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The movie is off to a good start at the box office.
“Jungle Cruise” sailed into port with $2.7 million after opening in Thursday evening previews. “Jungle Cruise,” which like “Pirates of the Caribbean” before it, is based on a theme park ride, is on track to debut to between $25 million to $30 million when it opens in 4,310 screens.
Source: https://variety.com/2021/film/news/box- ... 235031396/
In revised afternoon estimates, we hear the projection for the Dwayne Johnson-Emily Blunt pairing stands between $12M-$13M today, which could near a $30M 3-day at 4,310 theaters, the pandemic’s widest opening title to date. That Friday figure includes last night’s $2.7M.
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/07/dwayne-joh ... 234806607/
Typically these theatrical day-and-date in-home releases tend to be frontloaded, so it will be interesting to see if Disney’s Jungle Cruise goes off course tonight after posting a solid Friday of $13.378M which has predictions at a $32.5M opening. Imax and premium large format screens are delivering around 33% of the gross; another indicator that when people go to the movies during the pandemic, they’re choosing to watch movies in the most platinum means possible. The best markets for Jungle Cruise was the West (nine out of the top 10 theaters were in the region), Midwest, and Southeast.

Jungle Cruise did well with audiences earning an A- CinemaScore, which is the same Johnson received on Rampage and San Andreas. CinemaScore/Screen Engine audience exits on PostTrak were very good with 80% in the top two boxes and a 60% from the general audience, while kids under 12 enjoyed the Disney theme park-inspired pic even more with 87% positive and a 70% recommend. Males showed up at 52%, females at 48% with 52% over 25 with 34% under 17 years old. Diversity demos were 55% Caucasian, 18% Latino, 13% Black, & 14% Asian/other.
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/07/dwayne-joh ... 234806607/
Jungle Cruise kept its ship together at the domestic box office over the weekend, and actually saw an uptick in Friday-to-Saturday grosses (when you back out Thursday previews of $2.7M) of +16% which puts the adventure film at $34.2M, an opening that’s not far from Dwayne Johnson’s pre-pandemic event film Rampage ($35.7M), and the biggest family film start during the pandemic to date. All in, add $27.6M in overseas box office and $30M+ in Disney+ Premier global spend and Jungle Cruise counts a first weekend’s worth of revenues of $91.8M. Similar to Black Widow, the bulk of Disney+ Premier spend, I understand, is coming from the U.S. as our market is more accustomed to making purchases on the Disney+ streaming service, while offshore markets are still adopting. Jungle Cruise was expected to open to $25M domestic; Deadline heard that global theatrical estimates at $65M.

However, there are those in the industry this morning who are not impressed with Jungle Cruise‘s numbers. Again, blame the global pandemic and dynamic windowing. A $91.8M combined global theatrical and PVOD start are not the ingredients to profit off a tentpole with excellent audience exits which cost an estimated $362M in negative cost, distribution and marketing expenses.

Social media analytics corp RelishMix reports that that pic’s social media was massive “connecting Disneyland 29.7M into the mix along with Disney Studios 62.2M, Disney+ 11.8M, Disney Channel 21.9M for a total social media universe of 559.8M total which is exceptional in relation to family live action comps. Superfan channels on YouTube are also reposting cast junkets with a viral repost rate of 23:1 for the five owned trailers which exceeds the norm of 16:1 along with key performance indicators which popped from the Disneyland premiere event last weekend.”
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/08/dwayne-joh ... 234806607/
In its global launch, Disney’s Jungle Cruise grossed $61.8M at worldwide turnstiles. That does not include the “over $30M” that came from Disney+ in the day-and-date streaming release (which leads to $91.8M as Anthony has reported). In pure theatrical terms, the Dwayne Johnson/Emily Blunt-starrer performed ahead of expectations domestically, and came in vastly lower at the international box office compared to pre-weekend estimates.

