Weekend Numbers [05.24 - 05.27, 2024] | 4-day actuals | 32.3M FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA | 31.3M THE GARFIELD MOVIE | 22.3M IF | 17.6M KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

[ringedmortality]

23 minutes ago, filmscholar said:

LOL, Ironically Chris was in that too. They were hoping Charlize and Chris would be enough to bring people back but at the end of the day, it's a Snow White story.

The fairy tale trend has already died by 2016 though unless you were Disney doing Beauty and the Beast

[Flopped]

15 minutes ago, JohnnyGossamer said:

Dune is also is much bigger IP than anything Mad Max.

 

A 1980s David Lynch bomb makes it bigger IP? 

[Torontofan]

Dune was helped by having a cool look and being seen as a theater worthy experience.

 

That is the issue hardly anything seems a theater worthy experience lately.

 

So many films that came out last month or even this month are available online now.

 

While films like Oppenhimer didnt appear online for like 4-5 months 

 

[ChipDerby]

6 hours ago, Mojoguy said:

Good movies get rewarded with success like Dune 2.

 

All trailers made Furiosa look bad, but apparently it's good? This was a failure of marketing along with little interest from the public. Both was a death sentence.

So do good movies get rewarded or not?

[ChipDerby]

4 hours ago, Legion Again said:

Movies succeed if they look attractive to  mass audience. Being very good is certainly one way to help with that but they’re only loosely correlated 

 

This is extremely subjective though

[emoviefan]

24 minutes ago, Torontofan said:

Dune was helped by having a cool look and being seen as a theater worthy experience.

 

That is the issue hardly anything seems a theater worthy experience lately.

 

So many films that came out last month or even this month are available online now.

 

While films like Oppenhimer didnt appear online for like 4-5 months 

 

Yeah it's like training audiences to wait a few a weeks or a month for 90% of movies  to be availiable at home. is not  good for the theatrical movie business.

Edited May 27 by emoviefan

[ChipDerby]

50 minutes ago, wildphantom said:

Just got back from Hit Man. Literally the only mistake they made was selling this to Netflix.  It’s so good. So mainstream.  Everybody will be talking about it in a couple of weeks. 
 

anyways, at least it’ll only add to the build up to Twisters for Powell. 
 

Adria Arjona?  Oh man….

 

 

And because it's Netflix people will talk about it... For a week.

[Flopped]

6 hours ago, Mojoguy said:

Good movies get rewarded with success

 

Explain Marvel 

[JohnnyGossamer]

26 minutes ago, Flopped said:

 

A 1980s David Lynch bomb makes it bigger IP? 

Absolutely not. The novels have a huge following thoigh. That's why it's been done so often. Were you being serious?

[John Marston]

14 minutes ago, emoviefan said:

Yeah it's like training audiences to wait a few a weeks or a month for 90% of movies  to be availiable at home. is not  good for the theatrical movie business.

 

 

most of these theatrical bombs don't become streaming hits either. Lightyear, Strange World, Indy 5, The Marvels, The Flash, none broke out on streaming

[titanic2187]

All movie have slightly better Sunday hold than estimate. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[filmlover]

Just now, titanic2187 said:

All movie have slightly better Sunday hold than estimate. 

Sunday of Memorial Day weekend always behaves like a second Saturday (with Monday functioning as Sunday) so no surprise holds were strong across the board yesterday.

[Squire]

Collider really working hard to spin Furiosa’s flop as a win.

 

And we thought the guy from Deadline was bad. Sheesh. 

[emoviefan]

4 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

All movie have slightly better Sunday hold than estimate. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So IF is the only other May movie that has a shot to do 100m DOM along with Apes. It has two free weekends with no competition. No wide releases this week and  Ride and Die and Watchers on the 7th  are not for that audience obv.  So whatever it can make before IO 2 opens.

[Torontofan]

9 minutes ago, John Marston said:

 

 

most of these theatrical bombs don't become streaming hits either. Lightyear, Strange World, Indy 5, The Marvels, The Flash, none broke out on streaming

I find flop disaster movies do really well on streaming for some reason lol

 

 

 

Edited May 27 by Torontofan

[titanic2187]

At least a much better Sunday.

 

 

 

[titanic2187]

The only two movies to have weaker than estimate Sunday hold but to be fair Sony' Sunday estimate of -1% for Garfield is probably too optimistic to begin with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[AJG]

33 minutes ago, John Marston said:

 

 

most of these theatrical bombs don't become streaming hits either. Lightyear, Strange World, Indy 5, The Marvels, The Flash, none broke out on streaming

 

IIRC Marvels did average numbers. Wish is doing solid numbers.

 

Indy 5 flopped - like it just flopped - it didn't pull anything.

 

 

[emoviefan]

11 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

The only two movies to have weaker than estimate Sunday hold but to be fair Sony' Sunday estimate of -1% for Garfield is probably too optimistic to begin with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We can talk all we want about the inflated expectations for Furiosa but remember when some people around here thought Garfield was going to be some MIni Mario like breakout.  Never understood that and here we are. Of course it will be more profitable because it is cheap but still.

[Mojoguy]

3 hours ago, filmlover said:

Don't know if this has been mentioned yet but Furiosa's demo breakdown was 72% male (despite having a female lead and a one time Sexiest Man Alive front and center of its aggressive marketing campaign). If that doesn't make it obvious that there was total apathy towards the movie from the public outside of its core target audience I don't know what does.

The Marvels was 65% male. Women also didnt show up for that film and it flopped.

 

These action movies' main audience will always be men. Women don't care if the lead is female if the movie do nothing else to attract them.

Edited May 27 by Mojoguy