What Mediocrity? Everything produced is high quality products. Some of their Marvel content may have sub par plots, but you can only do so much with comic book material and the audience they are catering to.
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The Walt Disney Studios to Hit Industry-First $7B at Global Box Office Today
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What Mediocrity? Everything produced is high quality products. Some of their Marvel content may have sub par plots, but you can only do so much with comic book material and the audience they are catering to.
NipplesAndToes23
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The fuck is Coco?
ryutaro's mama
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Everyone seems to be downplaying what I think is almost guaranteed to be a $1 billion dollar movie, and that's this little number.
Its trailer was the most watched trailer in 24 hours of any movie trailer thus far, beating even Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
... It's going to make SERIOUS bank next year, I confidently predict.
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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How does it work with Spider-Man Homecoming? Do they spilt the profits 50/50 with Sony or what?
Pai Pai Master
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It's a new Pixar film with an all-latino cast.
I think Sony make all the BO moneys but Disney get the mechandising. So a pretty penny to say the least.
Lupin the Third
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superdeluxe
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They are going to break their own record.
SlimySnake
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lol what about Sony and other studios? have they even cracked the 2 billion mark?
I dont care for this btw. Disney is forcing Pixar to make sequels, they are making Marvel make safe as fuck comic book movies. I was hoping Dr. Strange would be different but its literally the same movie as their other origin flicks. They are now pimping out star wars movies every year which for some reason get A scores and great reviews despite being very mediocre and forgettable. Jungle book had a nice twist and some crazy good CGi, but it was mostly meh and left me wondering why it needed to be remade along with Cindrella and Beauty.
I guess they know the audience wants dumbed down shit and deliver on that every year. but looking at their portfolio this year, only Zootopia stands out as a true great movie with an original idea.
Of course, other studios are pumping out the same trash only worse so Disney is just beating others at this really forgettable movie season.
I dont care for this btw. Disney is forcing Pixar to make sequels, they are making Marvel make safe as fuck comic book movies. I was hoping Dr. Strange would be different but its literally the same movie as their other origin flicks. They are now pimping out star wars movies every year which for some reason get A scores and great reviews despite being very mediocre and forgettable. Jungle book had a nice twist and some crazy good CGi, but it was mostly meh and left me wondering why it needed to be remade along with Cindrella and Beauty.
I guess they know the audience wants dumbed down shit and deliver on that every year. but looking at their portfolio this year, only Zootopia stands out as a true great movie with an original idea.
Of course, other studios are pumping out the same trash only worse so Disney is just beating others at this really forgettable movie season.
NipplesAndToes23
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Oh cool.
DarkJediKnight
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True Story. My aunt was a hoarder of coins. Her husband wanted her to gather up all the change, put it in rolls and give to the bank.
So she asked all the kids to come help her. She started dumping them in a giant box.
It had to be about 6 inches deep, but the 8 year old in me saw the money bin from ducktales. I did a belly flop on it, and let me tell you, it's nothing like Scrooge disappearing into the coins. It's like slamming your dreams into cold hard reality. There's no give. You feel all of those tiny coins come together to evoke the most pain I've felt up to that point in my life.
Ducktales was dead to me from that day on. I never paid attention to how much it was in the end, but in hindsight it had to be close to a thousand if not more. These were all pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.
You should have paid more attention to the show, only Scrooge could jump in like that everyone else would just land on top.
Glass Rebel
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Tatsumaki Senpuukyaku!
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This will make up for the crumbling of ESPN
LoganKnight4949
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Pretty sure Spider-Man will count for Sony and not Disney.
all horrible boardroom directed shit. laser focused to appeal to all four quadrants and bland enough to be able to appeal to all of the emerging global film market. these huge brands with their hugely expensive films are monopolizing more and more of the money in cinema and making it near impossible for anything with any genuine vision or creativity to compete.
It'd be nice if they released more than the bare, basic details on Coco.
No Walt Disney Animation Studios movie next year?
They have been on an incredible roll lately, easily out shining current Pixar with their output.Maybe you'll get what you want, and one day Marvel will have the courage to make a movie as shitty as Suicide Squad.
At least you tried.
They had TWO this year, which was quite unusual.No Walt Disney Animation Studios movie next year?
But I imagine they're hard at work on "Gigantic" right now, and what I've seen thus far has been encouraging.
Diprosalic
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Star Wars was a fucking steal for 4 billion.
How did they pay more for Marvel scraps.
How did they pay more for Marvel scraps.
KonradLaw
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Well, for all the gloom and doom WB had surpringly good year Thye didn;t have any high profile expensive flops. Even Tarzan made twice it's budget, where I was sure it would be the biggest flop of the year.
