In just a few short weeks, Disney will unleash the first of three remakes of its animated movies set to arrive this year with the release Tim Burton’s live-action adaptation of the 1941 classic Dumbo.
According to industry tracking estimates, the film – which features a cast that includes Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Eva Green and Danny DeVito – looks set to open to between $50 million and $60 million in its first weekend at the domestic box office.
Those figures are on the low end of Disney’s recent remakes (Beauty and the Beast leads the pack with a whopping $174.8 million while Burton’s previous effort Alice in Wonderland debuted to $116.1 million in 2010).
However, with the film set to open in the majority of markets (including China) across the same weekend, Disney will surely be fairly confident of taking a big chunk of the global box office when Dumbo takes flight.
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Disney’s new live-action feature film “Dumbo” introduces Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell), a former circus star who finds his life turned upside down when he returns from the war. Circus owner Max Medici (Danny DeVito) enlists Holt to care for a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him a laughingstock in an already struggling circus. But when Holt’s children (Nico Parker and Finley Hobbins) discover that Dumbo can fly, persuasive entrepreneur V.A. Vandevere (Michael Keaton) and an aerial artist named Colette Marchant (Eva Green) swoop in to make the peculiar pachyderm a star.
Dumbo is set for release on March 29th 2019 and features a cast that includes Colin Farrell (The Lobster), Michael Keaton (Beetlejuice), Danny DeVito (Batman Returns), Eva Green (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children), Joseph Gatt (Z Nation), DeObia Oparei (Game of Thrones), Roshan Seth (Gandhi), Sharon Rooney (My Mad Fat Diary), Alan Arkin (Edward Scissorhands) and Douglas Reith (Downton Abbey), as well as newcomers Nico Parker and Finley Hobbins.
