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Wkd Box Office - 2•7-2•9 - Birds of Prey For Good Legs As Takeoff Fails (And the Incredible Success of Bad Boys Continues)
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I figured with location shooting and the effects work for that type of fantastical story would have been more expensive.
Now they do, Blumhouse and such showed the industry how it's done. Budgets on horror movies were getting stupid in the late 90's and 2000's.
I went to reserve tickets to watch BoP again with my sister and my order kept erroring out so I refreshed the page and this happened
There were like 4 reserved seats when I was looking at the seating chart and then all of a sudden its sold out. I have no idea how that happened. I'm going to assume its a glitch or someone shat in a seat and they need to do clean up or something so the showing got canceled.
There were like 4 reserved seats when I was looking at the seating chart and then all of a sudden its sold out. I have no idea how that happened. I'm going to assume its a glitch or someone shat in a seat and they need to do clean up or something so the showing got canceled.
2pm on a monday? that is a glitch unless there was a hell of a Senor's day.I went to reserve tickets to watch BoP again with my sister and my order kept erroring out so I refreshed the page and this happened
There were like 4 reserved seats when I was looking at the seating chart and then all of a sudden its sold out. I have no idea how that happened. I'm going to assume its a glitch or someone shat in a seat and they need to do clean up or something so the showing got canceled.
Mulan has far less of a following than Aladdin in my experience. Alladin is a huge classic of 90's Disney animation, only slightly less popular than The Lion King. Everybody I know of around my age (let's say 25-34 years old) grew up with Aladdin and has fond memories of watching the movie as a kid.
The only time I've hear anyone utter any nostalgia about Mulan was when Rick and Morty did that episode about the McDonalds sauce. I doubt it will do anywhere near Aladdin numbers, unless there's some huge Mulan fanbase I don't know about.
They couldn't have cancelled the showing right? It's not doing bad enough to warrant that... is it?I went to reserve tickets to watch BoP again with my sister and my order kept erroring out so I refreshed the page and this happened
There were like 4 reserved seats when I was looking at the seating chart and then all of a sudden its sold out. I have no idea how that happened. I'm going to assume its a glitch or someone shat in a seat and they need to do clean up or something so the showing got canceled.
Sy and his buddies supporting their gal.
It would have to do Hellboy numbers which was like less than 20m opening weekend and then had like a 90% drop.
Never underestimate the nostalgic appeal any Disney film has, everyone's favorite Disney movie usually just happens to be whatever they watched on video a million times as a child.
I'm kind of hoping Mulan succeeds though for the exact reason I would expect it not to do well, it's a remake that actually seems to be adapting the original story from the ground-up rather than passing itself off as a 1:1 remake of the cartoon. Aladdin at least set itself apart a bit more than B&TB and Lion King did, but the only live-action Disney remake I've still truly enjoyed as its own movie is Jungle Book which is nowhere near as slavish to the original as the other three are. (I've heard a lot of people praise their Cinderella for similar reasons, but I still haven't seen it)
I think the most likely explanation is that someone has rented the auditorium for a private event. Birthday party, corporate training, something like that. You should go there and see if you can get in.
It just recently dawned me that BoP was running heavy ads on TikTok and had a Fortnite tie in when a good portion of the people who they were targeting wouldn't be able to see the movie.
Gross more or make a larger profit because the profit part is almost assured.
Given the mention that Mulan is not including Mushu and has none of the original songs I'm actually interested in seeing it now. After Beauty and the Beast and Lion King I didn't think that was possible.
sad to see both Neal Brennan and Dave Chappelle in their current state
Ah I see - I read 75m on the-numbers. That's even more difficult to make a profit now then.
I believe one of the trades said $97M is raw budget and $84M is net budget (after tax breaks) so functionally the budget is on the lower bound
No. Sub $80m for weekend now. And it would have to do about $250-300m worldwide to make any profit. And that is looking very unlikely.
A lot of the nostalgia for the original Mulan is centered around the songs, so not having them at all could really hurt it.
Mulan long-range tracking is pretty low
The internet makes a big stink about the remakes being too similar to the originals and "pointless" but similar to the originals is what the people want
The internet makes a big stink about the remakes being too similar to the originals and "pointless" but similar to the originals is what the people want
I think quite simply the audience just doesn't want their childhood ruined by these films.
The casual audience tends to either lap it up or mostly ignore it though.
At 84 million then it should be able to break a profit in the end, though it won't be what WB was hoping for.
Not theatrically.
The breakeven point is reportedly around $250m worldwide and it may not hit that.
The "its ruining my childhood" audience if anything is the small, niche audience. I think the fact is overwhelmingly the general audience loves these Disney remakes and Disney is smart to make them.
If the tracking is any indication, they were not smart to make Mulan, at least not the way they did.
Studios that claim movies don't break even are quite often lying by using fancy accounting tricks anyway, if movies "bombed" really as often as people think they do far fewer movies would get greenlit.
Once TV deals, streaming rights, etc. are distributed I think people would be surprised how many films turn a profit.
Once TV deals, streaming rights, etc. are distributed I think people would be surprised how many films turn a profit.
BOP will probably end up losing a few million. Keep in mind that studios usually underreport budgets and costs to make a movie seem more successful than it is.
They were probably betting on China to carry the movie, but that's obviously not going to work out. Even without the Coronavirus outbreak I'm not sure if Mulan would have been huge in China.
Corona virus will be the bigger issue for Mulan than tracking I think. They obviously budgeted it highly banking on large gross from the Chinese market.
Disney used a time machine and stole all my copies of their original animated movies. They ruined me, man!
They are always the loudest audience though.
Same with Star Wars funnily enough.
I wonder if it will flop in China if Dinsey delays the Asia release but retains the US release? Feel like most people will just pirate it.
Because most of the animated movies are amazing. I would have been more satisfied and excited if they would have just re-released them to theaters and made it an event. Live action + their additions are trying to recapture the magic and it sucks.
I say most because Mulan is one that I rewatched recently and it definitely needs the update. The fact they're doing it plus trying to make it its own story and not just a straight up recreation is actually exciting.
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