I think another reason the box office is struggling, is that studios went all in on big budget franchises in the 2010s. A major reason was to chase the booming global box office especially Asia. In these international markets , mid-budget movies such as comedies, dramas did not have the same appeal, so studios focused on the likes of Transformers, Marvel, Fast and Furious etc. However,, as many of these franchises are now stuggling, + the decreased box office for US movies in China,. studios cannot rely on the mid-budget movies to pick up the slack. , as they have now trained people to watch these at home on streaming.

@YTguySmithy-lk6go

3 ай бұрын

Cinema is facing potential collapse because you cannot uninvent streaming. Unless you shut down the telecoms network lol.. streaming is here for ever. This is biggest game changer since tv. Cinema adapted to face the threat of TV but now we're in a high inflation world so cinema can't compete with streaming packages that offer much more content at around half the price of a movie theater ticket. I can't see how cinema can survive. Well maybe Avatar 3 and a few other blockbusters will get people to go to the movie theaters but you can't rely on a few blockbusters per year to sustain the theatrical release industry.

@jim1242

3 ай бұрын

@@YTguySmithy-lk6go , agreed. Theatres were able to cope with the television for a long time, as until recently a television at home had nowhere near the same picture or sound quality as the big screen. also, for decades, broadcast television was mostly sitcoms, sports, news and drama, that was not on the same scale as big buget or star driven movies. The likes of Game of Thrones and others have meant the production valules and budgets have caught up to movies

@miz4535

3 ай бұрын

And it's all the movie studios' fault. The did it to themselves. What morons. Imagine thinking giving your titles for cheap to Netflix was a good idea. @@YTguySmithy-lk6go

the theatre near me shut down. the next closest is about an hour away. nothing that has come out is worth my time.

@ZachBobBob

3 ай бұрын

I only started going to the cinema again recently because one opened up a 10 minute walk from me. My closest was an expensive 40 min bus ride away and it just wasn't worth it. Location definitely helps with people going big time

@miz4535

3 ай бұрын

That's crap American urban design for you.

@miz4535

3 ай бұрын

Bad American urban design for you.

@KeithFraser82

3 ай бұрын

I agree that this is maybe a major factor keeping parts of the population out of cinemas. I live in London (UK) and currently I have two small cinemas within ~15 mins walk and at least two more larger ones within ~30 mins (at least one of which is right on one of my potential bus routes home from work, so I can easily go in the evenings after work then walk home). I'm not surprised people in small/medium towns or suburbs where the nearest cinema is a soulless multiplex an hour's drive away don't go to the cinema much. Opening more small cinemas in shopping/high streets seems like a no-brainer in places needing more commercial traffic due to online shopping taking away shoppers.

I wonder if Madame Web is the most expensive Pepsi commercial 😂

They need to bring Godzilla Minus One back in theaters, no joke lol

@BrutalVengeance729

3 ай бұрын

They won’t do that

@xxAKSHUNxx

3 ай бұрын

Didn’t they just bring that back again with the black and white version or is that already removed from most theaters

@rozialfan

3 ай бұрын

​@@xxAKSHUNxx It was only back for one week and then removed.

@WaffleEBay12

3 ай бұрын

Even if Godzilla Minus One made another $2.7 million this past weekend (the amount it made a few weeks ago during re-release), it wouldn't have made a big difference in the Road to Recovery chart and overall super bowl weekend numbers. Maybe if Dune Part 2 was released this past weekend, then the box office would be rejuvenated at least for a couple weeks.

@traydevon

3 ай бұрын

They need to put Godzilla Minus One on demand. It's been out long enough for it to be rentable by now.

too bad for Lisa Frankenstein, which appears to be fun. But February?? This should have been a fall release

@aliali-ce3yf

3 ай бұрын

exactly, a halloween release would've been ideal

I would love to see you do a story on rising theater ticket prices to see if they affect the box office. With most theaters charging $15+ per ticket in my local area, it’s cheaper to just stay home and wait until streaming.

