The live action Little Mermaid is at $543 million globally. Chances are good it won’t crack $600 million.
Reports put the cost of production at around $250 million. The break even point for such a budget is typically $700-750 million. So this movie is on track to lose a cool hundred million dollars, which is bad enough already.
But consider the fact that three previous live action remakes have broken the billion dollar barrier at the box office. In terms of established expectations, Little Mermaid is leaving as much as a quarter to a half a billion dollars on the table.
I blame some of this on the inherently flawed concept. Live action versions of people are obviously fine, and simulated live action versions of cuddly animals are popular. Simulated live action versions of dead-eye fish and creepy sea insects? Not as appealing.
But there’s simply no denying that the unnecessary race swapping of white ginger Ariel to yet another black actress did not go over well with non-woke foreign markets. Asian countries in particular roundly rejected this movie, which is why the international box office fell well short of domestic. This trend was completely reversed with the previous live action remakes, btw.
So yeah, don’t run your retard mouth about shit you don’t understand, whoever you were lol
Yea, race swapping or gender swapping tells me that they don’t care and any sort of “what does it matter” argument is just pandering to social Justice weirdos.
It's beyond that.
Disney has spent literally 30 years cultivating and propagating the iconic Ariel character. It's remained unchanged that entire time and has huge brand recognition across the world.
And they torpedoed it in favour of this?
That goes far beyond pandering to their friends; I can't understand doing something like that unless they were intentionally trying to sabotage their own IP.
Also Mulan was a bad choice to adapt, Mulan is a well known story in China with something like 4 to 5 separate TV series made by Taiwan/hk/china in the last 30 years, with that comes certain cultural expectations from the audience that western studios simply can't bs their way with "let me tell you how your culture behaves". Asians in Asia simply just don't care about western movies starring Asian actors interpreting what Asian cultures are like, they have their own movie industries for that. What they want from Hollywood is huwite people doing huwite people things.