Originally Posted By actingforanimators ImagineerThis: Dude, really, I have to believe that you have a strong sense of self, a personal identity, and therefore, one assumes, an opinion of your own that has strength and value that doesn't need quotes from any critics or pundits to back it up, so I have two questions I hope you PERSONALLY will answer - First, have you seen Chicken Little? Second, if so, what is your own, personal opinion of the movie and your own reasoning for that opinion? The good news is that if you haven't seen it, then you only have to answer one question. The bad news is that if you haven't seen it, really, then you're appearing irrationally vitriolic. I don't know you, but maybe you were formerly employed by WDFA and hate them and want this film to fail simply because you got screwed. Okay, then say so. That would be easier to respect, truly it would. Just, please, speak for yourself and from your own experience of having seen the movie. If you haven't seen it, I'll mail you a voucher and you can see it on my dime, just so you can enter this discussion from a fully informed place. Please.
Originally Posted By actingforanimators "....$160 million via domestic box office. It will have another strong weekend over Thanksgiving, but after that, this Chicken is a turkey." Any studio head who calls a film that makes $160 million domestic inside of two months "a turkey" should be fired (or put on a wife-swap stlyed reality show where they can rant about the evil dark side and then tear up the box-office receipts check and sink someone else's studio.)
Originally Posted By vbdad55 I hope they make a bunch of $160 M gross domestic movies that cost $60 each -- after DVD and overseas, this movie will make $300M easily and a $240M profit. So if it isn't Gone With the Wind, there is another $240M in the coffers to make the next one better. This was not some horrid movie, it was far better than average. And do I hold Disney to a higher standard and expect a masterpiece everytime ? yes. Will I get it ? No. So in the meantime, I will take a very very profitable - good movie until they hit it in the bullseye the next time or the time after that. No more Home on the Ranges or Atlantis' -- and maybe another Lion King is in there somewhere......
Originally Posted By TheRedhead "Chicken Little is hardly a modern blockbuster compared to the above movies." Is anyone calling CL a modern blockbuster? Was it ever predicted to be? If anything, people figured it would be lucky to beat out Shark Tale, and that is a depressing benchmark. I understand you feel the need to poop on anything Disney in your own little trollish ways, but at least be a gracious loser. You predicted failure. Flat-out failure. You scoffed at predictions of a 40 million opening weekend. And you were wrong. Just admit it and move on. So now you must compare CL to three boffo money makers (Lion King and the Dreck oeuvre), and somehow that makes the film a failure. Fine. I will feed the troll. "Hey gang. Check out the grosses on THESE recent animated films: Sinbad - $26,483,452 Road to El Dorado - $50,863,742 Final Fantasy - $32,054,918 Titan AE - $22,751,979 Treasure Planet - $38,176,783 Gigli - $6,087,542 Chicken Little is quite the modern blockbuster, in't?"
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 <<Gigli - $6,087,542>> Gigli was animated, I thought the characters were rather wooden.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 And the box office will only get worse next month for Disney when The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe opens next month. Sarcasm off.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Gigli was animated, I thought the characters were rather wooden.<< LOL! Whatever Gigli lost in terms of box office revenue it surely has more than paid back with punchline material. : )
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>And the box office will only get worse next month for Disney when The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe opens next month.<< That's right! Take that Disney and Chicken Lit-- wha???
Originally Posted By Imagineer This Chicken Little is a "little" movie that did a "little" bit of business for Disney. I can agree with that.
Originally Posted By actingforanimators Okay, one last time: Imagineer This, have you seen the movie?
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <Chicken Little is a "little" movie that did a "little" bit of business for Disney. I can agree with that< When all is done and said, it will make 5 - 6 times it's cost -- if that is 'little' business, someone please tell me where I sign up for a piece of that action.
Originally Posted By cstephens Wow, you mean someone has to have actually *seen* a movie in order to have a legitimate opinion on it rather than quoting random other people? /cs
Originally Posted By Dlmusic <<When all is done and said, it will make 5 - 6 times it's cost>> I wouldn't be so sure, we've yet to see how well it performs internationally. Sometimes Disney movies that flop statewide (Treasure Planet) do extremely well in some countries, and sometimes more succesful films don't. Chicken Little has been the wierdest movie ever to track box office wise, the first weekend was good, then the second weekend was an amazing small drop. Then the movie somewhat plummeted, but it seems to be rebounding. I would expect it to do better than last weekend given the numbers now. Really strange. In the end, people will debate back and forth on how succesful Chicken Little was. On the one hand, with the lower expectations people were half anticipating it to do worse than Treasure Planet. On the other hand, the $200 million dollar mark is really the benchmark for a blockbuster film these days. My concern right now is that Meet the Robinsons does not appear to be a good film to keep up the momentum for the new WDFA. American Dog seems poised to be a blockbuster, but that's 2 years away.
Originally Posted By TheRedhead Isn't the general rule of thumb that a film makes the same amount of money in the weekend before Thanksgiving as it does the weekend after? If Chicken Little does better than $15 mil this weekend, that is a GREAT sign.
Originally Posted By tonyanton Early estimates put "Chicken Little" at a little over $16 million for Thanksgiving weekend. It's total is now a bit over $118 million.
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 From Box Office Prophets, they're analysis: "Chicken Little manages to hold off most of the crop of weak openers this weekend, despite the animated feature playing against Potter Mania. Chicken Little grossed $12.4 million in its fourth weekend, and the sky didn't fall on the little Chicken, as the drop this weekend was a kid-friendly 16%. Currently the Disney flick has $118.2 million in the domestic kitty, but its chances of reaching $200 million are pretty much zilch. I doubt the folks at Disney care too much, as they are too busy prepping The Chronicles of Narnia for world domination." All in all a good weekend for the film.
