On this week’s episode of Charting with Dan: Did ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ have the *LEGS* to *OUTRUN* the competition this weekend? Was ‘The Call of the Wild’ able to *HOWL* its way into the charts? Is ‘Birds of Prey’ still having a hard time *UP IN THE AIR* this weekend? Did ’Brahms: The Boy II’ *SCARE AWAY* the completion? Hi, I’m Dan Murrell and I’m Lon Harris. and this is ‘Charting with Dan’ on Fandom Entertainment!
I'm with Lon, Brahms should not be before the colon. Should have been The Boy II. In fact every time I see the title I think of Johannes Brahms the composer.
Disney didn't spend the money producing Dark Phoenix and the rest. They were a part of the package they purchased. If they believed these movies were gonna tank, it doesn't seem surprising they didn't want to sink more money into them. $20mil extra on marketing for an extra $10mil at the box office adds to the loss. Disney's acquisition of Fox was not dependent on a dozen movies that were yet to be released.
I would love it if Dan and Lon gave their box office predictions at the end of each episode. Could be a fun little competition each week to see who is closer! :) Love the show guys! Keep up the great work!
20th Century Fox new for at least a year out that the company was probably going to get sold, so the output before the Disney merger was not going to express the conviction of people with secure jobs.
Dan you brought up the moving release dates which is definitely a factor in the Fox movies not doing well at the box office but I think another MAJOR issue is how crammed the schedule is in places. Call of The Wild is just 3 weeks before Onward, New Mutants is set to open the week after Mulan, Bob's Burgers opens the weekend before Jungle Cruise, The Empty Man opens the week before The 1 and Only Ivan, Death on the Nile is only 2 weeks before Everybody's Talking About Jamie then the week after that is The Eternals, & Raya The Last Dragon comes out 2 weeks before West Side Story. A lot of these films are going for similar audiences & they are just on top of each other without even mentioning all the other Disney/Fox releases.
@@jclebourdais10 Generally the tight packing of films is caused by multiple studios trying to open films on different weekends to cut off other studios' films. This, however, is looks a lot more like Disney trying to get the films out regardless of when they SHOULD be released & in doing so they are only hurting themselves.
Something else to look out for in regards to Coronovirus is delays and production issues when it comes to vfx. A lot of work is currently outsourced to Asia, including a fair chunk being worked on in China.
ad3z10 Yeah! I read (was it yesterday?) that the new Mission Impossible has halted production because they’re filming in Italy where the corona virus is
@@InekeD81 Yup, the crew is stuck in Venice, cause one of the two minor outbreaks we currently have (less than 250 people infected) is in a small town nearby
I think the expansion of TV and ways to create/watch shows has also had an impact on Romantic Comedies (or anything in that realm) because you can get such a bigger bang for you buck with TV series, especially with the ability to watch a whole series in one sitting. You get so much more in terms of characterisation and plot, that if given a choice between going to the cinema for 90 minutes of rom-com vs 3hrs of Fleabag for free in the comfort of my own room, I know what I will be choosing.
Haven’t watched yet. What is now 20th Century Studios was struggling before Disney bought it. Fox News and Fox Sports are very profitable. Rupert Murdoch realized that was all he needed, and sold Iger the rest. The result is Disney now owns a struggling movie studio that needs a lot of work. On the bright side Disney got a big movie and TV catalog, and several other assets.
@Randy Yeah that is what I reckon as well. It will be interesting to see how the Disney green lit movies do compared to the leftovers from fox. Also if you could answer, what do you think is the strategy from Disney going forward for fox for movies? Are they going to release a mix of big and small movies or just smaller scale features?
Yeah, and Disney knew that. The only part of Fox which was reasonably successful in the last years is Fox searchlight. Well, and Blueskies. Which is exactly why those two parts have been left practically untouched for now, while they did a lot of clean up otherwise regarding the other parts of the studio.
This is why the complaints of Fox being sold to Disney, or lamentations of one of the big studios going away, ring hollow to me. The Fox Studio was going to be dissolved or sold no matter what. If not Disney, Comcast was waiting in the wings to gobble them up. But given the stakes for Disney vis a vis the content library, as well as reclaiming lingering rights to Marvel and Star Wars, it was a must buy. Comcast was like the eBay buyer who makes the late push that ends up driving up the winner's max bid. Now, how Disney is treating the Fox legacy is fair game.
swanpride true. But they paid $20 billion more than what they originally planned because Comcast tried to buy Fox too. It was a good deal in the long run, but the higher price than originally anticipated will mean it will take a lot longer for the deal to be profitable.
