| chakkra said: My brother in Christ.. I find it quite amusing that you see an article titled "Corp seeking ways to win back young men" and you feel the need to go "Oh, no. It is actually other demographics that have stopped going to the theater". I mean, this article was based on research data, you know? And I don't even understand how you even got to that conclusion anyways; I mean, the existence of 4 Marvel movies a year did not stop women from watching Lilo & Stich, Moana 2, Wicked, Inside Out 2, Barbie, It Ends with Us, Beauty and The Beast, etc. And the existence of 4 Marvel movies a year did not stop adult men from watching Top Gun Maverick, Openheimer, Dune, F1, Joker, James Bond, Avatar, Sinners, Weapons, etc, etc, etc. Again, movies for "other audiences" are not only still being made (like usual), but they are doing just fine. There is a reason why we are not having this discussion in an article titled "Disney is seeking ways to win back women and 'other audiences'". |
I think you are missing his point entirely. Disney is loosing the young men audience NOW, but that is only such a problem because they have been the main focus for more than a decade at the expense of others.
You may say that they are making movies for other audiences too, well one audience that is, little girls, but even those movies are not receiving the same backing as the nerd garbage. And even the stuff Disney makes for little girls are just rehashes of older much better films, so they are bound to end up in the same situation as Marvel/Star Wars eventually, people get tired of being fed the same shit over and over.
To Soundwave’s point here is the Box office top ten from 2018, when the nerd franchises were at the height of popularity:
Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Incredibles 2
Aquaman
Bohemian Rhapsody
Venom
Mission Impossible - Fallout
Deadpool 2
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindewald
You can’t tell me this is a balanced top ten with stuff for everybody. There is Bohemian Rhapsody as an outlier Fantastic Beasts overlap with some other audience groups. The rest is pretty much for the same audience. Any year in the 2010s look similar.
Nowadays the charts are a bit different, mainly because the Marvel and Star Wars stuff doesn’t excite people so much anymore - that is a good thing. A lot of the people Disney relied on to rake up those box office numbers would now rather see the new Sonic movie, Dune, Godzilla, Minecraft or a tv series. So if Disney have to compete they have to make something that isn’t the same as what they have been doing for 15 years.
Last edited by Vinther1991 - on 26 August 2025
