He’s the most reliable channel in general for anything regarding this business especially when you compare him to all the slop we see on this platform now
The road to recovery has really been hampered by the fact that the studios have been very apprehensive to put two tentpole releases against each other. The weeks that stand out are the ones where there was some crossover. But the studios and their corporate overlords don't see the benefits. They just think they're losing money.
@@_NoDrinkTheBleach As well as the fact that the box office is disproportionately concentrated around said tentpole releases when that was not the case before. The pandemic and the strikes only exacerbated the already-existing trend of media consolidation.
I'm honestly happy that Nosferatu's doing well. Egger's definitely earned it and I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up getting 100 million domestically (or close to it) by the end of its' run.
I'm not a horror fan (I have such a weak stomach!), but even I'm extremely curious about it as the movie looks so very stylish. so I just might check it out as well.
your "road to recovery" line graph is my favorite part of your show. even if you didn't have the year-to-year comparison on it, I'd be happy with just seeing a line graph of the yearly weekend box-office. so, glad you're going to continue feature this.
I don’t think we’re ever gonna hit the 11 billion numbers again at least for a long time… release strategies have changed dramatically since everyone went nuts for catering to the streaming services… It’s gonna take a complete collapse of streaming for the box office to actually improve again… It’s actually possible that American audiences have just gotten out of the habit of going to the theater all the time again…
I actually like that Sonic 3 and Mufasa have both been #1 at the box office. Normally, one film would cannibalize the other, but here it’s almost like they worked together to co-lead the holiday season box office. As much as some people online tried to make Glicked a thing, I feel that Sonic and Mufasa ended up being the duo that propped each other up equally as both will ultimately end up in the 2024 top 10 domestically and worldwide.
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I think 2025 is going to be a colossal year for the box office. Wicked, Superman, Zootopia, Stitch, and Fantastic Four/Thunderbolts and Avatar? I think it’s going to be the biggest box office year since before Covid.
It makes me happy that Mufasa was the winner during Christmas and the #1 film in America and worldwide at the start of 2025. I really like that movie. I've seen it 5 times so far.
Another noteworthy point about Sonic 3 vs Mufasa is that Sonic 3's budget was only 122 million, while Mufasa was around 200 million. While it seems pretty clear that Mufasa will do decently better than Sonic 3 in gross, I wonder what the net profit will look like when everything's done.
My wife, brother & I all finally have the same day off, & planned to see Wicked (for the 1st time) this Friday. It is out of our local theatres as of Thurs. Now we have to pick betwixt A Complete Unknown & Mufasa.
Happy New Year, Dan 🎉 Really appreciate your attention to detail 🙏🏾👌🏾 Great annual appearance on Harloff's show w/Rocha BTW Looking fwd to this time next year when we can compare 5yrs of box office performance pre- & post-COVID = Thx to all that suggested to keep that chart 😃
Hi Dan, when Venom 3 finally leaves theaters, can you please compare the Venom trilogy box office to other superhero trilogies (both Spider-man, Iron Man, Thor, Cap America, GotG, Ant Man, both X-Men, etc). Of course unadjusted and adjusted.
Saw Nosferatu today, and I think it's in my top 5 all-time favourite movies. It was just so goddamn superb in every way. Everyone in it was excellent, but Nicholas Hoult really shone, and Bill Skarsgard . . . how?! How the hell was that him? How did he achieve that?? Unbelievable. I loved it.
Wild that Bloody Axe Wound was still in my theater after the shrinkage. Funnier that it was on one of the imax 3d screens since it is neither. Pretty fun lil flick.
Dan, why did the Golden Globes give "Wicked" the award for Box Office Achievement when it wasn't even the highest grossing movie of the year? On what criteria do they judge that award? It doesn't make sense to me.
He's keeping on doing this kind of analysis, but not for every movie and it's usually for big movies, right after they have closed their theatrical run. Maybe the next ones could be Moana and Wicked...
Feels like a warm embrace to start 2025, Even the music has become soothing to me. It's so snark free that the occasional jibe (legal fees) hits beautifully.
Probably because I am a former historian and history teacher who was really into data, but I’d like to see the year 2020 added to your chart as a separate line. I know it’s an outlier, but that’s exactly why I would want it recorded. What you do is really important and posterity may take it more seriously than you can imagine. I would love to see you include a line for 2020, just to show the outlier and to remind us what shutdowns did to our artistic and economic lives. Just my two cents, but I really appreciate what you do and seeing the data.
