Disney Becomes First Studio To Surpass $10 Billion At Worldwide Box Office (variety.com) 62
Disney has become the first studio in history to surpass $10 billion at the worldwide box office in a single calendar year. Variety reports: Through Sunday, the studio has generated $3.28 billion in North America and $6.7 billion overseas for a global haul of $9.997 billion and is expected to officially cross the benchmark within the next day. Disney smashed its own global box office milestone -- set in 2016 with $7.6 billion -- back in July after the success of "Avengers: Endgame" and "The Lion King." All the more impressive, the studio hit the new high-water mark even before "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker," the final chapter in the Skywalker saga, arrives in theaters Dec. 20. Those ticket sales don't include Fox titles like "Ford v Ferrari" or "Dark Phoenix." When accounting for movies it acquired after inheriting Fox's film empire, that bounty is pushed to $11.9 billion.
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It was mismanaged for sure, but in several ways. The Star Wars-"woke" problem specifically is not about why but about how the producers had chosen to go about addressing issues about racial and gender inequality.
Star Wars has always been against racism and sexism. You don't need to hit anyone over the head with those values: you only need to show good examples and people will accept it. The end-goal is that diversity should be the normal, and you don't achieve that by smugly pointing out that you do it.
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Americans are very creative. (Score:1)
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Star Wars nerd here:
Jabba the Hutt technically is both male and female. They are hermaphrodites and self-impregnate.
Zam Wessel, the assassin who tried to kill Padme in Episode II, is female.
Asajj Ventress is a cold-blooded Jedi hunter appearing in The Clone Wars TV Series and has a prominent role in the books.
With that being said, you are falling into the same trap Disney did: you think a certain category is not represented enough. But when you look at the whole Star Wars universe (and I am referring to the
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*sigh* The Star Wars movies are all but a tiny drop in the Star Wars Saga. There are well over 250 Star Wars related books, and yes, there are plenty of female Sith Lords in them. You can't just shoehorn Empire female villains in the lore just because reasons, with the Empire being specifically built around xenophoby and racism. The Empire is, by definition, a huge monster which puts human males above everything else.
Your attitude is exactly what defines SJW: you ignore the larger picture and focus on the rather idiotic question: why no females in this place, right here, logic be damned?
The fact that you completely ignore the larger picture is your own problem, and it doesn't help your "quest". Let me enlighten you a bit, with a very short summary.
- The whole Jedi and Force saga (from a chronological point of view) starts with a main character called Lanoree Brock - a female. That's almost 26K years before the Battle of Yulai (acronym: BBY - which is something of a "Jesus was born" thing as far as timelines are involved).
- 5K years BBY: in the "Lost Tribe of the Sith" ebooks, we see prominent Sith female characters such as Nida and Seelah.
- 4K BBY: the Revan books acquaint us with the first Darth female: Darth Nyriss. About three hundred years later, smack in the middle of The Old Republic Era, we encounter Aryn Leener, a female Jedi Knight. Around the same time we encounter a Hutt Crime Lord called Tassaa Bareesh - a Hutt in their female life cycle.
-1K BBY: the "Knight Errand" novel has Kerra Holt (a female Jedi) as main character. During the same period of time, here comes Zannah, a prominent female Sith Lord.
- 29 BBY: the whole planet of Zenama Sekot, from the absolutely delicious book by Greg Bear called "Rogue Planet", identifies itself as (mainly) female. A very interesting thing is that Zonama Sekot is a dual being, with Zonama being the planet itself and Sekot being its active intelligence, so-to-speak. Sekot is male, Zonama is female.
There are many, many females, both good-aligned and evil-aligned (with a healthy mix of grey areas in between), in the Star Wars Saga. point is, you couldn't pick a fight with a worse adversary in your SJW quest. The Star Wars Universe is, from this point of view, one of the most egalitarian of all, imagined or not.
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Correction: STRAIGHT white male privilege. Typical Slashdotters.
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I'd +1 Sarcastic you if I had points, and it were a thing.
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Yes, female antagonists hardly exist. That's the whole point. The Empire is racist and sexist. It is a society where the only ones who can get into positions of power are white men (and male Chiss, to some degree). While in the Rebellion you find male and female, humans and aliens, in position of power, trust and importance.
You do understand that you're basically making his point, right?
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Are you trying to troll for trolling's sake or what's the point here?
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2. The end-goal is that a plot should be part of a movie. Not diversity as the movie.
3. Now plot is underrepresented in the films. Why should a plot have to be "positive inspiration for generations of
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There was one black man seen in the original trilogy and he betrayed the main characters. Not sure how Star Wars has “ always” had good examples of racially diverse characters.
