Batman will do fine but they need to wait until the vaccination numbers are higher and the pandemic gets under better control and they need to stay away from the home video release being day and date. That just kills an "event movie" IMO.
Wkd Box Office • 07/30-08/01/21 • Rock and Emily Cruise to the Top with $34M, While Disney Enters Choppy Legal Waters
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Batman will do fine but they need to wait until the vaccination numbers are higher and the pandemic gets under better control and they need to stay away from the home video release being day and date. That just kills an "event movie" IMO.
True Kino always win.If WB wants another big weekend, they gotta bring back our boys
Marvel keeps losing.
If I was WB, I would have cancelled the day and date movie thing and given everyone a free year of HBO Max as an apology.
If we are being honest, I'd be more concerned about Aquaman 2 than The Batman.
Not really, the movie hardly has over a 6 on IMDb
and think about it like this, a lot of people that saw BoP probably dint mind suicide squad so the audience got smaller and less casual but still wasn't well received in general
Has nobody mentioned that it's gonna be The Rock vs John Cena at the box office this weekend?
Someone cut a promo!
Someone cut a promo!
$150 million for five hours vs two hours is a big difference in what you can do with it lol
Jungle Cruise was excellent. Saw it last weekend, lots of good humor and heart.
Saw the Green Knight today. I really want to like that movie, there were individual segments that were great, but overall I'm leaning towards thinking it's boring drivel. Plot is important, so tired of art films that are just about feeling an experience. How about you write a cohesive story instead? That's actually much more difficult to do. Beautiful movie though.
Saw the Green Knight today. I really want to like that movie, there were individual segments that were great, but overall I'm leaning towards thinking it's boring drivel. Plot is important, so tired of art films that are just about feeling an experience. How about you write a cohesive story instead? That's actually much more difficult to do. Beautiful movie though.
Yes, that too of course. Nobody is filling movie theatres right now.
I found The Green Knight surprisingly cohesive as a story, considering it is based on a 14th century poem.
Birds of Prey has been review-bombed since the day it came out.
That's fair, I liked quite a bit of things about it, but that 2nd half though! I didn't like what they did with Cassandra Cain as well.
Oh, I know. On the other hand, you get a lot more character development. It's not the worst trade off.
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First of all, it was a joke.
Second of all, I know his last movie was The Old Man and the Gun (I even saw that one in theaters).
Third of all, Ghost Story and the Old Man and the Gun made combined less than Pete's Dragon made in its first two days domestic. The man is a good director, but Green Knight is almost inarguably his first movie to really "catch" at the box office compared to expectations.
The R rating didn't help the Suicide Squad in an environment where many people still aren't comfortable returning to theaters. You just immediately limit your audience that way.
I actually like what DC is doing with trying some unique takes on their characters (Joker, Birds of Prey, the Suicide Squad) but I think they haven't figured out to consistently turn that approach into positive box office results.
I actually like what DC is doing with trying some unique takes on their characters (Joker, Birds of Prey, the Suicide Squad) but I think they haven't figured out to consistently turn that approach into positive box office results.
I think the future of the R rated DCEU stuff is MAX originals as either movies or series. If the box office receipts are going to look like this for everything outside of Joker WB would be better served experimenting on HBO MAX. The wild variances in the quality of DC movies is a factor in the box office results as well and a move to streaming for some of these projects could potentially help to mitigate people's hesitancy. People may be likely to give things like TSS and BoP a chance if they can watch it from their home on a streaming service rather than having to travel to the theaters and buy a ticket.
You should probably add the impact of delta plus poor marketing into it.
This will obviously be anecdotal since it's a sample size of one, but the marketing didn't do anything for me and to be honest, I probably wouldn't have cared for this movie from that marketing if it didn't have James Gunn attached.
Jungle Cruise only dropping 55%. And that is with streaming biting into it. Solid hold.
So are we going to blame 4K torrents on this one too or does that only apply when criticizing Black Widow?
Aren't comic book movies more front loaded in general cuz of the fans?
Yup. Widow just dropped harder, much like most films this year. Was a pretty consistent pattern of 60%+ drops for the top openers. Now the Rock just threw that on its head.
Family films also often have strong holds as they aren't planned for always, sometime just "hey let's see a movie."
I really hope that happens now.
I'd much rather see Jackass then Dune. Everyone is going to watch Dune on HBO anyhow.
I'm very curious to see if movies start being pushed again. I can see Marvel pushing Eternals and Sony pushing Spidey. The box office just isn't there. I think its going to take another year at least for theaters to return.
As soon as I saw Knoxville take a fast pitch softball to the balls, I was sold after watching the trailer.