Weekend Thread (10/15-17) | Halloween Kills 4.85M Previews, Last Duel 350K

[Legion Again]

1 minute ago, Last Man Standing said:

But why is Hollywood only making remakes, reboots, and CBMs?

Yep

 

SC 8th weekend will probably beat Last Duel’s 2nd and that’s pretty much the story of Tinseltown in the 2020s

[john2000]

 

thats.........

 

[Gavin Feng]

7 minutes ago, john2000 said:

 

thats.........

 

how many markets?

[john2000]

 

 

[john2000]

1 minute ago, Gavin Feng said:

how many markets?

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[EmpireCity]

Part of this is on Disney mostly dumping Fox product and giving it little to no support.  They have done less than nothing outside of Free Guy (and they really didn't even do much for that) to market the Fox and Fox Searchlight movies.  

 

 

[john2000]

2 minutes ago, john2000 said:

 

 

@charlie Jatinder 600  mill sans china probably ?

[Issac Newton]

3 minutes ago, Gavin Feng said:

how many markets?

38 market as per IMDb

[john2000]

 

 

 

[EmpireCity]

Antlers is going to be the next bomb from Disney/Fox acquisition.  Much like The Night House, they are dumping it with virtually no advertising.  

 

They clearly just want to get this stuff off their balance sheet and take the write off.  Nightmare Alley and The King's Man also will suffer the same fate.  

[Gavin Feng]

2 minutes ago, john2000 said:

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from THR:

 

The Last Duel started off its foreign run with $4.2 million from 37 markets for a global launch of just $9 million.

[CoolioD1]

Last Duel absolutely would've done better back in the day yeah, but i dunno, i still wouldn't use the three hour medieval rape movie flopping as a sign that original cinema is dead.

[Last Man Standing]

Just now, EmpireCity said:

Antlers is going to be the next bomb from Disney/Fox acquisition.  Much like The Night House, they are dumping it with virtually no advertising.  

 

They clearly just want to get this stuff off their balance sheet and take the write off.  Nightmare Alley and The King's Man also will suffer the same fate.  

Nightmare Alley is an Oscars player though.

[Issac Newton]

Just now, john2000 said:

 

 

 

So, it's third behind Bond and Venom 2 in UK

[Legion Again]

4 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

Antlers is going to be the next bomb from Disney/Fox acquisition.  Much like The Night House, they are dumping it with virtually no advertising.  

 

They clearly just want to get this stuff off their balance sheet and take the write off.  Nightmare Alley and The King's Man also will suffer the same fate.  

Is there actually a positive value prop in marketing these things though? Spending like 3M more on Last duel advertising would have got it over 5M for the weekend but I doubt it sees 3M of marginal return. Hollywood seems to overmarket a lot to begin with.

Edited October 17, 2021 by Let There Be Legion

[filmlover]

Universal is actually having a really great year between F9, Forever Purge, Old, Candyman, and Halloween all delivering hits on different levels and only a few notable money-losers (Spirit Untamed, Boss Baby 2, Dear Evan Hansen) in their lineup. Sing 2 is their only remaining release for 2021 and should also at least cross $100M, so their recovery year will end up looking pretty good in the end.

[john2000]

 

 

[EmpireCity]

1 minute ago, Last Man Standing said:

Nightmare Alley is an Oscars player though.

 

Is it?  They didn't finish it in time for any film festival.  It went from a limited release on Dec. 3rd with the normal ramp up to a wide release dumped right on Dec. 17th that will be swallowed up by Spider-Man: No Way Home and then really swallowed 5 days later when 4 more new releases hit.  

 

Going to be hard to build any real buzz for it.  Of course I could be off on this, but will be surprised if it isn't lost in the shuffle.  

[MCKillswitch123]

25 minutes ago, Last Man Standing said:

But why is Hollywood only making remakes, reboots, and CBMs?

 

I mean, flops shouldn't stop them from trying.

[john2000]