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Which is Better

  • Chicken Little

    Votes: 433 27.4%

  • Hunchback 2

    Votes: 57 3.6%

  • A slow death

    Votes: 1,088 68.9%
  • Total voters
    1,578
Papa stink said:
What is the target demographic for this? It's like making a Disney Jr. show based on I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
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It's for parents. When my son was little , he had board books based on Frankenstein and Hound of the Baskervilles (basically just cutesy pictures with one word to a page). You put them on your baby registry because it's something you recognize, ther aart is sometimes fun, and you've already been given three copies of the very hungry caterpillar. You read them over and over, the kids starts teeth and begins chewing on them, and then eventually you move on to Curious George and RIchard Scarry.
Betonhaus said:
I do believe it's genuinely incompetence. Those in charge will assume that the company will run itself while they make their changes, and cannot wrap their heads around the fact that what they are doing will eventually drive the company to bankruptcy.

Imagine if Nintendo buys the original IP vault, that would be hilarious.
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Just the Guillermo Del Toro projects alone that Disney has passed on include -

A Doctor Strange movie written by Neil Gaimain

A Haunted Mansion movie with Ryan Gosling

An adaptation of the Wind in the Willows. Del Toro wanted to make a faithful adaptation and Dsney asked if Mr. Toad could ride a skateboard and say things like, "Radical, Dude".

I can only imagine what else they've turned down for other people.
 
neverendingmidi said:
Can’t imagine any of those three will do much better. Any Disney fanatics will have already seen them on Disney+, and there’s not exactly any excitement about them because if somebody wanted to, they’ve already pirated them.
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I can see some people going to the theaters to watch these rereleases even if they're only in theaters for at least a week. It's worth remembering that Soul, Luca, and Turning Red were both dropped onto D+ in some countries due to Coof lockdowns if you buy Disney's reasoning behind the move.

Hell, even I was considering going to see Soul's rerelease since that was the last Pixar film I actually enjoyed watching until realized that if wanted to watch Soul again I could just bum off of my folks' D+ plan. The only thing I'd really be missing out on is the concessions. And If I'm being painfully honest, I think Soul's and Luca's rereleases might get some butts in seats (not enough to put said films in the green, but enough to get noticed by the press). Turning Red will probably lead to barely-filled theaters and the management wishing they end its week-long run early to give better films more screen time.
 
Papa stink said:
What is the target demographic for this? It's like making a Disney Jr. show based on I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream.
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Wanted to comment on this awhile ago, but it is just consumerism. Aliens isn’t the only adult property to get a children’s book. I go to Target and see new ones based on 2000s and prior sitcoms and movies a lot. It is honestly cringe as hell to the point where I have to ask who is buying these?

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It is genuinely a rabbit hole how many properties have been turned into children’s books
 
Souls re-release started today and it's pretty much dead on arrival with many theaters reporting zero tickets sold. I don't think anyone, but the biggest Disney consoomers, is going to want to see a 3 year old film that you can just get at home.
 
I suppose it also depends on which cinemas theyre screened in. Some cinemas have movies that have been out for 2 weeks and barely get butts in the seats, others in very high population areas can get a very full screening of the same movie 2 months later.
My cinema regularly screens old shit, but I keep forgetting its something they do and theres not much advertising for whatever it is that theyre rereleasing that week.

It also really depends on the movies of course. For movies aimed primarily at children and families like Pixar flicks, I can see a lot of parents going 'yeah I don't have the time and energy to take my kids all the way to the cinema and buy expensive snacks for some old movie this week, especially when we already have seen the movies at home'
 
SpiderBitch said:
I suppose it also depends on which cinemas theyre screened in. Some cinemas have movies that have been out for 2 weeks and barely get butts in the seats, others in very high popularity areas can get a full screening of the same movie 2 months later.
My cinema regularly screens old shit, but I keep forgetting its something they do and theres not much advertising for whatever it is that theyre rereleasing.

It also really depends on the movies of course. For movies aimed primarily at children and families like Pixar flicks, I can see a lot of parents going 'yeah I don't have the time and energy to take my kids all the way to the cinema and buy expensive snacks for some old movie this week, especially when we already have seen the movies at home'
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Even if the parents want to take their kids to the movies, they'll probably just see the new Illumination movie (Migration) since it's still not available on streaming.
 
Basic Blond Boy said:
The X-Files
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I would've read the shit out of that book if it had existed when I was a kid.

Mac Monster said:
Souls re-release started today and it's pretty much dead on arrival
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Was it even announced it was getting re-released to begin with? People are only finding out about it while at the theater to see something else that they were planning on watching that day.
 
Mac Monster said:
Souls re-release started today and it's pretty much dead on arrival with many theaters reporting zero tickets sold. I don't think anyone, but the biggest Disney consoomers, is going to want to see a 3 year old film that you can just get at home.
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Was it even advertised? First time hearing about it.
 
Vyse Inglebard said:
it was....in the theaters themselves. I saw an ad for it last week before a special screening of The Iron Giant, and was planning to post about it.....But....well....Iron Giant, lol
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so they advertised, in theaters, a re-release for the sole purpose of getting people into theatres. Were they expecting customers to spawn out of thin air?
 
Can we all pour one out for Mr. Bob Iger over there? Not only did he brought Disney to the height of it's power but he also manager to do what usually takes 3 generations to do in one tenure. Burned it all down.
 
Betonhaus said:
so they advertised, in theaters, a re-release for the sole purpose of getting people into theatres. Were they expecting customers to spawn out of thin air?
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I'd assume they are just doing it as a "family night" thing. Theaters do show old kids' movies and family classics on certain nights. They're just trying to spin it as also a money-making endeavor so they can say they tried to the investors or something.

I enjoy this woman's videos about Disney songwriting (she also has a few deep dives on why the new Little Mermaid songs don't match the original's quality). Here's her breakdown of Wish. Apparently "This Wish" was written in like three weeks and the writers were given only the vaguest "she's an activist" story hook.

 
Rome's rightful successor said:
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Only 20%? That's rookie numbers! You know there's a shit ton more transfat you can cleave off!
Basic Blond Boy said:
Examples include:
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Then Kramer came sadly into the apartment and told Jerry "they hated my standup Jerry, all of them a bunch of thin skinned nig
Mac Monster said:
Souls re-release started today and it's pretty much dead on arrival with many theaters reporting zero tickets sold. I don't think anyone, but the biggest Disney consoomers, is going to want to see a 3 year old film that you can just get at home.
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LOL, LMAO even. And that one was the one with the most decent odds of anybody giving a shit, good luck with gay fish and tampon furry.
Vyse Inglebard said:
it was....in the theaters themselves. I saw an ad for it last week before a special screening of The Iron Giant, and was planning to post about it.....But....well....Iron Giant, lol
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Sigh, good movie, they certainly don't make them like that one anymore... far from it.
 
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Soul theatrical re-release bomb hard despite having Self as a exclusive short.
 
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Soul theatrical re-release bomb hard despite having Self as a exclusive short.
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It's funny how you have more white cast in black films about how black people are a struggling minority than any other western film genre.

Also a question about Soul, is it in any way related to Christianity, or is it the usual "spiritualist" trash that avoids any religious connection despite being based entirely on a religious concept?
 
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