re: ‘Moana’ live action remake tracking to be a gigantic bomb for Disney

I don’t understand remaking an animated film and using 95% CGI.

It’s basically just another animated film.

I mean I know why but artistically it’s just funny.

Do people really buy their tickets to see a movie weeks/months in advance? I’m sure we will take the kids to see it but we won’t buy tickets until the day of.

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I liked the Cinderella live action that they did.

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Cinderella was easily Disney’s best live action adaptation. They’ve gotten steadily worse since then.

Cruella and the two Maleficent movies weren’t bad, but they were basically reimaginings of the original animated films. They took the villains and made them the heroes.

I didn’t see the Lilo & Stitch remake. Apparently live action retreads of Tangled and Hercules are up next.

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I don’t understand remaking an animated film and using 95% CGI.

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It worked spectacularly for The Jungle Book (2016) and they have been chasing that high ever since.

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I don’t understand remaking an animated film and using 95% CGI.

It’s basically just another animated film.

I mean I know why but artistically it’s just funny.

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If they made money, it would make sense to me. Have these been making money? After the disaster that was Emma Watson's Belle ruining the entirety of the Beauty & The Beast remake, I stopped going to see them.

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Do people really buy their tickets to see a movie weeks/months in advance?

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I bought the tickets to see Toy Story 5 with my grandkids a few days ahead of time to be sure I had good seats but it wound up not being necessary because there wasn't very many people there. Which surprised me some because it was the opening weekend

Yet they refuse to give the people what we really want, the Atlantis live action remake

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I just don't understand the concept of a live action remake, especially when it comes to children's fantasy movies.

It's never going to have that same magic and life that animation can provide.

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It's just laziness, and you are right it can't provide the magic of animation

Estimates are Disney generates $1 billion annually from Moana merchandise since the franchise launch.

That is more than they've made in theaters, even with the last two successful box office films earning 690m and 1b, respectively.

It's a money printing brand. Even if this movie loses money in the box office, they're going to make a shite load.

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I'll take your word for it, but nobody involved with this would describe a movie that loses money as a "good" outcome. "Hey guys, we don't want to make money on merchandising AND at the box office so make it suck a little."

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I said this:

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They don't ever intend to lose money, but breaking even and getting other revenue jump started is a good outcome for Disney.

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Breaking even on the film and making $1 billion dollars on merchandise is a good outcome

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These aren't intended to be "loss leaders", but the concept is sort of the same. You offer something at your business that you may not make money on but it drives traffic and popularity, thus additional revenue.

They don't intend to lose money like a loss leader concept, but they know the real money isn't in huge box office profits. It's in the branding/merchandise/streaming/etc.

Now this is a sliding scale and isn't applicable for all movies or studios, obviously, but Moana is a cash cow outside of the movie theater and Disney is just going to bleed it for all it's worth.