Will COVID-19 end theatrical movies

[numberthirty]

You mean they are paying their own employees, instead of paying 50% to a middle man.

Politely...

The math here is straight up hot garbage.

Fifty percent of "A Pretty Good Bundle..." is still a better deal than "Well, I'm Keeping More But It Is Still Amounts To Less In My Pocket..."

[Gaastra]

Quiet place up to $60m in america and it still has one more day!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...ng-1234961031/

Thanks to A Quiet Place II and Cruella, Memorial Day weekend’s overall revenue in North America will be north of $100 million, another boost for the film and exhibition industries.

“This is a giant leap forward from where the industry has been throughout the past year, and a table-setting weekend for what sustained recovery will look like throughout summer and beyond. The optics and symbolism of large audiences safely returning to cinemas outweigh the box office dollars themselves, but these numbers are still quite impressive even by pre-pandemic standards,” says analyst Shawn Robbins.

[luprki]

Politely...

The math here is straight up hot garbage.

Fifty percent of "A Pretty Good Bundle..." is still a better deal than "Well, I'm Keeping More But It Is Still Amounts To Less In My Pocket..."

That’s not how it works.
Higher gross doesn’t always mean higher net profit.
Lower gross doesn’t always mean lower net profit.

[Gaastra]

Drafthouse now in the clear. Opening up more theatres.

https://deadline.com/2021/06/alamo-d...es-1234767261/

Amc stocks shot up again. Also they are buying cinamarama and arclight those la theatres including that closed.


https://www.latimes.com/entertainmen...about-cinerama

American box office over $100m this weekend!


https://sbj.net/stories/north-americ...res-100m,74361

[luprki]

$100 million is fairly low with two blockbusters and a 4 day weekend.

[numberthirty]

$100 million is fairly low with two blockbusters and a 4 day weekend.

You left out that the number in question is in the midst of a pandemic.

That's a lot of the reason why folks are having such a tough time with the "Theaters Are Really In A Tough Spot!..." assertion.

Once you account for the actual reality that things are taking place in, the number someone is attempting to characterize as "Fairly Low..." looks perfectly reasonable.

[numberthirty]

Never mind that there is this pretty basic reality poking holes in said "Fairly Low..." assertion...

https://deadline.com/2021/05/a-quiet...ce-1234766021/

How Paramount Resurrected Moviegoing With ‘A Quiet Place Part II’ $57M Opening; ‘Cruella’ Dazzles

Paramount’s A Quiet Place Part II is crushing it, having grossed $19.3M on Friday, including $4.8M Thursday night previews. Saturday eased 22% to $15M. The studio’s Sunday came in lighter than expected, but no big deal, as the numbers this past weekend were fantastic. A Quiet Place Part II grossed $13M yesterday, for a revised 3-day that is now at $47.4M and a $57M 4-day opening at 3,726 theaters for a $15,7K theater average. That’s a number which isn’t too far from the $60M which the John Krasinski-directed sequel was anticipated to do in its 3-day opening pre-pandemic!

[Vakanai]

Never mind that there is this pretty basic reality poking holes in said "Fairly Low..." assertion...

https://deadline.com/2021/05/a-quiet...ce-1234766021/

So basically it's in spitting distance of what the studio had hoped for it pre-pandemic. And yet there are some who'd like to paint this as a low number.

[luprki]

For a 4 day weekend and two blockbusters, $100 million is low for the overall box office. Only two movies made any good money, this follows three weeks of weak box office numbers. Putting lipstick on a pig is still a pig.

[Vakanai]

For a 4 day weekend and two blockbusters, $100 million is low for the overall box office. Only two movies made any good money, this follows three weeks of weak box office numbers. Putting lipstick on a pig is still a pig.

...for a pandemic. Everyone keeps saying for a pandemic, yet all your posts read as if we're in a non-pandemic reality. It's making almost as much as they had predicted for a pre-pandemic opening - so by your reasoning, they must've gone into this originally with the plan to do horrible.

[numberthirty]

...for a pandemic. Everyone keeps saying for a pandemic, yet all your posts read as if we're in a non-pandemic reality. It's making almost as much as they had predicted for a pre-pandemic opening - so by your reasoning, they must've gone into this originally with the plan to do horrible.

Exactly.

If the film is making three million dollars less than what the "Pre-Pandemic..." prediction was in the midst of a pandemic?

You are going to have to lay out, in detail, exactly how that is bad before I can even take the idea that it is even remotely seriously.

[luprki]

There is no need to mention the pandemic, because this movement toward streaming over theater started before well before the pandemic. The pandemic just accelerated this, it didn’t cause it.

[Wildling]

There is no need to mention the pandemic, because this movement toward streaming over theater started before well before the pandemic. The pandemic just accelerated this, it didn’t cause it.

So you posted this not even a month ago (to underscore how in flux and hardly set in stone things are right now) about the domestic opening weekend for a movie that despite me liking it wasn't generating a lot of buzz around in the first place:

Yet another disastrous weekend at the box office. Second weekend in a role where the number one movie came in under $9 million. Spiral was expect to open at $15 million, but only got to $8.7 million. Without a blockbuster, the box office is technically nonexistent. Even blockbusters are struggling, GvK in North America still haven’t reach $100 million after 7 weeks, a mark it would normally make after 2 weeks.

Yet when a "blockbuster" movie comes out that defies the pandemic and generates pre-pandemic results or close enough, and was all kinds of anticipated instead of being a surprise release, your reaction is cricket sounds and not even giving it the courtesy of posting the movie's name. Then basically resorting to navel gazing about a who knows when future.

[numberthirty]

There is no need to mention the pandemic, because this movement toward streaming over theater started before well before the pandemic. The pandemic just accelerated this, it didn’t cause it.

Again...

You are going to need to break down, in detail, how this is the case before anyone is going to take it even remotely serious.

In the case of this film, in particular.

[numberthirty]

Because, meanwhile out in actual reality?

A Quiet Place Part II grossed $13M yesterday, for a revised 3-day that is now at $47.4M and a $57M 4-day opening at 3,726 theaters for a $15,7K theater average.

Theater...