News Round Up 2019

[dclpluto]

Imo Danny DeVito was a bad choice. I was looking forward to dumbo until I seen Danny was in it. I still might watch it, at the box office. Or maybe I will wait and watch it on the ship.

 

[rteetz]

Imo Danny DeVito was a bad choice. I was looking forward to dumbo until I seen Danny was in it. I still might watch it, at the box office. Or maybe I will wait and watch it on the ship.

I don't think that was an issue with this film. At least I haven't seen anyone else mention that.

 

[rteetz]

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Sing on Tour coming to Universal Japan April 18th

http://www.insideuniversal.net/2019...rsal-studios-japan-officially-opens-april-18/

 

[rteetz]

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PHOTOS: All-New “Been There” Series Starbucks Mugs Spotted at Disney’s Hollywood Studios

 

[rteetz]

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PHOTOS: All-New “Been There” Series Starbucks Mugs Pay Tribute to Retro Epcot

 

[saskdw]

Disney did not spend $170+ on it with expectations for it to gross $50 on opening weekend....that being said if having it in the Disney+ launch lineup gets one more person to sign up it is probably worth it.

I really don't see how they would have projected it to do much more than what it did.

This movie will most likely make money in the year's to come though, through streaming service, bluray's and tv.

 

[saskdw]

I was wondering last night if all the remakes this year were really a money grab at the box office play, or a get people excited about Disney+ and maybe Blue ray sales play.

I think Lion King will do slightly better than Dumbo, but none of them are going to light up the box office.

 

[Sarah1024]

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Circle of Flavors confirmed for Animal Kingdom

http://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions...perience-coming-to-disneys-animal-kingdom.htm

This looks cool! I wonder what the timing is?

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

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PHOTOS: All-New “Been There” Series Starbucks Mugs Spotted at Disney’s Hollywood Studios

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PHOTOS: All-New “Been There” Series Starbucks Mugs Pay Tribute to Retro Epcot

Are all these "Been There" mugs in addition to the You Are Here collection or are they replacing the You Are Here collection?

 

[TheMaxRebo]

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PHOTOS: All-New “Been There” Series Starbucks Mugs Pay Tribute to Retro Epcot

If that one is still out come this August, it will be coming home with me

 

[mcd2745]

I don't like these new $tarbucks mugs. I always regretted not getting the original ones. These, however, I do not find appealing at all.

 

[rteetz]

If that one is still out come this August, it will be coming home with me

Same

 

[rteetz]

Are all these "Been There" mugs in addition to the You Are Here collection or are they replacing the You Are Here collection?

I believe You are here was replaced by this.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I believe You are here was replaced by this.

Gotcha. Glad I got my mugs then before this changed includind DCA and DL.

My husband and I prefer the graphics style of You Are Here. Would have been unfortunate to not be able to get those to make the collection cohesive. The only mug that is out of place in terms of the graphics design in our rapidly growing collection is our Jamaica You Are Here mug.

That said if we felt like spending the money we could always start a new Been There Parks collection

 

[JaxDad]

I believe You are here was replaced by this.

It would have just been too existentially confusing to sell the "You are here" and "Been there" stuff at the same time.

 

[saskdw]

I am not a huge expert but I see figures of what the production company keeps at around 50%-55% of the box office take, plus you have to add in marketing.

So if production was $170m and you figure $50m for marketing (which might be conservative, I see the average movie in the US costs $65m and average distribution and marketing costs are $35m) - but that would put it at a $230m break event point. If they get 55% of the gross sales (I'll assume Disney is at the upper end), that means it needs to gross ~420m to break even.

From the actual vs projection, I see it made $45m domestically and was projected to make $50-65m and international it took $71m off projections of $80-90m - so below on both

I think with the later Easter there could be some legs to this - I know word of mouth I have seen was pretty positive ... but there is Shazam! coming out this weekend so see what impact that has on family film goers

Definitely not a good sign though

I'm not an expert either, but I feel a movie like this gets judged on it's longterm profits. Not opening weekend.

Over the next 10 years how will all the royalty's add up from Streaming, bluray, and tv?

This movie was never going to set the box office on fire. But it might pay for itself over the next 5-10 years.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

It would have just been too existentially confusing to sell the "You are here" and "Been there" stuff at the same time.

lol good point

 

[TheMaxRebo]

I'm not an expert either, but I feel a movie like this gets judged on it's longterm profits. Not opening weekend.

Over the next 10 years how will all the royalty's add up from Streaming, bluray, and tv?

This movie was never going to set the box office on fire. But it might pay for itself over the next 5-10 years.

I don't know how much more it will make long term though. Will it just be added to the Disney+ streaming service? Will it ever make it to regular TV? How much are the TV rights anyway? And from what I can find, movies don't make the $ on DVD/Blu-ray they used to

Obviously there are harder to quantify benefits too of just the property being more in the public consciousness and new sales of toys and plushes and collectibles. Plus as has been mentioned in this thread before, for some foreign markets, especially in Asia, they never really saw the original moves so this is introducing these properties to those markets

So I do think if a movie is at all close to being even with box office gross, there is potential for more $ to be made down the road. I mean, something like Mary Poppins Returns made $350m off a budget of $130m. Once all the long term benefits are factored in I have trouble thinking of that as a big $ loser.

 

[saskdw]

I don't know how much more it will make long term though. Will it just be added to the Disney+ streaming service? Will it ever make it to regular TV? How much are the TV rights anyway? And from what I can find, movies don't make the $ on DVD/Blu-ray they used to

Obviously there are harder to quantify benefits too of just the property being more in the public consciousness and new sales of toys and plushes and collectibles. Plus as has been mentioned in this thread before, for some foreign markets, especially in Asia, they never really saw the original moves so this is introducing these properties to those markets

So I do think if a movie is at all close to being even with box office gross, there is potential for more $ to be made down the road. I mean, something like Mary Poppins Returns made $350m off a budget of $130m. Once all the long term benefits are factored in I have trouble thinking of that as a big $ loser.

I'm assuming it will make it to tv eventually. I don't know what the rights go for. I'm assuming they get a certain amount each time the movie plays.

I still buy blurays. We have a home theatre room with a big 4K OLED TV and a pretty good good sound system. Including high powered subs and ceiling speakers for Dolby Atmos. At the current time the picture and sound quality in a good 4K bluray with Dolby Atmos blows away any streaming service. The average person with a mediocre tv with a sound bar might go with a streaming service, but people with expensive set-ups are still buying blurays.

No idea how the numbers playout on that though.

 

[Sarah1024]

I don't know how much more it will make long term though. Will it just be added to the Disney+ streaming service? Will it ever make it to regular TV? How much are the TV rights anyway? And from what I can find, movies don't make the $ on DVD/Blu-ray they used to

Obviously there are harder to quantify benefits too of just the property being more in the public consciousness and new sales of toys and plushes and collectibles. Plus as has been mentioned in this thread before, for some foreign markets, especially in Asia, they never really saw the original moves so this is introducing these properties to those markets

So I do think if a movie is at all close to being even with box office gross, there is potential for more $ to be made down the road. I mean, something like Mary Poppins Returns made $350m off a budget of $130m. Once all the long term benefits are factored in I have trouble thinking of that as a big $ loser.

Yeah I thought I saw someone mentioned Mary Poppins was a loser for them, but I was under the impression it did quite well?? I had no idea what Shazam was until it was mentioned in this thread. Either I don't watch enough TV to have seen the ads, or I'm oblivious.