Thanks for the best Box office show on KZread.The number crunching and the charts are amazing

@DanMurrellMovies

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

The budget for both Afterlife and Frozen Empire combined was under $200M. Ghostbusters has always been a secondary market franchise with DVDs, VODS, merchandise etc. As long as those hold up, they will keep making them in some form.

@MrCoat

2 ай бұрын

I've noticed in the past number of years, Sony has been really good with budgets and don't go crazy with them like other studios. Only the live-action Spider-Man movies have had massive budgets. They almost function now like how Hollywood studios used to do things, where they have a few big-budget movies, while the rest of the slate is throwing the dice at mid or low budget movies (like Anyone But You, for example). Even something like Madame Web, while obviously a flop, won't lose Sony nearly as much as something like The Marvels lost Disney, because it cost $80 million versus $200 million.

Graph of Dune 2 and Oppenheimer is fascinating. This is why I love Charts with Dan.

In my opinion, Ghostbusters shouldn't be a movie franchise but a television series. It's literally monster of the week, and it had a lot of success doing the cartoon in the mid-eighties. THAT'S what grew the franchise and made it a recognizable name... the tv show and merchandise. (Who doesn't want the Echo-1... it's arguably as iconic as the Delorean).

@SiriuslyBlack7

2 ай бұрын

Ecto-1

@mathsalot8099

2 ай бұрын

@@SiriuslyBlack7 thank you! 😊 I probably misspelled the DeLorean, too! 😂

@SiriuslyBlack7

2 ай бұрын

@@mathsalot8099 No biggie!! I used to want the Ecto-1 for my 1st car back then!🤣🤣

Love the staying power of Dune!! Or as Dan would say, legs.

Mark Walburg and his dog looking of screen at something apparently different than what Sydney Sweeney is looking off at." 🤣 I don't know why, but that tickled me!

I saw Ice Pirates… it’s like a Spaceballs version of Serenity.

@Thermalions

2 ай бұрын

I don't remember Ice Pirates being as good as Spaceballs though. Tank I don't have any recollection of at all, but I likely wasn't in it's target demographic at the time.

Happy to have been a part of Late Night With the Devil’s $666,666 Sunday!

The Ice Pirates is one of those films that I will always remember from my childhood. It was released on VHS and I just found the film hilarious. Robots fighting robots, castration machines, time travel sword fights and pirates, what's not to love. 😄

FYI Dan, Oppenheimer is scheduled to open in Japan next week. May want to wait on those final tallies.

@DanMurrellMovies

2 ай бұрын

I was speaking of domestic only

@vivekpokhriyal5303

2 ай бұрын

Ooh then Oppie has a chance to break 1 Billion mark 🎉

@SuperSbarlow1

2 ай бұрын

@@vivekpokhriyal5303 from when I can tell it’s a limited release from a smaller distributer and Japan is not a huge market anyway. so not likely to make a huge dent in that remaining 35 million gap. Maybe between 5-10 million tops but I hope I’m wrong.

@vivekpokhriyal5303

2 ай бұрын

@@SuperSbarlow1 Ohh. Then maybe future re-releases will do it

@nancykerrigan

2 ай бұрын

Something tells me Japan will give it a lukewarm reception.

Ice Pirates is a very tongue-in-cheek sci-fi comedy with early Ron Perlman & Angelica Huston, think its on Max worth a watch on a lazy Sunday. Very Flash Gordon but post Star Wars era.

I've seen Ice Pirates! I feel like I get Nerd points for seeing a movie Dan hasn't. It's a fun flick. Sci-fi adventure comedy. Not a classic because it gets really weird at the end and falls apart, but definitely watchable.

RedLetterMedia made a re:View on Ice Pirates a couple of years back. That's how I heard about it.

anything that can get at least some people inside a theater post pandemic is a success to some degree

So happy to see the market share chart back, it’s my favorite chart!

Could I advocate for showing a top 10 in the flashback? It was so interesting to hear you baffled about THE ICE PIRATES and TANK; it made me look into those movies. I think it would be fun to do a top 10 flashback because then you would find movies that maybe nobody has talked about in decades. Also, it's fun watching you be baffled by inconceivable films.

I’m shocked that Dan has never seen, nor heard of, The Ice Pirates. It’s one of the best “bad movies” of the 80’s.

