Disney Irish
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This is not really a spoiler, but I'll put it in a tag anyways.
But outside of Aykroyd in some additional scenes what you see in the trailer is pretty close to all appearances of the legacy cast.
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Disney (and others) at the Box Office - Current State of Affairs
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Disney Irish
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Aykroyd was fine for me. But I'll just say....
He really didn't need to be in most of his scenes. Its like he was "in" on what was going to be said by the other characters and could have just said it himself. Like that whole section with Patton Oswalt explaining the orb could have been done by Aykroyd himself.
I agree with that. I think it is a continuation of the modern world having more passionate spiritual/conspiracy types like him.
It was probably to make sure that performed had a part in it as he has been a fan and connected to the franchise when he can rather openly.
the Mary Todd Lincoln phonograph bit got.me a good laugh
TP2000
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Can you explain that theory in the context of the horrifically bad box office across the world for Strange World, in countries that are majority Buddhist, Hindu or Muslim, or in European countries that are majority non-religious or agnostic?
TP2000
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Today is the day that Snow White was originally scheduled to be released in theaters, before it was Zegler'ed and got sent back for major rewrites and rework and pushed to a 2025 release
Box Office is out for Thursday, previewing what this weekend will look like without Snow White. The Ghostbusters sequel looks to be the #1 movie this weekend. According to industry sources, it had a rather modest $100 Million budget, so will need around $300 Million globally to break even.
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www.the-numbers.com
Box Office is out for Thursday, previewing what this weekend will look like without Snow White. The Ghostbusters sequel looks to be the #1 movie this weekend. According to industry sources, it had a rather modest $100 Million budget, so will need around $300 Million globally to break even.
The Numbers - Daily Box Office Chart for Friday August 29, 2025
Daily Domestic Box Office Chart for Friday August 29, 2025
www.the-numbers.com
People are running with the narrative that Strange World did not do well because it featured gay characters when in reality it just was not a great movie… but people use it as an excuse for their own prejudices
brideck
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Since we've been talking about it here, BOR is projecting that Late Night with the Devil will open at $1.4m.
That would be a huge opening for an IFC film. From what I can see, that's easily the biggest weekend since The Death of Stalin (2018) was at its peak. Before that, you have to go back to Best Picture nominee Boyhood (2014) to find a movie that did significantly better than that at open.
ETA: Immaculate to open at $4.4m. There is definitely still plenty of room in the horror market for The First Omen when it drops in a couple weeks.
That would be a huge opening for an IFC film. From what I can see, that's easily the biggest weekend since The Death of Stalin (2018) was at its peak. Before that, you have to go back to Best Picture nominee Boyhood (2014) to find a movie that did significantly better than that at open.
ETA: Immaculate to open at $4.4m. There is definitely still plenty of room in the horror market for The First Omen when it drops in a couple weeks.
Dranth
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It wasn't like it was even terrible, or poorly made, it just committed the ultimate movie sin of being boring.
Tony the Tigger
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I agree it wasn’t terrible, just maybe the ending was a bit of an eyeroll.
Tony the Tigger
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1.4 is good? Like for just Friday?
brideck
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No, that's the prediction for the whole weekend. That's great for an IFC movie, though -- they don't get a lot of screens typically (I still haven't seen a count for what Late Night is getting) and generally don't have significant ad budgets.
Tony the Tigger
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Ok. I didn’t realize it was *that* tiny of a film.
brideck
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Definitely. There were something like 9 or 10 different production cards on the front of the movie. I've never seen anything like that many before, even on a Euro indie. It's like everybody chipped in their $50,000 or whatever to make it happen.
I wonder how wide the film went… It is actually playing at several theaters here this weekend… I was not expecting the film to… as I thought it was a very limited first week… caught me by surprise… saw it… enjoyed it
vikescaper
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NBC’s Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony Coming to Imax
The live Summer Olympics opening pageantry set around the River Seine will be supersized for audiences in more than 150 Imax locations across the U.S.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
I found this to be interesting considering this is the same day the Deadpool and Wolverine opens.
Animaniac93-98
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Third times a charm? Looks like no:
"Disney has Pixar’s Luca, which was previously relegated to Disney+, in theaters, but similar to the other Pixar re-releases this year (Turning Red, Soul), there was no muscle behind these in marketing. The Italian-set animated movie did $150K yesterday at 1,390 for what will be a very underwhelming $510K or $367 per theater."
- Deadline
My concern is that Disney will take the wrong lessons from this and think re-releases are not worth it, instead of understanding that these three titles and how they were marketed factored into their lack of success.
"Disney has Pixar’s Luca, which was previously relegated to Disney+, in theaters, but similar to the other Pixar re-releases this year (Turning Red, Soul), there was no muscle behind these in marketing. The Italian-set animated movie did $150K yesterday at 1,390 for what will be a very underwhelming $510K or $367 per theater."
- Deadline
My concern is that Disney will take the wrong lessons from this and think re-releases are not worth it, instead of understanding that these three titles and how they were marketed factored into their lack of success.
brideck
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Wow. 1034 screens (although I should caveat that it's only been given half screens at my AMCs) -- that's by far the largest IFC opening I can find, and higher than Boyhood or The Death of Stalin at their peaks. I think it's also going to blow by that previous estimate -- sitting at $1.15m after Thu/Fri. Immaculate sitting at $2m, so some of the prospective audience appears to have flipped which movie they went to see.
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Tha Realest
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I figured they would have had IMAX exclusivity locked downNBC’s Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony Coming to Imax
The live Summer Olympics opening pageantry set around the River Seine will be supersized for audiences in more than 150 Imax locations across the U.S.
I found this to be interesting considering this is the same day the Deadpool and Wolverine opens.
brideck
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It shouldn't really get in the way of (m)any important screen times, even on opening day. A live showing would be in the 3:00-7:00 time block on the East Coast.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
Yep (actually earlier), opening ceremonies are to start around 7:30pm Paris Time, which would be 1:30pm Eastern/10:30am Pacific. And given a normal ~3 hour run time, will probably be over by 5pm Eastern (maybe 6 at the latest).
So this isn't really going to get into prime evening viewings for any movie opening.