Woke Watch: How will 2023 "Little Mermaid" perform?

[Cleveland33]

Have you kept up with the remakes?

Here's how much the ones with a theatrical release grossed:

Cinderella: $542.4 million
Maleficent: $758.5 million
The Jungle Book: $966.6 million
Alice in Wonderland: $1.025 billion
Aladdin: $1.054 billion
Beauty and the Beast: $1.266 billion
The Lion King: $1.663 billion

All of those were pretty bad movies. But if you have a pre-existing fan base + a pretty good movie as inspiration + the disney machine for distribution and advertising... it's really hard for a movie to flop... there just aren't enough rednecks in the world mad about her being black to make up for everything else the movie has going for it.

Revenue numbers can look great but they don't tell the whole story.

The last SW movie made like half a billion dollars, but to Disney it was a flop because it fell short of expectations

[miscinbro]

Revenue numbers can look great but they don't tell the whole story.

The last SW movie made like half a billion dollars, but to Disney it was a flop because it fell short of expectations

Fcking LMAO that’s a desperate response.

[Dave22reborn]

Have you kept up with the remakes?

Here's how much the ones with a theatrical release grossed:

Cinderella: $542.4 million
Maleficent: $758.5 million
The Jungle Book: $966.6 million
Alice in Wonderland: $1.025 billion
Aladdin: $1.054 billion
Beauty and the Beast: $1.266 billion
The Lion King: $1.663 billion

All of those were pretty bad movies. But if you have a pre-existing fan base + a pretty good movie as inspiration + the disney machine for distribution and advertising... it's really hard for a movie to flop... there just aren't enough rednecks in the world mad about her being black to make up for everything else the movie has going for it.

Okay, once again, we'll see what happens.

Now do Marvel movies post End Game.

Or Star Wars after Force Awakens.

Or their animated movies for the past couple of years.

[Dave22reborn]

Fcking LMAO that’s a desperate response.

Riiiiiight, they did amazing with Star Wars........right?

[Banderistan]

Okay, once again, we'll see what happens.

Now do Marvel movies post End Game.

Or Star Wars after Force Awakens.

Or their animated movies for the past couple of years.

Spider man made a killing.

[Dave22reborn]

Spider man made a killing.

Sony reaped 75% of the profits.

[Banderistan]

Sony reaped 75% of the profits.

And? It was a good movie. I'm not cheering for a corporation, guy. If it were up to me, all these big firms would be broken up and copyrights, trademarks, and patents would be severely restricted in scope and duration.

Also, Dave, I made a fortune today off Nvidia stock. Seethe. Back to work, wagie.

[Maestro]

Well, I guess I stand corrected, based on pre-purchased tickets its tracking at an estimated $120million opening weekend (on a $250million budget). Memorial day and name-recognition certainly helps with that.

This part I agree with. They should stop rehashing and rebooting and just make some new fking movies.

Part of why I love Severance, From, and Silo. They are original and feel unique.

off topic, but where the hell is season 2 for Severance? They better not have cancelled it. That was a wild cliffhanger.

[adimare]

Okay, once again, we'll see what happens.

Now do Marvel movies post End Game.

Or Star Wars after Force Awakens.

Or their animated movies for the past couple of years.

Alright, these are the ones with an exclusive theatrical release:

Eternals: $402.1 million
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: $432.2 million
Ant-Man and the Wasp: $476 million
Thor: Love and Thunder: $760.9 million
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: $859.2 million
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: $955.8 million
Spider-Man: Far From Home: $1.132 billion
Spider-Man: No Way Home: $1.922 billion

Not sure if you're seeing any patterns there that I'm not, but they seem to be doing pretty well.

[AlwaysFocus]

It wont smash records.

[SillieBazzillie]

So weird how the moron crew who so desperately hates everyone not like themselves (well like their pretend selves anyway) that they want to blame a movie failing soly on it being woke. Like movies haven't haven't failed for years without being woke, just for being bad movies.

And weird how they're so up in arms about non-whites playing leads now but they were happy as can be when it was whites only playing every single lead for decade after decade.

I guess Babylon was woke? Morbius? Moonfall?

Holy phuk these racist morons are dumb as a box of rocks...SAD

[JUSA]

Spider man made a killing.

(For Sony)

[aal04]

$120m on bookings alone.

2023. Fuk your merit based system. everything is political. What a time to be alive

[Banderistan]

Well, I guess I stand corrected, based on pre-purchased tickets its tracking at an estimated $120million opening weekend (on a $250million budget). Memorial day and name-recognition certainly helps with that.




off topic, but where the hell is season 2 for Severance? They better not have cancelled it. That was a wild cliffhanger.

