The Little Mermaid Failure Thread
POSTED BY: 6IXSTRINGJACK
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 22:24
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Trevor Noah is a racist and a corporate shill.
Why don't you watch the real black guy who isn't being paid millions of dollars to stand up for the big defenseless corporation?
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Quote:I was at the funeral of a guy whose favorite saying was "I'm not a racist, the Democrats are the racists." I told his widow long before he died to get life insurance on Jack because he is not thinking ahead about his kids' future and, the way Jack lives, he'll be dead before they are grown and self-supporting. She divorced Jack but kept paying the premiums on the life insurance. Jack was worth more dead than alive to his Ex, and so she and I laughed and went home happily when I repeated his catchphrase "I'm not a racist, the Democrats are the racists."
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Trevor Noah is a racist and a corporate shill.
Why don't you watch the real black guy who isn't being paid millions of dollars to stand up for the big defenseless corporation?
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:Quote:I was at the funeral of a guy whose favorite saying was "I'm not a racist, the Democrats are the racists." I told his widow long before he died to get life insurance on Jack because he is not thinking ahead about his kids' future and, the way Jack lives, he'll be dead before they are grown and self-supporting. She divorced Jack but kept paying the premiums on the life insurance. Jack was worth more dead than alive to his Ex, and so she and I laughed and went home happily when I repeated his catchphrase "I'm not a racist, the Democrats are the racists."
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Trevor Noah is a racist and a corporate shill.
Why don't you watch the real black guy who isn't being paid millions of dollars to stand up for the big defenseless corporation?
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Democrats are racists. Black people are waking up and figuring out that they have been tools for the Democrat party. Every election cycle more blacks vote against Democrats.
You've already lost the Asian demographic, and you're losing the Hispanic demographic as well.
And while all this is going on, companies like Disney are going to lose because they're on the wrong side of history.
Nobody gives a shit about your anecdotes regarding your imaginary friends, and your ceaseless attempts to derail threads with your unrelated nonsense.
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Bruce isn't saying shit about The Little Mermaid this week now that the studio projections are in.
He made a prediction that it was going to pull in $30,300,000 Domestic this weekend, and the projections are only $22,790,000.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK (June 6th):
They expected another billion dollar live-action hit on their hands and they're not even going to make $500 Million when its out of theaters. They will lose at least $100 Million on this woke turd of a movie, if not $200 or $300 Million.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/showdown/sd1245509124/
MOVIE TITLE / WORLDWIDE GROSS / PRODUCTION BUDGET
The Lion King Remake - $1,656,943,394 / $260,000,000
Beauty and the Beast Remake - $1,263,521,126 / $160,000,000
Aladdin Remake - $1,050,693,953 / $183,000,000
Alice in Wonderland Remake - $1,025,467,110 / $200,000,000
The Jungle Book Remake - $966,550,600 / $175,000,000
The Little Mermaid - ? / $250,000,000
The Little Mermaid doesn't even crack $500 Million, and that's with a 30% increase in ticket prices over any of these other live action cash grabs. (That's how much more ticket prices are post-covid-world)
The only movie that cost more to make on the list was The Lion King, but only by $10 Million and that grossed more than 3 times what The Little Mermaid will gross.
We're at $414,210,339 and running out of steam quickly.
It may make $500 Million, but just barely.
Along with the total failures and direct-to-streaming Pinocchio and Peter Peter and Wendy this year, this might FINALLY be the end of Disney's live action remakes. They can't afford to keep taking L's this big.
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It must have been so painful for Variety to put this out...
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/box-office-transformers-spiderverse
-battle-first-place-1235639877/
Quote:
Elsewhere at the box office, three holdovers from Disney rounded out the top of North American charts. In third place, “The Little Mermaid” added $22.8 million from 4,320 theaters, declining 46% from the weekend prior. After three weeks of release, the live-action remake is swimming along with $228 million at the domestic box office. But the big-budget film has been struggling at the international box office, where ticket sales have been floundering with $185 million. (Yes, that’s considered “floundering” for a movie that cost $250 million.) At one point, there was hope “The Little Mermaid” would near the $1 billion mark; after a disappointing turnout overseas, it’ll be lucky to hit $500 million.
