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Post by veu on Jul 6, 2023 14:44:34 GMT -5
Source: thedisinsider.com/2023/07/06/disney-leads-global-box-office-3-4-billion/Disney July 6, 2023 Disney Leads Global Box Office $3.4 Billion by Skyler Shuler
2023 has been a pretty weird year for Disney at the box office. While it seems some of their projects have disappointed, they still hold a pretty good lead over other studios in terms of box office totals.
According to Deadline, Disney has grossed over $3.4 billion ($1.35 billion domestic and $2.05 billion overseas) at the global box from January 1 through July 2. While this is still a drop from their dominant 2019 year at the box office, exhibitors are still thankful as Disney no longer does day and date releases via Disney+, as theaters are finally seeing numbers in a post-pandemic landscape that had many believe theaters would disappear altogether.
Marvel Studios is a large part of the box office numbers with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which is the second highest grossing movie of the year, totaling $2.1 billion worldwide in 2023. This destroys the numbers of their biggest competitor WB/DC as Black Adam, Shazam: Fury of the Gods and The Flash brought in a mere $773 million.
Among the top 20 grossing films of the year to date, Disney owns five of them: GOTG3 ($837M), Little Mermaid ($525M, No. 5), Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ($476M at No. 6), Elemental at No. 12 with $188M and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny with $131M at No. 16.
Disney still has a handful of massive titles to come this year including Haunted Mansion, Wish, and The Marvels.
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Post by veu on Jul 12, 2023 15:26:08 GMT -5
Source: collider.com/the-little-mermaid-global-box-office-542-million/‘The Little Mermaid’ Swims Toward Mammoth Milestone at the Global Box Office BY RAHUL MALHOTRA PUBLISHED 2 DAYS AGO The mega-budget live-action adaptation is still making waves.
After a modest opening weekend haul back in May, followed by mediocre response in overseas markets, it looks like Disney’s big-budget live-action remake The Little Mermaid has been able to steady itself in choppy waters after all. After seven weekends in theaters, the film is on the verge of passing major box office milestones both domestically and worldwide. Directed by veteran Disney hand Rob Marshall, The Little Mermaid has made $289 million stateside, and $253 million internationally, for a running global haul of $542 million.
A remake of the 1992 animated classic, the movie will likely pass the $550 million mark at the worldwide box office by the end of its theatrical run, and even has an outside shot of crossing the $300 million mark domestically, especially if Disney holds onto its digital release for just a couple more weeks. Produced on a reported budget of $250 million (plus millions more in marketing spends), The Little Mermaid probably isn’t the global smash hit that the studio would’ve liked, but it didn't sink like it could have either.
The movie debuted to an underwhelming $163 million global haul in May, but displayed strong holds at the domestic box office over the next month, as it swam past important milestones. In overseas markets, however, the movie vastly underperformed. Its biggest foreign territory remains the U.K., where it made $31 million, followed by Mexico ($21 million) and Japan ($17 million). It bombed in both South Korea and China, where it made less than $5 million each. Now compare this to how spectacularly Disney’s last major remake — Aladdin — performed overseas in 2019.
Directed by Guy Ritchie, Aladdin concluded its theatrical run with more than $300 million domestically, and more than $1 billion worldwide. The movie made a staggering $112 million in Japan, $91 million in South Korea, and more than $50 million each in the U.K. and China. The Little Mermaid faced several obstacles in international markets including racist backlash to Halle Bailey’s casting in the titular role. However, Aladdin had Will Smith front and center of all its marketing material, while The Little Mermaid didn’t have stars of Smith’s stature to help promote it.
Where Does the Movie Stand in the Pantheon of Disney's Live-Action Remakes?
As far as live-action Disney remakes (and their sequels) go, The Little Mermaid is passing the $543 million lifetime global haul of Cinderella as we speak, but the movie won’t be able to touch the worldwide totals of Maleficent ($758 million) and The Jungle Book ($966 million), not to mention the studio’s four billion-dollar-plus blockbusters — Aladdin, Alice in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. It does, however, remain the fifth-biggest Hollywood release of 2023 at the worldwide box office, behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Fast X, and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. The movie also stars Melissa McCarthy as the villainous Ursula and Jonah Hauer-King as Eric. You can watch our interview with Bailey and Hauer-King here, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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Post by veu on Jul 31, 2023 11:06:40 GMT -5
Source: TwitterA Pequena Sereia é um sucesso ou um fracasso?
O live-action da Disney custou U$ 250M para ser produzido, o que obrigaria o longa á arrecadar U$ 625-750M nas bilheterias apenas para se pagar dos cinemas.
O longa ainda teve U$ 140M gastos com marketing mundial, além de parcerias com diversas marcas.
Porém, a bilheteria do filme não surpreendeu como esperado e sua soma mundial está em U$ 560.9M (e vai terminar próximo disso mesmo).
Com isso, estamos nos dados certos da análise do Deadline sobre o lucro do filme.
Vamos contabilizar?
O filme terá um retorno dos cinemas de U$ 267M (após a retirada do pagamento das redes de cinemas), junto com U$ 100M de receita em TV paga/gratuita (e que a própria Disney pagará para colocar no Disney Plus), além de mais U$ 100M em receita de vendas digitais e DVD's e outros U$ 80M em TV internacional e Streaming.
Dessa forma, filme teria um total de receita de U$ 547M contra seu custo total (incluindo marketing, orçamento de produção e custos adicionais) de U$ 476M, levando o filme da Ariel á ter um lucro de U$ 71M!!!
Com esses dados mais detalhados, #APequenaSereia pode ser considerado um sucesso financeiro (juntando todas as outras formas de receita), mas dos CINEMAS propriamente o filme arrecadou abaixo do esperado, não conseguindo lucrar isoladamente.
Gostaram do filme? Comentem!
Espero que tenham gostado dessa análise completa rsrs. #TheLittleMermaid
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Post by veu on Jul 31, 2023 15:24:29 GMT -5
Source: FacebookThe Little Mermaid 2023 officially ended its journey in theaters with an impressive $561 million gross, making waves as Disney's 4th highest-grossing live-action hit ( and the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2023)!
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Post by veu on Aug 3, 2023 4:54:02 GMT -5
Source: collider.com/the-little-mermaid-budget-breakdown/'The Little Mermaid' Budget Breakdown: Did the Live-Action Remake Break Even? By Isabella Soares Updated 13 hours ago
Are the film's box office returns enough to keep it swimming?
What Was the Budget for The Little Mermaid?
How Does the Live-Action Budget Compare to The Little Mermaid Animated Film?
How Much Did the Cast of The Little Mermaid Make?
How Is The Little Mermaid Doing at the Box Office So Far?
Did The Little Mermaid Break Even?
Comparing The Little Mermaid Box Office Projections to Other Disney Live-Action Remakes
Disney is taking everyone under the sea with The Little Mermaid 2023 live-action remake, based on the beloved 1989 animation film. Filled with CGI advancements, there was much investment in making Ariel's tail, Sebastian and Flounder's revamped animations, and the whole environment under the sea as realistic as possible. With a significantly high budget and top-notch cast (starring Halle Bailey and Melissa McCarthy), live actions like these are expected to soar at the box office and not only break even but become a lucrative success. After Aladdin and The Lion King's profitable returns, here's a breakdown of The Little Mermaid's budget and how its box office performance compares to previous Disney projects. Close
Editor's Note: This article was updated on August 2, 2023. The Little Mermaid 2023 Poster The Little Mermaid (2023)
Release Date 2023-05-26 Director Rob Marshall Cast Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Melissa McCarthy, Javier Bardem Rating PG Runtime 135 minutes Main Genre Animation
What Was the Budget for The Little Mermaid?
The 2023 remake is estimated to have cost around $250 million to make and $140 million in global marketing spend, although Disney hasn't officially released the exact budget/cost of production. The Little Mermaid live-action had a similar investment value to other Disney live-action films, such as The Lion King and Aladdin. The Lion King cost $260 million, while Aladdin cost $183 million. Considering the number of technological resources used in the film, including a heavy load of CGI, the estimate made of The Little Mermaid's budget isn't very far off from what you would expect from a remake of this caliber. However, the reception towards the film (especially towards its visuals) has been mixed, which reflects on its earnings.
How Does the Live-Action Budget Compare to The Little Mermaid Animated Film?