“Man of Steel II : Superman” , “Well you’re injecting logic here...”, and “We flew too close to the sun...” re: soaked Japanese Children are just a few of the many reasons I love you two!
When Fox first announced 'Call of the Wild' and said that Fox animation would be doing the animals, I assumed they would be hand-drawn animation like Mary Poppins/Space Jam/Roger Rabbit and was hype for it. When I saw the actual footage I lost all interest.
Because the directors and producers aren’t good at what they’re doing. It’s a waste of money. They’re trying too hard to cater movies to a certain audience. They shouldn’t have to. Just make good movies and everyone will like it
It's unfortunate that these former Fox movies have been treated like stray scraps to throw out into theatres. While not great, I found Underwater to be really good and surprising in many ways. I found it to be well crafted with a great set of performances, and a really moody score. I didn't get to seeing it until two weeks after it was released, but I did a review on it anyway because I felt it deserved as much reinforcement as possible. I do think that the generic title and the January release really didn't help it. Sadly, it was shot in 2017, and got delayed because of the merger. Otherwise, we probably would've seen this in theatres over a year earlier, and possibly with a more advantageous release month.
Ad Astra didn't even come out in India. They pulled it out of theaters 2-3 weeks before it's release schedule. Also they were going to release it in December last year but it didn't come out. This was so frustrating!😓
Charting with Dan always educates and entertains. However, there was something missing when the Meowntdown concluded. The reoccurring section of Charting with Dan!, This Week in New Mutant History is a welcome video time capsule. There are so many events and milestones to remember, yet thus far New Mutants remains muted (sorry about that, it is late).
I'm not sure if it would be counted because it's Fox Searchlight not Fox proper but Jojo Rabbit was also a film that Disney inherited from the acquisition and it made $85m of a budget of $14m with positive reviews from critics and audiences, doesn't disprove Dan's thesis but it was something that stook out to me. Otherwise I love the show and is something that I look forward to watching each week kudos to everyone involved 🤙
Thor: Ragnarok was released in theaters on November 3, not October 13 (maybe he's thinking about the LA premiere date, which was October 10?). Couldn't stop laughing at Lon's bone to pick with wet Japanese children
Not being funny, I know people claimed it as a bad thing, but I think it's absolutely for the best that Emma Watts stood down as President of 20th century Studios. She was awful at her job. She produced flop after flop after flop.
On a little side note even if Disney had not made anything on these Fox legacy films, they ONLY account for 1% of the amount Disney spent on this merger. To most people $725 million is allot but to Disney they make that in a week.
There's an actual reason why Ad Astra got delayed a couple times. Yes, the crammed schedule and the May release being close to Aladdin may be part of it, but the main reason actually has more to do with the fact that it took the VFX and post-production process to be completed far longer than expected. In one of the many interviews in preparation for the release of the film, writer/director James Gray noted that he wanted every visual effect shot to be pure perfection, no matter how long the process will take. This ultimately resulted in the original release date (Jan. 11) to be pushed back to May 24 before pushing back further to September 20 after Disney found out that Gray still needed at least a month or two for the VFX to be 100% complete.
Saturday I've finally seen Parasite in IMAX at regal cinemas in digital remastered format and I 3000% loved it so much and I laughed at several scenes and other I was surprised and little drama in the scene and I love subtitled films and I still watched anime both subs and dubs.
Sunset Blvd did win the Golden Globe for Best Picture in 1951, but lost to All About Eve at the Oscars. That a tough call - both are great films. Billy Wilder did win Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars.
I think one issue real for Call of the Wild is the LACK of advertising. I see an abnormally high number of movies a month in theater and the only time I saw this trailer was in front of Midway (proving I do see an abnormally high number of films :D). There is literally no poster for this in cinemas.
I'm happy at least Ford v Ferrari did well. It's domestic total was pretty great, but its international numbers were surprisingly pretty disappointing. Ancillaries should help it hit the black and even make some money.
