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https://old.reddit.com/r/MarvelStudiosSpoilers/comments/1civzk3/the_biggest_box_office_bombs_in_2023_disney_lost/

https://old.reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/1civxg4/the_biggest_box_office_bombs_in_2023_the_marvels/?sort=controversial

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Disney Detonates Four Bombs In Deadline's 2023 Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament

Everyone likes a trend in the movie business, but this one perhaps not so much. Disney for the first time in Deadline's Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament history dominates the annual bombs section, claiming four of the five (top? bottom?) spots on our 2023 list. Typically, the studio owns a majority of the year's top 10 most profitable films thanks to Marvel movies, but not this year. A lot of this stems from feeding the beast of streaming service Disney+; the studio's initial plan during Covid was to shell out $14 billion-$16 billion annually on content by this year. With Bob Iger taking the CEO reins from Bob Chapek, he's trying to right the ship with a less-is-more strategy, zeroing in on quality so that the No. 1 motion picture studio can come back to form.

Some of you might ask: Where is Apple Original Films on this list? Wouldn't Killers of the Flower Moon and Napoleon rank? Several film-finance sources tell us that Apple movies and Disney movies shouldn't go in the same bucket. The former is a tech company, of which content is a fraction of their revenues. Essentially, any prestige losses made by Apple on movies are seen as advertising expenses to drive eyeballs to its OTT service. Meanwhile, content is king for Disney and drives all other ancillaries, extending to theme parks and cruise ships. Quite often we get the phone call from the studio saying, “You're not taking into account other merchandise and theme park revenues on these films.” Make no mistake: Films that fall down at the box office don't have afterlives.

The Marvels

Disney/Marvel

Net Loss: -$237M

When Marvel fanboys and fangirls smell it's going to be good, they crowd the theater. But when it's a dud, they stay away. One would think a sequel to a $1.1 billion-grossing female superhero movie would be logical, and asked for. However, The Marvels‘ predecessor, Captain Marvel, benefited at the box office from being a bridge between the Avengers finales Infinity War and Endgame. Yes, the actors strike did pour a lot of cold water on promoting this film, with the thespian standoff ending just days before this sequel's opening November 10, and star Brie Larson rushing around to late-night shows to tubthump the pic. But there was more. The movie was trying to thread storylines from Disney+ shows like Ms. Marvel, which was part of a grand master plan by Marvel to connect the series with the movies. That strategy showed its holes here as Ms. Marvel wasn't embraced in a big way by MCU fans ala series like Loki and WandaVision were. Lastly, Marvel has prided itself on hiring indie directors, plugging them into their system and turning them into blockbuster filmmakers (e.g., Jon Watts, Taika Waititi). It's a recipe that doesn't always work, evident in this movie (directed by Nia DaCosta) and Marvel's The Eternals from Nomadland Oscar winner Chloé Zhao. The MCU in its zenith wins over both critics and audiences, and that didn't happen here, with a 62% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and B CinemaScore.

The Flash

Warner Bros/DC Studios

Net Loss: -$155M

Released well before the actors strike, it doesn't help when your leading star is making lots of tabloid headlines, the person here being Ezra Miller. Miller was kept at bay in regards to promoting the DC movie, and the pic's stars, which included Michael Keaton returning as Batman, were either available in limited doses or shied away from doing press (no one wanted to field questions about Miller). Still, props to the new Warner Bros administration of Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy, as well as DC bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran. Although they inherited this movie, they believed in it and propped it all they could as the ultimate DC time-warp movie with cameos from previous superheroes. They even previewed the film early for exhibitors at CinemaCon. Unfortunately, masses didn't buy the Spider-Man: No Way Home-like stunt here.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Disney

Net Loss: -$143M

Harrison Ford reportedly loved the script of this finale, which is why it got made. However, Steven Spielberg passed on directing, handing the reins to James Mangold — a smart choice and able filmmaker given his history with Logan and Ford v. Ferrari. However, something went amiss. In the hands of Disney, the formerly Paramount-distributed Lucasfilm franchise sequel had too many cooks in the kitchen. There were reports of several editors trying to fix the film at the last minute, not to mention there was no attempt to cast-up this older, male-skewing movie ala Top Gun: Maverick with stars that could appeal to the under-40 crowd, which would have expanded the audience. Also a factor: Indiana Jones is always in competition with himself. Despite 2008's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull being the highest-grossing movie in the series with more than $786M worldwide, many weren't fans with its B CinemaScore and opted to stay away this time around. This was especially so after the sour word of mouth and reviews that came out of Dial of Destiny‘s Cannes world premiere, a promotional maneuver that largely dialed back the commercial prospects of Dial of Destiny.