While the $27.6M international start for Jungle Cruise is well below the $40M projected debut, even rivals today agree the film is facing several issues which include a changing overseas Covid landscape as well as strong local titles in some markets.
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/08/jungle-cru ... 234807219/
The family friendly tentpole, starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, debuted atop North American box office charts with $34 million. It generated $27.6 million internationally and $30 million on Disney Plus, amounting to $90 million in combined revenues. In any other environment, that would have been catastrophic because the film cost the studio $200 million to produce and at least $100 million more to market. Box office experts estimate it would have needed to generate at least $500 million at the global box office to have a chance of breaking even. Yet in the COVID era, the $34 million domestic debut of “Jungle Cruise” exceeded industry expectations and ranks on par (or slightly above) previous all-audience offerings like “Space Jam: A New Legacy” ($31 million), “Godzilla vs. Kong” ($31 million) and “Cruella” ($21 million).

“‘Jungle Cruise’ was weak because, even without headwinds, it’s so far from what would be considered good,” says David A. Gross, who runs the movie consulting firm Franchise Entertainment Research. “That movie needed to open at $80 million to $100 million to fulfill its tentpole aspirations.”
Source: https://variety.com/2021/film/box-offic ... 235032231/
“In normal times, a film like this would need a global opening of at least $100 million to really having a chance at success,” Comscore analyst Paul Dergarabedian said. “But in this current environment, I think the numbers that it got from theaters and Disney+ were probably the best it could have hoped for.”
Source: https://www.thewrap.com/jungle-cruise-d ... e-lessons/
“Jungle Cruise‘s opening generally hit our expectations but there isn’t really a barometer for success right now with such a fractured global marketplace,” says chief analyst Shawn Robbins of BoxOffice Pro. “This is a film that would have opened to much stronger results with an exclusive theatrical window, and certainly without Delta variant concerns in mind for the unvaccinated and more cautious audiences out there.”
Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busin ... 234992378/
Disney’s Dwayne Johnson-Emily Blunt family adventure movie Jungle Cruise was watched by 777,000 U.S. Households in its first weekend on Disney+ Premier according to streaming analytics corp Samba TV. At a price of $29.99 that translates to an estimated $23.3M amount of revenue earned for Jungle Cruise in Samba monitored TV households.

Samba monitors streaming viewership in 3M U.S. households, those tuning in for five minutes. Disney reported that Jungle Cruise made over $30M worldwide in Disney+ Premier money from Friday-Sunday, along with a $35M domestic box office opening and $27.6M foreign B.O. for a grand PVOD and global B.O. start of $92.6M. The majority of Disney’s reported global Premier revenues on Jungle Cruise came from its streaming service’s U.S. subscribers. Samba TV’s data above proves that, even if it’s an incomplete picture sans mobile views, with 78% of the global Jungle Cruise $30M+ Disney+ Premier money coming from Samba TV monitored households.

Jungle Cruise’s first weekend in Samba TV homes bests the first four-day weekend of Cruella which pulled in 686K, or $20.6M estimated; another Disney theatrical and Disney+ Premier day-and-date release. However, Jungle Cruise‘s draw is lower than Black Widow‘s first weekend watch of 1.1M U.S. Samba TV households. Note that Disney doesn’t keep 100% of their Disney+ Premier revenue, rather must share around 15% with the platform provider (i.e. Google Play, Amazon Firestick, etc.).

In addition, the running domestic B.O. on Jungle Cruise has risen to through four days $38.6M. The Jaume Collet-Serra directed movie did $3.6M on Monday, an amount that bests the first Monday of Space Jam: A New Legacy by 20%. Jungle Cruise was the No. 3 most burned movie after Black Widow in the No. 2 spot on Torrent Freak for the week ending Aug. 2.