I think you are right with what you are saying about Disney's relationship with the past Fox films, but so many of those movies were unoriginal, boring, or bad. The best movie made the most money thus far. So I don't know how you can be excited by these movies.
Exactly re: moving dates. I was waiting to see The King's Man for Valentine's Day weekend after seeing the trailer and was disappointed it didn't come out. Also sad to hear about Spies in Disguise because it actually was a cute movie but got lost in the shuffle of the holidays.
The issue is every studio is attempting to emulate big budget Marvel success. They always seem to forget Marvel Studios had hardly no money to produce their own films prior to the bank loan they received in 2006 for $525M. Marvel so happened to get really lucky with Phase 1 of the MCU and retained a dedicated fan base. Other studios need to focus on making their own types of films and not assuming all audiences want big budget CGI and A list actors in every role. The Call of the Wild could’ve literally been a Disney+ series for $40-60M with 5-7 episodes, just like Birds of Prey should’ve been a HBOMax series with a similar budget containing about 8 episodes. Everything doesn’t need to be huge $100M+ budgets especially if the general interest is low like with Birds of Prey, Morbius, New Mutants... these movies aren’t/won’t do well not because they aren’t MCU, it’s because they had no real interest from the general audience. Birds of Prey was the launching pad for all this Harley Quinn spin-off stuff DC/WB has teased since 2016 and it flopped, this is a disaster. At this point, just cancel the DCEU and focus on standalone films because we know The Flash, GLC, Cyborg and GCS won’t get made.
I would argue that for fox tanking sure there are some stinkers but I believe ford v Ferrari and jojo rabbit were also fox and did pretty well so idk guess it depends
@@goldenlightpictures6223 Oh I think you're right. Cause now Im remembering his post Oscars speech where he said he couldnt say "The F Word" and referred to it as Searchlight.
Would love for a coherent explanation as to why Birds of Prey made way less than garbage movies like Aquaman and Suicide Squad, especially the latter given Harley was a huge part of it.
For those wondering about the comparison between Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) and Ford vs. Ferrari, unfortunately BoP is now lagging behind FvF. One could argue the positive narrative and holiday boost helped FvF beat the Harley Quinn feature, or maybe it's that the R rating set the latter back while the former's PG-13 rating kept it open to all demographics. Regardless, it doesn't look like BoP will have the legs to make it a surprise success.
My vote for new name is Charting: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of Lon and Dan
More like Lon Harris: And the Fantabulous Charting of Dan
On this week’s episode of Charting with Dan:
Did ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ have the *LEGS* to *OUTRUN* the competition this weekend?
Was ‘The Call of the Wild’ able to *HOWL* its way into the charts?
Is ‘Birds of Prey’ still having a hard time *UP IN THE AIR* this weekend?
Did ’Brahms: The Boy II’ *SCARE AWAY* the completion?
Hi, I’m Dan Murrell and I’m Lon Harris.
and this is ‘Charting with Dan’ on Fandom Entertainment!
"Howl its way into the charts" is the only one which doesn't fit. Kudos for the others though.
I look forward to this every week
Someone hire this man
This is by far my favorite Screen Junkies segment!
Today's episode title:
Charting with Dan: Dan & Lon II
Whattt. it supposed to be the other way around. Dan & Lon : Charting with Dan II
Now that Lon is the unofficial co-host, watch it be just Dan next week cause scheduling conflict
I'm with Lon, Brahms should not be before the colon. Should have been The Boy II. In fact every time I see the title I think of Johannes Brahms the composer.
I mean, we do have *Rambo: First Blood Part II* which was a hit and a fan favorite.
@@androyus Thirty years ago, sure.
siamesebb theybshould have named it:
II Bad, II Boy And faked out a will smith or F&F universe cameo.
Same. I honestly thought it was a music film until the reviews started coming in and I saw the poster for the first time
Well, The Boy II is based on Johannes’ life. True story
Disney didn't spend the money producing Dark Phoenix and the rest. They were a part of the package they purchased. If they believed these movies were gonna tank, it doesn't seem surprising they didn't want to sink more money into them. $20mil extra on marketing for an extra $10mil at the box office adds to the loss. Disney's acquisition of Fox was not dependent on a dozen movies that were yet to be released.
Fox literally said "No tasksey backsey's, it's your problem now" when they got sold to Disney.