Thank you for this numbers packed episode of awesomeness Dan! I saw and enjoyed the first DOT film based on your review back in the SJU days. Interested in your thoughts on the new one. Take care!
For next week's episode can you also show the graph of the average of the box office from 2010 - 2014. I have seen a lot of people talk about how 2015 to 2019 were more outliers as they came after a lot of good set-up from studios.
Nosferatu beating Alien: Romulus would be crazy. I loved it though, saw it yesterday and my screen was decently busy. We even considered going back and seeing it again
Thanks for your efforts in putting this all together. The streaming charts are going to be fascinating to start the year…Squid Game 2 seems to start hot, but it’s definitely lacking the buzz all over the place that the first one gained. And seeing the NFL results and now WWE Raw moving forward will be fascinating to see how people respond to Netflix moving to more live events.
43:13 Looks like Nielsen has more adjustments to make. Dear Santa was a Paramount+ release, but Nielsen seems to have tracked it under a 2011 Lifetime movie of the same name that's available on Peacock.
Better Man was released in the UK last week and is actually very good. A little too long perhaps, but it's an interesting story and the ape works surprisingly well. Some great musical numbers too. Definitely worth checking out.
I saw Babygirl yesterday, and I HATED it. I think it might just be a case of me not "getting" the sub/dom thing, as to me this was a competently made 50 Shades. I mean that as both a compliment and a negative, because while there is certainly quality in the production and acting, I couldn't laugh at it either and instead found myself going "why?" Also, the rave scene needed a seizure advisory. I'm epileptic, and watched many other movies this year with such advisories and had no problems, but I had to close my eyes during that scene with the flashing lights and thumping music I almost immediately started feeling dizzy and a headache. So yeah I found it dreadful, with that scene certainly not helping.
Regarding screen count numbers for Mufasa, while the film did start to loose premium screens most premium format screens are in large multi-plex's with many screens and they are still showing Mufasa on other screens in the complex. The screen drop were most likely due to the film ending its run in small rural towns that still have single (or twin) cinemas where no film runs more that two weeks. The local cinema in my tiny town of 5,000 ended its run of Mufasa and programmed Wicked, which may only stay one week as Sonic still hasn't got to town.
Great reporting. I think a huge reason for pre pandemic numbers vs post is Marvel. They were putting out 2-3 big films every year before. And just one this year - which admittedly did really well.
Hey Dan, There's been some MoviePass news - Ted Farnsworth, who's been in jail since 2023, pled guilty to defrauding his investors. Is there any chance we'll get another MoviePass video?
I don’t know if you feel like you have enough content for this topic, but if/when the Paramount sale becomes official, I wonder if you’d do “the way forward for Paramount” video.
Kraven is such an unmitigated disaster. I like that audiences are rejecting such a bad movie, but I fear Sony will continue its delusional path with the comments from its CEO.
I like the box office share pie chart but it would be great if we had the amount of movies each studio released next to it so we can see if they had sold a lot of tickets for a few movies or a ton in comparison to other studios.
Thank you, my 2024 look back is complete. Now I hope I can forget most of it. For some families, maybe they needed to save money for the LK sequel since its time gap with Morena was so small.
Studios when their movies flop: 😵💫😫😓 Francis Ford Coppola: I'm just happy it got into theaters. Money don't matter, it's the friends that matter. 🙂 Now who's up for an Edith Wharton musical adaptation? 😄
I don't think the box office will ever return to what it was pre-pandemic, not because of the pandemic - or even the change of viewing habits, but just because the MCU is a shadow of its former self, and seemed to basically carry the industry for a hot minute. I'm not saying the numbers will never reach that level again, I just don't believe it's at all on the table at the moment - unless DC kicks into gear and gives us a second comicbook movie renaissance (which I doubt, nor do I particularly want).
Never understood the cost of Apple movies like Argyle and Fly Me To The Moon, there is nothing like $100m up on screen so assume what they are paying for is different, although could also be a case of Hollywood Accounting. Not sure if they care whether it makes money or not, a bit like Better Man, which is worth a watch. I get the impression this film got made with zero interest in box office returns, similar to Megalopolis. Someone felt the story was worth telling regardless of how many see it.
Usually directors, producers and mostly protagonists if they are famous not only get paid upfront but they receive a porcentage of boxoffice and other revenues. Since with streaming there's none of it, they get paid more in upfront from all the money that supposedly (if the movie does well) they will not getting from ancilliary markets. Hence a movie that would cost 60 mill + benefits divided among the top tier players gets bumped to 100+ for all the money been swept from the table for those people
Does Red One not make the list of biggest flops? The reported budget is 250m and the current worldwide gross on boxofficemojo is 185m, making for a loss of 65m, more than Kraven and Fly Me to the Moon. You’re obviously very thorough so I might be missing something. Terrific show though you’re something I look forward to every week!