@emb3863

3 ай бұрын

I don't live in the US, but yeah movie tickets are so damn expensive now, you spend a whole lot of money going to the movies, even more so if you want snacks... prepandemic I used to go to the movies every single weekend, now I honestly just can't afford to

@YTguySmithy-lk6go

3 ай бұрын

Cinema can't compete with streaming. Pay more to see one movie at a theater vs pay a month subscription at less price. It's an awful business model. How can it compete with streaming and digital rental?

@vivaciousom5347

3 ай бұрын

If someone really likes movies, the AMC AList monthly subscription is a bargain: $23/month for three movies a week. If you go this often that’s less than $2 per movie. I see almost everything that comes out. If I love a movie, I get to see it as much as I like.

@charvolth

3 ай бұрын

Regal Unlimited charges 21.99 a month in my market. They also have a Friends and Family plan. Given the price of tickets, you come out ahead if you go at least twice a month. I'm currently at 6 films for the month.

@niccage6375

3 ай бұрын

I went to one theater yesterday to see a movie, it was 10 dollars. But today I saw two movies at cinemark for that price. It's only five dollars on tuesday at cinemark, but I'm off Mondays and Tuesdays so it works better for me.

Cinema is dying a slow death. They’re basically living paycheck to paycheck.

Saw Dune again and it's still awesome! The box office is desperate for part 2 to be a big hit!

@wfchannel4673

3 ай бұрын

unfortunately i don't think dune 2 is going to do that well. the first one didn't exactly break box office records and i don't think you can chalk its meh performance to just the pandemic. i love it, but i've found almost no one else who agrees with me, especially among more casual moviegoers, so i really think dune 2 is going to do blade runner 2049 numbers at best and that seems overly optimistic.

@miz4535

3 ай бұрын

​@@wfchannel4673It's definitely going to do at least as well as the first. Saying it will do 2049 numbers is straight up delusional.

@wfchannel4673

3 ай бұрын

@@miz4535 we'll see, but i really think the fanbase is overestimating the appeal of dune.

@charvolth

3 ай бұрын

@@wfchannel4673 I think it will not break even theatrically. But it is viewed as more prestige cinema than the average blockbuster, so it has a better shot at various awards.

@KeithFraser82

3 ай бұрын

You could say it's... thirsty.

I was really surprised Lisa Frankenstein did so bad. Also, the cinemascore surprised me too. There was one element I did not see coming, but for the most part was what I expected. I enjoyed it. I tried to do my part for the box office, but it was on Monday. Got in Lisa Frankenstein, Out of Darkness and 'The Monk and the Gun'. Tonight doing The Movie Emperor', and 'The Taste of Things' tomorrow.

@instantromy

3 ай бұрын

I liked it. I think something about the trailer made people not want to watch it. but it got me and all the marketing. It was really fun!

@biggsducklighter6171

3 ай бұрын

Jennifer's Body wasn't received well on release either. It's retroactively become pretty well regarded, but it took like 10 years.

@Crest28

3 ай бұрын

​@@instantromy Terrible movie, female incel fan fiction. Literally had her zombie BF Kill her crush because he slept with her sister. Reverse the roles if a guy killed his crush n re attached her crotch to a new girl. See how Terrible of a film plot that'd be? But it's a girl so that's fine. Terrible plot n even worse main character

@planktonscollective7129

3 ай бұрын

The trailer was so cringey with very juvenile jokes...if it represents what the trailer is like, I can see why it didn't do well

@Qualimar

3 ай бұрын

I suspect no one expected 'Anyone But You' to still be hanging around by Saint Valentine's Day. That probably cut into a lot of the romcom audience they probably figured 'Lisa Frankestein' would have had to itself at this point.

YOU ANSWERED MY QUESTION!! 😻😻😻 Thanks, Dan!

Many years ago I worked at a movie theater. Super Bowl was always the slowest day, we went ahead and closed early one year, cancelling several shows.

I think there is a generational change too, I remember when I was young in the late 90s and early 2000s, we used to go to the movies every month or so. But now the youth of today spend so much time playing video games, being on Tic-Tic, KZread etc, they are simply just not going out to the movies on a regular basis as they used to. Also, home entertainment / television picture quality is much better than 20 years ago. There is simply so much more entertainment available at home with out having to go out. Not to mention Steaming.

