Posted on 06/26/2023 6:09:03 AM PDT by dynachrome
Box office analyst and YouTuber Valliant Renegade has estimated that the Walt Disney Co. has lost $890 million on the last eight studio releases, including the woke Little Mermaid remake and Elemental, an anti-racism animated film featuring a non-binary character. The films contributing to the losses include “Lightyear,” “Thor: Love and Thunder,” “Strange World,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” “The Little Mermaid,” and “Elemental.”
Valliant Renegade said that the eight films cost roughly $2.75 billion but only brought in $1.86 billion.
“That can’t go on forever. It’s just simple numbers, folks,” Valliant Renegade said in a video about his estimate. “That’s where we are. The Walt Disney Company is just making all the wrong decisions not only creatively, but in the distribution channels as well.”
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I’m betting the upcoming Tom Cruise “Mission Impossible” movie will do very well. People just want a good action popcorn flick with no woke preaching. That’s why the Top Gun sequel did so well.
Think of all the poor people who could have been helped with that money.
Gosh.
It’s almost like they have a woman there who is making movies she wants instead of what the customers want.
My understanding is that their theme park revenues went in the toilet also.
>> “That can’t go on forever. It’s just simple numbers, folks,” <<
No, it can. Disney has $4.7 billion revenue on Disney Plus alone. It’s not great for Disney, as their stock price declines show, but it’s not the end of the rat, either.
Nobody wants to watch trans and LGBTQ activist movies and shows.
You were being lectured to.
Valliant Renegade is making up numbers.
IMBDPro is showing the following for those eight moives.
Title Release Date Budget Opening Weekend US & Canada Gross World Gross
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Nov 11, 2022 $250,000,000.00 $181,339,761.00 $453,829,060.00 $859,208,836.00
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 May 5, 2023 $250,000,000.00 $118,414,021.00 $351,122,883.00 $827,914,739.00
Thor: Love and Thunder Jul 8, 2022 $250,000,000.00 $144,165,107.00 $343,256,830.00 $760,928,081.00
The Little Mermaid May 26, 2023 $250,000,000.00 $95,578,040.00 $270,241,764.00 $499,341,764.00
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Feb 17, 2023 $200,000,000.00 $106,109,650.00 $214,504,909.00 $476,071,180.00
Lightyear Jun 17, 2022 $200,000,000.00 $50,577,961.00 $118,307,188.00 $226,425,420.00
Elemental Jun 16, 2023 $200,000,000.00 $29,602,429.00 $65,514,915.00 $121,114,915.00
Strange World Nov 23, 2022 $120,000,000.00 $12,151,384.00 $37,968,963.00 $73,621,640.00
$1,720,000,000.00 $737,938,353.00 $1,854,746,512.00 $3,844,626,575.00
There is no easy for me to format this. Suffice to say, the budgets of the 8 were $1.720 Billion, the worldwide gross as of today is $3.844 billion.
Only two of those movies have not surpassed their budgeted amount, Strange World and Elemental. Both are cartoons with plots that make no sense to me, so I can see why they have not done well.
The Little Mermaid is now 123rd on the domestic gross list having surpassed Jaws and Shrek.
The top three of these films are 85th, 91st and 115th on the all-time worldwide gross list. The Little Mermaid is $54 million from joining the 200 all-time. Not bad for a film that is supposedly tanking.
On a side note, of the 200 highest grossing films world wide, Black Panther at 15th is the highest on the list in which the domestic gross exceeds the worldwide gross (and not by much). There are only 12 films in the top 200 with that distinction.
Subliminal child sex porn doesn’t sell as well as it used to?
Grooming expenses exceeding revenue?
The exposure of Disney’s sick, warped priorities has cause people to think twice
about exposing their children to it?
I’ve read that the film budget is about half of the actual costs to the studio when you add the tremendous amount of marketing etc. they have to do to push those stinkers down comsumers’ throats.
If true, there might still be a small profit left though.
Indeed. It is difficult to organize shareholders, when institutional investors hold so much power, and they are fully onboard with corrupting our society.
#28 The studios do not even come close to collecting that whole amount. Most is taken by the cost of production and the actors and theaters and ad expenses and taxes.
Disney Plus is is money hole. They are losing a billion a year right now on it.
You have to make more than double the budget just to break even. Most of those have not.
I am aware that they must make more than the production costs, etc.
The primary point of my post is that the original information is bogus.
Because they’re including the production costs.
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