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I know this is a joke, but they did actually do a screening of the original cut through BFI earlier this year. If they did ever release that one widely, I have to imagine the curiosity factor would increase the take by some amount. Heck, I'd probably even show up for that, and I generally don't...

For sure, I was not intending to get particularly specific, and as you point out China is the single biggest overseas market. I haven't looked to see if there's been a general softening in, say, western Europe or Latin America vis a vis this type of movie as well. And then the question of how...

See also the commoditization of modern special effects. Not sure I'm parsing your thoughts correctly, but is anyone actually surprised by the international markets pushing back against "American" products like superhero movies? For someone who likes to talk about brand damage a lot, it should...

Finally saw Elio, and my spouse and I both enjoyed it a ton. Nice nods to Close Encounters in there and I'm always happy to hear Carl Sagan featured (2nd time this year, also in The Life of Chuck). I think it really landed in a good place story-wise. If you weren't paying attention to the...

Also, TP's numbers are the adjusted prod budgets, which makes Gunn's movie the 2nd cheapest* Superman movie ever made. * This is a little fuzzy since Superman 78 & Superman II was a dual production for the most part, so attributing cost to one or the other is a little silly.

That's only a million episodes streamed a day and there are a lot of boomers out there. The MeTV daytime airing of Gunsmoke reportedly pulls in 600,000 viewers daily. Seems plausible to me, but we're far away from box office talk here. This all probably should have been in the Nielsen thread.

Or it's retirees like my dad who are actually sitting around and watching stuff like Gunsmoke on the regular. Not background for them (unless you count alternating between actively watching and napping as being on in the background), although I am a little surprised that one of the modern...

Gunn's been pretty explicit from the jump with DC about requiring approved, completed scripts prior to starting production, which is why they currently only have two confirmed movies (one of which wasn't even in their original plan) lined up post-Superman. This has definitely been the MCU's...

They're not merely financing flops. They're helping to finance their entire slate of movies with monies derived from streaming, so that, you know... they have more they can put on to those platforms in the future. Some parts of that slate end up being winning lotto tickets that also help the...

Yet that probably represents more people watching it than saw it in North America during its entire theatrical run. [Note: Not an endorsement of either number being good.] NA BO: $87m / $11.31 (avg ticket price) = 7.7m theater goers Streaming: 581m mins / 109 mins (runtime) = 5.3m views * 1.5...

The way I read the end-of-year Deadline pieces (and other folks can correct me if I'm wrong here) is that it's literally recording (or perhaps merely estimating) the amount that Disney+ (and other outlets) is paying to the movie production side of Disney for that particular title. TP, etc. like...

There have been a lot of different versions of Superman over the years, and a lot of different takes on his abilities, so this would depend on the power level that the movie is establishing for him.

See also: Disney's own Zombies 3, which explicitly uses this very allegory.

Yeah, later in the conversation I came to the same potential conclusion. Maybe the producers are realigning around not needing as much from the box office end of things and are going to be satisfied with what they can get from the DTC market. I know there's a faction here that thinks that...

Yes, The Last of Us (most everything in the video game world ends up an acronym). It was brought up because Fantastic Four -> Pedro Pascal -> The Last of Us.

It's interesting to me that theaters haven't really created club options for families. AMC's is only for people 13+, so if you had younger kids you'd still have to be constantly buying their tickets individually if you wanted to watch (or rewatch) stuff with them. Seems like a missed opportunity...

I assume that I'm an outlier and that this is the case, too. I also don't think that has to necessarily be so, if people just wanted to watch movies as a collective experience. But people don't. They want to go to the movies, and that's been crafted as this bells and whistles experience (by the...

Then I guess the theaters shot themselves in the foot by making customers think that they have to have this stuff and then making it more expensive. I'm just there for the movies, and we'll maybe split a single something 30-50% of the time. With how often we go, if I were eating buttery popcorn...

I'll beat the drum forever that I don't really think it's the price of tickets in a vacuum. If you play the inflation game, tickets today are only about $2 more expensive (on average) than they were in 1995. [Note: The price of concessions has probably increased way more dramatically, but I'm...

Yeah, I just finally saw this last night and was surprised that the vampires didn't even show up until at least halfway through the movie, and some of those shots in the trailer come from very late in the runtime. A really interesting movie to try to market, though, and I can see why it didn't...