@ivyzen8860

3 ай бұрын

The cost is also more than double what it was to see a movie in the theater at that time. When movie tickets were $3-$5 (what it was when I was in middle school/high school in the 90s), you were more likely to take a risk on seeing a might not be so great movie. Now that tickets are $10+? People don't want to spend that unless they think the movie is going to be really good. Also, the entire experience has become less pleasant. Used to be, the start time was when the movie actually started. If you wanted to see trailers (and they only showed, like, two), you showed up a little early. Now, you get there on time and it's 30 minutes of trailers/ads, plus they make all movies 2+ hours these days, so instead of something that took up maybe two hours total if you include drive time is now an over three hour time commitment.

I thought Lisa Frankenstein was a lot of fun

@sweetlows1

3 ай бұрын

I had a good time with it, I had to try and keep my laughing in check because it was a small muted audience and I didn't want to be the one guy cackling to himself.

@carveraugustus3840

3 ай бұрын

Same I thought it was really funny and entertaining

The 1990 Super Bowl weekend was also during the first Gulf War, about a week after the massive bombing campaign started. (That's when Whitney Houston sang the anthem)

@KeithFraser82

3 ай бұрын

Wouldn't that have been 1991?

@gsarngad

3 ай бұрын

You're right. I went back to check the day and didn't notice that I was wrong on the year

The Super Bowl drew 123.7 million viewers, the largest audience for any single broadcast event in US TV history! So, I'm sure that history TV audience was a massive part of why weekend movie theater attendance was down this weekend. Especially since, even though the Super Bowl broadcast is only a few hours long, there are pre and post games shows and so many people throw all day / all evening house parties on Super Bowl Sunday.

@KnightAlbert

3 ай бұрын

It might also be the opposite, that massive number could be the result of more people staying home because of the poor cinematic offer of this week-end.

@jasonjsbbrown

3 ай бұрын

Yes. Though, I do believe the Super Bowl took a giant bite out of the Sunday box office, as it does most years, the combination of this Super Bowl's historically high numbers combined with the absolute dearth of widely popular theatrical options were part of a perfect storm of bad news for the box office this past weekend.

@justinreid2947

3 ай бұрын

And yet today Paramount *still* announced 800 layoffs because apparently having the most watched television program in history isn't enough to cover their debt or impress investors enough. The entertainment industry is ran by greedy incompetent morons. Only an artistically driven, yet blockbuster enough, movie like Dune 2 can save theaters at this point.

@ryanotterholt458

3 ай бұрын

​@@KnightAlbertYou must be trolling. Out of all the reasons to watch the Superbowl, you really think there were a bunch of half baked cinephiles that thought "there's nothing I want to see in theatres this week, might as well spend my entire Sunday afternoon and evening watching football"?

@ryanotterholt458

3 ай бұрын

I was about to comment the same thing! Although I have seen several outlets reporting it was the second most viewed broadcast after the moon landing, the point still stands. I'm surprised Dan didn't note the correlation of a historically low superbowl weekend box office with the most viewed superbowl of all time

Yesterday we went to see Lisa Frankenstein and I love it it's not scary and jumped scared but I really laugh some scenes and once we enter the AMC Montclair Mall California I bought my Dune Part 2 bucket for this valentine's day

I remember that the first thing I missed while in lockdown was going to the cinema. Now it's long over and I just don't go to the cinema that often anymore. An event awaited for decades like Avatar 2 did motivate me to go out, also something like a new Bond movie. But especially knowing that a 4K home release is already around the corner anyway really keeps me at home.

Diablo Cody wrote Young Adult as well. I'm surprised that didn't open higher. Great movie.

the numbers are so low lol i'm in shock

I havent thought about Hoot in so long, Im honored to say that I rented that from Netflix.

Lisa Frankenstein was fun but not a major release.

I saw the re-release of Dune p1, just to refresh my memory of it. I initially saw it at a friend's house, so i felt like giving it some love/$.

Crazy high viewership for this Super Bowl. Taylor Swift kept people away from movie theaters.

Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!

23:43 😂😂😂 Thanks for making me Laugh Dan

Wow, that was a very terrible weekend. Still haven't seen "Anyone But You" but find its BO success fascinating. Thank you Dan!

Great video Dan!

Great show this week

If theaters ever make a comeback, the demand would need to be there and the economy would need to be in good shape.