Live action movie staring real dogs (and cat) that wasn't criminally boring and dangerous to the animals like Milo & Otis, 1993's Homeward Bound.
JoanieDoeShadow I adored homeward bound as a child.
also: last year's Togo
Countdown to Dune - 298 days
THE SLEEPER MUST AWAKEN.
You guys should do an episode on why Paramount has been struggling at the box office for so long (prior to Sonic).
The irony of a movie named "The Call of the Wild" featuring CGI animals...if you're going to make the lead dog a cartoon at least make it talk!
I would love it if Dan and Lon gave their box office predictions at the end of each episode. Could be a fun little competition each week to see who is closer! :)
Love the show guys! Keep up the great work!
They made a choice to have a CGI dog, their mistake
i confess - i thought the gentleman was the king's man
Glad it wasn't just me. Much confusion. 😂
Dammit Lon! 12:18 - "2 Boy 2 Brahms" - I nearly fell off my treadmill after you said that! Love you guys!
Doogs glad I’m not the only one that listens to this show on a treadmill;)
@@goldenlightpictures6223 Living life on the edge!
Thank you, that Gone With the Wind/Sunset Boulevard comment has been sticking with me for days. Happy that Dan felt the same way.
20th Century Fox new for at least a year out that the company was probably going to get sold, so the output before the Disney merger was not going to express the conviction of people with secure jobs.
John Berthal would have made a great Young Robert De Niro .
Breakthrough actually came out on April 17th, not the day the Disney-Fox deal closed.
Dan you brought up the moving release dates which is definitely a factor in the Fox movies not doing well at the box office but I think another MAJOR issue is how crammed the schedule is in places. Call of The Wild is just 3 weeks before Onward, New Mutants is set to open the week after Mulan, Bob's Burgers opens the weekend before Jungle Cruise, The Empty Man opens the week before The 1 and Only Ivan, Death on the Nile is only 2 weeks before Everybody's Talking About Jamie then the week after that is The Eternals, & Raya The Last Dragon comes out 2 weeks before West Side Story. A lot of these films are going for similar audiences & they are just on top of each other without even mentioning all the other Disney/Fox releases.
isn't it like that all year round?
@@jclebourdais10 Generally the tight packing of films is caused by multiple studios trying to open films on different weekends to cut off other studios' films. This, however, is looks a lot more like Disney trying to get the films out regardless of when they SHOULD be released & in doing so they are only hurting themselves.
“We are a Lenten Season away from New Mutants”
(Puts ashes into an “X” on Wednesday, gives up using powers for 40 days)
Molson1015 I understood that reference.
So what you're saying is people don't want to look at this Photograph?
Something else to look out for in regards to Coronovirus is delays and production issues when it comes to vfx.
A lot of work is currently outsourced to Asia, including a fair chunk being worked on in China.
ad3z10 Yeah! I read (was it yesterday?) that the new Mission Impossible has halted production because they’re filming in Italy where the corona virus is
@@InekeD81 Yup, the crew is stuck in Venice, cause one of the two minor outbreaks we currently have (less than 250 people infected) is in a small town nearby
I think the expansion of TV and ways to create/watch shows has also had an impact on Romantic Comedies (or anything in that realm) because you can get such a bigger bang for you buck with TV series, especially with the ability to watch a whole series in one sitting. You get so much more in terms of characterisation and plot, that if given a choice between going to the cinema for 90 minutes of rom-com vs 3hrs of Fleabag for free in the comfort of my own room, I know what I will be choosing.
2 Bad, 2 Boy is a much better title. It gives just a SMALL hint of joining the F&F superhero universe.
Haven’t watched yet. What is now 20th Century Studios was struggling before Disney bought it. Fox News and Fox Sports are very profitable. Rupert Murdoch realized that was all he needed, and sold Iger the rest. The result is Disney now owns a struggling movie studio that needs a lot of work. On the bright side Disney got a big movie and TV catalog, and several other assets.
@Randy Yeah that is what I reckon as well. It will be interesting to see how the Disney green lit movies do compared to the leftovers from fox. Also if you could answer, what do you think is the strategy from Disney going forward for fox for movies? Are they going to release a mix of big and small movies or just smaller scale features?
