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At risk? They haven’t had hit movie for years. They have destroyed just about everything they’ve touched, from Indiana Jones to Star Wars to Snow White.
By what metric was Star Wars not a hit movie
It was supposed to kick off a Marvell-style universe of infinite blockbusters. It didn’t.
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It is not possible to steal from the public domain. That's the entire point of it.
Go try to produce something based around the public domain story Cinderella. I doubt that Disney would take this kindly or lightly. That's the entire point of the post that you are responding to.
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Frozen is one of the newest entries out of any media franchise to gross more than $10B — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media... . More than Fortnite has grossed. Not too shabby.
I didn't know Pokémon is the single highest-grossing franchise. That's wild and kinda unexpected given its age relative to Mickey Mouse & Friends in 2nd.
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Moana came out almost 8 years ago! The force awakens is even older. I think you are proving the OPs point.
And they're making a live action one baby!
I think they should be compared to how well a literal rerelease of the original would do.
I think part of the evidence is just how absolutely long lived Frozen 1 has been. Nothing has been able to even come close to unseating that, not even its sequel (they were very smart to keep everything similar enough so that Frozen 2 merchandise can substitute for Frozen 1 in a kid’s eye).
It’s very indicative that people jump to movies that have been out for a decade or more, and probably can’t even name most of the more recent releases.
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At risk? They haven’t had hit movie for years. They have destroyed just about everything they’ve touched, from Indiana Jones to Star Wars to Snow White.
Avatar 2 came out just over a year ago is one of the highest grossing movies of all time.
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Encanto: $150m budget vs $250m box office. So again, "no hit movies" is easily disproven with 10s of time to look into it.
A movie needs to bring in twice its budget to be profitable[1] is the common rule of thumb. The budget doesn't include things like marketing, and the fact that the box office is shared with the theatre owner. So in your example, it potentially lost money for Disney. The wikipedia article almost says as much [2] "Although it underperformed at the box office ..." [1] https://gizmodo.com/how-much-money-does-a-movie-need…
None of the recent Disney animated movies have been “direct to DVD” terrible but they haven’t been exceptionally better than everything else.
It used to be that everyone basically considered Disney (and upstart Pixar) to be at the top of the class, and even extremely successful movies like Despicable Me to be a tier or two below.
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It is not possible to steal from the public domain. That's the entire point of it.
Go try to produce something based around the public domain story Cinderella. I doubt that Disney would take this kindly or lightly. That's the entire point of the post that you are responding to.
Disney sued nobody.
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Tangled (Repunzel), Moana (uses and remixes actual Polynesian myths), Frozen (based on the snow queen), Peter Pan, Little Mermaid - a stack of recent Disney movies have been based on existing IP. You just don't notice because they culturally steamroll the originals. The most recent movie Wish - is just callbacks to other Disney movies, so does it count as original IP? And this excludes their reboots - but also exclud…
As far as Frozen goes, at least they got something new to replace the Norway exhibit at Epcot, because it got so old and stale, that Norway disowned it, and refused to pay for the renewal
I wonder if anyone has worked out the actual dollar effect it is has had on Norwegian tourism.
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By what metric was Star Wars not a hit movie
By comparison to the previous two trilogies, and by performance of offshoots resulting in cancellations. It was supposed to kick off a Marvell-style universe of infinite blockbusters. It didn’t.
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At this point they should just buy Epic Healthcare and consolidate.
I never expected a dystopian megacorp to start from a cartoon or videogame company. As a kid I figured it would kick off with walmart buying lockmart and just calling itself Mart.