I think there will be some big hits this year - Dune, Deadpool, Godzilla/Kong if they can get the marketing right - but I think the whole year is still going to be gasping for air because of the dual strikes. Not saying the strikes shouldn't have happened, but this is one of the consequences.

Great question from a fellow Memphian

I really, really feel like we've lost the ability to properly market things anymore. I had no idea Lisa Frankenstein was even coming out. And I agree with some sentiments below. It takes something REALLY special to get me to the theater anymore. Why would I do that when I know it will come to streaming? Which I'm already paying for.

@miz4535

3 ай бұрын

Maybe the problem is you don't go to the cinema and therefore don't see trailers for films like you would otherwise? And why would you go to the cinema? Well, streaming is killing the industry so if you like films maybe that's why. More for yourself, I think it puts greater importance on the film when you have to see it at a certain time and you have to focus on nothing but it. It's also a way to escape from the outside world. Too many people can barely sit through a movie anymore and spend half their time on their phones.

@nickgjenkins

3 ай бұрын

@@miz4535 Even pre-pandemic I wasn't going to the theater all the time. I was still VERY aware of what was coming out and when (generally). There was a sense of ramping up with marketing across the internet, television, heck even billboards and street signs. Algorithmic trends also end up not serving the right ads to the right people. With the collapse of Twitter, a lot of the idea of "trending" buzz is also falling away. I'm not as much blaming marketing teams as I am saying that the world has changed in ways that we can't seem to figure out. Barbenheimer sort of halfway lucked it's way into the zeitgeist beyond just being really well reviewed films. It cemented a MOMENT that was coming that we were generally paying attention to. And I never saw a trailer for either film in the cinemas. But they both grabbed a moment in time.

I really liked "The Doors" & "The Queen" films. I don't know much of Bob Marley's music, so am interested in learning about him in One Love.

i legit wanted to go to the movies last weekend but there was nothing i wanted to see😕

Dune part two, kung fu panda 4, Godzilla, versus Kong, and Ghostbusters should all bring life back into theaters for March

@closeben

3 ай бұрын

I don’t think any of those except maybe Dune are going to do great at the BO. People are tired of nostalgia bait kids films and Godzilla vs Kong looks like the same movie that came out 3 years ago but worse. Wtf even is Ghostbusters anymore? The masses really don’t care about any of these franchises. Unless KFP4 is actually a great movie, then it might do well on word of mouth, but I am not giving myself hope for that.

23:42 Bro, you absolutely butchered that title 😅😅😂. But can't blame you. I'm pretty sure I couldn't do any better for any foreign language

My theater only has Immigration and Wonka right now (Wonka has 5 screens of the total 7 for some reason) so guess I'm staying home.

23:43 🤣🤣🤣 As one who knows the correct pronunciation, it's Soooo different from the real way it is pronounced.

I loved Lisa Frankenstein. I saw it twice this weekend! Bummer it's not doing better. Maybe people are waiting for Valentine's Day?

I saw Argyle Friday and Lisa Frankenstein Saturday which was more full than Argyle. I enjoyed both a lot and sad to see the poor box office. I’m all about the theater going experience. I have two movie passes so it’s actually cheaper for me to see films in the theater than it is to wait to buy, rent or stream. But I guess now it takes a big event film to get most people to go to the theater in the US.

I loved Lisa Frankenstein so I’m so sad to hear it didn’t do well. It was a great watch!

I have great confidence that Dune Part 2 will do extremely well. Tickets sales are now available and already seeing every BFI IMAX (Basically the best IMAX experience in the UK) showtimes over the weekend are either full the brim or almost full!

So 1990 was the worst weekend on numbers, but not if you adjust for inflation… if you do adjust for inflation, how far back do you have to go to get a worse weekend? Is that the worse week since records began? (Excluding 2021)

Understandable

Part of the issue is how fast studios are putting these movies onto streaming or VOD. Even Wonka is already available at home.

Barbie must've made BANK in ancillary markets. I bought an official I am Kenough hoodie and the vinyl. Merch profits must've been wild.

Never even heard of Lisa Frankenstein. I think the box office is dead. I know I have not been to the theater in about 4 years now, and I don't miss it. Just wait for it to stream on one of the services.

