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Pixar is scrambling to win back its audience
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‘Dahmer’ star Evan Peters joins Jared Leto in Disney’s ‘Tron: Ares’
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Warner Bros. needs to stop copying Disney and let its superheroes fly solo
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Samuel L. Jackson talks AI, use of likeness “In Perpetuity” in contracts: “I cross that s*** out”
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‘Iron Man’ creator Jack Kirby’s son slams Stan Lee Disney+ documentary: ‘Over thirty-five years of uncontested publicity’
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Elio | Teaser trailer
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Disney dates new ‘Star Wars’ movie, shifts ‘Deadpool 3’ and entire Marvel slate, delays ‘Avatar’ sequels through 2031
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Walt Disney Pictures' president shares future plans: Fifty live-action movies in the pipeline
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‘The Force has left Lucasfilm’: What has gone wrong for the studio behind ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Indiana Jones’—and how Disney’s Bob Iger can salvage his $4 billion investment
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Disney is staring down the barrel of a no good, very bad year
The Little Mermaid opened this Memorial Day weekend. Pre-sales, being the tickets that people buy in advance, were looking strong. It looked like it would open to over 100 for the 3-day weekend,...
The Little Mermaid opened this Memorial Day weekend. Pre-sales, being the tickets that people buy in advance, were looking strong. It looked like it would open to over 100 for the 3-day weekend, and 130 for the 4-day. Potentially the highest opening weekend for Memorial Day ever.
That didn't happen. While it had a strong opening day, it failed to keep up the pace for the rest of the weekend. Ultimately opening under 100 for the 3-day weekend. The expected casual audience, referred to as "walk-ups" didn't show up in the numbers that were expected (based on past live-action Disney films). Hollywood trades are seemingly ignoring this, most of them calling the opening weekend a success.
While the Domestic opening weekend is certainly not bad, it's worldwide opening weekend is terrible. Internationally the film opened behind Fast X's second weekend. It's acting closer to Dumbo, a big bomb for Disney in 2019, than any of the successful live-action Disney films. Domestically, also, the film is acting closer to Solo, another bomb, than Aladdin (which had amazing legs).
Why this happened is still being debated. Some say that having a black lead turned off a lot of the international audience, others say they were turned off from a lack of a big star in the film (like say Will Smith in Aladdin or Emma Watson in Beauty and the Beast). Whatever the case is for the international audience, it's clear that there was a total market rejection of the film. Domestically, it seems like casual audiences are experiencing a bit of fatigue with these live-action movies (perhaps due to all the bad ones going straight to Disney+).
And maybe, perhaps, Disney betting big on Disney+ in 2022 while the other studios started to refocus on theatrical, was a mistake. Maybe that's diluted the Disney brand in all forms.
But whatever it is, Disney now has two bombs on their hands. Ant-Man failed to make a profit and now Little Mermaid is unlikely to reach that as well (considering the huge 250 million dollar budget on it). And the rest of the year is not looking any better for them.
Disney went to Cannes with Indiana Jones and Elemental. Which we all assumed was a sign of confidence in the films. That ended backfiring as both Indiana and Elemental ended up rotten on RT. Now they have to deal with a negative reception for both films, on top of the fact that there was very little excitement for both to begin with. Pixar, and Disney animation as a whole, is now looking at back to back to back bombs (Lightyear, Strange World, and now Elemental). Indiana Jones had an inflated budget of 300 million and now looks like it won't break even either.
Haunted Mansion might surprise, but it's gonna be a tough ladder to climb considering the really big 150 million dollar budget.
The Marvels will need to be as well received as Guardians in order not to be Ant-Man'd out of existence, which most people are not expecting, especially as you need to watch two TV shows to understand it.
Wish could finally be a win for Disney's animation department, but considering the track record I wouldn't count on it.
It's really not looking good for Disney, what a fall considering the immense success they experienced in 2019. They really might just end up with one success this year (Guardians).
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Stunning century-old illustrations of Tibetan fairy tales from the artist who created Bambi
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Haunted Mansion | Official trailer
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Wish | Official teaser trailer
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The Mandalorian Season 3 finale. What did you think?
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
I thought it was pretty good, it's just that the whole season seemed a little off. I feel like the actual overarching plot of the season didn't even start until over halfway through.
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Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 | Official trailer
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Ahsoka | Teaser trailer
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Secret Invasion | Official trailer
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Elemental | Official trailer
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Walt Disney’s biggest box office gamble
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Victoria Alonso weighing legal action against Disney, Marvel over sudden firing; “serious consequences” promises lawyer Patty Glaser as Mouse House points at “indisputable breach of contract”
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The Little Mermaid | Official trailer
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Jon Bernthal returning as the Punisher for ‘Daredevil: Born Again’. Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio are already on board to reprise their characters from the Netflix version of the show.
