“The Marvels” Ranks as Worst MCU Movie Box Office

 by Ray Keating

Analysis/Commentary

DisneyBizJournal.com

December 4, 2023

 

The Marvels, which opened domestically on November 10, went from the worst opening for a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie to the worst box office overall among these films. Given the company’s poor box office performance of late, is Disney going to get serious about getting its movies back on track from both quality and costs perspectives?

DisneyBizJournal noted, “The Marvels had the worst opening weekend of any MCU movie. According to BoxOfficeMojo.com, the domestic take was $47 million and the international box office was $41.5 million.” It also was pointed out that the film had a production budget estimated at $274 million, with marketing/post-production costs usually running anywhere from 50 percent to 100 percent of the production costs.

 

Variety reported, “After four weeks on the big screen, the comic book tentpole is running out of steam with $80 million in North America and $197 million globally. There would typically be optimism that attendance could rebound over the busy holiday season, but Disney apparently doesn’t expect that to be the case. The studio wrote on Sunday in a note to press, ‘With “The Marvels” box office now winding down, we will stop weekend reporting of international/global grosses on this title.’”

 

Yikes. That’s astounding – especially failing to reach $100 million domestically.

 

Variety also reported, “Now, as the film nears the end of its theatrical run, box office revenues won’t top 2008’s ‘The Incredible Hulk’ ($264 million, not adjusted for inflation), which previously stood as the lowest-grossing entry.”

 

As DisneyBizJournal has noted previously, assorted industry reports indicate that studio take is about 55 percent of the domestic box office (a bit higher with the earliest box office take), and anywhere from 20 percent to 40 percent of foreign ticket sales. Our very generous assessment for Disney, therefore, pointed to The Marvels needing to earn more than $950 million to start making a box-office profit.

 

The Marvels estimated $197 million worldwide box office amounts to a breathtaking theatrical release loss for Disney.

 

Disney CEO Bob Iger has done a dance recently trying to explain the poor performance of this film, as well as others. For example, Variety quoted Iger declaring, “We got to the point where if a film didn’t do a billion dollars in global box office, we were disappointed. That’s an unbelievably high standard, and I think we have to get more realistic.”

 

Indeed, but there are two key problems in this equation that Disney seriously needs to address. The first is simply quality storytelling. It all has to improve, from story to characters to special effects. The second is the astronomical costs of Disney filmmaking, including MCU films. The idea that the breakeven point for a movie like The Marvels was beyond $900 million in box office revenues is outrageous. 

 

Just because you expect a movie to top $1 billion at the box office doesn’t mean that you should budget matters so that you only start making money on or around that revenue point. Hollywood long has had trouble keeping costs under control, but the problem seems to have gotten far worse recently, which is strange given the enormous advancements on the tech front that should bring costs down, as is the case in almost all other industries.

 

There certainly has been a lot talk about “fixing” things at Disney, but it remains hard to detect much of substance happening regarding movies in terms of quality (perhaps other than the promotion for Dave Filoni on the Star Wars front) or costs. Disney has its work cut out for it. And yes, it requires fresh thinking and new blood. After all, just because the company has recovered from periodic movie lulls in the past is no guarantee that this will just automatically happen once again. Iger talked a great deal about innovation being an ongoing process in his book The Ride of a Lifetime. He’s right, and Disney needs innovation to be reinvigorated on the movie front right now.

 

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Ray Keating is the editor, publisher and economist for DisneyBizJournal.com; and author of the Pastor Stephen Grant thrillers and mysteries, the Alliance of Saint Michael novels, and assorted nonfiction books. Have Ray Keating speak your group, business, school, church, or organization. Email him at raykeating@keatingreports.com.

 

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James Gunn’s Opportunity, Disney’s Loss

 by Ray Keating

News/Commentary

DisneyBizJournal.com

October 25, 2022

 

News broke tonight that director James Gunn will be the co-CEO of DC Studios, along with producer Peter Safran. The duo will lead the film, television and animation division, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

DC Studios will replace DC Films at Warner Bros.

 

While the proof will be in the pudding, for now, this rates as a homerun hire for Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav.

 

According to the report, “Gunn will focus on the creative side of things, while Safran will focus on the business and production side.”

 

The deal starts on November 1, runs for four years, at least to start, and Gunn will be exclusive to DC Studios.

