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New featurette and a TV spot highlighting some of the previous live-action remakes from Disney.

LOVE that Disney is FINALLY using Cinderella in their marketing for another movie. At the studio lot, the live action Cinderella is EVERYWHERE in the Team Disney Building (posters, the actuall glass slipper from the film, etc), so it definitely means a lot to the film division.

*fangasm*

But I am surprised they finally used Cinderella in their marketing, too. What's the Team Disney Building? Part of the lots for Disney's live-action marketing buildings?

I really like that they acknowledged their other live-action hits. Best part is that Alice and Maleficent are completely snubbed.



Is that the only live-action remake to get this treatment?

They probably used Cinderella because they were never expecting or aiming for it to be a huge blockbuster film that makes a splash like Alice, B&tB, Aladdin, Maleficent, The Lion King, etc., but something that does modest, respectable numbers.

A global opening between $137M-$155M is what we’re hearing at this point in town with overseas between $80M-90M and domestic projections literally wild: Disney thinks it’s in the $50Ms, others in the $60M-$65M range, but after today’s Rotten Tomatoes score, we’re figuring $57.5M on the low end at 4,200+ theaters (comprised of 2,900-plus 3D locations, 400 IMAX auditoriums, 650 Premium Large Format screens and 250 D-Box/4D locations. U.S./Canada previews start 6pm on Thursday.

Stateside, Dumbo‘s opening is tracking to be lower than the $100M-plus openings we’re use to with Beauty and the Beast and Jungle Book, and also below Maleficent‘s ($69M) and Cinderella ($67.8M) debuts, yet just around where Burton’s Charlie began at $56.1M.

Disney begins rolling out Dumbo internationally on Wednesday, notably in France, Korea, the Netherlands and Indonesia. Through Friday, the film will be in all overseas markets, including China and Japan. It’s somewhat unusual for the latter to go day-and-date with the rest of the world, but given Avengers: Endgame’s impending arrival at the end of April, Disney is getting out ahead of itself with as much runway as possible. Japan also happens to be a big Burton market.

The first reviews are in and they're not good. As of now, it's standing at 49% on Rotten Tomatoes and at 53% on Metacritic.

As for the promo using previous Disney live-action remakes, what surprised me a bit is that Alice in Wonderland wasn't included, given that it was a huge success and also because like Dumbo it was directed by Tim Burton. But I guess the reason it wasn't in it is that the sequel underperformed at the box office.

LOL, nice try but Jungle Book and Beauty and the Beast are used in the promo as well.

I responded off-the-cuff because I didn’t care enough to load another trailer for this to know and I suppose I’m not quite pathetic or petty enough to do so just because of the Cinderella obsession or how its namedrop in a trailer is a significant enough reason for moving the entire page off-topic. But thanks for letting me know and bless your heart! You're a real peach.

Thank you tsom for the info! So it's one of the Walt Disney Studios buildings! Cool. And I'm sorry Disney's Divinity is being mean with his sarcasm to you. : ( You are awesome, tsom!

These reviews are disappointing, but I'm not shocked. When I saw that the premiere event occurred indoors (like it did for The Nutcracker) instead of outside on Hollywood Blvd (like most Disney premieres), I knew that meant trouble. It's sad because I know people in the industry thought this would be the surprise hit of the spring season. Oh well!