Disney (and others) at the Box Office - Current State of Affairs

TP2000

TP2000

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Here's the first pass at weekend box office gang. And with a special note to @BrianLo who is in Japan; what is the equivalent of a Target run there? 🤔 I'm thinking it's probably a visit to a Tokyu My Hands store? There's a giant one I've been to several times in Shinjuku. Have a fabulous time in Japan! Are you going to the Osaka World's Fair by chance?

On to box office. Lilo & Stitch held steady with its normal "legs" against weak competition this weekend. Thunderbolts looks like it will struggle to get to something less than $390 Million globally. Speaking of Japan, Lilo & Stitch numbers aren't in yet, but looking at the foreign numbers overall it did big there; at least $25 Million from its opening weekend!

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The Numbers - Weekend Box Office Chart for June 20, 2025

Weekend Domestic Box Office Chart for the weekend of June 20, 2025
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celluloid

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TP2000 said:
Here's the first pass at weekend box office gang. And with a special note to @BrianLo who is in Japan; what is the equivalent of a Target run there? 🤔 I'm thinking it's probably a visit to a Tokyu My Hands store? There's a giant one I've been to several times in Shinjuku. Have a fabulous time in Japan! Are you going to the Osaka World's Fair by chance?

On to box office. Lilo & Stitch held steady with its normal "legs" against weak competition this weekend. Thunderbolts looks like it will struggle to get to something less than $390 Million globally. Speaking of Japan, Lilo & Stitch numbers aren't in yet, but looking at the foreign numbers overall it did big there; at least $25 Million from its opening weekend!

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The Numbers - Weekend Box Office Chart for June 20, 2025

Weekend Domestic Box Office Chart for the weekend of June 20, 2025
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Hey I have been to that one near Shinjuku station! The Don Quijote was kind of a target run for us, which probably should have been more of a Five Below run...but we were randomly buying snackies for kids.
 
BrianLo

BrianLo

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TP2000 said:
Have a fabulous time in Japan! Are you going to the Osaka World's Fair by chance?
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Thank you for the reminder! I had intended to and forgotten it was on, I definitely will give it a try in a week and a bit. Probably when I do Kobe.

I’m doing a back to back cruise and it wasn’t so Japan heavy originally, but they completely flipped the itinerary. It’s all southern. To say I’m making it up as I go along would be an understatement. Usually consisting of some sort of mountain to hike.

I will have officially visited every major Disney city without having stepped into its theme park. Which I feel earns me some kind of Disney adult with healthy boundaries award. Or just speaks to my even worse traveling addiction.
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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celluloid said:
Thanks! You too!

Well everyone, I predict more rough waters for the action genre as a whole's latest with competition coming up of How to Train Your Dragon, the family film to hit theaters with if nothing else, a lot of screens.

It will be interesting to see what audiences go for with M3gan 2.0's new angle coming up at the end of the month as that is the next horror release separate from the last two major successes.
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Just a small point of correction if I may....

28 Years Later is actually the next horror release, it comes out on June 20th a week before M3gan 2.0.
 
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celluloid

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Disney Irish said:
Just a small point of correction if I may....

28 Years Later is actually the next horror release, it comes out on June 20th a week before M3gan 2.0.
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Nice! I forgot about that one. It will be interesting if they play well together or if 28 years later is 10 years too late. That had quite an impact and following but I only saw parts of the first long ago.
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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celluloid said:
Nice! I forgot about that one. It will be interesting if they play well together or if 28 years later is 10 years too late. That had quite an impact and following but I only saw parts of the first long ago.
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Not to go around again, but of the two I still think that M3gan 2.0 doesn't perform well. As I said before it looks like they jumped the shark by trying to make her an anti-hero. But we'll see.
 
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celluloid

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Disney Irish said:
Not to go around again, but of the two I still think that M3gan 2.0 doesn't perform well. As I said before it looks like they jumped the shark by trying to make her an anti-hero. But we'll see.
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Definitely agree. It will either payoff because it is humorously different and avoiding the same, or not because they made the error of going with the trouble of leaning into action with the way the genre has been with moviegoers this year.
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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DisneyWarrior27

DisneyWarrior27

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With Moana 2 and live-action Lilo & Stitch marking 2 for 2 for Disney in terms of movies that were initially planned as series or streaming movies for Disney Plus that got rerouted to theatrical releases that each did or soon will do a billion dollars worldwide, will Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu be the 3rd to follow suit come Memorial Day Weekend 2026?

Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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DisneyWarrior27 said:
With Moana 2 and live-action Lilo & Stitch marking 2 for 2 for Disney in terms of movies that were initially planned as series or streaming movies for Disney Plus that got rerouted to theatrical releases that each did or soon will do a billion dollars worldwide, will Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu be the 3rd to follow suit come Memorial Day Weekend 2026?

Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
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The Mando/Grogu movie was not originally planned as a streaming show. Its taking characters from a streaming show and turning it into a movie, different situation.
 
DisneyWarrior27

DisneyWarrior27

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Disney Irish said:
The Mando/Grogu movie was not originally planned as a streaming show. It’s taking characters from a streaming show and turning it into a movie, different situation.
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Not quite true, I think.

From what various insiders have said, this could have been Season 4 of The Mandalorian as that season was already written before the strikes happened and after the strikes, they reworked it into the script of a movie with only 8, 9, or 10 months before starting filming.

So, I’m not sure that’s entirely true.
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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DisneyWarrior27 said:
Not quite true, I think.

From what various insiders have said, this could have been Season 4 of The Mandalorian as that season was already written before the strikes happened and after the strikes, they reworked it into the script of a movie with only 8, 9, or 10 months before starting filming.

So, I’m not sure that’s entirely true.
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Even if true, which I don’t doubt. It’s still a different situation as it’s not taking a whole show that was originally set for streaming and never released and turning it into a movie. It’s still taking established characters from an existing D+ show and move them to the large screen.

So I wouldn’t put it into the same classification as Moana 2 or Stitch. If anything I would put it into the same vein as D+ MCU characters being brought to a movie. We just hope it turns out better than those.
 

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