Yeah, and Disney knew that. The only part of Fox which was reasonably successful in the last years is Fox searchlight. Well, and Blueskies. Which is exactly why those two parts have been left practically untouched for now, while they did a lot of clean up otherwise regarding the other parts of the studio.
This is why the complaints of Fox being sold to Disney, or lamentations of one of the big studios going away, ring hollow to me. The Fox Studio was going to be dissolved or sold no matter what. If not Disney, Comcast was waiting in the wings to gobble them up. But given the stakes for Disney vis a vis the content library, as well as reclaiming lingering rights to Marvel and Star Wars, it was a must buy. Comcast was like the eBay buyer who makes the late push that ends up driving up the winner's max bid.
Now, how Disney is treating the Fox legacy is fair game.
swanpride true. But they paid $20 billion more than what they originally planned because Comcast tried to buy Fox too. It was a good deal in the long run, but the higher price than originally anticipated will mean it will take a lot longer for the deal to be profitable.
I had a New Mutants trailer when I went to see Thor: Ragnarok.
Its been that long. Definitely a sign it's been in cryo for way, way, way, way, way too long.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
“Man of Steel II : Superman” , “Well you’re injecting logic here...”, and “We flew too close to the sun...” re: soaked Japanese Children are just a few of the many reasons I love you two!
When Fox first announced 'Call of the Wild' and said that Fox animation would be doing the animals, I assumed they would be hand-drawn animation like Mary Poppins/Space Jam/Roger Rabbit and was hype for it. When I saw the actual footage I lost all interest.
Why would you assume that? It's 2020, not 1996.
@@brockbuster Because why the fuck else would they use animation instead of just using a real dog.
I honestly didn't know The Kings Man was pushed back until now
Because the directors and producers aren’t good at what they’re doing. It’s a waste of money. They’re trying too hard to cater movies to a certain audience. They shouldn’t have to. Just make good movies and everyone will like it
So the last two FOX films that did reasonably well to well were Alita: Battle Angel and Ford V. Ferrai
Alita was mostly because of the international market. FvF was mostly because of the domestic market.
(Perfectly balanced, as all things should be)
I'm concerned about Lon thinking You is a romantic drama.
I think it's one of those "I mean, I guess, technically...."
I guess from Joe's perspective it's romantic.
Scarily, a lot of women think it's romantic.
I’ve never related with Dan more when he said his favorite meat was chicken.
"Friday October 13th, 2017. I... was busy that day."
Had to think about that for a hot second, totally forgot about that time... yikes.
It's unfortunate that these former Fox movies have been treated like stray scraps to throw out into theatres. While not great, I found Underwater to be really good and surprising in many ways. I found it to be well crafted with a great set of performances, and a really moody score. I didn't get to seeing it until two weeks after it was released, but I did a review on it anyway because I felt it deserved as much reinforcement as possible. I do think that the generic title and the January release really didn't help it. Sadly, it was shot in 2017, and got delayed because of the merger. Otherwise, we probably would've seen this in theatres over a year earlier, and possibly with a more advantageous release month.
Chicken charting with Rooster McFeely Williams is something we must have. take photos and notes please.
I love this show and the “Ed McMahon and Johnny Carson” comparison? I felt that. 👍🏼👏🏆
Glad Sonic is making much needed bank for Paramount
Ad Astra didn't even come out in India. They pulled it out of theaters 2-3 weeks before it's release schedule. Also they were going to release it in December last year but it didn't come out. This was so frustrating!😓
It is the all CGI that made me not want to see this nature film
Harrison Ford has three dogs - loves them 🥰
Charting with Dan always educates and entertains. However, there was something missing when the Meowntdown concluded. The reoccurring section of Charting with Dan!, This Week in New Mutant History is a welcome video time capsule. There are so many events and milestones to remember, yet thus far New Mutants remains muted (sorry about that, it is late).
The second you brought up milo and ottis I got flashbacks of cats falling off cliffs. Thanks for bringing that back to my memory.
I'm not sure if it would be counted because it's Fox Searchlight not Fox proper but Jojo Rabbit was also a film that Disney inherited from the acquisition and it made $85m of a budget of $14m with positive reviews from critics and audiences, doesn't disprove Dan's thesis but it was something that stook out to me. Otherwise I love the show and is something that I look forward to watching each week kudos to everyone involved 🤙
We shouldn't forget that Fox's movies - with the notable exception of Searchlight - were hit and miss before the Acquisition.
