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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.”

 

[Trianon]

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.

They've teased multiple times that they were going to do some kind of painterly/hand-drawn/CGI mix, and by the time the film comes out, they go with the easiest CGI method every time. Tangled was an early one that skimped that was meant to have a strong Rococo painting look. The last movie Glen Keane worked on before leaving the company altogether. Moana was also considered to be hand-drawn, and now Wish, which they were considering being a mix of animation styles, you know, to honor the 100 years of ANIMATION. But it comes out as just the weakest, fastest, cheapest way they could do it.

And that's fine, but they announce these things so far in advance that people can track the dropped features and creative changes.

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.

I used to want a live-action Hunchback so bad, but I cannot even imagine what they would do to it now. But she would have been perfect casting.

I don't even mind her as Snow White, I think she just got given terrible talking points by Disney execs about how progressive this Snow White would be. That was the selling point they chose, and she got most of the blowback over it.

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.

Absolutely, it's more about the weird inverted messages than having diverse characters. Everything is about overcoming anxiety and adults being reminded to be kidlike instead of kids growing into maturity. It's so inert.

 

[Would]

See wypipo? This is why Ariel needed to be a nigger. No one wants to watch original IP negresses, so we must turn the beloved Danish mermaid into a Wakandan Kween!

Soon your failure will be complete, Disney. Remember, it was you that asked for this. You called people racists, sexists and various other -ists and -phobes. You chose to push sexualization onto small children who don't - no, can't understand what sex is.
You sowed it, now reap the fruits of it all.

Maybe, maybe not.
All it takes is Disney making 1-2 movies with a white-dominant cast and most of the world will eat it up again.

The problem (for the mouse) is that a lot of kids and teens now have no love for Disney the way Millennials/Gen-X/Boomers did. The long term repercussions for their failure are still to be seen.

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

Not even Non-American niggers and Dominicans want to see niggers. Beaners and Chinks definitely don't want to see niggers.
White supremacy is actually that damn dominant worldwide. Not necessarily by skin color, but attitude. The world still likes seeing the jacked Austrian and the ripped wop turn their enemies into swiss cheese with bravado and machismo, so much so that even when Wesley Snipes and Carl Weathers did it they were still seen as cool.
This BLM shit will never do.

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised in 10 years to see Pixar make animated porn to stay afloat. Especially once they see all the rule 34 fans make of their "Pixar moms" like Mrs Incredible and the obscenely fat-assed ginger from that one short.

 

[Grub]

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

I wish there was any animation studio out there that would release completely hand drawn, frames taken with a camera animations. Even 2d computer animation just isn't the same. Well done hand animated cartoons have a timeless quality to them. Look at something like the original snow white or the Fleischer Popeye short movies. They were made in the 1930's but still look pretty amazing to this day.

It’s not actually about “wokeness”, it’s about pandering to kidults

That actually makes a lot of sense. I never really thought about it but I can't stand new Disney movies. Even the trailers just seem so unappealing in every way. Much like how I find Disney adults unappealing in every way

Also, all this live action shit just seems pointless and unnecessary considering the original movies still hold up well and seem like they're better in pretty much every case, there's pretty much no reason for kids not to just watch those.

 

[Positron]

King Magnifico was the true hero of the movie.

Preventing 18 year olds from wishing for retarded shit.

Gatekeeping is the best keeping.

 

[Oilspill Battery]

- everyone's white

That seems like a pretty easy problem to solve. Just make them black.

 

[God of Nothing]

disney's tears are delicious

 

[Sarcastic sockpuppet]

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.

The only thing that's Disney-like about Hugo's story is the cute goat, who is already a cute goat in the book. It's like this book invented animal sidekicks.

Otherwise hunchback is a very dark story full of irredeemable characters. Quasimodo is violent and mean, Esmeralda is a child who only regress during the story, she has a couple of good moments at the very starts and ends the story a moronic tart, literally to dumb to live. Phoebus has dick for brain and tries to rape Esmeralda. Frollo has a layabout brother. There's a crazy lady living off scraps in a cell. The gypsies are VERY negatively portrayed. To say it ends badly would be a understatement, this is a doomer ending for the ages, pretty much everybody dies a violent death. Oh and evey other pages is just a lengthy digression about something else entirely.