Before getting into The Little Mermaid's box office performance, it is also worthwhile to compare the cost of production of the remake to the 1989 animation. The original Disney film cost around $40 million, which was higher than other Disney animations that were produced shortly after that. For instance, Beauty and the Beast cost $20 million, which is half of the amount spent on The Little Mermaid animation. According to Box Office Mojo, the 1989 film earned over $211 million globally ($517 million if we adjust for inflation). The remake will likely conclude its run with a similar gross as it passes the $500 million milestone.
How Much Did the Cast of The Little Mermaid Make?
According to Showbiz Galore, Halle Bailey received over $1.5 million for portraying Ariel, the iconic red-headed mermaid. As for her co-stars, Jonah Hauer-King earned $750,000 for the role of Prince Eric, and Javier Bardem received $700,000 for playing King Triton. Melissa McCarthy, who played the devious Ursula in the live-action, made $500,000 for her work in the film. Other cast members received more modest salaries for their supporting roles. Noma Dumezweni made $400,000 as Queen Selina, Art Malik made $200,000 as Grimsby, Lorena Andrea made $200,000 as Perla, and Kajsa Mohammar made $170,000 as Karina.
How Is The Little Mermaid Doing at the Box Office So Far?
The Little Mermaid was released just in time for Memorial Day, making about 38 million dollars domestically on its premiere day and $118.8 million 4-day opening weekend. Although the film performed well in North America, it didn't soar during its opening weekend overseas. The live-action remake was expected to receive around $80 million, but it only made through to $63.8 million. Reluctance from the Chinese market may have been a determining factor when it came to earnings globally. The film only made $2.5 million in its opening weekend in the country. Over three weeks after the film hit theaters, it has made around $253 million domestically and $212 million in international territories, marking about $465 million worldwide.
After its tenth weekend in release, The Little Mermaid had grossed a total of $296.9 million domestically and $267.2 million internationally, which adds up to $564 million worldwide
Did The Little Mermaid Break Even?
The Little Mermaid did break even, but just barely. The film needed to make at least $560 million globally, which it finally has crossed. PVOD and Blu-ray and DVD sales can also help the film make a bit more money for Disney. While The Little Mermaid didn't cross the billion-dollar mark like Disney might have hoped, the film still did better than some of the studio's other summer films including Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Elemental.
Comparing The Little Mermaid Box Office Projections to Other Disney Live-Action Remakes
For a film with a budget of $250 million and $140 million in global marketing spend, The Little Mermaid hasn't earned back nearly as much as other Disney live actions, such as The Lion King and Aladdin. As previously mentioned, both films also received big budgets but were deemed lucrative during their theatrical run in 2019. The Lion King made $1.6 billion at the box office, while Aladdin made around $1.05 billion worldwide gross. It is important to note that the latter film also premiered during the Memorial Day weekend. Unlike The Little Mermaid, Aladdin had a positive reception in China, earning $53.4 million in the country. Beauty and the Beast also did well at the box office, making $1.2 billion gross.
Although several Disney live-action were deemed lucrative, there were also many hits and misses, especially considering streaming-only releases. For instance, Mulan hit theaters in 2020 during the pandemic and had nearly no domestic box office returns because most theaters in North America and around the world were shut down. According to Disney, the film made $90 million via Disney+ Premiere Access, where people could watch the live-action remake via streaming. Yet, it is also worth noting that in some places worldwide, Mulan did get the opportunity to hit the big screen, earning around $70 million in international markets. The Little Mermaid is the first remake to get a major release since the pandemic started, so it's coming in lower than the pre-2019 films isn't that surprisin
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Post by veu on Aug 16, 2023 15:09:58 GMT -5
Source: thedirect.com/article/little-mermaid-2023-box-office-flop-disneyLittle Mermaid 2023 Box Office: Is It a Major Flop for Disney? By Sam Hargrave Posted: August 16, 2023
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Disney's The Little Mermaid has finished its theatrical run at the box office, but was it a success or a major flop for the studio?
Starring Halle Bailey, The Little Mermaid comes as Disney's latest remake of an animated classic that endeavors to follow the massive success of The Lion King, Alladin, and Beauty and the Beast, all of which grossed over $1 billion.
Almost three months after its May 26 release date, the underwater musical is about to make its way to Disney+ at the start of September.
Did 2023's Little Mermaid Turn a Profit for Disney?
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Disney's blockbuster live-action remakes have notably been rather expensive for the studio, with The Little Mermaid carrying a $250 million production budget and a $140 million marketing spend according to a report from Deadline.
The $250 million production budget comes fairly standard for Disney's bigger remakes, coming in just below that of The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast:
The Lion King: $260 million Alladin: $183 million Beauty and the Beast: $254 million The Little Mermaid: $250 million In the same report from Deadline, the outlet calculated The Little Mermaid would need to gross $560 million at the global box office to break even, based on its own estimates of how much the movie will likely earn from home release sales, along with TV and streaming deals.
As the 2023 Little Mermaid remake took home $567.51 million from the global box office ($297.19 million domestic and $270.32 million international), the movie will likely turn an extremely thin profit depending on its home release sales.
The Little Mermaid's box office haul comes in far lower than that of its live-action remake peers, many of which have grossed over $1 billion:
The Lion King: $1.66 billion Alladin: $1.05 billion Beauty and the Beast: $1.27 billion The Little Mermaid: $567.51 million Naturally, many of these high-grossing remakes have raked in massive profits - according to figures from Deadline - however, The Little Mermaid, unfortunately, won't be joining the ranks of these monster successes:
The Lion King: $580 million Alladin: $356 million Beauty and the Beast: $414.7 million
How The Little Mermaid Will Change Disney's Future Movie Plans Speaking to Deadline, a film finance insider called The Little Mermaid “Not a huge disappointment, but a disappointment, nonetheless,” and that may perfectly sum up the level of success the 2023 live-action remake has accrued.
This year has seen several major franchise movies - including Fast X, The Flash, Ant-Man 3, Indiana Jones 5, and The Little Mermaid - released on ridiculous budgets of over $200 million, and therefore struggling to turn a profit.
Going forward, studios across Hollywood, including Disney, will probably be making more conscious efforts to reduce their movie budgets, with a price tag over $200 million likely to be handed out far more sparingly in the future.
Fans shouldn't expect to see Disney doing much rethinking on its live-action remake focus, as the movie still made its money back and will likely go on to become a hit on Disney+, but future projects may be made on a cheaper budget.
The studio already has Snow White, Lilo & Stitch, and Mufasa: The Lion King on the cards for next year, while other remakes in development are Moana, Hercules, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
The Little Mermaid is coming to Disney+ on Wednesday, September 6.
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Post by veu on Aug 17, 2023 3:32:53 GMT -5
Italian article: cinema.everyeye.it/notizie/sirenetta-successo-flop-svelato-risultato-remake-disney-box-office-665655.htmlLA SIRENETTA, SUCCESSO O FLOP? SVELATO IL RISULTATO DEL REMAKE DISNEY AL BOX OFFICE
Di Matteo Regoli
16/08/2023, Ore 12:30
Ora che La sirenetta sta per arrivare su Disney+ la corsa nelle sale cinematografiche di tutto il mondo per il film con Halle Bailey è definitivamente conclusa, quindi c'è da chiedersi: il nuovo remake live-action della Disney è da considerarsi un successo oppure un flop al box office?
I remake live-action della Disney sono stati particolarmente costosi per lo studio, con La sirenetta che ha avuto un budget di produzione di 250 milioni e una spesa di marketing di 140 milioni secondo un nuovo rapporto di Deadline. Anche con le spese extra dovute al covid, la cifra del budget di produzione del film è da considerarsi in linea con quella dei maggiori remake della Disney come Il Re Leone (260 milioni), Aladdin (183 milioni) e La bella e la bestia (254 milioni), ma Deadline calcola che La sirenetta avrebbe dovuto incassare 560 milioni di dollari al botteghino globale per raggiungere il punto di pareggio.
Missione compiuta, dunque, dato che al momento della stesura di questo articolo La sirenetta ha incassato 567,51 milioni di dollari in tutto il mondo: il film realizzerà un profitto estremamente ridotto ma per lo meno non andrà in perdita (come accaduto invece al flop di Indiana Jones 5) e potrà contare sulle vendite dell'home-video e i passaggi in streaming per ampliare i suoi guadagni.
