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Disney (and others) at the Box Office - Current State of Affairs
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Phroobar
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Interesting how The King of Kings is holding it's own. I'm sure it will make a profit. It probably had a small budget.I've got a See's Candy hangover this morning, how about you all? Those chocolate butter eggs get me every year.
Box office for this Easter weekend is late this week, but here ya go gang! Snow White has dropped to 10th place in her 5th weekend out, and The Amateur dropped to 4th place.
We're all painfully aware of the hundreds of millions of dollars that Snow White will lose for Burbank, but The Amateur's 51% drop in its second weekend does not bode well for it breaking even. With it's $60 Million production budget, The Amateur doesn't look like it will reach escape velocity to break even at this point.
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Foreign box office and its first pass is already in for Easter weekend overseas, and Snow White is flatlining at the box office in foreign lands just as quickly as she is in the USA. It now seems a $200 Million global box office is going to be hard to achieve by May.
Perhaps Rachel Zegler's Snow White will mercifully end at $195 Million globally if she's lucky, before The Thunderbolts arrive in theaters two weeks from now?
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Kings of Kings will drop big time next week…. It was scheduled to capture the Easter religious crowds
Agent H
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Is there really a big enough audience for a film like that over Easter weekend? Especially when you remove the kids that associate Easter more with bunnys than religion. (Not to mention the film probably isn’t appropriate for them anyway?
Back to the Future is the only true trilogy out of these.
I don't think you know what film King of Kings and maybe are confusing it with The Chosen or another live action Biblical movie. King of Kings is an animated kid family hit from Angel Studios.
Agent H
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God dang I really need to stop posting this late. I was thinking of the last supper which isn’t coming out till later this year. Sorry.
Baloo124
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Nothing really going on this week to blame Rachel Zegler for.
Baloo124
Premium Member
Jaws never should have been given any sequels. Not because the original was bad... because it was too good.
No other horror besides it and The Exorcist have made a bigger public impact. The Exorcist forcing many people to go to church and read the Bible who otherwise wouldn't. Jaws making people cancel beach vacations or refuse to go into the water altogether. It's hard to wrap your mind around the fact that movies, pure fiction, played such mind games on people that they altered their lifestyles, even briefly. That is a masterclass on how to do powerful storytelling.
My sister took me to see Jaws when I was 7. We went on a Florida beach vacation the next week.
TP2000
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Also of note is that there was a whole flurry of Christian movies released the past few weeks for the Easter season; The Last Supper Parts 1, 2 and 3, plus King of Kings as an animated family movie. For my part, I had ABC's color presentation of The Ten Commandments playing on the living room TV in the background for a Saturday night dinner party. I made sure the party stopped briefly to admire Anne Baxter chew up all the scenery and the entire western world creating that ugly golden calf that upset
According to Deadline, the budget for King of Kings was only $15 Million. I saw no advertising for it whatsoever, but then perhaps with today's modern AI algorithms they knew to avoid my morally suspect lifestyle and IP address. They probably even know I only unmuted The Ten Commandments for Miss Baxter's best scenes, like the heathen I am.
But that just begs the question why I get endless ads for Taco Bell, when I'm not a marijuana cigarette smoker nor do I have a fondness for horse meat tacos. And yet, my YouTube algorithm is constantly flogging Taco Bell.
Back on topic... only $15 Million to produce King of Kings?! It makes you wonder what Disney spends the extra $185 Million on when they make an animated movie, doesn't it?
Based on a $15 Million production budget, and a marketing budget of $10 Million, it's already profitable.
King of Kings: Production $15, Marketing $10, Domestic $29, Overseas $1 = $5 Million Profit so far
Faith-Based Films Celestial As ‘The King Of Kings’ Sets Opening Record, ‘The Chosen: Last Supper’ Double Dips In Top 10, Again – Specialty Box Office
'The King Of Kings' set a record and, with 'The Chosen: Last Supper', led a faith-based bonanza at the indie film box office this weekend.
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Prince-1
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I think I know what you are trying to say but Back to the Future was not originally planned to be a trilogy. Lord of the Rings is the only movie on that list that was about one story which was told in three separate installments.
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Prince-1
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I agree 100%. Jaws 2 was very meh and Jaws 3 was total crap. I do remember seeing it in 3D when it was originally released and that did not make it any better.
Phroobar
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Jaws 3 saving grace was seeing Sea World Florida in the 80s. Oh boy has it changed. I really wish they had built that underwater attraction in the movie. I'd like to see something like that as Seabase Delta at Disneyland.
Prince-1
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Surprisingly for such a crappy film it had a pretty decent cast. Dennis Quaid, Leah Thompson, and Lou Gossett Jr. were all in it.
Vegas Disney Fan
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The voice cast is extremely impressive, especially for that budget.Also of note is that there was a whole flurry of Christian movies released the past few weeks for the Easter season; The Last Supper Parts 1, 2 and 3, plus King of Kings as an animated family movie. For my part, I had ABC's color presentation of The Ten Commandments playing on the living room TV in the background for a Saturday night dinner party. I made sure the party stopped briefly to admire Anne Baxter chew up all the scenery and the entire western world creating that ugly golden calf that upsetCharltonMoses so much. Pure Easter comedy!
According to Deadline, the budget for King of Kings was only $15 Million. I saw no advertising for it whatsoever, but then perhaps with today's modern AI algorithms they knew to avoid my morally suspect lifestyle and IP address. They probably even know I only unmuted The Ten Commandments for Miss Baxter's best scenes, like the heathen I am.
But that just begs the question why I get endless ads for Taco Bell, when I'm not a marijuana cigarette smoker nor do I have a fondness for horse meat tacos. And yet, my YouTube algorithm is constantly flogging Taco Bell.
Back on topic... only $15 Million to produce King of Kings?! It makes you wonder what Disney spends the extra $185 Million on when they make an animated movie, doesn't it?
Based on a $15 Million production budget, and a marketing budget of $10 Million, it's already profitable.
King of Kings: Production $15, Marketing $10, Domestic $29, Overseas $1 = $5 Million Profit so far
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Faith-Based Films Celestial As ‘The King Of Kings’ Sets Opening Record, ‘The Chosen: Last Supper’ Double Dips In Top 10, Again – Specialty Box Office
'The King Of Kings' set a record and, with 'The Chosen: Last Supper', led a faith-based bonanza at the indie film box office this weekend.
I don’t get the algorithms either, I’d say half of what I see seems focused off my viewing habits, 25% has no relevance to me at all, and the last 25% annoys me to the point I click don’t show me this anymore. Not only am I not buying that product but it actively annoys me, the algorithms don’t seem to work very well.
If you lived in New England, you might have stayed away from the local beaches that summer.My sister took me to see Jaws when I was 7. We went on a Florida beach vacation the next week.
Andrew C
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My mom watched it in theaters as a 19/20 year old and wouldn't even sit on the toilet afterwards.If you lived in New England, you might have stayed away from the local beaches that summer.