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4 minutes ago, Barnack said:

Not sure why you are talking to me has if I was an idiot, to you think I do not know why they are doing this ? Do you think I become CEO that I would change anything ?

I am still wondering why you picked the only year as a proof where they did not have tried to add something new

That has nothing to do with thinking you are an idiot (how someone can interpret my earlier post in that way is above my understanding!?!?!), but especially because I think you are not one, why you did cut the examples in such a mispresenting or incomplete way?

I am not used to see that done by you, so maybe I missed a post or whatever the reason for that is.

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Disney stands for family material, to ask for matrial they are always stated they wont do is .... not logical at best

Why did they acquire Fox, then? They should have let other corporation buy it

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6 minutes ago, Brainbug said:

2nd Update, Friday Midday: Disney’s Dumbo is flying in lower than the $50M-plus tracking expected with an estimated $46M-$49M weekend off a $15M first day, not what we typically expect from the uber event Disney live action remakes of its toon vault (meaning, the bigger branded animated classics like Maleficent, Cinderella). Critics have whipped Jumbo Jr. hard at 55% on Rotten Tomatoes. A lot can change for this $170M-budgeted pic (not counting global P&A) by tomorrow with matinees.

 

Universal’s Us is looking at $32M, a nice -55% hold, with Friday at $9M sending the Jordan Peele-directed horror pic past $100M today. By Sunday Us will stand at $126.6M. Get Out ended its domestic run at $176M.
 
Disney’s Captain Marvel, hear her roar with a fourth weekend of $20M, -42% at 3,985 locations. This would put Ms. Marvel at $353.3M by Sunday.

PureFlix’s controversial anti-abortion drama Unplanned doing better than the low single digits expected with $6.5M this weekend after an opening day of $2.5M which includes $700K in previews.

 

Bleecker Street/ShivHans’ Hotel Mumbai goes wide today from four NY/LA sites last week to 924 theaters. $900K today with $250K from last night’s shows, heading to a $2.5m second weekend.

NEON’s The Beach Bum looks to smoke $600K today, including revised previews of $175K from last night, for a $1.7M three-day. Movie has 50% Rotten Tomatoes score while Hotel Mumbai‘s is 73% fresh.

I need to stop letting late Thur numbers sway me on Friday morning and kept my $50m predict for Dumbo and $33m for US

 

Unplanned Fandango numbers showed it was going to do much better than the recent PureFlix movies, not sure why they were low balling it so bad

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Just now, Alli said:

Why did they acquire Fox, then?

Beside their catalog,... as the huge reason,...

so they can add material they can not do under the flag / brand of Disney.

 

People are lazy often, kids annoy, parents click on Disney,.... they do not want to get a bad surprise. They click on Hulu, they are in for the surprise.

 

Brand.... sells.

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2 minutes ago, terrestrial said:

I am still wondering why you picked the only year as a proof where they did not have tried to add something new

 

It is an extreme example but what seem to be their direction, this year they have

 

Captain Marvel and

Dumbo (2019) Buena Vista 3/29/19
Penguins (Disneynature) Buena Vista 4/17/19
Avengers: Endgame Buena Vista 4/26/19
Aladdin (2019) Buena Vista 5/24/19
Toy Story 4 Buena Vista 6/21/19
The Lion King (2019) Buena Vista 7/19/19
Artemis Fowl Buena Vista 8/9/19
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Buena Vista 10/18/19
Frozen 2 Buena Vista 11/22/19
Star Wars: Episode IX Buena Vista 12/20/19

 

 

Last year:

1 Black Panther BV $700,059,566 4,084 $202,003,951 4,020 2/16 8/9
2 Avengers: Infinity War BV $678,815,482 4,474 $257,698,183 4,474 4/27 9/13
3 Incredibles 2 BV $608,581,744 4,410 $182,687,905 4,410 6/15 12/13
4 Ant-Man and the Wasp BV $216,648,740 4,206 $75,812,205 4,206 7/6 11/1
5 Solo: A Star Wars Story BV $213,767,512 4,381 $84,420,489 4,381 5/25 9/20
6 Ralph Breaks the Internet BV $200,998,498 4,017 $56,237,634 4,017 11/21 -
7 Mary Poppins Returns BV $171,852,597 4,090 $23,523,121 4,090 12/19 -
8 A Wrinkle in Time BV $100,478,608 3,980 $33,123,609 3,980 3/9 7/5
9 Disney's Christopher Robin BV $99,215,042 3,602 $24,585,139 3,602 8/3 11/29
10 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms BV $54,858,851 3,766 $20,352,491 3,766 11/2 1/17

 

 

So yes some years it is not 0 non remake/sequels, it is 1. If all the studios would act like that we would have 5 movies a year.

