#How many times has Disney released a trailer to a series without being accused of covering up workplace abuse

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I hate those baseless "Big Brand is covering up their bad business practices by doing a PR stunt!!" posts because 1. you're wrong and 2. you're wrong

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Let’s talk about Disney’s live action remakes.

The reason why I get so mad at people citing “copyright issues” as why these movies are made isn’t just that it’s absolutely nonsensical and untrue but, mainly, that this stance of “it’s just for copyright” erases the responsibility of people who go watch these things, one after the other, during opening week if possible.

Iger’s entire CEO run so far has been focused on acquiring IPs and extending them, whether it’s on movie franchises, series or in the parks. This can be seen in everything, from overlays in the parks to the merchandise like the whole line of exact same Minnie ears with different instagram-sounding colors (Rose Gold, Potion Purple, Briar Rose, Cherry Blossom...).  

In Disney Animation, the change was gradual. 

The first instance was making Lasseter head director of BOTH Pixar and Disney Animation, something that happened after Iger purchased Pixar as a response to the conflict Disney and Pixar had during the late Eisner era. This placement of Lasseter started a “pixarization” of DA, especially considering that Pixar was doing well with their movies while Disney Animation was going through a tough period. 

Pixar was born with the overall idea of being “anti-Disney”, a boys club group  that wanted to make movies like the ones they saw growing up, so no musicals, almost no female leads, and trying to subvert (and sometimes mock) the most famous Disney tropes. An obvious exception was Brave, because it was created, written and initially directed by Brenda Chapman, until they took her out of her own project and gave it to men. 

Not all Pixar movies are the same, I’m not coming for the entirety of Pixar, but the vast majority of the projects, especially the earliest ones, were drenched in this idea of not only being different from what Disney Animation was known for, but also having a lack of representation that has been criticized by people working there, including those who abandoned projects because of said issues, even before the Lasseter mess. 

So, Disney Animation movies, although with some good solid releases, started including mockery to its own legacy, in a way that sometimes seemed a bit excessive. You needed princesses saying “I’m not a princess” or “I’m not going to sing” or “you can’t fall in love with the first guy you meet” even though then they do exactly that but with a different guy...you get my point.

This was also the beginning of considering theatrically released sequels, something Pixar was never shy to do (Toy Story 2 came out in the 90s even) but Disney Animation had never really done that, aside from isolated cases like The Rescuers Down Under (sequels tended to be for tv or home video release). It had been a preferred method, since Walt’s time, to keep moving forward and keep pushing the envelope instead of settling with their theatrically released feature length films, in comparison to shorts, cartoons or series meant for tv.

The idea for theatrically released sequels, though, was something other studios did indiscriminately, and whether the movies resulting on that were good, bad or terrible, the truth was that they made money.

As the measure for success in US cinema started to be circumscribed to how many millions a movie could make in the domestic box office during its first week, the profit started to be more focused on things that were immediately recognizable rather than new and original.

Going to see a movie you have no idea about isn’t as comfortable an investment as going to see something you recognize and know for sure you’re at least interested in. So, basically, movies like Ice Age 3 and Minions were making more money in the first week than movies like Big Hero 6 or Moana.

And, with that, let me bring back the subject of audiences’ responsibility.

A good portion of the internet at large, even more so tumblr, demands constantly for animation and specifically Disney to hold more representation in their movies. Then, when push comes to shove, they don’t support those films as much as they claim they would.

There is a double edge discourse with them, because when a movie with some form of representation happens, they’re held to a higher standard and when something doesn’t feel good enough, internet culture “cancels” it without giving them a chance. But when the movies don’t even try, there’s nothing much to dissect, so they get a pass (something that happens with all of media and not just movies).

So, when you look at US box office numbers, movies like Toy Story 3, Frozen and Incredibles (1 or 2) against Moana, Big Hero 6 and Coco (it’s important to note that these last 3 did better internationally than in the US but who cares about us, right?), the numbers aren’t supporting the demand, and most of those movies with representation had controversies regarding that BEFORE they were released, which affected the initial box office performance (sometimes warranted controversies, like the whole Día de los Muertos copyright issue, and sometimes completely unwarranted, like that “it was a rip off of The Book Of Life” which Disney had “previously rejected”, false accusations that were perpetually denied by the directors of both films, who were always in contact with each other and supported each other’s movies, but which caused massive online campaigns to boycott Coco before it was released). 

So, with all this in mind, what better way to gain easy and safe box office numbers with not much conceptual work and get people in theaters in the first week? Bringing back already established successes.  

Enter the live action remakes.

We could also dissect how Marvel and Star Wars play the same exact role but taking different approaches and having had different methods of establishing themselves with audiences, but that’s another couple of cans of worms I’m not willing to open here.

The live action remakes are, in essence, the easiest of the bunch to create. Differently from the animated sequels, the Marvel films and the Star Wars films, they don’t require new ideas for the core plot of the story. They change a few things here and there, some take more liberties, some less, but overall they can’t really change the story all that much without turning them unrecognizable.

Still, all of these remakes have specific pointers that assure good marketing for the first week of release: the use of a highly popular Disney film, the casting of very well-known actors whose ability to fulfill the actual needs of the role isn’t as important as how big their names are, initial teaser trailers that make it seem exactly like the original or, at least, use the same songs or similar shots, the use of increasingly newer movies as a base, employing very iconic and famous directors or songwriters...you get the point.

And, you know what? they pay off.

Live action Beauty & the Beast, despite receiving mixed reviews from fans, became in just one week and a half “the biggest live-action musical ever in domestic and worldwide grosses, not accounting for inflation”. People complained about it, yes, but that was after paying money to see it as soon as possible. 

