Disney's Haunted Mansion movie

[Andrew NDB]

Jesus that looks terrible. So this will be the next big Disney bomb, coming out this weekend.

160 million production budget.

[Wildcat]

I’d really like to see this. It looks much better than the Eddie Murphy one. It looks creepy but in a lighthearted/cartoony way. Probably what the Live Action Scooby Doo movies should have been like.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Wildcat

It looks much better than the Eddie Murphy one.

I totally forgot that even existed. Or maybe I never even did?



This actually looks better than the new one to me, SFX aside.

[Andrew NDB]

Ooooh, weekend #1 is done and it only brought in 24 million. Ouch! They're going to lose easily 150 million when it's all said and done here.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Ooooh, weekend #1 is done and it only brought in 24 million. Ouch! They're going to lose easily 150 million when it's all said and done here.

I seem to remember the original Haunted Mansion being a major underperformer coming hot off the heels of Pirates of the Caribbean.

Heh, guess it's that rare season where Warner Bros. knocks Disney around at the box office.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

I seem to remember the original Haunted Mansion being a major underperformer coming hot off the heels of Pirates of the Caribbean.

Not nearly as bad. The 2003 Haunted Mansion had a 90 million dollar budget, did 75 million domestic with another 80 million internationally. So it about broke even, at the very least.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Not nearly as bad. The 2003 Haunted Mansion had a 90 million dollar budget, did 75 million domestic with another 80 million internationally. So it about broke even, at the very least.

I think the bigger disappointment about the first film was that there was legitimate hope it would ride the momentum of Pirates to become a similar global phenomenon. At the time, Disney was probably so proud of the idea of their theme park rides turning into hit movies that they didn't understand it's not just a simple formula of cranking out "another one." A lesson they are learning now about their live-action remakes of animated classics. Surprised they were willing to "go again" on the theme park ride experiment with an even worse result. Guess I shouldn't expect a new movie about "It's a Small World" anytime soon.

[newfan]

I went to see this with my children seen as we'd watched the other one a few times when they were younger, I was surprised that I liked it for the most part. I could appreciate the story being different thiswith the last movie not being (or at least seeming) that long ago.