The Box Office thread

[Jay 37,346]

It's only playing in 1100 theaters? Will this be his first film that doesn't play in 3000 theaters since that became the standard for a wide release? 

[Edmilson 7,434]

While Avatar 2 is making over a billion dollars, Babylon is tanking.

 

No Jazz For ‘Babylon’ At Domestic Box Office With $4M+ Debut; Brad Pitt-Margot Robbie Epic Won’t Hit $250M Breakeven: Here’s Why

[Jay 37,346]

Warner Bros. is now the only film studio not to have a film that made $1 billion at the box office in the pandemic era of Hollywood

[Jay 37,346]

Disney

1. Avatar: The Way of Water    $1,030,118,839
2. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness    $955,775,804
3. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever    $805,249,637
4. Thor: Love and Thunder    $760,928,081
5. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings    $432,243,292

Paramount

1. Top Gun: Maverick   $1,488,732,821
2. Sonic the Hedgehog 2    $402,656,846
3. Sonic the Hedgehog    $319,715,683
4. A Quiet Place Part II    $297,372,261
5. Smile    $216,135,048

Sony

1. Spider-Man: No Way Home    $1,917,430,023
2. Venom: Let There Be Carnage    $506,863,592
3. Uncharted    $401,748,820
4. Bullet Train    $239,268,602
5. Ghostbusters: Afterlife    $204,334,455

Universal

1. Jurassic World: Dominion    $1,001,136,080
2. Minions: The Rise of Gru    $939,433,210
3. F9: The Fast Saga    $726,229,501
4. Sing 2   $407,561,741
5. The Croods: A New Age    $215,905,815

Warner Brothers

1. The Batman    $770,836,163
2. Godzilla vs. Kong    $470,067,014
3. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore    $405,161,334
4. Dune    $401,847,900
5. Black Adam    $391,273,355

[Mr. Who 919]

16 minutes ago, Jay said:

Disney

1. Avatar: The Way of Water    $1,030,118,839
2. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness    $955,775,804
3. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever    $805,249,637
4. Thor: Love and Thunder    $760,928,081
5. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings    $432,243,292

Paramount

1. Top Gun: Maverick   $1,488,732,821
2. Sonic the Hedgehog 2    $402,656,846
3. Sonic the Hedgehog    $319,715,683
4. A Quiet Place Part II    $297,372,261
5. Smile    $216,135,048

Sony

1. Spider-Man: No Way Home    $1,917,430,023
2. No Time to Die    $774,153,007
3. Venom: Let There Be Carnage    $506,863,592
4. Uncharted    $401,748,820
5. Bullet Train    $239,268,602

Universal

1. Jurassic World: Dominion    $1,001,136,080
2. Minions: The Rise of Gru    $939,433,210
3. F9: The Fast Saga    $726,229,501
4. Sing 2   $407,561,741
5. The Croods: A New Age    $215,905,815

Warner Brothers

1. The Batman    $770,836,163
2. Godzilla vs. Kong    $470,067,014
3. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore    $405,161,334
4. Dune    $401,847,900
5. Black Adam    $391,273,355

WB’s streaming decision was really stupid. They also should have pushed the release date for Tenet I think because that one could have been huge without lockdowns.

[Jay 37,346]

I didn't realize Dune made so little money

 

I wonder how much the sequel will make

[Taikomochi 1,136]

Dune also came out in that September-October stretch when people were starting to actually return to the movies, when making $100 million was an impressive feat. In that context, it did very well. It was also released same day on HBO Max, which I’m sure dampened the numbers some. 

[Jay 37,346]

It's funny to think that if Disney never bought Fox and we were looking at a list of 6 studios instead of 5, Disney would be in the same category as WB, of not having a billion dollar film out in the pandemic era

 

The lists would look like this if Disney never bought Fox

 

Disney

1. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness    $955,775,804
2. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever    $805,249,637
3. Thor: Love and Thunder    $760,928,081
4. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings    $432,243,292
5. Eternals    $402,064,899

Fox

1. Avatar: The Way of Water    $1,030,118,839
2. Free Guy    $331,526,598
3. Death on the Nile    $137,307,235
4. The New Mutants    $49,169,594
5. The Last Duel   $30,552,111

Of course, many Fox film that would have gone to theaters ended up going direct to Disney+ instead, so have no BO numbers, or Fox might have gotten another X-Men film out by now if they hadn't been absorbed into the MCU, etc

[Disco Stu 15,495]

I feel confident that Ron Gone Wrong would not have made a billion  

[Edmilson 7,434]

1 hour ago, Jay said:

• No Time to Die    $774,153,007
•  

No Time to Die is not a Sony movie. Every Craig Bond film was distributed by Sony/Columbia, except for this one, which was distributed in North America by United Arts Releasing and internationally by Universal Pictures.

