The Little Mermaid Failure Thread
POSTED BY: 6IXSTRINGJACK
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 22:24
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It's doing "swimmingly" on the domestic end, Bruce?
https://screenrant.com/2023-movies-billion-dollar-box-office/#wish
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screenrant.com on May 5th, 2023:
If any 2023 movie is almost guaranteed to join the billion-dollar club, it's the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.
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Regardless of quality, almost every “live-action” Disney movie has far surpassed the billion-dollar mark, whether it's Aladdin or The Lion King, both of which are rated "rotten" on Rotten Tomatoes.
https://bleedingcool.com/movies/summer-box-office-preview-the-little-m
ermaid-flash-fast-x-guardians-barbie-oppenheimer/
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Opening the same weekend as Top Gun: Maverick last year, this is the pick for this summer's biggest film. Really all you have to do is look at how much the live-action remakes of the other Disney Renaissance-era films have made:
The Lion King (2019)- $543 million
Beauty and The Beast (2017)- $504 million
Aladdin (2019)- $356 million
All three animated films are beloved and grossed over $1 billion each worldwide. Arguably, The Little Mermaid is the favorite out of all of them. Throw in controversies galore, a huge groundswell of online support that may actually matter for once, and a talented young star primed for a huge breakout, and you have all the makings of a huge, huge hit. The biggest of the summer, I think.
Arguably indeed.
This bitch ain't even going to come close to a BILLION. It is NOT doing swimmingly, domestic or otherwise.
Speaking of which...
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The international numbers are more worrying. Mexico is the film’s biggest market to date, but it is expected to open with only $8.5 million there. The United Kingdom, where it’s headed to $6.3 million on debut, is the only other country where it is earning more than $5 million on opening weekend. Its international total of $68 million so far still gives it a shot at $500 million or $600 million worldwide. In comparison, Aladdin picked up $121 million from international territories on its opening weekend, which helped propel it to a final total of over $1 billion.
EVERYBODY hates it.
Fuck you Disney.
You had a ballooned $250,000,000 production budget for this piece of woke trash nobody wanted to see, and we all know you spent WAY over that marketing it. We know you're going to count a 4 day holiday weekend to make the numbers sound better than they actually were, but you only made $163,800,000 on opening weekend worldwide.
Pay your media to say whatever you want, but we know that you're going to lose money on this one too.
LEARN YOUR FUCKING LESSON OR GO BANKRUPT.
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6ix, why would anyone buy a ticket for a Free movie? The Little Mermaid is Free.
https://tpb25.ukpass.co/search.php?q=The.Little.Mermaid.2023
The software is also free to download The Little Mermaid.
https://www.qbittorrent.org/
The most horrifying change between the 1989 cartoon and the 2023 movie is the identity of the killer. In 1989, the killer of the Sea Witch was the Prince. In 2023, the killer was the Mermaid. How dare Disney change this pivotal plot point from the way Hans Christian Andersen wrote The Little Mermaid?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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The Little Mermaid is #8 in
Top 2023 Movies at the Domestic Box Office
1 The Super Mario Bros. Movie Universal $558,882,000
2 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 Walt Disney $299,425,817
3 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Walt Disney $214,464,569
4 John Wick: Chapter 4 Lionsgate $186,407,016
5 Creed III United Artists $156,248,615
6 Scream VI Paramount $108,161,389
7 Fast X Universal $107,955,000
8 The Little Mermaid Walt Disney $95,500,000
9 M3GAN Universal $95,043,350
10 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Paramount $93,054,502
https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/domestic/all-movies/cum
ulative/released-in-2023
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:
6ix, why would anyone buy a ticket for a Free movie? The Little Mermaid is Free.
You couldn't pay me to watch this for free.
This is the problem with catering to your kind. You don't pay for anything.
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The most horrifying change between the 1989 cartoon and the 2023 movie is the identity of the killer. In 1989, the killer of the Sea Witch was the Prince. In 2023, the killer was the Mermaid. How dare Disney change this pivotal plot point from the way Hans Christian Andersen wrote The Little Mermaid?
One of many, many changes that nobody wanted to see.
