Posted on 08/17/2023 8:07:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The live-action, woke-AF remake of “Snow White” looks like it’s going to be Disney’s next big-budget flop — and it also looks like the struggling studio already has someone primed to take the fall.
To give you an idea of how insane Hollywood budgets are, even a blockbuster success can lose money. The new Indiana Jones drove this lifelong, diehard fan away — and I wasn’t the only one. “Indiana Jones and the Diaper of Dysentery” needed to earn nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS before showing a profit (as the Critical Drinker explained last month) but after seven weeks is still south of $400 million. For a franchise that was built on shooting fast and shooting cheap, Disney’s Lucasfilm division went unjustifiably nuts with Indy’s budget.
Even crazier, according to Variety, Tom Cruise’s new Mission: Impossible might lose money, too, despite selling millions more tickets. “After falling short of expectations,” Variety reported, Indy and Mission: Impossible “could lose nearly $100 million in their theatrical runs, according to sources familiar with the financials of similar productions.”
Of the two, Mission: Impossible could return some profit — it could go into the black somewhere north of $600 million — but nothing like Paramount hoped for based on its budget and Cruise’s star power.
“Snow White,” due out next spring, won’t cost $300 million to make and market (I don’t think), but if the early buzz is anything to go by, Disney has yet another stinker on its hands.
But if someone could be a fall guy… someone too young and inexperienced to speak in public without a script… someone like “Snow White” star Rachel Zegler. Tongues were set wagging, and not in a good way, when Zegler was cast in the role.
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“I mean, you know, the original cartoon came out in 1937 and very evidently so. Um… there’s a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her! [Laughs] Weird, weird, so we didn’t do that this time.”
I blame it on Trump and/or the Russians.
Some how, some way, you know Disney will get the deep state to BAIL THEM OUT with our tax monies. Fly over monies for flying faggot productions.
Next up; all girl Ghostbuster sequel. What could go wrong?
There are no guarantees. A lot of people were saying Barbie was going to bomb yet it’s now the biggest picture of the summer. This could be a hit but it will make no difference to my cultural life. I will never see it like almost all of current big entertainment offerings.
At least the lead character in The Barbie movie is white.
if they do not like the story
they should write their own
these people are parasites
Bubble head...”“I mean, you know...”
True but then again the actress is Australian. :)
You left off climate change and covit.
I could see Zegler is a remake of West Side Story. “I wantchto be freeee een Ahmayreeeca...”
My 40 year old son told me that he wants to watch Barbie with me. I told him that I am not comfortable going to a movie targeted at preteen girls. But he tells me that plenty of adults have been talking about the movie and that it is a great chance to mock over-the-top feminism.
He said that from what he has heard in conversations, in the end, it is a bunch of guys who save the uber-feminist Barbies from themselves.
I don’t know. But the movie does have fairly decent reviews.
I’m a bit skeptical of Hollywood accounting practices wherein it takes a half billion dollars or a billion dollars in ticket sales to break even. I’m not saying Hollywood types would do anything dishonest, but I’m just sayin...
Two words can explain the success of the Barbie Movie: Margot Robbie
(You're welcome.)
They always blame their fans , do they have any left
She’s pretty, but either she’s too old for the part, or she has premature lizard neck/face lines.
The American People inherited a priceless bequest: the USA. They are now in trouble.
Is there a connection???
Are they just so into all this political correctness, that they would rather be politically correct, than make a profitable movie? they would rather lose money, rather than adhere to the original storyline of the movie they are remaking?
All that would need to be done to put Disney back in the money would be to hire The Critical Drinker as their new head of all production.
Seriously...
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