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

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In your previous post you said they make about a $1 billion annually from Moana merchandising. Ok, I don't know if true or not but if you break even on a movie, or potentially lose money, and still make a $1 billion in merchandising, then why make the movie?

Also, for them to make money in streaming would require new subscribers and I don't think people is going to subscribe to see Moana.

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The movie still generates new fans and new momentum for the brand, even if it doesn't have gangbuster box office numbers. That's, on average, 17 million tickets sold to see that movie (ChatGPT) if they hit $200m box office (breakeven). Think how many kids are now introduced to Moana, or kids that loved the first two have rekindled love for it. New toys, shirts, bedsheets, etc. Whatever it is they sell that's branded.

The $1b a year in Moana (from a couple different websites, it's an estimate) will eventually deteriorate each year if there is nothing being released. Releasing this keeps that gravy train going a little longer and deteriorating a little slower. The last movie was released I think over 2 years ago.

People will wait until it's on streaming as well and get introduced to other Disney IP. Not saying that's a huge piece of this, but it's a piece.

Again, I don't think it's their intent to lose money on the movie. I'm saying that this will still be a good outcome financially for Disney.

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Even if you discount that $1bn by 50% it's still a good outcome. My overarching point of my first post is that's it not all about the box office anymore for these major IPs. Ancillary revenue is massive.