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‘Star Wars’ shakeup: Kevin Feige and Patty Jenkins movies shelved, Taika Waititi looking to star in his own film
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Disney could sell its 67% stake in Hulu to buy up more Marvel rights
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Haunted Mansion | Official teaser trailer
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‘Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania’ faces the worst second weekend drop for an MCU film
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‘Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania’ swells to franchise record opening of $118M 4-day
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Disney CEO Bob Iger is open to selling Hulu
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‘Toy Story,’ ‘Frozen’ and ‘Zootopia’ sequels in the works, says Bob Iger
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Justin Roiland domestic violence charges met with silence from TV partners
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Behind Disney’s activist investor battle: A Marvel mogul’s revenge play
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The Mandalorian | Season 3 official trailer
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What’s driving TV’s un-renewal wave
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I want to talk about The Mandalorian, I don't seem to get it
Some very mild spoilers for The Mandalorian I have not been really following Star Wars since Disney took over, I think I saw one or two of the new sequels (they were forgetable) and I saw Rouge...
Some very mild spoilers for The Mandalorian
I have not been really following Star Wars since Disney took over, I think I saw one or two of the new sequels (they were forgetable) and I saw Rouge One (It's great, would even call it the most Star Wars Star Wars movie)
I had some time last weeks and I saw Andor and I was just stunned. Good to great actors, great worldbuilding, a bit on the nose but still engaging social critic and themes, an interesting and intense story based in gritty realism while still being very Star Wars. I think everybody who likes science fiction and/or spythrillers should watch it.
So I was like: oooooh so they finally found a way to do new and interesting stuff with the Galaxy far far away. Everybody says nice things about the Mandalorian, let's check that one out. It got 92% on RT so I'm shure it's nice....I seem to hate it and it makes me angry that it turned out the way it did, because i still like a lot about it. It makes me sad that they botched it so badly.
Maybe having a main character whitout a face is not helping? so i need a robot to tell me what Mando is feeling? Pedro Pascal is actually doing an incredible job working with body language and voice, but I don't think it's enough to actually be able to salvage this dumpsterfire of an realisation. Or maybe they should have kept with Mando being an unrelatable asshole, and not make him a disney daddy?
And then they still show his face.... in the most anticlimactic way ever... why? just why do that? It makes me angry just thinking about it, how can you fuck that up so badly, that could be a series defining payoff, but no! They just waste it in the most boring and unconcequencial way ever.Then there is the Rule of Cool or Why is Everybody a Badass?. Mando is cool, i get it. He has an amazing Look (obviously the helmet is crazy good). He has very interesting and powerful weapons. But then I he still gets mostly his as kicked by nearly everything and everybody all the time?? I mean why do you tell me with every character and all his design that he is a force of nature and than he gets his ass kicked by a fucking dinohead on two legs that looks like a joke and is a joke (I dont actually mind that, i like the design and the joke) I just makes no sense to me.
Nearly everybody else looks cool and is presented as a badass as well, there is just to much of it. there are no weak people, there are no hurt people, there are just badasses and cannonfodder.Then there is the storytelling... It ranges from quite ok to fucking horrible. I mean, who thought it is a good Idea to NOT cut the motherfucking prisonship episode? It's some of the worst TV i saw in a long while. It does nothing for the overall story. it does nothing for the characters. It does nothing for the viewer. It does nothing for nobody. Its just full of bad acting, bad direction, bad and lazy set design, bad editing, bad jokes, and the worst storytelling. why did they leave that piece of shit in there? the whole series is worse for it. It makes me angry.
So I finally checked the wikipedia page and I understood. Jon Favreau.... Jon Favreau!!! I mean not all of his work is that bad. I liked Iron man and Chef, and I love Cowboys and Aliens (really! it's so bad it's good, but you can not expect differently with that name) I hated his Lion King.
I don't now where I'm going with this. I think I just needed to share my feelings about it. It's just so full of potential, there is so much they could have done with it. they could have explored so many themes and share so much lore... but they just fucked it up and everybody seems to like it, i dont get it.
/rant
so are the other Star Wars shows worth a watch?
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Disney’s ‘Strange World’ to lose $100 million in theatrical run
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‘Strange World’ is a historic bomb for Disney on a weak Thanksgiving box office weekend
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Disney Channel's theme: A history mystery
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Disney shocker: Bob Iger returning as CEO, Bob Chapek exits
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Elemental | Teaser trailer
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New ‘Princess Diaries’ movie in the works at Disney
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As pay TV subscribers decline faster, pressure builds for streaming profits
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Margot Robbie says her female-led ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ movie is dead at Disney: ‘I guess they don’t want to do it’
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Finally, the uncut version of The Muppet Christmas Carol is back
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Disney+ adds indigenous language dubs of Lion King, Moana, and Bambi
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An AI program voiced Darth Vader in ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ so James Earl Jones could finally retire
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Strange World | Official trailer
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Disney chief Bob Chapek sees clear path for Hulu to merge with Disney+ once Comcast buyout is complete
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The Mandalorian | Season 3 official teaser trailer
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Secret Invasion | Official trailer
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