Mulan (Live-Action)

[DisneyFan97]

I won’t pay this much for a movie i can’t own

[Sotiris]

Funko, Hasbro, shopDisney and More Reveal “Mulan” Movie Tie-in Merchandise
https://www.laughingplace.com/w/article ... rchandise/

El Capitan Theatre Celebrating Release of “Mulan” on Disney+ With Exclusive Pins and Concessions Items
https://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/20 ... ons-items/

“Mulan” Collection by ColourPop Brings Out the Loyal Brave True Sides of Every Graceful Warrior
https://www.laughingplace.com/w/article ... y-warrior/

“Mulan” Preview Opens as Part of Walt Disney Presents at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
https://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/20 ... d-studios/

Gold House Launches Inaugural #GoldOpen Premier Access For Disney’s Live-Action ‘Mulan’
https://deadline.com/2020/08/gold-house ... 203024113/

Disney Adds Apple, Roku And Google For ‘Mulan’ PVOD Billing On Disney+
https://deadline.com/2020/08/disney-add ... 203020104/

‘Mulan’ Disney+ International Price Points Undercut U.S.; Film Will Cost Roughly $26 In Canada, UK, Spain
https://deadline.com/2020/08/mulan-disn ... 203022542/

[Sotiris]

New posters.


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Promos.


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[Sotiris]

Christina Aguilera's new Reflection will be released this week. Here's a promo for its release. Until then, you can hear a snippet of Reflection sung by Liu Yifei in English. I wonder if the new Reflection will be a duet between Aguilera and Yifei. Personally, I hope it's not a duet and they both get solo versions. Update: The lyric video, the music video, and the behind-the-scenes featurette for the new Reflection are now out.

Happy 21st anniversary to my debut, self titled album! So crazy -- 21 years ago, I scored Reflection and my record deal in the same week. Fast forward to today, the 21st anniversary is falling on the same week my new rendition of Reflection is dropping. The stars are all aligning. Thanks to all you guys celebrating!

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CESCIVNJ_mk/

A full circle moment! I’m just as excited today as baby X was here. So fresh and green and in awe of how my life had turned out. One day, one audition changed my life! Mulan’s Reflection is so meaningful to me. And it means even more to have created this new rendition, 21 years later. Can’t wait for you to hear it!

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Are we going to hear Reflection this week?

Christina Aguilera: Yes ma’am!

Source: https://twitter.com/xtina/status/1298035333339193344

My new rendition of Mulan’s Reflection is out now! I am at a place of new beginnings in my life and set out to embrace the woman I’ve become, having grown up in this business, till now. So this song always resonates and represents exciting and new chapters & energy for me. I hope you enjoy this fresh new take of Reflection. Thank you Disney for always being a special family to me, providing so many personal & public moments dear to my heart.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CEbITIWp4It/

Sneak peek of the video shoot for the new rendition of Reflection. This movie started it all for me, leading to a record deal and the rest of my career to follow...Exiting for you to see this beautiful film in live action.

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A little BTS.

Source: https://twitter.com/xtina/status/1299482769601384448

Of all the rare and irreplaceable elements of the classic 1998 animation, this one shines the brightest. ‘Reflection’ made a star of Christina Aguilera, and she pierced the hearts of millions with a song that spoke to the need to be who we truly are. We were so thrilled that Xtina would re-record the song in 2020 for the live action version. Listen to it to hear the growth and passion of a woman who became a legend herself. Thank you Xtina. What an honor and privilege to work with you. And what a powerful contribution you’ve made to this new Mulan.

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Source: http://disneymusic.co/MulanReflection2020


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Source: https://twitter.com/xtina/status/1299441059701821440

[Disney's Divinity]

Yay! Can't wait. I imagine the song may be more stripped down, especially the bridge. It'll be interesting to hear though; if anything, the texture of her voice has improved over the years, although of course her range is probably not as large as when she was young.

[Farerb]

So I have a speculation based on trailers and featurettes. I'm putting it in spoilers just in case:

It seems to me like the Witch will eventually be the big bad and that Bori might only be her pawn because she doesn't think she'll be taken seriously cause she's a woman. They might want to do that angle where two oppressed women try to better their situation, but one doing it by evil and the other by being heroic. In the end I have a feeling the showdown will be between them. Now you may ask how could Mulan defeat a powerful witch that can resurrect the dead and the answer is the phoenix and the "phoenix magic" we learned about months ago.

Of course that's only a speculation and I might be wrong.

[Sotiris]

Your theory is more interesting than what actually happens. The ending got leaked a while ago from the tie-in books. You can find it in this video. So, unless the books omitted things to prevent leaks like they did with Frozen 2, Mulan will just defeat Bori Khan by connecting to her chi and using his own energy against him causing him to fall from the scaffolding and plummet to his death.

[Farerb]

Reflection:
https://youtu.be/RNprQYHenNI

[Farerb]

Your theory is more interesting than what actually happens. The ending got leaked a while ago from the tie-in books. You can find it in this video. So, unless the books omitted things to prevent leaks like they did with Frozen 2, Mulan will just defeat Bori Khan by connecting to her chi and using his own energy against him causing him to fall from the scaffolding and plummet to his death.

Yes that does feel anticlimactic

[blackcauldron85]

Reflection:
https://youtu.be/RNprQYHenNI

Yes my queen!!! So, so good.

[Disney's Divinity]

I thought it was really nice! Of course the ending was mostly a re-creation of the original as much as possible (too bad the film didn't do the same), but I imagine it was cathartic for her to re-record this song the same way it was--sort of like trying on an outfit you wore decades ago.