It's been a mixed year, the strikes didn't help but I've got a feeling that the impact of streaming/pirating has changed the game forever, although I can see the studios pumping billions into AI etc to target pirating/torrenting. There will always be an audience for the big screen and I can see a couple of Billion dollar movies a year becoming the norm but the studios and theatres are going to have to adjust, I can see less big budgets and more theatre closures.
It's interesting that Superman was voted on this channel the comic book movie that most people are excited for, in 2025. It will be a somewhat unusual year for this category of movies: we have 4 big comic book adaptations, but I don't expect any of them to be extraordinarily successful. I believe none of them will reach 500 million in the US, maybe not even 400 million
Sean Chandler talks about box office too and mentions that in terms of pure profit a movie with a $100 million budget must bring in $250 to be profitable because studios double the budget for promotion and the movie theaters themselves take half the cut. What are your thoughts on that? I’m curious to get a couple different takes on it.
I break this down extensively on the show often. The numbers are a bit more complicated than that. It depends on the split between domestic and international and a few other factors. In general, though, it's a good ballpark number.
You’re the most reliable box office reporting channel.
Yep, and Dan's delivery is so slyly glib, you have to pay attention or it might fly over your head.
So true
Exactly unlike Grace
He’s the most reliable channel in general for anything regarding this business especially when you compare him to all the slop we see on this platform now
There's no other comparison. His videos are serious and articulate. Too many other channels on box office just resort to pushing their own narrative
The duration of these Charts with Dan give me life. Thank you so much Dan, I really appreciate your work.
Glazer
Give you life?
"it's all going back to legal fees..." DAN!!!!! You nearly made me do a spit take!
That one was very witty. Loved it.
Saw this comment before that part of the video and knew exactly what movie this comment was about haha
The road to recovery has really been hampered by the fact that the studios have been very apprehensive to put two tentpole releases against each other. The weeks that stand out are the ones where there was some crossover. But the studios and their corporate overlords don't see the benefits. They just think they're losing money.
@@_NoDrinkTheBleach As well as the fact that the box office is disproportionately concentrated around said tentpole releases when that was not the case before. The pandemic and the strikes only exacerbated the already-existing trend of media consolidation.
I'm honestly happy that Nosferatu's doing well. Egger's definitely earned it and I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up getting 100 million domestically (or close to it) by the end of its' run.
I'm not a horror fan (I have such a weak stomach!), but even I'm extremely curious about it as the movie looks so very stylish. so I just might check it out as well.
your "road to recovery" line graph is my favorite part of your show. even if you didn't have the year-to-year comparison on it, I'd be happy with just seeing a line graph of the yearly weekend box-office. so, glad you're going to continue feature this.
Thank you for making Sonic 3 the blue bar on the chart. Any other color would just have confused my brain.
So glad I am not the only one.
I don’t think we’re ever gonna hit the 11 billion numbers again at least for a long time… release strategies have changed dramatically since everyone went nuts for catering to the streaming services… It’s gonna take a complete collapse of streaming for the box office to actually improve again… It’s actually possible that American audiences have just gotten out of the habit of going to the theater all the time again…
I agree. 11 billion will be reached again in some years, but sadly just because of inflation, while the numbers of tickets sold will stay the same
Would love a flash back to interesting market share years. Like when was the last time Paramount was #1? Or has that even happened?
Maybe a Return on Investment by Percentage comparing the studios?
Of course it did. Remember when they were putting out blockbusters like Beverly Hills Cop, Crocodile Dundee and Top Gun in the '80s? They dominated!
Bold to assume some of us were alive in the 80s @@petersaunders7295
Yes! @@petersaunders7295
@@petersaunders7295 don't forget Indiana Jones
I wonder how in trouble Lionsgate is, and if a Ballerina flop means doom for them.
Good job , Dan. You did double duty today and still met expectations. Thanks
I actually like that Sonic 3 and Mufasa have both been #1 at the box office. Normally, one film would cannibalize the other, but here it’s almost like they worked together to co-lead the holiday season box office. As much as some people online tried to make Glicked a thing, I feel that Sonic and Mufasa ended up being the duo that propped each other up equally as both will ultimately end up in the 2024 top 10 domestically and worldwide.
it took me entirely too long to figure out that 'G' stands for 'Gladiator', so clearly this failed miserably.