Tuttavia va notato che il box office de La Sirenetta è di gran lunga inferiore a quello dei suoi colleghi remake live-action, come Il Re Leone (1,66 miliardi), Aladdin (1,05 miliardi) e La bella e la bestia (1,27 miliardi). Naturalmente si sta parlando di un'epoca del box office vicina solo di calendario (2019) ma estremamente mutata oggi a causa del covid, anche se un insider della finanza cinematografica a commentato a Deadline: "La sirenetta magari non sarà una grande delusione per Disney, ma una piccola delusione si".
Una frase che sembra riassumere perfettamente il successo minimo, se non risicato, accumulato dal film.
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Post by veu on Sept 8, 2023 4:16:23 GMT -5
Source: movieweb.com/the-little-mermaid-box-office-success/Was The Little Mermaid a Box Office Success? By Nikole Finger and David Grove Updated 14 hours ago
The Little Mermaid's box office has been analyzed to fit many narratives, but here is a closer look at how the film did at the box office.
Halle Bailey as Ariel in Disney's live-action The Little Mermaid Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
The Little Mermaid, the live-action remake of the classic 1989 Disney animated film of the same name, has become so shrouded in debate and politicization that simply liking the film, or not liking the film, has become less about holding a critical opinion and more about defending an ideological position and making a statement.
While many people honestly felt that the very idea of remaking the beloved 1989 film was pointless, if not sacrilegious, much of the criticism of the remake has, of course, centered on the remake’s perceived woke agenda, specifically with the casting of Halle Bailey, a black actress, as the film’s titular character, in a traditionally red-haired, and white, role.
Updated September 7, 2023: In honor of The Little Mermaid finally arriving on Disney+, this article has been updated to better reflect the film's current box office gross.
This polarization even extends to the perception of the film’s box office performance, as the film’s defenders have bent over backward, so to speak, to portray the film as a box office success, while detractors have been just as keen to portray the remake as a flop. While box office figures, like all statistics, can certainly be twisted to fit conflicting narratives, the box office performance of The Little Mermaid has been telling in terms of what it means for Disney but also how people respond to box office numbers.
Swimming Upstream Overseas
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Released in North America on May 26, 2023, prior to the Memorial Day Weekend, The Little Mermaid grossed $118.6 million over the Friday-to-Monday Memorial Day frame, slightly ahead of the 2019 live-action remake of Aladdin, which grossed $116.8 million during the same four-day frame in 2019.
However, this $118.6 million opening weekend at the domestic box office was more than offset by a lackluster opening weekend performance in the international markets, where The Little Mermaid only grossed $63.8 million, including a pitiful $2.5 million opening weekend gross from the all-important Chinese market. As the previous live-action Disney remake films have made more money at the international box office than domestically, and by a wide margin, The Little Mermaid was in a very bad position to simply reach a break-even point financially, much less earn a sizable profit.
With a $250 million production cost and a reported $140 million marketing cost, The Little Mermaid, under the most generous of projections, needed to gross approximately $560 million at the worldwide box office, according to Hollywood insiders, to reach its break-even threshold.
With The Little Mermaid finally arriving on Disney+, it seems safe it has concluded it's box office numbers. The film grossed $298 million domestically and $569 million worldwide. This does push the movie beyond the estimated break-even point, but just barley. Of course, big studios have a way of hiding their numbers, so it isn't certain if the $560 million break-even point was accurate to begin with. A general rule of thumb among movie-makers is to estimate that marketing will double the cost of the film, but this isn't a hard and fast rule. Depending on what marketing strategy the company uses and how expensive the film gets, a ratio similar to what has been reported for The Little Mermaid is possible. With only a $9 million dollar difference, any small underestimation could dip into that perceived profit.
Yet, based on the initial report, the film made at least $9 million in profit at the box office. That does not include other revenue that the film will generate from PVOD, home video sales, and broadcast rights. Also worth noting, as with any Disney movie, the film is only one aspect of its success as another is how the film does in terms of generating merchandise and buzz for the theme parks.
Lagging Behind the Other Disney Live-Action Remakes
Little Mermaid poster Walt Disney Pictures
With its weak international box office performance, The Little Mermaid has already fallen far behind the box office pace and performance of Disney’s previous live-action remake films, not including the pandemic-addled 2020 live-action remake of Mulan.
For example, the 2019 live-action remake of Aladdin grossed $356.5 million at the domestic and a whopping $695.1 at the international box office, for a worldwide box office gross of over $1 billion. Prior to Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, the 2017 live-action adaptation of Disney’s 1991 animated film grossed $504 million domestically and $759.5 internationally for a worldwide box office gross of over $1.2 billion. The Lion King remains king of the box office, pulling in $1.5 billion worldwide.
In stark contrast, The Little Mermaid, at the end of its theatrical run, is half of that with $569 million. Now it is worth noting that the original animated The Little Mermaid's box office was nowhere near as big as the animated Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Lion King. So it seems unfair to expect the remake to outperform or even come close to the remakes of the more beloved Disney animated films when its predecessor did not.
In terms of box office, The Little Mermaid is the middle ground. It did come below The Jungle Book's $967 million worldwide box office and Maleficent's $759 million worldwide total. It did just barely beat Cinderella's $542 million worldwide and also outgrossed Dumbo's $353 million. Notably, these were all remakes and reimaging of classic Disney films as opposed to the Disney Renaissance films, so the fan base for those other entries was not as prevalent as the new entries. So, The Little Mermaid is both a hit and a disappointment in some respects.
Disney Remakes Might Be Dying
Jonah Hauer-King and Halle Bailey in The Little Mermaid Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
The Little Mermaid, both the animated film and the live-action remake, tells the story of a mermaid princess, Ariel, who is captivated by the outer human world, especially after she rescues a dashing human prince, Prince Eric, from drowning. Anxious to be reunited with Eric, Ariel makes a deal with a deceitful sea witch, Ursula, to be human for three days in exchange for Ariel’s ethereal singing voice so that Ariel can impress Eric before the three-day spell expires.
Given its array of whimsical elements, how and why did The Little Mermaid become such a divisive symbol? Did the backlash against the film and the accompanying effect of the practice of review-bombing have, as has been suggested, an adverse effect on the film’s box office, especially in the international markets, where the remake earned a further discouraging $42 million in its second weekend for a current overseas total of $140.5 million?
Of course, there is more to this story than just the color of the leading lady's skin. There certainly was a sizable chuck of international audiences who might not have seen The Little Mermaid due to the decision to change Ariel's race, but the number of those people to actually impact the box office is minuscule. Despite reports of "go work, go broke," films like Captain Marvel, Black Panther, and Barbie show that diverse movies do very well.
Disney fans have generally expressed a growing dislike of the live-action remake practice. Especially when Disney keeps adapting animated films that were popular and often considered perfect to begin with, it makes sense that fans no longer wish to waste time or money seeing a longer version of the same movie. Why pay for a new one when the old one works just as well? Disney has been remaking their films for over a decade now, and the trend appears to be on the downslope. It will be interesting to see how remakes like Snow White and Moana do at the box office.
Can Streaming Save the Day?
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Disney doesn't really let the numbers from their streaming service out. However, there have been concerns recently that the number of viewers paying for Disney+ has gone down significantly. Without knowing the exact numbers, it is hard to determine if releasing The Little Mermaid on the streaming service has helped its financial performance at all.
In general, Disney has been putting their newly released films onto Disney+ shortly after being released in theaters and on PVOD but before their home video release. This means audiences have now gotten used to waiting to see movies in theaters for them to eventually show up on streaming. This might explain the overall decline in Disney's box office, as now audiences are conditioned to wait for it to show up on Disney+.
However, it can help with growing the fan base. People who wouldn't pay for the film may choose to watch it on Disney+ now, and if they like it, they may just spend money on the merchandise. As Star Wars creator George Lucas knew, much of the money to be made with movies rests on how much people will spend on it outside the theater. Disney is especially good at this, knowing that a movie's box office is not the end of the story. Movies like Hocus Pocus and A Goofy Movie were disappointments at the time, but now merchandise sellers.
Again, without the numbers, it is hard to know if the toy sales from The Little Mermaid boosted its profits at all. While that doesn't directly tie into the box office, it does impact how much money can be made from the film overall and how Disney sees their projects going forward.
