THE LITTLE MERMAID WEEKEND THREAD

[keysersoze123]

Mermaid walkups yesterday was lower than what I expected but its till over indexed big time at MTC1 !!! It has to pick up in other markets for solid increase. Otherwise Saturday will be meh for sure(relative to expectations. Overall its still great number). 

[filmlover]

Depending on how it opens in two weeks (I'm thinking $40-50M for now), there actually is an legit possibility that Transformers finishes with a higher total than Fast X. Would be an early contender for the "you didn't see that coming?" award for this summer.

[Issac Newton]

 

 

 

[Krissykins]

Excellent audience scores across the board for The Little Mermaid then. A fantastic start too. 
 

Don’t click on the replies to tweets about its box office unless you want a sore head. They’ve already started the “bUt ChInA” and “Disney bought the tickets” blah blah. Psychos. 

[kayumanggi]

[screambaby]

2 minutes ago, Krissykins said:

Excellent audience scores across the board for The Little Mermaid then. A fantastic start too. 
 

Don’t click on the replies to tweets about its box office unless you want a sore head. They’ve already started the “bUt ChInA” and “Disney bought the tickets” blah blah. Psychos. 

Youtuber claiming the,RT score is fake...probably cause their  review bombing isn't working 

[kayumanggi]

 

[THUNDER BIRD]

18 minutes ago, kayumanggi said:

What a pun

[grey ghost]

1 hour ago, Issac Newton said:

SATURDAY AM: Disney’s The Little Mermaid is staying on its great course, maintaining that $38M Friday (which includes previews) for what is shaping up to be an estimated $104M 3-day and a 4-day between $120M-$130M. At that upper part of that threshold, the pic is the third best opening for a movie over Memorial Day weekend

 

Audience exits are great with an A CinemaScore (same grade as Disney’s live-action Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King). Screen Engine/Comscore’s PostTrak notched 91% positive and a 76% definite recommend while kids under 12 were over the moon at 92% positive and a 69% definite recommend. Natch, heavy female leaning at 68% with 61% between 18-34 and the largest demo being 25-34 year olds at 35%. Diversity demos strong across the board with 35% Black, 25% Latino and Hispanic, 26% Caucasian and 11% Asian.

 

 

I wonder why the white share is 10 percent lower than Black Panther and Wakanda Forever.

[titanic2187]

20 minutes ago, kayumanggi said:

Locally people keep calling the movie "Little Maid" instead of little mermaid. The backlash is so horrible to the point that people actively calling people to avoid this movie in real life!

 

But the WOM from those people who actually saw the movie has been great. Local review gave a positive reviews by saying "If you can overlook the the cast, the movie itself is worthy adaptation" Still, the cast choice is universally bashed but to be fair the criticism was not directly aimed at Halle.  

[charlie Jatinder]

36 minutes ago, kayumanggi said:

And how many Asian films do Americans and Europeans watch?

[kayumanggi]

5 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

Locally people keep calling the movie "Little Maid" instead of little mermaid. The backlash is so horrible to the point that people actively calling people to avoid this movie in real life!

 

But the WOM from those people who actually saw the movie has been great. Local review gave a positive reviews by saying "If you can overlook the the cast, the movie itself is worthy adaptation" Still, the cast choice is universally bashed but to be fair the criticism was not directly aimed at Halle.  

 

And whom are they really criticizing? 🙃

[Eric is Quiet]

7 minutes ago, grey ghost said:

 

 

I wonder why the white share is 10 percent lower than Black Panther and Wakanda Forever.

Wakanda Forever was only 20% white, so this is an improvement. Really, it’s just that post-pandemic, white moviegoers have seen big declines. Creed 3 was also 21% white, though that is obviously a much smaller opening.

 

https://deadline.com/2022/11/box-office-black-panther-wakanda-forever-1235169891/

https://deadline.com/2023/03/box-office-creed-iii-michael-b-jordan-2-1235277748/

[kayumanggi]

4 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said:

And how many Asian films do Americans and Europeans watch?

 

How many Asian films are released in those places?

[titanic2187]

2 minutes ago, kayumanggi said:

 

And whom are they really criticizing? 🙃

Disney

[grey ghost]

5 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said:

And how many Asian films do Americans and Europeans watch?

 

How many are available?

 

I mean in the 2000's you had Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Slumdog Millionaire, and Life of Pi.

 

 

[kayumanggi]

3 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

Disney

 

For the cast?

[grey ghost]

5 minutes ago, Prince Eric said:

Wakanda Forever was only 20% white, so this is an improvement. Really, it’s just that post-pandemic, white moviegoers have seen big declines. Creed 3 was also 21% white, though that is obviously a much smaller opening.

 

https://deadline.com/2022/11/box-office-black-panther-wakanda-forever-1235169891/

https://deadline.com/2023/03/box-office-creed-iii-michael-b-jordan-2-1235277748/

 

Still it's crazy that TLM is being treated like a movie with a majority black cast.

[kayumanggi]

1 minute ago, grey ghost said:

 

How many are available?

 

I mean in the 2000's you had Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Slumdog Millionaire, and Life of Pi.

 

 

 

I wish we had data on this.

[ogkalu]

1 minute ago, grey ghost said:

 

How many are available?

 

I mean in the 2000's you had Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Slumdog Millionaire, and Life of Pi.

 

 

There's definitely this weird push to brush the OS turnout as simply "typical over/under indexing to race" and it's so ridiculous lol. Latino and asian american audiences didn't turn out any less than average. Why didn't asian audiences under-index the weekend like white audiences clearly did ? Is there any reason asian girls would feel more "represented" than white audiences ?

 

Why do some territories with no notable black or white populations strongly under index on black led movies (compared to white led ones). Even movies that have little or nothing to do with black culture ?