What Will Become of The Nutcracker and the Four Realms' Box Office: The Dwindling performances of Disney live-action adaptations

by: keaton marcus

Will audiences flock to Disney’s Nutcracker, or simply give it not attention this weekend

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If you have a look at all the Disney-live-action adaptions completed so far, you will notice many, many Box Office hits such as Malecifent, Beauty and the Beast, Oz the Great and Powerful or the remake of Cinderella, but going down the list, you may also take to mind the big-budget flops Disney has created such as The Lone Ranger, A Wrinkle in Time, Tomorrowland and Alice Through the Looking Glass, looking at this, the results are seemingly mixed, but what will become of Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms which although has popular themes behind it, and an all-star cast, may be destined to flop for many reasons:

  • Bad critical reception

  • Most likely a 150M+ budget

  • Lack of marketing

  • Tough competition, Bohemian Rhapsody

These are all reasons why Nutcracker may be the latest Disney Box Office bomb, and considering the early suggestions of a 23-26M three-day debut, things are not looking good for the Disney children-targeted flick. However, there is still a couple of reasons (maybe not enough), why this might be a Disney hit.

  • An all-star cast, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren and Kiera Knightly

  • Pure visual razzle-dazzle

  • Popular themes, (the nutcracker)

Now here is the list of every Disney-live action adaption, and as you may notice the results are mixed:

  • Beauty and the Beast: $504.014M on a 160M production budget

  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest: $423.315M on a 225M production budget

  • The Jungle Book: $364.001M on a 175M production budget

  • Alice in Wonderland: $334.191M on a 200M production budget

  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End: $309.420M on a 300M production budget

  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: $305.413M on a 140M production budget

  • Malecifent: $241.410M on a 180M production budget

  • Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: $241.071M on a 410M production budget

  • Oz the Great and Powerful: $234.911M on a 217M production budget

  • Cinderella: $201.151M on a 95M production budget

  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales: $172.558M on a 280M production budget

  • A Wrinkle in Time: $100.478M on a 115M production budget

  • Tomorrowland: $93.436M on a 185M production budget

  • Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: $90.759M on a 200M production budget

  • The Lone Ranger: $89.302M on a 215M production budget

  • Alice Through the Looking Glass: $77.041M on a 170M production budget

  • Pete’s Dragon: $76.233M on a 65M production budget

As you can see, this list of the some of the newer Disney-live-action films result in mixed feelings, showing that while some movies created by Disney have audiences going nuts, and some of the others, have massive production budgets and small Box Office; Here are our collected averages:

  • Average Domestic Gross: $226.647M

  • Average Production Budget: 196M

    This proves that although Disney has had many misses, its average gross is usually higher than the occasional massive production budgets, however this does not determine the fate of the new film.