So tell us what the number one movie in the world is right now.
Which means little.
It still ranks in at number 78 among box office openings.
But hey, at least it did better than the last time they shoveled a remake into theaters instead of shoveling it to D+.
For those that forgot, Mulan made just over $33 million on it's Labor Day opening. That does not even rank it among the top 200 opening weekends.
To be honest, the simple fact is that Disney has long ago burned out the audience on their "live action remakes", and it really does not matter what the movie is. They knew Peter Pan and Pinocchio were bad, so they went straight to D+ (the modern equivalent to straight to video). Their last live action remake (Cruella - 2021) actually lost money. The one before that (Mulan - 2020) lost a butt load of money (making $70 million on a budget of over $200 million). In reality, you have to go all the way back to 2019 to find a remake that was not shoveled to D+ and did not lose money.
To me, it has not a damned thing to do with anything other than people are simply sick of these endless remakes and absolutely no new content being created by them.
And it's no better on their animated side. Strange World tanked ($72 million on a $180 million budget). Encanto recouped production budget, but still barely broke even when the marketing budget is added in. Raya lost money, in fact the last really successful movie the House of Mouse produced under its flagship banner is Frozen II in 2019. Their last that was not a sequel that made a decent amount of money was Moana way back in 2016.
I am still predicting it will tank, and have not a damned thing to do with the casting. The movie is not that good, and yet another remake of yet another movie they did over 30 years ago. People are simply sick to death of these endless live action remakes and they have not produced anything new of worth in almost a decade. Just like the 3D remakes of a decade ago, they could only milk that cow for so long, and it has come up dry.
But get ready, because there is a hell of a lot more regurgitated garbage on the way. Next year is live action Snow White. And the same year will see a live action prequel to The Lion King as well as a live action remake of Lilo and Stitch. Then in 2025, live action Moana.
And after that with no release dates yet, live action Hercules, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Sword and the Stone, a Cruella sequel, an Aladdin sequel, Bambi, Robin Hood, and The Aristocats.
And I am predicting right now, almost all of those will likely tank if they make it into theaters. Just as the last series of remakes have tanked.