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There was one black man seen in the original trilogy and he betrayed the main characters. Not sure how Star Wars has “ always” had good examples of racially diverse characters.
He really only intended to betray Han, which is understandable since, in Lando's view, Han took his ship. Lando made up for it by helping them all escape, rescue Han, and finally destroy the last Death Star. The diversity of the original trilogy is actually more subtle (besides the fact of having women in position of authority within the Rebellion). The Imperials are completely homogeneous: white men with English accents. The Rebellion had men, women, and aliens. The aliens are essentially proxies for
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I hope you lifted your pinky to the corner of your mouth while typing this.
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Of those, actually earned, with work $0.01. (Score:2)
And earned by creatives abused as drones to churn out the same crap ("i.p.") over and over again while being paid only for the work: $10,000,000.
And stolen, by Disney: $9,989,999,999.99 (To be transformed into cocaine. And steel shoes for Mr. Mouse [youtu.be].)
Imaginary property is a crime.
Prison for Disney executives!
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Imaginary property is a crime.
Turns out, it's not actually.
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bad news for real movie lovers (Score:5, Interesting)
this means that their model is working, which could well be the end of interesting/indie/low budget movies at theatres (for a while).
most of those will probably go to netflix; i mean Noah Baumbach is doing great there, Scorcese (of all people) even had no other choice but to do a netflix release, etc.
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Maybe, what isnt noted as far as I can tell is the investment made. 10 bil is a lot but how much did they spend to get there? Personally i'm not sold on their model working, no one I know is happy with the current movie situations
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Personally i'm not sold on their model working, no one I know is happy with the current movie situations
And yet people keep flocking to the box office. Of all the big productions of the last few years made according to the current model for blockbusters (poorly written crap from established franchises, or lazy remakes / reboots), how many of them have tanked financially? Some purportedly lost money (Hellboy, X-Men, Charlies Angels and others), but I'm rather skeptical of recorded losses in cases where the global take far exceeds the production budget. It seems that - sadly - the model still works.
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Box office ticket sales are down over 30%, they just raised prices to compensate is all.
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So put an intermission in the movie and they will make double from concessions. I don't know why they don't do this with more movies. Also, a lot of theatres are going up upscale with drink service and other services. I imagine they could make quite a bit of money from selling dinner and drinks to people watching a 3.5 hour movie.
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Intermissions make theaters money, but don't make film studios money.
They want you to show 5 showings, not 3.
Even if it's best for everyone.
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"theater release problem because of its 3.5 hour runtime" Yeah, Titanic (1997) bombed bad at the box office.
It's not about bombing, it's about not being able to sell as many tickets because you can only schedule half as many showings. Particularly since theaters have changed to the big stadium seats which only fit half as many people in the theater as they did in 1997.
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it's the same problem, really.
there were movies made in the past that went over 3 hours playtime, but nobody wants to do that anymore, even if it is from somebody like Scorsese.
i mean, avengers end-game playtime, or which ever it was in the series, was almost 3 hours, they had no problem with that.
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Isn't there a dedicated streaming service for indie and low budget movies?
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that is the whole discussion point, indies are no longer shown in theatres.
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which could well be the end of interesting/indie/low budget movies at theatres (for a while).
How do you figure? The machine cranking out generic blockbusters has never had an impact on indie or low budget movies in the past and there's no sign that Disney's record profits have been at all to the detriment of other studios. For the most part their profits are simply due to sheer volume and the fact they own a few studios which used to be separate.
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look into the whole mcu vs 'cinema' debate from a couple of weeks ago for the reason why.
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Movies can be automated? Who knew? That explains a lot.
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Just let the chaos happen.
So sad to see that piracy has killed studio income (Score:2)
They bought literally everything (Score:3)
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This is pretty much the reason. If you hoover up pretty much any and all franchises that even remotely make money, it's a given that your revenue will soar.
What I'd rather want to know is their profit.
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Easy, they didn't make a profit. In fact, they lost gob of money on these films.
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Definitely watching Free Guy (Score:2)
I mean, if it's got Ryan Reynolds in it, it's going to be good.
Like Green Lantern in an RPG good.
(seriously though, I am so down to watch it)
It's from Disney, so that tells you all you need to know.
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It's rated R.
For Ridiculous!
(caveat) "no animated pixels were harmed during the CGI process, they were instead brutally drowned in a vat of couscous"
(2nd caveat) "as to the actors, well, isn't cloning wonderful?"