What Is The Lesson Here
Halle Bailey in The Little Mermaid Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Numbers don't lie, yet they need context to tell the full story. Yes, The Little Mermaid is the fifth highest-grossing film of summer 2023 behind Barbie, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Oppenheimer, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Yet it did gross $569 million worldwide, but it also cost $200 million. Yes, other Disney remakes grossed $1 billion, but those were remakes of far more popular Disney films whose box office beat the original animated The Little Mermaid.
The nature of the worldwide box office makes determining success tricky. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning both cost nearly the same amount and almost have the same grosses domestically, yet Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning was seen as a bigger hit due to a slightly bigger worldwide box office. Fast X did far worse than both them and The Little Mermaid domestically, not even ranking in the domestic top 10 of the summer, yet worldwide outgrossed all of them. Does that make it a hit or a flop?
Box office numbers are complicated, and it is not always the end of the story for these films. While The Little Mermaid might not get a sequel, was it ever expected to? It is already getting a Disney Junior-inspired series. It might make Disney rethink how much they spend on live-action remakes, but with budgets getting so out of control, that might be a good thing for them. The impact of the film will be felt years from now in how audiences respond to it and if it has the same staying power with young viewers that the original did.
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Post by veu on Oct 6, 2023 12:08:54 GMT -5
Source: www.forbes.com/sites/carolinereid/2023/10/02/disney-sinks-300-million-into-over-budget-little-mermaid-movie/Disney Sinks $300 Million Into ‘Over Budget’ ‘Little Mermaid’ Movie Caroline Reid Contributor
Oct 2, 2023,12:01pm EDT
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Disney has revealed that the cost of making the live action version of its classic cartoon The Little Mermaid swelled to nearly $300 million by the end of August last year, eight months before the movie opened.
The colossal cost blows its estimated budget out of the water. Variety forecast that the movie had "a $250 million production budget" and there is good reason why it sailed past that.
Filming was reportedly due to begin in the United Kingdom between late March and early April 2020 but was repeatedly delayed by the pandemic. It eventually got underway in January 2021 at Pinewood Studios, just outside London, but was temporarily halted in June due to multiple crew members contracting COVID-19. It all came at quite a cost.
Recently-released filings from Disney confirm that the "cost exceeded the production budget primarily due to the COVID-19 impact." This isn't the only reason the movie had its work cut out for it before it eventually opened in May this year.
Black actress Halle Bailey was cast as the eponymous heroine Ariel in a marked departure from the 1989 cartoon that the movie was based on. It fueled a racist backlash centered on the #notmyariel social media campaign whilst online giant, The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), was awash with negative reviews of The Little Mermaid, posted by bots, in a bid to bring down its average score.
In the wake of the review bombing, IMDb said it had made changes to its rating system but the movie was already in choppy waters by then. A lot of the criticism focused on its computer-generated graphics which made the once-cute hand-drawn characters look like eerie aliens.
"There's something about these depictions that triggers an uneasy response," wrote Vox. "Maybe it's the prolonged, lingering shots on their 'smiling' faces or that their tiny mouths are contorted in unnatural ways. It's as though there’s almost something sinister hiding underneath the computerized animal skin – and that's even before they start singing and dancing."
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It contributed to the movie scoring a critics' score of just 67% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. The audience was more complimentary and awarded it 94% though this didn't translate into a blockbuster performance at the box office.
The Little Mermaid grossed $95.5 million domestically over its Memorial Day opening weekend. It beat the $91.5 million that Disney's Aladdin remake opened with in 2019 but, according to The Hollywood Reporter, The Little Mermaid's opening was still far adrift of its $115 million to $120 million forecasts.
Overseas, the movie started off with a disappointing $68.1 million from 51 markets and drowned in China where it opened to just $2.5 million. It ended up with a worldwide gross of $569.6 million which was respectable but a far cry from the $1.7 billion haul of Disney's live action Lion King in 2019 and the $1 billion that Aladdin made in the same year.
Studios receive around half of theater takings giving Disney an estimated $284.8 million from The Little Mermaid. Calculating whether this covered its production cost requires knowing how much Disney spent on the movie which would usually be a closely-guarded secret. This is because studios' financial statements typically combine the costs of all of their movies without itemizing how much was spent on each one.
Movies filmed in the UK are an exception. Studios put up with higher levels of disclosure when they film there in order to benefit from the UK government's Film Tax Relief scheme. This gives studios a cash reimbursement of up to 25% of the money they spend in the UK provided that it represents at least 10% of the film's total costs.
In order to demonstrate this to the government, studios set up separate companies to make each film and they have to file financial statements showing everything from staff numbers, salaries and costs, to the amount of cash reimbursement they receive.
The companies usually have code names so that they don’t raise attention with fans when filing for permits to film on location. The Little Mermaid was made by Disney's subsidiary Sand Castle Pictures and its financial statements shine a spotlight on the windfall from the UK government as well as the precise amount it cost to make the movie.
Staffing was one of its single-biggest expenses as cumulative pay came to $26.8 million (£22 million) with the production team peaking at 252 people during the five months to 31 March 2020. Five days later Disney revealed the gulf in pay between men and women on the Little Mermaid. Women occupied 17% of the highest paid jobs on the movie and 41% of the lowest paid jobs whilst their average hourly pay was 22.1% lower than men's. The following year the gulf widened as the average hourly salary of the women working on The Little Mermaid was 53.3% lower than the amount paid to men.
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Its financial statements reveal that a total of $297 million (£243.5 million) had been spent on the movie by August 31, 2022 and then comes the cash reimbursement. As this author recently revealed in the UK's Express newspaper, The Little Mermaid received $56.8 million (£46.6 million) from the UK government bringing its net spending down to $240.2 million.
However, that is just the start as the financial statements do not show the marketing costs of the movie. On the flipside, the share of the box office isn't the studio's only return from a movie so offsetting it from the costs shown in the financial statements does not show whether the movie made a profit or a loss overall. "There will be other income generated by the production (such as DVD/Blu Ray sales, merchandising, etc.). It’s not reflecting a true account of whether the film was overall profitable," says a Disney spokesman.
Offsetting Disney's share of theater ticket sales from the expenses in the financial statements simply shows whether the movie covered its production costs at the box office or made a profit or a loss. In the case of The Little Mermaid, Disney's $284.8 million share of the box office left it with a $44.6 million profit after deducting its $240.2 million net spending. However, its profit is likely to nosedive as post-production was still well underway at the date of the financial statements and this will increase the movie's costs.
The Little Mermaid has had a renaissance in recent weeks as it has been hugely popular on the Disney+ streaming platform. The movie launched last month and had 16 million views in its first five days alone. However, subscribers to Disney+ don't pay per movie, they are billed monthly or annually and get access to the studio's entire library, along with any new content released during their subscription period. This means it isn't possible to attribute subscriber fees to specific productions, such as The Little Mermaid, and in turn that piles the pressure on pictures to succeed at the box office.
At its peak in 2019, seven Disney movies made more than a billion Dollars at the box office including Avengers: Endgame, which alone generated $2.8 billion, making it the highest-grossing movie of all time when it was released. However, so far this year none of Disney's movies have crossed that threshold. Despite its surging cost, The Little Mermaid has failed to stop the drought.
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Post by veu on Nov 30, 2023 5:12:50 GMT -5
The Little Mermaid and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 are the only successes of 2023 for Disney. Source: www.badtaste.it/cinema/speciali/bob-iger-terribile-orribile-abominevole-veramente-bruttissimo-2023-disney-cinema/Bob Iger e il terribile, orribile, abominevole ma veramente bruttissimo 2023 della Disney al cinema Andrea Francesco Berni 27 Novembre 2023 alle 13:19 · aggiornato il 27 Novembre 2023 alle 13:27 Cinema Speciali
Un titolo come quello di Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (film del 2014 che trovate su Disney+ con il titolo di Alexander e la terribile, orribile, abominevole ma veramente bruttissima giornata) calza a pennello per parlare del terrificante 2023 cinematografico della Disney. Con il debutto di Wish al terzo posto nel weekend lungo del Ringraziamento si chiude infatti un anno veramente difficile al botteghino per la major che nel 2019 sembrava avere in mano le sorti del box-office mondiale. Sia chiaro: è la prima volta dall’inizio della pandemia che il box-office americano supera ufficialmente gli 8 miliardi di dollari in incassi, e la Disney è comunque al secondo posto dopo la Universal con 1.4 miliardi di dollari. Ma dopo l’acquisizione degli asset della Fox la major ha concentrato i propri sforzi su grandi blockbuster ad alto budget (fatto salvo per qualche film minore firmato Searchlight Pictures), e quando questi smettono di funzionare il rischio di prendere una brutta strada, in un’industria fatta di hit and miss, diventa concreto.
