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Wkd Box Office - 2•15-17•19 - Alita fights off bomb of the year status. Audiences pass on second Death Day. Everything not Awesome for Lego 2.
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Alita was great, just saw it :(
I hope it gets some of Cameron's legs, or at least Disney give it a chance later
(Especially if they find some spots in their Live Action adaptations slate; if the likes of Aladdin and Dumbo don't set the charts on fire)
I hope it gets some of Cameron's legs, or at least Disney give it a chance later
(Especially if they find some spots in their Live Action adaptations slate; if the likes of Aladdin and Dumbo don't set the charts on fire)
Everyone that's loving Alita right now.
Begging and pleading for it to do well while the world looks down on you.
Checking the numbers every week praying for a miracle.
Knowing that while your heart believes you will live to see it continue, your head knows better.
Hang on to that feeling.
Understand it.
Just like us.
Begging and pleading for it to do well while the world looks down on you.
Checking the numbers every week praying for a miracle.
Knowing that while your heart believes you will live to see it continue, your head knows better.
Hang on to that feeling.
Understand it.
Just like us.
Wandering Earth is beasting. Perhaps Amazon will put some pace behind its Three-Body Problem adaptation now.
I am the worst predictor of these things but I think word of mouth is going to help Alita. I didn't like the trailers, but decided to give it a shot with the wife and it was a loooot better than I was expecting. It also seems like the type of movie that will do well international.
Those numbers = exactly why studios have been chasing China and those who downplay China for only having a 25% take and weak after market are silly. It's not like the take won't improve or that studios hasn't been budgeting their movies for the after market before China started being a thing and is poised to be the worlds largest market in a decade or so. Almost 20% of the worlds population in a deeply integrated are with next to no upfront costs for distribution as compared to other markets with better % takes? 25% isn't as poor as it seems when taking all the factors in.
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I can't believe Alita's budget is close to 200. It doesn't look a day over 100 and I'm being generous.
Everyone that's loving Alita right now.
Begging and pleading for it to do well while the world looks down on you.
Checking the numbers every week praying for a miracle.
Knowing that while your heart believes you will live to see it continue, your head knows better.
Hang on to that feeling.
Understand it.
Just like us.
I'm still so mad that we'll never get a sequel to Power Rangers >:(
Seconded.
I would have added Valerian to that as extra credit, but I can't blame people for no longer wanting to support Luc Besson, unfortunately.
i forgot about hdd2u was coming out i saw no one talking about it beforehand, and i almost never see any ads
We got our share of that in these threads too.This is the exact problem I have with the Double Toasted Sunday Top 5 segment. They too don't seem to understand how film budgets work.
"It made $175M on a budget of $174M, so yeah it's made its money back so that's good."
What the hell happened with Happy Death Day 2U? It'll be fine since it only cost $9 million, but it's weird that it missed its projections so badly. First one was well-received and did well at the box office, it seemed like there was hype for a sequel, and then...single digit FSS. Don't get it.
I didn't think Alita looked like a 200 million dollar movie either. How much did Avatar cost? Because that was far grander in scope with a lot more epic action sequences.
I hope we get Alita 2. They shouldn't take any chances though - end it at the sequel.
Death Day was great but this sequel has barely any marketing.
Death Day was great but this sequel has barely any marketing.
Maybe not releasing in October (aka horror month) like the original?
Happy Death Day 2U deserves better, a great sequel. Alita....eh. It left me cold in many ways. Uncanny valley abounds, that and the dialogue really never let me click with the film at all. The action looked cool, but I felt next to nothing when watching it, I just couldn't get invested in it. Then the ending/bait, and the tiny bit of goodwill I had went out the window. It was unsatisfying as an ending, so the just under 2 hours I spent watching it felt kind of pointless. It felt every second of it's length as well, maybe longer. Infinity War, Aquaman...those flew by. Alita dragged. A big disappointment. Felt like Rodriguez got caught up in the technical aspects and learning from James Cameron, kind of forgot to engage me with great characters. Sex Machine made more of an impact in his limited time in From Dusk Till Dawn than Alita did in 2 hours.
Alita getting another sequel has nothing to do with the success of Avatar 2 + 3.
I think they're saying they hope the Avatar sequels make a ton of money so that Cameron could push for an Alita sequel even if the first one isn't a success.
It out-grossed ME domestically within the first two days.
Clearly Peter Jackson as a producer is very different from James Cameron as a producer.
And I'm saying that isn't logical reasoning. Cameron was already coming off back to back highest grossing films of all time when producing Alita. No studio gives a fuck what he's done as a director when it comes to him offering to produce a sequel to a bomb (if it does). It doesn't work that way.
And Cameron wouldn't self-fund (via Lightstorm) a film he wouldn't be directing himself either.
If Alita bombs, don't expect a sequel.
I was quite wrong about Happy Death Day 2 U trouncing Alita, yet still right about the latter not making anywhere near enough to be profitable, which did better than Ghost in the Shell's opening weekend ($19M and debuting at #3), but still worse than Blade Runner 2049 ($31.5M while also opening at #1).
Would Disney really care anywhere near as much given how much they would already have, even if it's him?
This makes more sense to me.
The release date feels intended to set up realistic expectations, because it's even less of a horror movie than the original, but the marketing didn't match that at all. Presents the movie as a poorly timed horror film instead of the sci-fi comedy it is. I get they apparently wanted to surprise people but that only works if they see it.
Box Office Era. I know I'm not a regular. I know you don't owe me anything. That said, Alita was a good movie that was clearly written as Part I of a larger series, & it shows. It's a visual spectacle, the story's fun, & heck, it's got me looking into starting Gunnm. Alita's doing better than expected, but if you can find it in your collective hearts, please go out & see it. Because I want that sequel.
That said, I don't ever want to see a risky movie end on that much of a sequel hook again.
That said, I don't ever want to see a risky movie end on that much of a sequel hook again.
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I assume you haven't seen it with a post like this. The CGI is insanely good.
A Tale of Two Films, or Why Do You Hate Subtitles So Much America?
Americans don't know how to read. Simple as that.
Releasing it on Valentine's was apparently not a good idea.
Really horror has a lot of teen and younger viewers who go to them. Many of these kids were going to be having to take their GF's out for valentines and many were not gonna want to be taken to a "horror film". And then going up against 2 other big openers for the holiday.
I don't think they marketed it aggressively enough too, I saw only one trailer for it and no tv ads on any channels I watch. Feels like they did minimum effort on promotion thinking it would do great just cause the first was so popular
Man, this week is a hard one where I wanted both movies to succeed and yet both will likely barely break or not break even at all.
This February has honestly been disastrous and if Dragon 3 OW is low, man, this could break the streak set by Lego 1 where February becomes a prime month.
This February has honestly been disastrous and if Dragon 3 OW is low, man, this could break the streak set by Lego 1 where February becomes a prime month.
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