[Sotiris]

Mulan will become available for free to all Disney+ subscribers on December 4th.


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[Sotiris]

• Music video for the new "Reflection" performed by Liu Yifei in Standard Mandarin.

• Music video for the new "Reflection" performed by Coco Lee in Taiwanese Mandarin. For those who don't know, Coco Lee was both the speaking and singing voice of Mulan in the Taiwanese Mandarin dub of the animated movie. She also performed the pop version of "Reflection" for the end credits.

• Music video for the new "Reflection" performed by Lee Suhyun in Korean.

• Music video for "Loyal, Brave, True" performed by Carmen Consoli in Italian.

• Music video for "Loyal, Brave, True" performed by Sandy in Portuguese.

• Music video for "Loyal, Brave, True" performed by Zuza Jabłońska in Polish.

• Lyric video for "Loyal, Brave, True" performed by Manizha in Russian.

• Lyric video for "Loyal, Brave, True" performed by Gulsim Myrzabekova in Kazakh.

• Lyric video for "Loyal, Brave, True" performed by Rosi Golan in Hebrew.

[blackcauldron85]

Knowing that you could pay approximately $30 to see Mulan early, or just wait 3 months & it'll be included in your D+ subscription, how many of you are going to pay the extra? I'm super-shocked that it's only a 3-month exclusive timeframe. I'd think it'd be 7 or 10 or 12 months or something. I bet that a lot of people will just wait 3 months, right? I'm "arguing" with my mom over email about this issue. She thinks it's greedy of Disney; she said that she thinks an extra $10 would be reasonable but that $30 is greedy. I said that the film cost $200 million to make, the film's already been marketed, they need to make lemonade out of lemons...

Just curious how many of you are going to pay the extra $30. I wasn't planning on seeing Mulan but if they do this for Soul, I'd be paying to see it in the theater, but knowing it's only 3 months...I don't know...

[Sotiris]

Your mom is right; they are being greedy. Yes, the film cost $200 million to produce and $100 million to market, but offering it for less would mean more people would be willing to pay for it. From what I've observed online, there is interest, but the cost is prohibitively expensive. Even if it was just $10 less, so $20 instead of $30 bucks, would have made a big difference.

I'm also surprised they're offering it for free in three months. I'm even more surprised they revealed it. I don't understand why they did that. Like you said, I think more people will choose to wait now.

[blackcauldron85]

I wonder if this will change filmmaking from now on. Why make a $200 million $ movie (and I wasn't even thinking about the separate marketing cost, so thanks for mentioning that) that people don't want to pay much $ to see, when you can make cheaper films (Togo was made for $40 million, for comparison)... I still don't know how a movie like Togo, Noelle, or Magic Camp will make their budgets back; at least Artemis Foul has merch, but I don't know how much of that they're selling. I know that D+ is making a lot of $ for Disney, but it boggles my mind...

[nomad2010]

I’m slightly confused why all the backlash against the $30 price tag is such an issue. This is the movies theatrical run basically, and if 500,000 people pay for the $30 “admission” over the three months, the film only makes 15 million. This isn’t a rental, so you can watch it more than once unlike the theatrical rentals on VOD. And it’s almost uniformly $15 for a movie ticket per person these days. So let’s say the average family is 4 people, that’s saving them $30 dollars compared to going to the movies and that’s not even taking in snacks. I get it seems high, but when you look at the numbers, it’s not extreme at all and a reasonable price especially considering it doesn’t disappear after 24 hours like any other rental.

[TheSequelOfDisney]

I’m slightly confused why all the backlash against the $30 price tag is such an issue. This is the movies theatrical run basically, and if 500,000 people pay for the $30 “admission” over the three months, the film only makes 15 million. This isn’t a rental, so you can watch it more than once unlike the theatrical rentals on VOD. And it’s almost uniformly $15 for a movie ticket per person these days. So let’s say the average family is 4 people, that’s saving them $30 dollars compared to going to the movies and that’s not even taking in snacks. I get it seems high, but when you look at the numbers, it’s not extreme at all and a reasonable price especially considering it doesn’t disappear after 24 hours like any other rental.

From my limited knowledge of who subscribes to Disney+, I'm going to assume that a lot of them actually aren't families of four. They're more likely young millennials with limited income who may or may not have a partner and may or may not have a child (more likely a dog, cat, or hardy plant). I'm single and go to the movie theater when tickets are $5. Paying six times more to watch one movie just doesn't make sense for me. At the very most I would spend $10 to see Mulan. Disney really is just being greedy here. With the economy flailing and a very difficult year already (and an even more difficult next few months), Disney just seems out of touch with their market right now. Yes, 2020 is the beginning of the thirty-year cycle where nostalgia goes into hyper drive and so I can see why the company would think millennials are all gung-ho about this, but I personally don't see how this particular marketing scheme will pan out.

[blackcauldron85]

nomad2010, I've been thinking what you're thinking, and I also wasn't planning on seeing this film, but I understand where Sotiris and TheSequelOfDisney mean, and yeah, it's less likely that one person will pay for Mulan than a family that would've paid as much at the theater, especially with such a tiny "free on D+" window. And also that paying for the film on D+ with an extra cost wasn't what D+ was intended for. I just wonder if withholding Mulan until 2021 if that's when all theaters open back up would have led to less goodwill of people towards Disney.

[estefan]

I'm also surprised they revealed when Mulan will be available to everyone on Disney+. Most people will probably wait the extra three months, unless they're super, super excited for the movie.