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

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easyrowrdw

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erasure fan1 said:
Of course we shouldn't expect Avatar costumes, it's a running gag at this point. But your reason in this response is not anywhere close to the reason. Cold really has nothing to do with it. As an example, Maui wears bottoms made of leaves and nothing else. That didn't stop kids and adults from being him. There were plenty of him the couple Halloweens after the first film came out. People see avatar for the visuals and spectacle of it. Outside of that, it just doesn't have all that much pop culture footprint in the merch/costume/cosplay world.
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Indeed. The kpop girls were wearing short skirts/shorts and bare midriffs. It’s not a cold weather costume either.
 
Phroobar

Phroobar

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Serpico Jones said:
Predator: Badlands is tracking for a disastrous $25-30m opening weekend.
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I asked my kid if he wanted to see it. He shrugged. That's a bad sign in general for a movie.
There are two big problems with this movie:
1) the Predator looks stupid.
2) It's PG-13. It would have done better if it was R.


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DKampy

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Phroobar said:
I asked my kid if he wanted to see it. He shrugged. That's a bad sign in general for a movie.
There are two big problems with this movie:
1) the Predator looks stupid.
2) It's PG-13. It would have done better if it was R.


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No reason for this to be Rated R…. When we only have creatures and Robots… no human red blood

weren’t you the one who said you have a no rated R movies rules in your household…. Perhaps your rules have changed or maybe I am thinking of someone else
 
Phroobar

Phroobar

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DKampy said:
No reason for this to be Rated R…. When we only have creatures and Robots… no human red blood

weren’t you the one who said you have a no rated R movies rules in your household…. Perhaps your rules have changed or maybe I am thinking of someone else
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I wouldn't see it if it where R rated. The rule hasn't changed.
 
TalkingHead

TalkingHead

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Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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TalkingHead said:
www.hollywoodreporter.com

‘Zootopia 2’ Tracking to Feast on Huge $125M-Plus Opening at Thanksgiving Box Office

The Walt Disney Animation buddy cop adventure reunites voice stars Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman, with franchise newcomers including Ke Huy Quan.
www.hollywoodreporter.com www.hollywoodreporter.com

Headline: ‘Zootopia 2’ Tracking to Feast on Huge $125M-Plus Opening at Thanksgiving Box Office

Moana 2 did $225M for its five day opening.
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And the 5 day for the first Zootopia was $84M, and it went onto do $1.018B. So it potentially having an opening lower than Moana 2 doesn't say much in terms of how it'll end up doing.
 
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Miss Rori

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Disney Irish said:
But I was told that the 2025 box office was better than last year and showed signs of rebounding. Guess that was premature.
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Things were doing pretty well through mid-July, and then just cratered. A few horror and anime titles have genuinely thrived, but there haven't been any 4-quadrant / fun-for-the-whole-family blockbusters from August to now. At least last year had stuff like Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and The Wild Robot going for it.

October had it particularly bad because Michael - which had been expected to be the next Bohemian Rhapsody -- was pushed back to next April (the first teaser dropped today), and Mortal Kombat II made a similar move. Until Wicked: For Good in two weeks, there's really nothing grabbing the masses; if Predator: Badlands tanks, that probably isn't a good sign for the R-rated The Running Man next weekend.
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

Premium Member
Miss Rori said:
Things were doing pretty well through mid-July, and then just cratered. A few horror and anime titles have genuinely thrived, but there haven't been any 4-quadrant / fun-for-the-whole-family blockbusters from August to now. At least last year had stuff like Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and The Wild Robot going for it.

October had it particularly bad because Michael - which had been expected to be the next Bohemian Rhapsody -- was pushed back to next April (the first teaser dropped today), and Mortal Kombat II made a similar move. Until Wicked: For Good in two weeks, there's really nothing grabbing the masses; if Predator: Badlands tanks, that probably isn't a good sign for the R-rated The Running Man next weekend.
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You can find posts from me back even in mid-July where I was saying that things aren't looking as rosy as people here were prognosticating. Things haven't really been looking rosy all year, the slight uptick that was seen was just that "slight", overall 2025 looks to come in under 2024 if things continue. As the only thing that has held up 2025 so far has been the holdovers from 2024 like Moana 2 and Wicked, if you subtract those well 2025 is running about even (actually about 0.2% less) than 2024. So the box office is actually behind where it needs to be if the goal was to do better than last year.

Basically Wicked 2, Zootopia 2, and Avatar 3 have to over perform in order for 2025 to have a shot at beating 2024.
 
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DKampy

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Disney Irish said:
And the 5 day for the first Zootopia was $84M, and it went onto do $1.018B. So it potentially having an opening lower than Moana 2 doesn't say much in terms of how it'll end up doing.
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Especially during the holiday quarter….the leggiest time of year for family films….being that it is being released before Thanksgiving Zootopia should play through January
 

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