 

That puts an end to Gunn’s relationship with Marvel-Disney, with The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special arriving on Disney+ on November 25 and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 coming to theaters on May 5, 2023.

 

Gunn winding up at DC isn’t a surprise, given that Marvel had fired him as director of Guardians 3, with DC then hiring him for The Suicide Squad and subsequently the HBO Max spinoff Peacemaker. Of course, Marvel hired him back for Guardians 3, eventually. But it’s understandable not only where Gunn’s loyalties might lie, but also that Warner Bros. views Gunn as one of the premiere creators when it comes to superhero cinema.

 

Anyone who appreciates superheroes on the big screen should be pleased with this new DC Studios team, as it points to a potential step up in the quality and coherence of the DCU. Perhaps it might serve as something of a competitive jolt to the MCU, which has had more misses than hits in recent years.

 

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Ray Keating is the editor, publisher and economist for DisneyBizJournal.com; and author of the Pastor Stephen Grant thrillers and mysteries, and the Alliance of Saint Michael novels; and assorted nonfiction books. Have Ray Keating speak your group, business, school, church, or organization. Email him at raykeating@keatingreports.com.

 

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“She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” is Just Horrendous

 by Ray Keating

Review

DisneyBizJournal.com

August 19, 2022

 

What’s the best thing I can say about the first episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law on Disney+? It was only 37 minutes long. The suffering was limited. And I believe the remaining episodes are only supposed to be a half-hour – so there’s that.

 

I always try to keep an open mind before watching a movie or show no matter what critics are saying and what’s swirling via word-of-mouth. Sometimes that pays off when a vehicle turns out better than the buzz. That’s not the case with She-Hulk. In fact, it’s just the opposite, as the first episode was worse than what was circulating about it.

This is supposed to be a comedy … I think? The problem is, well, it’s not funny. From a humor perspective, it’s downright painful, including attempted jokes about whether Captain America was a virgin or not that came off as painful caricatures of something being written, without much thought, about and for millennials. Millennials deserve better.

 

And because this is a show about a superhero, we need a fight. Mark Ruffalo appears in the first episode as the Hulk/Bruce Banner, who is the cousin of She-Hulk/Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany). Therefore, the two have a Hulk-vs.-She-Hulk fight. Does it make any real sense? No. But what the heck?

 

Could this get better? Well, it’s hard to believe that it could get any worse. Wait! For some reason, Daredevil is supposed to make a multi-episode appearance in She-Hulk. That worries me given that the Daredevil series (first on Netflix and now on Disney+) ranks as the best Marvel streaming series by far (actually the best superhero series), and it’s hard to imagine a show more different than She-Hulk in that Daredevil had depth in story and characters. So, when I ponder Daredevil appearing in She-Hulk, I now think: Oh, no.

 

Rating: 1 Star out of 5

 

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Ray Keating is the editor, publisher and economist for DisneyBizJournal.com; and author of the Pastor Stephen Grant thrillers and mysteries, and the Alliance of Saint Michael novels; and assorted nonfiction books. Have Ray Keating speak your group, business, school, church, or organization. Email him at raykeating@keatingreports.com.

 

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Marvel's Kevin Feige, Content Creators, and Disney Courtesy

Catching Up on the Daily Dose of Disney with Ray Keating...

Episode #287: Courtesy the Disney Way – The idea of courtesy has to be part of the customer service experience – indeed, to the extreme!

Episode #288: Age of the Content Creator – Michael Eisner talks about content being king given that the consumer has complete choice.

 

Episode #289: Marvel’s Feige on Rejection – Marvel Studios Kevin Feige serves up some valuable thoughts on rejection.

 

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Eternals Was No “Love Letter” to Jack Kirby

 by Ray Keating

Commentary

DisneyBizJournal.com

January 30, 2022

 

Kevin Feige, the head of Marvel Studios, declared the MCU movie Eternals to be a “love letter” to Jack Kirby, the great comic book artist and writer who created The Eternals, along with creating or co-creating a host of other Marvel characters, from Captain America to the Fantastic Four.

 

Unfortunately, the Eternals movie is anything but a love letter to Kirby.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in November, at the premiere of Eternals, Feige, referring to Kirby, said, “The whole movie is a love letter to what one man was able to do with a pencil, sitting at a little desk on the East Coast.”

