Let's make it offical. THIS FLOPPED. GO WOKE GO BROKE.

while you are right, who the fuck would even be asking for that?? Who the fuck is asking for ANY of this silly swapping shit? no one. people attend it because it is there, that's all. no one was ever begging for a black mermaid. no one. maybe 4 people. who cares.

Disney, Hollywood, and every DemoKKKrat party activist clearly care very much about these "ridiculous" matters.

I don't think moviechat is for you.

YUP...ALI WANTS TO SEE IT BUT WE DON'T REALLY DO THEATERS...TOO PRICEY.

Really strange that this streaming phenomenon used as a excuse for horrible Box Office performance only apply to this movie. Why it didn't affect Top Gun, Avatar 2, Super Mario Bros, Guardians of the Galaxy 3. This excuse is only valid to the movies you want or care. Avatar 2 has several months on Disney+ and it made 2 billions.

The original begs to differ. It was a smash hit and ushered in what is known as the Disney Renaissance.

So like Lion King and Alladin, it had the potential to make bank on a live action version.

I think where they got it wrong was not creating a colorful underwater world with cartoon like creatures. Why did the fish need to look "real?"

So with a white skinned, red headed Ariel, super colorful water world, catchy tunes playing on the trailer, this could have done very well. Like a billion dollars well.

NARWHALE IS KIND OF FUCKING AWESOME.🫵🏾

Oh Mr. Awsome as some here call you. You are just stretching some facts in order to defend this. You seem to be using the 560 break even amount given by Deadline. But you fail to mention that most of your 'ALSO' points were already considered by Deadline when making this number the breaking point. First, they mention it in the article and second they always do their financial analysis including these variables. They don's tend to forget these things (like Disney cuts, Digital and streaming numbers). The only variable they don't use is the dolls. But Ariel and TLM was already one of the top Disney Seller way before this new movie.

Right. It averages around 56/44%.

Internationaly is even worse. Averages around 30/70. 30 for the studio.

Disney plus can be evaluated at anything they want. Bullshit.
VoD when it’s free on Disney plus? Call Bullshit again.
Merchandise … there is some market but not as much as you/they want there is. And anyway it’s going to be hard to quantify the sales boost due to this movie as opposed the original.

Fact is: it is a flop.

I just checked google news by date, the only thing that was said was that the cast is excited about talk about a sequel, but this was a month ago. There’s been nothing since.

The break-even is $800m
Disney wanted this to be their big blockbuster and bring in $800-$1B


$200m to make
$400m+ P&A (print & advertising aka pr) perhaps as high as $600m because of merchandise

My example is Minions which had a pr budget of $600m

Also if you see the movie advertised everywhere and talked about, the numbers are more like $600m

Disney + = unless this movie brings in new subscribers, that’s a moot point

Please provide the link @Narwhale37 where there’s going to be a sequel, I couldn’t find it, perhaps you’ll have better luck then me.

Because his favorite YouTube grifter told him it flopped.

Race-swapping is rather disgusting

Disney has enough creatives to come up with something new rather then re-making all their cartoons

It’s ridiculous.

Same thing will happen to Snow White btw. It will be #BudLighted

They make bank at the themeparks.