And Hollywood really, really needs to stop trying to make Awkafina a thing.
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Originally posted by second:
The Little Mermaid is #8 in
Top 2023 Movies at the Domestic Box Office
So what? It's all about making money AFTER costs. Here's the production budgets of each of these movies, and their worldwide gross and 2023 Worldwide Place.
1 The Super Mario Bros. Movie / Budget: $100,000,000 / WG: $1,276,707,000 / Place: 1
2 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 / Budget: $250,000,000 / WG: $731,025,817 / Place: 2
3 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania / Budget: $200,000,000 / WG: $463,592,963 / Place: 6
4 John Wick: Chapter 4 / Budget: $100,000,000 / WG: $428,066,877 / Place: 7
5 Creed III / Budget: $75,000,000 / WG: $272,376,798 / Place: 8
6 Scream VI / Budget: $35,000,000 / WG: $168,834,132 / Place: 12*
7 Fast X / Budget: $340,000,000 / WG: $507,261,000 / Place: 5
8 The Little Mermaid / Budget: $250,000,000 / WG: $163,800,000 / Place: 13*
9 M3GAN / Budget: $12,000,000 / WG: $176,833,606 / Place: 11*
10 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves / Budget: $150,000,000 / WG: $207,954,502 / Place: 10
https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/worldwide/all-movies/cu
mulative/released-in-2023
*M3GAN is left off of the top worldwide grossing movies on Bruce's list, when it should be at 11th place with $176,833,606. This pushes everyone else past it one further down the list than he has them at right now.
Winners and losers on that list:
Winners:
1. M3GAN made more than 14.5 times its production budget of $12 Million.
2. Super Mario Bros Movie made nearly 13 times its production budget of $100 Million.
3. Scream IV made more than 4.5 times its production budget of $35 Million.
4. John Wick made more than 4 times its production budget of $100 Million.
5. Creed 3 made nearly 3.5 times its production budget of $75 Million.
6. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 made nearly 3 times its production budget of $250 Million.
7. Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania just barely made 2 times its production budget of $200 Million.
Losers* (The movies who didn't double their production budget to cover marketing budgets and theater takes):
1. The Little Mermaid only made 65% of its $250,000,000 production budget.
2. Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves only made 172% of its $150,000,000 production budget.
3. Fast X only made 167% of its $340,000,000 production budget.
*As of right now, D&D is the only guaranteed loser on the top 10 list because its run is dead and it will not make money back for its investors.
The lesson for Disney, besides firing all the woke staff, is to learn that its GUARANTEED BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE days are over. M3GAN only had a $12 Million budget and will likely end up being the 2nd most profitable movie of 2023 for its investors when Super Mario's theater run is over.
They've got to stop spending over $200 Million on every movie they make unless they want to start making things that people want to see again.
It's one thing to look at The Little Mermaid as a huge win by saying it's 8th place Domestic and 13th place Worldwide for 2023 after its first weekend, but when a movie only makes 65% of its production budget worldwide on its first weekend its doomed to lose money in the end after real world accounting is factored in. If the movie had cost $50 Million to make, it would have already been a winner.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
It's one thing to look at The Little Mermaid as a huge win by saying it's 8th place Domestic and 13th place Worldwide for 2023 after its first weekend, but when a movie only makes 65% of its production budget worldwide on its first weekend its doomed to lose money in the end after real world accounting is factored in. If the movie had cost $50 Million to make, it would have already been a winner.
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Top Gun was made by Paramount, owned by Paramount Global, owned by National Amusements, owned by two people named Redstone. Paramount Global is not completely owned by the Redstones, so it does have a stock price. Looking at that stock market price for the last 5 years and you would conclude that the Redstones should stop making movies: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/PARAA:NASDAQ?authuser=0&windo
w=5Y
But the Redstones don't close Paramount and fire all the woke California employees because their private company that owns Paramount has other things going, as does Disney. Also, the Redstones are crazy, as was their father, Sumner. I think somebody could make a TV show about a fictionalized Redstone business dynasty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Amusements
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner_Redstone
P.S. Those high production budgets at Disney are mostly money going to people who work at Disney, moving money from one pocket to another in the same pair of pants. Disney has good reasons to keep production budgets as high as possible, not low as possible.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
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Originally posted by second:Do you remember your obsession with Top Gun Maverick? I do: http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=36&tid=60492&mid=11744
77#1174477
I saw the movie once. It was okay.