Wish

Disney

Net Loss: -$131M

Disney always needs to plant an animated family film in the Thanksgiving corridor; the only problem is that the studio hasn't seen glory since before Covid with Frozen 2. Wish followed the 2022 bomb Strange World. While original animation is always an uphill battle to launch at the box office, audiences have seen this plug-and-play princess and silly sidekicks (in this case a talking goat and puffy star) movie before, and waited this one out for Disney+ (another potential catalyst for dwindling Disney moviegoing). Audiences and critics smelled that the movie reeked of corporate product rather than magical event. Essentially, a studio is in trouble when its movie's narrative is more about a celebration of the company's birthday than a riveting piece of content.

Haunted Mansion

Disney

Net Loss: -$117M

This movie, which opened July 28, was the first big casualty of the strike with its cast unable to show up at the pic's Disneyland premiere, which the studio billed as a fan event. Above all, Haunted Mansion burned down because of its release date, opening in the wake of Barbie and ahead of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, thus losing out on the younger-skewing audience it wanted. At the end of the day, the 2003 Eddie Murphy version, unadjusted for inflation, made more money with its domestic take of $75.8M and global of $182.2M.

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Also "You didn't actually see me completely wasted on stream" lol

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!spacechads this is what they denied us with the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)

Some footage of the testing done in the late 50s. To this date Nuclear Pulse Propulsion is the only form of interstellar travel in a human lifetime that could be achieved using current technology, more feasible to do on a probe though and use the crewed version for fast interplanetary flight.

!ifrickinglovescience !physics

>FRICK THE GENOCIDAL CC- wait, RELIGION BAD, so.... frick them both I guess?

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I agree but the camera is fining people for going 6 over... to me thats bs. Especially when on my daily drive to the gym I see the worst of the worst drivers, doing 90 in a 60 etc and no consequences for them? But cause Im going 56 km in a 50 zone I get a hefty fine? (7)

So don't go 6 over? If you are not capable of driving the speed limit, maybe don't drive. (-14)

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Hurray! Now you can speed by a playground and mow down children with impunity!!!I swear this town is terminally car-brained. People who drive safely are not worried about speed cameras. Good grief. (-6)

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So from your post history it seems like you got popped going too fast and are mad about it. Like, why not sack up and admit that you were in the wrong, instead of doubling down? Most people speed. It's generally fine. But there are some places where it is more risky/dangerous and there need to be measures in places to prevent it. Why not just comply for just a little while so that you, I dunno, don't kill a kid or something. It's really not too much to ask to be a tiny bit considerate about other people. (7)

I never claimed that I didn't speed, even in the previous post. I paid the ticket and I'm driving in the 40s in that stretch. I just find it scummy they that the city turned up the sensitivity so high. Just seems like an obvious money grab aimed to target working class people. (-4)

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The problem is that I think this camera has made me a worse driver. I spend more time watching my speedometer than I do watching the road. If I'm driving normally, I wouldn't need to care if I'm going 5-10 over the limit. But now I have a very small margin I need to stick to which means I'm more prone to missing things I wouldn't have missed otherwise. (-2)

You were already a bad driver if you can't do both those things while driving. Can't believe you're even blaming the camera for making you a worse driver, thats some dumbass teenager shit. Grow up. The more you comment, the more I can tell you're just some immature boy that can't take responsibility, that can't consider other people, who can't even understand what a high risk area is. Absolutely selfish human. Grow up. (1)

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I drive the limit, but everyone else doesn't. I drive the limit, I got some guy behind me honking or yelling at me, and lets be realistic 99% of drivers go a little over the limit. Im saying that the camera will fine people for going 6 km over the limit which I think is total BS and is just a way to take more money from Canadians. In many cases you need to "keep the flow of traffic" going by going a few km over. If you think 6km over is "bad driving" you dont drive in Newmarket. The amount of terrible driving I see on the daily and people doing 90+ in a 50 or 60 zone is more common than not. Why punish people for keeping up with traffic over a measly 6km? (1)

To put it in a way you can understand. Community safety zones are areas where there is more pedestrian traffic. School zones because there is a school and there are more kids than other places on the same street. I understand that you don't get how cars work, because cars that go fast, can go through fences like the one between Bathurst and the school on the same street where the camera is so cars don't go too fast. No? It's not difficult to slow down to 50 for what feels like under a minute. If you feel pressured by the cars behind you, then you're a coward. Those people behind you will be mad and will have to slow down too but you didn't get a ticket and didn't run over a kid. Maybe you're just upset that you're selfish and your trip was extended a few seconds? The worst is that you're trying to blame the town for “trying to make a buck” off people by protecting little kids. Grow up. (2)

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Ever tried to keep the speed exactly on point? Like 50 and not a single klick over? You are constantly hypnotising the odometer at the expenses of situational awareness. (1)

You're seriously telling me you got a drivers license but don't possess the ability to keep your car under a certain speed limit. Like, you're admitting this. Maybe - just maybe - you won't be stricken dead if your speed momentarily dips to 49 or (gulp!) 48!! What's your strategy to keep your car from going 90 constantly if you're incapable of looking at your speedometer (odometer tells you the total distance your car has traveled) (holy frick you literally didn't know jfc) (2)

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