 

The Eternals arrived from Marvel Comics in July 1976. I probably read the books when they were first published, but I confess to not recalling if I did or not. So, I just finished reading (re-reading?) Kirby’s run on The Eternals. This is not Kirby’s best story work by any means. It’s uneven, with some inspired moments and others that just fall flat. However, as is almost always the case with Kirby, the artwork is strong and dramatic, and has something of a cinematic quality to it. It’s easy to see how Feige or others at Marvel Studios thought it would be a good idea to bring The Eternals to the big screen, despite the fact that the books largely fell into the unread category for many, if not most, comic book readers.

 

Unfortunately, the film in almost every way is indifferent to or ignorant of Kirby’s work. 

 

As noted in my DisneyBizJournal review, Eternals came up short in so many ways, such as flat characters; mostly poor performances (though with exceptions); contradictions and nonsensical moments in the story and for certain characters; poor special effects; and supposed attempts to deal with big issues that simply come off as immature and embarrassing.

And if this weren’t bad enough, any real link to Jack Kirby’s work is nonexistent. The moviemakers use the names of Kirby’s characters, but that’s pretty much it. There’s no resemblance between the original comic book characters and those in the movie. Debate and complaints always seem to materialize when characters from comic books are presented on the silver screen. More often than not, however, the debate or complaints are over matters of degree. For example, the 2013 Man of Steel movie still generates debate over certain actions by Superman, but there’s no mistaking that this is Superman. That’s definitely not the case with the Eternals movie. It’s hard to find characters in the movie grounded in any substantive way with Kirby’s original characters. Indeed, most of this is quite egregious on the part of the filmmakers, including a dramatic change in Ikaris, who serves as the central hero in Kirby’s books but is presented as something quite different in the movie. If Warner Brothers had done to Superman what Marvel Studios did to Ikaris, I hate to think what Superman fans would have done. Luckily for the MCU, few knew who Ikaris was going into the theater. Of course, Jack Kirby certainty understood the characters he created, and it’s hard to believe that he would have seen the Eternals film as some kind of love letter.

 

Finally, one of the most damning issues for a movie, though, is that the pages of The Eternals drawn by Jack Kirby possess more cinematic magic than does the actual Eternals movie seen in cinemas. The Eternals was far from Jack Kirby’s best work, yet those comic books still beat the Eternals movie.

 

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Ray Keating is the editor, publisher and economist for DisneyBizJournal.com, and author of the Pastor Stephen Grant novels and assorted nonfiction books. Have Ray Keating speak your group, business, school, church, or organization. Email him at raykeating@keatingreports.com.

 

The views expressed here are his own – after all, no one else should be held responsible for this stuff, right?

 

Get more out of 2022 with The Disney Planner 2022: The TO DO List Solution! It combines a simple, powerful system for getting things done with encouragement and fun for Disney fans, including those who love Mickey, Marvel, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Pixar, princesses and more. Also, “The Disney Planner 2022: The TO DO List Solution” comes with a handy spiral binding for easy use. 

 

Keating has three new books out. Vatican Shadows: A Pastor Stephen Grant Novel is the 13^th thriller/mystery in the Pastor Stephen Grant series. Get the paperback or Kindle edition at Amazon, or signed books at www.raykeatingonline.com. Past Lives: A Pastor Stephen Grant Short Story is the 14th book in the series. Again, get the paperback or Kindle edition at Amazon, or signed book at www.raykeatingonline.com. And order the 15th book in the series What’s Lost? A Pastor Stephen Grant Short Story – grab it at Amazon.com or signed editions at www.raykeatingonline.com. 

 

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Marvel Movies Saved the 2021 Box Office

 by Ray Keating

Analysis

DisneyBizJournal.com

January 11, 2022

 

Superheroes saved the 2021 box office – specifically, Marvel heroes did so.

 

The pandemic obviously has devastated the movie theater business, and while the 2021 domestic (U.S. and Canada) box office take was double what was earned in 2020, the numbers remained well off the pre-pandemic 2019 level.

In fact, the $4.58 billion earned in domestic movie ticket sales in 2021 registered the same level as was garnered in 1992, according to the Hollywood Reporter. However, that fails to factor inflation into the equation, meaning that the 2021 earnings were even less than the 1992 take in real terms.

 

Compared to pre-pandemic 2019, the 2021 domestic box office was off by 60 percent.

 

As for a studio breakdown, CNBC noted that Disney led the way with 26 percent of the 2021 box office, followed by Sony’s 23 percent.