A Google search on Variety and "The Little Mermaid" comes up with dozens upon dozens upon dozens of articles written up about it since 2019, but this news is buried in paragraph 8 about the weekend box office.
Here's some of the recent greatest hits:
May 8th
‘The Little Mermaid’ First Reactions Praise Halle Bailey’s ‘Astonishing’ Ariel, Question if Remake Lives Up to Animated Original
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/the-little-mermaid-remake-first-rea
ctions-1235603461/
May 22nd
‘The Little Mermaid’ Review: Halle Bailey and Melissa McCarthy Erase Any Doubts About This Remake’s See-Worthiness
https://variety.com/2023/film/reviews/the-little-mermaid-review-halle-
bailey-melissa-mccarthy-1235620560/
May 24th
Box Office: ‘The Little Mermaid’ Swimming to $120 Million-Plus Over Memorial Day Weekend
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/little-mermaid-box-office-memorial-
day-holiday-weekend-1235623771/
May 26th
Box Office: ‘The Little Mermaid’ Makes $10.3 Million in Previews
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/little-mermaid-box-office-previews-
1235625709/
May 27th
Box Office: ‘The Little Mermaid’ Swimming to No. 1 With $38 Million Opening Day
https://variety.com/2023/film/box-office/box-office-the-little-mermaid
-opening-weekend-1235626708/
May 28th
‘The Little Mermaid’ Dominates Memorial Day Box Office With $118 Million Debut
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/little-mermaid-memorial-day-box-off
ice-fast-x-disney-1235627238/
May 29th
‘The Little Mermaid’ Takes Memorial Day Weekend Box Office Crown With Splashy $117.5 Million Debut
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/little-mermaid-opening-weekend-box-
office-disney-remake-1235627658/
They don't appear to have mentioned TLM movie in a headline once in June. Huh... I wonder why that is.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
The whole premise of the possibility that Diney might learn a lesson is just.....laughable.
Well... It would seem they haven't learned it yet. School is still in session.
The Little Mermaid live action woke cash grab was a flop, so of course Disney greenlit this:
How come they fixed Flounder but not-Ariel is still black?
Have fun losing more subscribers on Disney+ worldwide.
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Only $4 Million dollars on Cheap Seat Tuesday in its 3rd week.
Sad.
Super-flop. Just like I said it would be.
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The Little Mermaid Remake's Box Office Destroys Disney's $1 Billion Trend: Will It Recover?
The Little Mermaid's live-action remake has had a pretty disappointing box office return, with it destroying Disney's $1 billion box office trend.
https://screenrant.com/the-little-mermaid-remake-box-office-disney-1-b
illion/
It's losing a LOT more than $20 Million. Dateline is trying to save face for Disney.
We're talking losses for Disney in the $100 Million to $300 Million range when all is said and done.
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Long-time Disney shot-caller Christine McCarthy fired from Disney. She was treasurer for the company from 2000 to 2015 when she was promoted to Disney's CFO.
Many considered her next in line after Bob Iger for the CEO position. She was behind removing Bob Chapek and putting Iger back in charge just late last year.
Everyone is saying she's taking "family medical leave", but Iger has said they're already searching for her permanent replacement. They're going to give her some sort of "advisor" title until her contract is up in June of next year, where she will still be making her $20 Million per year salary.
She was CFO during the entire time that Disney ruined Star Wars, Marvel, their own animation studio and their own Pixar brand. Nobody can blame the ruination of Indiana Jones on her, however, since Kingdom of the Crystal Skull came out 7 years before she took the position. The newest entry coming out in 8 days won't help the brand though.
This isn't indicative of Disney making any steps forward to fixing its brand since Bob Iger is still in charge. Though relatively ineffective, it was easy for everyone to throw Bob Chapek under the bus when he got politically involved in Florida and became the catalyst for Disney losing their Reedy Creek special status in the state, but Bob Iger has been the true face of the decline of Disney after the Renaissance years of Michael Eisner in the late 80's through the early 2000s.
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