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I think 2025 is going to be a colossal year for the box office. Wicked, Superman, Zootopia, Stitch, and Fantastic Four/Thunderbolts and Avatar? I think it’s going to be the biggest box office year since before Covid.
So basically another big win for the Mouse
Phew! I was getting worried there for a second.
Not only did Disney have an amazing year in 2024 they definitely recouped all of their losses in 2023 and still made profit!
Will that success continue forward?
I agree. 2025 will be interesting for Disney: there will be many successfull movies, but also a couple flops
@@LinkMarioSamuswith Avatar 3 and Zootopia 2? Most definitly
"Word on the street is positive about Baby Girl." I love it.
Boy Kills World was one of my most favourite movies of the year, such a shame it flopped, hope it would become a cult classic
I watched it a couple evenings ago and found it really sagged in the middle with repetition but ended on a high note.
I really like it. It’s an underrated movie for sure.
I saw it in theater and picked up the bluray. Cult classic might too strong but definitely underrated
It makes me happy that Mufasa was the winner during Christmas and the #1 film in America and worldwide at the start of 2025. I really like that movie. I've seen it 5 times so far.
I’d love if you had a little section predicting the box office for next week
Another noteworthy point about Sonic 3 vs Mufasa is that Sonic 3's budget was only 122 million, while Mufasa was around 200 million. While it seems pretty clear that Mufasa will do decently better than Sonic 3 in gross, I wonder what the net profit will look like when everything's done.
It's like Box Office Christmas! It comes but once a year.
Kraven flopped harder than the Happy Feet seals.
KRAVEN flopped harder than HAPPY FEET 2
Happy new year dan
I never understood the Road to Recovery graph so thank you for taking the time to explain it. 😊
My wife, brother & I all finally have the same day off, & planned to see Wicked (for the 1st time) this Friday. It is out of our local theatres as of Thurs. Now we have to pick betwixt A Complete Unknown & Mufasa.
I wanted to see Wicked again in Italy, but it was out of all theaters within 200km from my home, three weeks after it was released...
A complete unknown!!!
Happy New Year, Dan 🎉 Really appreciate your attention to detail 🙏🏾👌🏾 Great annual appearance on Harloff's show w/Rocha BTW Looking fwd to this time next year when we can compare 5yrs of box office performance pre- & post-COVID = Thx to all that suggested to keep that chart 😃
23:22 Dan referring to The Substance as an "Oscar Drama" is a little surreal
Hi Dan, when Venom 3 finally leaves theaters, can you please compare the Venom trilogy box office to other superhero trilogies (both Spider-man, Iron Man, Thor, Cap America, GotG, Ant Man, both X-Men, etc). Of course unadjusted and adjusted.
Thanks for this and all your hard work in 2024 Dan!
Agree. He's always so comprehensive in his research
Saw Nosferatu today, and I think it's in my top 5 all-time favourite movies. It was just so goddamn superb in every way. Everyone in it was excellent, but Nicholas Hoult really shone, and Bill Skarsgard . . . how?! How the hell was that him? How did he achieve that?? Unbelievable. I loved it.
@ 4:24 Sonic edging Mufasa? I think I've seen that before on deviantart
Correction: Dear Santa was on Paramount Plus
fantastic vid dan keep it up hope you have a great 2025!
Pretty interesting charts Dan. Thanks for all the hard work !
Wild that Bloody Axe Wound was still in my theater after the shrinkage. Funnier that it was on one of the imax 3d screens since it is neither.
Pretty fun lil flick.
Thanks for the wrap up!💜
Dan, why did the Golden Globes give "Wicked" the award for Box Office Achievement when it wasn't even the highest grossing movie of the year? On what criteria do they judge that award? It doesn't make sense to me.
I’m booked for a special The Last Showgirl plus livestream Q&A for Wednesday night. Can’t wait given the positive reviews.
Dan, I miss your analysis for individual movies on how much they earned or lost in the theatrical window. Could you please bring that back? :)
He's keeping on doing this kind of analysis, but not for every movie and it's usually for big movies, right after they have closed their theatrical run. Maybe the next ones could be Moana and Wicked...
@@crestedargo4663 Thanks for the info. I just noticed, that he hadn't done it in a long while, is all.
Feels like a warm embrace to start 2025, Even the music has become soothing to me. It's so snark free that the occasional jibe (legal fees) hits beautifully.