More stats on Jungle Cruise in Samba TV Disney+ Premier homes: The pic was watched by 127K UK households, 48K German households and 16K Australian households over Friday through Sunday. The U.S. audience leaned lower income (under $55k) and non-white (Black +15%, Hispanic +36%, and Asian +21%). Of the top 25 largest markets, Miami, FL overindexed the most (+52%), followed by Sacramento, CA (+49%) and Tampa, FL (+33%). Of the UK regions, Wales over-indexed the most (+35%), followed by North West (+35%). Of the German areas, North Rhine-Westphalia overindexed the most (+28%), followed by Rhineland-Palatinate (+11%).
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/08/jungle-cru ... 234808396/
Jungle Cruise, which continues to pace like Dwayne Johnson’s pre-pandemic Rampage in its first week (the Disney pic’s Tuesday of $4.76M beat the latter video game feature adaptation’s first Tuesday of $3.4M), won’t look like that 2018 New Line movie in weekend 2, no thanks to its availability on Disney+ Premier and piracy, and the fact that the pic will lose its premium large format screens to Suicide Squad. As such expect at least a -60% drop on Jungle Cruise. The pic’s five day gross stands at an estimated $43.5M.
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/08/the-suicid ... 234808928/
Disney’s No. 1 title The Jungle Cruise, despite being available in homes, actually beat the first week of pre-pandemic grosses of Dwayne Johnson’s 2018 action pic Rampage, with an estimated $49.7M at 4,310 theaters (compared with $45.6M), which indicates there’s an appetite for theatrical and that headlines about the Delta variant aren’t preventing people, particularly families, from going to the movies. Jungle Cruise outstripped the initial Monday through Thursday daily grosses of Rampage throughout this past week, with yesterday clocking an estimated $2.9M. Despite Jungle Cruise‘s rally over Rampage, the movie isn’t expected to emulate the feature video game adaptation in weekend 2 with a projected drop of 60%, versus the 2018 pic’s -44%.
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/08/the-suicid ... 234810359/
Jungle Cruise‘s first week grosses were besting the first week of Dwayne Johnson’s pre-pandemic title Rampage, indicating the delta isn’t at fault; the pic’s $14.86M, -57% second weekend tumble is due to losing PLF screens to Suicide Squad coupled with the fact that the movie is available in homes on Disney+ Premier.
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/08/the-suicid ... 234810359/
After Jungle Cruise emulated the first week results of pre-pandemic Rampage, the Johnson-Emily Blunt pic had a better than expected second weekend decline of -55% with $15.69M. Many were predicting a -60% decline with the whole Disney+ Premier of it all, piracy and Suicide Squad stealing the theme park-inspired pic’s PLF screens.

According to iSpot, Warner Bros. and Disney essentially spent the same amount of money in U.S. TV spend respectively on Suicide Squad and Jungle Cruise, $18.8M and $18.3M. The Suicide Squad TV campaign generated 930.1 million impressions to Jungle Cruise‘s 1.81 billion.
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/08/the-suicid ... 234810359/
Meanwhile, Disney’s Jungle Cruise (which is still awaiting a China date) saw a 44% drop from opening weekend with midweeks having risen from Monday-Wednesday. The Dwayne Johnson/Emily Blunt-starrer added $15.1M in 49 material markets this session for a $56.5M international cume and $121.8M global. The Top 5 overseas so far are the UK ($8.5M), Russia ($5.9M), France ($4.2M), Japan ($4M) and Saudi Arabia ($2.7M).
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/08/the-suicid ... 234811102/
Samba TV has updated the running U.S. viewership on Disney+ Premier’s Dwayne Johnson-Emily Blunt adventure film Jungle Cruise and it’s 1.5M U.S. households through the pic’s first ten-days. Multiply that by the pic’s in-home purchase price of $29.99 for Disney+ subscribers and Jungle Cruise has taken in $44.985M stateside in those homes clocked by Samba TV. The analytics corp monitors streaming viewing in 3M Smart TV terrestrial TV households (the org doesn’t monitor mobile views).

To date, Jungle Cruise‘s domestic box office through its second weekend stands at $65.4M. So combined domestic B.O. and PVOD for Jungle Cruise is around $110.4M to date. The pic counts a running global theatrical ticket sales total of $121.8M to date. Jungle Cruise pulled in 770K U.S. households in its first stateside weekend on Disney+ Premier monitored by Samba TV which when calculated out is a $23.3M. Disney reported a first weekend global Disney+ Premier spend for the Johnson-Blunt film of $30M+.

Jungle Cruise held up well in its second weekend, -55%, despite another theatrical-day-and-date title in the marketplace. While Jungle Cruise‘s second-weekend hold is eyebrow raising given the fact that it was the second most pirated film for the week ending Aug. 9 behind Warner Bros.’ The Suicide Squad on Torrent Freak, and lost its PLF screens to Suicide Squad, no doubt industry minds wonder about how much more the Johnson film could have made without Disney+ Premier cutting into its B.O.

