>“The Lion King” will record the second-best opening of 2019 — and could replace “Incredibles 2,” which launched last year with $182.7 million, as the ninth biggest North American launch of all time.
>The film is outperforming pre-release forecasts, which had been in the $150 million to $180 million range at a record 4,725 domestic locations. Disney reported that “The Lion King” delivered a massive $78.5 million opening day domestically, becoming the 10th highest opening day in industry history.
>Though critics were mixed with a 56% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, moviegoers gave “The Lion King” an A CinemaScore. Disney issued a $175 million forecast for the weekend while other estimates placed the tentpole at $188 million.
For the millionth time Just because a movie makes a lot of money doesn’t mean it’s good, watching the new lion king movie is as entertaining as watching two cats fuck in the street
Daniel Powell
The obsession the mouthbreathing public has with soulless Disney shit is really mystifying to me.
Dylan Peterson
>soulless leftovers sells to the masses you really think audience standards are that high when the mcu is the biggest film franchise ever?
Jordan Martin
>normies are retarded. So were the critics and RT in general right up until they fit the narrative, senpai.
Carter Roberts
The voice acting was horrendous in this pile of shit.
Isaiah Wilson
>tfw Aladdin's remake will break 1 billion >live action Return of Jafar incoming >Yea Forums on suicide watch
And that's really all Disney cares about. Not so much making good movies but making as much money as possible. Sucks that Favreau was directing it, you'd think he'd push for more than a 1:1 adaptation that's universally seen as inferior to the original.
Kevin Brown
The fact that Yea Forums couldn't predict a fucking sunrise if their lives depended on it is frankly astounding
Juan Hall
Disney has literally created a narrative in which they can do no wrong.
Parker Martinez
I didnt go so i didnt contribute.
Zachary Butler
For every shitty Disney remake we'll have another Peanuts movie, Into the Spider-verse etc. So don't lose hope.
Parker King
>Disney has literally created a narrative in which they can do no wrong. Dumbo would like a word with you.
Bentley Bell
Hunger Games succeeded at the box office too
Am I supposed to be impressed that the wealthiest company on the planet remade one of their most successful films in soulless CGI and made money off of nostalgia
Evan Butler
Really doubt Alladin will reach 1B. Will come close though
Oliver Morales
Newsflash:. The average person likes shit
Aaron Powell
Long Live The King
Josiah Williams
I'll tell you something that everyone in the film industry, unlike you, already knows: box office returns correlate with marketing. Not with how much money was spent on the movie itself, not with some abstract and hard to define metric like "quality", it's all about aggressive repeated media exposure. Marketing isn't an expensive scam, it works. This fact has been extensively researched and documented, and its effects can be continuously observed by literally anyone.
Disney sacrificed it for some arcane reason, it released on the same day as Bohemian Rhapsody. You also can't seriously argue that The Nutcracker was pushed as hard as Lion King was, it had nowhere near as much media visibility or hype behind it.
Eli Foster
Pretty sure I didn't even know Nutcracker existed until like a week before it came out.
Ethan Kelly
>NOOOOOOO WHY IS DISNEY ALWAYS SUCCESSFUL NO MATTER WHAT? IT MUST BE THOSE STUPID ZOOMER NORMIES
>Yea Forums trying to deflect onto Yea Forums, again, about being wrong, despite the constant shitposting threads say that the movie would fail
Didn't you Yea Forumstards try doing this with Aladdin, and now it's currently at $950M? Didn't Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Infinity War, and, soon enough, Endgame teach you retards some humility?
Xavier Jones
>it released on the same day as Bohemian Rhapsody Yes ... because those two movies were totally going for the same audience.
275 million to make, advertising I have no idea. It needs to make over a billion or Disney will scale down future movies. They're not going to stop with remakes, though, unless they're beaten at the box office by other movies
Easton Torres
>people defending Lion King just to dab on Yea Forums
Matthew Adams
they're trying to buy out all their competition so they don't have to try anymore
Christopher Bennett
You know all the young children are going to go watch this shit regardless of it's quality.
Juan Morris
>275 million to make You're not even trying: >Production Budget $183 million
Aaron Parker
They don't have anywhere near that kind of money to even attempt it
Chase Ross
Who was the 'intended' audience for The Nutcracker, to begin with?
