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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.”

 

[TheRetardKing]

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Winnie the Pooh flopped because they decided to make it a 60 minute feature.....up against the Harry Potter film that released at that time. It was doomed to fail.

 

[Mariposa2.0 LTE]

Honestly, I didn't even hear about this until now. Why doesn't Disney go back to making heart warming films about characters who may or may not be of a certtain race/ethnicity. Instead of just pandering. How sad

 

[Android raptor]

Honestly, I didn't even hear about this until now. Why doesn't Disney go back to making heart warming films about characters who may or may not be of a certtain race/ethnicity. Instead of just pandering. How sad

I don't think it's pandering, it's just Disney is more focused on churning out a bunch of movies on a schedule without focusing on tightening up the quality. The race/etc of the characters isn't relevant (beyond Disney trying to use barely present LGBTQ characters as marketing devices anyway, which most LGBTQ people aren't fans of).

I also have to put in love for Princess and the Frog. Tiana is a great character as far as princesses go especially since she actually has well-defined flaws (being a workaholic), plus I ship her and Lottie. Facilier is badass and Keith David is GOAT'd.

Shame Disney fired all their 2D animators.

 

[Mariposa2.0 LTE]

I don't think it's pandering, it's just Disney is more focused on churning out a bunch of movies on a schedule without focusing on tightening up the quality. The race/etc of the characters isn't relevant (beyond Disney trying to use barely present LGBTQ characters as marketing devices anyway, which most LGBTQ people aren't fans of).

I also have to put in love for Princess and the Frog. Tiana is a great character as far as princesses go especially since she actually has well-defined flaws (being a workaholic), plus I ship her and Lottie. Facilier is badass and Keith David is GOAT'd.

Shame Disney fired all their 2D animators.

Yup, just saw the trailer, and the animation is similar to Pauly Shore's gay ass Pinocchio.

 

[Peaches the Wonder Cat]

Is it autistic of me to believe that Disney (or rather, the people that infiltrated it) is doing this on purpose?

Committing suicide?

There is a theory that pandering ESG is being forced on companies knowing it will fail, driving down stock prices so they can be juicy acquisition targets.

It's a bold move because there's no guarantee that the company will recover from a death spiral.

On the other hand, it could be useful if BlackRock wanted to force Disney to sell or split off ESPN, Hulu, or the parks to "unlock shareholder value."

 

[Phalanges Mycologist]

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.

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.

My sister grew up in that period of the 90's where the Mouse DOMINATED, I mean nothing else came close, Films, Costumes, Books my sister had them all - and they just seemed to flub and it ended up with them taking a wild direction and instead of being creative because they had money tried to spend there way out of the problem rather than analysing what's gone wrong and trying to correct.

They lost the market and just can't correct, they had social and cultural inertia that was dropped for long enough it's going to be a up hill battle to get parrity with current market leaders even if they leverage there absurd IP archive, they just can't gain back what they have lost without saying "Yea we dun goofed" and they wont because they are all about image.

They really lucked out with Frozen but i don't feel like i find what i consider the chore "Frozen elements" in the later movies:

That franchise has carried them for a while now, and it's the only film they have done that's even close to the old formula that works.

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

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.

I work in a legitimate antique trade, one that most people think died off and was only carried on as a hobby - and it's often not the money or the skill of an individual that is the stalling point to revive a trade but access to the information - and when it is available it's hampered by being written in a inaccessible way and assumes a technical supply chain that doesn't exist, I often have to make my own paints, or other treatments, glues etc based off historical receipts and having to decipher chemical names from 100 years ago is difficult because they where often given local uncommon names that are often so obscure I have to cross referance 3 or more books to work out what it is (and build my own dictionary along the way), and in more modern times you have to work out what a brand or custom process was.

Animation was back in the classical era always evolving and to reproduce a technique properly you might have to find things that are simply not commercially available any more, and try and find a way around that.

 

[frozen_runner]

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

It would fucking rule if Big Porno paid former Disney animators to make a Mickey Mouse smut film.

 

[RodgerDodger]

It would fucking rule if Big Porno paid former Disney animators to make a Mickey Mouse smut film.

That in fact exists. Its the deepest, never ever talked about, item in the Disney Vault. Way back in the day when it was still an animation studio and Walt knew everyones name, they had a big in house celebration party. I forget if it was Walts Birthday or some major studio milestone after Snow White. But as a gag a couple of the animators made a raunchy Mickey Mouse film for Walt. Walt watched it. Smiled blankly. Ordered it buried never to be seen again. And fired the dudes behind it.

It is rumored to be buried along with Walt's head in the cryo chamber

 

[Woe-B-Gon (TM)]

Is it autistic of me to believe that Disney (or rather, the people that infiltrated it) is doing this on purpose?

Committing suicide?

Perhaps we're a bunch of carpenter ants watching the ant with cordyceps doing its shaky stem climb. The parasite has eaten too much of the host and it's now obvious something is wrong as the half-corpse is burning the last of its life and strength moving as the disease demands. Problem with that is that the next phase, once the host is fully eaten from the inside out, is to scatter spores across everything and start infesting us.

