Disney rebooting Home Alone, Night at the Museum, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid for Disney+
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What a bizarre assortment...
Night and the Museum and Diary of a Wimpy Kid be fine as a series, but are they talking about movies here?
Home Alone is a bad choice. The original movies already have a big and consistent audience and the concept is not explorable beyond its pretty confined concept. So you are either remaking the exact same movie that people still watch regularly or you are stretching a concept further than it can sustain. Let alone the challenges of adapting it in to the modern world of technology.
Also, if these are all intended to be movies, it seems like they're bloating Disney+ with a ton of garbage. Disney+ as a dumping ground for a huge volume of one-off remakes and spin-offs that would previously have gone direct to video or something sounds like a nightmare to navigate. I have this weird feeling that when Disney+ has been out for a year there will be lots of articles examining how it has the aesthetic of a Wal Mart bargain bin of DVD compilations.
Night and the Museum and Diary of a Wimpy Kid be fine as a series, but are they talking about movies here?
Home Alone is a bad choice. The original movies already have a big and consistent audience and the concept is not explorable beyond its pretty confined concept. So you are either remaking the exact same movie that people still watch regularly or you are stretching a concept further than it can sustain. Let alone the challenges of adapting it in to the modern world of technology.
Also, if these are all intended to be movies, it seems like they're bloating Disney+ with a ton of garbage. Disney+ as a dumping ground for a huge volume of one-off remakes and spin-offs that would previously have gone direct to video or something sounds like a nightmare to navigate. I have this weird feeling that when Disney+ has been out for a year there will be lots of articles examining how it has the aesthetic of a Wal Mart bargain bin of DVD compilations.
Kevin is left alone at Facebook and has to protect it from being invaded by Russian bots.
Cheaper by the Dozen also.
It's weird because Netflix made their brand with original stories and adventurous concepts. Netflix made shows you couldn't find anywhere else on television. Disney's strategy seems to be the opposite (so far). They are just producing a huge amount of content associated with existing brands, concepts, and ideas. Retellings and retoolings and spin-offs.
This seems unnecessary because Disney already owns decades worth of familiar content that people will already pay and subscribe to access. Is a remake of Home Alone supposed to make me subscribe to Disney+ more than just putting Home Alone on Disney+ to watch whenever I want?
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