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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2017 10:47:23 GMT
AVATAR is the highest grossing film world wide ALL TIME.
AVATAR made 760M Domestic and 2.7 8 Billion Dollars world wide.
Now lets examine "The Lion King".
"The Lion King" made 312 Million Domestic in 1994. That would be 792M domestic if adjusted for inflation. That doesn't include what it would have made with 3D, IMAX, and IMAX 3D. Probably over 800M domestic. World Wide it made nearly 1B dollars in 1994. Adjusted for inflation it would be nearly 2.5B world wide.
Then in 2012 "The Lion King" made 110M Domestic in a RE RELEASE. It was the #1 Movie at the Box Office 2 weekends in a row over NEW FILMS.
Taking the popularity, nostalgia, and the fact that NEW KIDS will go see it...
Lets compare this to "Beauty and the Beast". The remake in Live Action made 1.2 Billion World Wide. It made 500M domestic. However, the Original only made 424M world wide. It was critically acclaimed, but not as financially successful as "The Lion King" and also, TLK made more world wide, as it has more universal appeal.
The most successful films world wide usually appeal to both males and females. The Lion King plays of 'fathers' and 'sons' with Mufasa and Simba. It has romance with Adult Simba and Nala. AVATAR and TITANIC both have strong male leads mixed with a romance and action.
My prediction is "The Lion King" in Live Action will make 2.5 Billion FOR SURE and if they just KNOCK IT OUT OF THE PARK with critical praise and quality, it may be the first 3B dollar film.
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Post by sostie on Sept 15, 2017 14:52:39 GMT
Not sure if it changes your assessment or not but according to calculatorgames.info/mogul/ as of 2016 Lion Kings Worldwide Box Office adjusted for inflation was $1,323,600,330
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Post by skribb on Sept 15, 2017 14:58:26 GMT
I dunno, but it will be better than BATB i'm sure. Unless they introduce human characters to serve as the exposition...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2017 15:27:17 GMT
Not sure if it changes your assessment or not but according to calculatorgames.info/mogul/ as of 2016 Lion Kings Worldwide Box Office adjusted for inflation was $1,323,600,330 I still believe a film that can make 100M domestically in a re-release will be insane as a live action remake in popularity.
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Post by bluerisk on Sept 15, 2017 16:57:55 GMT
Avatar was such a success because of its ground breaking visuals and new technology, the Lion King for its charme. I guess Avatar II has it easier to deliver what is expected from it than the Lion King (sequel or re-image?).
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Post by politicidal on Sept 15, 2017 20:13:53 GMT
I dunno, but it will be better than BATB i'm sure. Unless they introduce human characters to serve as the exposition... At least it wouldn't be a complete remake.
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Post by skribb on Sept 15, 2017 20:57:36 GMT
I dunno, but it will be better than BATB i'm sure. Unless they introduce human characters to serve as the exposition... At least it wouldn't be a complete remake. Not saying it would be a bad movie, I just feel like it has a higher chance of fucking up. Like, it's not like Jungle Book where a human is involved in the animals social life. How is a human going to get mixed in with the TLK story? should the humans interact with them or just observe them? should the humans have their own sideplots? This is something that worries me. Especially with how divisive BATB was. Yes i'm calling it divisve beacuse meany people did not like Emma Watsons' performanc,e me included.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Sept 17, 2017 0:00:59 GMT
It has romance with Adult Simba and Nala. AVATAR and TITANIC both have strong male leads mixed with a romance and action. I don't think the romance demographic is gonna be all that invested in two lions hooking up. Girls don't really care about Nala in general and she isn't part of the Disney princess lineup, even though she's one of the handful of female leads in Disney animation that is an actual princess.
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Post by scabab on Sept 17, 2017 16:38:41 GMT
I don't know passing Avatar but it will be one of the biggest movies of all time.
Beauty and the Beast made $1.2 billion and that movie was never close to being as popular as The Lion King.
Even the 3D release of The Lion King opened to #1 and made over twice as much as Beauty and the Beast 3D.
In a year that has Avengers Infinity War 2, Star Wars Episode 9, Frozen 2 and Toy Story 4, The Lion King could probably be the most successful of them all.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2017 18:41:41 GMT
No chance in hell of that happening . But its definitely a shoe in to make over a billion . Hell, the Jungle Book remake almost made a billion . Avatar hit all the notes at the right time . IMO the only thing that'll top Avatar is Avatar 2 or one of those Star Wars sequels (The Last Jedi perhaps? But I doubt it)
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Post by janntosh on Sept 23, 2017 16:58:58 GMT
domestically yes. Over 700m for The Lion King is likely happening
worldwide no
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Post by darkpast on Sept 24, 2017 6:39:26 GMT
not a chance. simple fact, i will never see it and have zero interest in a lame remake. going by that logic, it may be huge but no record breaker
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 18:10:01 GMT
not a chance. simple fact, i will never see it and have zero interest in a lame remake. going by that logic, it may be huge but no record breaker I remember seeing the trailer for "AVATAR" and thinking 'that is what Cameron has been working on, it's going to flop" then I was at an IMAX 3D showing of it a few months later.
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Post by egon1982 on Sept 28, 2017 22:03:07 GMT
not a chance. simple fact, i will never see it and have zero interest in a lame remake. going by that logic, it may be huge but no record breaker Sometimes you just can't catch lightning in a bottle twice
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