Disney not very happy with FOX flopping at movie theaters

[Professor Emeritus]

Uh....that's not what happened though.

Disney let several Fox movies ride and they all flopped. People act like they bought Fox and just cancelled everything they had in the works.

Fred.

Wasn't the merger like 3 months ago? All these movies were already basically finished by the time Disney gained control. The only control they had was over marketing, and all accounts are that they didn't market those flicks at all.

Some movies flop, as always happens. You take losses on 5 flicks and then make way more than that back when a Matrix franchise you took a shot on pops up out of nowhere. Disney is putting out vibes that they don't want to take those chances.

Would you rather Fox release 20 movies a year, of which 7 are any good? Or release 6 movies a year, of which 2 are good, 1 flops, and the other 3 are cookie-cutter spam with guaranteed sales?

This is a move that makes sense. Sports attracts everyone, why would you toss half your fan base (probably more for espn since they’re so football centric) into the bushes?

Perhaps in at least a superficial effort to demonstrate an actual soul?

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

sansa

 

[Robbie3000]

The mouse is really feeling himself

Straight shytted on Fox.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Perhaps in at least a superficial effort to demonstrate an actual soul?

what it this supposed to mean...it's sports, no "soul" required there. and what is soul? there are trump supporters who aren't soulless people, they're simply republican, yall be looking too hard for everything to become politicized. it's the reason comedy sucks now, PC police made everything off topic, can't even crack a fat joke without blowback

 

[Bleed The Freak]

Someone with a grudge of the merger greenlit these last few flicks like "fukk it"

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

pretty soon it's gonna be one company putting out all the movies.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

pretty soon it's gonna be one company putting out all the movies.

That's illegal.

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

That's illegal.

pretty soon the whole world is going to be run by 3 companies. shyt like 10 companies run everything now.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

pretty soon the whole world is going to be run by 3 companies. shyt like 10 companies run everything now.

Yeah, it is sad. Hoping for more progressive politicians and better regulation going forward.

 

[MartyMcFly]

pretty soon the whole world is going to be run by 3 companies. shyt like 10 companies run everything now.

Blade Runner was right

 

[fukkyalifestyle]

Blade Runner was right

If I can get my conspiracy on for a minute I am pretty convinced a lot of these works of "fiction" were told to these people by the powerful elite to program the world for what they want it to look like and we are getting pretty fukking close to what a lot of these movies from the past have shown us about our future. AKA predictive programming. But what do I know back to your regularly scheduled program.

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

this brings me great joy

 

[ill_will82]

damn just saw dark phoenix box office to budget

Budget $200 million[2]
Box office $252.4 million[3]

Well damn...

Disney barely got back what FOX put into Dark Phoenix from the box office.

Tbh, though I wouldn't be mad if they canned New Mutants altogether or put that shyt on Netflix. I'm glad Marvel has taken X-Men & Fantastic 4 away from FOX after what they did to those last 3 movies. Deadpool might have to get put on the back burner.

 

[hex]

The only control they had was over marketing, and all accounts are that they didn't market those flicks at all.

They did market them. There was several trailers and a full press tour for "Dark Phoenix" and that was hands down the biggest flop since the merger. I'm not understanding what else Disney was supposed to do....this very site said that movie was a terrible idea from jump street.

It seems like people (this isn't directed at you specifically) are just taking "they didn't market those films" from the article and running with it....when that clearly ain't the case. It's damn near click bait, honestly, because you can go on Youtube and see literally dozens of interviews and press junkets for "Dark Phoenix".

Fred.

 

[hex]

EA deserves the blame they have received where over the course of the last decade they have designed a predatory business model off of releasing AAA titles with "day 1 dlc". nikkas releasing a $60 game and charging an extra $20 or more for the rest of the game .

We can't forget the normalization of the loot box system in games where people have to spend money for in-game resources/bonuses. Congress going after the ESA about it all now.

Locking shyt behind paywalls is fukked up and the shyt EA has received for it is deserved.

None of that has anything to do with what fukked up the "Mass Effect" franchise, which is the ending to 3. That's all Bioware. So is "Andromeda".

This is what I'm talking about though. Yeah EA is terrible but Bioware ran "ME" into the ground and cats blamed EA. shyt was

Fred.