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Disney’s “Wish” Fails to Perform at the Box Office​

Disney didn’t score big at the box office with its latest animation film, “Wish.”

The studio’s latest film, with Ariana DeBose as the main character and Chris Pine as the big bad, bombed with moviegoers over the holiday break, TMZ reported.

“Wish” only reigned in $31.7 million through the 5-day “weekend, a significant difference to the projected $45-$50 mil over the same 5 days.

The film didn’t do well internationally either, pulling in just $17.3M.

Disney is typically a powerhouse that dominates the box office during this time of year, with releases like Encanto and Coco in the past.

However, this movie, which got good reviews, may have been impacted by the SAG strike. Now it joins the list of other Disney films that didn’t do so well, like ‘Indiana Jones’ and “The Haunted Mansion.”

 

[Fatboi Gus]

When the hell are the investors going to start calling for blood? I know that Disney has been able to get away with the illusion of selling out premieres for some time by buying up unsold seats, but that doesn't translate to actual sales. They've ran both Marvel and Star Wars into the ground as well, and those were massive purchases. I haven't seen any kind of advertising for their streaming service as of late either, so I'm thinking they've slashed their budgets on that end as well. What the fuck does Disney even have right now? They put a lot of eggs in the ESG basket, and they still seem to be hesitant to move away from that despite institutional investors evacuating that stance rather swiftly. When the hell will the execs start being crucified? Are the theme parks really making enough of a killing to cover for these constant, massive losses?

Rumor has it that Iger and the board are trying to get a buyer for the company. Apple gets thrown around as an organization that might be interested. I'm guessing shareholders are hoping for a payday if there's a buyout.

That being said, Disney has lost more than half of their stock value in a year- why the fuck wouldn't potential buyers wait for the price to go down even further? Considering Disney's operational and box office results recently, it's not as if the stock is gonna go back up anytime soon.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

King Magnifico was the true hero of the movie.

Preventing 18 year olds from wishing for retarded shit.

 

[Kela de Thaym]

I had to look up what movie was this, I never heard of it and I am not even exaggerating

This screenshot caught my eye because it looks like the Barbie movies I used to watch, but that was in the late 90's / early 2000's
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This is giving me serious "We have Into the Spider-Verse/Mitchells vs. the Machines/The Bad Guys/Puss in Boots: The Last Wish at home" vibes. It's like Disney saw how successful both Spider-Verse movies were, in large part due to the visual stylings and technological advancements in making 3D movies look less like generic Pixar slop and tried to imitate it, without even studying how those feats were accomplished. At least Puss in Boots 2 said they were inspired by it but tried to do their own thing. Disney just slapped some outline shaders and called it a day.

Also, once the plot leaked and showed that the villain's motives weren't terrible ones and actually made sense by using real world logic: by the MC's move to make all wishes come true, what happens when a husband wishes his wife was dead or a mom wishing her children were never born? It all falls completely apart into absolute stupidity and the premise of the movie implodes on itself like the Titanic submarine. They clearly did not think that one through at all, but I expect nothing less from the brains behind both Frozen movies.

 

[TheDarknessGrows]

Some people got paid hundreds of thousand of dollars to convince Disney to make a obvious flop.

I could have told them a decade ago before this movie idea existed that it would have failed. For free.

 

[Doppelmonger]

Supposedly they are trying to emulate the watercolor style of Disney's classic animated movies, but it just looks incredibly flat and boring, like they haven't done the lighting effect pass yet.

This is giving me serious "We have Into the Spider-Verse/Mitchells vs. the Machines/The Bad Guys/Puss in Boots: The Last Wish at home" vibes. It's like Disney saw how successful both Spider-Verse movies were, in large part due to the visual stylings and technological advancements in making 3D movies look less like generic Pixar slop, without even studying how those feats were accomplished.

Disney had the upper hand imho with how they made that short animation of the guy with the papers, it looked like an advancement in animation but I never saw it applied to anything they released. Now they are trying to catch up with other studios and they are failing. couldn't have happened to a nicer company

 

[The Hardest R]

This plus when Elemental made $29.5 million its first weekend, Disney is absolutely circling the drain. The shareholders are gonna be super pissed if they're not already.

They already are, which is why they gave the boot to the CEO and CFO, and brought back Bob Iger. Problem is Iger was the key contributor to this shit, he just got lucky enough to bail the first time but was stupid enough to come back, likely with shitloads of strings attached. I’m sure Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg aren’t too busy these days…

 

[Xarpho's Return]

The marketing was non-existent, I didn't know the movie was happening until I saw 5 Nights and the teaser for it told me nothing and didn't sell it. I find that really odd. I'm of the opinion that with all the meddling that supposedly happened behind the scenes with redesigns, it was written off as a failure early and abandoned in the crib. It's definitely different as a bomb than The Marvels.

I think I might have seen one trailer, and some stickers on bananas.

I'm not sure if this is a bomb similar to Strange World, which I suspect was one of the "LGBT movies" handed off to diversity groups, and the hammer came down when production wasn't going well. (Speaking of which, I never heard any stories of what the movie production was actually like).

 

[Big moth tiddies]

Does somebody wish for niggers to not exist in the movie?

Funny you should say that. It's revealed at the end that the main character is the fairy godmother. You know...

This one.
So at least one nigger is wished away.

 

[Kela de Thaym]

Disney had the upper hand imho with how they made that short animation of the guy with the papers, it looked like an advancement in animation but I never saw it applied to anything they released. Now they are trying to catch up with other studios and they are failing. couldn't have happened to a nicer company

They had the Paperman technology there that they could've used for any number of projects. Right there, at their disposal. But for whatever the reason, whether it be due to corporate greed not wanting to spend the extra money to utilize it in a movie or their doofus directors deciding such a thing was beneath them, they never used it after that.

