Flopped

Disney did irreparable damage to moviegoers' viewing habits. The general audience has lost its connection to good movies. For 16 years they were forced-fed Marvel (there is not one rewatchable movie out of all of them), garbage new Star Wars (none of them rewatchable either), and subpar animated films (even Pixar is trash now). Other studios tried to remake themselves in Disney's image. Meanwhile, Netflix serves unwatchable garbage that get clicks because they pay bad actors like Ryan Reynolds or JLo $20-30M and you don't mind that the movies are bad cuz you're watching from home. So there is now a ceiling on how much a good movie will gross because only a very small % of the population hasn't been tainted by the last 16 years. Now that Marvel is thankfully over and Disney can't seem to sell water in the desert, maybe audiences will be retrained to not only recognize but want good movies en masse again, but it will take time to undo the last decade and a half.

Lol where is the Omen number?

Yes.

Fall Guy is supposed to be good, right? The trailer is unfinishable but happy to be proven wrong.

It's well crafted and well acted, but who is the movie for? It's a beautiful, long, slow drama/paranoid thriller with a few scares (probably added in reshoots) and some graphic body horror imagery. Every single shot lingered....the people I was with appreciated the craft but were checking their watches.

Batman Returns only insofar as the original was such a smash and the sequel damn near got outgrossed by Sister Act that Summer. McDonald's pulling their sponsorship, parents complaining, the director being replaced for the next instalment. But what's interesting is how beloved it has become, thanks largely to Catoman and the Xmas elements. I see why more people talk about it now than any of the other pre-Nolan Batmans.

Is April really that barren? Civil War, Abigail, Challengers, etc. Not saying any of these movies will break out and smash but there's competition on the horizon.

Where did you get Omen's number from?

What are people thinking for Omen this weekend?

This looks BAD. Between Cocaine Bear, Renfield and now this, what is Universal doing?

Disney almost exclusively released garbage for the past 10+ years and plenty of it smashed.

Something about this feels like it's bad form.

Heard Omen's actual budget after reshoots is well above 30M

It's time to admit Diablo Cody is no good. Juno aged like fish. Jennifer's Body, no matter how many retrospective articles are written, is terrible (the best thing about it are the gifs of Megan Fox sassily strutting or burning her tongue), Young Adult is flawed but her best, and Tully is a mess.

Even accounting the low budget this is disastrous. I saw lots of outdoor promo.

Anyone But You's 150M+ is a fantastic return to form for romcoms but it also makes me go, holy fucking shit Pretty Woman did $450M+ back in 1990.

Hi what does this mean? (missed)

Jesus Christ

God this movie sucked. Ppl really like to support garbage, my god.

Poor Tom Cruise, the same audience that flocked to TG:M is skipping MI7 to see Sound of Freedom instead.

Surprised Elemental is holding so well. It kinda sucks.

Lol but who could have seen that coming. Speaking of JP this is wild to me, 68M people watching when it first aired on TV in 1995: Even with its successful theatrical run and its availability on home video, “Jurassic Park" still captured a dinosaur-sized portion of the television audience Sunday night. With viewership estimated by NBC at 68.1 million people, it was the highest-rated theatrical film in two years and the most-watched program on TV last week.

Just for fun, from October 1993: HOLLYWOOD -- 'Jurrasic Park' has broken the worldwide box office record previously held by 'E.T. -- The Extraterrestrial' by selling more than $704 million in movie tickets during the past four months. Dino-mania has been particularly strong overseas with international grosses of $379 million for the Universal release, along with domestic grosses of $325.7 million. 'Films of this stature come along only once in a decade,' said Tom Pollack, chairman of the motion picture group of MCA Inc., Universal's parent. 'The overwhelming popularity of 'Jurassic Park' has made it a cultural phenomenon around the world.' Both 'Jurassic Park' and 'E.T.' were directed by Steven Spielberg and released by Universal, which became part of Matsushita Electric Industrial in early 1991. Spielberg also has 'Jaws' and 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' on the top 10 domestic list. 'E.T.' grossed $359.2 million domestically and $281.3 million overseas in its initial 1982 release, and tacked on another $40 million domestically and $20 million overseas during its re-release in 1985 for a combined $701.4 million worldwide. 'Jurassic Park' will probably gross another $5 million to $10 million domestically, leaving it about $65 million short of the domestic record held by 'E.T.' International grosses have been particularly strong in Japan, where Spielberg and dinosaurs are especially popular, with $107.5 million in 79 days. United Kingdom grosses also were impressive with $67.2 million in 80 days. 'Jurassic,' yet to be released in France or Spain, has been grossing more than $15 million a week in Europe, so it could take in another $50 million overseas. It has become the No. 1 all-timer in Japan, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Mexico, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. 'Jurassic Park' set domestic records for biggest late-night preview ($3.1 million); biggest three-day opening weekend ($47.1 million); biggest second weekend ($38.5 million); fastest to reach $100 million (10 days) and fastest to reach $200 million (24 days). The film has generally outperformed projections of $270 million domestic gross and $370 million overseas. Consulting firm Paul Kagan Associates, of Monterey, Calif., estimated this summer that over the next three years, 'Jurassic Park' would generate a gross profit of $339 million for Matsushita after subtracting $301 million in expenses -- based on the film generating $640 million in revenues. Kagan also estimated that domestic home video revenues will amount to $225 million; foreign home video will total $49 million; domestic TV rights payments will reach $33 million and foreign TV payments will be $31 million. The 10 top-grossing movies internationally, year of release, total gross: 1. 'Jurassic Park, 1993, $379 million. 2. 'E.T. -- The Extraterrestrial,' 1982, $301.6 million. 3. 'Ghost,' 1990, $290 million. 4. 'The Bodyguard,' 1992, $289 million. 5. 'Pretty Woman,' 1989, $285 million. 6. 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day,' 1991, $263 million. 7. 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,' 1987, $258 million. 8. 'Rain Man,' 1988, $240 million. 9. 'Basic Instinct,' 1992, $235 million. 10. 'Beauty and the Beast,' 1991, $202 million.

There's no doubt about it - Hunger Games will flop. That franchise aged like fish. Plus no JLaw.

Do you buy that it made 200M+ overseas in the '70s? Did overseas markets even exist to generate such revenue? Or was it through subsequent anniversaries and re-releases that it grossed that? Looking at articles from 1993 when Jurassic Park became the highest-grossing film internationally, Jaws is not listed. At the time, the 10th biggest grosser outside the US was Beauty and the Beast at 202M.