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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.”

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

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.

Yep she played the Gypsy perfectly in the Hunger Games.

If Disney was smart they would have cast her as Esmeralda in a live action Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Would be entertaining to see whoever they cast as Frollo singing about her.

 

[AnotherPleb]

Disney has another box office spanking coming to them:
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That's a cheap looking cosplay but it's a good first-wait what do you mean that's the official actress and costume

 

[Blasterman]

If Disney was smart they would have cast her as Esmeralda in a live action Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Would be entertaining to see whoever they cast as Frollo singing about her.

It's probably the one remake that probably should have happened, and yet it hasn't. Hugo's story is practically perfect for a somewhat more serious adaptation while not losing some of that classical Disney music spirit.

 

[Mr. ShadowCreek]

In a way it's sad. I used to love Disney. When I was younger, I wanted to be an animator or work on video games when I grew up. I used to be excited for every Pixar movie and was a member at a Pixar fan forum. To see what has happened to them is sad, but also poetic. People wanted them to not bash their fans as bad people or get involved in politics. They didn't need to buy a bunch of other studios and release 5 superhero movies every year. Sure, it worked at first but people eventually got tired of the same formula. It's going to take a long while for them to get trust again. There's a chance if they stop what they're doing they might dig themselves out of the hole. But if they continue they might even end in in worse shape they were in the 80s. If they bow the knee to the woke mob and make Elsa gay when the Frozen franchise would be screwed. Frozen 3 would not make a billion like the first two.

 

[Safir]

It's probably the one remake that probably should have happened, and yet it hasn't. Hugo's story is practically perfect for a somewhat more serious adaptation while not losing some of that classical Disney music spirit.

- white male author
- everyone's white
- the word "gypsy"
- muh ableism
- plenty "problematic" stuff in the book which wokies can dredge up (for starters, Esmeralda wasn't a gypsy, Quasimodo was, gypsies kidnapped a beautiful white baby girl and left their own deformed spawn)

 

[The Ugly One]

- white male author
- everyone's white
- the word "gypsy"
- muh ableism
- plenty "problematic" stuff in the book which wokies can dredge up (for starters, Esmeralda wasn't a gypsy, Quasimodo was, gypsies kidnapped a beautiful white baby girl and left their own deformed spawn)

Given that they made Snow White, a German fairy tale character whose name is a reference to her porcelain skin, racial mystery meat, I'm sure they could rewrite the Hunchback of Notre Dame to hit all the right woke beats. Maybe they could make it about a couple of gay niggers.

 

[Kela de Thaym]

There's a chance if they stop what they're doing they might dig themselves out of the hole. But if they continue they might even end in in worse shape they were in the 80s.

Oh, they’re barreling towards another “dark age” as we speak.

When you have a Super Mario Bros movie and a fucking _Barbie_ movie combined make more than your collective output for the past 3-5 years, that alone should be enough to have the stockholders pillory you at the next shareholder meeting.

They can’t say “o well, people don’t want original ideas” or “those bigot racists don’t want POC for leads”, that’s absolute bullshit.

What the vast majority of people don’t want are bad stories. And that’s exactly what Wish (and the Sequel Trilogy, and every MCU movie that isn’t Guardians of the Galaxy and so on) is: an objectively terrible story that utterly collapses when even normies and some NPCs break programming to recognize its flaws.

They can’t keep blaming everyone else for their current failures or using scapegoats like racism/bigotry/misogyny as scare tactics to silence critics when everything at Disney is rotten from the top on down. If they don’t do some serious house cleaning in 2024, then they are truly fucked beyond belief for the foreseeable future.

Michael Eisner was a piece of work, but sometimes I wonder if he was right about a few things. Guess we’ll never know.

 

[BelUwUga]

That's a cheap looking cosplay but it's a good first-wait what do you mean that's the official actress and costume

It gets better/worse:

These aren't stand-ins or extras holding places for the dwarves on a smoke break. These are the seven "magic creatures" chosen to replace dwarves to quell Dinklage's anger. Disney ate shit in the press/online for this amazing decision. With time and budget running low they kicked the can down the road by a year and went with CGI that wouldn't past muster for a late Shrek sequel:

 

[Escaped Abortion]

It gets better/worse:
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These aren't stand-ins or extras holding places for the dwarves on a smoke break. These are the seven "magic creatures" chosen to replace dwarves to quell Dinklage's anger. Disney ate shit in the press/online for this amazing decision. With time and budget running low they kicked the can down the road by a year and went with CGI that wouldn't past muster for a late Shrek sequel:
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It's kind of a shame we'll never know how hot that original dumpster fire would have burned. They had enough time to try and spread the garbage out, smother a few flames. It will still be terrible, but we'll never know the true awfulness of the original vision.
I wonder why they decided to go with canary yellow instead of the pale yellow on her dress from the original animation? Do you think it was just to match the cheap polyester play dresses they sell in their stores?

