I think Covid sped up the inevitable fate of theaters being the only way to watch films on screen.
Even Sony's horror movie The Unholy is already at almost 2.5 times its production budget and unlike Nobody doesn't even have the benefit of a great reviews consensus.
In this particular case I noticed part of it is that The Unholy has dropped less than 50% every weekend it's been out in North America.
It's already been brought up before Godzilla vs Kong had weekend to weekend drops not uncommon for its type of blockbuster. The opening numbers are lower than some past installments (for a very understandable reason) but in other markets the movie has made more than the previous ones, lifetime.
So it's wrong studios are losing money by default every time a new movie is out. Or that people aren't checking in every weekend in general (the kind of people who would normally check a Guy Ritchie flick did last week).
Last edited by Wildling; 05-14-2021 at 05:02 PM.
Because, during non-pandemic eras, while those non-blockbuster movies are the smallest part of their profits, it's still profit. It garners them money between blockbusters. Even if they don't need it to survive, it's a bad, bad, bad business that decides to turn away more money.
Again, you have to look at overall box office, not just one or two movies. When I say not making a profit, I’m not talking the studios, I’m talking about the theaters. Smaller movie don’t have the attendance anymore to benefit the theaters even though some of these movies made profit for the studios. Theaters make most of there profit by overpriced popcorn, candy and soda, unfortunately for theaters not enough people are coming back.
Theater need people in the seats, no matter what the budget is of a particular movie.
Do you seriously think the studios are doing this just because of the pandemic?
Last edited by luprki; 05-14-2021 at 07:14 PM.
The movement towards streaming started pre covid. Covid just aggravated it.
Theaters need butt in the seats, whether to movie makes profit for a studio or not. Present day overall box office is not giving the numbers it need to stay in business.
Before the Disney+, HBOMax, Peacock and Paramount+ age, a long time. In the present streaming age, 6 months to a year.
Last edited by luprki; 05-14-2021 at 11:04 PM.
And by current signs is reversing to normalcy. Domestic moviegoing is increasing to at times pre-pandemic levels without the pandemic being over and with streaming playing spoiler. You don't seem to care about overseas box office but studios do, as a business they care about getting more money rather than less money.
We know you don't care enough about theaters if fact-checking about how many weekends GvK had been out was beneath you, but again, where are your numbers?Theaters need butt in the seats, whether to movie makes profit for a studio or not. Present day overall box office is not giving the numbers it need to stay in business.
Your calling of the current industry status being a whole new age, regardless of it being tied to a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic circumstance with no definite timeline for that to end that many people are pushing to get out of, and that forced the industry to make deals that weren't a thing over a year ago, is starting to sound downright callous at this point.Before the Disney+, HBOMax, Peacock and Paramount+ age, a long time, in the present streaming age 6 months to a year.
Last edited by Wildling; 05-14-2021 at 11:24 PM.
You're saying movement as if people were fleeing the theaters, when really most evidence suggests people were fleeing satellite/cable and largely still choosing to go to the theater. Yes, there might've been a slight dip as those who were going to choose streaming over all else did so, but everything was pointing that streaming and theaters would co-exist just fine before covid hit.
Here's the thing...
While someone could keep on repeating that?
First, theaters(with a couple of exceptions...) are staying in business right now.
Second, we have right around "Zero..." reason to believe that "Present Day..." overall box office is a static number that will not increase as everything opens back up.
Third, I noticed there wasn't much in the way of actual numbers there. If we know something like Nobody made almost three times it's budget? I'm going to need to see some hard numbers on exactly how it did so without there being "Butts In Seats..." just to even think over if anything like an actual issue exists.