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[Valonqar]

 

7 minutes ago, Juan Caballo said:

Damn I forgot IT was September. That shit was huge. Amazing memories of it 

 

That was a boxoffice run to remember. We went to see it the opening night and the stupid projector started to play a foreign movie! People freaked out! And then the theater refused to issue free passes to compensate for psychological damage caused by subjectibg fans to 5 min of the wrong movie! So we pulled strings with the cinema GM and got those passes that should have been given out without fat connections. 

Edited July 2, 2022 by Valonqar

[Porthos]

20 minutes ago, cannastop said:

September is crap for movies.

 

By now tepid take:

 

No month is bad for movies. 

 

September was the last frontier and both It and Shang-Chi showed that if you put something compelling there, the crowds will come.

[AniNate]

If nothing changes Labor Day probably gonna be the first weekend this year that earns less than last year

[EmpireCity]

5 minutes ago, Valonqar said:

 

All of this. And when you think about, at least on paper, Oppenheimer is the least summer-y of them. People want entertainment. Older skewing movies like Elvis are still very entertaining. Dunkirk had action. Oppenheimer sounds like a fall season procedural that usually builds hype via festival run. So yeah, prime candidate to move since 2 other older skewing movies fit the summer entertainment bill and have built-in fandom that will watch them no matter what.

 

I started to talk about it, but if it were me and trying to "fix" 2023's schedule, I do the following basic changes....

 

- Lionsgate moves John Wick 4 to May 19th

- WB moves Last Train to New York to July 14th

- Universal moves Fast X to June 16th

- Sony moves Spiderverse back to November 3rd

- WB moves The Flash back to October 20th

- WB moves Barbie up to June 23rd

- Universal moves Oppenheimer back to December 22nd

- Paramount moves Mission: Impossible 7 to July 21st

 

That gives you the following....

 

May

Guardians 3

John Wick 4

The Little Mermaid

 

June

Transformers

Fast X

Elemental

Barbie

Indy 5

 

July

Madame Web

Last Train to New York

Mission: Impossible 7

The Marvels

 

August

TMNT

Meg 2: The Trench

Last Voyage of the Dementer

Gran Turismo

Blue Beetle

 

September

The Equalizer 3

A Quiet Place: Day One

 

October

True Love

Paw Patrol 2

The Exorcist

The Flash

 

November

Spiderverse

Trolls 3

Dune II

Hunger Games Prequel

Disney Animation

 

December

Wonka

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Sequel 

Tiger's Apprentace 

The Color Purple

Oppenheimer

Migration

[eddyxx]

Wait wait they’re remaking The Color Purple??

[Eric is Quiet]

Just now, eddyxx said:

Wait wait they’re remaking The Color Purple??

They’re adapting the Broadway musical

[cannastop]

1 minute ago, eddyxx said:

Wait wait they’re remaking The Color Purple??

basing it on the musical.

[Flamengo81]

28 minutes ago, Porthos said:

 

By now tepid take:

 

No month is bad for movies. 

 

September was the last frontier and both It and Shang-Chi showed that if you put something compelling there, the crowds will come.

I honestly never understood the concept of a "bad month" for movies. It's all about the movies releasing in the month and not the month itself. There are good months though, like December because of the unique holiday nature of it and exactly the fact that January is completely empty because studios think it's a bad month lol. How ironic...

[Blankments]

20 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

 

I started to talk about it, but if it were me and trying to "fix" 2023's schedule, I do the following basic changes....

 

December

Wonka

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Sequel 

Tiger's Apprentace 

The Color Purple

Oppenheimer

Migration

 

Christmas is still too small with this. You need a potential megahit that's four-quandrant. Even 2018, which was super broad with options, ended up having something huge with Aquaman. Wonka if its successful is 200M, Ghostbusters is the equivalent of Shazam this year, Oppenheimer is aiming for Dunkik numbers. You need something that can aim for 300M at December.

 

I would put Hunger Games at Christmas personally; opening it same weekend as Dune 2 obviously won't stick and it has a much higher ceiling than Wonka, Oppenheimer or Ghostbusters.

