Disney Detonates Four Bombs In Deadline’s 2023 Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament
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Disney's The Marvels, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Haunted Mansion and Wish, and DC's The Flash were big movies that lost out on profits.
  1. The Marvels (Disney/Marvel)
    • Budget: $219.8 million
    • Box office: $206.1 million
    • Net loss: -$237 million
  2. The Flash (Warner Bros./DC)
    • Budget: $220 million
    • Box office: $271.3 million
    • Net loss: -$155 million
  3. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (Disney/Lucasfilm)
    • Budget: $387 million
    • Box office: $384 million
    • Net loss: -$143 million
  4. Wish (Disney)
    • Budget: $200 million
    • Box office: $254.9 million
    • Net loss: -$131 million
  5. Haunted Mansion (Disney)
    • Budget: $150 million
    • Box office: $147.5 million
    • Net loss: -$117 million
  • triptrapper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    5 months ago

    I’m surprised about Indiana Jones. It was my favorite of all the movies. Back to OG story with Greek history, Nazis, and a little supernatural stuff. I watched it twice.

    • Whirling_Ashandarei@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      5 months ago

      Your favorite of all of them? Really? I’m honestly curious because I found it pretty terrible, in the vein of crystal skull more than the OGs. In my view it was all over the place, didn’t tell a cohesive story, and dragged on for at least 45 minutes longer than it should’ve. I’m having trouble even recalling what the movie was even about and it’s only been a couple months.

      • wjrii@kbin.social
        3·
        5 months ago

        It was better than Crystal Skull because it didn’t quite so explicitly sci-fi the magic, the set pieces were a little better, and Helena was less annoying than Mutt, but both movies are sort of equally useless, and openly depressed Indy was VERY depressing. The character always had some undiagnosed mental health issues pushing him towards unhealthy risk-taking, but Mangold’s Indy just made me sad.

  • the_artic_one@programming.devEnglish
    31·
    5 months ago

    The Haunted Mansion was decent, it made me want to see LaKeith Stanfield star in more fun adventure movies (something like Brendan Frasier’s The Mummy).

    Wish was a mess, it felt like they wanted to make a Disney multiverse movie but chickened out and just made a bland Disney movie that constantly references better Disney movies (mostly Snow White to the point where you wonder if Wish is intended to be its prequel). A couple songs were decent but the bulk them felt unpolished and forgettable, like they needed a few more edits and re-writes to come together. The anti-establishment themes were weak and made me wish I were re-watching Nimona instead.

    The Marvels was good as a Ms. Marvel TV special but not as a Captain Marvel blockbuster.

  • Jafoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    Counting the number of Hollywood releases which performed decently-majeestically would be far easier

  • warmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    755·
    5 months ago
    1. woke
    2. Just bad
    3. forgettable
    4. haven’t seen it
    5. shovelware

    I hope they get their memo, they are doing bad movies.

    • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      171·
      5 months ago

      Lmao woke

      It bombed because it was awful, not because it was “woke.” And it was awful for a ton of reasons, not one of which being “woke”