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

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celluloid

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Disney Irish said:
Not to go around again, but of the two I still think that M3gan 2.0 doesn't perform well. As I said before it looks like they jumped the shark by trying to make her an anti-hero. But we'll see.
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Definitely agree. It will either payoff because it is humorously different and avoiding the same, or not because they made the error of going with the trouble of leaning into action with the way the genre has been with moviegoers this year.
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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DisneyWarrior27

DisneyWarrior27

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With Moana 2 and live-action Lilo & Stitch marking 2 for 2 for Disney in terms of movies that were initially planned as series or streaming movies for Disney Plus that got rerouted to theatrical releases that each did or soon will do a billion dollars worldwide, will Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu be the 3rd to follow suit come Memorial Day Weekend 2026?

Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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DisneyWarrior27 said:
With Moana 2 and live-action Lilo & Stitch marking 2 for 2 for Disney in terms of movies that were initially planned as series or streaming movies for Disney Plus that got rerouted to theatrical releases that each did or soon will do a billion dollars worldwide, will Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu be the 3rd to follow suit come Memorial Day Weekend 2026?

Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
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The Mando/Grogu movie was not originally planned as a streaming show. Its taking characters from a streaming show and turning it into a movie, different situation.
 
DisneyWarrior27

DisneyWarrior27

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Disney Irish said:
The Mando/Grogu movie was not originally planned as a streaming show. It’s taking characters from a streaming show and turning it into a movie, different situation.
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Not quite true, I think.

From what various insiders have said, this could have been Season 4 of The Mandalorian as that season was already written before the strikes happened and after the strikes, they reworked it into the script of a movie with only 8, 9, or 10 months before starting filming.

So, I’m not sure that’s entirely true.
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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DisneyWarrior27 said:
Not quite true, I think.

From what various insiders have said, this could have been Season 4 of The Mandalorian as that season was already written before the strikes happened and after the strikes, they reworked it into the script of a movie with only 8, 9, or 10 months before starting filming.

So, I’m not sure that’s entirely true.
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Even if true, which I don’t doubt. It’s still a different situation as it’s not taking a whole show that was originally set for streaming and never released and turning it into a movie. It’s still taking established characters from an existing D+ show and move them to the large screen.

So I wouldn’t put it into the same classification as Moana 2 or Stitch. If anything I would put it into the same vein as D+ MCU characters being brought to a movie. We just hope it turns out better than those.
 
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DKampy

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DisneyHead123

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MisterPenguin said:
deadline.com

AMC Says New NCM Preshow Ads Don’t “Negatively Influence Moviegoing Habits”

AMC responded to news today that they're running more ads before movies. Essentially, it doesn't impact moviegoing, according to the chain.
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Showed up 15-20 minutes late to Lilo and Stitch on purpose and still ended up watching 15-20 minutes of previews, it was insane. For kids movies, when commercials run almost 40 minutes and you’ve got previews for scary movies like Sketch, it can be a dealbreaker. They seriously need to get it together with the ad free-for-all.
 
Disney Irish

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DisneyHead123 said:
Showed up 15-20 minutes late to Lilo and Stitch on purpose and still ended up watching 15-20 minutes of previews, it was insane. For kids movies, when commercials run almost 40 minutes and you’ve got previews for scary movies like Sketch, it can be a dealbreaker. They seriously need to get it together with the ad free-for-all.
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Problem I see is if you do a no ad situation ticket prices will skyrocket even more. I’d imagine that “real” ticket prices are double or triple what they are without the ads. So imagine an average of $23-$34 base price for movies, even more for premium screens which could reach upwards of $50-$60.

So yeah I’d rather them add more ads rather than to pass more costs onto my wallet.
 
LSLS

LSLS

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Nice to see Stich's international box office came in. Selfishly, I kind of wish it wasn't doing as well cause I'm sick of these remakes, but I fully admit I'm in a huge minority on it at this point. Anyone who knows the box office (or has tools I don't) know the chances of it hitting $1 billion? Gotta think that's going to be the big push now.
 
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Nevermore525

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LSLS said:
Nice to see Stich's international box office came in. Selfishly, I kind of wish it wasn't doing as well cause I'm sick of these remakes, but I fully admit I'm in a huge minority on it at this point. Anyone who knows the box office (or has tools I don't) know the chances of it hitting $1 billion? Gotta think that's going to be the big push now.
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It’s currently ahead of where Moana 2 was at this point and that finished just over $1B. Moana 2 had some holiday boosts while Stitch could get more summer boosts.

It will lose screens this weekend with HTTYD but will still probably have the second most for the weekend.
 
Prince-1

Prince-1

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DKampy said:
I have heard AMC runs over 30 minutes before actual showtime at times…I am appreciative Marcus is my local chain…Start time is always 20 minutes after posted time…you can set your clock to it
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I have the AMC VIP pass and you can absolute guarantee that there is going to be a hard 30 minutes of trailers and ads before the movie starts.
 

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