Reviews may have been mixed, but it doesn’t seem that is going to put off audiences from taking a trip to the circus this weekend as Walt Disney Pictures’ Dumbo is expected to open with between $137 million and $155 million worldwide.
Director Tim Burton’s live-action reimagining of the animated classic is being projected for between $50 to $60 million domestically, which would put it well below Beauty and the Beast ($174.8 million), The Jungle Book ($103.3 million) and Burton’s previous Disney effort Alice in Wonderland ($116.1 million), as well as Maleficent ($69.4 million) and Cinderella ($67.9 million).
An additional $80 to $90 million from international markets will certainly help to soften that blow, but at this point it certainly looks like Dumbo may struggle to reach the heights of Disney’s previous animated remakes.
SEE ALSO: Read our reviews of Dumbo here and here
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.