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P.S. Those high production budgets at Disney are mostly money going to people who work at Disney, moving money from one pocket to another in the same pair of pants. Disney has good reasons to keep production budgets as high as possible, not low as possible.
With that level of spin, I'd suggest that you should be a paid shill movie critic, but ChatGPT will be doing their jobs soon.
In any event, what you're suggesting is that Disney continue partaking in Securities Fraud. It's already in hot water for lying to investors about the state of Disney+, and Disney has a lot of eyes on it right now. I would suggest they don't play those games anymore if that is indeed what they're doing.
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Quote:From the very beginning, the movie industry was infamous for inflating budgets to put money into the bank accounts of studio favorites and, also, because it lowers corporate taxes. Maybe the Anti-Woke Club won't see the movie, but it is doing as well as its competition:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
In any event, what you're suggesting is that Disney continue partaking in Securities Fraud. It's already in hot water for lying to investors about the state of Disney+, and Disney has a lot of eyes on it right now. I would suggest they don't play those games anymore if that is indeed what they're doing.
Top 2023 Movies at the Domestic Box Office
#6 The Little Mermaid
#1 The Super Mario Bros. Movie
https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/domestic/all-movies/cum
ulative/released-in-2023
Top 2023 Movies at the Worldwide Box Office
#11 The Little Mermaid
#1 The Super Mario Bros. Movie
https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/worldwide/all-movies/cu
mulative/released-in-2023
The surprise is that The Super Mario Bros. Movie has ended up becoming the most financially successful of all videogame adapted films – earning $1.2 billion at current count, three times as much at the box-office than the previous holders of that title, Warcraft (2016).
https://www.moriareviews.com/fantasy/super-mario-bros-movie-2023.htm
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Originally posted by second:
Maybe the Anti-Woke Club won't see the movie, but it is doing as well as its competition
No. It's not.
First off, it's been a very lousy year for movies so far, particularly for Disney... so that comment isn't even saying much if it were true.
Here's another list for you, because you are stupid.
Worldwide Opening Weekend and percentage of Production Budget made on opening weekend including all American made films in the global top 30:
1 The Super Mario Bros. Movie / Budget: $100,000,000 / WWO: $377,000,000 / 377%
2 M3GAN / Budget: $12,000,000 / WWO: $45,000,000 / 375%
3 Evil Dead Rise / Budget: $19,000,000 / WWO: $40,000,000 / 210%
4 Scream VI / Budget: $35,000,000 / WWO: $67,000,000 / 191%
5 John Wick: Chapter 4 / Budget: $100,000,000 / WWO: $138,000,000 / 138%
6 Creed III / Budget: $75,000,000 / WWO: $100,000,000 / 133%
7 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania / Budget: $200,000,000 / WWO: $250,000,000 / 125%
8 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 / Budget: $250,000,000 / WWO: $290,000,000 / 116%
9 Knock at the Cabin / Budget: $20,000,000 / WWO: $21,000,000 / 105%
10 Jesus Revolution / Budget: $15,000,000 / WWO: $15,000,000 / 100%
11 Fast X / Budget: $340,000,000 / WWO: $319,000,000 / 94%
12 Cocaine Bear / Budget: $35,000,000 / WWO: $28,000,000 / 80%
13 The Little Mermaid / Budget: $250,000,000 / WWO: $164,000,000 / 66%
14 Shazam: Fury of the Gods / Budget: $125,000,000 / WWO: $66,000,000 / 53%
15 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves / Budget: $150,000,000 / WWO: $72,000,000 / 48%
16 AIR / Budget: $70,000,000 / WWO: $30,000,000 / 43%
The Little Mermaid is hanging out with all the flops. The only ones even remotely close to it that will succeed will do so because they had reasonable budgets.
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