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Hiya, gang! Everyone recovered? I still have a hankering for Aunt Ingrid's glogg, but otherwise I'm back at it! Here's the 2025 Burbank Box Office Recap, using the Metric 🇨🇦 system where we take the production budget and multiply it by 2.5 to find the break even dollar figure, then subtract the...

Because this one won't be included in the 2025 Box Office Recap as it was released so late in the year and the majority of its box office will come in during 2026, I thought I should put this here. And I forgot how expensive these Avatar movies are! $400 Million a pop?!? What was that snack...

Greetings from an unusually rainy and wet San Diego. How was everyone's New Year's Eve party? 🥳🍾🕺 Did you kiss the guy/gal you had your eye on?!? Or was it your husband/wife? Either way, you won! At least for early '26. Here's a quick New Year's weekend box office update. Zootopia 2 and Blue...

Don't worry, I started that thought, it's just me. It's not really a thing, it's just a typed out thought from a random old fan on the Internet. 🤣 It may never happen. Or it easily might. But in my pea-sized brain, it would certainly make sense if it does happen. 🧐 Honestly, when both of...

Oops. That's my fault, I jinxed it. :banghead: A week or two ago I was here commenting on all the rain headed to SoCal for Christmas Eve and Day, but then I made the idiotic comment that the long term forecast for New Year's Day still looked sunny and dry for the parade. My deepest apologies...

A quick Mid-Holiday Box Office update, gang. But first, a Pop Quiz: Did you get your NYE outfit dropped off at the dry cleaners in time to pick it up by Tuesday?!? I did. If you failed this Pop Quiz, you still have time tomorrow morning first thing! :eek: Burbank had the number one and number...

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...