More Jungle Cruise 10-day Disney+ Premier updates: The pic has been watched by 290k UK households (vs. 127K first weekend), 121K Germany HHs (48K first weekend), and 42K Australian HHs (16K first weekend). The daily viewership in all four countries peaked during the opening weekend (July 31 and Aug. 1). The US audience skewed slightly female (+2%), and toward HHs with non-white viewers (Black +19%, Hispanic +30%, Asian +36%). Of the top 25 largest markets, Miami over-indexed the most (+41%), followed by Los Angeles (+32%) and Portland (+32%). In the UK, Wales over-indexed the most (+31%), followed by North West (+31%). IN Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia over-indexed the most (+31%), followed by Saarland (+4%).
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/08/jungle-cru ... 234811912/
In 4th place is Disney’s theatrical-day-and-date and on Disney+ Premier Jungle Cruise which in its third Friday did $2.55M, -43% for a projected weekend of $8.98M, -43% for a running total by EOD Sunday of $88.1M.
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/08/ryan-reyno ... 234814231/
Jungle Cruise (Dis) 3,900 (-410) theaters, Fri $2.55M (-43%)/Sat $3.9M/$2.55M/ 3-day $9M (-43%)/Total $82.1M/Wk 3.
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/08/ryan-reyno ... 234814231/
Disney’s Jungle Cruise saw a 57% drop (to $6.7M) in the third offshore session in 49 markets and posting good mid-weeks. It has now grossed $72.2M internationally and $154.3M global.
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/08/free-guy-t ... 234815225/
Jungle Cruise (Dis) 3,575 (-325) theaters, Fri $1.7M (-34%)/Sat $2.8M/Sun $1.7M/3-day $6.2M (-31%)/Total $92.5M/Wk 4.
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/08/ryan-reyno ... 234819266/
Disney’s Jungle Cruise again posted good mid-weeks and saw a 41% drop from its third session to $4.1M from 49 markets. A shift in the weather helped Netherlands (+10%) and Belgium (+6%) increase. The Dwayne Johnson/Emily Blunt-starrer has an international cume of $81.2M and a global total of $173.7M to date. The Top 5 are the UK ($13.9M), Russia ($8M), Japan ($6.8M), France ($6M) and Saudi Arabia ($3.6M).
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/08/free-guy-f ... 234819494/
“Jungle Cruise” with Dwayne The Rock Johnson was the third most-viewed movie in Nielsen’s weekly streaming rankings for the week that closed out July, despite debuting as a Disney+ Premier Access title. Nielsen says the Disney adventure film was watched for 343 million minutes during the week of July 26 through August 1 (it debuted on July 30), with Nielsen saying a third of the film’s audience came from the 35-49 year old crowd. But it fell behind the Pixar film “Luca,” (371 million minutes) which has remained consistently popular each week since its June debut, and a foreign language Netflix film called “Blood Red Sky.”

