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Merry Christmas, gang! 🎅 🎄 As I'm just about to head to San Diego for a few weeks, I'll be putting the Global Command Center on auto-pilot. Because we've all got plenty of parties for hosting, marshmallows for roasting, etc., I'm sure things will be quiet around here any way. But I wish you all...

That's very sad and surprising, as he was tragically young to die so suddenly. :(

Merry Christmas, gang! 🎄🎅 I'm getting ready to decamp down to La Jolla for the Christmas week on into '26, and looking at doing a solo Disneyland day since the family couldn't care less about the place any more. Because I'm reasonably smart, I am looking at the weather those weeks and...

Not sure that this will restore Oscars night to The Gay Superbowl and bring back all those huge, fabulous parties we had. 🍸 But it can't hurt. I watch YouTube almost exclusively now on weeknight evenings, with a few dabbles into Cable news stations, and I can go months and months without once...

That's standard practice for all movies for overseas box office, and The Numbers site does it really well. You get the big countries, especially the English speaking ones like UK and Australia, reporting out first and instantly accounted for. Then the others all get lumped into "Rest Of The...

Apparently IMDB just guesstimates the overseas box office, and in the case of Ella McCay they wildly missed the mark. It's apparent that IMDB isn't the most trustworthy or accurate for box office tracking, they appear to just throw out AI guesses at first and then clean it up a few days later...

Is that why they did that? To give an executive a money-losing vanity project in order to woo them back for a marketable movie? Seems wasteful, but then who has ever said that Hollywood was a sustainable industry that's kind to the planet? I kept getting commercials for it on YouTube all last...

Box office first pass is in for this weekend, gang! Zootopia 2 continues to do well domestically, but is now over a Billion globally due to almost $500 Million from Communist China alone. Thanks for not banning that one, Beijing! 🧐 Ella McCay from Disney's 20th Century Pictures debuted and...

Hiya, gang! We're off to the box office again this weekend with another movie from Burbank's studio stable. 🥳 This time, it's something called Ella McCay from Disney's Searchlight Pictures. I've been getting a lot of ads for it on YouTube the past week, and it looks like a gauzy light RomCom...

Oh, this is looking sooooo SoDo SoPa!

That cartoon has already crossed the $900 Million mark globally after just two weeks, so I don't know how anyone could "spin" that as anything but a huge box office success. 🥳 Unless, of course, Disney somehow spent $300-ish Million on it like it has done in recent years with some of its...

Here's one I think we can file away into the history books for 2025; Searchlight Picture's Rental Family, starring Brendan Fraser. Let's just assume its box office eventually gets to $10 Million by Christmas, and pack it away now. Rental Family: Production $10, Box Office $10 = $8 Million Loss

I'm on it! 🧐 "Disney was reimbursed $48.6 million (£38.3 million) for the movie bringing its net spending down to just $181 million which was a dream ticket for the studio." -Forbes Magazine, December 3rd 2025 So if we credit that $48 Million love gift to Burbank from the British Treasury...

First pass box office is in for this weekend! Did you guys decorate your Christmas trees, or did you go to the movies? Another question... what is the production budget for Zootopia 2? It isn't listed on The Numbers site, which is really unusual for a big tent pole from a major studio like...

I just flew in from Bend, Oregon, and boy, are my arms tired! 🧐 Here's the first pass at box office for the 4 Day Thanksgiving Weekend. Zootopia 2 from WDAS ended its 6 day holiday weekend run with $156 Million domestic. Predator: Badlands from 20th Century didn't crack $5 Million in its 4th...