Un 2023 di pochi alti e molti bassi Un contesto difficile Le cause Lo scenario italiano Ma quanto è importante il cinema per la Disney?
Un 2023 di pochi alti e molti bassi
Osservando la lista dei film e dei relativi incassi (americani e globali, l’asterisco evidenzia le pellicole uscite da poco e quindi con incassi ancora in crescita) notiamo subito che nessuno è riuscito ad arrivare al miliardo di dollari in tutto il mondo. Il più vicino al traguardo, Guardiani della Galassia Vol. 3, ha sfiorato gli 850 milioni di dollari, in un anno in cui Barbie e Super Mario Bros. – il film hanno totalizzato rispettivamente 1.4 e 1.3 miliardi di dollari.
Dei tre film dei Marvel Studios, solo quello diretto da James Gunn può dirsi realmente soddisfatto in termini di incassi: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ha concluso la sua corsa con 476 milioni di dollari in tutto il mondo, che non è una cifra orribile se non fosse che è inferiore al mezzo miliardo raggiunto dal primo film della trilogia. Per quanto riguarda The Marvels, la corsa del film di Nia DaCosta non è ancora finita, ma è chiaro che difficilmente arriverà a 250 milioni di dollari globali, segnando il primo sonoro, bruciante floppone dei Marvel Studios.
Ma anche sul fronte dei film per famiglie la situazione non è rosea. La sirenetta è il secondo incasso dell’anno, con quasi 300 milioni negli USA e 569 nel resto del mondo: si può dire che le sterili polemiche che avevano accompagnato l’uscita non abbiano avuto un grande impatto. Tuttavia, le aspettative erano ben maggiori, e in molti davano per scontato che la pellicola avrebbe raggiunto il miliardo a fine corsa. Pesa invece il tonfo de La casa dei fantasmi, che ha superato di poco i 100 milioni in tutto il mondo.
L’animazione è ancora più preoccupante: l’esordio deludente di Elemental ha scioccato gli analisti, che si sono interrogati sul destino della Pixar dopo il flop di Lightyear un anno fa. Il film si è risollevato grazie al passaparola e alla scarsa offerta d’animazione nel periodo estivo, sfiorando il mezzo miliardo di dollari globali, ma non si può non notare che a fine corsa ha faticato a superare i 150 milioni negli Stati Uniti. È il destino che si spera abbia Wish, dopo il terrificante esordio nel weekend del Ringraziamento: si prevedevano 60 milioni, ne ha incassati poco più della metà. Questo è il film del centenario, che si sperava diventasse un instant-classic, e invece qualcosa non ha funzionato. Può essere che tenga bene nelle prossime settimane, quando le festività natalizie porteranno al cinema molte più famiglie, ma in questo senso la corazzata della Illumination potrebbe dare del filo da torcere con Migration – Prendi il volo.
E in un anno in cui comunque la Disney ha portato a casa ancora svariate centinaia di milioni di dollari grazie ad Avatar 2, nel primo trimestre, le pellicole 20th Century Studios non decollano: tra tutti, The Creator non è riuscito a fare breccia, superando a malapena i 100 milioni di dollari. Tra i film Searchlight Pictures, la speranza è tutta su Povere Creature, che uscirà a dicembre e potrebbe generare interesse anche in ottica Oscar, tuttavia si tratta di un film indipendente vietato ai minori che è costato oltre 70 milioni di dollari: non proprio un indie capace di rimpinguare le casse esplodendo al box-office.
Guardiani della Galassia Vol. 3 – $358,995,815 / $845,555,777 La sirenetta – $298,172,056 / $569,626,289 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania – $214,504,909 / $476,071,180 Indiana Jones e il quadrante del destino – $174,480,468 / $383,963,057 Elemental – $154,426,697 / $495,851,987 The Marvels – $76,853,446 / $188,853,446 * La casa dei fantasmi – $67,653,287 / $117,449,790 The Boogeyman – $43,244,282 / $67,307,243 Assassinio a Venezia – $42,471,412 / $121,874,285 The Creator – $40,774,679 / $104,008,215 Wish – $31,700,000 / $49,000,000 * Chi segna vince – Next Goal Wins – $5,742,770 / * Theater Camp – $4,009,945 / $4,396,861 Chevalier – $3,541,159 / $4,147,052
La lista qui sopra contiene comunque un film sopra i 350 milioni negli USA, uno vicino ai 300, uno sopra i 200, due sopra i 150: non sono incassi così negativi, se presi fuori dal contesto. Il problema è che parliamo di pellicole che hanno budget colossali. I primi sei film sono costati tutti più di 200 milioni di dollari ciascuno (senza contare il marketing), e per andare in attivo dovevano incassare almeno mezzo miliardo di dollari in tutto il mondo. A conti fatti, quindi, gli unici due successi sono Guardiani della Galassia Vol. 3 e La sirenetta: in un’industria che vive di hit and miss, tropppo poco davvero.
Un contesto difficile
Non è facile trovare una sola causa per ciò che sta succedendo. Dall’inizio della pandemia Hollywood sta attraversando una lunga fase di difficoltà, per non dire una crisi di identità. Lo streaming si è imposto causando un terremoto in un meccanismo di monetizzazione ben rodato, e la messa in discussione delle finestre di distribuzione durante il lockown ha causato cambiamenti paradigmatici epocali. Gli studios hanno iniziato a rincorrere Netflix senza rendersi conto che non ci sarebbe stata alcuna gara, soprattutto dopo l’ingresso in scena di giganti della Silicon Valley come Amazon, Apple e Google.
Per fare un esempio, il 2023 è stato un anno molto difficile anche per Warner Bros. Discovery, che ironicamente festeggia a sua volta il centenario della Warner Bros. Da un lato il successo di Barbie, dall’altro i flop di blockbuster come The Flash a Shazam 2 – Furia degli dei, ma nel mezzo ci sono diversi horror a basso budget che sono andati ampiamente in profitto. Il vero problema della major, appesantita da un debito colossale, è la divisione televisiva che paga il crollo dell’advertising e degli abbonati alla tv via cavo.
Le cause
Ma nel caso dei flop della Disney, oltre al contesto difficile sopracitato, ci sono anche una serie di decisioni che possiamo definire sbagliate, in termini creativi e in termini di marketing. In molti hanno giudicato il lancio di Elemental e Indiana Jones 5 al Festival di Cannes un boomerang: quello che doveva essere un trampolino di lancio, a causa della critica ha generato un passaparola problematico con enorme anticipo sull’uscita dei due film. E sempre sul fronte del marketing, La casa dei fantasmi senza dubbio sperava di approfittare del frame estivo per il lancio al cinema e di quello autunnale per quello in streaming, ma purtroppo lo sciopero degli attori ha causato un cortocircuito nella strategia.
Sempre lo sciopero ha azzoppato pesantemente Assassinio a Venezia, un film che doveva approfittare del suo cast (e del suo regista/protagonista) per far parlare maggiormente di sé. Anche The Creator è stato penalizzato dallo sciopero, ma forse anche il posizionamento a settembre potrebbe non essere stato felice (soprattutto dopo lo slittamento di Dune 2, annunciato a fine agosto).
Sulle cause dell’esordio deludente di Wish si discuterà meglio a fine corsa, ma chiaramente la scusa dello sciopero degli attori non c’è più, e qui l’impressione più che altro è che sia stato percepito come qualcosa di non particolarmente originale (nonostante sia effettivamente un film originale) e imperdibile. In un anno in cui Super Mario Bros. – Il film ha raccolto 1.3 miliardi, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse quasi 700 milioni ed Elemental quasi mezzo miliardo, non possiamo più dire che il pubblico non va al cinema a vedere l’animazione. Certo, lo streaming ha causato un cambiamento nella percezione dei film d’animazione Disney da parte del pubblico, ma su questo si può lavorare, anzi già si sta lavorando (come dimostra l’enorme successo online del teaser di Inside Out 2).