And now look at all the movies that've revolutionized 3D movies since, starting with Into the Spider-Verse, ironically the one Marvel character that basically got away from Disney during the Marvel movie deal. Say what you will about Spider-Verse (I myself don't care for it), but you can't ignore or deny how influential it's been on a technical level since the first one dropped. Probably even the first major animated movie that's moved the aesthetic medium needle since Toy Story, if you wanted to go that far. Disney fell asleep at the wheel and now Sony, Universal, and Dreamworks have surpassed them in a lot of ways (Sony = Technical advancements, Universal = the biggest animated movie of 2023 + Illumination in general, Dreamworks = More "mature" stories in comparison to Disney). Even Pixar is not the shining star it used to be and lost a lot of its soul after Cars 2.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer company.

 

[Socrates]

When the hell are the investors going to start calling for blood? I know that Disney has been able to get away with the illusion of selling out premieres for some time by buying up unsold seats, but that doesn't translate to actual sales. They've ran both Marvel and Star Wars into the ground as well, and those were massive purchases. I haven't seen any kind of advertising for their streaming service as of late either, so I'm thinking they've slashed their budgets on that end as well. What the fuck does Disney even have right now? They put a lot of eggs in the ESG basket, and they still seem to be hesitant to move away from that despite institutional investors evacuating that stance rather swiftly. When the hell will the execs start being crucified? Are the theme parks really making enough of a killing to cover for these constant, massive losses?

They were also just recently forced to buy Hulu off of Comcast at the ridiculously inflated 2019 valuation, so add that to the list of self inflicted billion dollar albotrosses currently hanging around their neck.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

Isn't Wish the movie with the knock-off Super Mario Galaxy Luma-looking nigga?

 

[Pentex]

Disney has another box office spanking coming to them:

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

This plus when Elemental made $29.5 million its first weekend, Disney is absolutely circling the drain. The shareholders are gonna be super pissed if they're not already.

Elemental ended up pulling it out in the end and performing to expectations.

Not sure how true this is, but I have heard that the basic premise of this film was supposed to be sort of an origin point of the "When you wish upon a star" shit and have it tie a ton of Disney shit together...

That could have been quite an epic premise, going into ultra deep Disney lore with some of its original characters. That could have been huge, if it had been done correctly.

 

[Vic Viper T301]

“Wish” only reigned in $31.7 million through the 5-day “weekend, a significant difference to the projected $45-$50 mil over the same 5 days.

Excuse my pedantry, but not only is that the wrong homophone, but even the correct one would be misapplied in this sentence. "Raked in" would make more sense. "Reined in" is what you say when you intentionally limit or slow something down, as in pulling on a horse reins. These journo faggots aren't even trying anymore.

 

[The Nothingness]

I guess Disney didn't get their Wish.

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They should have wished for a better movie.

 

[Cardinal Cardinal]

They already have a sequel in the works called "Temu".

 

[tehpope]

When the hell are the investors going to start calling for blood? I know that Disney has been able to get away with the illusion of selling out premieres for some time by buying up unsold seats, but that doesn't translate to actual sales. They've ran both Marvel and Star Wars into the ground as well, and those were massive purchases. I haven't seen any kind of advertising for their streaming service as of late either, so I'm thinking they've slashed their budgets on that end as well. What the fuck does Disney even have right now? They put a lot of eggs in the ESG basket, and they still seem to be hesitant to move away from that despite institutional investors evacuating that stance rather swiftly. When the hell will the execs start being crucified? Are the theme parks really making enough of a killing to cover for these constant, massive losses?

We live in clown world now. In a sane world, pre clown world, the investors would be calling for blood. Mainly Igers. But since the investors also drank the koolaid and believe in this ESG commie shit, they're huffing copium.

The sane investors cashed out long ago. Probably around Endgame. Or the smart ones just bought some ETFs rather than invest directly.

Not sure how true this is, but I have heard that the basic premise of this film was supposed to be sort of an origin point of the "When you wish upon a star" shit and have it tie a ton of Disney shit together, but after certain people got ahold of it, it changed to "lmao, girl takes power from man!" and it just steadily devolved into this.

if you're not aware (and why should you be?) the "villain" takes people's wishes, then on a long term basis grants them, as long as they are safe, "to protect his rule." Or, not destroy the fucking village, you know, like a reasonable ruler. A village that everyone loves so much by the way that they openly sing about how fucking great it is.

The girl basically thinks anyone should get their wish no matter what, because like the women who worked on this drivel, she has no concept of responsibility, consequences, or accountability.

There's a good movie in there somewhere. Have the girl win half way through. And then realize people are stupid and wish for dangerous things. She realizes that the villian wasn't that evil and was just trying to prevent shit from hitting the fan if people actually had their way. In the 3rd act, they team up to fix her mistake.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Disney has another box office spanking coming to them:
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She wasn't a bad actress in the Hunger Games Prequel although the blonde actor for President Snow stole the show.

 

[Kurt Eichenwald]

Why is there an odd number of quotation marks in this article? What does it mean?

 

[Blasterman]

She wasn't a bad actress in the Hunger Games Prequel although the blonde actor for President Snow stole the show.

She even isn't that ugly, it's just the fact she was cast as Snow White... and she isn't white, she's Latina.
Besides there's a much better raceswapped Snow White already out there, it's called Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs.