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
Do you know what's really sad about Disney? I believe there's a massive industry in waiting when it comes to 3D animated shows and movies generally. However not one of the studios not even Pixar really has the balls to capitalise on it as much as they should. Sure Pixar have their movies every now and then don't get me wrong, but compare that to the potential 3D has and it's pathetic. They all insist on doing not very good green screen live action shoots and I would much rather get the actors in a mocap suit and have it pure 3D. They've been cutting corners in fucking everything, even the 3D effects.