The first Police Academy was a raunchy R-rated comedy. Later the series became a kids comedy.

@charvolth

2 ай бұрын

And also got a bad cartoon and a toy tie-in.

@branagain

2 ай бұрын

@@charvolth I did not know that.

I can confirm that Oppenheimer is still playing in a very small number of theaters in the Chicago area, typically just one showing per theater, per day.

I don't know what it is, but as a kid, I loooooved Police Academy. In hindsight, yes, it was super dumb, but it has that recognizeability thing "oh, that's the guy with the sounds, the girl that can hardly get a word in, the very huge guy, who wouldn't hurt a fly, ..." Weird phenomenon!

@Cotsos88

2 ай бұрын

they were HUGE in Greece up until the mid to late 90's, always on rotation on TV. I grew up watching them (it took me a while to understand what was happening under that podium 😂 )

Dan, I'd love to have your thoughts on The 3 Body Problem

So odd for Ghostbusters to proudly tout that it's a "billion dollar franchise" based on the cumulative box office of FIVE movies, but they're gonna keep pumping out these sequels in search of the incredible high of that first movie! Bob Marley seems to have defied its critical reviews as it spends its first 7 full weeks in the Top 10 as it nears $100m domestic/$175m worldwide.

@notchuckproductions5029

2 ай бұрын

At that point you could say Ben Hur is a billion dollar franchise, if you adjusted the inflation of the 1959 film and the 2016 film and combined them you would get billion or at least close to it

@0hMyGandhi

2 ай бұрын

How is that odd? A franchise is a group of products/services, and often judged as such. Most who see that a movie franchise has grossed a billion rarely ever think it's in reference to one particular movie.

@AllInTheGame01

2 ай бұрын

​@@0hMyGandhi I'm pointing out that other franchises with similar high levels of name recognition have easily eclipsed $1bn unadjusted for inflation from just 1 or 2 movies! The fact that the 3 recent Ghostbusters movies (inc the latest one) with a combined $319m production budget will struggle to collectively exceed $600m worldwide suggests that the franchise isn't as strong/popular as assumed!

@adraino7345

2 ай бұрын

Not so if odd since you’re overlooking merchandising (and the other Billion* dollar franchises). Garfield is a billion dollar franchise but none of its movies were massive. Ghost Busters has the toys, TV show, shirts, novelizations, DVD & VHS sales and all the other merchandise.

@AllInTheGame01

2 ай бұрын

@@adraino7345 Pls see my comment above, talking strictly theatrical returns based on the comments from the Studio/Marketing Department!

Thank you so much for keeping the 365 Day Chart. I’m very happy that made a comeback. Keep up the great work!

Ghostbusters feels like one of those franchises heavily based on merchandise, toys, cartoons, comics etc. Do you think that will maybe factor in the studios decision to make another one despite tepid box ofice success? Especially considering that this is an increasingly kid-friendly series. If im not mistaken we saw similar situations last year with franchises like TMNT and DnD.

@DanMurrellMovies

2 ай бұрын

Always a factor - that's why I say box office profitability is only part of the picture. Though I'd imagine less box office often correlates to less merchandising revenue. TMNT definitely got a big bump from merchandising and DnD also had lots of revenue streams. Franchises are complicated, box office is much simpler.

I’m old. I remember all of those movies. Ice Pirates and Tank were on heavy rotation on HBO, so I think I watched both multiple times. Neither were horrible.

Ice Pirates was a fun but cheesy SF parody. Kinda Mel Brooks-lite. It was on heavy rotation in the 80s on HBO.

4.1million of Frozen Empire's was from UK/Ireland, so I guess we make up quite a sizable chunk of the international takings.

@kurtshastany1945

2 ай бұрын

That's because they don't have to dub it for you guys over there.

Ice Pirates is one of the great classics. Please watch and review, Dan.

It will be interesting to see how The First Omen does at the Box Office compared to Immaculate

As far as Oppenheimer closing goes… I’d still hold out a bit. My local 70mm IMAX theater (Museum of Discovery and Science Ft Lauderdale) has recently announced Oppenheimer will be coming back to do another run towards the end of April.

I loved 'The Ice Pirates" so bad its good

Charts, charts charts!

