Asleep at the wheel? They used to rule with an iron fist.
Posted on 06/19/2023 6:42:58 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
The film aims to “tackle” racism and xenophobia and features the company’s first “nonbinary character.
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Asleep at the wheel? They used to rule with an iron fist.
““Elemental” as in earth, air, fire, and water.”
Related: My daughter, who is quite liberal, went to see the new Little Mermaid. Said it was very woke, the girl was ok, the guy looked way older, their chemistry was bad, and they added a rap-like song, the couple didn’t get married at the end, only engaged, and Ariel killed Ursula rather than the guy (or maybe vice versa but the roles were switched).
Disney will wake up to find that Not everyone wants to be “Tolerant of Gay lifestyle agenda”. I do not really care what adults do in the bedroom—that’s up to them—but I am growing to hate the force feeding of an agenda down my throat. Like: All TV adds must have a smart black family and a stupid white family. Or a Black/White married coupe even if they make up only 2% of the population. Now it seems that Gay must be made Normal and maybe the preferred lifestyle choice. Why do we need to put up with that? I say—NO to Disney and their propaganda.
Not to burst anybody’s bubble, but it opened the weekend with $29.5 million.
Latest Weekend: Jun 16-18
The Flash $55.1M
Elemental $29.5M
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse $27.8M
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts $20.0M
The Little Mermaid $11.6M
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/
Oh and by the way, The Little Mermaid has now done $467,699,129 worldwide. Not bad for a movie everyone here says was flopping.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1913750273/?ref_=bo_hm_RECENT_WEEKEND_WIDGET_5
You need to stop believing all of the right side propoganda also. It took me 15 seconds to find the FACTS.
From Movieweb: “With a $250 million production cost and a reported $140 million marketing cost, The Little Mermaid, under the most generous of projections, needs to gross approximately $560 million at the worldwide box office, according to Hollywood insiders, to reach its break-even threshold.”
Walk through a catalog of Disney films. I don't care how far back you go and see how many of them actually feature an intact family, i.e., a mom, dad, and children. There really aren't very many. Lots of aunts, uncles, single moms and dads, etc. (though most of the time the single parent is widowed.
So they are 85% (476/560) to the minumum to break even in 24 days since opening. Not a bad rate inmy mind. This does not include new merchandising opportunities that it will generate.
The Little Mermaid will do just fine for Disney’s bottom line.
Pixar’s ability to create new IP is seriously damaged. Think people just want them doing Toy Story, Incredibles, Cars, and so forth.
Disney animated studio itself can always retreat back to making an animated princess movie which follows a time tested formula.
Many of the older movies are based on fairy tales which are notoriously hostile toward parents in general. (birth mother dies, beta male father marries an evil step-mother, etc.)
Pixar hasn’t made a great film since Disney bought them.
The last great film Pixar made was Up! Which was already in production before the merger/buyout, and it came out in 2009!
They have had 16 movies since then and at best I would rate maybe 2 or 3 of them even memorable.
The summer of Disney flops continues…. The new Indiana Jones will be a flop as well..
No problem is that’s what Disney wanted. Which is why they bought them. Pixar did not want to make a TS3 let alone a TS4, but that’s what Disney wanted so they bought them out and have utterly destroyed them.
The last “great” Pixar movie was UP! In 2009 and it was in production before Disney bought Pixar.
Since then they have made 16 movies, and at most 2-3 are even memorable.. the rest have been either complete crap to utterly unmemorable.
A company known for great imaginative world creation and character driven story telling is a soulless zombie.
Well, “I” won’t see any of Disney’s fiascos. I swore off anything Disney and cancelled my Disney+ subscription when the first wokeness surfaced.
And no sane patent would take a child to see it
Elemental
Up was great
I saw zip twice at the movie theater. The last movie I went to
Out of curiosity, I watched the trailer. It was awful beyond belief.
It may have flopped anyway, but the fact they “stole” its marketing budget to try to force success on the little mermaid ensured it could only flop.
#4 DAX always gave me the creeps. Having an affair with Worf the klingon, an affair with a woman, several guy aliens. He/she/it did not care as anything goes went this Trill.
From Rotten Tomatoes over the openings of The Flash and Elemental this past weekend:
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE RESULTS: THE FLASH AND ELEMENTAL SECURE DISAPPOINTING DEBUTS
THE DC SUPERHERO FLICK AND PIXAR’S LATEST ANIMATED TREAT TOOK THE FIRST AND SECOND SPOTS THIS WEEKEND BUT PERFORMED BELOW EXPECTATIONS, WHICH DOESN’T BODE WELL FOR THE FUTURE.
Elemental is projected to take in just $31 million to $41 million in domestic theaters this weekend, according to researcher Boxoffice Pro. That would be among the lowest debuts ever for the animation studio....Elemental cost a reported $200 million to make and tens of millions more to market.
The Flash grossed $55.1 million over the weekend....Flash’s budget is reported to land somewhere around $200-220 million
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