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Deadline's numbers give me headaches far too often. :hahaha:

 

Speaking to Unplanned though, that movie will almost certainly benefit from its controversy. It had 700k in previews so I think it's probably going to overperform this weekend

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Yes, of course sequels and remakes aren’t uncommon in Hollywood. If something has made money, you’ll try it again to make more. But this is a box office forum, aside from the remakes, I like/love most of Disney’s films but I despise Disney and their practices, and them getting Fox wasn’t done to survive but to snuff out their competition, and the model they do is replicated by the rest of Hollywood and the desire for big franchises. So excuse the majority of we aren’t over the moon about Dumbo. The only people who are getting triggered about this are the Disney uber fans.

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2 minutes ago, ScoobyDoo21 said:

Being a uber fan of Disney is stupid anyway. 

 

Like i can understand liking their animated movies. they mostly well done. but being a big fan of the company itself? nah

why not ? you know the word call opinions right ? and before you say anythin i am a wb fan and a marvel fan (yes i know but only marvel)

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10 minutes ago, terrestrial said:

Beside their catalog,... as the huge reason,...

so they can add material they can not do under the flag / brand of Disney.

 

People are lazy often, kids annoy, parents click on Disney,.... they do not want to get a bad surprise. They click on Hulu, they are in for the surprise.

 

Brand.... sells.

Anybody who bothered to read any of the stories on the Disney/Fox Deal would know that the Fox Library for Disney's streaming service was Disney's #1 objective in the merger.

AMuses me that on a website supposedly devoted to box office, so many people know crap about the film industry.

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5 minutes ago, YourMother the Edgelord said:

Yes, of course sequels and remakes aren’t uncommon in Hollywood. If something has made money, you’ll try it again to make more. But this is a box office forum, aside from the remakes, I like/love most of Disney’s films but I despise Disney and their practices, and them getting Fox wasn’t done to survive but to snuff out their competition, and the model they do is replicated by the rest ignored Hollywood and the desire for big franchises. So excuse the majority of we aren’t over the moon about Dumbo. The only people who are getting triggered about this are the Disney uber fans.

nevermind 

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2 minutes ago, john2000 said:

why not ? you know the word call opinions right ? and before you say anythin i am a wb fan and a marvel fan (yes i know but only marvel)

Rooting for a big studio is just like rooting for Microsoft, or Standard Oil, Or Facebook....

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1 minute ago, Barnack said:

It is an extreme example but what seem to be their direction, this year they have

 

Captain Marvel and

Dumbo (2019) Buena Vista 3/29/19
Penguins (Disneynature) Buena Vista 4/17/19
Avengers: Endgame Buena Vista 4/26/19
Aladdin (2019) Buena Vista 5/24/19
Toy Story 4 Buena Vista 6/21/19
The Lion King (2019) Buena Vista 7/19/19
Artemis Fowl Buena Vista 8/9/19
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil Buena Vista 10/18/19
Frozen 2 Buena Vista 11/22/19
Star Wars: Episode IX Buena Vista 12/20/19

 

 

Last year:

1 Black Panther BV $700,059,566 4,084 $202,003,951 4,020 2/16 8/9
2 Avengers: Infinity War BV $678,815,482 4,474 $257,698,183 4,474 4/27 9/13
3 Incredibles 2 BV $608,581,744 4,410 $182,687,905 4,410 6/15 12/13
4 Ant-Man and the Wasp BV $216,648,740 4,206 $75,812,205 4,206 7/6 11/1
5 Solo: A Star Wars Story BV $213,767,512 4,381 $84,420,489 4,381 5/25 9/20
6 Ralph Breaks the Internet BV $200,998,498 4,017 $56,237,634 4,017 11/21 -
7 Mary Poppins Returns BV $171,852,597 4,090 $23,523,121 4,090 12/19 -
8 A Wrinkle in Time BV $100,478,608 3,980 $33,123,609 3,980 3/9 7/5
9 Disney's Christopher Robin BV $99,215,042 3,602 $24,585,139 3,602 8/3 11/29
10 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms BV $54,858,851 3,766 $20,352,491 3,766 11/2 1/17

 

 

So yes some years it is not 0 non remake/sequels, it is 1. If all the studios would act like that we would have 5 movies a year.

If people want more "original" content then they hould have gone to see John Carter, Tomorrow Land, The Finest Hours & Queen of Katwee

 

Again as @terrestrial pointed out - go back a  couple of years instead of forward and see why the slate was adjusted.  Also see they cut ties with Spielberg b/c they moved to an in house financed model.  

 

WB, Paramount no longer have an art house divisions.  If Comcast had bought Fox they'd likely have shuttered Searchlight since they have Focus and we'd be down to Focus and Sony Classics

 

800+ movies are released a year in the U.S. -  about 85% of those not by any major studio or even art house division of a major studio

 

 

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