[Gopher]

Industry-ish perspective here... we forget how much this summer/early fall has been affected by the pandemic production slowdown. Last summer was for all the movies that were basically picture locked and ready to go before the pandemic hit. This summer we still have a few of those titles-- Top Gun by all accounts was done by March 2020 except for the Gaga song, Minions was maybe 80% done-- a lot of productions that started before and were interrupted by covid (Elvis obviously, Jurassic World Dominion started Feb 2020, Bobs Burgers and Lightyear were in production pre-pandemic because animation takes forever), and a few productions that rolled the dice and started shooting pre-vaccines (Bullet Train started Oct 2020, Black Phone Feb 2021). Strange and Thor are in their own worlds because those productions are able to be so contained due to high budgets and heavy greenscreens (the MCU delays schedule were due to a bottleneck of projects overwhelming a finite number of VFX houses, in case you were wondering why Moon Knight or She-Hulk both Look Like That). The reason 2023 is an ONSLAUGHT is that's the batch of movies that were all waiting until vaccines were rolled out and the future of everything seemed a little more certain to get up and running. What we saw with television this past spring-- a total bottleneck of high-profile shows all hitting simultaneously-- seems something like what we're getting next summer, given the compressed production timeline of television compared to film. 

 

I'm curious what the last big movie we'll see with footage shot pre-pandemic is. We've still got MI7 and Avatar 2 shot before and during. And maybe Merrily We Roll Along in 18 years if they haven't thrown out what they already shot...

Edited July 2, 2022 by Gopher

[CJohn]

2 minutes ago, Blankments said:

 

Christmas is still too small with this. You need a potential megahit that's four-quandrant. Even 2018, which was super broad with options, ended up having something huge with Aquaman. Wonka if its successful is 200M, Ghostbusters is the equivalent of Shazam this year, Oppenheimer is aiming for Dunkik numbers. You need something that can aim for 300M at December.

 

I would put Hunger Games at Christmas personally; opening it same weekend as Dune 2 obviously won't stick and it has a much higher ceiling than Wonka, Oppenheimer or Ghostbusters.

You think a Hunger Games prequel has a higher ceiling than those movies? Lol. 

[Eric is Quiet]

1 hour ago, Blankments said:

Wonka>Dune 2 domestic

I still win no matter what 😌

[CJohn]

I am thinking Wonka moves to March 2024. Dune and Wonka seem too close to each other considering both share the same lead actor.

[That One Girl]

10 minutes ago, CJohn said:

You think a Hunger Games prequel has a higher ceiling than those movies? Lol. 

 

it could easily make 300M domestic. everyone is going to underpredict the hell out of that movie because they’re not in the target audience.

[CoolioD1]

i actually do think wonka has 300+ potential. especially if december stays light and it default becomes the film to see at xmas. being underestimated already.

[CJohn]

1 minute ago, That One Guy said:

 

it could easily make 300M domestic. everyone is going to underpredict the hell out of that movie because they’re not in the target audience.

How. FB did like 230M. That is best case scenario.

[Eric is Quiet]

Just now, CoolioD1 said:

i actually do think wonka has 300+ potential. especially if december stays light and it default becomes the film to see at xmas. being underestimated already.

Love you too

[That One Girl]

Just now, CJohn said:

How. FB did like 230M. That is best case scenario.

 

fantastic beasts had eddie redmayne fucking around in new york in the 1920s with his boring ass magic creatures no one cares about. everyone liked harry potter as wish fulfillment fantasy and that took out a core element of why people liked those movies in the first place. new hunger games movie still has the hunger games.

[Brainbug]

Im on the train that Wonka could be very big as well. The character is very well known and if the movie hits the right notes and theres enough tasty images of chocolate, audiences will eat it up.

[cannastop]

2 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

 

fantastic beasts had eddie redmayne fucking around in new york in the 1920s with his boring ass magic creatures no one cares about. everyone liked harry potter as wish fulfillment fantasy and that took out a core element of why people liked those movies in the first place. new hunger games movie still has the hunger games.

who cares, the last movie put a bitter taste in everyone's mouth.