Posted on 03/14/2017 11:01:49 AM PDT by brucedickinson
It's already smashed records for ticket pre-sales.
Beauty has already beat out Finding Dory to become the fastest-selling family film in history, according to Fandango, the online ticket retailer.
This film is going to be a massive hit.
If I was a stockholder I would be really upset.
We dropped our Disney stock.
Were the ticket pre-sales BEFORE or AFTER Bill Condon and Josh Gad’s little... ahem, “reveal” about the movie? Because if it was before, that’s no indication that it will be a smash hit. For all we know, the guys who got their pre-tickets may have sent them back or even just threw them out as soon as they learned about what is actually in the movie when Condon and Gad just HAD to go public with it.
I don’t remember what kind of creature the candlestick is interested in. I think it’s offensive when dining room utensils are attracted to kitchen tools. It’s abhorrent and against nature.
The original fairy tail had bell interested in books for the “can’t judge book by its cover”
Even the non Disney varients carried that theme with becoming more worldly.
instead we have a one trick actress bs-ing a 20th century feminist as a save all. Look for public service nonsense ads pushing bell/Watson as an “inventor”.
It is not just the production costs, it is the ad costs, and distribution costs. also movies now show on THOUSANDS of screens the first weekend in order to try and beat the social media blast.
seriously save your money, http://www.themoviespoiler.com it will publish this and you can read in two minutes for free instead of wasting money.
footnote: trivia the traditional wedding march is based on this story “Here comes the beast, prepare the feast...”
For the record, the 1991 movie tried to push a 20th century feminist ideal as well. Just ask Linda Woolverton, she’ll tell you, having made that movie.
For the record, the 1991 movie tried to push a 20th century feminist ideal as well. Just ask Linda Woolverton, she’ll tell you, having made that movie.
Not so sure. Most pre-ticket sales came out before the critic reviews (now at 67% on RT), so while it might do well on opening weekend, if the word of mouth or disdain by the offended is great, by their second weekend it could tank.
The important thing is that the movie is reaching the “Sahara” point (that film lost $145m), where production and advertising are so expensive that it is almost impossible to make a profit. One cynical critic pointed out that the movie has the hallmarks of being an “investor tout” by Disney, to get or hold stockholder interest at the end of 2016 on prospect that it would be a guaranteed hit.
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