Infine, la questione Marvel Studios. Abbiamo già affrontato l’argomento della sua crisi creativa nel dettaglio in questo articolo, senza dubbio l’aver rinviato tutti i cinecomic del 2024 tranne Deadpool 3 dimostra che una riflessione in tal senso è in corso. Aver gestito tutti i film come sequel ha dato i frutti quando si trattava di successi, ma ora rischia di generare una reazione a catena.
Lo scenario italiano
In Italia le cose sono un po’ diverse: al netto dei risultati dei film dei Marvel Studios (dove comunque Guardiani della Galassia 3 ha sfiorato gli 11 milioni a fine corsa), un film come La Sirenetta è riuscito a imporsi con 12 milioni di euro, Assassinio a Venezia ha fatto il botto con 8.6 milioni di euro ed Elemental e Indiana Jones 5 hanno totalizzato rispettivamente quasi 6.8 e 6.3 milioni di euro.
Ma quanto è importante il cinema per la Disney?
Il 2023 della Disney ha avuto luci e ombre. Senza dubbio le ombre pesano: nell’anno del centenario sono state licenziate oltre settemila persone, a causa della riorganizzazione promessa da Bob Iger un anno fa, quando è stato nominato nuovamente CEO dopo il flop della gestione “pandemica” di Bob Chapek (da lui nominato come successore, ricordiamo). Il mandato di Iger è stato prolungato almeno fino al 2026, un segnale questo non particolarmente positivo visto che la successione è una questione molto seria che andrà affrontata quanto prima e con molta attenzione. Il titolo in borsa sembra aver arrestato la sua caduta (vedremo cosa accadrà oggi a Wall Street, ovviamente), assestandosi intorno ai 90 dollari, ma nel frattempo non è ancora chiara quale mossa farà l’investitore attivista Nelson Peltz, che da tempo vuole più di un posto nel consiglio di amministrazione.
I conti, però, sono positivi: la strategia di Iger di cercare di condurre lo streaming verso l’attivo, con tagli consistenti nella spesa, sembra aver pagato nel breve termine e nel corso del 2024 verranno portati avanti piani come l’acquisizione completa di Hulu e il probabile spin-off di ESPN. Ma non va dimenticato che la Disney è anche (e soprattutto) parchi a tema: è la divisione che genera più entrate, e che continua a dare grandi soddisfazioni alla major. Per non parlare dell’enorme liquidità generata dagli scioperi.
La sala, quindi, non è più così importante? In realtà è al cinema che la Disney crea le sue leggende. È al cinema nascono la maggior parte delle sue icone, capaci di vendere prodotti di consumo e attirare i visitatori nei parchi a tema. Nel corso dei decenni la Disney ha attraversato alti e bassi, e sicuramente il 2023 rimarrà nella storia come uno dei più complicati nel suo rapporto con gli spettatori. Ma la Disney è una fabbrica di sogni, e Bob Iger sa che questi scaturiscono solo dal buio di una sala cinematografica.
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Post by veu on Dec 30, 2023 5:15:31 GMT -5
Source: screenrant.com/10-highest-grossing-movies-of-2023/#mission-impossible---dead-reckoning-part-one-made-567-million-at-the-box-office10 Highest Grossing Movies Of 2023 BY COOPER HOOD PUBLISHED 17 HOURS AGO 2023's box office included several notable hits, as well as some disappointments, and both types of films end up among 2023's highest grossing movies.
SUMMARY Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania earned $476 million, making it the second highest-grossing MCU movie of 2023. Elemental, despite a slow start, surprised with nearly $500 million at the box office, ranking ninth for the year. The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Barbie were the top performers, with the former grossing $1.3 billion and the latter grossing $1.4 billion.
The 2023 box office had its fair share of hits and flops, and some of both help make up the list of the highest grossing movies of 2023. There was no shortage of box office stories to come from the 2023 release slate. Major franchises and IP dominated the top of the charts, but a handful of them also wound up becoming among 2023's biggest box office bombs. However, there were also notable box office surprises that came in various forms, such as Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour dominating, Sound of Freedom's unexpectedly strong performance, and Five Nights at Freddy's launching a new video game movie franchise.
Despite how well those titles performed, none of them were big enough hits to enter the discussion to be among the biggest and best movies of 2023. This landmark is routinely one that Disney movies, superhero movies, animated films, and other franchises manage to achieve. New installments in the John Wick, Hunger Games, Transformers, Indiana Jones, and Creed franchises all came rather close to earning a spot among the year's biggest performers at the worldwide box office. Based on data pulled from Box Office Mojo, these are 2023's highest grossing movies.
10 Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania Made $476 Million At The Box Office Domestic Box Office: $214,504,909 - International Box Office: $261,566,271
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was the second highest-grossing MCU movie in 2023, earning it a place in the overall top 10 performers of the year. Its run began with a $106 million opening weekend domestically. However, interest in the threequel quickly disappeared as reviews turned from positive to negative. The beginning of Phase 5 proved to be an unmitigated box office disappointment considering expectations were for it to do much better. The silver lining for Marvel Studios in this case was that Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania's $476 million haul was likely just enough to break even on the project.
9 Elemental Made $496 Million At The Box Office Domestic Box Office: $154,426,697 - International Box Office: $341,880,316
Disney earns its second movie in the biggest box office earners in 2023 with Elemental. The Pixar animated movie wound up making nearly $500 million at the box office, which helped turn the film into one of the year's biggest surprises. While expectations might have been higher given Pixar's box office track record, Elemental's opening weekend bombed and seemingly indicated that the movie would be a massive loss for Disney. Instead, the family-friendly animated movie found solid legs all summer long and turned its box office narrative around. It impressively finished 2023 as the ninth highest grossing movie of the year.
8 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One Made $567 Million At The Box Office Domestic Box Office: $172,135,383 - International Box Office: $395,400,000
The Mission: Impossible franchise returned in 2023 with its seventh installment, as Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One's box office earned $567 million worldwide. The rather sizable haul is good enough to give Tom Cruise another movie in a list of the highest grossing releases of a single year, but the movie was not as successful as expected. With a reported $291 million budget, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One needed to perform close to Mission: Impossible - Fallout's franchise record box office to be a hit. It turned out that releasing right before the Barbenheimer phenomenon was a poor move for Cruise's action movie.
7 The Little Mermaid Made $569 Million At The Box Office Domestic Box Office: $298,172,056 - International Box Office: $271,454,233
Disney's live-action remake of The Little Mermaid was also among the biggest performers at the 2023 box office. The film made $569 million worldwide after its Memorial Day weekend launch, where it made $118 million domestically over the extended weekend. The Little Mermaid's final box office total looks impressive, but the movie is another example of Disney letting budgets get out of control. With an estimated cost between $250 million and $300 million, the live-action remake still might not have made enough for Disney for it to be considered a success.
6 Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse Made $690 Million At The Box Office Domestic Box Office: $381,311,319 - International Box Office: $309,205,354
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse was one of the highest grossing movies of 2023 and a major hit. Following in the footsteps of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse's $384 million performance, expectations were high for the animated sequel. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse's box office got off to a great start with its $120 million opening weekend, catapulting it to become the highest grossing superhero movie domestically in 2023. It was the third biggest hit domestically in the year overall and has the highest percentage of its box office total to come from here. This made Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse a certified winner financially.
5 Fast X Made $704 Million At The Box Office Domestic Box Office: $146,126,015 - International Box Office: $558,749,000
Fast X is the first entry to make its way into the top five of 2023's highest grossing movies. The tenth installment of the main Fast & Furious franchise endured behind-the-scenes turmoil and negative reviews to still become one of the year's biggest hits. However, it also represents the fourth straight entry in the franchise to make less than its predecessor. Fast X's box office performance was still good enough to give Universal faith in expanding the franchise's finale plans, despite its enormous $340 million budget meaning the studio barely turned a profit, according to Variety.
4 Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 Made $845 Million At The Box Office Domestic Box Office: $358,995,815 - International Box Office: $486,559,962
Marvel Studios' biggest success at the 2023 box office easily came with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The trilogy-capper from writer/director James Gunn lived up to expectations in terms of how it would leave the franchise. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 was largely expected to do even better financially than its final $845 million total, but that was still more than enough for it to be among the highest grossing movies of 2023. The fact that it performed so well after Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and before The Marvels' box office bombed gave Marvel Studios a much-needed success story.
