How bad did Disneys films do at the U.S. box office this quarter*?
Take a look: • Bedtime Stories: $110 million on an $80 million budget. • Confessions of A Shopaholic: $43.2 million (budget unknown) • The Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience: $19.2 million (budget unknown) [Interestingly, this was the only movie Disney failed to mention on its conference call as performing poorly in the quarter, even though it did worse than all of its other films during the period.] • Race to Witch Mountain: $49.2 million (budget unknown) And as Disney noted, those films didn’t do as well as Q2 2008 titles National Treasure 2 ($218.3 million US), Enchanted ($127.7 million on an $85 million budget) and the Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus 3-D concert film ($64.9 million). Disney’s DVDs released during the quarter (High School Musical 3, Beverly Hills Chihuahua and Bolt) also didn’t sell as well as last year’s Q2 titles (Enchanted, The Game Plan and No Country For Old Men). The Mouse House said it’s expecting a similar Q3 from its studio entertainment division, purely
