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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.”

 

[anustart76]

About 5 years ago.

Or about 2 years ago. I had a bunch of Disney stock and sold right around then, after the big Kung Flu Disney+ bump was about to subside. Good decision.

Mickey's finally in the Public Domain. They're not able to (or not confident they can) make shitzillions of dollars of merchandise they don't have full control ove- who am I kidding? They're a soulless corporate husk of the company they used to be.

Only the Steamboat Willie version is entering PD. Modern versions of the character still wouldn't be. And while trademark can't legally be used to prevent people from using a copyrighted character, I bet Disney corp will still try to sue the pants off anyone who does.

holy shit. I knew I recognized that font from somewhere and I couldn't put my finger on it. I thought it might have just been a default font, but that resemblance is just uncanny. LOL.

I was thinking of this honestly

 

[whatever I feel like]

The animation looks really good in the ads its been shoving at me. Shame the film itself seems to suck.

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

I know shit about this movie, but I remember the shenanigans on twitter because it's about Muslim-occupied Spain. They made a movie where the colonizers are the good people here.

I dunno what they tried to do with this movie, but there is some implication that Spanish nobility married Muslims? That didn't happen. And why are they portraying moors as black? Moors aren't black. Moors and Souther Spaniards don't look that different.

Someone really thought a movie about Muslim-occupied Spain was a good idea. Man, they are really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

 

[Echo_Ender]

All I heard about the movie was that the "Villain" was completely in the right, to the point that it destroyed the entire premise.

They also, unironically, want to marginalize him as a way to punish his creator for being a white man.....

It's not so much that as...

Mickey's finally in the Public Domain. They're not able to (or not confident they can) make shitzillions of dollars of merchandise they don't have full control ove- who am I kidding? They're a soulless corporate husk of the company they used to be.

This. They want a new mascot because, even if only specific versions of Mickey are public domain, they see this as a loss of control of an IP. They'd rather take the Mouse out back and shoot him than potentially have to share profit.

And there's the potential of animated Mickey porn, ect.

 

[dick brain]

Walt must be spinning in his grave cryotube.

I think that's their real strategy for the past decade: use Walt Disney's spinning corpse as a dynamo to corner the green energy market. It's the only thing that makes sense.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Someone really thought a movie about Muslim-occupied Spain was a good idea. Man, they are really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Disney showing the Jews opening the Gates of Toledo would be kino.

Then showing the Reconquista.

 

[RodgerDodger]

All I heard about the movie was that the "Villain" was completely in the right, to the point that it destroyed the entire premise.

The story is literally old white guy, played by Chris Pine builds a kind benevolent welcoming society where everybody prospers. he holds a regular lottery to grant wishes. But he curates the wishes so only a few are granted. And they must be well thought out, not overly broad, and not be anything that would destabilize the society. The wishes he grants are ones that will specifically benefit the people and the society. He's the Villain for this.

The hero is a Gen Z type generically ethnic brownish skinned teenage girl who gets told "no". At which point she wages a campaign to destroy the kingdom and cast the benevolent wizard king into an eternity of hell. (He literally ends up as the Evil Queen's Magic Mirror in Snow White). Because "Everybody's Wishes should be granted! Regardless of how stupid, insane, or dangerously destabilizing they are"

 

[draggs]

The story is literally old white guy, played by Chris Pine builds a kind benevolent welcoming society where everybody prospers. he holds a regular lottery to grant wishes. But he curates the wishes so only a few are granted. And they must be well thought out, not overly broad, and not be anything that would destabilize the society. The wishes he grants are ones that will specifically benefit the people and the society. He's the Villain for this.

The hero is a Gen Z type generically ethnic brownish skinned teenage girl who gets told "no". At which point she wages a campaign to destroy the kingdom and cast the benevolent wizard king into an eternity of hell. (He literally ends up as the Evil Queen's Magic Mirror in Snow White). Because "Everybody's Wishes should be granted! Regardless of how stupid, insane, or dangerously destabilizing they are"

It's a parable of decolonization. Evil YT ruler thrown out by stronk nigger, the society turns into Zimbabwe

 

[Sarcastic sockpuppet]

I remember all those Arabs that got shot because Jasmine showed her belly button and all those Chinese girls that got arrested for possibly possessing Eddy Murphy dragons.

You don't have to try that hard to be stupid you know.

Someone really thought a movie about Muslim-occupied Spain was a good idea. Man, they are really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

People on here are really obsessed about this idea of Wish being set in "muslim-occupied Spain" but the movie doesn't and was NEVER gonna feature anything culturally specific about that era.

