And Disney still has a lot to look forward to with at least two more billion dollar films this year with Rise of the Skywalker and Frozen 2 with Maleficent 2 probably coming in the $800-$900M range.This summer truly belongs to Disney. It's like the other studios aren't even trying.
So, there's some leaked footage out there of the "Long Live the King" moment. Not gonna' post any links for obvious reasons, but I do wanna' say this...
In the original, that is probably one of the most dramatic parts of the film. It hit's hard.
Now for the CGI version? Well for this one, the line delivery is nowhere near as good, it's actually shockingly dull. There's no sinister edge whatsoever to the line. But that's nothing compared to what happens next...
Definite spoilers below on this scene...
Scar doesn't throw Mufasa off the cliff, instead he literally baps Mufasa's nose and he falls. I'm not kidding, it's literally death by nose boop. An James Earl Jones's scream is literally something out of a Star Wars edit done by George Lucas. An that's followed by a ridiculous dolly shot from Simba who's looks more like he's yawning than screaming because they gotta' make it look like real lions than ones that can really emote.
And Disney still has a lot to look forward to with at least two more billion dollar films this year with Rise of the Skywalker and Frozen 2 with Maleficent 2 probably coming in the $800-$900M range.
That’s not even mentioning potential Awards candidates in Ad Astra and Ford v. Ferrari.
It has the chance for extremely long legs like Aladdin has had though with it's opening weekend being at the beginning of November. If received well (Unlike The Lion King and Aladdin, I think a film like Maleficent may actually need good reviews to see bigger box office), this is a movie that could play into January.I'm expecting Maleficent to do maybe $500 million tops. The first film hasn't really aged well (I find it very telling that it plays more on Universal-owned Syfy rather than Disney-owned Freeform) and the last time Disney did a live-action sequel (Alice), it didn't do so well.
Total exaggeration. It was a little more than a boop. He did everything the same as the cartoon and then swiped him across the face.
I know the intent was to make it look like a swipe, and if it came off that way, I'd be fine with it. But unfortunately with the editing, when it cuts to Mufasa getting hit, you just see what looks like a tap to his snout akin to what I've seen house cats do to each other. Hence why I call it a nose boop, it doesn't register as a big hit. An because of that, it comes off unintentionally funny.
There’s a reason Seth Rogan and Billy Eichner were on the front lines marketing this movie. They’re the best part.This movie has the most impressive animation I’ve ever seen. And they did nothing with it. It just didn’t have a perspective or reason to exist.
Timon and Pumbaa are the standouts. They were hysterical, though their meta jokes undermine all that hyper-realism the film strives for.
LK is already pretty much at $1B. At the current pace, I’m expecting it to finish around $1.3-$1.4B or so as it’s pacing ahead of the live-action BatB.