A Disney Flop Is Now Dominating The Streaming Charts - Giant Freakin Robot

Strange World has skyrocketed to #1 connected Disney+

By Mark McKee | Published 6 mins ago

There are nary studios successful the manufacture that has much power successful the animation genre than Disney, with their unthinkable humanities contributions like Lion King, Aladdin, and Beauty and the Beast. That doesn’t mean that the workplace ever hits a location tally erstwhile they merchandise a caller big, animated release, arsenic proven by their Thanksgiving-timed driblet of Strange World, which ended up landing hard with a large and devastating thud. A theatrical flop nowadays doesn’t ever mean it is simply a full nonaccomplishment since studios person a agelong database of disposable avenues to merchandise the films connected streaming, wherever according to Flix Patrol, the flop is present dominating successful the #1 spot connected Disney+. 

Flix Patrol shows that erstwhile the movie was dropped connected Disney+, which was conscionable successful clip for Christmas connected December 23. Of course, with nary surprise, determination were 5 Christmas movies connected the apical 10 database for the week of Christmas, including Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost successful New York, and Santa Clause, but erstwhile the vacation buzz wore disconnected connected December 26, Strange World hit the fig 1 spot and has been determination ever since. The way to the streaming work seems to awesome an absorbing conflict Disney is having betwixt theatrical releases and streaming exclusives. 

With a dependable formed of Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, Jaboukie Young-White, Gabrielle Union, and Lucy Liu, determination was decidedly capable prima powerfulness to transportation the movie to the apical of the container bureau astir weekends. In its archetypal play implicit Thanksgiving, it sat firmly astatine the fig 2 spot behind Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and by the 2nd week, David Harbour’s crook arsenic Kris Kringle successful the Christmas enactment movie Violent Night pushed the kid’s movie to fig three. All successful all, to this point, Strange World has brought successful an anemic $67 cardinal and looks to beryllium a nonaccomplishment of implicit $100 cardinal for Disney. 

Moving the movie to Disney+ truthful soon aft the movie bombed astatine the container bureau looks similar a hopeless determination to find an assemblage for the film, which points to the company’s inability to work what volition bash good successful the theatre and what won’t. Over the Halloween holiday, Disney dropped Hocus Pocus 2 as a streaming exclusive, causing fans to knock the institution for not putting it successful the theater, the other mistake the adjacent vacation feels similar a increasing trend. On apical of that, immoderate fans judge the institution betrayed Strange World and that it was intentionally released a week after Black Panther: Wakanda Forever to fell its existent intentions to hide the movie. 

Content creator Little Saint Sidney (@thederpyhipster) accused Disney connected Twitter of trying to descend Strange World with a deficiency of marketing. The divers formed and archetypal openly queer pb led to Disney not releasing the movie overseas successful markets that censor that material, and with each the buzz present astatine location lone reporting the movie bombing led to a dismal theatre showing. 

Of course, Strange World isn’t finished arsenic it is present steaming up connected streaming with the fig 1 spot for a fewer days running, adjacent portion competing with Willow and National Treasure. Time volition archer whether the movie volition go a cult classical similar different Disney underperformers like Atlantis and Treasure Planet or if it volition get mislaid successful the pages of obscurity.