Disney Doesn't Know What They're Doing Thread (Previously The SNOW WHITE Thread)

[TaranofPrydain]

Here's the seating chart for my usual theater for this Sunday at 6:00 PM...not one seat pre-sold.

Not surprising. I just checked Fandango to see how it was doing in various cities tonight, and a screening in Pittsburgh that begins right now (7 PM eastern time tonight) only had a half filled auditorium. If it's not doing well in the cities (and it won't do well in the country, and its not doing well overseas), it won't do well anywhere.

[AndyDursin]

We've come to a point where Disney just opens movies on dates and expects them all to make a bottom tier amount of money. Even by those lowly standards and no competition, this is as anemic as it comes, because the lousy (and now long forgotten) Tim Burton DUMBO was released at a time when more than a single movie opened nationally on a Friday, back in 2019. Aaah, the olden days... lol.

However at that level, as we told you yesterday, it’s right on par with Dumbo’s lackluster start ($46M), and far behind other Disney feature takes of vaults animated movies, i.e. The Little Mermaid ($95.5M), Maleficent ($69.4M), and Cinderella ($67.8M).

The Deadline DUMBO comparison -- actually none of these comparisons -- make sense because of the passage of time/inflation and the entirely different (now barren) marketplace SNOW WHITE is in right now. Making $45 million today is not an accomplishment of any kind. In fact it's embarrassing.

[Monterey Jack]

The Deadline DUMBO comparison -- actually none of these comparisons -- make sense because of the passage of time/inflation and the entirely different (now barren) marketplace SNOW WHITE is in right now. Making $45 million today is not an accomplishment of any kind. In fact it's embarrassing.

A $45 million opening weekend would have been a smash hit...in 1995. But movies didn't routinely cost $269 million three decades ago. You could justify a budget like that when these lousy remakes were routinely grossing well over a billion (Beauty & The Beast, The Lion King), but audiences have been burned too many times. Little Mermaid couldn't crack $600 million, and while Mufasa crawled past $700 mil, it was still almost a BILLION less than the first one did. The failure of Snow White will obviously be blamed on "incel white males" and the off-screen controversies about Zegler and Gadot, but the main culprit is that audiences have grown sick of seeing Disney raping its own back catalogue for awful new versions that wag their fingers at the "outdated" aspects of their predecessors and insert chiding social conditioning instead of fun, whimsy and charm. Only "Disney Adults" want this sh!t, certainly not their children.

EDIT: This is what $269 million buys these days.

[AndyDursin]

[Monterey Jack]

[AndyDursin]

The other news is Barry Levinson is charting a sub-Zemeckis course of late career bombs. Remember when he was on the A-list circa 1990? Yeah, it's been a LONG time since his movies mattered. This ALTO KNIGHTS was even written by Nicholas "Goodfellas" Pileggi too.

[Monterey Jack]

What kills me about Alto Knights is that De Niro is playing two different characters...who aren't twins, or even related.

[AndyDursin]

Doomcock full review:

[Eric Paddon]

The other news is Barry Levinson is charting a sub-Zemeckis course of late career bombs.

This is always going to be Barry Levinson to me.

[TaranofPrydain]

The other news is Barry Levinson is charting a sub-Zemeckis course of late career bombs. Remember when he was on the A-list circa 1990? Yeah, it's been a LONG time since his movies mattered. This ALTO KNIGHTS was even written by Nicholas "Goodfellas" Pileggi too.

Although Levinson kept working in the 90s and 00s at a fast clip, it can honestly be stated that his career was never the same after the 1992 flop Toys. After that point, I think only three of his 90s films made their budget back domestically (Disclosure, Sleepers, and Wag the Dog)

[Eric W.]

Glad this is bombing

[Monterey Jack]

[Edmund Kattak]

Yay Disney! Creating your own positive marketing.

[TaranofPrydain]

I honestly can't remember if I saw any other actor/actress posting a reaction video of them watching their own film before. I know that many even refuse to see their own films.... Most unusual, and the otherwise empty theatre is telling.

I heard today about a little girl who went to this new fiasco and didn't care for it, so if it isn't even working for them....

And Ziegler most likely will be decamping for the stage and moviegoers everywhere won't have to worry about seeing her in a film, because Variety just ran a hit piece on her.

[mkaroly]

What in the hell is Pinkvilla? Lol...those World of Disney posts almost made me spit up my drink from laughing.