@DarthK1tteh

2 ай бұрын

Not me singing this like "Shots, shots, shots!" 😂

@HotTakeJake

2 ай бұрын

@@DarthK1tteh You’re cultured that’s why😂

8th comment on Ice Pirates - heard of it and own it on LaserDisc! Great work as always Dan. :)

A wonderful explanation of "Police Academy."

Question for you Dan! I've always wondered why the "domestic box office" seems to hold more power over studio decision making than the international box office, even for films that have significant international appeal. If a movie makes tons of money outside the USA, why does it matter if it's not making much money in the domestic market? Ghostbusters is obviously doing the opposite but it reminded me of the domestic Vs international separation in studio thinking.

@DanMurrellMovies

2 ай бұрын

Studios get a bigger cut of the domestic box office. Depending on where a movie is making money internationally, it affects the overall profitability of the film. Sometimes a movie can be bailed out by international markets, but it’s rare.

@aidanthejester345

2 ай бұрын

Ahhhh really informative answer. Thank you!!!! I didn't realise

Dan, these are the best! Keep it up, man!

Ice Pirates was OK. I think that my older brother saw it in the theatre.

that’s pretty interesting that one of Parasites last weekend in theatres was its highest performing. I would love to see a full chart of Parasite’s box office run.

I'd never heard of "The Ice Pirates" or "Tank" before but now I'm curious if they're any good.

I love the idea of the pie chart for studio market share, maybe next time you could have the percents going in accenting order clockwise?

@DanMurrellMovies

2 ай бұрын

The major studios are in order clockwise - but I know that their market share will grow over time and make the other studios (Amazon, Lionsgate, All Others) smaller. So I'm planning for the future because I don't want to move the studios around on the chart. That way, if I'm comparing the chart over time, the studios will all be in the same place, and you can easily gauge their gains/losses over time. I do think these things through, in my own way.

@koragua

2 ай бұрын

I guess that does have logic. As a science teacher it just stood out to me. Also, just want to say I love the channel! Thanks for the reply!

Happy Tuesday, charts day everyone

I am glad to see "Anyone but you" making money. Hope Hollywood execs take the hint and start making more smaller movies, rom-coms, thrillers, genre movies, sci fi, etc...

Speaking of Oppenheimer, it's actually starting its showing in Japan on March 29 so I suspect there'll be some worldwide revenue for it next week.

I see you watching all the Godzilla movies on letterbox. I'm excited for whatever you're planning

I liked the new Ghostbusters movie, I just wish they committed to the Phoebe x Melody storyline, as they were so cute together and it's pretty clear that's what the original intention was.

I loved Ice Pirates as a kid. As an adult I think that movie is nuts.

I'm a day late, but still here for the charts!

You haven't seen Ice Pirates?!

I dont know if this is a common occurrence or not but feels like something that might be rare. When was the last time disney held such a low percentage less than 5% of the total box office. It feels like they probably are normally in the top 2 or 3 studios?

@udaygorade8697

2 ай бұрын

They have been crippled with sk many problems.MCU under performing, Pixar movies not doing too well, Bad web series. Sure they are looking forward to Deadpool release

@weirdotzero7065

2 ай бұрын

That's because Disney hasn't really released any NEW movies this year. Their only releases so far have been re-releases of the Pixar films that went straight to streaming during the Pandemic(Soul, Luca, and Turning Red). It's like comparing 1 night Fathom re-releases to any new movie. Disney's first new movie of this year will be The First Omen coming out next week.

@caoimheherron4866

2 ай бұрын

@weirdotzero7065 No I know thats why theyve a low percentage. I just wonder the last time this happened. I feel like its rare for Disney to have put no new release out this far into a year. Or to not have a lingering December release making money in January like how avatars and star wars did in the past.

Dan I love your show so much and seeing you geek out about movies genuinely makes my day. Thanks for all the hard work you put into these videos!

Dan didn’t mention the most important film in theaters now: Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey 2

@DanMurrellMovies

2 ай бұрын

He did, if you watch all the way to the end.

@theatrejunkie

2 ай бұрын

@@DanMurrellMoviesI love your reply to this comment bro 😂

I love slimer. So the fact they brought him back bigger and better than ever!!!! Love frozen empire, and all the other ghostbusters movies. I love the new graphics! May go watch it again!

