Originally Posted by
luprki
Don’t see this as a good number at all. The new normal is $47 million for a 5 day opening weekend, pre-covid this number would be $100 million. This is what I’ve been talking about, movies can’t make profit with only theaters anymore. Theaters can’t make enough money with this performance, this number would be considered an underperformance in 2019. The studio and the entertainment media is trying to put a positive spin on this, but the reality is there is no positive, I’m sorry to say.
I wished it would’ve done better than this, because theaters are only going to be for big blockbuster, like GvK. The small movies that already struggled pre-covid will find it hard to find theater space now. It already happening, Kevin Hart movie “Fatherhood” was do for release this month, but couldn’t find theater space because theaters will lose money if they screen it, now it’s to be released on Netflix in June.