[Jay 37,346]

Huh. TIL

[JoeinAR 1,949]

3 hours ago, Jay said:

Disney

1. Avatar: The Way of Water    $1,030,118,839
2. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness    $955,775,804
3. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever    $805,249,637
4. Thor: Love and Thunder    $760,928,081
5. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings    $432,243,292

Paramount

1. Top Gun: Maverick   $1,488,732,821
2. Sonic the Hedgehog 2    $402,656,846
3. Sonic the Hedgehog    $319,715,683
4. A Quiet Place Part II    $297,372,261
5. Smile    $216,135,048

Sony

1. Spider-Man: No Way Home    $1,917,430,023
2. Venom: Let There Be Carnage    $506,863,592
3. Uncharted    $401,748,820
4. Bullet Train    $239,268,602
5. Ghostbusters: Afterlife    $204,334,455

Universal

1. Jurassic World: Dominion    $1,001,136,080
2. Minions: The Rise of Gru    $939,433,210
3. F9: The Fast Saga    $726,229,501
4. Sing 2   $407,561,741
5. The Croods: A New Age    $215,905,815

Warner Brothers

1. The Batman    $770,836,163
2. Godzilla vs. Kong    $470,067,014
3. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore    $405,161,334
4. Dune    $401,847,900
5. Black Adam    $391,273,355

Many of these films were in 2021 

[Jay 37,346]

Well yes, of course they were

 

5 hours ago, Jay said:

Warner Bros. is now the only film studio not to have a film that made $1 billion at the box office in the pandemic era of Hollywood

[Edmilson 7,434]

After three and a half years, Marvel is back in China.

 

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It’s been a long time coming, but it looks like China’s unofficial ban on Marvel is lifting. Disney/Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania have both secured release dates in China, ending a three-and-a-half year period during which movies featuring Marvel characters did not gain entry to the world’s second largest box office market. Marvel posted the news to its Weibo account, check out the new Chinese posters for each film below.

Black Panther 2, which originally released elsewhere in November 2022, will set the table on February 7, while Ant-Man 3 will hit Chinese movie theaters on February 17, day-and-date with North America. In so doing, they become the first titles featuring a Marvel character in China since Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: Far From Home in June 2019, and the first Disney/Marvel movies since Avengers: Endgame earlier that same year.

 

https://deadline.com/2023/01/china-marvel-ban-ends-black-panther-wakanda-forever-ant-man-and-the-wasp-quantumania-release-dates-1235224248/

[Jurassic Shark 12,062]

Why were they banned?

[Sweeping Strings 2,355]

Possibly because there was stuff in the movies that met with China's disapproval and Marvel refused to take it out?  

[Mr. Who 919]

21 minutes ago, Sweeping Strings said:

Possibly because there was stuff in the movies that met with China's disapproval and Marvel refused to take it out?  

The returen of Iger as Disney CEO id probably the reason.

[Edmilson 7,434]

17 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Why were they banned?

Officially the censors disliked minor stuff like the main actor of Shang-Chi and the director of Eternals criticizing the chinese government in past interviews, the fact that the climax of No Way Home is set on the Statue of Liberty (a symbol of american imperialism according to the chinese) and a lesbian character on Doctor Strange 2. But unofficially is more likely that the Chinese government was worried about the dominance of Marvel movies in their market, specially since 2021 was the centennial of the Chinese Communist Party. Now that that is over (and, as said above, Iger is back), Marvel may return to the country.

[Edmilson 7,434]

Anyone else thinks that Box Office Mojo gets worse every week? 