So basically, what I’m saying is, don’t act surprised about this. Don’t blame copyright and Disney and CEOs being cheap greedy bastards if you’re gonna go pay for these films opening day, however the cost. Because we’re all responsible for that as well, we all choose what to put our money on and which things to support. 

The next time you talk about copyright, make sure you don’t already have your ticket for opening week, that’s all I’m saying. If you want them to stop happening, stop going to see them. 

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"Pirates Of The Caribbean 5 '' Final Adventure mean by ............. What !!!

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell In Tales we flew with his new trailer on Thursday. But most of all, we were surprised when the title cards formed the phrase "The Last Adventure Begins." What does this mean for the future of the franchise?

We learned that the Disney Pirates had more movies in the works. In fact, it was generally assumed that Dead Men Tell No Tales is the beginning of a new trilogy, although the study has not already been said. It seems natural that the franchise will follow the example of Star Wars with new characters throughout restarting the classics. But the trailer released Thursday indicates that "the last adventure begins," bring a sense of purpose and to start the next movie. If Disney is finally ready to let you finish the Pirates franchise? Or have a much darker story than expected? Here are some ways for what the followers could mean by "ending": This could be the last movie in the Pirates franchise This seems to be the least likely option because the Caribbean franchise pirates raised more than $ 1270000000 in domestic box office, and it is one of Disney's most successful companies to date. Johnny Depp also has his availability while Captain Jack Sparrow to play as the audience wants to do it - and the audience is thrilled to see him again, to play the role. But very bad to do with Stranger Tides among critics (although worth noting that made more than a $ 241 million at the box office), the study can not escape, warn that people tired of money hijackers little substance. Would make the dead men do not tell tales an amazing ending definitely a divisor to be, and enhance the credibility of the franchise after the difficult reception Strange Tides. This is the first movie of a reboot with a "definitive" But let's face it - Disney knows millions of lines this time you can. And Depp and Orlando Bloom on board, it is highly unlikely to bring everything to an end soon. We know that Bloom was initially (in 2014 anyway) with the impression that this movie the beginning of a restart would be. The fact that it "begins," he also said, referring to the fact that it may be the first - presumably - three. HitFix had an "exclusive report" in 2010, movies 5 and 6 would be filmed back-to-back ... which is not naturally happen. But the fact that it was an idea for 6 makes it clear that something is at work. It is also hard to believe that the movie would stop at 6 and not go to 7. It is making almost a rule of studio movies in three. The addition of Kaya Scodelario and Brenton Thwaites also makes it highly unlikely that the saga would bring to an end here. With the character of Thwaites still an unknown identity, if this is a continuation of the Turner family story still in the air. When Henry Henry Turner, then you can not stories Dead Men begins the story of a new generation to make pirate in a saga between generations. If so, conveyed by the trailer on purpose, it is likely that in the next two or three films to follow an arc of a single story, a constant supply of money to make sure Disney would allow this because the public does not want to miss the end of Which to know definitively, is once for ever. There are still a lot of them covered in the universe of pirates, speaking historically. While the fact that the pirate has an endangered race had to be explored during the first trilogy, he was never directed all over the dispute over Davy Jones and Calypso ending up in the world. The history of East India Trading Company's departure and the slow decline of piracy in the New World is very complex, with great potential for more movies.

While the end of the world tries to pull our hearts to the last position of the sibling's court, in the Stranger Tides before, unfortunately, caused much of their emotional weight not to show how the world is changing as a result of the film. Maybe Disney wants to, this time to learn from their mistakes, and actually do the final finishing. So why not post, that this will be a trilogy? Maybe they expect the theater seating seats fill tension. This is not the last movie, but it's the end of Jack Sparrow Perhaps Disney is riding on our guess even more money in this series of surprising us about Jack Sparrow with death. This would certainly be a surprise - and to pack the latest emotional blow. Do they dare to kill Jack? Dead men do not tell tales, following allegations of domestic violence comes against Depp that many have led to Disney not take the abuse to seriously accuse and continue to give determined actors unknown functions. This could be a reason to want to perpetuate his best he and away from any charge Depp killing Disney Jack Sparrow. But to continue to play with promising Jack Depp, Disney is unlikely to the ability to give, to continue to win from the actor's personal life, money character. It is likely, therefore, that Jack's death will be decided by maximum emotional impact. After all, it would be that the only way to permanently end the Pirates of the Caribbean permanently (until, inevitably, a spin-off of the boy! Jack do). We have from the beginning, following the story of Jack, and although the addition of new characters to interact with him, certainly a new freshness to make the film, the plot of the film falls exclusively on Jack's journey. He is, after all, the backbone of the franchise. However, it is also possible that Disney brings new characters along with Will Turner to change Jack's weight, and let the story go on without him. If they were to kill Jack, but it would be natural to expect a dark trailer; No one is like this last, all adventure and comedy had Curse of the Black Pearl. It may be that while the dead men Jack is meant not to tell stories, adventures and covers a number of films in order to survive, it is "finally" because it is Jack's last. Jack is more likely to die at the end of this trilogy, or at least to withdraw in a defined way. Shortly after the launch of the last trailer, asked Cinema Blends Dead Men's Co-director Tell No Tales, Joachim Rønning, whether this is really the end. He had a very cryptic answer, either to be modest about the future potential, or is deliberately careful to hide the awful truth from us. It is hard to say. I think it's always ... this is the beginning of the end. [Laughs] That depends on how you look. But I never take anything for granted, and I love the franchise. These films remind me of the kind of movies I grew up with these kind of adventure films that make me want to be a filmmaker. So for me being able to be a part of it and running a Pirates of the Caribbean is a dream come true. But I do not know if it's the last, or if they'll make ten more - I do not know! But I hope so!

Unfortunately, we will not know until May 26 when the movie is released in theaters.

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