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12 votes
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Lilo & Stitch | Official teaser
15 votes -
Thunderbolts | Teaser trailer
13 votes -
Disney animation shake-up: Jennifer Lee exiting as Chief Creative Officer, Jared Bush takes over
20 votes -
Disney Movie Insiders program to be sunset
3 votes -
‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ struts past $1B global box office; soon to become biggest R-rated movie ever worldwide
28 votes -
Everything announced at the Disney D23 entertainment showcase
14 votes -
Snow White | Teaser trailer
8 votes -
Moana 2 | Teaser trailer
14 votes -
The biggest box office bombs of 2023; Disney leads with four entries
26 votes -
Mufasa: The Lion King | Teaser trailer
15 votes -
Inside Out 2 | Official trailer
16 votes -
Disney has “killed a few projects” amid studio overhaul, says Bob Iger; “We’ve not been that public about it”
11 votes -
The road to 'The Road to El Dorado' - The making of an animated cult classic
13 votes -
Disney Movie Club closing after twenty-three years
9 votes -
The Firehouse Five and the Cinderella surprise
5 votes -
Disney announces Moana 2 set to release November 2024
25 votes -
Mickey Mouse to enter public domain
45 votes -
Fallen kingdom: why has Disney had such a terrible year?
33 votes -
‘The Marvels’ meltdown: Disney MCU posts lowest box office opening ever at $47m — what went wrong
54 votes -
Disney’s box office problems ramp up pressure on CEO Bob Iger and studio chief Alan Bergman
10 votes -
Inside Out 2 | Official teaser trailer
21 votes -
Crisis at Marvel: Jonathan Majors back-up plans, ‘The Marvels’ reshoots, reviving original Avengers and more issues revealed
34 votes -
Is cinema dying? And if so, who is responsible? – A murder mystery
23 votes -
Disney at 100: Seven ways Walt’s company forever changed entertainment
10 votes -
Bob Iger found Disney in ‘worse shape’ than he expected, now ‘overwhelmed and exhausted’
34 votes -
Walt Disney Pictures in-house VFX workers vote to unionize under IATSE
32 votes -
‘The Creator’ looks to turn moviegoers into believers: How Disney marketed Gareth Edwards’ original sci-fi pic
15 votes -
What’s behind all the box office flops this year - and what lessons can Hollywood learn?
30 votes -
Walt Disney Pictures VFX workers move to unionize
50 votes -
Disney considers delaying some 2023 movie releases over strikes
5 votes -
Indiana Jones 5 could be Disney's biggest box office disaster since John Carter
29 votes -
Pixar is scrambling to win back its audience
57 votes -
Disney’s harsh new reality: Costly film flops, creative struggles and a shrinking global box office
39 votes -
‘Diversity fatigue’? Hollywood loses four DEI leaders in less than two weeks
33 votes -
On the history of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and the rise of Walt Disney
15 votes -
‘Dahmer’ star Evan Peters joins Jared Leto in Disney’s ‘Tron: Ares’
12 votes -
Warner Bros. needs to stop copying Disney and let its superheroes fly solo
25 votes -
Elio | Teaser trailer
8 votes -
Disney dates new ‘Star Wars’ movie, shifts ‘Deadpool 3’ and entire Marvel slate, delays ‘Avatar’ sequels through 2031
21 votes -
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).
38 votes -
‘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
25 votes -
Walt Disney Pictures' president shares future plans: Fifty live-action movies in the pipeline
11 votes -
Haunted Mansion | Official trailer
2 votes -
Wish | Official teaser trailer
2 votes -
Elemental | Official trailer
4 votes -
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was Walt Disney’s biggest box office gamble
2 votes -
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”
3 votes -
The Little Mermaid | Official trailer
8 votes -
‘Star Wars’ shakeup: Kevin Feige and Patty Jenkins movies shelved, Taika Waititi looking to star in his own film
5 votes