Zootopia made me realize it doesn't really matter whether a movie is part of the billion dollar club anymore
Before, it was only the movies that were pop culture phenomenons that made a billion dollars. Then, in the 2010's, occasionally a movie that was an actual pop culture phenomenon (like Frozen) would make a billion dollars but now it's mostly franchises, mainly made by Disney, that come and go from the public eye.
And when Zootopia not only got a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes but had the highest-grossing opening weekend (at that point) for an animated Disney movie, I thought it was going to be a pop culture phenomenon like Frozen, The Lion King, or even Finding Nemo.
But, while it was well-received by audiences and has an extremely vocal fanbase to put it lightly, that never really happened, as far as the United States is concerned (as I heard it was huge in Asia). But here hardly anyone I knew talked about the movie. And, if they did, I was the one to bring it up more often than not. Once it grossed a billion dollars, though, I thought it was going to gain popularity but, no, it didn't. It was just received as another "good animated Disney/Pixar movie", it didn't really stick out from the pack.
And that made me realize that it doesn't really matter if a movie makes a billion dollars anymore. You don't even need to be part of a franchise anymore, as Zootopia wasn't really except for animated Disney movies. Now it's normal for a movie to make a billion dollars, as Zootopia proved.
Submitted March 29, 2020 at 04:48AM by mranimal2 https://ift.tt/2Ur93h6