Disney not very happy with FOX flopping at movie theaters

[Tetsuo]

Ok so i’m not arguing that Fox deserves to get shyt on for some of the awful moves they made but am I the ONLY one who, upon watching the first Dark Phoenix trailer, just KNEW it was going to he a steaming pile of shyt? I mean you can’t TELL ME that these Disney executives didn’t have an inkling that they were in for a massive flop with that movie.

I was like upon seeing set photos.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

I thought cats said they wanted stan/troll shyt to stop.

But some of the post on this page

 

[wire28]

I thought cats said they wanted stan/troll shyt to stop.

But some of the post on this page

well, thats different

 

[Norrin Radd]

Dark Phoenix Ends Theatrical Run as Lowest Grossing X-Men Movie Ever

Disney Reportedly Ignored Dark Phoenix After Firing Fox Marketing Team

It's no secret that Dark Phoenixproved to be a major disappointment, both as the final installment in the X-Men movie franchise and as the first Marvel movie from 20th Century Foxreleased after the Disneyacquisition. But according to a new report, the new owners did not do the film any favors in their promotional blitz.

According to a report from Variety, Disney cut at least $50 million from the marketing and development budget for 20th Century Fox. And after the flops of Stuber, The Art of Racing in the Rain, Dark Phoenix, and other Fox films, Disney had merit to completely retool the studio — even though they might not have positioned the films for success.

The report from Variety states that Disney actually ignored the X-Men movie after the acquisition, in addition to firing the team who were familiar with the film and were responsible for marketing it. According to an insider, the film's sole premiere event in Los Angeles was conducted with the intention of controlling expenditures, which annoyed the filmmakers of Dark Phoenix.

Of course, Dark Phoenix had the cards stacked against it almost immediately. The film is confused by many as a remake of arguably the worst mutant movie in X-Men: The Last Stand. It had been delayed twice, partially due to extensive reshoots after the film's third act required a major overhaul. And the film's main villains, intended to be the Skurlls, had to be removed from the film entirely.

After the film's disappointing box office tacked onto other lackluster Fox movie performances, Disney CEO Bob Iger explained that they were making drastic changes the studio's slate for the future.

"The Fox studio performance was well below where it had been and well below where we’d hoped it would be when we made the acquisition," Iger explained in an earnings call, adding that the new plan would be to "consolidate and to cut back on the number of [Fox] releases so as to focus on the kind of release that we hope would come out of that studio."

While the Marvel movies will be unaffected now that the X-Men, Deadpool, and Fantastic Four are under the purview of Kevin Feige, there are questions about the future of Fox movies and franchises like Predator, Alien, and Avatar.

Dark Phoenix will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 17th.

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

I'm actually not mad at this they tied the three prequels up nicely. I don't think they need to go any further.

Agreed..

Let it go ..besides they'll probably do it again in 8 years anyway.

 

[DlAMONDZ]

Disney 2020 and beyond is gonna be interesting

The remake well is about to dry up and Star Wars is done after IX. All they got as a guarantee moving forward is Marvel

 

[Still FloW]

You come off like a real fukkin clown. I said what I said b/c FOX never gave a shyt about following and using the actual source material from the comics. The actual point of creating a COMIC BOOK movie! You smart fukk!

dikkhead just proved my point again, disney killing the entertainment industry and cretivity and your dumbass more worried over comic books.. please go kiss a moving train

 

[Still FloW]

They want $30 movie tickets

But have you seen my thread on Disney underpaying their employees? Up that for me please.

nah bro, link me.

 

[Jax]

Whoever greenlit a movie headlined by Sansa should be fired.

 

[BXKingPin82]

the lesson to be learned here is...








dont flop!!

 

[richaveli83]

They could have promoted the hell out this movie even further and it would have still flopped. Frequent delays, poor reception to Apocalypse, and bad word of mouth guaranteed this was going to flop.

I would like to see New Mutants get a Disney + release or straight to DVD release because I'm curious how a superhero horror movie might turn out.

 

[HipHopStan]

Kevin Feige got to watch X-Men: DP about 6 months before it came out. I wonder what his thoughts on it were?

 

[hex]

They could have promoted the hell out this movie even further and it would have still flopped. Frequent delays, poor reception to Apocalypse, and bad word of mouth guaranteed this was going to flop.

I would like to see New Mutants get a Disney + release or straight to DVD release because I'm curious how a superhero horror movie might turn out.

They need to bury that New Mutants movie and come out with a real version for the MCU.

I was low key a New Mutants stan back in the day and that wack ass trailer they threw together looked nothing like the comic.

Fred.