Brandon Jackson
well ya they're bleeding a lot of money
Carson Howard
Not nearly as much as everyone else
Jaxon Sullivan
It doesn't help that they create the exact same fucking thread in their little Valley of Defilement and crosspost into the threads they create here in order to false flag the general sentiment of something, attempting to give the impression that Yea Forums originated or shares their opinion in order to lend credence to their own shitty opinions.
Benjamin Adams
The original question was about Lion King's budget, which is being reported as being around 260 million by every site that actually provides a figure. The 183 million is Aladdin's budget.
Gavin Lewis
>how much did it cost to make and advertise No idea on the ads, production though:
>The reported budget for The Lion King is around $260 million. This makes it the most expensive of the modern live-action Disney re-imaginings by far. As a comparison, Favreau's The Jungle Book cost $175 million to make. This year's other Disney re-imaginings, Dumbo and Aladdin, cost $170 million and $183 million, respectively.
> >It needs to make over a billion I know you're just trolling, but:
>Going by the general rule of thumb, The Lion King would need to gross approximately $520 million just to break even.
We all knew it was going to make a lot of money regardless of how bad it was and is.
Samuel Bailey
>Who was the 'intended' audience for The Nutcracker, to begin with? I'd assume the same as for Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella?
My only question is why they pushed it out in October when it's set on fucking X-Mas Eve?
Leo Rodriguez
>ruling box office >roaring past box office >paws its way up box office >some fucking pun box office Can we end this meme?
Nolan Hernandez
I don't think it will make $520 million. Usually movies make most of their money in the first week.
Blake Hernandez
>The original question was about Lion King's budget Shit, you're right, user. I dun fucked up.
Noah Cox
Young children aren't the ones paying for tickets.
Aiden Gomez
Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella are remakes of well known full lenght animated features with continued merchandising. The Nutcracker 2018 never had that.
Alexander Peterson
but they're the reason the adults buy the tickets you know what he meant you smart ass
Juan Bailey
People don't make movies to break even.
Wyatt White
But how will i make my news titles entertaining?!
Camden Bailey
I've never fucking understood this. When I'm a parent you'd better believe I'm not going to take my children to whatever shit movie is playing just because I need to entertain them for a few hours. I'm going to read the reviews and read the audience reactions and make informed decisions about what movies we see. If I were a parent right now, I wouldn't take them to see this garbage remake, and if they REALLY want to see the Lion King I'll just put the original one on the TV.
It didn't release in December because Disney had another movie, Mary Poppins Returns, set to release there.
Luis Wilson
The Simpsons movie was the last 2D animation movie which was popular among normies.
Christian Watson
>It needs to make over a billion or Disney will scale down future movies. Doubtful. Dubiousness of the movie itself as a remake aside it's an amazing tech demo on par with something like Avatar: they filmed the whole thing on 'virtual sets' where they could block shots in realtime like you would on a traditional soundstage rather then the usual storyboard -> animatic -> full animation workflo.
That's why they've been calling this 'live action' even though the entire thing is CGI: it's really NOT 'animated' in the traditional use of the term and is much closer to something like Avengers than something like, well, The Lion King ( cartoon ).
I'm sure they're keeping a sharp eye on what works: Beauty and the Beast and Jungle Book did very well while Dumbo ... didn't.
Camden Bailey
Kids will keep on bugging their parents until they take them. Also most people are shit parents
Samuel Morgan
>implying incel-kun will ever get the chance to breed
Hudson Martinez
Both of those sentences are wrong.
Jordan Russell
please tell me why
Sebastian Turner
First off, it’s already made over 200 million internationally, second off, and his movie will need to have a terrible multiplier for it not to hit a billion if the estimates for this weekend hold, which doesn’t seem likely since audiences have it an “A” according to cinema score, which is a good indicator for a movies legs. And movies making most of their money on their opening weekend is flat-out untrue. Yes, that’s where the highest weekend total will be, but the opening weekend usually accounts for only about 40% or less of total gross.
Cooper Butler
You won't, understand as a parent your needs and wants are trumped by your child's. You'll want to spend as much time with them as possible even if it is some shitty movie because life goes by fast
Elijah Campbell
Were people saying it would flop? Most people are just saying it looks shitty.
Camden Thompson
I knew it'd make money I just also knew it'd be shit. I was hoping maybe it'd drop off the first weekend but while critics are shitting on it it looks like the movie going public isn't. Honestly I'm still surprised at how much Aladdin made.
Carson Powell
>Were people saying it would flop? Yeah, they were pretty much dancing like a little kid who needed to pee really badly when the first reviews came out dumping on it.
Same as with Deadpool and Venom.