But let’s be clear, it was the Marvel Cinematic Universe that truly ruled. Five of the top six movies in terms of domestic gross were MCU movies, with three from Disney and two from Sony.

 

Spider-Man: No Way Home (Sony) topped all domestic earners with $573 million, followed by $225 million for Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Disney), $213 million for Venom: Let There Be Carnage (Sony), $184 million for Black Widow (Disney), and $165 million for Eternals (Disney). 

 

That tallies up to 30 percent of the 2021 domestic box office for MCU films. 

 

By the way, the Sony MCU movies outgrossed the Disney MCU films - $786 for Sony’s and $574 for Disney’s.

 

As for the other top films, F9: The Fast Saga was number five at the domestic box office (Universal at $173 million) and number seven was the James Bond film No Time to Die (United Artists at $161 million).

 

So, we’ve learned (or relearned) a couple of things about movies during a pandemic. First, big blockbusters (in particular, superhero blockbusters) will draw some audiences into theaters – mainly, younger moviegoers. 

 

Second, non-blockbuster, more adult-oriented movies, if you will, are having a very tough time, including The Last Duel (Disney’s 20th Century Studios) and West Side Story (Disney’s 20th Century Studios), which were both excellent. Part of this, no doubt, is less willingness among older moviegoers to sit in theaters while pandemic issues still rage on. To be less generous, such films also require more of an attention span than what might be needed for at least some superhero movies.

 

What does any of this mean post-pandemic? Speculation can, and has, run in all kinds of directions, but the safest take is that the pandemic has accelerated a shift among consumers to viewing more content at home. However, the degree of this shift and what it will mean for movies being released in theaters remains anyone’s guess at this point in time. The general direction of greater in-home viewing is great for consumers (who are ultimately driving the trend), and for content creators who are seeing and will continue to see increasing opportunities to create via streaming services.

 

But as anyone in the buggy whip industry would have told you with the arrival of the internal combustion engine, when these kinds of upheavals of innovation dramatically alter the economic landscape, matters of survival emerge for businesses who were entrenched in doing things the old ways. This all points to theater owners facing considerable challenges in creating an environment that will get people off their couches and into theaters.

 

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Ray Keating is the editor, publisher and economist for DisneyBizJournal.com, and author of the Pastor Stephen Grant novels and assorted nonfiction books. Have Ray Keating speak your group, business, school, church, or organization. Email him at raykeating@keatingreports.com.

 

The views expressed here are his own – after all, no one else should be held responsible for this stuff, right?

 

Get more out of 2022 with The Disney Planner 2022: The TO DO List Solution! It combines a simple, powerful system for getting things done with encouragement and fun for Disney fans, including those who love Mickey, Marvel, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Pixar, princesses and more. Also, “The Disney Planner 2022: The TO DO List Solution” comes with a handy spiral binding for easy use. 

 

Keating has three new books out. Vatican Shadows: A Pastor Stephen Grant Novel is the 13^th thriller/mystery in the Pastor Stephen Grant series. Get the paperback or Kindle edition at Amazon, or signed books at www.raykeatingonline.com. Past Lives: A Pastor Stephen Grant Short Story is the 14th book in the series. Again, get the paperback or Kindle edition at Amazon, or signed book at www.raykeatingonline.com. And order the 15th book in the series What’s Lost? A Pastor Stephen Grant Short Story – grab it at Amazon.com or signed editions at www.raykeatingonline.com. 

 

Also, check out Ray’s podcasts – the Daily Dose of Disney, Free Enterprise in Three Minutes, and the PRESS CLUB C Podcast.

Insights from Yoda and Captain America

Daily Dose of Disney with Ray Keating – Episode #244: Director Joe Johnston on Captain America – Johnston enjoyed making Captain America and we enjoy his films, especially Captain America: The First Avenger and The Rocketeer. 

Daily Dose of Disney with Ray Keating – Episode #245: Master Yoda Offers Sound Advice – Yoda offers straightforward advice for business – consider the future when making decisions.

 

The “Daily Dose of Disney with Ray Keating” podcast serves up a Disney or Disney-related quote each day, with DisneyBizJournal’s Ray Keating offering brief, additional thoughts on how each dose ties in to life, career, business, entrepreneurship, creativity, storytelling, work, or just plain fun.

