Weekend Thread | Estimates - Barbie $53M (hit a billion!), Meg2 $30M, Oppy $28.7, TMNT - $27.95M (5-day $43M), HauntedMansion $8.97M

[SchumacherFTW]

There's definitely more overrated movies than EEAAO, there's at least 2 or 3 every Oscar season made purely to be in that conversation. 

[PlatnumRoyce]

1 hour ago, Elden Lord said:

They get a percentage of each VOD sale. BLuRay and DVD sales are nowhere near what they were at one point, with less and less ppl wanting the tangible disks

 

But then why isn't that a "home video loss" caused by rise of D+ instead of a theatrical one? 

[Torontofan]

99% of people dont care if a movie is diverse or trying to be modern.

 

It only an issue if you dont care to actually make a good movie and just focus on those things. 

[ringedmortality]

12 minutes ago, Bob Train said:

Everything Everywhere has gotta be the most overrated film of all time

 

You mean live action Rick and Morty

[wildphantom]

4 hours ago, MightyDargon said:

Magic Kingdom is def over 100 once humidity index/discomfort are taken into account. Florida will be VERY unappealing in "high summer" after climate change. Disney should start looking at a long term plan to either become a landlord or offload those parks to someone because they are deeeeeaaaaaaaaddddd in summer there in about 20 years if this change keeps up.

offload the most attended theme park on the planet? Lmao. 

[Valonqar]

22 minutes ago, The GOAT said:

The white audience no longer go to the theaters in the numbers as they used to. Cities and Coastal regions getting more diverse. More and more of the theatrical revenue coming from the cities dwellers and coastal regions. Thus, they're are more "diverse" characters. Hollywood is merely just trying to meet the demands of it's shifting consumer base. 

 

Eh, white audience turned up for Barbie and Oppenheimer just fine. They simply don't show up for just any crap anymore but mostly for special movies. Hence why those movies make more than comparable next movie. When your biggest demo turn up in full force it eclipses smaller demos combined. 

Edited August 7, 2023 by Valonqar

[vale9001]

i'm not a big fan of EEAAO too (but it's definitely a ggood movie) but i'm totally ok with its Oscar winning. It's a good sign of an Academy is changing and is trying to understand what modern cinema made by young millennials is and it's gonna be more and more. 

Edited August 7, 2023 by vale9001

[SchumacherFTW]

6 minutes ago, ringedmortality said:

 

You mean live action Rick and Morty

Now that right there might be the most insufferable entertainment product of Yr modern era

[kayumanggi]

 

[The GOAT]

9 minutes ago, Valonqar said:

 

Eh, white audience turned up for Barbie and Oppenheimer just fine. They simply don't show up for just any crap anymore but mostly for special movies. Hence why those movies make more than comparable next movie. When your biggest demo turn up in full force it eclipses smaller demos combined. 

2002 was the peak in admissions. CLearly, there’s been a large decline   

600M today is what? At most, 50M tickets?

Edited August 7, 2023 by The GOAT

[Mojoguy]

9 minutes ago, ringedmortality said:

 

You mean live action Rick and Morty

I watch the Back to the Future trilogy for my teen and crazy scientist time travel fix. Marty and Doc were the OG and better Rick and Morty versions.

[MightyDargon]

While I personally strongly disliked EEAO I'm pretty sure The King's Speech was far more overrated. EEAO was at least more ambitious than that.

[MightyDargon]

3 minutes ago, The GOAT said:

2002 was the peak in admissions. CLearly, there’s been a large decline   

600M today is what? At most, 50M tickets?

2002 was over 20 years ago and the White demo has fallen as a proportion of the US population since then. What were you expecting?

[Noctis]

EEAAO is an 8/10 movie that could have been a 9-9.5 if it were not for the absolutely hideous subplot with the sausage fingers. Took me the fuck out and inundated otherwise emotional scenes. Why the fuck did I need to see ketchup and mustard foaming out of their mouths? Disgusting.

 

Shame. It's when filmmakers try to be weird just for the sake of it when they could have instead made something much more engaging.

[Mojoguy]

6 minutes ago, The GOAT said:

2002 was the peak in admissions. CLearly, there’s been a large decline   

600M today is what? At most, 50M tickets?

You know the summer is a flop when your heavy hitters Indy, FLASH, and MI can't even reach $200M.

[MightyDargon]

Just now, Mojoguy said:

You know the summer is a flop when your heavy hitters Indy, FLASH, and MI can't even reach $200M.

Flash was NEVER a heavy hitter. There was no pretext of a prior Flash movie going over 600 mil. If an Avengers film failed to hit 300mil maybe so, but there was no evidence that Flash would be a megahit other than Gunn whoring himself and saying it was THE GREATEST SUPERHERO MOVIE SINCE THE DARK KNIGHT

[Valonqar]

13 minutes ago, The GOAT said:

2002 was the peak in admissions. CLearly, there’s been a large decline   

600M today is what? At most, 50M tickets?

 

 

yes covid changed habits which is why some movies that should have done much better on paper do worse cause the largest demo skipped them while some movies that were iffy on paper overperformed casue the largest demo showed up for them. You can say that this now mimics underserved audience's behavior. Underserved audience doesn't go to cinema often but when they do we get breakout boxoffice. And at least in case of Barbenheimer, foreign audience alligned with them hence insane boxoffice. 

Edited August 7, 2023 by Valonqar

[MightyDargon]

For the billionth time, "White"=Old in terms of US demo. 

[kayumanggi]

BARBIE also increased overseas.

 

 

[Valonqar]

3 minutes ago, MightyDargon said:

For the billionth time, "White"=Old in terms of US demo. 

 

well then, oldies care for Barbenheimer, don't care for the rest.