When compared to other premium titles however, specifically other films released through Disney’s Premier Access, “Jungle Cruise” beat out “Cruella” in its streaming debut, which netted only 280 million minutes viewed, but fell well behind “Black Widow,” which in its debut week in early July was seen for 541 million minutes and also placed third that respective week.
Source: https://www.thewrap.com/jungle-cruise-s ... -rankings/
Jungle Cruise (DIS): $2.7M intl weekend (49 markets); $86.9M intl cume/$187M global.
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/08/free-guy-c ... 234823823/
Other Disney exclamations include Jungle Cruise, which will stand $300K short of the $100M by EOD Sunday. Despite the great hold on this Dwayne Johnson-Emily Blunt theme park-inspired adventure, which in weekend 5 at 3,370 theaters is expected to do $4.6M, -26% in 4th place, we cannot deny the fact that the gross for this movie would be significantly more, and would have crossed the century mark faster, without its day-and-date on Disney+ Premier for $29.99. On the plus side, Jungle Cruise will hit $100M in roughly 33 days, which is significantly shorter than the time it took Johnson’s Rampage, which was well over 105 days.
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/08/candyman-p ... 234823246/
Jungle Cruise (Dis) 3,075 (-295) theaters Fri $885K/Sat $1.55M/Sun $1.5M/Mon $1.25M/3-day $3.95M (-21%)/4-day $5.2M/Total: $106.9M/Wk 6.
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/09/shang-chi- ... 234826987/
Jungle Cruise (Dis) 2,800 (-275) theaters/Fri $571K (-36%)/3-day $2.2M (-45%)/Total $109.6M/Wk 7.
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/09/shang-chi- ... 234831053/
Jungle Cruise (Dis) 2,265 theaters (-500)/Fri $487K (-13%)/Sat $1M/Sun $558K/3-day $2.09M (-11%)/Total $112.6M/Wk 8.
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/09/shang-chi- ... 234839150/
Jungle Cruise (Dis) 2,065 theaters (-200)/Fri $437K (-10%)/Sat $818K/Sun $467K/3-day $1.72M (-17%)/Total $114.9M/Wk 9.
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/09/dear-evan- ... 234843679/
Jungle Cruise (Dis) 1,375 (-690) theaters Fri $171K/Sat $329K/Sun $180K, 3-day: $680K (-61%)/Total: $116M/Wk 10.
Source: https://deadline.com/2021/10/venom-let- ... 234847950/
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For anyone interested, The Making of Disney's Jungle Cruise is now available as an e-book. No sign of a physical release though.

https://www.amazon.com/Making-Disneys-J ... 098ZYCGWT/
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I’ve just come back from seeing it and I just absolutely LOVED it !!!!

Emily and Dwayne are just fantastic together, a brilliant cinematic couple. It was everything I wanted it to be, truly.

A brilliant watch, and encourage everyone to give it a go. :)
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Atlantica wrote:I’ve just come back from seeing it and I just absolutely LOVED it !!!!

Emily and Dwayne are just fantastic together, a brilliant cinematic couple. It was everything I wanted it to be, truly.

A brilliant watch, and encourage everyone to give it a go. :)

Just saw jungle Cruise, here is my out of theatre reaction towards it:-) https://youtu.be/BDk8ryFVxQA
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Atlantica wrote:I’ve just come back from seeing it and I just absolutely LOVED it !!!!

Emily and Dwayne are just fantastic together, a brilliant cinematic couple. It was everything I wanted it to be, truly.

A brilliant watch, and encourage everyone to give it a go. :)
Also for you and anyone else who seen it, would you please be able to clarify two things for me:

why did Proxima Just allow Lily to go through his cabin when he specifically told her to not allow it and try to GET the arrowhead, especially when in one scene whenever she was on the boat she took it off and put it in a box and then a few Scenes later headed back around her neck

why did Joakim kill the bees? He and Aguirre were working together and in an earlier scene, the bees helped him locate on the map
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Patricier21 wrote:why did Proxima Just allow Lily to go through his cabin when he specifically told her to not allow it and try to GET the arrowhead, especially when in one scene whenever she was on the boat she took it off and put it in a box and then a few Scenes later headed back around her neck
The arrowhead was kept in their luggage when they entered the rapids because everything important had to be saved below the deck. Proxima couldn't retrieve it because she got drunk. On the next day, Lily is wearing the arrowhead again around her neck.


