OMG...this is going to be yet ANOTHER money loser for Disney!
That's 5 for the year!
Aquaman looks to put some major damage on Mary Poppins Returns just like the Grinch did to Ralph.
Yikes
This is a great movie! STFU!
It is great..but the box office sure isn't. It's not even going to hit 200 million domestically and it carries a 175+ million price tag.
shareIt is great..but the box office sure isn't. It's not even going to hit 200 million domestically and it carries a 175+ million price tag.Are you sure about RBTI not crossing $200 Million Domestic? share
Oh...is it finally going to barely crawl over the 200 million mark?
LOL
Something Universal/Illumination routinely does in their sleep with 75 million dollar budgets.
Impressive.
Oh...is it finally going to barely crawl over the 200 million mark?See QueenFanUsa, that's called deflection. You never set that the criteria for RBTI breaking $200 million was supposed to be based on how well or not well Universal/Illumination was performing. Doesn't matter if it crawls, skips, jumps or falls over $200 million now is it? What matters to you is that the competition bar is something Universal/Illumination is or isn't doing. Does the international box office matter, oh box office tracker guru?
LOL
Something Universal/Illumination routinely does in their sleep with 75 million dollar budgets.
Impressive.
Are the two income streams for Grinch and RBTI the same? Will they sell the same number of DVDs, toys, clothes and ancillary merchandise? Will the two have the same sell throughs for theme parks, cruise rides, attractions and IP licensing?
We've talked about this before and you know that Disney has multiple income streams for their products and you continue to actually think that it's all about the films and the films only.
But are you sure that the two companies and the two properties are actually comparable in bringing in money at the same cost for producing the product?
But please continue with your theme of Disney "circling the drain" and apparently spending more money to make less money than Universal in their animated films. It suits your narrow focus.
You just might be wrong about RBTI crossing $200 Million domestically. You're going to have to face that when it happens, again, and again, and again.
Your primary objective was to state that RBTI was a money loser or not profitable for Disney. That's not the case now is it? share
Ralph earned half of billion WW, and it will cross 200M, that's all there is. I'm sure Lego Movie 2 will be more than happy if it earns half of that. People at WB aren't pleased with how this thing is performing domestically, internationally it doesn't seem great either but we'll have to wait a few weeks.
If Ralph is a flop then how should be call Lego Movie? A bomb? Lego should have a bigger appeal than some random flick like Ralph. Yet it's not performing accordingly.
When I originally posted this, it looked like it was heading into money-loser territory. It looks like it broke even and may make a very slight profit...and I mean VERY slight.
Then again, I'm reading reports that Alita:Battle Angel cost 170 million and will need to make 500-550 in order to break even. Ralph cost 175 million.
And yes...my discussions do refer to money from theatrical release...I'm not going down the rabbit hole of ancillary income which is largely speculation and unverifiable. Also, all of those income streams are considerably reduced in correlation to a film's box-office performance. This was WDAS worst performer since the original WIR in 2012 and actually has sold less tickets than the first when adjusted for inflation.
I know one thing...Disney didn't make this their Thanksgiving release and spend 175 million on it's production with the hope that it would finally break even three month's after it's release. I'm going to go out on a limb and posit that with this lukewarm performance that merchandise isn't exactly flying off the shelf, too.