Nevermore525
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Unprecedented demand and availability!
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Disney (and others) at the Box Office - Current State of Affairs
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Prince-1
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Well you definitely got the availability part right.
Nevermore525
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“Biggest opening for a Documentary ever at the Kennedy Center”
“Never seen such demand for a Documentary”
“Many people are saying it’s the greatest film in the history of film”
- Kennedy Center social media probably
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Vegas Disney Fan
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$1.5 billion is starting to look questionable. It’s amazing that this kind of feels like a letdown, any other movie and that’s a massive success. Just goes to show how amazing the Avatar series has been, their “disappointing” box office is everyone else’s “dream” box office.And then there's Avatar: A Planet With No Merchandise, AKA Avatar 3, which seems to be a story of diminishing returns against its brutally high production budget of $400 Million. This chart is adjusted for inflation, and Avatar 3 is noticeably under-performing it's previous versions, both domestically and globally.
Avatar 3 is sitting at about an $80 Million profit for Burbank, and it may barely crest $100 Million profit by Valentine's weekend. This is a notable downgrade in profit from 2022, and barely eeked that out owing to extremely strong numbers from China.
And yet, the clear data record and trend line is building here. Avatar 3 seems headed to a global box office that is only 60% of Avatar 2, and only 32% of Avatar 1. If Avatar 4 with a budget of $400 Million drops to only 70% of Avatar 3's global box office 3 years from now, it will lose $50 Million-ish for Burbank. And then Burbank already signed for an Avatar 5? With no merchandise sales and no pop culture impact in toy aisles or clothing departments? What's the financial exit strategy there for Avatar as a franchise?
Full Disclosure: I've never gotten Avatar. I don't know the characters, don't know the names, don't care. Never seen an Avatar anything at my front door on Halloween. Never seen a kid at Disneyland wearing an Avatar t-shirt. No toys at Target. Nothing on cereal boxes. Nothing. Seems to be a franchise built off a visually impressive 3-D visual from 2009. It's just really odd to me, but what do I know?!
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Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) - Box Office and Financial Information
Financial analysis of Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) including production budget, domestic and international box office gross, DVD and Blu-ray sales reports.www.the-numbers.com
Disney Irish
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Sad day in cinema today, sorry @TP2000
deadline.com
Catherine O’Hara Dies: Beloved ‘Schitt’s Creek’, ‘SCTV’, ‘Home Alone’ Actor Was 71
Catherine O'Hara, the beloved, multi-award-winning actor, writer and comedian died January 30 at her home in Los Angeles following a brief illness. She was 71.
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Sad day in cinema today, sorry @TP2000
Catherine O’Hara Dies: Beloved ‘Schitt’s Creek’, ‘SCTV’, ‘Home Alone’ Actor Was 71
Catherine O'Hara, the beloved, multi-award-winning actor, writer and comedian died January 30 at her home in Los Angeles following a brief illness. She was 71.
I’m not okay.
Disney Irish
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She will be missed, one of Canada's great exports.
The best of us. Someone who made the world laugh.
The devastation knowing we will never get to see her reprise Moira is too much for me to fathom. The loss of her light during these tumultuous times…
Heartbroken.
Disstevefan1
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Just saw this! Very sad! We loved her in of course Home alone and later Sh#tts Creek.Sad day in cinema today, sorry @TP2000
Catherine O’Hara Dies: Beloved ‘Schitt’s Creek’, ‘SCTV’, ‘Home Alone’ Actor Was 71
Catherine O'Hara, the beloved, multi-award-winning actor, writer and comedian died January 30 at her home in Los Angeles following a brief illness. She was 71.
And I very recently saw her in a Capitol One commercial with Kevin Heart and Macaulay Culkin.
Very sad.
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Wendy Pleakley
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Catherine O’Hara is a tough loss.
In an industry that can be ageist and sexist, how great that she was afforded the opportunity of great roles at an age where some actors might not have been considered.
Moira Rose is one of those iconic performances where it's hard to imagine the character, and even show, without her.
In an industry that can be ageist and sexist, how great that she was afforded the opportunity of great roles at an age where some actors might not have been considered.
Moira Rose is one of those iconic performances where it's hard to imagine the character, and even show, without her.
TP2000
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Me either. That one really took me by surprise and set me back a bit. I'm emotionally prepared to see other greats go who are far older than Ms. O'Hara was today; Carol Burnett, Diana Ross, and a few others.
But this one was tough to hear suddenly on the radio today. Far too young!
I was already going to just be at home tonight, so now I'm deciding which movie to watch; Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, or A Mighty Wind. Probably going to go with Waiting for Guffman just for the Chinese restaurant scene. Plus a few Lola Heatherton and SCTV skits on YouTube. With a bottle of champagne and lots of toasts to a true Hollywood great!
Me either. That one really took me by surprise and set me back a bit. I'm emotionally prepared to see other greats go who are far older than Ms. O'Hara was today; Carol Burnett, Diana Ross, and a few others.
But this one was tough to hear suddenly on the radio today. Far too young!
I was already going to just be at home tonight, so now I'm deciding which movie to watch; Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, or A Mighty Wind. Probably going to go with Waiting for Guffman just for the Chinese restaurant scene. Plus a few Lola Heatherton and SCTV skits on YouTube. With a bottle of champagne and lots of toasts to a true Hollywood great!
I popped a Sauvignon Blanc in the fridge just to toast to her tonight when my husband gets home. Trying to decide if we put on Schitt's Creek or watch some of her films we have never seen before.
Tony the Tigger
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Have you seen The Studio yet on AppleTV?
Love that show
TP2000
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First estimates for weekend box office are in, gang! It was a slow weekend at the box office, despite 4 new movies coming out.
The notable thing here is Zootopia 2's resilience, it actually rose 9% from last weekend as it's the only family movie in the marketplace right now. And that means that Avatar 3 probably won't get to the domestic box office of Zootopia 2.
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The notable thing here is Zootopia 2's resilience, it actually rose 9% from last weekend as it's the only family movie in the marketplace right now. And that means that Avatar 3 probably won't get to the domestic box office of Zootopia 2.
The Numbers - Weekend Box Office Chart for February 27, 2026
Weekend Domestic Box Office Chart for the weekend of February 27, 2026
www.the-numbers.com
Nevermore525
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Should also highlight Disney’s newest release Send Help thereFirst estimates for weekend box office are in, gang! It was a slow weekend at the box office, despite 4 new movies coming out.
The notable thing here is Zootopia 2's resilience, it actually rose 9% from last weekend as it's the only family movie in the marketplace right now. And that means that Avatar 3 probably won't get to the domestic box office of Zootopia 2.
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The Numbers - Weekend Box Office Chart for February 27, 2026
Weekend Domestic Box Office Chart for the weekend of February 27, 2026