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Disney (and others) at the Box Office - Current State of Affairs

Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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Phroobar said:
I have no interest in Predator: Badlands or Alien Earth. I like both franchises but just don't care about the new stuff.
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I watched Prey and thought it was good, didn't watch the animated thing at this point but may check it out later. Alien Earth was pretty good overall. I wish they didn't end it on a cliff hanger as these days many shows don't get multiple seasons.
 
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Ripken10

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TP2000 said:
At exactly 9:30pm the porch lights went off and I closed for business. Nothing good ever happens after 9:30pm on Halloween. I'm now enjoying an hours-late dry martini, and checking my sporadic notes from this evening.

Here's the TP2000 Halloween Costume Pop Culture Barometer for 2025.

I got about 65 kids tonight, give or take. Not quite the 150+ I'd usually get in my old SoCal neighborhood, but for a small gated community in a small city, it's not bad. I'm pretty sure some of the local kids invited their friends.

I can not thank @BrianLo enough for tipping me off on this phenom of the girl group from Korea who hunts demons! I got at least two dozen of them tonight! Most of those girls were in the 5 to 9 year old range, and were adorable, yet you could tell they thought they were being edgy. Also quite a few Princesses and pink royalty of various sorts for the girls. And a gaggle of Tween girls wearing full-face pink ski masks and stretch pants and toting their Dad's rifles; I have absolutely no idea what that was, but at least they were very polite.

On the boys side, Spiderman reigned supreme in the 5 to 9 year old age group. A close second was dinosaurs. Older boys went for sports stars, or a few soldiers, or general ghouls. The boys over age 10 kind of phoned it in this year, to be honest. :rolleyes:

Best Boy Costume See's candy basket went to a Son/Dad combo. The son was a great looking TRex dinosaur, with an embedded roaring sound effect speaker in his costume. Dad was... Chris Pratt in khaki's and dino battle gear. Unfortunately, Dad looked nothing like Chris Pratt and probably never did even in college. 😕 But their combo together was hilarious!

Best Girl Costume candy basket went to a generic princess, but she had about 100 LED lights in her flouncy, white ball gown. She was like a one woman Electrical Parade. I could tell she had a vision for this Halloween, and darnit she brought it to life!

Best Family Costume candy basket went to a family of 5 I know just down the street. They were all Lego people, and Dad had clearly worked hard to create these sort of plasticky costumes that looked like Lego bricks, but you could still see their faces thru cutouts. Dad in Lego Suit N' Tie, Mom in Lego dress and bow, daughter in Lego dress and bow, boys in Lego baseball uniforms. Hysterical! I chatted with them for a bit as I know them, and the kids said they wanted to get the dog in on the fun but he ABSOLUTELY REFUSED to take part as a Lego Dog. 🤣

In short, here's my take on Pop Culture for 2025 from this evening....

Not a single Star Wars or Marvel thing at all. Korean Girl Group Demon Hunters, or what have you, ruled the night. Spiderman and dinosaurs were a very close second and third for younger boys. And for the 15th Halloween since the first Avatar movie came out and I started keeping track of all this, I had not a single blue alien anywhere in sight. 🎃

And now, to find my own tricks and treats in my well-deserved martini...
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I am sure there were a lot of replies with their own "stats". If it means anything, in our neighborhood Marvel was by far the largest number of costumes (6 spidermans for instance, and a ton of others). There was a whole family of star wars, and several others (I think they were 3rd most). 2nd was probably the sumo wrestlers.

Every neighborhood is different, but we are looking at mostly under 10 year olds and what they prefer (the avg age at our house was likely around 8 years old). Certainly doesn't mean much when considering what the movie trends currently are.
 
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MoonRakerSCM

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Saw the same thing in the company photo contest, a bunch of Spidermen and generic costumes. Not a single Disney IP otherwise.

Wjat was the final determined budget of Ares? The film looks tonnot break 200m worldwide?
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

Premium Member
DKampy said:
Predator: Badlands has an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes with 67 reviews currently….most of the reviews have been quite glowing…it appears Dan Tratchenberg was the right call to lead the franchise
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Not sure how the box office will go, but it does look pretty good and I look forward to seeing it.
 
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easyrowrdw

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erasure fan1 said:
Of course we shouldn't expect Avatar costumes, it's a running gag at this point. But your reason in this response is not anywhere close to the reason. Cold really has nothing to do with it. As an example, Maui wears bottoms made of leaves and nothing else. That didn't stop kids and adults from being him. There were plenty of him the couple Halloweens after the first film came out. People see avatar for the visuals and spectacle of it. Outside of that, it just doesn't have all that much pop culture footprint in the merch/costume/cosplay world.
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Indeed. The kpop girls were wearing short skirts/shorts and bare midriffs. It’s not a cold weather costume either.
 
Phroobar

Phroobar

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Serpico Jones said:
Predator: Badlands is tracking for a disastrous $25-30m opening weekend.
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I asked my kid if he wanted to see it. He shrugged. That's a bad sign in general for a movie.
There are two big problems with this movie:
1) the Predator looks stupid.
2) It's PG-13. It would have done better if it was R.


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DKampy

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Phroobar said:
I asked my kid if he wanted to see it. He shrugged. That's a bad sign in general for a movie.
There are two big problems with this movie:
1) the Predator looks stupid.
2) It's PG-13. It would have done better if it was R.


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No reason for this to be Rated R…. When we only have creatures and Robots… no human red blood

weren’t you the one who said you have a no rated R movies rules in your household…. Perhaps your rules have changed or maybe I am thinking of someone else
 

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