• Fuck You, Aladdin Remake Is a Smash Success: $445.9 Million Worldwide!
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https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2474256/aladdin-hit-a-box-office-milestone-after-dethroning-an-x-men-movie Mister Aladdin, sir, your wish came true! After the full four-day results came in, the 2019 Aladdin movie was confirmed to have cracked the top 5 Memorial Day weekend box office openings. From Friday through Memorial Day, Aladdin made $116,805,962. That put it well past the previous #5 on the list, X-Men: Days of Future Past, which had a four-day opening of $110,576,604 in 2014. That also put Aladdin just a hair behind Fast & Furious 6. However, it was nowhere near the top three names on the Memorial Day weekend box office board -- X-Men: The Last Stand, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and #1, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2019/06/02/box-office-aladdin-will-smith-john-wick-keanu-reeves-pokemon-pikachu-booksmart-brightburn/#6988f36b496d [...] Aladdin continued to defy expectations and doomsayers. Guy Ritchie’s $183 million-directed live-action remake/musical/romance earned another $42.335 million in weekend two, dropping just 54% from last weekend’s $91 million Fri-Sun debut. For a Memorial Day biggie, that’s an exceptionally strong hold (Solo, the X-Men movies and Fast and Furious 6 all dipped around 65%) and it brings the film’s ten-day cume up to $185 million. And the Mena Massoud/Naomi Scott/Will Smith flick continued to kick butt overseas as well, earning another $78.3 million overseas for a $120.6 million global frame. That gives the Walt Disney flick a $260.9 million overseas and $445.9 million worldwide total. If this continues as is, and that’s a big “if,” we could be looking at an over/under $270 million domestic and over/under $700 million global cume. Yes, that would be a fine performance for the much-debated flick, and a little muscle could easily take it past Maleficent ($749 million in 2014) by the end. Like it or not, Joe Public approves of these live-action remakes, folks. Prepare for more.
I honestly don't know a single person who went and saw this.
My neighbors are middle eastern so they felt obligated to go watch it.
apart from the early genie bashing, I was not aware people wanted to hate on this.
It released?
Live-action The Return of Jafar , here we come.
I thought it looked fun, not theatre fun, but I'll rent it.
Hey man, if we get a solid live-action Hunchback of Notre Dame out of this, it'll be more than worth it.
Given that we're getting Maleficent 2 out of this deal, it's safe to say that we're gonna get Return of Jafar Redux before we'll ever see a good Hunchback adaptation in our lives.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/129/cba38a0b-5864-4896-8720-42be7d64c98c/open-uri20150422-12561-1flh8w0_e8df4f17[1].jpeg https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/129/cea6ba3d-d23c-4748-8d10-e2ae32659be7/51IfUrAHkLL._SY445_[1].jpg Desecrate these for my amusement, please.
In example, Disney movies that will never see the remake light of day because the box-office deemed them unworthy.
Watched this with mom and sister. It's alright for what it is. Inoffensive for the most part and fun in some spots. It's a lot better than the Beauty & The Beast remake at least.
didn't they announce hunchback as a future project earlier this year? i swear i read something about that
cool i guess i can buy a ticket now to see how bad it is now that its successful
From what I've been hearing at work, it's good because of the soundtrack, Will Smith wasn't actually terrible and the casting/script was on point. Release day was scary busy and that was just purely for Aladdin only.
I'd actually love to see live action remakes of these
No you really don't.
A bit presumptuous, I also would
Saw it a week ago, it was merely decent and inoffensive.
Why wouldn't I? If they were done well nobody would bat an eye. IMO Treasure Planet has the potential to be a franchise
I can only assume all these live action remakes are for Disneys new streaming service. All this shit is just going to be cannon fodder media for children.
Truth be told I'm not that much of a Disney person. The only thing I'd ever watched from Disney was Toy Story and Aladdin. I didn't have high hopes to begin with the reboot but I'd love to be proven wrong. It was presumptuous but that's due to my own reflections. My bad.
Honestly, the Hunchback of Notre Dame remake could potentially be really good if they just do an adaption of the Broadway Musical version. That version got rid of the gargoyles, returned Frollo to his original job as a priest, fleshed out his backstory and motivations, and connection to Quasimodo- Frollo's brother was a bit of a party animal and ended up hooking up with a gypsy girl and running away with her, only to come back years later dying of illness with his son (Quasimodo) in his arms, who he then entrusts to Frollo with his dying breath. Also featured some new songs that were supposed to be in the original but had to be cut. This particular song is actually pretty implicit and I'm honestly surprised that a song like this came from Disney. (It straight up involves prostitution) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOOp4k1CaGA
These are films that make sense as live action though the animation was far from necessary to the tale
Saw it cause my SO dragged me to the theatre. Wasn't as bad as I thought. It was ok. I still vastly prefer the original animation.
As opposed to the other movies? If anything, the more fantastic settings would require more fancy special effects to work in live action.
The entire problem that makes people complain with Aladdin is the genie is not only irreplaceable but way too animated to work, lion king the animals look real and you can’t read them like you can on the cartoon. In the animated lion king you can read just about any scene, it’s characters and their emotions in a single still frame. we’ve already had functioning live action movies with fantastic settings like Treasure Planet and Atlantis, characters are mostly regular humans. The possibility of a live action film like it was there at the time they were made animated..
It's just a little disheartening to me, as a creatively minded person, that Disney is finding great success not by making new, exciting, and iconic movies like they used to, but by just re-presenting those same movies in an undeniably weaker and less inspired format to get more fucking money. The loss of their 2d animation was a travesty.
I remember Memorial Day weekend having pretty weak movies. If you were going for new releases it was pretty much this and brightburn as your options think I ended up going to detective pikachu that week instead
Meanwhile the new Godzilla is struggling to break even. My heart weeps knowing the Aladdin remake is more popular.
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