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Tilly said they would add her to the ride (and only her specifically) if the movie was a great success. It wasn't so she won't be.

Edit: to fully understand how badly HM actually did. the total for the entire movie was $50,709,593. total. Pirates did more in it's first 2 weekends, the second and third pirates in the first weekends of each film.

in fact the first weekends for all the pirate movies total: $322,087,434 and for my statement above (the four total weeknds) $356,102,031. Why lavish a movie that didn't even make 1/3 of the opening box office weekends for three other movies?

Edit 2: if i had seen this a minute ago...^^; apparently the estimated budget for Haunted Mansion was $90,000,000. so factoring in it's "winnings". they actually made -$39,290,407.


Just a couple of quick points:

According to the Internet Movie Database, the HM movie's US Box Office take was $75.8M, not $50.7M. This also, of course, does not include the money it made overseas or from DVD sales... so it wouldn't be accurate to claim the film lost almost $40M. I don't think it would be accurate to claim the film lost money at all.

Of course, Hollywood (and Disney is no exception) is fond of skewing the accounting for movies to show that any given picture either made money or lost money, regardless of what that film's budget was or how much it made. Consider that for years, Paramount was actually claiming that the original Star Trek TV series (the one from the 60s, mind you) had not made any money. Paramount was even sued by "Forrest Gump" author Winston Groom for claiming that that film also lost money (despite that it made over $329.6M on a budget of $55M).

Nevertheless, you are quite correct in that Disney is distancing itself from the HM movie -- so much so that I find it extremely unlikely that any film references will added during the refurb.