(Metaphor-to-English translation: How many hiring managers do you think work at Disney that it'll start shedding once no one is being hired? And how many openings for hiring managers does your company have in an average year?)

 

[Computer Guardian]

That franchise has carried them for a while now, and it's the only film they have done that's even close to the old formula that works.

The only other thing I could think of that has given consistent cash to Disney is with their many collaborations with Fortnite, but that's only the case because they have to abide by the rules of Epic Games with the deal that they have related to their collaborations (aka Tencent since they have majority ownership of the company, which is Chinese, really makes ya think)

 

[SBG]

Is it autistic of me to believe that Disney (or rather, the people that infiltrated it) is doing this on purpose?

Committing suicide?

I think the current writers just have a really stupid idea of what children's movies need to be. They bring in the obnoxious Rian Johnson style "subverting expectations" as well as the feminist stuff about not a lot of romance, and end up with forgettable shows.

Fun seems to take a backseat to the moral lessons that often seem to be about sucking the fun out of the world.

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

I think the current writers just have a really stupid idea of what children's movies need to be. They bring in the obnoxious Rian Johnson style "subverting expectations" as well as the feminist stuff about not a lot of romance, and end up with forgettable shows.

Fun seems to take a backseat to the moral lessons that often seem to be about sucking the fun out of the world.

Yeah, there's that, but I genuinely think that they're doing it on purpose.

Sure, those progressive writers and others who infiltrated Disney and are using their brand to push their message, I do not doubt their sincerity. I don't doubt they actually believe the bullshit they spew. However, a lot of them seem to labor under the idea that even if these things lose money, it's still worth it because it's for a righteous cause. A fair amount of wokists within corporate positions even admit it.

If it puts a company like Disney into the ground, even better. Doesn't anyone remember when it was LEFTISTS who obsessively hated Disney? How Disney Derangement Syndrome was found mainly among the left?

TL;DR, if they can use Disney's money to push their message, good. If it puts Disney in the red, that's just a fun little bonus.

 

[anustart76]

No no no. Trust me. You do not want Peltz. He keeps trying to shoehorn his talentless daughter Nicola into things

Is she at least hot? If so it'd still be an improvement.

 

[White Trash Motorsport]

Disney needs to go back to basics. Smaller budgets, weirder stuff, pack in the attempts at woke social engineering. $200mil production by committee films are now an obvious failure , which is hardly surprising because it’s a recipe for bland, trying-to-please-everyone-pleases-none fare. You could churn out three or four interesting films for the bloated budget they now chuck at one, something would be bound to stick and give them a new franchise opportunity

 

[verissimus]

I think the current writers just have a really stupid idea of what children's movies need to be. They bring in the obnoxious Rian Johnson style "subverting expectations" as well as the feminist stuff about not a lot of romance, and end up with forgettable shows.

Fun seems to take a backseat to the moral lessons that often seem to be about sucking the fun out of the world.

Maybe, but personally I think it has more to do with these writers not realizing (or caring for that matter) they are supposed to be writing for children. Take Frozen for example. Ask yourself these two questions :

1) Why did the writers feel the need to "subvert" the audience's expectations with regard to who supposedly is Anna's one true love?
2) Why would ever consider doing this when your audience is supposed to be composed of young children?

Young children, which I'll define as say under 12 years old, will likely not have a firm understanding of all the typical tropes that you see in fairy tales, or put another way, they don't have any concrete expectations; however, teenagers and adults do. The problem with that though is that they're not the target audience hence why I believe that these people aren't writing for children.

 

[Montalbane]

Perhaps we're a bunch of carpenter ants watching the ant with cordyceps doing its shaky stem climb. The parasite has eaten too much of the host and it's now obvious something is wrong as the half-corpse is burning the last of its life and strength moving as the disease demands. Problem with that is that the next phase, once the host is fully eaten from the inside out, is to scatter spores across everything and start infesting us.

(Metaphor-to-English translation: How many hiring managers do you think work at Disney that it'll start shedding once no one is being hired? And how many openings for hiring managers does your company have in an average year?)

That would ironically be great for a short animated horror movie

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Is she at least hot? If so it'd still be an improvement.

She's clearly a bimbo, got nothing going on behind those eyes.

 

[ExtremeZap]

Never forget that Disney bought Star Wars and Marvel because they had the girl side of the business on lockdown with princess stuff.

Since then they have tried to turn both into girl brands and burned their Princess stuff to the ground.

Great job.

 

[Damocles_Sword]

Disney needs to go back to basics. Smaller budgets, weirder stuff, pack in the attempts at woke social engineering. $200mil production by committee films are now an obvious failure , which is hardly surprising because it’s a recipe for bland, trying-to-please-everyone-pleases-none fare. You could churn out three or four interesting films for the bloated budget they now chuck at one, something would be bound to stick and give them a new franchise opportunity

I'm pretty sure the latest glorious people's victory from the writer's strike has ensured that EVERY production will now be production by committee.