I guess at least it's doing better than Batman:MoF (Still a fantastic Batman movie), which suffered the same issue.
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Wkd Box Office - 12•21-23•18 - X-mas 5-day updates: Aquaman $105M, Mary Poppins $41M, Bumblebee $34M, Spider-verse $25M
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I guess at least it's doing better than Batman:MoF (Still a fantastic Batman movie), which suffered the same issue.
Poppins deserves better, dammit.
Honestly, I found the movie surprisingly average =/
Sorry gang. I was planning on seeing Bumblebee today, but I unfortuntely I wasn't able to. And it doesn't help that Bumblebee doesn't have later show times unlike Aquaman and MPR over here.
I'm unfortunely part of the problem. But I'll try to see if on Wednesday if possible.
I did see Aquaman though. I enjoyed that.
I'm unfortunely part of the problem. But I'll try to see if on Wednesday if possible.
I did see Aquaman though. I enjoyed that.
Huge success. It has a shot at $900 million worldwide depending on how certain markets perform moving forward. It should fall within a similar range to Venom regardless. Clearly, we all know what the real big team up for the future is. It's all about that Venom, Aquaman, and Black Panther symphony of sex. Don't know what you'd call them though.
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Mary Poppins will end up doing well enough to at least not lose money. It's no going to be a collossal hit, but they already set a record for highest domestic studio gross in a calendar year, beating their own 2016 record. Even with all of the flops, Disney averaged over 300M domestic a film.
So we just gonna ignore the six episodic films doing gangbusters in May?
I think at some point we should just accept the fact that Solo was going to be a dud no matter where it released
BUT IF THEY JUST RELEASED IT IN DECEMBER, OCEANS 8 WOULD HAVE BEEN A NON-FACTOR IN THE 3RD WEEKEND.
I thought Solo was awful, but it was very obviously killed by releasing only a few months after the previous Star Wars movie, and within a month of many other big movies were coming out.
It doing better in December would have been a given, as people would be hungry for another Star Wars after being conditioned to have Star Wars be part of the holiday tradition, as well as less competition (Aquaman would not have performed as good if people had a Star Wars option available).
'Conditioned' is bullshit. 6 SW movies before Solo released in May and did just fine. FOH with SW suddenly needing specific release conditions to succeed.
Those 6 movies from before we literally generations ago. They don't factor.
Movie series nowadays have multiple installments in a year (as a universe) and at times once a year (as named series), back then those movies released 3 years apart.
Stop.
A good movie that people want can release ANY TIME. Like I said, FOH with this notion that STAR WARS suddenly needs ideal conditions to succeed.
Good movies can release at any time, but they won't be equally successful at any time.
I thought we were talking about Star Wars. Are you trying to say Star Wars needs ideal release conditions to succeed now?
are releases from the early 2000s more relevant than the last 3 decembers?
i could be wrong but perhaps the movie landscape has changed a bit since 2005
I'm not sure how 6 movies released in the past disproves my theory that solo would have performed better in december 2018 versus may 2018
So what I am being told is, the Star Wars brand is no longer strong enough to compete for BO money outside of December.
Hilarious.
Hilarious.
I'm sad to see Mortal Engines doing poorly. I actually saw it twice and thought that movie was a ton of fun; felt like Star Wars meets Fury Road with a dash of Bioshock. I see its faults, but the movie was just pure fun, great CG, awesome soundtrack and has a crazy fast pace.
Agreed. It has major flaws but overall it's a pretty entertaining ride. I blame Universal for this anyway, had they delayed the film for a much nicer period it would have at least done a lot better.
After 30 years of Star Wars movies releasing in May, Star Wars fans are conditioned to watching it in the Summer
A Star Wars movie suddenly releasing in December sounds ludicrous, Star Wars fans will never accept a new release date. I think Force Awakens is being sent to die
Personal anecdote but if Episode 9 released any time, I am there.
You release Solo in May or December, I'm not going.
Exactly.
Some ideas are inherently unappealing, even if they seem bankable on the surface. Solo is but one of many in that mold.
As a lifelong lover of space opera/space adventure first and foremost, it's kind of a bummer watching the only franchise therein that has ever been an unstoppable juggernaut no longer dominating in a nerd world filled to bursting with a different genre, which I like far, far less.
Solo was screwed either way, though. Star Wars will still make billions and billions over time; it's just not what it used to be, at least for the time being. Solo itself had way more problems than any other the others released thus far.
I'm not a wildly optimistic enough fan to expect Episode IX to come anywhere close to TFA, but I still think it'll land around $1.3-1.4 billion.
Everything needs ideal conditions to succeed the best.
Why would Star Wars of all things be exempt from something literally everything else depends on?
Damn, I just came back from Bumblebee. The movie was fantastic. It deserved more. Come on China, Show Bumblebee some love. I know he rivals Optimus Prime in popularity in China.
This is awesome to hear. Been waiting my whole life for a good Transformers film.
Correct.
You think Marvel is afraid to release a film any time of the year? Somehow because Solo failed, it is the fault of the release window?
I guarantee you Episode 9 could have released in the Solo window and it would have soared...why? Because audiences ACTUALLY WANT TO SEE THAT FILM.
Stop thinking binary.
Of course Episode 9 will get bigger numbers than Solo no matter where it releases. But Episode 9 will still get different numbers depending on when in the year it releases. This matters even more with Solo.
You can feel there's a lot of love put into this movie. Don't write it off. This is the FIRST EVER live action Transformers movie.
It would have done great, no doubt, but would it have reached the same $ total? Debatable.
There's a reason Avatar and Star Wars all release during that specific time of year.
People were worried about superhero fatigue and that still hasn't materialized. Disney has their work cut out for them when it comes to Star Wars. Maybe the long break until December 2019 will help and if does expect Disney to be very specific on new Star Wars films or they risk diluting the brand
Why is it so hard for you to get that audiences thoroughly rejected Solo the world over?
Having a concept people want matters. Case in point, BvS and JL should have been bankable, whenever they released but the CONCEPT was flawed and didn't resonate with audiences and they underperformed.
It's not that complex.
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people worried about China so damn much. If it makes 100m in china it gets 25 of that. Profit margin not the same as other territories
People will blame Frozen 2 for existing too close to Episode 9. THEY SHOULD HAVE MOVED IT BACK TO MAY!
I'm confused with people heralding Aquaman a success (outside China that is).
Seems like very meh numbers to me, specially given the period and the amount of marketing...
Where are all the 80-100m+ hype- bringers of a week or two ago?
Obviously, we'll have to see the king of legs (or merman tail?) that it will have, but with that much competition in theaters during the Holidays and coming up right after... Eh.
Seems like very meh numbers to me, specially given the period and the amount of marketing...
Where are all the 80-100m+ hype- bringers of a week or two ago?
Obviously, we'll have to see the king of legs (or merman tail?) that it will have, but with that much competition in theaters during the Holidays and coming up right after... Eh.
The movie is going to do at least 700 million. What's not successful about that?
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