How did No Hard Feelings Do Compared to Anyone But You? I was pleasantly surprised how much I liked No Hard Feelings

Warner Bros is committed to keep that huge chunk of pie, their 2024 movie slate is actually interesting compared to other studios.

30:00 Of course, 1984 was also the year the David Lynch film adaptation of Dune came out (much less successfully than Denis Villeneuve's two-part version).

I am very disappointed that Dune 2 had such a short IMAX run. It's now been replaced by that awful Kong x Godzilla shlock.

Ice Pirates is a weird but fun movie, you should check it out

I know the 80s ghost busters cartoon is the intro song in the movies in some form because if its not then the cartoon is the real mvp

Great work!

Will see it this weekend!

Chart it up Dan!

I know you're a Red Letter Media fan Dan and Rich Evanas is a big fan of Ice Pirates, so they did a video special on it.

A B+ Cinemascore isn’t that bad. Frozen Empire ties with Ghostsbusters (2016) with a B+ Cinemascore. I think the only issue with Frozen Empire is that Sony’s marketing for the movie just wasn’t there. They fumbled the marketing for a very terrible Madame Web and now with diminishing returns, Ghostsbusters should’ve ended after Afterlife’s success. I think the franchise will live on with Ivan Reitman’s brother, Jason. I thought Frozen Empire would be a summer movie just in time to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the original classic.

@SingleStepStudios

2 ай бұрын

Jason is Ivan’s son.

@andrewbloom7637

2 ай бұрын

​@@SingleStepStudios Jason directed "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" (produced by Ivan) because his previous 5 films (2011's "Young Adult", 2013's "Labor Day", 2014's "Men, Women & Children", and 2018's "Tully" and "The Front Runner") had been commercial disappointments. Come to think of it, dedicating "Afterlife" to Ivan would have been Jason's means of paying tribute to his father's work on the original films, much like the 2016 ladies' film was dedicated to Harold Ramis, who had passed away two years earlier.

@LuisHuangSF

2 ай бұрын

Frozen Empire is unwatchable

Alright, Dan I apologize for the cringe comment, but I can't resist requesting this any longer. Can you make a video talking about the objects you have in the background? They are not distracting but as a nerd I am always interested in what figures you have in the background and the posters. And I am tired of zooming in and trying to decipher what the object is. Hopefully, you'll get this. Hopefully, you understand the idea. But I also fully understand if you're like no thanks.😅 Keep up the great work

@udaygorade8697

2 ай бұрын

Same here 😂

Thanks Dan

My brother actually lives near that high school in Utah that Kevin Bacon will be at! Unfortunately, he doesn’t have any kids in high school, so he’s not sure if he’ll get to see him 😅

Ifc maybe had its biggest opening too with LATE NIGH

Dan, you're just too young to have never heard of The Ice Pirates. That's an amazing cheesy B-movie. Probably a cult classic at this point. What I've never heard of on this list is Tank and I was alive and old enough to go to movies in 1984. The Footloose soundtrack was one of the first cassettes I was ever given as a gift.

Thank as always for the data.

Hi Dan, given the inflation during the pandemic shouldn't the road to recovery be adjusted for inflation?

@briankennedy5885

2 ай бұрын

In that case shouldn't the average 2015-2019 also be adjusted?

I have seen Ice Pirates. It's not great, but it's fun.

Nice Shirt Dan! Where can I get one lol.

Great episode Dan! Really enjoyed the Dune / Oppenheimer selection. It’s why I love Charts and your channel. Also, I have seen both “The Ice Pirates” and “Tank”. Would NOT recommend checking them out.

Ahhh... Ice Pirates... If you have not seen this wonderful gem, I urge you to see that film. It has everything in that film that a low budget space opera could ever want, including Space Herpes, fighting robots, time warps, and ice.... oh, and a secret way to get to earth!!! Some big names (at the time) that cameo, a strong female presence, and yes, a ladder.

Ice Pirates is celebrity Rich Evans' favorite movie

29:18 due to the leap year this is now a 366 day chart. Or do you count inclusive of the 26th in both years? That would make it 367 days.

Calling "Police Academy" the grownup Minions of its time is bloody brilliant!