It's coming. Might be a while cuz of the writers' strike.

[Banderistan]

$120m on bookings alone.

2023. Fuk your merit based system. everything is political. What a time to be alive

lol it's a movie for girls, and it probably was a well made adaptation. IDK what "merit" means in this context, but miscers probably aren't the target demographic.

[Dave22reborn]

And? It was a good movie. I'm not cheering for a corporation, guy. If it were up to me, all these big firms would be broken up and copyrights, trademarks, and patents would be severely restricted in scope and duration.

Also, Dave, I made a fortune today off Nvidia stock. Seethe. Back to work, wagie.

Yeah, Yeah, if "only" you were in charge........but you're not, so keep fantasizing.

[Dave22reborn]

Alright, these are the ones with an exclusive theatrical release:

Eternals: $402.1 million
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: $432.2 million
Ant-Man and the Wasp: $476 million
Thor: Love and Thunder: $760.9 million
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: $859.2 million
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: $955.8 million
Spider-Man: Far From Home: $1.132 billion
Spider-Man: No Way Home: $1.922 billion

Not sure if you're seeing any patterns there that I'm not, but they seem to be doing pretty well.

Shanghai was a flop, Eternas was a flop, 3rd Ant-Man movie lost money. Thor was a financial disappointment, Black Panther made way less money than the first movie.

Spider Man is 75% owned by Sony.

[Dave22reborn]

So weird how the moron crew who so desperately hates everyone not like themselves (well like their pretend selves anyway) that they want to blame a movie failing soly on it being woke. Like movies haven't haven't failed for years without being woke, just for being bad movies.

And weird how they're so up in arms about non-whites playing leads now but they were happy as can be when it was whites only playing every single lead for decade after decade.

I guess Babylon was woke? Morbius? Moonfall?

Holy phuk these racist morons are dumb as a box of rocks...SAD

****bag here actually believed the female Ghostbusters remake was great, and believed it only failed because of Misogyny.......

Also praised the 4th Oceans's movie, with the all female cast. Which was the least successful, and I doubt will be getting any more sequels.

[lockdev]

It's going to be a typical Disney release:

Great critic reviews
Terrible audience reviews
Very low actual sales
Disney will DMCA bad reviews on YouTube like they did for Captain Marvel
Disney will pour money into buying tickets to make it look like a success

They've done this chit for the past 7 years or so.

Anyone wonder how it could be that they've had "huge" box office success over the past 10 years, but their stock is lower today than it was in 2015 and half of what it was 2 years ago?

TL;DR It's going to bomb, but the media and Disney will make it look like a success.

[Cleveland33]

Alright, these are the ones with an exclusive theatrical release:

Eternals: $402.1 million
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: $432.2 million
Ant-Man and the Wasp: $476 million
Thor: Love and Thunder: $760.9 million
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: $859.2 million
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness: $955.8 million
Spider-Man: Far From Home: $1.132 billion
Spider-Man: No Way Home: $1.922 billion

Not sure if you're seeing any patterns there that I'm not, but they seem to be doing pretty well.

again, the numbers look nice but several of those - especially Ant Man and Thor were considered huge failures by Disney. Thor so much that Taika Waititi is not directing the next one (if they go through with it)

[Dave22reborn]

again, the numbers look nice but several of those - especially Ant Man and Thor were considered huge failures by Disney. Thor so much that Taika Waititi is not directing the next one (if they go through with it)

He does know that Eternals was a flop? Right? And the 4th Thor movie underperformed big time, who knows if there will be a 5th one, it's probably over for that series.

Don't worry, we have The Marvel's to look forward to come November......

[JUSA]

So weird how the moron crew who so desperately hates everyone not like themselves (well like their pretend selves anyway) that they want to blame a movie failing soly on it being woke. Like movies haven't haven't failed for years without being woke, just for being bad movies.

And weird how they're so up in arms about non-whites playing leads now but they were happy as can be when it was whites only playing every single lead for decade after decade.

I guess Babylon was woke? Morbius? Moonfall?

Holy phuk these racist morons are dumb as a box of rocks...SAD

Stage 2 already, seems stuck in this phase to be honest. Guess he's got to signal extra-strong here to make up for all the racist chit he says?

[Mercworx]

The funny thing is if they never goat on a soap box and preached (insulted) at everyone and just made characters other races without focusing on it fewer people would care


But now I know they are doing it deliberately and for the wrong reasons

[NitrogenWidget]

This is one of the few times that I don't mind that they changed the race/face of the lead.....in this case a mermaid.