The president DID have an interesting pull with Sunset Boulevard, indeed.
How about CHARTING WITH DAN (WITH LON)
Thor: Ragnarok was released in theaters on November 3, not October 13 (maybe he's thinking about the LA premiere date, which was October 10?).
Couldn't stop laughing at Lon's bone to pick with wet Japanese children
It’s Australian premiere was 13th October, didn’t start its theatrical release till 24th October
Not being funny, I know people claimed it as a bad thing, but I think it's absolutely for the best that Emma Watts stood down as President of 20th century Studios. She was awful at her job. She produced flop after flop after flop.
She produced hit after hit
@@ProfessorDrugsstudios She literally didn't though.
i saw an ad for spies in disguise when i watched Hobbs and shaw in the cinema
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Damien: Omen II
Honestly though, they should've called it Rambo: Second Blood.
Just steal the Movie Fights joke and call yourselves LonDan Charting.
Fox was wise in selling the company. Their slate of new movies are garbage 😂
This show is fantastic and so nerdy. Previously, I had to go to obscure forums on the internet to get this nerdy about box office.
Mathias Hagensen There was a strong need for this type of nerdy box office analysis and Dan is happily supplying.
On a little side note even if Disney had not made anything on these Fox legacy films, they ONLY account for 1% of the amount Disney spent on this merger. To most people $725 million is allot but to Disney they make that in a week.
There's an actual reason why Ad Astra got delayed a couple times.
Yes, the crammed schedule and the May release being close to Aladdin may be part of it, but the main reason actually has more to do with the fact that it took the VFX and post-production process to be completed far longer than expected.
In one of the many interviews in preparation for the release of the film, writer/director James Gray noted that he wanted every visual effect shot to be pure perfection, no matter how long the process will take.
This ultimately resulted in the original release date (Jan. 11) to be pushed back to May 24 before pushing back further to September 20 after Disney found out that Gray still needed at least a month or two for the VFX to be 100% complete.
I love that Lon is a permanent fixture on charting, Lon is the man
Saturday I've finally seen Parasite in IMAX at regal cinemas in digital remastered format and I 3000% loved it so much and I laughed at several scenes and other I was surprised and little drama in the scene and I love subtitled films and I still watched anime both subs and dubs.
@@hugopatino-cano672 27
The Kitchen was also based on a DC comic and didn't cross $100 million (I don't think that one crossed $20 million actually)
Wasn't aware of a film, but I did read the comic 😶 ok now I'm curious
i think it was a TV series
@@subarashii2374 🤔I see thank you
It was a 2019 movie starring Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elizabeth Moss.
@@kstepko Now that makes it sadder
Loved Milo and Otis when I was a kid. I must have been on drugs when I was a kid apparently
Sunset Blvd did win the Golden Globe for Best Picture in 1951, but lost to All About Eve at the Oscars. That a tough call - both are great films. Billy Wilder did win Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars.
For the title what about: Charting with Dan Feat. Lon Harris
I see LonDan, I see France, I see Charting Underpants
Brahms: A The Boy Story
Ryan was having fun 😀
Every time Disney loses a dollar an angel gets its wings.
Dan actually got the name of the next James Bond film wrong. It's not "No Time to Die", but "Simply Cannot Find 5 Spare Minutes To Die".
Fox films aren't failing, they're succeeding in reverse!
I think one issue real for Call of the Wild is the LACK of advertising. I see an abnormally high number of movies a month in theater and the only time I saw this trailer was in front of Midway (proving I do see an abnormally high number of films :D). There is literally no poster for this in cinemas.
I can't wait for Charting and Chicken with Dan! Nor, Pork Loin with Dan & Lon!
Dan & Lon: Breaking 2 Electric Boogaloo
I'm happy at least Ford v Ferrari did well. It's domestic total was pretty great, but its international numbers were surprisingly pretty disappointing. Ancillaries should help it hit the black and even make some money.
Well Nimona is based on a well known well loved comic book so I think it still has an audience even though later than announced at first.
I think you are right with what you are saying about Disney's relationship with the past Fox films, but so many of those movies were unoriginal, boring, or bad. The best movie made the most money thus far. So I don't know how you can be excited by these movies.
