Animaniac93-98
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A sharp contrast to a couple years ago
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Disney (and others) at the Box Office - Current State of Affairs
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A sharp contrast to a couple years ago
Phroobar
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Gee, I wonder by who?
Disney Irish
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I don’t care, I’ll be the canary in the coal mine here trying to warn people about the situation. If people don’t want to believe it’s fine by me.
Some people don’t like the “fatigue” word. So maybe I’ll start using “audience tastes have shifted” instead. Maybe that’ll go over easier and be more accepted.
Tony the Tigger
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Disney Irish
Premium Member
lol, well if we’re going based on the Disney version he proved to be right in the end and he became the town hero and they celebrated him.Or…Chicken Little.
Summer Box Office 2025 Admissions +1M To 275M, Disney Wins At $1B, Warner Bros Surges. But Why Isn’t Anyone Excited?
Disney led the $3.67 billion summer domestic box office with $1 billion as admissions jumped to 275 million.
deadline.com
Phroobar
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Disney, with 20th Century Studios and Searchlight, led the seasonal heat wave, in what is no surprise, with $1.02 billion, buoyed by Lilo & Stitch ($423.3M, the second highest-grossing movie YTD), The Fantastic Four: First Steps ($266.1M domestic) and the ho-hum Thunderbolts ($190.2M). But the Mouse House is down 32% from a year ago (blame Elio, plus Freakier Friday has become quite sluggish in falling short of the century mark), which saw $1.5 billion (again, $1.2 billion of that being Deadpool & Wolverine and Inside Out 2).Summer Box Office 2025 Admissions +1M To 275M, Disney Wins At $1B, Warner Bros Surges. But Why Isn’t Anyone Excited?
Disney led the $3.67 billion summer domestic box office with $1 billion as admissions jumped to 275 million.
BlindChow
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I'm sure it's someone who will freely admit to being wrong when there's evidence to the contrary! Not someone who will double down on his obviously premature conclusion! Not someone who will wait until a single horror movie does poorly and then declare vindication!
...right?
Disney Irish
Premium Member
You mean like almost everyone here with every topic.
Look if I'm wrong I'm wrong. But the trend for the entire year so far doesn't seem to line up with me being wrong at this point. We've had what like 3 maybe 4 horror movies that have done well (only 1 remains in the top 10 domestic), a few that did so so, and the rest did poorly. If this was any other genre, especially superhero, people would be pointing to
So I don't know people are so ready to talk about
I'm sure if it was Disney everyone would be coming out of the woodwork to talk about it calling for someones head and for things to change. Oh well, maybe some will be ready to talk about it at the end of the year.
Just wanted to add I was not saying you were wrong. I genuinely could not remember who was discussing, but thought it was odd this film was doing so well given the trends you’ve pointed out. Likely a few outliers for the year.
Disney Irish
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No doubt there have been a few successes, not here trying to take their flowers away. Have just been pointing out the trend as you said. We'll see how the rest of the year goes, few more releases left.
Nevermore525
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Does Badlands become the first Predator film to break $200M worldwide?
Highest grossing to include Predator is AVP at $172.5M
Highest grossing to include Predator is AVP at $172.5M
Sirwalterraleigh
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Quite the groupthink tank bubbling up in here this week….
Everyone gets points on their elite fanclub membership
Everyone gets points on their elite fanclub membership
DisneyWarrior27
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Let’s hope he uses that money to make sure The Legend Of Aang: The Last Airbender is a box office smash over Columbus Day Weekend next year so it can make Hollywood studios, even Disney, consider going back to hand-drawn animated movies for theaters.
For those who roll their eyes at post-theatrical income...Summer Box Office 2025 Admissions +1M To 275M, Disney Wins At $1B, Warner Bros Surges. But Why Isn’t Anyone Excited?
Disney led the $3.67 billion summer domestic box office with $1 billion as admissions jumped to 275 million.
Paramount with Tom Cruise’s franchise finale Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and the reboot of Naked Gun ($51.3M), stands at $279M, up 12% from last summer. While the media would like to write the loss obituary on Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning, for the studio brass, the approximate $350M production was never about first-cycle profit gain, rather long-term franchise gain as the Mission: Impossible movies are enormous perennial cash cows in their library revenue generation.
Baloo124
Premium Member
Is it just theatrical you are referring to?
Reason I'm asking is, when it comes to horror, I consider myself a fan of that genre
-This time of year, Sep/Oct Halloween season.
-At home
The scares just wouldn't work (imo) in a packed theater setting. Even a small theater audience, it just wouldn't pull off the same effect as at home.
I wonder if there are more like me and the genre is more popular than theatrical numbers suggest.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
I'm referring to just theatrical. I'm sure there are quite a few fans out there that just don't go to the theater.
WB should enjoy it while they are #1, won’t last through the year.
TP2000
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Definitely not the Burbank execs who greenlit spending $270 Million to produce Rachel Zegler's Snow White or the $200 Million to produce Elio. They lost hundreds of millions of dollars on those two '25 bombs combined.
Here's the first pass box office for this weekend as Burbank licks its wounds at the end of summer, before I head out on my overseas autumnal travels. I won't be posting here much the next month or so, unless something big breaks and I decide to log onto the ship's WiFi from the Torshavn lounge. I'm sure you'll all survive without me and the hard data.
The Roses dropped a big 55% its second weekend out, and Disney released a limited run of Hamilton? Who knew?!?
Onward to the $200 Million-ish spent to produce Tron: Ares and the Halloween costume season! Enjoy the autumn, gang!
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The Numbers - Weekend Box Office Chart for September 5, 2025
Weekend Domestic Box Office Chart for the weekend of September 5, 2025
thenumbers.com
Tha Realest
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I’m sorry, but changing one word to a passive phrase doesn’t mean you didn’t completely misread the room on the state of horror. Audiences have shifted more towards the genre, not less, which is the opposite of how your original framing suggested.
Horror box office blows past $1 billion for 2025 as 'The Conjuring: Last Rites' takes in third-largest domestic opening ever
The sequel's $83 million domestic haul was the third-highest for a horror movie. It was the largest horror opening internationally, with $104 million.
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