Inside Out 2 - Pixar - 14 June 2024

ianh said:
Oh wow, in 7 days this has made about $500m at the global Box Office and its looking like it'll probably hit $750m at this rate!

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Pah, what do I know,...............its already smashed $760m just 5 days later. I honestly think this might the first $1 billion film since Barbie and Super Mario Bros last year!
 
The Mario Bros did well because it was just a fun family movie with a bit of retro Nintendo PR for the 40-something geeks like ourselves. It wasn't used as a vehicle for identity politics, pronouns, to give a "special message" or any box-ticking.

I haven't seen Inside Out 2 yet, but is this the reason why it's doing really well i.e. just a fun family movie and no more than that? As a long time Disney fan (Disney only, not Star Wars or Marvel), this is quite encouraging. If Disney acknowledges that they've finally achieved box office sales with an animation and engage with their core audience, they could turn their stock market value around with some original hits again like in the early 1990s and early 2010s.
 
As we've been saying for quite a while - If you do "woke" well then people don't react so negatively and you can have a box office success, and Inside Out 2 is yet another good example because it does include themes of Diversity and Inclusion etc but they're done in a really organic, non "in your face, agree with me or else bigot" way which virtually everyone is starting to really appreciate nowadays, hence the high critic AND audience scores and huge box office.

It also helps that no-one from the cast or studio is lining up to attack fans etc. :D

You'd hope that Disney (and other studios) might look at the success if this and at long last realise "if we do it right, with a great cast, a great story, a great script etc, then 'woke' can be successful" but I just don't think there's enough introspection to realise this so I'm still left treating each release as its own entity which needs to prove itself first.
 
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It's a strong shout but with the Quiet Place film out and it being the 3rd weekend, I reckon it's weekend domestic BO will drop by about 1/2, so it'll still definitely hit over $1billion but probably not until the end of next weekend at a guess (about the 9th July) unless they get a spectacular International BO return this weekend.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
The Mario Bros did well because it was just a fun family movie with a bit of retro Nintendo PR for the 40-something geeks like ourselves. It wasn't used as a vehicle for identity politics, pronouns, to give a "special message" or any box-ticking.

I haven't seen Inside Out 2 yet, but is this the reason why it's doing really well i.e. just a fun family movie and no more than that? As a long time Disney fan (Disney only, not Star Wars or Marvel), this is quite encouraging. If Disney acknowledges that they've finally achieved box office sales with an animation and engage with their core audience, they could turn their stock market value around with some original hits again like in the early 1990s and early 2010s.
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ianh said:
As we've been saying for quite a while - If you do "woke" well then people don't react so negatively and you can have a box office success, and Inside Out 2 is yet another good example because it does include themes of Diversity and Inclusion etc but they're done in a really organic, non "in your face, agree with me or else bigot" way which virtually everyone is starting to really appreciate nowadays, hence the high critic AND audience scores and huge box office.

It also helps that no-one from the cast or studio is lining up to attack fans etc. :D

You'd hope that Disney (and other studios) might look at the success if this and at long last realise "if we do it right, with a great cast, a great story, a great script etc, then 'woke' can be successful" but I just don't think there's enough introspection to realise this so I'm still left treating each release as its own entity which needs to prove itself first.
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I don't think the Super Mario Brother Movie did well (financially) for any reason other than it being a globally recognisable, multi-generation appealing sure-fire smash IP. As for whether it was a good movie - it was fun but pretty hollow. It's not a 'great movie' and tbh I'd be wary of anyone that thinks it is :p

Both of your comments here remind me of the comments in this recent RLM clip discussing people 'overrating' films that tick their personal boxes and 'detesting' anything that dares to not tick their preference boxes (from around 50:32 for a few minutes which goes onto how audiences overrate religious Christian films despite being average - which I've linked to below):


I'm not aiming this at either of you specifically but I really, reaaally think people need to cool off gravitating towards these sorts of "woke" / "anti-woke" discussion points.
 
ianh said:
It's a strong shout but with the Quiet Place film out and it being the 3rd weekend, I reckon it's weekend domestic BO will drop by about 1/2, so it'll still definitely hit over $1billion but probably not until the end of next weekend at a guess (about the 9th July) unless they get a spectacular International BO return this weekend.
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Done .
 
@Nitefly - is 'woke' just the modern day version of 'PC gone mad'? I don't think I fully understand it but that's the impression I'm getting. What I don't like is that Disney is being attacked by the left wing and right wing. So Disney are pandering to the left due to aggro from the left ("this is what I want"), then the right wing attacks Disney for being too PC. I don't think there was any of this in the 1990s renaissance, and not even 10 years ago with Frozen etc.

Back on topic, I'm glad that Disney has done well with Inside Out 2, and even my friend who used to like Disney (but doesn't now) wants to see this. So I will have someone to go and see this with now!
 
Looks likely to pass $1.5 Billion this weekend!

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Despicable Me 4 is slowing down and may not hit $1 Billion, maybe hits $800m once it dies off at this rate.

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