Exactly re: moving dates. I was waiting to see The King's Man for Valentine's Day weekend after seeing the trailer and was disappointed it didn't come out. Also sad to hear about Spies in Disguise because it actually was a cute movie but got lost in the shuffle of the holidays.
I was waiting for The King's Man as well, right now nothing here plays I wanna watch.
Dan sounds like The Hound, "I'm going to have to eat every ****ing chicken in the room!"
The issue is every studio is attempting to emulate big budget Marvel success. They always seem to forget Marvel Studios had hardly no money to produce their own films prior to the bank loan they received in 2006 for $525M. Marvel so happened to get really lucky with Phase 1 of the MCU and retained a dedicated fan base. Other studios need to focus on making their own types of films and not assuming all audiences want big budget CGI and A list actors in every role. The Call of the Wild could’ve literally been a Disney+ series for $40-60M with 5-7 episodes, just like Birds of Prey should’ve been a HBOMax series with a similar budget containing about 8 episodes. Everything doesn’t need to be huge $100M+ budgets especially if the general interest is low like with Birds of Prey, Morbius, New Mutants... these movies aren’t/won’t do well not because they aren’t MCU, it’s because they had no real interest from the general audience. Birds of Prey was the launching pad for all this Harley Quinn spin-off stuff DC/WB has teased since 2016 and it flopped, this is a disaster. At this point, just cancel the DCEU and focus on standalone films because we know The Flash, GLC, Cyborg and GCS won’t get made.
Lon needs to shift his categorization of "You" from Romantic Drama to Serial Killer Drama
Charting with Lon and Dan
October 2017 was also the launch of the new and better Screen Junkies ❤❤❤
I would argue that for fox tanking sure there are some stinkers but I believe ford v Ferrari and jojo rabbit were also fox and did pretty well so idk guess it depends
I think jojo was sony
Marianne I think it was fox spotlight but idk may have to double check
@@goldenlightpictures6223 Oh I think you're right. Cause now Im remembering his post Oscars speech where he said he couldnt say "The F Word" and referred to it as Searchlight.
@@goldenlightpictures6223 bingo you are correct! It was a Fox Searchlight backed film
White Fang in total made < $35 million on a budget of $14 million
Back in the early 90s, that was a modest success.
Dan, you need to visit the' Big Chicken' and get your picture taken with it when in Atlanta. Have a good time. Love the show.
Would love for a coherent explanation as to why Birds of Prey made way less than garbage movies like Aquaman and Suicide Squad, especially the latter given Harley was a huge part of it.
I would love if you added a personnal projection segment for weekly releases !!!
The majority of the fox films where not good movies you not going to risk more money on something that's not good
Yes, Harrison Ford does work with live dogs! check out this old amazon commercial: th-cam.com/video/D6Brirt4mvk/w-d-xo.html
Lon, remember, we have *Rambo: First Blood Part II* and also *Hellbound: Hellraiser II* which were pretty successful sequels.
The Invisible Man had cameos in all of the Universal shared universe pictures. Go watch The Mummy again and see if you can spot him.
For those wondering about the comparison between Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) and Ford vs. Ferrari, unfortunately BoP is now lagging behind FvF.
One could argue the positive narrative and holiday boost helped FvF beat the Harley Quinn feature, or maybe it's that the R rating set the latter back while the former's PG-13 rating kept it open to all demographics. Regardless, it doesn't look like BoP will have the legs to make it a surprise success.
Can we get a Call Of The Wild review from (Jack) Lon-Dan?
Very interesting episode!
An interesting segment might be to follow Dan ana see the work it takes to make all of these charts.
Disney also had to bite the bullet on releasing 'Terminator: Dark Fate'
Dan: I have a list of 60 tv shows
Me: ... I have a list of 428 shows...
You didn't mention Guns Akimbo coming out this weekend. Apparently I am the only one that is excited for it
Inspired by the "Baby things" conversation in the "No News" SJU episode: will you give us an episode of "Charting with Baby Dan"?
Whisky Canuck They could hire some child actors and shoot a “Screen Junkies Babies” skit! @Joe Starr: you have your next “likes” goal.
It looks like 2019 still isn't finished! By next week's Charting, Rise Of Skywalker may have moved up 2 spots on the Worldwide charts.
If anyone enjoyed this episode, we know Ryan did! His laugh gets me every time! 🤣