And seriously saying box office is only off 15 percent due to pandemic is nuts.
The 10th highest grossing movie in 2019 made 316 million at the domestic box office. Thats almost 100 million more than the highest domestic performer this year.
And seriously saying box office is only off 15 percent due to pandemic is nuts.
The 10th highest grossing movie in 2019 made 316 million at the domestic box office. Thats almost 100 million more than the highest domestic performer this year.
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
Better than Shang Chi numbers by a wide margin. 280-300M domestic? It's opening during a good long holiday streak. Isn't there still hope for it to open in China? https://variety.com/2021/film/news/s...ticle-comments. 700-800M WW?
What do you think it will finish with?
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
It appears Ghostbusters Afterlife is gonna be a HUGE epic hit for Sony. Its 1st day on Friday seems to be pushing it towards the $30+ million that was expected opening weekend. It made $16.5 million and already people are calling it a nice end and start of something for this era.
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“ Well hell just froze over. Because CM Punk is back in the WWE.” - Jcogginsa.
“You can take the boy outta the mom’s basement, but you can’t take the mom’s basement outta the boy!” - LA Knight.
"Revel in What You Are." Bray Wyatt.
Eh, you know that Jumanji 2 doubled Spectre's domestic box office? As far as I know Spectre wasn't released during a pandemic. (I just realized that maybe you think of the third one from 2019 as Jumanji 2 but that made 320 million and thus also much more than Spectre, so saying it didn't double Bond would be semantics).
Spectre made 200 million, Quantum of Solace 168 million, Casino Royale 167 million. Skyfall was an exception as it had many variables that led to an overperformance at the box office (raving reviews, fantastic word of mouth, 50 year anniversary of the franchise, Adele's very popular song).
No Time To Die will finish at 160 million, that is in line with what I said, as the Bond franchise skews to an older demographic than Marvel movies that is more hesitant to go to movie theaters at the moment.
One can't look at the top ten of other years and randomly pick movies for comparison. This year's movie slot was never going to make the same numbers as 2019. No Way Home is the only movie that was expected to be a huge blockbuster. The fact that Shang-Chi will be the second highest grosser of the year tells you everything about this year's slate of movies.
Here are some fitting comparisons:
Shang-Chi: 224 million
Ant-Man and the Wasp: 216 million
Venom 2: 207 million by Sunday, still counting
Venom: 213 million
A Quiet Place 2: 160 million
A Quiet Place: 188 million
Godzilla vs Kong: 100 million
Godzilla: King of the Monsters: 110 million
Do you believe any of the theater exclusive movies released this year would have hit 300 million domestic in pre-pandemic times?
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Tolstoy will live forever. Some people do. But that's not enough. It's not the length of a life that matters, just the depth of it. The chances we take. The paths we choose. How we go on when our hearts break. Hearts always break and so we bend with our hearts. And we sway. But in the end what matters is that we loved... and lived.
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Tolstoy will live forever. Some people do. But that's not enough. It's not the length of a life that matters, just the depth of it. The chances we take. The paths we choose. How we go on when our hearts break. Hearts always break and so we bend with our hearts. And we sway. But in the end what matters is that we loved... and lived.
As for this weekend's box office, I find it quite funny that the Ghostbusters revival is actually opening less than the much maligned 2016 version.
The big difference though is that this 2021 version cost $75m compared to the previous one that cost $144m.
Male or female, outside of the original Ghostbusters cast there doesn't seem to be that much interest in GB.
Tolstoy will live forever. Some people do. But that's not enough. It's not the length of a life that matters, just the depth of it. The chances we take. The paths we choose. How we go on when our hearts break. Hearts always break and so we bend with our hearts. And we sway. But in the end what matters is that we loved... and lived.