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Disney’s summer is starting to look worse
After Captain America and Snow White bombed, Disney is only tracking Thunderbolts for a $75M domestic opening weekend.
Bombs come in threes.
That’s very poor for a tentpole movie, let alone a Marvel entry. Disney keeps talking about a $175M global release and talking down the size of the budget (which does not account for the often larger promotional budget) in the hopes of lowering expectations. And the Hollywood press is mostly buying it.
But this is not a good sign. At all.
Disney really doesn’t expect the latest Marvel movie to do well. It’s now in the business of spinning failures like Captain America: Brave New World as moderate successes.
Next up comes Thunderbolts. And if its Fantastic Four Reboot isn’t a hit, Disney’s summer is done. And with it a big chunk of its financial viability. Disney’s business model rests on turning IPs into franchises. And those franchises have been growing weaker. If the business model of IP slop fails, so does Disney.
Why revive The Fantastc Four? If you’re going to do a live-action revival of a 60s superhero cartoon, I’d rather watch Roger Ramjet. Anyone besides me remember “One for all snd all for one/ The Eagles fight till the job is done?” I’m expecting, any day now, a live action remake of Courageous Catvand Minute Mouse.
Meh… Better yet, how about Magilla Gorilla or Super Chicken or the Porky Pig Show (starring Rosie O’Dumbell as Porky Pig!)
Super Chicken YOU KNEW THE JOB WAS DANGEROUS WHEN YOU TOOK IT
“Super Chicken.” Those Jay Ward and Bill Scott cartoons were funny as fuck. They were low budget compared to the Warner Brothers and MGM stuff but they were funny.
One more. Chris Plante, on WMAL in D.C. always repeats the “Marvin the Martian” line: Now you have made me very, VERY angry.
I remember Fearless Fly, Atom Ant, Tennessee Tuxedo, Milton the Monster, and Secret Squirrel. I remembet my baby brother playing Mighty Mouse, with the corners of a diaper tied around his neck for a flying cape
I do notvremember Super Chicken.
That reference to Rosie O’Donnell was tacky
I just remembered “DoDo, the Kid from Outer Space.”
To survive Disney will have to do a remake of the Jetson’s. lol.
Disneys Oscar Winning ITS TOUGH TO BE A BIRD Slick Chick(Chicken slipping on a Banana Peel)Yardbird (Yardstick with the Head wings and feet of a Bird)Dovetail(Two Doves connected by their Tails)and so on
George would be black and Judy would be a transsexual
I’m fascinated, by bad story ideas, whether; books , movies, or plays. I watched the Fantastic Four trailer, it looked awful. The big rock man character, was cooking dinner along with some stupid robot sidekick, that would only appeal to children. This is supposed to be an adventure movie? Watch “Treasure of the Sierra Madre” instead.
“Treasure of the Sierra Madre” is a great film. Different from the book but different in a good way. Both are good.
THE AFRICAN QUEEN is better.
That’s a great movie, too. Even my ex-wife liked it and she’s a real hater.
Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. How could it go wrong?
Do you remember Humphrey picking leeches off himself when he was dragging the African Queen through some scummy morass? What a cool scene.
That was a real place. The “Sund.”I Read about it in “The White Nile.” Allan Moorehead, I think. People died exploring that place.
It was so nice when they got rescued, even though it was by Heinies.
Their movies Strange World and Elemental Bombed
Really? Huh. There are various movie recaps are on the internet where in 15 to 20 minutes, the narrator will go through an entire movie. The utility is that it saves time and money and it’s free.
“The Thunderbolts” and “Fantastic Four” are going to flop. Too bad. Both comics had some good runs.
The original “Thunderbolts” under Kurt Busiek was good. It was a groundbreaking comic about villains pretending to be heroes. The Dan Abnet and Andy Lanning ones were even better. They made Mr Hyde a good character. That’s hard to do.
And don’t get me started on the Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four. Classic.
It’s too bad. But the Disney groomers could destroy any characters.. Fucking perverts.
Woke rats are destroying the house that the Mouse built. Walt must be spinning in his grave or cryo chamber.
I grew up loving all things Disney, shared it with my children but 11 grandchildren are getting nothing Disney from me including a family cruise I had once considered. All I feel is sadness and repulsion when I see Disney product that used to bring me joy in the stores.
You might want to take the cruise. Every old babe I’ve met has had nothing but good things to say about cruises. They always made me feel good about being alive.
Maybe not a Disney one. though.
Good riddance.
Sad to see any old American brand die.
Even more tragic to see it die of self inflicted wounds.
But it’s schadenfreude to see any corporation Go Woke and Go Broke
and few are more deserving than Disney.
And – they were warned – many times. Don’t commit suicide.
The only thing keeping Disney alive for the last 30 years
… is Baby Boomers nostalgic memory of the ’50s.
I don’t remember the fifties because I wasn’t alive but I do remember the 70s. The Wonderful World of Disney was a good show and my mother took me to a lot of Disney movies because they were wholesome. She had her good points.
I saw a lot of Disney Kurt Russel movies when I was a kid. I think they were Disney. “Super Dad” The “Smartest kid in the World” and I think the strongest, too. Good flicks.That guy is so cool.