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Originally Posted by Locke
See, I dont get these. I dont understand the fascination with Live-Action remakes of successful films.
Aladdin, Lion King, Beauty and the Beast now Snow White, etc.
These movies killed it. I understand that studios dont have to pay for IP rights and can maybe make a few bucks but how many of these have financially hit it out of the park?
Between production and marketing costs how many of these have made real money? How many have supplanted their animated counter-parts as 'classics?'
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I think there is some combination of LotR/Batman/Pirates/Potter/Marvel basically establishing for 2 decades that an IP play would win the year.
But also if you look back the strategy was actually quiet strong early on, a lot of people liked Maleficent (maybe not my cup of tea, I actually think Jolie is a fairly weak actress overall), but maybe it's that people were hungry for a villain first story. Then you had Cinderella which leading the buzz felt like it was expected to be a stale rehashing of a told story, and imo it was uniquely well cast and acted among these remakes, and fairly enjoyable to watch Blanchette and James work together. And the Jungle Book was a great moment for photo-realistic CGI, where you get basically the same product later with the Lion King, but it's been done.
(I dismiss the 2010 and earlier stuff, I don't think that was part of a concerted strategy, the 101 dalmatians / Alice in Wonderland stuff was more like individual story makers pitching ideas)
I think since then the returns have been up and down or possibly diminishing, but like with Marvel, Star Wars, DC, the Harry Potter show forthcoming, the Rings of Power........ these things can carry themselves with their own momentum for a long time after their early successes.