Sunday, March 29, 2015

Coasting on Previous Successes


As we saw with Alice in Wonderland (2010), or as we have sees this year with the remake of Cinderella, Disney has started to turn their animated films into live-action movies, allowing them to recycle storylines and characters and still get away with it.  In fact, they are becoming very successful doing it, too.  The remake of Alice in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton, made over $1 billion in the box office around the world.  Maleficent (2014), the remake of Sleeping Beauty, grossed $758 million, despite mixed reviews.  We will also soon see other Disney remakes, such as The Jungle Book in 2016, starring Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson and Idris Elba, and Beauty and the Beast, starring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens.  This, in my opinion, is a brilliant financial move.  I just hope that these new films are not bland, boring remakes of Disney classics.

The link to the article where I found this information is below:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/disneys-lucrative-long-term-creative-plan-focuses-on-human-remakes-of-cartoon-classics/articleshow/46722041.cms

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