US if it's quality, as well as in Europe and Latin America imo

Hence why I think they're going to push this hard.

[Melosh]

5 hours ago, JWR said:

The review embargo lifts around the 24th or 25th.

Is that official?

[Darth Lehnsherr]

Just realised this isn't coming out in Australia until April 3 ugh. 

[JWR]

1 hour ago, Melosh said:

Is that official?

The Forbes article says the embargo lifts 1.5 weeks before release. 

[JB33]

I really, really hope this does well. I love Pixar in general. but I always love seeing their original stories break out! I'd be really happy with a Zootopia-like opening. It doesn't even have to have Zootopia's legs. A domestic total approaching $300M would be fantastic.

[charlie Jatinder]

On 2/14/2020 at 12:01 AM, keysersoze123 said:

That is faster start than Sonic.

Expecting reviews and early screenings to increase buzz. Sonic went on to do $48mn real value OW. I think that locks $50mn FWIW.

[charlie Jatinder]

Why isn't it releasing on Fathers Days? Man I am getting pumped up for it.

Edited February 17, 2020 by charlie Jatinder

[Eric Duncan]

The world premiere is tonight. I'm assuming we'll get a couple reactions as well?

[Eric Duncan]

Oh shit, Dave Foley's gonna have a cameo in this. Cool!