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Wkd Box Office - 6•28-30•19 - Toys top box office eight days a week. Yesterday believes it is getting better all the time.
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Aladdin in its 4th weekend still beat Far From Home in Japan...
Japan is having a moment with Aladdin right now. The movie might well end up the 2nd highest grossing of the year there -
Except for a big challenger - Toy Story 4. I was thinking to myself, Toy Story 3 just crossed the threshold to a billion and there's actual competition coming quick for 4, so maybe my assumption of a billion could end up just missing the mark.
But then I looked at both films' international grosses and remembered the curse of animated films getting weird global rollouts. 4 isn't out most of the place yet, and if you look at 3's international rates, you notice some heavy hitters that are unaccounted for -
3 made $126.7 million in Japan and $40 million in France. Granted, those were those halcyon days of crazy exchange rates, but I'm back to thinking a billion is a lock.
What big markets is it missing? I see Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, Sweden, Finland, maybe more?
Comparing the small available data it seems the there was a huge drop in the opening in UK and a small one in Australia, Spain. Increase in Mexico, South Korea and China. Depends on the legs (like always...)
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This TUESDAY
The Twitter thread is funny lol
Tomorrow boyz!!! Can't FUCKING wait. 9:35am Dolby lol
The Twitter thread is funny lol
Tomorrow boyz!!! Can't FUCKING wait. 9:35am Dolby lol
That's dedication! Lol if I didn't have work I'd probably do the first am show too but I had to settle for 4pm. Hopefully no one notices that I left the office early lol
I do wonder how far Japan will take Aladdin, and whether Disney will re-release it in the U.S. in some kind of "sing-a-long" format to push it to $950M.
Every time I go to Japan, I am truly baffled by how Disney is bigger there than it even is over here lol.
Every time I go to Japan, I am truly baffled by how Disney is bigger there than it even is over here lol.
I only picked the 9am show because the rest were basically sold out or had shitty front row seats. Also, I don't work tomorrow 🤣😎
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Can't believe I skipped all of the movies I wanted to see these last weeks. Last time I was at the cinema was on April 26 for Avengers: Endgame, but I'll go again in 20 hours to watch Spider-Man: Far From Home. The whole thing about using giftcards for online booking here in my country is just so stupid. Let's say a ticket is $25, and there's $60 on my giftcard then I can't use it. I can only use the card if there's exactly $25 on the giftcard. Anyway, looking forward to tomorrow.
Lucky you lol
Does anyone know if the runtime on the AMC app includes the credits as well? I have a train to catch tomorrow and want to make sure i've timed it right.
Given the box office numbers I'd say you are hardly the only one like this lol
Well, if I want to use my giftcard. I'll have to reserve a seat online, instead of buying the ticket online. So I'll reserve a seat, and then go pay for the ticket at the cinema with the giftcard in less than a week. With Spidey I just didn't care and spent money on the ticket online, since otherwise I would have to go to the city to use my giftcard.
As long as you are going to do and bemoan the death of smaller films at the same time then live your truth.
I loved Endgame but this summer already has had multiple must see movies I'd place above it such as Booksmart.
And you wont see it being spoken about again. No will dare go up against Cameron.
Man. Endgame couldn't even beat a movie nobody remembers. What a bust.
You haven't, doesn't mean others don't talk about it. This could be said for anything. ResetEra is not a one stop shop for all that is relevant in the world.
See I want to see that plus I even kinda wanna see the new men and black, and other stuff but I just don't think it's worth going to the theaters ( I don't like the theaters much, it's always a pain in the ass to plan going to the movies unless I'm going myself, and truth be told I dislike watching a movie myself these days ) to see those type of movies when I can see them when they're on Netflix, or the Google play store so I can rent them.
For some reason I made mental block in my head that only believes the exception to this rule is the MCU I know sounds stupid but I feel like I have to see the next MCU movie it's like game of thrones now almost, I gotta see what happens next and I gotta see it ASAP before spoilers. Also it's fun as hell to see a marvel movie with a big crowd on opening weekend unlike othe movies where the smaller crowd makes it feel...I dunno less exciting?
Already last night on YouTube a thumbnail spoiled something from far from home and I was pissed
Are there other blockbusters outside of the MCU you feel the same way about seeing on big screen/avoiding spoilers/etc? Such as the DCEU, Star Wars, Fast and Furious, etc?
