Disney's The Marvels Projected to Make Less Money Than Any Marvel Movie Ever

It's been reported that the movie has a budget of $270 million, not including marketing. That means it would have to make $700-800 million just to break even.

That's not going to happen. Not even close.

This is going to be a huge disaster. I think advanced ticket sales for The Marvels are down something like 47% from the sales of Quantumania, and that was itself a huge disaster.

Deadline reports that box office analytics firm Quorum projected two weeks ago that the movie would bring in around $90 million in its opening weekend.

However, the outlet reports the "four-week lead tracking" for the film is coming in at $75 million to $80 million. That's a decline of 11% on the low end and 16% on the high end.

For comparison, 2019's Captain Marvel had an opening weekend of $153.4 million and went on to gross $426.8 million at the domestic box office. The film grossed $1.1 billion globally.

If these projections pan out, that means The Marvels' opening weekend box office will decline by over 50% compared to Captain Marvel at the low end of $75 million. It's a 47% decline on the high end at $80 million.

And if you think that's bad -- another projection puts the numbers down at Cocaine Bear levels.

This report also comes in the wake of Box Office Pro's long-range predictions that claimed the film would have a domestic opening weekend between $50 million and $75 million.

Okay, that's not as low as Cocaine Bear. But then, Cocaine Bear only cost a hundred and forty three dollars to make.

The total gross? Grotesque!

They also predicted the film would only gross between $121 million and $189 million in its entire box office run.

In a huge sign of how weak the film is, Marvel has embargoed all reviews until the day the film starts opening around the world.

This is an old trick, of course: If your movie is bad, and you know critics will be unkind, you have two options: You can cancel all critics previews. But this tells everyone that the film is terrible. Not screening a movie for critics becomes a negative story in itself.

The other option is to technically have critics screenings, but embargo them (forbid them from being published) until very shortly before the film opens, so that no one sees them before buying tickets. Disney has embargoed reviews until next Wednesday morning; the film starts opening in foreign markets on Wednesday, and then has the traditional Thursday opening, which the entertainment industry pretends is a "preview" for a Friday opening.

So Disney is telling us they have no faith at all in the M-She-U. We tried to tell them that six years ago but they wouldn't listen.

Note that they already announced they were resorting the other old trick to limit the financial damage of a flop: They cut the runtime of this movie down to a mere one hour forty five minutes, making it the shortest Marvel movie ever. That allows them to pack in screenings in the first weekend, before word of mouth gets out.

In other Disney Disaster News:

Annoying twat Rachel Zegler has had a moment to reflect about her abrasive comments about Snow White, and after due reconsideration, she has realized she was right all along and anyone who criticizes her is a racist or whatever.

Zegler then shared some advice to those seeking to become actors in Hollywood, "To young Latino performers coming up in the industry, I would tell them to know their worth, and to make sure they're loud about having seats at the tables they deserve to be at,"

Finally, she addressed the backlash she received while positioning herself as a victim, "I have learned the hard way that we have to be fearless and loud in order to be heard, and to prepare for the backlash that occasionally comes with that outspokenness."

You probably heard that The Daily Wire is making their own Snow White film to compete directly with Disney's. The Daily Wire film, it is advertised, will be based on the source material of the Grimm fairy tale.

Hm, I wonder why they would mention that?

They're spending tens of millions of dollars to troll Disney, and I approve.

Brett Copper, the actress in the upcoming Snow White and the Evil Queen film from Bentkey, a subsidiary of The Daily Wire, shared that the film will focus on the "timeless values" of the original fairy tale and will not be a "MAGA conservative movie."

In a recent video upload to YouTube, Cooper reacted to a TikTok video of YouTuber Ryan Kinel noting that people "don't want propaganda on the other side. They just want propaganda free entertainment."

In response, Cooper stated, "And that really is the main point. We're not trying to turn Snow White into something it's not. We're not trying to turn Snow White into a MAGA conservative movie. We're just trying to represent the values that Snow White is based in. The timeless values that we all loved growing up that are sadly being forgotten in this new [Disney] adaptation."

What the left claims is that their are politics in everything, and that the absence of politics is itself political, as it permits the Colonization and the Status Quo to continue without challenge. So they'd say a Snow White which isn't aggressively leftwing is, in fact, a "MAGA conservative move."

But I really think they might have finally self-detonated themselves by supporting Hamas and informing the normies about what "decolonization" means -- and what they're planning for the rest of us -- so maybe we will not have to talk about "what the left thinks" for too much longer.

The actor that Disney Marvel has made the centerpiece of their next big Avengers team-up will go to trial for assault and sexual harassment.

New York Judge Michael Gaffey rejected a motion to dismiss the misdemeanor assault and harassment charges facing Marvel actor Jonathan Majors on Wednesday, clearing the way for a Nov. 29 trial.

The defense additionally filed a motion under seal requesting that certain evidentiary matters continue to be under seal, or outside of public view. The defense argued that this evidence contains "sensitive information" that could jeopardize Majors' right to a fair trial. The state did not take a position on the motion, and Gaffey told press in the courtroom that they could submit papers in opposition by Nov. 6.

Majors appeared in court virtually, as the judge mentioned he is currently out of state.

