The Box Office

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So again....the YouTubers screaming "get woke , go broke" watched as that failed.

I think they've switched to the "Disney is buying tickets" line like they did with Captain Marvel.

[Jokerz79]

I think they've switched to the "Disney is buying tickets" line like they did with Captain Marvel.

The true idiocy in that particular conspiracy theory is the Studio doesn't get all of the ticket price back some goes to the theaters. They would be losing tons of money on a film that according to the theory is already failing. That's not just tin foil hat nuts that's tin foil dunce cap nuts.

[Sammael]

So again....the YouTubers screaming "get woke , go broke" watched as that failed.

It won't stop the repeat of the term, they will just ignore it. They are the biggest group of identity obsessed people on the internet, all while pretending it's everyone else that is so afflicted.

[Gaastra]

Mario tells Elsa to let it go. Defeated frozen to take 3rd with $700m overseas!

Will update box office as it drops.

Fast x passes $500m ww.

Edit--mermaid performs world wide at $163.8m! $118m domestic beating aladdins opening weekend.

https://twitter.com/BORReport/status...htmode%3Dfalse

Thirty five years after the animated story of Ariel, a flame-haired siren of the sea who falls for a prince, charmed audiences, a live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid” dominated the Memorial Day weekend box office. The Disney release is on track to debut to a massive $118 million over the four-day holiday, with $96 million of that coming over the weekend. It ranks as the fifth highest Memorial Day opening in history.

The film got a lift from many of the same moviegoers who first fell in love with Ariel when she flitted across the screen in 1988, as well as from the generations of fans who weren’t alive when the original movie opened, but who were nevertheless weaned on the classic from its various appearances on DVD, television, and later streaming. The live action “Little Mermaid” (and “live action” is doing a lot of lifting here considering the sheer tonnage of CGI required to bring Ariel’s ocean home to life), was directed by Rob Marshall and stars Halle Bailey as the title character. Melissa McCarthy plays Ursula, the malevolent sea witch who steals Ariel’s voice in return for giving her legs and a chance to canoodle with the dreamy Prince Eric (Jonah Hauer-King). Javier Badem, Awkwafina and Daveed Diggs round out the ensemble.

All that watery magic didn’t come cheap. “The Little Mermaid” has a $250 million production budget, so it will need to keep attracting crowds around the globe in order to break even.

https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/c...littlemermaid/

3 day $118m.

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/l...ey-1235627238/

As for the rest--

Elsewhere in the multiplexes, “Fast X,” the tenth installment in the “Fast and Furious” franchise, continued to show signs of running low on fumes, at least in the U.S. It’s estimated to bring in about $23 million his weekend and $28.7 million over the four-day holiday after launching to a soft $67 million. Stateside the film has generated a disappointing $113.6 million. But Dom and his road crew are getting a much warmer reception overseas, with “Fast X” expected to cross the $500 million mark at the global box office this weekend, making it the third-highest grosser of the year. But it needs to keep making money and lots of it. The latest chapter in the series cost a knee-weakening $340 million to produce.

Disney’s “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3” took third place with $20 million and an estimated $25.3 million for the four-day holiday, pushing its domestic total to a sizable $300 million. Universal and Illumination’s “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” came in fourth with $6.3 million over the weekend and an estimated $8.3 million during the holiday period. Domestically, the movie has made a gargantuan $560.9 million after eight weeks in theaters. A sequel to the video game adaptation can’t come soon enough for theater owners.

Not every studio had reasons to celebrate as a trio of new releases bombed. “The Machine,” an action comedy from Sony and Legendary starring stand-up Bert Kreischer, collapsed with $4.9 million over the weekend and $5.8 million over the four-day holiday. “About My Father,” based on the life story of another popular comic, Sebastian Maniscalco, also failed to draw much interest. The Lionsgate released eked out $4.3 million over the weekend and $5.3 million during the four-day holiday. And Open Road and Briarcliff release of Gerard Butler’s latest action opus “Kandahar” sputtered with a measly $2.4 million over the weekend and $3 million during the four-day period.

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https://us.yahoo.com/entertainment/l...163655169.html

Disney’s live-action take on The Little Mermaid is doing swimmingly at the domestic box office, with a three-day opening of $95.5M and a four-day projection of $117.5M. Factoring in the international box office bow of $68.3M, that makes for an estimated $163.8M global debut through Sunday. The offshore launch is lower than hoped for coming into the frame. But it bears noting there was something fishy going on in overseas markets with so-called review-bombing in such areas as France, Korea, Germany and beyond.

While the Rob Marshall-directed update has a 95% verified audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, film ratings websites overseas, including IMDB in the UK, Brazil and Mexico as well as AlloCiné in France, posted advisories during the rollout when negative user reviews appeared in questionable abundance.

In France, where Little Mermaid launched on Wednesday, AlloCiné wrote, “We are currently observing an unusual distribution of scores which demands the need for caution. We encourage you to make up your own mind about the film.” While not unprecedented, this is a rare move. To be fair, critics at some respected outlets including Libération, Première and Les Inrockuptibles did not like the movie, giving it just one star. On IMDB, a warning reads: “Our rating mechanism has detected unusual voting activity on this title. To preserve the reliability of our rating system, an alternate weighting calculation has been applied.” That note appears on the U.S. and Canadian sites as well as those for the UK, Brazil and Mexico.