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” Best MCU Movie Since “Endgame”

 by Ray Keating

Review (SPOILER FREE)

DisneyBizJournal.com

December 23, 2021

 

DisneyBizJournal.com Movie Rating: 4 stars out of 5

DisneyBizJournal.com Box Office Rating:  $$$$ out of $$$$

 

In Spider-Man: No Way Home, Tom Holland’s Spider-Man has to grow up, and moviegoers are enjoying, and should enjoy, going with Peter Parker on nearly all of the 148 minutes of this journey. In fact, Spider-Man: No Way Home ranks as the best MCU movie since 2019’s Avengers: Endgame.

 

Unfortunately, given dubious recent endeavors, one has to actually pause to give a thumbs up to the filmmakers – director Jon Watts, and writers Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers – for simply serving up a blockbuster story that makes sense, and isn’t riddled by story and/or character inconsistencies. 

Thankfully, though, No Way Home goes well beyond such barebones expectations. While the film starts off kind of pokey, moviegoers soon find themselves immersed in a story jammed with consequences, and packed with so many emotional wallops that I eventually lost count. (Writing a spoiler-free review of this movie is a mighty challenge.)

 

Watery eyes and a tear here and there were part of the viewing experience. There’s also a nice amount of humor sprinkled in, but a marked step up in wit and quips from some other recent efforts. Indeed, No Way Home is that rare superhero movie that is rich in both laughs and tears.

 

There’s a lot going on in this film, and that isn’t something to be criticized, but instead, it’s worth savoring.

 

Along the way, there’s plenty of action one expects from a superhero movie, but notably improved upon compared to recent MCU films like Eternals and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Unlike those two previous movies, even during times of mayhem the CGI holds up in No Way Home. This is rip-roaring good stuff.

 

No Way Home also rates as a full movie in a way that perhaps some other superhero films come up a bit short, including, to a certain degree, the previous Tom Holland Spider-Man movies – Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far from Home. That is, Peter Parker/Spider-Man goes on a full character arch, with game-changing consequences to decisions and actions along the way.

 

Finally, No Way Home serves up a more traditional – in the best sense of the word – take on superheroes and what they’re supposed to be about, that is, trying to do the right thing, trying to save others, and sometimes having to sacrifice to achieve such lofty goals. Yes, with great power comes great responsibility.

 

As for the business side of No Way Home, this film is turning out to be the biggest box-office hit of 2021. As of this writing (December 23), the film, which was released in the U.S. on December 17, had hit a global box office of $751 million.

 

It looks likely that No Way Home will top $1 billion during the Christmas weekend. That will make it the first and probably the only 2021 release to top the billion-dollar mark – and deservedly so. 

 

With a reported production budget of $200 million, that’s quite a Christmas gift for Sony, as well as for Disney and Marvel in that No Way Home is proving that audiences aren’t growing tired of superhero movies, and specifically, MCU movies. But given the under-performance of Eternals, for example, perhaps audiences are ramping up their demands for higher quality superhero movies. We can all hope that is the case.

 

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Ray Keating is the editor, publisher and economist for DisneyBizJournal.com, and author of the Pastor Stephen Grant novels and assorted nonfiction books. Have Ray Keating speak your group, business, school, church, or organization. Email him at raykeating@keatingreports.com.

 

The views expressed here are his own – after all, no one else should be held responsible for this stuff, right?

 

For you and a great gift! The Disney Planner 2022: The TO DO List Solution is here! It combines a simple, powerful system for getting things done with encouragement and fun for Disney fans, including those who love Mickey, Marvel, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Pixar, princesses and more. Also, “The Disney Planner 2022: The TO DO List Solution” comes with a handy spiral binding for easy use. 

 

Keating has three new books out. Vatican Shadows: A Pastor Stephen Grant Novel is the 13^th thriller/mystery in the Pastor Stephen Grant series. Get the paperback or Kindle edition at Amazon, or signed books at www.raykeatingonline.com. Past Lives: A Pastor Stephen Grant Short Story is the 14th book in the series. Again, get the paperback or Kindle edition at Amazon, or signed book at www.raykeatingonline.com. And order the 15th book in the series What’s Lost? A Pastor Stephen Grant Short Story – grab it at Amazon.com or signed editions at www.raykeatingonline.com. 

 

Also, check out Ray’s podcasts – the Daily Dose of Disney, Free Enterprise in Three Minutes, and the PRESS CLUB C Podcast.