All the critics are shills and Rottentomatoes is owned by The Mouse ( even though it's literally owned by Time-Warner ) unless the reviews fit the preferred narrative, dontchaknow?
Oliver Smith
I want to raise good children whose minds aren't rotted by trash media, so no, I will not take them to see whatever movie they want. Sometimes you have to be firm with children, you can't just let them boss you around.
Jayden Walker
Return of Jafar is a turd so a remake might actually make it better.
I keep saying that the real trouble is that Disney keeps remaking films that are beloved classics and the remakes can't live up to it. When they remake crap like The Jungle Book people actually like it because nobody ever thought the original was a flawless diamond to begin with.
Levi Watson
>I have no idea what I’m talking about, but please let me keep talking..
Nathan Mitchell
>I'm still surprised at how much Aladdin made. Ever seen a Bollywood movie? It didn't do gangbusters in the states: Domestic: $337,351,714 34.9% + Foreign: $629,749,425 65.1%
Parker Richardson
>When they remake crap like The Jungle Book The pleb is strong with this one.
Juan Hill
>I want to raise good children whose minds aren't rotted by trash media >user posted on the chins Please, for the love of all that is holy, let this be trolling ...
Brayden Ortiz
Just tell them you don't have the money and that's that. Are all Americans that shit at parenting?
Aiden Long
It's not very good. It's a shame that some of Disney's best animators were hitting the peak of their skills during a time when the budgets were getting crunched and the stories were going down the toilet. Milt Kahl's abilities were wasted on so much trash.
Oliver Green
I think no one thought that it will flop. Ameicans are too brainwashed by mouse at this point. They'll consume ANYTHING from this studio even if it's 2 hour long shot of farting ass. I think we're witness death of the animation and cinema itself. And you're all was part of this. Shame on you, faggots.
Matthew Murphy
>advertising I have no idea It had to have been a small fortune in itself. I've seen this film nonstop advertised everywhere: TV, my phone, internet ads, buses, billboards, tie ins with celebrities, tie ins with the fucking royal family...you name it, they exploited it to advertise it. I wouldn't be surprised if their advertising budget was close to if not equal to the production budget.
Joshua Campbell
>Ameicans are too brainwashed by mouse at this point. They'll consume ANYTHING from this studio Meanwhile, back in reality ( the numbers are the reported LOSSES ): A Wrinkle in Time (Disney): -$130.6 million Solo: A Star Wars Story (Disney): -$76.9 million The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (Disney): -$65.8 million
Also: >Aladdin made: >Domestic: $337,351,714 34.9% >+ Foreign: $629,749,425 65.1% And I'll add: Beauty and the Beast (2017) Domestic: $504,014,165 39.9% + Foreign: $759,506,961 60.1%
No need to be mad, uscuck. Your country haven't produced decent animation in years anyway.
Thomas Reyes
>Though critics were mixed with a 56% rating on Rotten Tomatoes
but Yea Forums told me Disney was paying off movie critics?
Owen Gray
Who the fuck on Yea Forums besides a few deranged Yea Forumsermin thought this was bomb? Yea Forums was saying it was going to be shit, and it is shit. Profits do not equal quality, faggot OP.
Lucas Bennett
*YAWN!* Disney... nice thread.
Thomas Brooks
>young children you mean >40yearold women >every 24+ normie
Jason Harris
You need to stop playing retard, mouseshill. It's been said thousand times that your master pays only for SW and Marvel reviews because it's big franchises and not allowed to criticise. Other ones are getting a bit trashed to not look suspicious but still remain around 50-60% if necessary for profit.
Also, no other studio's film (except Sony's MCU entry) has even reached half of Captain Marvel's grosses.
Ryan Parker
a Disney live-action make money. wow, is a surprise.
Cooper Parker
no the problem is that the charm of old Disney movies is the fantastic hand-drawn animation, the writing and the (voice) actors
none of these are in the remakes
Carson Gutierrez
Really, some of their worst money-losers have been live-action. It's their animated features that are almost guaranteed bank. Also, this is an animated movie, absolutely nothing in it is "live-action".
Adam Ortiz
you're a fucking liar. why are you even trying to defend anonymous people on an anonymous imageboard?
Easton Cruz
We all knew it would make money. I'm actually surprised it didn't open to over 200mil
Hunter Ramirez
Mousedrones here don't care about that. Only $$$
Mason Wood
>probably Joker when it bombs Joker isn't going to bomb
Caring about American media is a mistake. The masses, especially around the world, only want our trash spectaculars. Just care about something else
Jason Nguyen
No critics are also always retarded. Just a different kind of retarded.
