Shitty movie that cost 400 million takes in 31.7 million opening weekend. The competency crisis and pandering to the lowest common denominator strikes again.
It's gotta be tons of make-work jobs for diversity points, or money laundering.
Probably both. Can you think of a better way to launder money than a nonsensical job that pays way too much? It wouldn't even stick out, with all of the various positions that exist solely to meet ESG scores now.
200 Million production budget
200 Million marketing budget for their 100th year anniversary movie
Movie needs near a billion dollars to not be a failure.
They kicked out all the talent and the only ones left are activists. Activists only cost money and don't create so costs increase while quality goes down.
I heard rumors about it and was wondering when it was coming out. Literally was Christmas shopping with my daughter who.loves that kind of stuff and we saw a 20 ft. tall banner about it and she just responded "hmm".
Barely anyone knew it came out and those that did didn't care enough to raise a stink either way. And since it had such apathy, even the "Disney is FINISHED!" crowd didn't bother raising a stink either.
Disney has reached the point where most people don't have their hand on the pulse anymore waiting for each individual movie. They release far too many per year and most of them don't catch kids enough to make them fanatical about going to see more Disney.
Especially as, thanks to Disney+, almost all new movies have to compete with the long list of guaranteed hits for kids that people likely already have on hand. Instead of the gamble of going to a theater and hoping its good and your kid behaves in public that long.
It’s not kid’s movie fatigue anymore than it’s superhero fatigue or star wars fatigue. People are tired of bad feminist/lgbtq/leftist media. They are tired of obnoxious girl bosses, overt degeneracy, anti-whiteness, and anti-masculinity. If these movies were as good as past movies, they’d be making money hand-over-fist.
Its not fatigue. Its literally supply and demand. There are now half a dozen options from Disney alone, let alone the dozens more from not-Disney sources. Not to mention streaming increasing the options from "the handful of movies you bought physical copies of" to "literally almost anything."
People are still only going to take their kids out X times a year, and only are capable of spending Y amounts of money doing so. Adding incredible amounts of options divides that up regardless of quality.
If a phenomenal unoffensive movie came out it certainly would bring people out in droves, as Sonic and Mario did in the past few years, but even in Disney's prime their duds were still much more in demand due to the limited supply.
The running theory from some of the channels I watch that have people with children, their operating theory is there is a soft boycott of Disney. Not one that is loud and in the open like what happened with Budweiser, but one that still exist. Even just on the grounds of "Well, we cant trust Disney anymore. So lets not go see it until we know what it is."
Additionally, there is an issue where Disney seems to have trained their own customer base to want to wait until their movies are on Disney+ to go see it, due to there being some signs they do well on streaming. But there are two additional problems for Disney with that one, being 1) Disney+ is still massively in the hole and losing a ton of money, so any movie people are watching on there isnt actually helping them, and 2) with the exception of Encanto (which failed in theaters, did well on D+, and has had strong merch sales) , the merch isnt selling either. So they dont get any income from the long side either.
Another movie with some brown female heroine and an old white bad guy. They're not even trying to hide their racism.
Disney can't burn to the ground fast enough.
Shitty movie that cost 400 million takes in 31.7 million opening weekend. The competency crisis and pandering to the lowest common denominator strikes again.
How did Starfield cost $400m? It's gotta be tons of make-work jobs for diversity points, or money laundering.
They might be counting ad budgets. Not to say that it should cost that much anyway, but if they are I'd understand that value more.
Starfield at least has a lot of technical detail that's gone into it. Can't even say the same about most of these movies.
Probably both. Can you think of a better way to launder money than a nonsensical job that pays way too much? It wouldn't even stick out, with all of the various positions that exist solely to meet ESG scores now.
200 Million production budget 200 Million marketing budget for their 100th year anniversary movie Movie needs near a billion dollars to not be a failure.
They kicked out all the talent and the only ones left are activists. Activists only cost money and don't create so costs increase while quality goes down.
Idiots are very good at pissing away money
A black female lead isn’t lowest common denominator. It’s targeting only the wokest of wokes, and blacks.
Yeah, there's only one thing worse than hate in marketing: Apathy.
Cant even be assed to pirate it.
Literally had never even heard of it. Oof.
Also, looks like another ambiguously nonwhite female protagonist?
Disney just can't stop hurting themselves in their confusion, can they?
I heard rumors about it and was wondering when it was coming out. Literally was Christmas shopping with my daughter who.loves that kind of stuff and we saw a 20 ft. tall banner about it and she just responded "hmm".
I only heard about this movie maybe a week before it went up. Saw like ten seconds of a preview and was like yep gonna bomb.
Barely anyone knew it came out and those that did didn't care enough to raise a stink either way. And since it had such apathy, even the "Disney is FINISHED!" crowd didn't bother raising a stink either.
Disney has reached the point where most people don't have their hand on the pulse anymore waiting for each individual movie. They release far too many per year and most of them don't catch kids enough to make them fanatical about going to see more Disney.
Especially as, thanks to Disney+, almost all new movies have to compete with the long list of guaranteed hits for kids that people likely already have on hand. Instead of the gamble of going to a theater and hoping its good and your kid behaves in public that long.
It’s not kid’s movie fatigue anymore than it’s superhero fatigue or star wars fatigue. People are tired of bad feminist/lgbtq/leftist media. They are tired of obnoxious girl bosses, overt degeneracy, anti-whiteness, and anti-masculinity. If these movies were as good as past movies, they’d be making money hand-over-fist.
Its not fatigue. Its literally supply and demand. There are now half a dozen options from Disney alone, let alone the dozens more from not-Disney sources. Not to mention streaming increasing the options from "the handful of movies you bought physical copies of" to "literally almost anything."
People are still only going to take their kids out X times a year, and only are capable of spending Y amounts of money doing so. Adding incredible amounts of options divides that up regardless of quality.
If a phenomenal unoffensive movie came out it certainly would bring people out in droves, as Sonic and Mario did in the past few years, but even in Disney's prime their duds were still much more in demand due to the limited supply.
The running theory from some of the channels I watch that have people with children, their operating theory is there is a soft boycott of Disney. Not one that is loud and in the open like what happened with Budweiser, but one that still exist. Even just on the grounds of "Well, we cant trust Disney anymore. So lets not go see it until we know what it is."
Additionally, there is an issue where Disney seems to have trained their own customer base to want to wait until their movies are on Disney+ to go see it, due to there being some signs they do well on streaming. But there are two additional problems for Disney with that one, being 1) Disney+ is still massively in the hole and losing a ton of money, so any movie people are watching on there isnt actually helping them, and 2) with the exception of Encanto (which failed in theaters, did well on D+, and has had strong merch sales) , the merch isnt selling either. So they dont get any income from the long side either.
Mine is an out loud boycott of Disney. Have daughters and they are fine to get any of the classic princesses or dress-up stuff.
Modern Disney, though? Family and friends know that it will be returned to the store.