It's just an excuse for them to say they are diversifying their settings, that they are not making movies that are "too white" while still milking the type of vaguely-euro fantasy setting that people love, has been their confort-zone and gave them some of their biggest success. The truth is that there's nothing about Spain or Islam in it, the kingdom is as generic as possible. Just some guitars on the soundtrack and some architectural details like archs in a movie that ultimately feels like it's set in Burbank. The diversity is more similar to a modern US town than anything else, everybody is hella sassy and the talking animals often talks with a hint of a blaccent. God i wish they would stop it with the blaccent.

I think it's a missed opportunity because there's probably a lot to do with El Andalus. The cities are really pretty, small paved streets lined up with orange trees, yellow and ocre walls, patios, intricate decorative tiles. It's gorgeous.
The architecture has been really influential, even to this day. They filmed some Game of Thrones scenes in a famous garden built during that time.
It would be delicate but you could probably take some cue from the various powerplays that happened between Arabs, Berbebers, Christians and Jews and do something with magical communities coexisting/being in conflict. I am no historian but that era was rich.

 

[RodgerDodger]

It's a parable of decolonization. Evil YT ruler thrown out by stronk nigger, the society turns into Zimbabwe

Oh no it's completely pro colonization. The hero's are the brown people on the Iberian peninsula. It's literally pro Muslim invasion/colonization of Spain.

 

[The Ugly One]

I know shit about this movie, but I remember the shenanigans on twitter because it's about Muslim-occupied Spain. They made a movie where the colonizers are the good people here.

I dunno what they tried to do with this movie, but there is some implication that Spanish nobility married Muslims? That didn't happen. And why are they portraying moors as black? Moors aren't black. Moors and Souther Spaniards don't look that different.

It's not colonization when brown people do it to white people. It's diversity.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

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.

Hell, a fucking Adam Sandler animated movie is getting better reception than Wish:


I'd honestly consider committing seppuku if I were a Disney animator at this point.

I wish there was any animation studio out there that would release completely hand drawn, frames taken with a camera animations.

Problem is, that costs tons of money. Plus, the infrastructure to allow that apparently doesn't exist anymore.

The sister's relationship anchors the movie emotionally.

^did it over 10 years before Frozen, and better I might add.

 

[make_it_so]

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 didn't even know about it until I saw a billboard about two weeks before it opened.

 

[Grub]

Problem is, that costs tons of money. Plus, the infrastructure to allow that apparently doesn't exist anymore.

That's true but then there's say Cuphead. Cuphead was hand drawn and animated as far as I know the only digital work they did was colouring and honestly, that game looks fucking great. I don't know how much it cost then to do all the art and animation for that game but I do know it took a fair bit of time and I would guess there's probably far less frames than a feature length animated film would have.

I'm surprised that there doesn't even seem to be any animation autists out there devoting themselves to classic animation and releasing shorts or anything even. You always get those people who hate new things and try to work with old tools or using old methods or whatever with other forms of media but it seems like animators by and large have pretty much embraced computers whole heartedly.

 

[Vyse Inglebard]

I don't know how much it cost then to do all the art and animation for that game

They had to remortgage their houses, so that should give you an idea.

 

[Grub]

They had to remortgage their houses, so that should give you an idea.

I mean, that was a team of three people who had what sounds like a game the size of a demo that they had worked on over weekends that they decided to turn into a full game. They hired people and turned developing the game into a full time job without any sort of funding of any kind. It would make sense that they needed to get money from somewhere.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

I'm surprised that there doesn't even seem to be any animation autists out there devoting themselves to classic animation and releasing shorts or anything even. You always get those people who hate new things and try to work with old tools or using old methods or whatever with other forms of media but it seems like animators by and large have pretty much embraced computers whole heartedly.

Old-style animation takes effort and talent, and most autists have neither of these things.

 

[polonium]

Problem is, that costs tons of money. Plus, the infrastructure to allow that apparently doesn't exist anymore.

I've never understood this argument for why certain old industries and techniques can't be revived. All of the support and infrastructure around hand-drawn animation wasn't something just lying around for Disney to mine out of the ground and they've subsequently destroyed. If it was built once it can be built again.

 

[Android raptor]

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.

When I was a little girl I related to Scar.

No lie, Lion King came out and I stopped giving any fucks about princesses because evil gay lions were far superior.

I still loved Emeralda tho

 

[moocow]

“Wish” only reigned in $31.7 million

Journalists are illiterate fucks. You don't "reign in" dollars at the box office. You "rake in" dollars. You "reign in" e.g. a team of misbehaving employees.

Why can't these cunts write? They literally went to school to learn how to do that. Gaaah. Top hats for me, I guess.