Of course, they're no Disney, but that's a completely different league from everybody else. I guess at least they can find solace in the fact that their wizard beat the Marvel one ;D
Glass Rebel
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lmao
Frozenprince
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I too pine for the days Marvel has the courage to make a crocodile man a racist caricature.
Came here for this, was not disappointed.
When does Disney start gutting ESPN and firing people for underperformance?
KonradLaw
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Well, he's right. THey bought Marvel without all it's best characters.
At least you tried.
They had TWO this year, which was quite unusual.
But I imagine they're hard at work on "Gigantic" right now, and what I've seen thus far has been encouraging.
I know, I know, it is understandable they will skip a year after having two fantastic movies this year. But fuck man, they are in such an unbelievable flow right now, I just can't wait to see what they do next
Glass Rebel
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It's just funny how they've managed to make so much money off "scraps".
Future Foundation
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It's an incredibly well-oiled machine. When you've got Jungle Book and Civil War and Zootopia and Star Wars, you can handle a little bed-shitting like Alice Through the Looking Glass.
Dude.
Moonlight is one of the most talked about movies of the year. La La Land just made serious bank despite only being in a couple hundred theaters this week. Just because lil Jimmy wants to see Spider-Man doesn't mean quality movies are going extinct anytime soon.
Mr. Poolman
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On topic, I'm not even bothered by this, as Disney is pumping out quality entertainment.
ElBoxyBrown
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Disney is not seen as a competitor to other studios cuz they know they can't reach that. Even WB is like "well we're just gonna do our own thing with these DC properties."
StalkerUKCG
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Deserved. With Marvel and Star Wars they are going strength to strength and they fully understand the fan base and the material.
Pixar are giants on a almost yearly scale.
as a fan I'm happy
Pixar are giants on a almost yearly scale.
as a fan I'm happy
KonradLaw
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Yeah. WB might be able to make DC movies be Marvel-big, and they;re on their way to making Potter their Star Wars-like IP (not in size, but in that it's IP that can sustain one big movie per year), but even if everything would work out perfectly with those properties Disney still has animation and now added live action adaptations of animation. So there's no way WB could ever close that gap. It's physically impossible
Frozenprince
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And, I would like to point out. Blockbusters have always existed and have always made the most money, because, and this is key.
They are MEANT to have mass appeal.
Just because something has mass appeal A) does not mean it is bad and B) does not mean more niche products or things with "vision" like Moonlight or La La Land or Arrival or Hunt for the Wilderpeople don't get noticed, or money, or acclaim.
Hell Disney dropped the most inventive movie with vision and subtext in a long time this year in Zootopia to mass acclaim and make a shitload of money.
This "we don't make good movies anymore" has been a complaint as long as I've been alive and, frankly, I'm tired of hearing it. It was Fox in the early 00's, it was Paramount/Universal in the 90's. It's Marvel/Disney now.
ElBoxyBrown
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Fox made A LOT of shit in the 2000s.
Frozenprince
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Well yeah which is why Disney having yet to actually make a true stinker out of these is so impressive.
ElBoxyBrown
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Through the Looking Glass and Pete's Dragon are their bombs so far.
Tony Stark. In a cave. Yadda yadda.
You say this yet your avatar is the poster child of forgettable studio mandated cinematic universe mediocrity?
While this is kinda true, you look at the IPs and it's incredibly what they've done with them.
Zootopia and Moana are totally new. Jungle Book was exceptional. Finding Dory was thankfully more Toy Story 2 than Cars 2. Civil War was a great film. Doctor Strange (seriously, DOCTOR STRANGE) was unbelievably good. And Rogue One wouldn't be doing nearly as well if The Force Awakens didn't knock it out of the park.
The don't just have a lot of valuable IPS. They've leveraged those IPs well and done them serious justice.
while there are always a few examples those kind of films are few and far between and only really the oscar season keeps them going at this point. the situation for smaller films is so much worse than it was even in 2006 let alone 1996 or 1976. the diversity of films on our screens these days is terrible and the mid-tier original film is being squeezed out completely by existing properties.
this effect goes hand in hand with disney's dominance of these huge budget franchise films. there's always been blockbusters, like another gaffer said, but there's not been such dominance by these films before.
i personally find it baffling that disney's record takes are being treated with fawning adulation here as if it's something to be cheered or impressed by. it's like if someone posted a thread highlighting exxon mobil's huge 2016 profits and everyone remarked at how brilliant their slate of oil refineries are and acted like their business had zero impact on climate change.
milanbaros
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This may go unnoticed but the solar has strengthened significantly. This makes this more impressive.
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