Ghosts don't have legs, Dan. Or tails. Edit: Wow wow wow wow. Wow. You trying to get me drunk, Dan?

Great video, our day is always better when he/she puts out a video on this website/platform please continue to make more content for us human beings. I am definitely a real person.

Dan , watch The Ice Pirates. It will redefine the 80's for you. It redefines the 80's for everyone.

apparently ice pirates was one of those gigantic 80s flops

Don’t forget Dan, Oppenheimer opens in Japan 3 days from now - March 29th 2024

@DanMurrellMovies

2 ай бұрын

I'm not forgetting. I wasn't referring to Oppenheimer's international take in any way, just domestic.

I saw Cabrini. It is a movie that has a message that it is matter of faith that Christians should take care of immigrants. As a person of faith, I worry that the future of faith based films will be more far right politics than faith.

Not only did I see Ice PIrates in the theater (I was 7 or 8, I think, at the time) - but I bought the VHS when I had just been married to annoy my wife with. It is ... not good ... but it is kinda fun in a cheesy way.

I am interested in how the new Godzilla movie will do. Pro - Its not the pandemic like the previous one. Con - The novelty of seeing Kong Vs Godzilla om the big screen has worn off a bit and these films are not known for good story.

Dan, please do yourself a favor and go watch Ice Pirates. It's a very intentionally campy film starring Robert Urich, Angelica Huston, Bruce Villanch (?!), and John Carradine of all people. I think you and Mara would have a blast watching it.

Jack Gleeson, that played joffrey?

Ice Pirates was OVERPLAYED on HBO at the time. Always seemed to be on.

Its always weird hearing numbers like 4k theatres for ghost busters. I always expect there to be more theatres in the us than that.

I'm hesitant of "Late Night with the Devil" because of their use of AI art. It's also not opening here in Germany anytime soon.

Late Night With the Devil was my favorite out of Fantasia last summer.

McKenna Grace doesn’t get enough credit

Hey Dan, so I recently watched Oldboy on Netflix this week and I saw the NEON logo on there, but the movie is from 2003 when NEON didn't exist. Or is it because NEON had distributed Oldboy for it's 20th anniversary and that's the version they licensed to Netflix?

@DanMurrellMovies

2 ай бұрын

Neon picked up distribution rights to Oldboy back in 2022

@josevlog945

2 ай бұрын

@@DanMurrellMovies Thanks Dan!

All studios will have been impacted by the strike, but he Disney share is not going to be very good at all this year. Deadpool and Inside Out 2 are going to have to really over preform for Disney to have a good year.

Ghostbusters as a franchise just hit 1 billion. Thought for sure that you’d mention that

Dan, go see Late Night with the Devil! Saw it last weekend and I’m still thinking about. Would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks!

The poster for Ghosterbusters Frozen Empire is odd. The movie is about the Phoebe character but the poster has the character hidden. Is this due to the fallout from Ghostbusters (2016)?

@DanMurrellMovies

2 ай бұрын

It's probably more likely due to contractual obligations - while Phoebe may be the breakout character, actors like Paul Rudd, Bill Murray and Finn Wolfhard are "bigger" and therefore may be featured more prominently due to contract negotiations or a studio decision that they're more marketable.

@0hMyGandhi

2 ай бұрын

​@@DanMurrellMoviesthat's what I figured as well. I think they should just lean into it, and make Matrix Reloaded-esque character posters with an edge typeface for each character name.

I remember seeing all 5 of those movies in 1984. I don't recall if I saw them all in the theater or the drive-in, but I saw them all. Ice Pirates is wild, it's sci-fi meets pirates, as I kid I remember loving it, but I haven't seen it probably since the 80's, so I'm curious just how bad it actually was. Tank was just that, this retired army dad owns a tank, for some reason, and uses it to break his kid out of jail, then they make a run for the state border to escape the evil sheriff. My Dad loved it, so anytime it was on some cable station, he was watching it. As I recall, it had a 70's trucker movie vibe, so coming out in 1984 it was very out of place.

All I know is Detective Pikachu had an even better response and box office than Frozen Empire, and we still haven’t even heard of a sequel to that film..

I’ve seen The Ice Pirates. It was fine. You don’t have to hurry to see it but if you got 90 mins to kill there are worse things to see.