It's live action. As for The Lion King.... hopefully never. Yuck.

Disney makes peanuts at the box office. Like literally, they hardly even care, the real money is from merch, amusement parks and ESPN et al.

It seems like the movie is also good, which I really didn't expect at the beginning. I might give it a try.

Abomination! I saw the trailer :( This is Jungle book


Not this

And Marvel/Star Wars movies. Those still pull quite the numbers.

Watched it randomly last night just to join my brother and his kids, and I gotta say it was surprisingly enjoyable.

Nah, trust me, in the grand scheme of Disney, even SW and MCU movies mean diddly squat for their profit.

Remember reading it a long time ago. Probably not watching it. but good for them!

Exactly, if anything they care more about the parks than they do the movies and have recently gone well out of their way to give Hollywood studios multiple new attractions while also removing some to change the parks general appearance (though it's sad they removed some good attractions/rides), they make a shit ton from all their parks combined each year.

This even proves your point on the products and interactive media: https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/the-walt-disney-company-reports-record-quarterly-earnings-for-the-first-quarter-of-fiscal-2016/

Also look at all those plans they have in store for the multiple parks, it's insane: https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2015/08/live-updates-from-walt-disney-parks-and-resorts-presentation-at-2015-d23-expo/

(Huge Disney/Universal/Sea world park fan btw)

Hated the original animated version. This one does look good. Seems like it has really high production values. I'll see it eventually.

Goddamn right, plus, the new one can't TOUCH the original soundtrack.