@AlexP-dz7ew

3 ай бұрын

Streaming isn’t profitable either so something’s gotta give

@andreelmatacoronavirusquin1322

3 ай бұрын

The first three months of the year have always been trash months were studios dump their projects they have zero confidence in.

@nms7872

3 ай бұрын

​@@andreelmatacoronavirusquin1322nope. It can be a very lucrative time. Just 4 years ago, the box office was thriving. Then covid ruined the market in March. There just needs to be enough movies that audiences are interested in.

Nice job pronouncing Ling Jia so accurately ❤

I'm so sad about Lisa Frankenstein not doing well, it's one of my anticipated movies since I watched the trailer in 2023 but it's not released in my country and looks like it wouldn't at this point 🙁

Even with the total gross compared to the budget, Barbie will still be reported as a loss with "studio accounting" to avoid paying taxes, royalties or residuals.

Oof, those numbers are depressing. Going to do my best to help the box office this weekend. Only have "American Fiction" and "Poor Things" left, and I'll have seen all 10 Best Picture nominees (first time ever accomplishing that before the Academy Awards). Hoping to see them both this weekend.

I love Bee Keeper glad its nimber 1 world wide so far.

Aw man, that sucks to hear about Lisa Frankenstein. I was rooting for it.

Well put. I think, Anyone but you, The Beekeeper, Mean girls, Equalizer, Conjuring, Insideious, other horror, thrillers and dramas have constantly shown how mid and small budget movies need equal space with big budget to sustain box office and not just to streaming, Netflix, being the big giant needs to contribute in that too. Theatrical success boosts streaming numbers, pvod, DVD, bluray numbers, it has been proven.

Crazy how good we had it in the Barbie era with its numbers and records and now just a few months later...

Lisa Frankenstein looks like a Netflix or Hulu original movie

Just thinking… if Mission Impossible Dead Awakening opened now, would it have made more money than getting caught in whirlwind that was Barbenheimer? I missed catching Godzilla Minus One Minus Color. It would have been a good time to show it in a real IMAX. Too bad it got taken out after one or two weeks in the theater.

@aliali-ce3yf

3 ай бұрын

i don't think so. i love the mission impossible series, but Dead Reckoning was easily the worst MI. It was so generic and bland from the villain to the plot to the new love interest to the action scenes ...... very forgettable

@lennynero635

3 ай бұрын

@@aliali-ce3yf Dead Reckoning was a bit of a letdown after Fallout but I would argue that the 2nd and 3rd installments are worse than Dead Reckoning even with Philip Seymour Hoffman as a villain.

I think the industry has got to get back to original content and less predictable studio exec movies, gimmicks and sequels. Someone once told me audiences, however informed or not, have great b s detectors.

Glad to see migration still pulling in families. Love the traditional kid film vibe

Lisa Frankenstein did not get enough publicity. I only found out about this movie after going to the theater to see Mean Girls.

I will definitely be watching Dune, most likely in IMAX, but I haven't gone to the theaters this year so far. I watched about 20 movies in theaters last year, which isn't far off my average, but the list of movies I'm looking forward to this year is extremely short. Hopefully this is just a short-term consequence of the strikes. I used to watch to more prestige or 'oscar bait' movies in theaters, but I usually only watch those at home if I do at all these days. I've started watching theatrical re-releases of some classic movies, which I've never done before the last couple years.

I was supposed to go see Lisa Frankenstein but my friend got sick

11:07 I wonder how far you have to go back to find a Superb owl weekend box office worse than last weekend if you look only at adjusted for inflation numbers... Maybe you can't find one?

Next week we all know what movie is about to make two Webillion dollars.

I don't think this weekend is going to be a good one either, my local has more screens this upcoming Friday showing Migration than both Madame Web or Bob Marley! (No Lisa Frankenstein over here yet)

@nms7872

3 ай бұрын

It won't be good (market will be way BELOW 2023 business) but at the very least, the 2 new movies will open past $10M. It's a low bar

They took Godzilla Minus One (Minus Color) out of Theaters 2-3 wks early imo - left good money on the table! Can see Dune 2's Domestic Opening Wkend numbers getting to the $80-100m mark as we get closer to its release following Dune's re-release & having been on Netflix! What does it say about Rebel Moon that Leave the World Behind which came out around the same time is now Netflix's 6th most watched movie ever & will be #5 by next wkend?! And by then, Society of the Snow will likely be Netflix's 2nd most watched non-English language movie ever!

