Aladin, Dumbo, and Co: Disney's Remakes | Movies | '
An enchanting computer-generated flying elephant, a circus world created by Tim Burton in his signature steampunk style, Danny DeVito and Michael Keaton in an All-Star cast, and a bittersweet score by composer Danny Elfman: despite a number of rather average reviews which Dumbo has already collected, will surely bring Disney's latest film to the movies for many families.
"Dumbo" did not even have its first cinema weekend behind it, as a critic of the newspaper "The Guardian predicted in view of the increasing negative film discussions already that" a dumbo-flop could jeopardize the master plan ".
This refers to the systematic recycling of animated classics in the Walt Disney Studios. And the procedure will certainly not be put on ice so quickly, after all, the film company has been stuck with this strategy for two decades. Although not all remakes became blockbusters, they brought and still bring in enough money at the box office.
A trend from the 1990s
Real-movie remakes of classic Disney animated films were first produced in the 1990s: "The Jungle Book" appeared in 1994, and "101 Dalmatians" came out in 1996. But it took nearly 15 years for Disney to realize the full potential of such recycling. And thanks to Tim Burton: his adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland" (2010) let the ticket sales in the billions and became one of the most commercially successful films in the world. Disney seemed to have found a goldmine and has since tasted his remakes a lot – with correspondingly high expectations of the box office results.
The musical real-movie remake of "The Beauty and the Beast" (2017) devoured an estimated 227 million euros, making it the most expensive musical ever made. It was worth it: With a gross revenue of almost one billion euros worldwide, the musical film is number two in the most successful films of the year. Incidentally, the first place in 2017 was "Star Wars: The Last Jedi", also a production of the Walt Disney Studios.
Dreamland – clearly inspired by Disneyland
Ironically, critics in Tim Burton's "Sufficiently Charming Remake" also see a "sharp Disney critique," as the US-American news site "Vox" writes. With the explicit allusion that Burton has made in "Dumbo" – the villain is an entertainment mogul and creator of an amusement park, not unlike Disneyland – the filmmaker admits his dispassionate work of recent years is the result of a greedy entertainment industry a la Disney.
Several remakes in progress
The trend to real filming will certainly not stop this criticism; the mega-studio continues its course. Three more remakes will follow on "Dumbo" this year: "Aladdin" due to be released in May, the eagerly awaited remake of "The Lion King" is scheduled for July, followed by a sequel to "The Dark Fairy" in October (2014), based on the Animated Sleeping Beauty of 1959.
And this list is far from over: "Susi and Strolch" and "Mulan" are already in post-production, "Pinocchio", "The Little Mermaid" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" are just a few more titles that are currently in production Of course, not all Disney remakes will bring in billions of dollars in box office earnings, but in the years to come they will attract public attention time and time again.
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