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Looks like everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. I just turned on the LPGA Evian Championship and everything is BARBIE pink and white. The stands, flags, the vests the officials and caddies are wearing and even the graphics when describing yardage and green contours is pink and white, but no actual Barbie ads that I can see.

That's not very hard to do this summer, he could find a quarter in the street and have more profit than Disney.😜

Barbie: $97.27m Oppie: $55.93m

The whole "Barbenheimer" phenomenon is fascinating. Has there ever been 2 competing movies from 2 different studios that have formed such a symbiotic relationship before? These 2 movies have somehow become inextricably linked for some time now.

So, what's the other 5%?😜

Just from a boxoffice perspective this is one of the most interesting films in quite some time. From the way it was made, marketed and released I was thinking it would have a big opening weekend then probably struggle to get a 2x multiplier as it burned through its niche audience . But not only is it not front loaded it appears to have caught on to more mainstream audiences. Hell, it's already past 3x its opening weekend and still going strong. No matter if you like the movie or not this is the kind of run that makes following boxoffice interesting.

I notice the ones you listed are of the slasher genre (I'd add Black Christmas to that list). Do you consider things like supernatural (like Poltergeist or The Amityville Horror) or creature features (like The Thing or The Blob) horror or separate genres? I especially found The Thing (1982 version) scary as hell.

Yup. The biggest effect for DoD, won't be screen loss, but rather screen shuffling where it gets moved from the biggest auditoriums to smaller ones. That should have very little effect on boxoffice though, filling 60-70% of seats in a smaller auditorium is the same as 30-40% of a bigger one.

500 or so sounds about right for DoD. The Flash, on the other hand, still has 1700 screens and virtually 0 revenue coming in on them so I wouldn't be surprised to see it losing 1500+ of its remaining screens.

Finally caught up on this thread this morning. Love the comedy discussion. Weird that I haven't seen Airplane! mentioned, unless I missed it. For me it's impossible to pick just 1 single all time favorite, there are so many different types of comedy from different eras. Airplane! and Porkys stick out for older ones, although most Leslie Nielson comedies were funny as hell back then. Jim Carrey in his prime with Ace Ventura and Dumb and Dumber. Pretty much all things Apatow. There are the iconic star making ones like Superbad, Mean Girls, Clueless... For me there are a handful of movies that I laughed so hard for most of the movie my sides literally ached... There's something about Mary American Pie Scary Movie Bridesmaids Sausage Party I do like seeing what people post, some of them I completely forgot about.

That was my reaction as well. When I saw it the entire theater was laughing their asses off. I haven't laughed that hard at any movie since. It did extremely well financially as well. A hard R animated comedy with a budget of $19m did $140m WW ($97.7m domestic, $43m international) with an opening weekend of $34.3m.

19 days is a blink of an eye. If you want to see a movie legging it out to $100 million the champ is The Rocky Horror Picture Show at just under 40 years. Another 40 years and it might hit $200 million.😉

I played a long time ago and built up over $2 billion, got bored and reset my account to start over and got to $2.4 Billion. I haven't played in years now, maybe 1 or 2 trades a year. I still pop in there every so often, it does have a good release schedule list showing every movie coming out for the next 2 months.

I've only been back here a short time after being away from this board for a few years, but some things haven't changed. I was just looking to see if there were any new numbers out and I went back 3 pages and pretty much nothing but SW discussion. I'm not bitching about it, I just find it amusing that some things are still the same here.😄

I saw this yesterday at an early showing (2 pm). Theater was 25%-30% full, which is decent for an early show. I quite enjoyed it. While it doesn't rank among the top of it's genre it was definitely above average. I was a bit surprised by "that" scene, not that it was there, but that it wasn't just a quick flash and instead a fairly lengthy scene. I'm still a bit surprised a movie like this even got made in the current environment, while in the past they were fairly common. After it ended I was thinking it share a number of similarities to Can't Buy Me Love (1987). Maybe a bit generous, but I'd give it a 7/10

Pink Popcorn, that takes me back. I used to love the stuff as a kid. I'd totally try some if theaters offered it.