why did Joakim kill the bees? He and Aguirre were working together and in an earlier scene, the bees helped him locate on the map
Because MacGregor had told Joachim the location of the temple of the tree (la Luna Rota) and he didn't want the conquistador zombies to know it too through the bees. Joachim betrayed the conquistador zombies in that moment because he wanted the petals all to himself.
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I saw this on Premiere Access. Boy was it good. They fit so many references to the original ride, and I don't know how they kept coming up with bad (read as "great!") Skipper jokes. I actually didn't expect Emily and Dwane to become an item. For some reason it just always looked to me like it would be a buddy road trip action adventure flick, not a romance. But they were good together. Not entirely believable, but it worked enough. I'd say this was on par with or a little less good than the first Pirates of the Caribbean, but maybe that's just my nostalgia for seeing Pirates as a teen. Anyway, Jungle Cruise is good. See it. It was a very thrilling and exciting adventure. Oh, but Disney's homophobia once again reared its ugly head when McGregor couldn't come out and say he liked guys or get one for himself or even reference it beyond a one-off conversation.
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Disney Duster wrote:I saw this on Premiere Access. Boy was it good. They fit so many references to the original ride, and I don't know how they kept coming up with bad (read as "great!") Skipper jokes. I actually didn't expect Emily and Dwane to become an item. For some reason it just always looked to me like it would be a buddy road trip action adventure flick, not a romance. But they were good together. Not entirely believable, but it worked enough. I'd say this was on par with or a little less good than the first Pirates of the Caribbean, but maybe that's just my nostalgia for seeing Pirates as a teen. Anyway, Jungle Cruise is good. See it. It was a very thrilling and exciting adventure. Oh, but Disney's homophobia once again reared its ugly head when McGregor couldn't come out and say he liked guys or get one for himself or even reference it beyond a one-off conversation.
I really loved the film too, and agree with all of this except that Disney was begging homophobic. Seriously? I think the scene was written well, because it’s not like a character like MacGregor would’ve just said “I’m gay”. That’s not how they referenced it in that time period. Gay men had to use coded language, or else they could literally have been killed. The fact that he even told a character like Frank, and extremely hetero-normative man in any code was a shock to me personally. THEN for Disney to not have some sort of joke from Frank like “Woah buddy, keep that kind of stuff to yourself”, but instead he basically listens and instantly accepts him. That speaks volumes. I also think adding any sort of love story for him would’ve probably been excessive because they story isn’t really about him, and wouldn’t that sort of come off ass pandering? Now if we get a sequel, yes I would love for him to have a love interest.
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Hm. Ok, you're right about a lot of that singerguy04, but what I find wrong is how Disney is kind of hiding the fact he is gay. Saying you would be ostracized or even killed because of who you love is not saying it's because you love the same sex. Any audience member could interpret it as like, say he loved a "wild" girl, or a girl who was improper or beneath his class. It was like he couldn't say, "I love men." And I know you must be thinking, "Yeah, he couldn't", but that would have been with lots of other people. I think with Frank, he could.
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Disney Duster wrote:Hm. Ok, you're right about a lot of that singerguy04, but what I find wrong is how Disney is kind of hiding the fact he is gay. Saying you would be ostracized or even killed because of who you love is not saying it's because you love the same sex. Any audience member could interpret it as like, say he loved a "wild" girl, or a girl who was improper or beneath his class. It was like he couldn't say, "I love men." And I know you must be thinking, "Yeah, he couldn't", but that would have been with lots of other people. I think with Frank, he could.

I agree with the above, if you watch the movie they made it Quite blatantly obvious That they were not so very subtly talking about liking men a.k.a. “other interests”…… :-)
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Alrighty. If enough people feel McGregor was revealing enough in the fact he was gay, I guess Disney did good.
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'Jungle Cruise' Follows in 'Black Widow's Footsteps, Gets Early Digital Release This Month
https://collider.com/jungle-cruise-digi ... e-details/

'Jungle Cruise' Deleted Scenes: Home Release Includes 16 Minutes of New Footage
https://collider.com/jungle-cruise-dele ... -how-many/

Disney’s “Jungle Cruise” Coming to 4K, Blu-Ray, DVD November 16th with Cover Art and Store Exclusives Revealed
https://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/20 ... -revealed/

‘Jungle Cruise’ Adds New Platforms as Evidence Suggests PVOD Marketing Lifts All Ships
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/09/jungl ... 234662478/

‘F9’ Returns to PVOD Charts with a Director’s Cut as Studios Refocus on Their Streamers
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/09/f9-pv ... 234664416/

Home Audiences Will Pay Top Dollar for VOD: ‘Candyman,’ ‘F9,’ and ‘Black Widow’ Prove It
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/09/vod-p ... 234666194/
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Q: There's a rumor going around that you and Bobby wrote a song for the Jungle Cruise movie that ended up getting cut from the film. Is it true?