Wait, Born on the Fourth of July wasn't released on the Fourth of July? That doesn't make sense.

I went and saw Dune again last night, still epic.

To be fair this superbowl was the second most watched TV broadcast only to the moon landing

The Seeker: The Dark is Rising did not deserve that opening. It should never have opened. Where are the tax write-offs when you need them?

I think movies which have lower budget then $200M should be released on streaming services .. Only movies with $200 or higher budget should be released on movie theaters..

I'm sad Lisa Frankenstein did so poorly, still waiting for it to be shown in my part of the world. Hope here there will be more interest in it, as otherwise we might not get more films like that... ever.

Of course would you expect lot of movies these days go straight to streaming services

Before Jaws, Star Wars and The Godfather created the idea of the modern blockbuster great films were being made and there was no worry about box office receipts (or not as much worry). Maybe we are just reverting back to a time similar to when Americans got TV sets and didn't go to the movies as much unless it was considered an Event

Maybe some people are waiting for Valentine's Day which is tomorrow 🤔 other factors such as the Super Bowl nd the release of Persona 3 reload, Grand blue fantasy relink as well as the Final Fantasy 7 remake demo for PS5 approved 2 much for Hollywood this weekend 😢

@JakeHageman

3 ай бұрын

The Super Bowl also had its highest viewership ever. Big reason why.

@ItsJustJess269

3 ай бұрын

@@JakeHageman yeah exactly that's what I said, so many B-Dubs were packed

@gonaye1

3 ай бұрын

Doesn’t that really just mean Taylor Swift beat the box office this weekend? Folks probably tuned in for the Super Bowl because all the celebrities they wanted to watch were at the stadium, not at the theaters 😂

Are people just flat-out broke or are they just not choosing to spend their money on films anymore. Or both.

@miz4535

3 ай бұрын

Latter. Movies aren't that much more expensive than other hobbies.

I actually really enjoyed how they would bring old movies (good ones) back to theaters during the strike. I wish they still sprinkled those in more along with the new releases. More people would go. I have AMC stubs and have gone to see 3 movies in the last month, but even I'm getting disillusioned with the quality lol

@charvolth

3 ай бұрын

Regal is doing that in February, March and April (so far). Feb Godfather II and Green Mile. March has The Notebook, Field of Dreams, The Shawshank Redemption, Chinatown. April has the Matrix 1. Weirdly on Wed & Thurs. I would think they would not want screens to be taken up on a Thurs.

@lcps6805

3 ай бұрын

@@charvolth that's awesome!! Thanks for letting me know ☺️

At leeast we will have Dune 2 in a few weeks. I think there is a good chance this could be a billion dollar movie - If it is a good as the first reactions say it is, I think a lot of the general audiance will seek it out as a big cinematic event, like Top Gun Maverick and Avatar Way of Water

Deadpool vs Wolverine just became most viewed trailer in first 24 hours with 365 million views...

This year's gross can be partially attributed to the constant hype train that the movie industry craps out. After a while, you just stop being interested and I haven't gone to see a movie I want in a couple of years

Taylor Swift giveth and she taketh away.

We are 40 days into 2024… it’s not that big of a deal.

Not related to the Charts, but unpaid to ask you a question on Cameo and I never got an answer. Q was not in anyway offensive. ??

I saw Lisa Frankenstein with my girl last night and there were only 3 people in the theatre when we walked in. No one else showed up. The movie was pretty good. Not great but pretty good.

Don't sleep on the Demon Slayer movie they are putting out, I think that will give the box office a bit of a kick before Dune 2. Obviously it won't do huge numbers but I think it should be higher than what we have seen over the last few weeks. I just looked at seating for Friday, Feb 23rd and already about 1/4 of the theater is filled.

Did you review American fiction?

