FNAF Weekend Thread (10/27-10/29) | $80m Opening Weekend | Blumhouse's Biggest Opener Ever | $14.7m The Eras Tour | $9.3m KOTFM

[Spidey Freak]

11 hours ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

Trash talking Gen Z's taste when us millennials made rancid garbage like the Michael Bay Transformers movies blockbusters is funny. We were no better.

 

Trash talking Gen Z is garbage but Transformers initially didn't have quality competition on the summer blockbuster franchise front. Look at the summer the first movie was released. A bunch of turd threequels with Spider-Man 3, Shrek 3 and PotC3. Also Shia LaBeouf was just coming off a genuinely good film with Disturbia.

 

It was the case of a brand new franchise with then promising new leads appearing at the perfect time when most of the current franchises disappointed with their latest installments. It's kind of a similar situation with FNAF benefitting because there hasn't been a lot of options since Barbenheimer

Edited October 29, 2023 by Spidey Freak

[Skim Beeble]

10 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

 

 

fuckin yikes dude

[Eric the IF]

17 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

 

 

Sounds like Hell on Earth! 😃 

[SpiderByte]

Remember a month ago people said FNAF was "the next Barbie"

[filmlover]

Aside from the obvious frontloading of FNAF, the drops next weekend should be solid across the board with nothing of note coming out (Priscilla is the most high-profile release and even that probably won't hit $5M). Too little too late for Flower Moon though. Oh well.

[Zakiyyah6]

15 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

 

 

I was talking to my bud Jamie yesterday and we were talking about how the internet way exaggerates Scorsese's selling power at the box office. Yes he's a genius filmmaker, blah, blah but his films aren't big business usually. Deal with it. It's a smug cinephile delusion is what it is. 

[tdangie]

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On the Peacock side, the studio exclaims that the Emma Tammi directed Freddy’s had the biggest opening for the OTT service, and it’s the most watched and most subscription driving content title since it dropped on Thursday night.

Oh more FNAF content is 100% coming

[Borobudur]

1 minute ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

I was talking to my bud Jamie yesterday and we were talking about how the internet way exaggerates Scorsese's selling power at the box office. Yes he's a genius filmmaker, blah, blah but his films aren't big business usually. Deal with it. It's a smug cinephile delusion is what it is. 

Scorsese isn't a big BO draw but Leo is and KOFM comes far lower than other Scorsese' works with Leo.

[Johnny Tran]

5 minutes ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

I was talking to my bud Jamie yesterday and we were talking about how the internet way exaggerates Scorsese's selling power at the box office. Yes he's a genius filmmaker, blah, blah but his films aren't big business usually. Deal with it. It's a smug cinephile delusion is what it is. 

 

Goodfellas and Casino have been on repeat on cable daily for over 30 years now.  I'd say someone is definitely watching his work. 

[Zakiyyah6]

3 minutes ago, Borobudur said:

Scorsese isn't a big BO draw but Leo is and KOFM comes far lower than other Scorsese' works with Leo.

Sure. I think a mixture of Leo not being able to promote the film and the film being 3 and a half hours long absolutely killed its box office. Does that mean that Leo isn't bulletproof anymore? Probably. I don't know. 

[filmlover]

5 minutes ago, Borobudur said:

Scorsese isn't a big BO draw but Leo is and KOFM comes far lower than other Scorsese' works with Leo.

 

1 minute ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

Sure. I think a mixture of Leo not being able to promote the film and the film being 3 and a half hours long absolutely killed its box office. Does that mean that Leo isn't bulletproof anymore? Probably. I don't know. 

A forever Leo stan (and one of Scorsese's too), but also first to admit he's not bulletproof at the box office if a movie faces marketing challenges otherwise. J. Edgar wasn't that long ago.

 

But the fact this won't even reach unadjusted total of his and Scorsese's previous lowest-grossing effort (Gangs of New York's $77M gross over 20 years ago) is a bit of a bummer. Is what it is.

[Spidey Freak]

2 minutes ago, Borobudur said:

Scorsese isn't a big BO draw but Leo is and KOFM comes far lower than other Scorsese' works with Leo.

 

It's got the darkest subject matter out of all Leo/Scorsese projects by far and is almost 4 hours long. The fact that it wasn't DOA is a miracle in itself.

[Borobudur]

15 minutes ago, tdangie said:

Oh more FNAF content is 100% coming

I am surprised Nolan hasn't been vocal against Universal's plan to drop FNAF on streaming right away like when how he fired back WB back in 2020. And WB's decision back then was far more understandable than what is Universal doing now. 

[SpiderByte]

1 minute ago, Borobudur said:

I am surprised Nolan hasn't been vocal against Universal's plan to drop FNAF on streaming right away like when how he fired back WB back in 2020. And WB's decision back then was far more understandable than what is Universal doing now. 

Easy, because that's one single film, not every movie in the schedule.

[SpiderByte]

22 minutes ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

I was talking to my bud Jamie yesterday and we were talking about how the internet way exaggerates Scorsese's selling power at the box office. Yes he's a genius filmmaker, blah, blah but his films aren't big business usually. Deal with it. It's a smug cinephile delusion is what it is. 

People overestimated because of Wolf of Wall Street, which was way, way more accessible to mainstream audiences than this

[filmlover]

4 minutes ago, Borobudur said:

I am surprised Nolan hasn't been vocal against Universal's plan to drop FNAF on streaming right away like when how he fired back WB back in 2020. And WB's decision back then was far more understandable than what is Universal doing now. 

Nolan seems about as far removed from FNAF's demographic as possible lol. It's unlikely he cares.

[JustLurking]

It's pretty funny how after all the tallkabout Joker's record falling twice, october is over and it still stands

Edited October 29, 2023 by JustLurking

[Issac Newton]

 

 

[Johnny Tran]

Another thing to consider with KOTFM. It was originally supposed to be released on Apple+ the same day and I've heard from several people who are just waiting for it to show up there and watch the 3 1/2 hours in the comfort of their homes.  It was never marketed as a must see theater experience until way too late.  

[emoviefan]

10 minutes ago, Spidey Freak said:

 

It's got the darkest subject matter out of all Leo/Scorsese projects by far and is almost 4 hours long. The fact that it wasn't DOA is a miracle in itself.

Also got to remember this is Leo's first post pandemic movie to open in a theater not counting Dont Look Up doing the Netflix few theater oscar considering token release. How would Leo's movie'older movie's done at a time when getting the older audience out to a theater is do damm hard to almost impossible anymore.