Le Saboteur said:Point of clarification: A very small portion of 'frisco's architecture is actually Victorian.
Le Saboteur said:Yes, Big Hero 6 will do better box office than Wreck-it-Ralph. The people who track this kind of stuff for a living are already suggesting that it'll do ~$60-million over its opening weekend. That would put it at ~$10-million more than Ralph did in his debut. With Halloween right around the corner, that number could go up as Disney makes its last big advertising pustch. I'll put it @ $500-600-million when all is said and done.
Le Saboteur said:I've mentioned this elsewhere, but ~50% of the people who pass the turnstile at Disneyland are childless couples, often in their late-twenties through late-thirties. Now imagine several evening audiences filled with nothing but similarly minded people and you've found your audience. While Disney wants families to spend all of their disposable income, they were never going to carry the day.
Joe Brody said:I respect you stepping up and making the call. Those are good numbers, and I agree they are doable (though I've got to go toward the low end and with a big non-U.S. %). Speaking of percentages, what is your projected U.S. box office number? That's what matters. Good luck to the film. The attendants at the theatre where I saw Fury last weekend were sporting BH6 shirts, so the Disney marketing machine is at work.
Moedred said:Great Wired article on Lasseter and Catmull with fold-out cover.
Le Saboteur said:The people who track this kind of stuff for a living are already suggesting that it'll do ~$60-million over its opening weekend.
Jana Manji said:When Hiro becomes a hero in ?Big Hero 6,? it?s a cute homophonic wordplay, but one that borrows from Japanese and slips into English without finding any reciprocal chuckles in Japanese. There might be one if the Japanese knew what Hiro stood for, but that?s one of the difficulties of translations and a reason why some people who, like myself, prefer to see a movie and hear the original voice actors while reading the subtitles.
?Big Hero 6? is renamed "Baymax" (ベイマックス) in Japan, which makes it seem as if the story is about the robot named Baymax instead of Hiro. Hiro is the 14-year-old boy whose brother, Tadashi, created Baymax, who resembles Honda?s ASIMO if the robot had a cousin training for sumo wrestling. He?s not fat, he?s big boned and pleasantly plump and that is played for laughs. Instead of a dark mask for a face like ASIMO or the robot in ?Robot & Frank,? Baymax has two dots for eyes.
Forbidden Eye said:While not many of us at TheRaven were particularly impressed with Frozen, me being one of them, one area you have to admit the film owned was in the soundtrack department.
Joe Brody said:Unless you've got a blondish 9 year old son who has to listen to numbers like "Fixer Upper" (that catalogs a long list of male faults) whenever his older sisters watch the film. Study the lyrics.
The film strikes a narcissistic chord that is at odds with what I'm trying to teach.
Joe Brody said:Just read the lyrics.
kongisking said:Yup. And they form a song that's about teaching Anna that its better to love one who is imperfect because its more realistic than the seemingly-perfect Prince she's engaged to, and those imperfections make their good qualities all the more special.
Joe Brody said:And you seriously think that's how a kid interprets that song?
You cut me up. Teaching? You want to learn something about teaching to kids watch Fred Rogers, and trust me, he would have thrown up all Frozen and all of its narcissistic b*ll-sh*t.
Her flaw? She's what? Engaged. His? Too many to count.
Joe Brody said:Looking like the domestic run will land somewhere between $200M and $210M. Not bad but not the greatest ROI.
Forbidden Eye said:Perhaps, but given that you were predicting a possible flop three months ago[.]
Forbidden Eye said:[T]hat's not bad at all. Not every film can be a Lion King/Frozen sized juggernaut. You need modest-sized hits in addition to the smashes in order to create a brand like Disney(same to how the occasional flop is inevitable).
Forbidden Eye said:Either way, the masculine side of Disney Animation can breathe a sigh of relief.
Joe Brody said:I submit the fundamental miss is the story.