Dan, isn't Europe the second market for American movies now that China isn't as interested in them anymore? Or is it South America? Would you ever make a Top 5 at the BO chart for Europe or South America?

well yeah obviously. nobody releases films in janruary or february because it’s awards season suicide and it’s not as proditible as spring break and summer break releases.

I think it all comes down to "The Taylor Swift Effect" once again. The Superbowl viewership spiked very high viewings comparing to previous Superbowls!

It's not great. I go to the cinema roughly 3 times a week at present and there's rarely more than 15 people in a screening. Napoleon was the only time I saw more than half of the seats taken. Honestly, what can anyone do at this point? It feels almost like movies as a medium aren't valued by enough of the population to be sustainable. I guess the cost of living crisis is the big issue here, and some people fell out of the habit of going to the movies in 2020. When money is tight and even one visit for one person costs more than 2, maybe 3 streaming services, it's an understandable evaluation. If the only way the theatres stay open is to price everyone out, we're screwed.

@HelloMisterJAMWAH

3 ай бұрын

Maybe having only a handful of studios headed by non-creative people isn't the greatest scenario either.

Babylon is not a movie that you'd think would have opened in 3000 theaters.

@josephfisher426

3 ай бұрын

@@dagfinissocool It was still very niche though. I guess the problems started long before the theaters were booked.

Do these people calling in questions ever watch the show? They don't seem to.

@_jolie_

3 ай бұрын

They could be new fans

Not nice to see you so frustrated at an industry you love. Films being released just arent connecting with audiences, plus the headline in my country was "This year's Super Bowl was watched by an average of 123.4 million people in the US, making it the most watched broadcast since the 1969 Moon landing" so a perfect storm really. Hope things turn around, bring on Dune 2.

Taylor Swift being at the Super Bowl probably had something to do with the weak box office performance.

Bold prediction alert: Anyone But You will finish with a higher domestic box office than Madame Webb in the Sydney Sweeney-verse

I get the pessimism, with this level of box office performance, but aren’t January and February historically low months anyway, times where studios dump their losers alongside smaller films even Oscar noms trying to get more views off of their Academy buzz?

@DanMurrellMovies

3 ай бұрын

Yes, but even by those standards, we're doing numbers that haven't been this low since the mid-1990s (unadjusted for inflation). I'm well aware of the early year slump. This goes beyond that.

@isaacarthur8523

3 ай бұрын

@@DanMurrellMovies no, you’re absolutely right. And I did watch the video, so I understand the context you provided. I think I commented out of panic/coping.

Is there a way to extrapolate what Oppenheimer would have done without the Barbie effect or what Barbie would have done without Oppenheimer? Just curious what box office may have been for the films without the other. I realize no one could predict how the viral marketing linked the two but I cannot help but think the box office for both would be much different if they were not linked.

@chayennep1984

3 ай бұрын

Barbie would have been fine...Oppenheimer wouldn't have made almost a billion though

@_jolie_

3 ай бұрын

I think Oppenheimer got a boost from the Barbenheimer thing

Of course, it’s gonna be the lowest, because there’s nothing to watch

@user-fn7pm1dd8u

3 ай бұрын

There is always something worth watching. It’s just that most of the films are a decade old, or older. Before art was sacrificed in place of pushing sociopolitical propaganda BS to brainwash the population!

I’m starting to think you didn’t like madame web

2024 the beginning of the end of cinema? Streaming can't be uninvented so it's here to stay (regardless how profitable it is or isn't). Vinyl was replaced by compact disc replaced by digital downloads replaced by streaming. Streaming radio has replaced MW/FM radio waves radio. Streaming has started to replace network TV. And now in the 2020s post coronavirus streaming is clearly replacing cinema. Not only is streaming giving established movie goers and gen z youngsters less incentive to pay to see a movie at the theater, you have the second attack via Amazon and Apple. I think Apple and Amazon will give up on theatrical releases in 2025 or 26 and release tentpole movies direct to streaming. They may drop the budgets too but still be over 100 million. I can't see cinema surviving a three prong attack from Netflix and Apple and Amazon. Apple and Amazon are far far richer than the studios. My prediction is 80 percent of movies will go direct to streaming by 2030 and most streaming apps will be 40 to 50 percent funded from commercials (the ad tier package) and the rest of the money will be from subscriptions.