Majors faces four misdemeanor charges of harassment and assault after being arrested following an alleged domestic violence incident March 25. Police responded to a 911 call where a 30-year-old woman, who has since been identified as Grace Jabbari, reported being assaulted by Majors, with police noting that she had sustained minor injuries. Majors was released from police custody later that day.

That should make for great press.

As I've mentioned, Nelson Peltz is making another bid to get seats on Disney's board of directors. Last time he wanted just one seat; now he wants three. He has upped his stake in Disney, so he figures he should have a bigger say.

Analysts note that the first time he launched a proxy fight, he reassured stockholders that he just wanted a seat on the board and that he did not want to terminate Bob Iger as CEO.

But now he is making no such reassurances about keeping Bob Iger. Which people take to mean he intends to boot Bob Iger out. And I think Peltz feels that stockholders want hm to do this.

Couple bits of additional entertainment news: The last Poirot movie, A Haunting in Venice, will play on Hulu starting on Halloween, so there's something.

And the South Park "Panderverse" special, which lampoons Disney's and Kaffeine Kennedy's endless gender- and race-swaps, debuts today on Paramount+. And they actually do skewer Kaffeine Kennedy.

Any recommendations for Halloween? I have two. One I've recommended before, so I'll just repost this:

Garth Merenghi's Darkplace. All six episodes (it's British) are on YouTube.

I recommend this with a caveat: It's not for everyone. You have to think a certain kind of meta humor is funny to enjoy it.

The show is about a trashy and incompetent but extremely narcissistic British horror author named Garth Merenghi. During the eighties, he tried to get a horror series produced on British TV, but he was refused by every company. So he put a small amount of his own money into it and self-financed his show.

Being a narcissist, he of course cast himself as the hero, Dr. Rick Dagless M.D., who everyone on the show is always complimenting for being so strong, so good-hearted, so giving, and so sexually virile. It's obviously a self-insert and wish fulfillment fantasy.

To save money, he cast his publisher, who cannot act at all, as the head of the hospital.

The show is about a hospital in which portals to hell have been opened. So, during their daily rounds of treating patients, they also have to confront demons and ghosts.

I think because it was the eighties, and cop shows ere popular, Garth Merenghi couldn't choose between a Hospital show and a Cop show so he chose both. All the male characters inexplicably carry guns and whip them out at the drop of a hat. There is no in-show explanation for this. They're never said to have a military background or anything.

That's just the Miami Vice vibe Garth Merenghi was feeling at the time.

The last part of the premise is that these episodes have only recently been rediscovered, and they're being aired with commentary from Merenghi and the other actors, talking about how great this terrible, terrible show is.

The first time I watched it I thought it was okay, but I was a little underwhelmed. But it's the kind of show that gets better on rewatches. Because it is aggressively weird. It takes some time to get on the same mental page as this very weird show.

The other movie I'd recommend is currently on HBO (Max). It's called Trick R Treat.

It's an anthology movie made up of four (I think) separate stories. But it has a cute twist: the four stories are all taking place at the same time and in the same place -- Halloween night in a town that is crazy for Halloween and has its own Halloween traditions. Characters from one story cross paths with characters from other stories.

That's the structure of Pulp Fiction. This movie also takes from Pulp Fiction the trick of playing some parts of the story out-of-order.

Here's why I would recommend this to normies: It's not extreme horror. It's not torture porn. It's not the kind of art-house horror that's become popular, like J-horror, where the movie really wants to make you unsettled and wants the creepiness to stick with you.

Most of that stuff I can't get through any more. It's too intense. I'm not looking for real horror, I guess. I just want stuff that looks like horror but isn't meant to be taken all that seriously.

Trick R Treat is that kind of a movie. Yes, there is graphic violence -- kind of a requirement for a Halloween movie -- but it's played for simple shock value, and even for a little comedy, not to make you question the horror that lurks within all human hearts. Know what I mean? It's not serious about any of this stuff. It's not dark.

It's just gross-out stuff which you will forget about two seconds later. You won't feel much about it. You won't have nightmares.

The film is a light-comedy tribute to -- not parody of, tribute to -- horror movies of the eighties. It's a good movie for normies who want some light jump scares and nostalgia. It's not great, it's just fun and light and good for group viewing.

Warning: does feature children in danger, which I know is a no-go for some viewers.

But, you know: It's not really serious about it.

Another fun horror movie for normies: Ready or Not. If you like the trailer, you will like the movie -- the movie is a fun, sometimes LOL funny execution of the premise.

Note this is the Red Band (unrated) trailer so there's a lot of gore and f-bombs in this. I couldn't find a tamer trailer.

And one last fun one: the You're Next, which is a home-invasion slasher horror movie like The Strangers, but with a fun twist.

I never tell people what the twist is, because that's part of the fun. But then people don't know a key selling point for the movie. So I'm going to use white font to tell you the twist. Scroll over to read it. Only read the twist if you're not going to see the movie, or if you are on the fence and need to be sold on it.

The trouble is that my revealing the twist may get you to want to watch the movie, but now the twist is spoiled for you. So, choose wisely.

The twist (white font):

A group of serial killers descend upon a family's home and begin killing the members. But one of the family's guests, unbeknownst to them, grew up in a survivalist compound and is in fact better at killing than the serial killers are. The serial killers are now the victims in a different slasher scenario than the one they expected.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:04 PM

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