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Wkd Box Office - 2•1-3•19 - Glass threepeats in a weekend where no one bothers to go to the movies.
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So I was on the wiki page for 2019 in film and now I have a fun question for you all. Without looking it up name the 5 highest grossing movies to date released in 2019. I would have at best gotten 3 of the 5.
Glass, Escape Room, How To Train Your Dragon 3, The Upside, White Snake.
Is this the year Hollywood finally gets the memo to stop trying to make King Arthur and Robin Hood movies?
No. It being in the public domain means someone will always come back to it.
Deadline's afternoon update has Lego at $40M, maybe even $35M. What Men Want's seeing $20M, Cold Pursuit $11.5M, and Progidy $6.5M.
Well we knew they would be more Aquaman, just not like this
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/h...acouch&utm_term=hollywoodreporter_heat_vision
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/h...acouch&utm_term=hollywoodreporter_heat_vision
That would be pretty much kill-off any future Lego movies. Guess the original was a one-time hit.
They Shall Not Grow Old made me really fucking sick. I felt like I was going to die.
It takes a long time to get to the restored footage and the raw stuff jumps all over the place.
Turns out making a Ninjago spinoff before the sequel isn't a good idea.
1) Glass
2) Some Chinese nonsense I won't know
3) Seriously what the hell came out this year?
4) Uhhh a horror movie?
5) Serenity
Yep. Didn't bother with the Ninjago thing though. Looking forward to seeing 2.
yeah this one isn't really capturing people like the first
same team behind it ?
I think like awareness for this film is just really low. I've not seen a single trailer, and I didn't know it was even coming out until Wednesday. It feels like they forgot to do a marketing campaign.
They dropped the ball with marketing and picked a bad release window - just two short weeks away from the much more favorably reviewed How to Train Your Dragon sequel.
Main problem is that they failed to convey why anyone should want to see this movie when the original already exists. You've gotta have a hook to make people want to see your movie beyond "it's like that first movie you remember but more".
Lego Movie had the best release window you could hope for. Nothing of note came out the last two weeks. People aren't skipping it for another movie two weeks later, they just have no desire to see another Lego film.
$100-and-some-changeM
I doubt that HTTYD 3 being two weeks away has an impact on LEGO opening weekend (it probably won't do pretty things to its legs though).
The biggest problem as I see it is that its a diluted brand (a whole bunch of DTV films and other media) that Warner kinda ran into the ground very fast (they released two (2!) spin-offs in 2017, which is still kinda crazy to me). So when that issue meets the whole "it's like that first movie you remember but more" angle we get yikes.
It's okay, friends
Next week Happy Death Day 2U comes out on me birthday, our forces combined will singlehandedly save the box office and the box office thread
Next week Happy Death Day 2U comes out on me birthday, our forces combined will singlehandedly save the box office and the box office thread
Having both in between I mean.Ninjago should have been a direct to video thing.Lego Batman arguably shouldn't exist but it's probably fine having existed in between if there wasn't also another spin off that bombed.
I'm still very excited for Alita and intrigued after hearing about how it sort of structures itself like the manga.
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I would hope a film starring "Kristen Stewart, Jack O'Connell, Anthony Mackie, Zazie Beetz and Vince Vaughn" wouldn't have much trouble getting some eyes on it.
I was talking about the smaller indies being bought up by Netflix and Amazon. I was talking in general terms.
There did not seem to be enthusiasm for LEGO 2, so I'm not surprised at the underwhelming opening
What Men Want is doing exactly as projected. Should finish at $60M+ if holds are good during Vday weekend.
Jesus. Well under half the original film's OW. At least it didnt go as low as Ninjago.
I can't wait for the Playmobil movie to outgross the LEGO Movie 2.
Lego was never really alive internationally. The first movie's US take was a fluke.
Not surprising at all
-First movie was lightning in a bottle. The novelty of a theatrical LEGO film, great reviews and WoM, and having no competition meant that it was a perfect storm of success.
-It took WAY to long to make a sequel. 5 years. This should've come out 2-3 years ago.
-LEGO over-saturated the market with other movies like the Batman one and the Ninjago one. The novelty is gone.
Despite the popularity of the first LEGO movie, I think people needed to get sold on seeing another one. The trailers, uh, did not do a good job of doing that.
Also, HTTYD3 will probably end up grossing around the same amount. It's been almost five years since the sequel, which was already a disappointment at the box office. I think it ends up following the same pattern that Kung Fu Panda did.
Also, HTTYD3 will probably end up grossing around the same amount. It's been almost five years since the sequel, which was already a disappointment at the box office. I think it ends up following the same pattern that Kung Fu Panda did.
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