In Germany, Moviepilot showed a rating of .7 out of 10 before The Little Mermaid release – far lower than any comp title. Traction increased throughout the weekend, moving to a 5 rating.

Korea’s SBS News reported heading into the weekend that the film had been subject to “ratings terrorism” in an article whose title Korean entertainment website Zapzee translated to “Backlash Against ‘Black Mermaid’: Appearance Ridiculed, Ratings Drop on Day One.” On the ratings portal of Korea’s Naver over the past several days, there had been a trend of negative reviews receiving hundreds of likes, and positive reviews getting hundreds of thumbs down. On the day of release, the score was 1.96, which has since evolved to 6.67.

[skyvolt2000]

Ya I dont really know what legs Little Mermaid will have. But it won't depend on the Flash or Spidey doing well. What those movies will do is just wipe a movie like Fast X out of the box office. Which at least domestically it seems to be doing on its own anyway.

Mermaid and Spiderverse have one MAJOR ally...

It's summer vacation as of last Friday for a large portion of school districts.

Kids are out of school.

When you have kids out of school-especially at camps or daycares-you get trips to the movies (early matinee ones).

Guess which two films they are going to go to first?

So again....the YouTubers screaming "get woke , go broke" watched as that failed.

The culture war folks can't stop anyone from watching or buying what they want.

All those guys do is promote these movies and books way more than the studios that make them.

They won't do that stuff in public where folks can see who they are.

[achilles]

And Open Road and Briarcliff release of Gerard Butler’s latest action opus “Kandahar” sputtered with a measly $2.4 million over the weekend and $3 million during the four-day period.

What, Gerard Butler is still alive?!?! I thought Xerxes had killed him. Or at least his career...

[Username taken]

What, Gerard Butler is still alive?!?! I thought Xerxes had killed him. Or at least his career...

LOL, funny enough, Bulter has been acting some low budget actioners but they've been quite good.

They are not John Wick scale stuff but they are very entertaining.

[Maestro 216]

Mermaid and Spiderverse have one MAJOR ally...

It's summer vacation as of last Friday for a large portion of school districts.

Kids are out of school.

When you have kids out of school-especially at camps or daycares-you get trips to the movies (early matinee ones).

Guess which two films they are going to go to first?




The culture war folks can't stop anyone from watching or buying what they want.

All those guys do is promote these movies and books way more than the studios that make them.

They won't do that stuff in public where folks can see who they are.

Imagine Nerdrotic in a public theaters taking about wokeness.

[Gaastra]

Mario breaks a record in japan as the fastest non japan (or anime) to make "JPY10 billion ($71 million) milestone in just 31 days".

After opening on April 28 in Japan, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” has hit the JPY10 billion ($71 million) milestone in just 31 days – the quickest ever by a non-Japanese animation in the Japanese market.
In the latest three-day period from May 28 to 28, the film earned JPY632 million ($4.5 million), bringing its cumulative box office to JPY10.1 billion ($71.7 million), according to figures supplied by distributor Toho-Towa.

Based on an iconic Japanese game series, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” currently ranks third all-time at the worldwide box office for animated films, behind “Frozen” and Frozen II.”

Toho-Towa has not issued a final earnings forecast for the film. And the title still has a way to go to catch Japan’s all-time box office leader, the locally-produced “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train.” That earned JPY40.4 billion ($288 million) in 2020.

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/t...an-1235627664/

Fast x doing well there also.

[Zauriel]

https://www.the-numbers.com/box-offi...-time-animated

2. Frozen $1,284,540,518
3 The Super Mario Bros. Movie $1,278,797,000

Super Mario is getting close to top the first Frozen film. Soon. Very soon.

[inisideguy]

Ok crazy box office stat. Guardians is projected to out gross Fast X today. Thats nuts. No human predicted that man. Its out grossing Fast X on its 4th Monday while Fast is only on its second? Wow.

[Robotman]

Mario tells Elsa to let it go. Defeated frozen to take 3rd with $700m overseas!

Will update box office as it drops.

Fast x passes $500m ww.

Edit--mermaid performs world wide at $163.8m! $118m domestic beating aladdins opening weekend.

https://twitter.com/BORReport/status...htmode%3Dfalse



https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/c...littlemermaid/

3 day $118m.

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/l...ey-1235627238/

As for the rest--

With its insane budget Fast X needed around $850 million to turn a profit. Universal may lose up to $100 million on this thing.

[Geraldofrivia]

The little mermaid is now estimated to make under 400 worldwide. I dont understand why people in this thread are celebrating as its a success.

This is not a Captain Marvel situation. the movie performance in abysmal internationally and domestic shows non black audience is low compared to other Disney remakes.

With Spiderverse opening next week, the black audience could also abandon the movie

[80sbaby]

The little mermaid is now estimated to make under 400 worldwide. I dont understand why people in this thread are celebrating as its a success.

This is not a Captain Marvel situation. the movie performance in abysmal internationally and domestic shows non black audience is low compared to other Disney remakes.

With Spiderverse opening next week, the black audience could also abandon the movie

Where are you seeing thos estimate at?