Probably because I am a former historian and history teacher who was really into data, but I’d like to see the year 2020 added to your chart as a separate line. I know it’s an outlier, but that’s exactly why I would want it recorded. What you do is really important and posterity may take it more seriously than you can imagine. I would love to see you include a line for 2020, just to show the outlier and to remind us what shutdowns did to our artistic and economic lives.
Just my two cents, but I really appreciate what you do and seeing the data.
2020 movies in theaters: halted Friday, March 17th.
@ not completely
Better Man was the AMC Screen Unseen last night. It is entertaining. I knew zero about Robbie Williams. Quite a life’s story.
you should do a video about how you organize all your data over the years. would be interesting for stat nerds
The episode we’ve all been waiting for 🙏🏽
Thank you for this numbers packed episode of awesomeness Dan! I saw and enjoyed the first DOT film based on your review back in the SJU days. Interested in your thoughts on the new one. Take care!
Why?!?!?! Why is Dan Murrell so f**king good?!?!?! Great guy, great content. Never miss a week
For next week's episode can you also show the graph of the average of the box office from 2010 - 2014. I have seen a lot of people talk about how 2015 to 2019 were more outliers as they came after a lot of good set-up from studios.
The road to recovery is my favorite chart every week, happy it's keep going
Nosferatu beating Alien: Romulus would be crazy. I loved it though, saw it yesterday and my screen was decently busy. We even considered going back and seeing it again
Thanks for your efforts in putting this all together.
The streaming charts are going to be fascinating to start the year…Squid Game 2 seems to start hot, but it’s definitely lacking the buzz all over the place that the first one gained. And seeing the NFL results and now WWE Raw moving forward will be fascinating to see how people respond to Netflix moving to more live events.
Looking forward to your review of Better Man. Looks interesting- a biopic witha twist.
Thanks for another great year of breaking down these numbers for us Dan! Here’s to 2025!🍻
Thanks for another great year Dan! Love the numbers baby! lets chart away in 2025!
At this point, I am just really confused that any theater is voluntarily showing Kraven. Who is possibly still interested in seeing this?
That is strange. In my area, it’s shown just once per day at 10:30 PM. So shown grudgingly.
43:13 Looks like Nielsen has more adjustments to make. Dear Santa was a Paramount+ release, but Nielsen seems to have tracked it under a 2011 Lifetime movie of the same name that's available on Peacock.
Better Man was released in the UK last week and is actually very good. A little too long perhaps, but it's an interesting story and the ape works surprisingly well. Some great musical numbers too. Definitely worth checking out.
Better Man was such a blast, It got released last weekend where I live. really good emotional film (you're gonna need a tissues for this one)
Here's hoping to a great 2025 for everyone and cinema. Great video.
A Quiet Place is a real franchise now
Thanks for your coverage
I loved Fly Me to the Moon. I have no idea why the movie cost as much as it did to make.
I saw Babygirl yesterday, and I HATED it. I think it might just be a case of me not "getting" the sub/dom thing, as to me this was a competently made 50 Shades. I mean that as both a compliment and a negative, because while there is certainly quality in the production and acting, I couldn't laugh at it either and instead found myself going "why?"
Also, the rave scene needed a seizure advisory. I'm epileptic, and watched many other movies this year with such advisories and had no problems, but I had to close my eyes during that scene with the flashing lights and thumping music I almost immediately started feeling dizzy and a headache.
So yeah I found it dreadful, with that scene certainly not helping.
i was wondering if the NFL was gona make it onto charts.
Hey, Elevation was pretty fun!
Love the success story that Terrifier has been, hopefully it means we'll see more of these independent gems
You're the best!
Where is the comparison of 2024 numbers to Dan's top 10 prediction for box office from the start of last year? or does he not do that anymore?
Beetlejuice 2 did insane numbers, amazing.
Here is to a great 2025 for your show as well Dan
Regarding screen count numbers for Mufasa, while the film did start to loose premium screens most premium format screens are in large multi-plex's with many screens and they are still showing Mufasa on other screens in the complex. The screen drop were most likely due to the film ending its run in small rural towns that still have single (or twin) cinemas where no film runs more that two weeks. The local cinema in my tiny town of 5,000 ended its run of Mufasa and programmed Wicked, which may only stay one week as Sonic still hasn't got to town.
Great reporting. I think a huge reason for pre pandemic numbers vs post is Marvel. They were putting out 2-3 big films every year before. And just one this year - which admittedly did really well.
Glad we kept my favorite chart road to recovery
Hey Dan, There's been some MoviePass news - Ted Farnsworth, who's been in jail since 2023, pled guilty to defrauding his investors. Is there any chance we'll get another MoviePass video?