As a lot of these franchises rely just as much on the spectacle huge crowds theatrical experience angle as well
I used to feel this way for the DCEU until after justice league came out and bombed thus Ben Affleck / henry cavil left and so that cinamatic universe died for me. Never watched a fast and furious movie for more than a hour my life lol and star wars I don't really care but I see it anyway cause of the zeitigist around it, for that one I don't really care about spoilers I guess
Bond 25 Curse continues: Grace Jones quit https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/9406675/james-bond-grace-jones-quits/
You might be a case study for something I've long suspected and posted a couple times about.
We know the average theater-goer (in America, at least) will go to something like 5 movies per year. Yes, attendance is slightly down but these numbers seem to hold fairly well.
So, what happens when marvel is so successful that they lock in 2-3 of those trips for a good portion of the audience, and then pile on Pixar, Star Wars, DC, any other horror films, etc.
When you're still only going to go 4-5 times but now your seeing these absolute monsters drop a few times a year it's gonna suck all the air out of the room.
Thus, again, the slow death of small and midline film.
It's the Sun. Grace Jones was never going to be in this lol. They are just looking for a made up angle to claim drama because Craig is back to filming.
They keep making up fake Bond 25 stories that get debunked. That is what The Sun does.
The Daniel Craig Bond era is going to be remembered more for everything that went wrong offscreen than the rare mere-mediocrities that went right enough to end up on it
Needless to say: skipping 25 the film, reading 25 the book on what went wrong
Needless to say: skipping 25 the film, reading 25 the book on what went wrong
All of these stories about trouble on the Bond 25 set are mostly to rile up drama. Sure they had explosions recently, and Craig injured his ankle. But they also tried playing up how Cary Fukunaga has been 3 hours late because he's playing PlayStation, which he had to deny on his own Instagram even. I would only trust Baz Bamigboye from the Daily Mail when it comes to James Bond productions.
You think it will make more than Venom? Venom made $110M in its first 3 days of release. FFH would need to have a much more favorable drop in it's second weekend (52.4% for Venom) to be ahead of $205M by day 10.
I think it can. Remember, AQUAMAN opened to $94m and did $298m while Venom did $272m.
You may very well be right but when was the last time a Bond shoot went according to plan? I think every Daniel Craig film has had major production problems.
I think it mostly depends on when that film The Eight Hundred gets released in China because I think that will all but kill FHH's legs. If it gets lucky and manages to avoid it until week 4 then you'll be right, which would be insane and almost guarantee FFH becomes the highest grossing non-Avengers MCU film.
Toy Story 4 Argentina/Uruguay update time:
- AR: It has crossed 3.3M admission in just 2 weeks, and the winter break is still 2 weeks away (or 1 week, depending on province). Breaking 4M is a lock, becoming the 4th film in history to do so (and also kicking Endgame out of the all time top 5 in the process), but too early to tell how far after that it'd go.
- UY: Currently at 86k admissions which is pretty good, and the winter break just started so it's going to kick into overdrive these 2 weeks. Considering how Incredibles 2 did last year, and that's almost halfway there, it does have pretty big chance of topping Endgame's (current) 208k admissions, kicking it down to 9th all time.
- AR: It has crossed 3.3M admission in just 2 weeks, and the winter break is still 2 weeks away (or 1 week, depending on province). Breaking 4M is a lock, becoming the 4th film in history to do so (and also kicking Endgame out of the all time top 5 in the process), but too early to tell how far after that it'd go.
- UY: Currently at 86k admissions which is pretty good, and the winter break just started so it's going to kick into overdrive these 2 weeks. Considering how Incredibles 2 did last year, and that's almost halfway there, it does have pretty big chance of topping Endgame's (current) 208k admissions, kicking it down to 9th all time.
If Daniel Craig isn't giving interviews on how James Bond is the worst character in the world then things are going according to plan.
There's no news stories about it or top 10 lists other than those talking about box office. It has been forgotten by pop culture except when discussing all time box office numbers. It's weird because much older all time box office holders like ET or Jurassic Park or Star Wars or even titanic are brought up all the time
Aquaman got the best release time though when people had 2 weeks around Christmas that are basically one big weekend and then a month or two where the biggest competitors were glass and Broly
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