 

[BelUwUga]

I wonder why they decided to go with canary yellow instead of the pale yellow on her dress from the original animation? Do you think it was just to match the cheap polyester play dresses they sell in their stores?

Not white Snow White will be more apparent the lighter the dress's color. If you compare the behind the scenes shot with the production still, you can also see they've maximized the saturation. Canary doesn't look great but pale yellow could translate to barf.

 

[Gar For Archer]

It gets better/worse:
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These aren't stand-ins or extras holding places for the dwarves on a smoke break. These are the seven "magic creatures" chosen to replace dwarves to quell Dinklage's anger. Disney ate shit in the press/online for this amazing decision. With time and budget running low they kicked the can down the road by a year and went with CGI that wouldn't past muster for a late Shrek sequel:
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It’s stupid because mythological dwarves don’t even look like IRL “dwarves” (e.g. people with dwarfism). Fictional dwarves are just short, squat humans with otherwise normal body proportions, whereas IRL “dwarves” have mostly normal-sized heads and bodies but abnormally short limbs. Any hypothetical Snow White live action shouldn’t be casting IRL “dwarves” but be using whatever camera tricks they did for LotR to make the dwarves and hobbits look smaller than everyone else.

 

[Hitman One]

PUT A CHICK IN IT AND MAKE IT LAME AND FUCKIN' GAY

 

[dick brain]

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.

I don't want to imply that I'm particularly familiar with Overwatch porn... but it looks like Overwatch porn.

Like, it looks like an amateur fan-made animation using stolen assets and shaders that were designed for something much more dynamic and frenetic. It looks like Red Vs Blue. I can't put my finger on it, it just looks cheap and uncanny.

 

[ducktales4gameboy]

Like, it looks like an amateur fan-made animation using stolen assets and shaders that were designed for something much more dynamic and frenetic. It looks like Red Vs Blue. I can't put my finger on it, it just looks cheap and uncanny.

This is where my mind immediately went. It's not a perfect match but it's the same weird swimmy grain/dust effect on the environments.

 

[Ser Prize]

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 know money means shit. These returns don't matter because the US dollar is barreling towards not meaning shit.

The real play they're making is buying up tons of land for when the currency crashes. This shit is just a distraction.

 

[Otoya Yamaguchi]

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 don't need to worry about money. They literally just print more. This is about souls and slaves

 

[Android raptor]

People are burnt out on the mouse and I've heard the movie was meh in comparison to Encanto/etc. Not surprising.

 

[Fareal]

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.

If only they hadn’t abandoned hand drawn animation, they would still have the worlds leading hand drawn animation studio to actually do that.

Encanto and Coco were dogshit too. Elemental is dogshit. See also most recent Disney output.

It’s not actually about “wokeness”, it’s about pandering to kidults. They have lost the overwhelming majority of staff who know how to write a story that engages children and actually touches on their experiences and feelings. They pander to kidult “Disney parents“ neuroses about their children growing up (see Inside Out, Turning Red) and have almost completely forgotten that the people who need to actually engage with the intellectual properties are…. kids.

Their top selling Disney IP remains Frozen. It’s almost like small girls relate to Elsa and Anna and this new shit means nothing to them.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

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.

Yea, there was so little marketing. In fact, a lot of films in this quarter of a year have had minimal marketing, possibly due to the strike keeping actors and writers from promoting. There are costs that come with delaying the film’s release, though, which is why some of them didn’t move release dates and are left to dry.

In Disney’s case, though, the wokeness, the uninspired art and plot, and trying to make every single thing a connected universe allegedly is really doing them in. And I don’t think they can or will fix it even if they wanted to.

 

[Snekposter]

Given that they made Snow White, a German fairy tale character whose name is a reference to her porcelain skin, racial mystery meat, I'm sure they could rewrite the Hunchback of Notre Dame to hit all the right woke beats. Maybe they could make it about a couple of gay niggers.

Well, it is set in France, so that's more appropriate than you think.