3 Oppenheimer Made $952 Million At The Box Office Domestic Box Office: $326,087,870 - International Box Office: $625,934,000
Christopher Nolan's J. Robert Oppenheimer biopic was one of the most encouraging box office stories of the year. There were plenty of reasons to be skeptical about Oppenheimer's financial outlook thanks to its 3-hour runtime, R-rated nature, and biopic focus. However, the movie proved to be another example of how much weight Nolan's name carries with audiences. Oppenheimer made $952 million worldwide over the course of an extensive theatrical run. While it ultimately fell short of becoming a new $1 billion earner for Christopher Nolan, the $100 million budgeted film is still among the biggest hits of 2023.
2 The Super Mario Bros. Movie Made $1.3 Billion At The Box Office Domestic Box Office: $574,934,330 - International Box Office: $786,433,023
Nintendo and Illumination teaming up for an animated Mario movie immediately brought expectations that it would perform well. That is why Screen Rant predicted it would be the biggest movie of 2023 at the beginning of the year. The Super Mario Bros. Movie achieved that milestone rather quickly upon its release, only to lose it months later to another massive performer. Still, The Super Mario Bros. Movie and its $1.3 billion box office haul is quite impressive. It nearly became the highest grossing animated movie of all time thanks to this performance and gives Illumination a new franchise to develop.
1 Barbie Made $1.4 Billion At The Box Office Domestic Box Office: $636,220,453 - International Box Office: $805,600,000
The highest grossing movie at the 2023 box office was Barbie. Warner Bros. teamed star Margot Robbie and director Greta Gerwig for the first live-action movie starring Mattel's iconic toy. The critical acclaim and Oscars potential aided to what was likely to be a guaranteed baseline of success for Barbie. The movie ultimately made over $1.4 billion at the worldwide box office, outgrossing The Super Mario Bros. Movie by $80 million overall. That was enough to make Barbie 2023's highest grossing movie at the 2023 box office.
Source: Box Office Mojo
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Post by veu on Dec 31, 2023 13:38:15 GMT -5
Source: www.avclub.com/disney-100-anniversary-what-worked-year-end-roundtable-1851129099Year-end roundtable: On Disney's 100th anniversary, what succeeded? 2023 should have been a celebration for Disney, but it didn't quite work out that way By Drew Gillis, Saloni Gajjar, and Emma Keates PublishedFriday 9:00AM
From left to right: Wish, The Little Mermaid, Elemental, Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania Screenshot: Disney, Image: Disney, Photo: Disney, Jay Maidment/Marvel
In a series of special year-end roundtable discussions, The A.V. Club looks back at the stories that made the biggest impact on pop culture in 2023.
Is Disney still the happiest place on Earth? Maybe not. Recent original animated films like Wish and Elemental (remember Elemental?) have flopped both critically and at the box office, while the studio’s endless slog of live-action remakes has been increasingly mired by mean-spirited controversy. This year, both The Little Mermaid’s Halle Bailey and Snow White’s Rachel Zegler have had to contend with nasty, racist backlash to their respective castings, all over a film that ended up being pretty mediocre in the first place. (At least in Bailey’s case, that is; Zegler’s Snow White has been pushed to 2025.)
None of that is to mention the increasing pandemonium over at Marvel Studios, as years of convoluted plot lines, diminishing quality, and growing franchise fatigue have begun to spell trouble for the MCU at the box office.
Can good old Sailor Mickey right the ship or is Disney doomed to sink forever? Here, A.V. Club staffers Saloni Gajjar, Drew Gillis, and Emma Keates discuss whether a little pixie dust will be enough to fix the studio’s many grievances.
Drew Gillis: This year started with Disney celebrating its 100-year anniversary. Did you have any expectations for the studio and the brand this year? For me, they’ve generally always been pretty solid, so I just expected another solid year.
Saloni Gajjar: I’m not a huge Disney person anymore, so I don’t end up watching everything they release. Still, I kind of assumed it would be a landmark time in terms of movies and TV shows because of the 100-year anniversary. Again, I haven’t seen all of 2023's slate, so I don’t know if they resonated or hit hard. What I will say as an outsider of sorts is it was interesting to witness them adapting to the times with some live-action adaptations and the annoying/fascinating discourse that followed.
I am, however, a Marvel person. And I can confirm almost all of it was a letdown except Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3.
Emma Keates: I guess I didn’t have any new expectations for Disney because expectations were so high already. When Disney announces a new project like Wish or even this year’s beleaguered Haunted Mansion adaptation, I still tend to have a general assumption of quality just based on their past output. But as the studio turned out flop after flop this year, those expectations started to wear away.
SG: The year definitely started on a high note because from January onwards, everyone was eagerly celebrating and anticipating their films. But I do feel like the general excitement faded away with each passing project.
EK: I have also literally never been excited about one of their live-action remakes, so as long as those remain the buzzy releases of the year every year it will be harder and harder to really engage. Halle Bailey did sound amazing in The Little Mermaid though, that’s a non-negotiable.
DG: Just to get it out of the way early, we’re all childless adults, so I don’t think any of us are seeking out every Disney movie unless it’s our job to cover them or unless there is some big success that everyone’s talking about. And in recent years, there have been plenty of the latter—Coco comes to mind as something that was frequently recommended to me by adults. But this year’s Pixar offering—Elemental—feels already forgotten, even as an underperforming punching bag. As soon as Wish opened, that became the punching bag and hardly anyone mentioned Elemental. The fact that there even is a punching bag is a tide-shift for Disney. It feels like a lot of people are kind of openly rooting for them to fail. Maybe it’s the fact that they’re a monopoly that uses its power to just pump out live-action remakes of things we loved as kids. Who’s to say!?
EK: Wow, that’s completely right, Drew. I completely forgot Elemental existed, much less came out this year. Even the live-action remakes themselves have a shorter and shorter shelf life nowadays. Did anyone actually watch Peter Pan & Wendy?
DG: Frankly I already forgot about that one too.
SG: You make a good point, Drew. I do end up confidently seeking out stuff like Encanto and Turning Red and Raya And The Last Dragon, all of which I loved. That’s probably because it’s buzzy and people in our industry are covering/praising it—I trust their recommendations. From what I saw, there wasn’t a similar conversation around Elemental and nothing about Wish felt like I wanted to see it. Ditto, re: Peter Pan & Wendy or this year’s holiday film, Dashing Through The Snow (which I didn’t know already came out until I looked it up to confirm). These are already erased from our collective memories. It’s also because the focus is on stuff like Little Mermaid, even if it’s getting attention for the wrong reasons when it comes to how Halle Bailey was treated.
EK: That’s a great point re: The Little Mermaid, Saloni. I ended up really rooting for it in a more abstract sense because I love Halle Bailey and was so angry about the way she was treated, but that didn’t end up translating into real interest in the movie itself. For that, Disney has to find a way to recommit to actually putting out original stories that don’t feel rushed or slapped together like this year’s offerings did.
DG: The Little Mermaid is such a bummer because that was the first remake that I was kind of excited about when they announced it. I had been a fan of Bailey before she was cast but knowing how it turned out and all the bullshark she got saddled with, I wish it hadn’t happened. First it was the racist backlash—which she seemed to be left to deal with on her own, at least publicly—and then it was for a film that looked bad and ended up getting roasted for the visual effects. It underperformed because how wouldn’t it, and then it just leaves the worst people in the world to blame it on the casting of a Black woman and some “go woke go broke” nonsense. It already feels like the same thing is happening with the upcoming Rachel Zegler-led Snow White remake too. I’m sure the actors are getting paid well, but good lord, it’s impossible to root for a studio when this stuff is going on.
EK: It’s just a really upsetting lose-lose situation all around. And all for something that simply has no real business existing in the first place.
SG: I also think a studio as massive as Disney isn’t doing enough to support the actors who are getting harassed for no da** reason. So casting them isn’t enough without aiding them in other ways, but maybe that’s pulling on a thread that we could keep talking about for a while.
And yes, I remember when Little Mermaid’s trailer dropped, everyone obviously made fun of the visuals. Even that fake Flounder photo emerged, some people kinda believed it was from the film. Is it because we have little faith in their VFX and movies overall today? Or was it the preconceived “This is going to suck” because, of course, we know Pixar and Disney do generally excel in animation?
DG: I mean there was The Lion King in 2019, which proved that we don’t watch these movies for realism. It’s about a singing lion—it doesn’t need to look like Planet Earth. Awkwafina as a rapping seagull doesn’t need to look like a real seagull. In fact, it just makes it all the more upsetting.
SG: Exactly.