 

Firstly, they got rid of the analysis that were published twice a week, reporting first on the weekend previews on Friday and then on the weekend numbers on Sundays. I used to really like those reports, they were crucial to understanding what was happening every week.

 

Now, they're also too slow on reporting the numbers, which was their single job. For example, they didn't update Black Panther 2's Chinese numbers, an info I only managed to find on Deadline.

 

The Numbers is not exactly better, and I'm not a fan of their analysis.

 

Does anyone know another reliable site for this kind of business?

[Edmilson 7,434]

These are this year's Super Bowl trailers, ranked by how much views they got on social media on their first 24 hours:

 

 

Source: https://deadline.com/2023/02/guardians-of-the-galaxy-3-the-flash-fast-x-super-bowl-trailers-views-1235261136/

[Edmilson 7,434]

Bob Iger: Disney Will Reduce Costs on Films, TV Shows to Focus on Quality, Not Volume
"It comes in the form of reducing the expense per content, whether it's a TV series or a film, where costs have just skyrocketed," the Disney chief told an investor conference.

[JNHFan2000 2,957]

I'm glad.

Although I love Disney. It has become too much

[Luke Skywalker 1,795]

???

make less content so the quality can rise, perfect. But cutting money on everything? Sfx were already subpar… what will it be now?

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433]

10 hours ago, Luke Skywalker said:

make less content so the quality can rise, perfect. But cutting money on everything? Sfx were already subpar… what will it be now?

It's not because you put tons of money on SFX that you'll get good one. All you need is time, look at a movie like Everything Everywhere All at Once, SFX are great because they took the time to work on it not by having a 200 millions dollars budget

[Luke Skywalker 1,795]

Make less content and have more time for each product…

[Edmilson 7,434]

The viewership on streaming of this year's best picture nominees:

 

 

According to Deadline:

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The preferred choice of audiences in Los Angeles, a top DMA where many Academy voters reside, however, was The Fabelmans, perhaps illustrating an intriguing disconnect between those who comprise the Academy and the majority of the country.

“If Academy voters have their way,” he added, “we might see another Steven Spielberg win, as Los Angeles seems to have embraced The Fabelmans by the widest margin of all the contenders.”

 

https://deadline.com/2023/03/oscars-box-office-streaming-top-gun-maverick-avatar-the-way-of-water-elvis-1235283443/

[JoeinAR 1,949]

Im shocked that Babylon was a boxoffice disaster, who doesn't like to see a person get shit on and another person pissed on in the first few minutes. Seriously scat and watersports in the first five minutes....

[Edmilson 7,434]

Apple will spend $1 billion dollars per year to produce movies with a traditional theatrical window. That includes new movies by Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Bad Pitt, George Clooney, etc.

 

https://deadline.com/2023/03/apple-theatrical-commitment-amazon-killers-of-the-flower-moon-1235308733/

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433]

4 hours ago, Edmilson said:

Apple will spend $1 billion dollars per year to produce movies with a traditional theatrical window. That includes new movies by Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Bad Pitt, George Clooney, etc.

How dare you, he's such a great actor

[Naïve Old Fart 9,515]

Bad Pitt is a (still) athletic-looking, pretty-boy who couldn't act his way out of a giant paper bag, which had a tear at one end, and a big, red neon sign, pointing to it, that said THIS WAY OUT.

[Edmilson 7,434]

According to Deadline, those were the most profitable movies (including box office and streaming revenues) of 2022:

 

Rank | Movie (Distributor) | Profit

1. Avatar: The Way Of Water (Disney) – $531.7M
2. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount) – $391.1M
3. Minions: The Rise of Gru (Universal) – $382.0M
4. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Disney) – $284.0
5. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Disney) – $259.0M
6. Jurassic World Dominion (Universal) – $229.7M
7. The Batman (Warner Bros) – $177.0M
8. Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Universal) – $120.2M
9. Thor: Love and Thunder (Disney) – $103.0M
10. Smile (Paramount) – $101.0M

 

And those were the biggest box office bombs:

 

Strange World (Dis): -$197.4M; 
Amsterdam (Dis): -$108.4; 
Lightyear (Dis): -$106M; 
Devotion (Sony): -$89.2M; 
Babylon (Par): -$87.4M

[Jay 37,346]

I only saw 5 of those top 10 movies and 1 of those bottom 5 movies.  And I liked that one more than one of the profitable ones I saw...

