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Moana lost it´s legs (literally)

posted 8 years ago by pisku
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Weekend estimates show Moana fall to the one million per day category, Rogue One and Sing keep fighting for the top spot with earnings between 6 and 5 million per day, Hidden figures appear to steal number one with 7 million opening but will lose it in a few days, so it appears Moana will end between 500-600 as I guessed not the hit I expect but not the flop Trolls, Storks and Angry Birds was.

In other news Assasins Creed just hit a milestone! it beat Ben-Hur and Dirty Grandpa grabbing the sexy 69 spot by 3 million! XD

[–] Hold_the_door 8 years ago

How is $500-600 million not a hit? Aren't Tangled and Big Hero 6 hits?

[–] QueenFanUSA 8 years ago

How is $500-600 million not a hit? Aren't Tangled and Big Hero 6 hits?

Well..if it ends up in the area close to $600 million worldwide than sure...it's a "hit". It's still a big disappointment as the goodwill for WDAS was at an incredible level leading into it's release. Tangled was the foundation of Disney re-establishing itself as the premiere animation studio in the world 6 years ago. Since then, they released the biggest animated film of all time in Frozen and Moana was the "follow-up" Disney Princess Musical.

Best case scenario sees this getting to Tangled's worldwide numbers...best case scenario.

That's a disappointment and a huge step backwards.

[–] QueenFanUSA 8 years ago

It needs to be stated that Moana still languishes at around $410 million worldwide as we speak. Equaling the Tangled worldwide gross total is hinging on South Korea and Japan doing really well.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (69989714) 8 years ago

It's definitely a hit but was hoping for somewhere closer to 700 million.

[–] QueenFanUSA 8 years ago

It's definitely a hit but was hoping for somewhere closer to 700 million.

To say it's "definitely a hit" is pushing it a bit. I would argue that it probably hasn't quite broken even yet. The marketing budget is what we don't know and I would venture that it was quite expensive. Just look at the toy and merchandise quantities that Disney released over the last couple of months. They cleary thought that they had a monster hit on their hands.

[–] !!!deleted!!! (69989714) 8 years ago

It's probably another 100 million for marketing and this is on track to exceed 500 million worldwide. So its a hit though not as big as disney hoped for.

[–] WeirdRaptor 8 years ago

Oh, shut up. Everything is a flop to you!

"All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you." -Gandalf

[–] OpinionsByLennon 8 years ago

Wait a little bit and keep and eye deadline.com. They post the top 20 or so films and list information they gather that shows films end value. Inside of each film it gives a breakdown on just how much was spent on marketing etc. They can't say for sure if these are 100% but they say they gather the information from reputable sources and they appear pretty legit!

For example here's on from Inside Out.

https://s24.postimg.org/snw9ff9x1/IMG_1975.jpg

[–] OhNooos 8 years ago

Trolls was not a flop. It did well.

[–] UnvoicedApollo1 8 years ago

Movies don't have legs.

[–] Andthatismytwocents 8 years ago

It's a term defineing sucess

[–] UnvoicedApollo1 8 years ago

: Moana lost it´s legs (literally)

What you have described is a figurative use of the word "legs".

[–] Zaphenzo 8 years ago

As someone else pointed out, it wouldn't be literal, and it should be its not it's.

Beyond being a grammar nazi, I would have to disagree as to how this is anything too bad for Moana. Frozen earned almost an extra $100M after passing the $1M a day point, so Moana should still easily end up around $250M at least domestic, and there are a couple of massive territories left internationally, so it should be able to reach around $600M, which would put it as the 5th highest earning WDAS movie of all time (4th highest since Lion King), so, while not reaching the rather lofty expectations that a lot of us had, it is still quite a big hit. Again, I believe some of us just had expectations a little too high after WDAS spoiled us with Frozen and Zootopia, forgetting that besides Frozen, the highest earning princess musical was Tangled, with $591.8M. So if this exceeds that total, it will be the second highest princess musical from WDAS.

[–] carrot_handvo 8 years ago

LITERALLY?

[–] Shychick52 8 years ago

Do you know what "literally" means?

[–] Zaphenzo 8 years ago

Most likely, no. Most people don't, it seems. I'd have to say, it, along with ironic, has to be one of the most common misused words in the English language.

[–] Dave_Robicheaux 8 years ago

It's more "figurative" it we need to say.

[–] Randla 8 years ago

What do you mean it's "literally" lost its legs? That makes zero sense.