EK: To Saloni’s point, I think it’s a little bit of both. I feel similarly about the backlash to Chris Pine’s villain song in Wish (which sounds so much like Imagine Dragons or shopping at the grocery store) because we all know what they’re capable of in that capacity. “Be Prepared” is an all-timer! But just that one little clip was enough for me to know I would probably never watch the full movie unless I needed to for work. It’s just such a bummer to watch a mediocre Disney film and think about what’s been lost over the years.
DG: It’s certainly one of those things that’s hard to look at completely objectively, because obviously everyone our age has good nostalgic feelings about the ’90s Disney movies and their music but it’s pretty clear the creative pedigree has changed. Little Mermaid has music from Broadway composers Howard Ashman and Alan Menken; Wish has music written by Julia Michaels. And I’m not putting her down as a songwriter, but would you rather have music in a Disney movie that sounds like Little Shop Of Horrors or a Selena Gomez ballad?
I think there’s a bit of trying to be all things for all people. Some Disney songs do cross over to mainstream hits, sure, but it’s not because they were written as pop songs. Even when Frozen came out, they had Demi Lovato record a poppier cover of “Let It Go” to send to radio stations, only for the Idina Menzel original to outperform it.
I now cede my music student soap box, ha.
SG: No it’s compelling because when you put it like that, it helps shape it in perspective outside of just 2023, too, right? Like how has Disney’s approach evolved over the years such that this is where they’ve ended the year? And it’s not just any year.
EK: That’s such a great point. I do think it’s kind of a classic case of misunderstanding what aspects of beloved songs or movies made them popular in the first place. To go back to the Lion King example, people loved the original movie for its great music and powerful emotions, not because it taught us anything real about life on the savanna.
DG: It’s genuinely kind of wild to look back on that ’90s Disney Renaissance era and think about some of the swings they were taking. Like Hunchback Of Notre Dame? Do you think they would take that kind of swing today? And yeah, it would be risky, and it probably turned off some audiences. And yeah, it only grossed $325 million worldwide—which would be about twice that now. It was the fifth highest-grossing movie of 1996! The studio used to take things resembling risks and was often rewarded for them—if they could back it up with the quality of the product. They’d rather do a safe product now, even if no one is interested in it.
EK: I totally agree, Drew. Marvel’s diminishing returns also really illustrate that mindset. Even Disney CEO Bob Iger knows that the MCU’s output has been kind of lousy recently, but they still keep churning them out!
SG: Is it safe to say Disney isn’t taking risks as a company and would rather play it safe to avoid scandal? They don’t seem to escape that anyway, whether it’s Little Mermaid or endless poor MCU content or all the Daredevil: Born Again drama or even Bog Iger pushing Nia DaCosta under the bus for The Marvels. The product itself isn’t what people are talking about, whether good or bad, but it’s the issues surrounding it.
DG: I feel like playing it safe reads as a safe investment, but it’s clear that audiences are growing tired of it, based, at least, on The Marvels’ box office. I think part of the issue with the MCU is they have things planned years in advance, so they can’t really course-correct very quickly. The attempts to right the path are quick reshoots and shoddy last-minute VFX, a la Quantumania, which has the opposite effect of endearing new people.
SG: Just the memory of watching Quantamania in the theater makes my eyes gloss over. It gave me such a headache. Not relevant, I know, but needed to vent.
DG: It is relevant because you’re the most invested out of the three of us, so if they lost you, they certainly lost a lot of people.
SG: They applied the same formula to their TV shows, rushing them out to fill an almost made-up quote, hampering the quality in return.
EK: For my part, as someone who was pretty invested in the original Avengers saga, one of the things I appreciated was that I could totally understand and enjoy Endgame without watching every single film/TV show/commercial tie-ins, etc. There are so many callbacks that that’s impossible now, and it’s hard to imagine any new fans climbing aboard or returning once they’ve been alienated.
SG: At least if there’s one thing Disney/Iger have learned this year, it’s to not go insane with how much MCU stuff they’re throwing out.
DG: I think that’s an interesting tie-in to some of the disappointment toward Wish as well, which tried to tie its ending into everything else in the greater Disney canon. They had so much success with the multiverse and the almost serialized narrative of the original Avengers saga that now there seems to be an idea that everything needs to be like that. And it’s just interesting how much priorities have changed. Remember when movies would go into the “Disney vault” and the scarcity made them more valuable? Imagine how successful an MCU movie would be if they just took, like, a year off.
SG: The anticipation alone would help, yeah.
EK: That’s especially frustrating about Wish because Disney has always put little easter eggs in their movies, but until recently they were just that: easter eggs. If you noticed that Rapunzel from Tangled attended Elsa’s coronation from Frozen for a split second, good for you! It was a fun puzzle, but those moments weren’t expected to have any real impact on the actual story of the film. It’s so much more headache-inducing when every single plot point has to affect everything else. Sometimes things can just be fun!
DG: Exactly Emma! I was thinking about how there’s a Buzz Lightyear toy in the dentist’s office in Finding Nemo. I think part of it was internet detectives reading way too much into it and dubbing it a shared universe, but Disney is running the bit into the ground.
SG: That’s an amazing detail and one I forgot about completely.
EK: That “Pixar theory” video really did change so many lives (derogatory).
DG: Let’s end on a more positive note, I guess—what was good this year? Are there any projects in the pipeline you’re looking forward to, even if it’s cautious optimism?
EK: MAJOR emphasis on the word “cautious” but I am hopeful about Inside Out 2. While I’d prefer to get excited about high-quality original content, the first Inside Out movie is a classic for a reason and the conceit does leave a lot of room for an interesting and hopefully smart follow-up, as Riley gets older and experiences new challenges. Plus, Pixar at least used to really know how to churn out a good sequel. Toy Story 2, anyone?
DG: I’d concur on that point, and I can’t really think of anything else I’m more interested in than that, ha.
SG: Yeah, same for me. Inside Out was so lovely, I hope the sequel can remain as inventive & heartwarming. I don’t know if excited is the right word, but I am looking forward to Deadpool 3.
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Post by veu on Jan 5, 2024 5:37:08 GMT -5
Source: www.badtaste.it/cinema/articoli/incassi-globali-crescita-2023-33-9-miliardi-dollari/La classifica dei maggiori incassi globali del 2023 Barbie – $1,439,851,123 (USA: $636,227,578 / Resto del mondo: $803,623,545) Super Mario Bros. – il film – $1,363,250,724 (USA: $574,934,330 / Resto del mondo: $788,316,394) Oppenheimer – $954,739,538 (USA: $326,103,585 / Resto del mondo: $628,635,953) Guardiani della Galassia Vol 3 – $845,468,744 (USA: $358,995,815 / Resto del mondo: $486,472,929) Fast X – $714,581,860 (USA: $146,126,015 / Resto del mondo: $568,455,845) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – $682,624,639 (USA: $381,311,319 / Resto del mondo: $301,313,320) Mǎn Jiāng Hóng (满江红) – $673,596,577 (Cina: $673,596,577) The Wandering Earth 2 (流浪地球2) – $604,460,538 (Cina: $599,437,406 / USA: $5,023,132) La sirenetta – $568,345,048 (USA: $298,172,056 / Resto del mondo: $270,172,992) Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One – $566,325,939 (USA: $172,135,383 / Resto del mondo: $394,190,556)
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Post by veu on Jan 9, 2024 15:14:28 GMT -5
The Little Mermaid was the #7 highest-grossing film of 2023 at the global box office. Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/box-office-domestic-revenue-global-forecast-1235778767/The Little Mermaid was also the #7 highest-grossing film of 2023 at the UK box office. Source: variety.com/2024/film/box-office/uk-ireland-203-box-office-barbie-oppenheimer-1235862546/Top 10 films in U.K. & Ireland in 2023 (Data from Jan. 6, 2023-Jan. 4, 2024)
01. Barbie (Warner Bros): £95.5 million 02. Oppenheimer (Universal): £58.7 million 03. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Universal): £54.8 million 04. Wonka (Warner Bros): £49.2 million – still on release 05. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Disney): £36.7 million 06. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony): £30.7 million 07. The Little Mermaid (Disney): £27.4 million 08. Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning (Part One) (Paramount): £26.6 million 09. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (Universal): £26 million 10. Avatar: The Way of Water (Disney): £25.5 million in 2023 (£77.3 million lifetime)
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