[crocodile 8,000]

Speaking of box office, isn't it interesting how every single John Wick movie performs so much better than the last? It must be some kind of anomaly.

 

I am pleased though. They are all really entertaining.

 

Karol

[Raiders of the SoundtrArk 2,433]

Funnily enough I found Babylon far better than any of the most profitable movies (haven't seen Puss in Boots and Smile though)

[Mr. Who 919]

19 hours ago, Edmilson said:

According to Deadline, those were the most profitable movies (including box office and streaming revenues) of 2022:

 

Rank | Movie (Distributor) | Profit

1. Avatar: The Way Of Water (Disney) – $531.7M
2. Top Gun: Maverick (Paramount) – $391.1M
3. Minions: The Rise of Gru (Universal) – $382.0M
4. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Disney) – $284.0
5. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (Disney) – $259.0M
6. Jurassic World Dominion (Universal) – $229.7M
7. The Batman (Warner Bros) – $177.0M
8. Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Universal) – $120.2M
9. Thor: Love and Thunder (Disney) – $103.0M
10. Smile (Paramount) – $101.0M

 

And those were the biggest box office bombs:

 

Strange World (Dis): -$197.4M; 
Amsterdam (Dis): -$108.4; 
Lightyear (Dis): -$106M; 
Devotion (Sony): -$89.2M; 
Babylon (Par): -$87.4M

Long may Avatar reign! Amazing movie!

[Edmilson 7,434]

From the most profitable movies, the only ones I haven't seen are Puss in Boots and Minions 2. I do intend to see Puss in Boots someday though, the movie seems great. 

 

But so far, my favorite among the top 10 is Smile. Terrific horror movie with a bleak, disturbing ending. 

 

From the 5 box office bombs, I have only seen Babylon, which I liked. Have no intent to watching the other ones though.

[JNHFan2000 2,957]

 

[JNHFan2000 2,957]

Both are winners

 

Barbie worldwide is $300

Oppenheimer worldwide is $174

 

Great to 2 original films, not part of a franchise, doing so well.

 

 

[crocodile 8,000]

How is Barbie an original film?

 

Karol

[Jay 37,346]

Barbie is part of a franchise, there's been 16 prior films

[JNHFan2000 2,957]

Yeah, ok. It's based on an existing IP. But all the films prior have been animated.

That's what I meant.

[Holko 9,520]

26 minutes ago, JNHFan2000 said:

Barbie worldwide is $300

Oppenheimer worldwide is $174

Gotta consider that some countries apparently decided to delay Oppenheimer so that one won't get picked over the other by people who don't go to the cinema much. So it could well catch up next month.

[JoeinAR 1,949]

1 hour ago, Jay said:

Barbie is part of a franchise, there's been 16 prior films

Omg that is ridiculously  naive. Any connections to a prior film is virtually nonexistent and there are a lot of films with Barbie. 

[Jay 37,346]

Obviously. 

 

It's still part of a franchise. 

[TolkienSS 407]

I want to know who the dweebs are that said Margot Robbie was not hot enough to be Barbie.

[Mr. Who 919]

15 minutes ago, TolkienSS said:

I want to know who the dweebs are that said Margot Robbie was not hot enough to be Barbie.

Lol Someone claimed that she was unattractive?

[Nick1Ø66 4,711]

1 hour ago, JoeinAR said:

Omg that is ridiculously  naive. Any connections to a prior film is virtually nonexistent and there are a lot of films with Barbie. 

 

HOW DARE you denigrate & dismiss the BCU.

 

[Edmilson 7,434]

I didn't care for Barbie, but I'm happy for its success anyway. It's a very "Warner Bros" movie, in which it's something more or less "original" (or at least not seen in the big screen for a long time) that is also the product of a singular vision of a talented director that somehow captures the zeitgeist. It's movies like The Matrix, Zack Snyder's 300, Nolan's Inception, etc.

 

Also, how often do you see a comedy earning all this money, especially overseas? In my country, the movie is already a monster hit.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,515]

Is anyone planning a BARBIEHEIMER?

[Jurassic Shark 12,062]

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE BARBIE