Parker Hernandez
33 million is a lot my dude
Nicholas Harris
The contrarians are the ones going to see it so they can blog about how much they hate it.
Andrew Sullivan
How much did it cost, though? That's what ladderfaggots always forget is that the reason Disney movies do so well is because they're marketed out the ass. It's the Transformers effect: People will go see it if you put transformers on their Mcdonalds cup.
So how much did it make minus the marketing costs?
Bentley Edwards
Yeah, but I can't jack off to "The Lion King" in public, now, can I?
Colton Moore
What was Dumbo's losses?
Brody Young
Destroy yourself bot
Liam Cruz
Not with that attitude you can't.
Josiah Martinez
I've just got one question about this shit. When will this end? I'm just so tired of this shit. What would it take for Disney to implode on itself?
The entire entertaiment media field would have to implode, since Disney is already partially synonymous with it.
Jose Butler
We will all suffer for the sins of the normies.
Sebastian Nelson
Yeah okay
I look forward to your "I-It only bombed because of poor marketing" posts that you losers love to do when your shitty movies fail
Noah Smith
>checked out studio releases lifeless CGI remake of 25 year old classic and will make a gazillion dollars >right before the release, a studio that cared more about animation gets torched by a loon and will be lucky to survive even with a fundraiser going past one million USD Why
>Are the Yea Forumsntrarians ever right about ... anything? We literally were, we told you normies were going to eat this shit up despite it being reviewed poorly
James Martinez
Keep sucking more mousecock, Faggot
Ryder Garcia
I'm pretty sure nobody said it wouldn't be making a lot of money, many are saying shit looks like garbage.
Ethan Cox
>life is hard in 2019 ADULTING IS SO HARD BROS
Isaac Walker
Joker was very cheap. It's not going to bomb
Jason Roberts
It's called money laundering kids, look up how this works.
Jonathan Brown
I think I cracked the code. It pretty much boils down to merchandising. Since, historically, every modern Disney live-action movie pretty much fails or doesn't do much in profits, they don't bother paying the reviewers. That extends to Live-Action remakes, notice most merchandise is tied to the original Animated version, noticiably Aladdin and The Lion King. However, when it comes down to Marvel and new Animated movies, those pretty much get very positive scores. Why? Because here's where the money lies in merchandising, home media and potential new IP, gotta pay those critics. Star Wars used to be like that, and probably Episode 9 will get good reviews, but since The Last Jedi didn't do as well as expected, plus the massive backlash to the film (Jumanji 2 almost made a billion thanks to that), merchandise is still on shelves and Solo was sent to die, they didn't even paid the critics that time. The only exception so far seems to be the Good Dinosaur but from everything I've seen, it seems like Disney didn't care about that movie.
Eli Foster
this is pretty low even for audiences.
Evan Powell
wrong. as soon as the teaser came out everyone said it was going to be huge.
Brandon Torres
>family movie Yea Forums and incels hate earned a shit ton of money
I mean I'm not that guy but you know what they say about a broken clock
Oliver Clark
I never thought I would use soulless unironically but HOLY SHIT.
Not only that but the voice acting was fucking cancer to the ears, save for James Earl Jones.
Easton Nelson
>Are the Yea Forumsntrarians ever right about ... anything?
Yes?
This is exactly what we said would happen.
That this was fucking worthless garbage, and because of that it will make more money then god.
That's how it ALWAYS happens. We KNOW exactly how much money any movie is going to make by how bad it is. Interesting, creative and inventive ideas in animation and labors of love and care will ALWAYS make -5 billion dollars while soulless, cookiecutter mystery meat movies will make more money then you could ever dream of.
Blake Stewart
Fictional, fluffed up numbers.
Adrian Flores
What point are you making? I scrolled through the first couple of comments and it's full of Yea Forums saying it's going to make a ton of money.
Pointing out the shitty reviews isn't saying it's going to bomb at the box office. The general Yea Forums consensus seems to have been >"this movie is going to be shit but still make tons of money because of braindead normies"
Jeremiah Adams
>Are the Yea Forumsntrarians ever right about ... anything?
Shilling for corrupt corporations IS the contrarian way.
Matthew Wood
We hate you too Boco, instinctively.
Jayden Walker
>it made lots of money, therefore it's good is this the only ammo disneyshills have?