Kristen Anderson-Lopez: Yup.
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Disney Duster wrote:Alrighty. If enough people feel McGregor was revealing enough in the fact he was gay, I guess Disney did good.
I haven't seen the film, but I agree with you that making it more explicit is necessary. Never underestimate homophobic fans / viewers' ability to deny something unless it's irrefutably canon and in the script out loud.
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I've seen some complaints about him not flat out saying "I'm gay" or "I like men" during the coming out scene, but he's opening up to someone he has just met. Lightly treading in that kind of situation definitely rings true to me. He literally says as much as one could say without saying it. I definitely think that coming out scene is a step in the right direction and MacGregor never felt like a throwaway gay character (I feel this way about Artie in 'Cruella' too).
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It's just that I feel McGregor could have been talking about loving girls who were beneath him in station or something. He left lot of mystery in what he was saying unless someone already knew what gay was.
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i thought him saying he could not accept any offer of marriage made it pretty obvious, and i thought it was very cleverly done. it suited the time period in which the film is set, as well as the modern viewer.
sure, a child might not understand, but there is plenty in childrens films that go over their heads for a while [shrek franchise for instance]. they have many years in which to understand things, and it is nice when something you have watched many times suddenly has a new joke or reference that was missed before.
heck, i am re-watching the original rugrats, and just saw an episode where two men kidnapped tommy thinking he was "ronald thump's" infant son. that would have gone well over my head as a kid, not knowing who donald trump was.
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Alrighty then I guess Disney did it right.
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I saw the movie yesterday and I must say that I liked it. It was basically just as expected: Pure, unconditional fluff that was meant to be fun. No more, no less. The movie started out a little slow, but fortunately took off afterwards. Dwayne Johnson was exactly as expected and played the charismatic leading hero as usual. Jack Whitehall`s character was more fun, though, despite that he didn`t stole the show. Otherwise, the story was basically another Indiana Jones-type premise. The visuals were splendid, despite how some of the CGI on some animals were a little obvious. But otherwise a fun movie, despite that it`s not particularly memorable.
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DisneyFan09 wrote:I saw the movie yesterday and I must say that I liked it. It was basically just as expected: Pure, unconditional fluff that was meant to be fun. No more, no less. The movie started out a little slow, but fortunately took off afterwards. Dwayne Johnson was exactly as expected and played the charismatic leading hero as usual. Emily Blunt was lackluster and was essentially just a stuffy, but whiny and unappealing Willie-archetype. Jack Whitehall`s character was more fun, though, despite that he didn`t stole the show. Otherwise, the story was basically another Indiana Jones-type premise. The visuals were splendid, despite how some of the CGI on some animals were a little obvious. But otherwise a fun movie, despite that it`s not particularly memorable.

Really? “Willie –archetype” as in Willie Scott from Temple of doom? By God, way more appealing than that if that’s What do you mean? Even if she may be whiny, at least she has Determination, charisma and was quite fun to watch compared to the overly whiny and just downright annoying Willie Scott. Also in my opinion way better, At the very least way less dated than any of the Indiana Jones [and maybe even possibly at least the first Pirates of Caribbean, and Pirates of Caribbean is my favourite Live action movie franchise Of all time :-) engaging, Charismatic, way better pacing, And especially in the formers case More broadly appealing and relatable characters in my own opinion. Against the latter, not only does it have better pacing, but also better and more connecting storytelling tools embracing the notion that film is Show don’t tell, Which Are the main reasons why the first part is my least favourite series; even though it is shorter than the next two movies, it feels longer because of its slow and even on even piecing, And As just mentioned, There is way too much explanation/exposition through talking/ as the writers State “characters telling stories“, which gets kind of boring and confusing especially when they seemingly act like you have to know certain things going into it that are not necessarily common knowledge such as “the treasure of Cortez himself“. Who the heck is Cortez? If I didn’t know any better, Are you saying that the movie is somehow connected to the spy kids movies because they’re both/were owned by Disney? Jungle Cruise doesn’t have any of that as It explains everything right up front and other things that are much easier to follow way including use of flashbacks which is What curse of theBlack Pearl for least some of it’s back stories really should’ve used To not only make it easier to follow but also more connecting and understanding to what’s going On. Don’t get me wrong, I still really like Curse of the black pearl, Even more so now that I’m older, but I still overall have those same issues with it, and just prefer all the sequels more even with the moments that I do like from curse of the Black Pearl, some of which are better than the sequels and of course jungle Cruise itself
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