Yes, they’re profitable but I imagine not enough to justify the price to earnings ratio.
Question retracted.
Though Frozen was released a decade ago. Have they had such a big blockbuster since then?
Yes — Frozen II.
It’s just hopeful talk among their foes. Hoping that saying it will make it so.
Hulu is also.
What defines such a thing? In any case, the last decade has not been kind to anyone’s box office, due to Covid, etc.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness- 2022 did well, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 is doing well. Frozen 2, did very well- 2019.
And Frozens III and IV are on the way.
Yes, but the Frozen sequels, Doctor Strange and Guardians of the Galaxy are all continuations. Frozen was an original concept (though perhaps based on a Hans Christian Anderson story).
Most definitely… Disney films that had a worldwide gross more than Frozen: Star Wars: The Last Jedi; Black Panther; The Lion King (remake); Avengers: Age of Ultron; Frozen II; Spiderman: No Way Home; Avengers: Infinity War; Star Wars: The Force Awakens; Avengers: Endgame
I still consider it a stealth adaptation of “Women in Love.”
I remember just a couple of years ago hearing the same doom and gloom predictions about Netflix.
If Elon Musk takes over Disney I’d be terrified for the brand. But Iger? Not so much.
Googling, the original Frozen film cost about $150 million to make but the resulting franchise is worth billions. I haven’t seen such a success from them lately, though perhaps these things are rare.
It’s true. But Frozen and Frozen 2 are the two highest grossing Disney animated films. That doesn’t mean other films like Moana (~$630 million), Big Hero 6 (~$650 million), and Zootopia (~$1 billion) aren’t also considered successful.
- Edit those were just the worldwide numbers. adding in the domestic numbers and each one is even more successful. Another $250 million for Moana, $340 million for Zootopia and $222 million for Big Hero 6.
Yep, Frozen is quite the outlier. Before Frozen you had Wreck it Ralph (~$500mil), Brave (~$540mil), Tangled (~$590mil), and Up (~730mil).
Will either one star Christopher Walk-In?
OK, so perhaps Frozen’s success was an outlier and not something easily replicated. But lately, their emphasis seems to be on live-action remakes of their animated classics, with, perhaps, the live-action remake of Frozen in a decade or so.
Their Cruise Lines took a dive during covid. Up to then, they had been making more than a billion a year. They started sailing again, liner by liner, in 2022. I don’t know if all ships are back cruising or not.
The term should be ‘go political, and go broke’. In these polarizing times, making anything overtly right or left will cause you to lose part of your audience. For Disney, which appeals to families, going ‘woke’ is probably more damaging. If it were a company appealing more to city liberals, going ‘maga’ to any extent would also be devastating.
But Disney has a bigger problem, which is that they now need to make content that pleases a global audience. It’s hard to do that without alienating people, and as the world gets angrier and more divided, this will be an increasing problem for them. Thus we get superheros and loud explosions and lowest common denominator plots which audiences are tiring of.
They also have a problem with their ‘classic’ catalog which used to be worth a fortune, but now has elements that are ‘problematic’ to the left. Hence the new live action remakes which attempt to clean up the old stories. The problem is that the old stories are beloved by mny, and they get really mad when the story is changed to please modern audiences.
Disney has too many masters making too many demands. But it’s a huge company that has weathered many storms. They’ll likely be fine. If they sit on too much cash and underutilized assets they will become a candidate for a hostile takeover, maybe.
You are aware of how much the classic tales had to be changed for the Disney movies to make them acceptable to the Disney crowd of then?
As for the sanitized Disney tales being problematic for more modern crowds, you are missing here that it is not just liberals the ones that complain about the whitewashing in many western movies, World audiences do complain about those, Many Disney movies are included.
When the “Woke” dog whistle comes out, it is in reality coming from many bigoted influencers that do not like to see other races in “their” movies.
I actually said that a major problem is that Disney has to appeal to global audiences of very different social beliefs. Thus the bland plots that seek to be so inoffensive that they become boring.
And the only way in which I said the ‘woke’ part might be worse for Disney is because they brand themselves to middle American families, which trend towards the right. If a company that caters to liberals (say, Ben and Jerry’s) decided to add ‘maga’ content, I would expect the same reaction from their customers.
“Woke” in this case, of course, meaning “we believe our employees and customers are human beings who have rights”. 