Posted on 06/06/2023 1:45:25 PM PDT by zeestephen
The Little Mermaid Dropped 56.7% At The Box Office In Its 2nd Weekend.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
It is never clear if that amount includes advertising costs, which can be many, many millions more.
Rule of thumb for movie income - the Producer (Disney) and the movie theaters split the Box Office ticket sales 50%-50%.
That means the film must - at the very least - sell $500 million of tickets for Disney to break even.
Movie opened May 24.
Total World Wide Box Office Yesterday - $328 million
These live action remakes are pointless. They would have probably done better to just put the old movies back in theaters.
Disney will be lucky to break even over their woke movie.
It doesn’t have to be horrible - they just have to stop making horrible films.
Their major problem is the international box office, which favors the theaters when it comes to splitting the revenue, which is performing miserably. This film will be lucky to break even.
“lucky to break even “
let’s hope they don’t ...but it’s another good
SMACK in the battle for reality.
I wonder what color the sky is in their world ..?
Already made $328 million? This planet is far past gone.
Well, once it’s had its run in the theaters , they can show it on Disney+, and if they can’t recoup their investment by then, they can just make a billion copies of the movie and make up the difference by giving them all away.
Huh, maybe it turns out people don’t like paying money to have wokeness shoved down their throats.
They will “force” it to be profitable on paper but reality is it needs 600M-700M box office to be profitable and it won’t even get close
After the first two weeks (as revenue typically drops) theaters typically retain a higher percentage of the box office.
So if they haven’t made much of their costs by now, they won’t later.
I think that’s it.
American entertainment has always been hugely popular overseas, with many movies making more outside the U.S. than inside. But the world takes a very dim view of the West’s new insistence on wokeness. Some nations insist that sex scenes — perversity in particular — be cut. And foreign audiences, esp. in Asia, simply won’t go to movies featuring non-white heroes or subjects. Egypt is currently in an uproar over Netflix casting a black actress as Cleopatra. They point out that, if anything, Cleopatra was fairer-skinned than ordinary Egyptians. At least one Egyptian attorney has sued Netflix. It seems the entire world prefers light skin to dark. You might even say they’re white supremacists.
They're adding nothing to the story. They need to come up with new material. But that's a risk. Hollywood doesn't want to do that.
Good news then.
Put the cartoon mermaid in blackface to make the.wokesters happy
Go woke go broke.
It's the truth, it's actual
Ev'rything is satisfactual
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
Wonderful feeling, wonderful day, yes sir!
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