It's worth a read: if you can't stomach the pages and pages of digression about parisian urbanism and gothic architecture, you can skip them. Hugo was very butthurt about the lack of historic preservation.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

They can’t write a good story and paper over it with muh diversity. Nobody gives a shit about the ingredients, they just want a good meal.

Elemental was basic but amusing, and so pulled out. We’ll see if this does, but the comparison to direct to tv Barbie movies from the 90s sounds spot on.

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

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.

It depends on the type of dwarfism, which is an incredibly broad and nuanced subject crossing several origins, and pathophysiological presentations. I won't bore anyone here with what could easily be a book. Very broadly speaking there is the dwarfism that leads to disproportionate limbs (technically known as rhizomelic shortening) such as achondroplasia, and the type that has proportionate limbs, such as pseudoachondroplasia.

As far as the movie itself, I am guessing it's is going to be turboshit levels of bad.

 

[Oilspill Battery]

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

What is this referencing?

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Keep on bombing! Keep on bombing! Keep on bombing!

 

[dick brain]

Keep on bombing! Keep on bombing! Keep on bombing!

Looking for the israel-palestine thread?

 

[St.Davis]

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

I thought The Princess and The Frog was pretty good. Dr. Facilier was a strong villain, and the animation was very nice. I thought it might herald a return to "traditional" animation, but didn't for some reason.

The princess being a nignog didn't even feel forced/shoehorned in, surprisingly.

 

[Cpt. Stud Beefpile]

4/10. Plot is so cookie cutter the movie should be named chocolate chip.

 

[Troutsmacked]

I thought The Princess and The Frog was pretty good. Dr. Facilier was a strong villain, and the animation was very nice. I thought it might herald a return to "traditional" animation, but didn't for some reason.

The princess being a nignog didn't even feel forced/shoehorned in, surprisingly.

Yeah that's because beyond "hey we can diversify the Disney Princess marketing!" there was no grand agenda or hamfisted messaging behind that movie. They just made an extremely loose adaptation of "The Frog Princess" but set it in 1920s New Orleans. Nothing about her being black was retarded or senseless because it fit the setting appropriately, and she's not portrayed as superior or sympathetic compared to the white characters, because this was back when Disney was just trying to make well constructed movies and sell merchandise out the ass based on said movies, and not woke PSAs wrapped in the shell of a movie after the fact.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

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?

Never because the investors are mentally retarded and still think Disney from 20018 to 2019 is JUST around the corner again.

 

[draggs]

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 looks like a game engine cutscene from the latest goyslop "AAA" vidya title

aka cheap and bad

Shareholders are going to revolt en masse before too long, it's already started and will only intensify if the company keeps laying gay and lame eggs

 

[The Repeated Meme]

Well imagine my fucking shock.

 

[Pedophobe]

What is this referencing?

"Wish" and "Temu" are online stores that deal in janky Chinese made crap.

 

[George Lucas]

The only thing that's Disney-like about Hugo's story is the cute goat, who is already a cute goat in the book. It's like this book invented animal sidekicks.

Otherwise hunchback is a very dark story full of irredeemable characters. Quasimodo is violent and mean, Esmeralda is a child who only regress during the story, she has a couple of good moments at the very starts and ends the story a moronic tart, literally to dumb to live. Phoebus has dick for brain and tries to rape Esmeralda. Frollo has a layabout brother. There's a crazy lady living off scraps in a cell. The gypsies are VERY negatively portrayed. To say it ends badly would be a understatement, this is a doomer ending for the ages, pretty much everybody dies a violent death. Oh and evey other pages is just a lengthy digression about something else entirely.

It's worth a read: if you can't stomach the pages and pages of digression about parisian urbanism and gothic architecture, you can skip them. Hugo was very butthurt about the lack of historic preservation.

Despite the massive differences between the book and film and change of ending, I felt the film somehow preserved the themes of the book quite well. A modern version won’t even recognize Notre Dame de Paris as a church let alone have more utterances of ‘God’ than any other Disney film. Quasimodo and Esmerelda will be Moslems and Frollo will have a Southern accent.