The Box Office (2024)

[Gaastra]

Box office and people all wanted to see the lizard and monkey as it hit $80m!

Legendary and Warner Bros‘ Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire stomped all over expectations with an $80M opening, the second best start of the year so far, $2.5M behind the $82.5M opening of Legendary’s other big pic this spring, Dune: Part Two. No one saw this coming.

For a fifthquel to bounce back the franchise, GxK being the second best start in the Legendary Monsterverse after Godzilla‘s $93.1M ten years ago, is pretty remarkable. Also there’s a similar boom going on here with this Legendary property ala Dune Part Two. That franchise had its first chapter’s grosses siphoned by a pandemic day-and-date HBO Max streaming debut. Despite bringing audiences back in the Easter 2021, you could say that Godzilla v Kong‘s grosses too were also impacted by a streaming day-and-date plan, and the pure theatrical of it all with GxK clearly underscores the value of the IP on the big screen, and moviegoers’ preference to see such monster mashing in no other place but a theater.

[BeastieRunner]

We are at what? Four weeks of $50M+ opening weekends in a row?

Seems like theaters are back!

[Gaastra]

Yes 4th $40m opening this month.

[Nods]

We are at what? Four weeks of $50M+ opening weekends in a row?

Seems like theaters are back!

And nothing is coming out next month

And then everything comes out in May
Week 1 - Fall Guy
Week 2 - Planet of the Apes
Week 3 - If
Week 4 - Mad Max

And then June has I think 1 film (Inside Out 2)
July has 2 films (Despicable Me 4 and Wolverine and Deadpool)
August as 1 film (Alien Romulus)

[Wildling]

Godzilla x Kong New Empire had a $194 million global debut while its budget seems to be only $135 million (I'd have thought it'd be closer to $200 million), and with the second best MonsterVerse opening weekend in North America. It's a breezy and fun movie, I think it's headed to profits and another sequel.

[BeastieRunner]

Godzilla x Kong New Empire had a $194 million global debut while its budget seems to be only $135 million (I'd have thought it'd be closer to $200 million), and with the second best MonsterVerse opening weekend in North America. It's a breezy and fun movie, I think it's headed to profits and another sequel.

I hope so because it means we get that solo Godzilla film next.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Godzilla and Ghostbusters will benefit from a weak April release schedule. Both will get the legs to draw pretty well. Ghostbusters is at $73+ million domestically and will likely be cracking close to $90-95 million after next weekend.

[Angilasman]

I hope so because it means we get that solo Godzilla film next.

Splitting them up to do Kong and Godzilla solos would be my preference.

[achilles]

This is old news, but the numbers have come in finally evidently, and Indy 5 lost Disney $134 million on a budget of $387 million and change. Interesting, the loss is less than I would have figured. Evidently a huge chunk of that was in the de-aging FX for Ford in the opening.

[Gaastra]

Anime getting its own panel at CinemaCon!

https://twitter.com/ErikDavis/status...939564060?s=20



Also spy x family movie in a few weeks will be released in imax screens.

[CaptainEurope]

Wicked Little Letters has, so far, made $12,824,275 worldwide.

[Gaastra]

Another transformers movie on the big-screen. It's a bugs bunny road runner movie like "clip movie" thats going to have the first 4 or 5 episodes of the 80s show edited into a big-screen movie.

It's for the 40th anniversary. This one's a limited showing thing but it means we have two animated transformers movies in one year.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...e0d4796a&ei=18

[Gaastra]

Monkey iron man is no match for anime in china. Boy and the heron has great opening defeating kong.

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

[Gaastra]

Boy and heron heading for $100m in china! Spy x family movie getting china release confirmed.

A 2-D animation boom has hit overseas. Even wb is making 2-D anime movies now.

Time to start making a 2-D movie again disney.

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

[LoganAlpha30X33]

Apparently Olivia Wilde and Margot Robbie are going to make an Avengelyne movie from the comic book, unsure of how to feel about it.