She is still pretty just like the other one. Still petite just like the other one. Still has great hair. She doesn't look like a chubby dark skinned African 'queen'.

Just a pretty girl. Not a big deal.

i agree about everything except her face.
something about it i just don't find attractive at all.
i even thought she was ugly when i saw the first advert for it.

don't care they made her black either.
don't care if it does well or not either.

the only thing i think about is people are black due to melanin in their skin due to living hot regions with lots of sun.

so how did dark skinned mer-people happen?
or does nobody care?

they made the submariner south American and explained how the Atlanteans were all darker skinned in the wakanda movie and i was ok with it.

[NitrogenWidget]

The "live action" liong king made a billion dollars. Aladdin did well too but both were horrendous. Even if I had anything nice to say about them they were simply unnecessarily made.

lol.
I didn't even know they made a live action Lion King.

[Banderistan]

Shanghai was a flop, Eternas was a flop, 3rd Ant-Man movie lost money. Thor was a financial disappointment, Black Panther made way less money than the first movie.

Spider Man is 75% owned by Sony.

Hold up. Shang Chi may not have made much, but it was a great movie.

[DeceasedRussian]

Have you kept up with the remakes?

Here's how much the ones with a theatrical release grossed:

Cinderella: $542.4 million
Maleficent: $758.5 million
The Jungle Book: $966.6 million
Alice in Wonderland: $1.025 billion
Aladdin: $1.054 billion
Beauty and the Beast: $1.266 billion
The Lion King: $1.663 billion

All of those were pretty bad movies. But if you have a pre-existing fan base + a pretty good movie as inspiration + the disney machine for distribution and advertising... it's really hard for a movie to flop... there just aren't enough rednecks in the world mad about her being black to make up for everything else the movie has going for it.

lmfao Officer Doofy OWNED.

[JUSA]

Hold up. Shang Chi may not have made much, but it was a great movie.

I would say it underperformed, not an outright bomb or flop. We all probably have different ideas of success/failure, breaking even is generally considered a failure. Movie execs don't invest money to do nothing with it, money can sit in a saving account and get at least something.

They need to recoop the cost to make the film and the marketing costs, then judge like any other investment. Movies are big gambles, usually, you can make a lot of money out of nowhere or eat a big dick and end up ruined.

We don't know the exacts, my guess after marketing costs and production, it was 350-400 million. Worldwide I checked and it took in 430mil -- so I probably need to walk back my thinking it only underperformed, that's a huge miss right there. Clearly it lost money, unless it made a lot back w/ blurays or something, that 430 million box office is split with theaters, so they only saw a percentage of that.

Was it good or bad? I don't know. Didn't see it. I have doubts *any* marvel movie was/is great. My favorite was Winter Soldier. Civil War was good and I liked the first half of the Infinity War. Otherwise, a lot of bullchit, explosions, bad jokes and me not caring. Other than the last Spider-Man, I really enjoyed that.

[Banderistan]

I would say it underperformed, not an outright bomb or flop. We all probably have different ideas of success/failure, breaking even is generally considered a failure. Movie execs don't invest money to do nothing with it, money can sit in a saving account and get at least something.

They need to recoop the cost to make the film and the marketing costs, then judge like any other investment. Movies are big gambles, usually, you can make a lot of money out of nowhere or eat a big dick and end up ruined.

We don't know the exacts, my guess after marketing costs and production, it was 350-400 million. Worldwide I checked and it took in 430mil -- so I probably need to walk back my thinking it only underperformed, that's a huge miss right there. Clearly it lost money, unless it made a lot back w/ blurays or something, that 430 million box office is split with theaters, so they only saw a percentage of that.

Was it good or bad? I don't know. Didn't see it. I have doubts *any* marvel movie was/is great. My favorite was Winter Soldier. Civil War was good and I liked the first half of the Infinity War. Otherwise, a lot of bullchit, explosions, bad jokes and me not caring. Other than the last Spider-Man, I really enjoyed that.

I liked it. It was surprisingly good.

Winter Soldier was my favorite as well.

[NitrogenWidget]

It's weird, if the critics hate a movie, like the Mario movie, it usually turns out to be good, and a success.

If they love a movie, it usually ends up flopping, and the audience score is the complete opposite.

the mario movie hate was because of Chris Pratt and nothing more.
i didn't read any reviews but i did watch a few youtube clips of people reading the reviews and ripping the reviewers and their moron speak to shreds.
those fockers were triggered AF over the mario movie.

they hate Chris Pratt because he isn't a woke leftist actor.