It's great that The Substance is doing so well. And getting the accolades it deserves. I hope this means that Demi Moore will be in more films.
So many massive hits & so many massive failures!
I don’t know if you feel like you have enough content for this topic, but if/when the Paramount sale becomes official, I wonder if you’d do “the way forward for Paramount” video.
Kraven is such an unmitigated disaster. I like that audiences are rejecting such a bad movie, but I fear Sony will continue its delusional path with the comments from its CEO.
With these numbers, they are definitely making Nosferathree.
I like the box office share pie chart but it would be great if we had the amount of movies each studio released next to it so we can see if they had sold a lot of tickets for a few movies or a ton in comparison to other studios.
Thank you, my 2024 look back is complete. Now I hope I can forget most of it.
For some families, maybe they needed to save money for the LK sequel since its time gap with Morena was so small.
Studios when their movies flop: 😵💫😫😓
Francis Ford Coppola: I'm just happy it got into theaters. Money don't matter, it's the friends that matter. 🙂 Now who's up for an Edith Wharton musical adaptation? 😄
Bad Boys for Life
Yes, please keep the " road to recovery" chart
i got boxset of all 3 season seaQuest DSV 2032 on blu-ray
I have faith for 10 billion this year! Let the games begin🎉
Does Dan have an analytics background? I would be interested to know what sparked this passion.
Instead of Road to Recovery, I think a 2025 vs 2024 chart would be more interesting.
I don't think the box office will ever return to what it was pre-pandemic, not because of the pandemic - or even the change of viewing habits, but just because the MCU is a shadow of its former self, and seemed to basically carry the industry for a hot minute. I'm not saying the numbers will never reach that level again, I just don't believe it's at all on the table at the moment - unless DC kicks into gear and gives us a second comicbook movie renaissance (which I doubt, nor do I particularly want).
15:10 i just had to look up what Thunderbolts is. oh god.
Never understood the cost of Apple movies like Argyle and Fly Me To The Moon, there is nothing like $100m up on screen so assume what they are paying for is different, although could also be a case of Hollywood Accounting. Not sure if they care whether it makes money or not, a bit like Better Man, which is worth a watch. I get the impression this film got made with zero interest in box office returns, similar to Megalopolis. Someone felt the story was worth telling regardless of how many see it.
Usually directors, producers and mostly protagonists if they are famous not only get paid upfront but they receive a porcentage of boxoffice and other revenues. Since with streaming there's none of it, they get paid more in upfront from all the money that supposedly (if the movie does well) they will not getting from ancilliary markets. Hence a movie that would cost 60 mill + benefits divided among the top tier players gets bumped to 100+ for all the money been swept from the table for those people
Does Red One not make the list of biggest flops? The reported budget is 250m and the current worldwide gross on boxofficemojo is 185m, making for a loss of 65m, more than Kraven and Fly Me to the Moon. You’re obviously very thorough so I might be missing something. Terrific show though you’re something I look forward to every week!
Damsel killing it shows you how big a star Millie Bobby brown is since that was an average movie.
Sonic 3 is a video game movie and not mainly aimed at Families, so no wonder it has less legs
It's been a mixed year, the strikes didn't help but I've got a feeling that the impact of streaming/pirating has changed the game forever, although I can see the studios pumping billions into AI etc to target pirating/torrenting. There will always be an audience for the big screen and I can see a couple of Billion dollar movies a year becoming the norm but the studios and theatres are going to have to adjust, I can see less big budgets and more theatre closures.
It's interesting that Superman was voted on this channel the comic book movie that most people are excited for, in 2025. It will be a somewhat unusual year for this category of movies: we have 4 big comic book adaptations, but I don't expect any of them to be extraordinarily successful. I believe none of them will reach 500 million in the US, maybe not even 400 million
Disney und Universal are really the last big studios left. But tbf, it was like this since the Hobbit trilogy ended.
IF he stands any chance of defeating those goosebumps, he's gonna need to go RED ROSS! You know, Red Ross!
Doin' it.
Sean Chandler talks about box office too and mentions that in terms of pure profit a movie with a $100 million budget must bring in $250 to be profitable because studios double the budget for promotion and the movie theaters themselves take half the cut. What are your thoughts on that? I’m curious to get a couple different takes on it.
I break this down extensively on the show often. The numbers are a bit more complicated than that. It depends on the split between domestic and international and a few other factors. In general, though, it's a good ballpark number.