It's a bit early yet, but Barbie is starting to sound like one of those rare movies that become a phenomenon before release. If these early sell outs continue the closest comparison I can think of was the insane hype before The Hunger Games came out. For THG every showing sold out weeks before release and theaters kept adding more screens and showtimes and those would sell out to the point that some multiplexes were dedicating 75% of all showings to THG on opening weekend. Other movies had sell outs weeks in advance (things like the fist Avengers movie and The Force Awakens), but those were more expected to do so and I don't recall them adding many more showtimes than were originally scheduled as those were pretty much market saturated to start with. I'm not sure I'd have seen this in the theater, but it is sounding like an event movie so I'll be there now.

I really miss truly funny raunchy comedies. I saw American Pie, Scarey Movie, There's Something About Mary and Sausage Party on their opening nights with absolutely packed theaters and those were some of my fondest movie going memories and I remember laughing so hard my sides hurt. I don't know if it's even possible for movies like that to get made now, studios play it too safe and too many people are too easily offended and it's killing comedy.

I take it as a good sign the studio felt confident enough to have a sneak preview a week before release. I can't see them doing that if they thought it would bomb or get a poor reception. I almost went yesterday, but the time and distance to the theaters that had the preview put me off. I'll be seeing it this weekend, along with Asteroid City.

I was perusing showtimes for today trying to decide if I wanted to see anything today when I noticed the sneak previews today. As far as I can tell just 3 theaters have 1 showing today at 7 pm. I'm on the fence about going as none of the 3 theaters are all that close to me and I'm more of an early bird when it comes to seeing movies. I like to make a day of it, do some light shopping, have a good lunch then see a movie.

That's a shame, I was actually considering seeing this as the trailers didn't look too bad and Sophie Thatcher is my favorite of the young versions of the cast in Yellowjackets (Christina Ricci as Misty for the adult versions). Your review carries some weight with me as I also hate stupidity in movies and I'm also in my 50's.😜 I'll probably check it out once it is free , which probably won't be too far off in the future.

I honestly have no idea of the actual profit margin for Disney merchandise, maybe it is as low as you say for the big stores (Target, Walmart, etc.), but Disney also has their own stores as well as what they sell in their theme parks and I would expect their margins are higher than what they get from the big retailers. In any event, I expect TLM to eventually make a small profit once all the revenue streams are accounted for, but Disney can't be happy given the amount of money they put into it.

Merchandise is huge for Disney, but can vary immensely from movie to movie. I mentioned Frozen, but that was a true outlier and can't really be used as a comparison for other Disney movies. I don't recall the exact numbers, but merchandise sales for Frozen were well over a Billion before Frozen was even out of the theaters. Several sites were reporting sales weekly and stores (Disney, Target, Walmart, etc) were selling out the same day a shipment would come in and people were taking picture of the empty shelves where Frozen merchandise was supposed to be. They were even limiting how many items people could buy. I don't know where you could find merchandise sales these days, but I do know Marvel merchandise sales are pretty strong and merchandise for classic Disney animated movies has been steady for years (so they are still making money from old titles).

It has been a long time since I've posted here. I kind of lost interest when theaters got closed during the "pandemic" and never really got back into following boxoffice, but I'm starting to find it interesting again. I guess I'll start my musings with TLM. Given it's budget ($250m) and marketing costs ($100m to $140m) it seems like it will most likely break even or have a small loss when only counting money from the theatrical release. If I recall correctly the standard for breaking even was a WW total of 2.5x its budget or 2x budget + marketing costs which would be anywhere from a low of $625m to a high of $780m to break even, so about $700 in the mid range. Of course once the other revenue streams (TV and video sales and most especially merchandise) it will end up being profitable overall, just not as much as Disney was counting on. I'm actually very curious to see how TLM merchandise revenue will be as that can be far more profitable if a movie strikes the right cord. I still remember Frozen, Disney made a huge profit just from the theatrical release, but that was dwarfed by the merchandise sales (I still see tons of Frozen stuff in the stores)