Baron von Loathsome
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Yeah how terrible it must be for all those people in the fickle animation industry to have steady jobs for that long
Fair point.
Yeah how terrible it must be for all those people in the fickle animation industry to have steady jobs for that long
Ice Age failed domestically. They will probably still break even, looking at the international numbers. The movie hasn't opened in China, and has grossed 134 million already. If it can reach 300 million worldwide, it won't be as bad.
If Ice Age has to die for me to get a Peanuts sequel I'll take it
Ghostbusters deserved better, but the takeaway for Sony is that they had entirely the wrong creative team behind it.
There was an approach they could've taken which could've been huge and given them JW/TFA numbers... but a smaller budget and October opening would've made more sense. Creatively, they've burnt those bridges now. Pascal and Feig need to go. That the cartoon is some futuristic Ghostbusters doesn't inspire confidence either. The shared universe is essentially DOA.
Meanwhile, Secret Life of Pets doesn't deserve the money it's raking in, or the positive reaction, the trailer was the best bit and the rest of the movie is a charmless Toy Story retread.
I don't think it could have made much more than it did no matter when it released tbh, with a budget like that there was no way they were going to make anything off it.
I forgot there was a Peanuts movie.
Is it enough to be the biggest bomba of the year? That's what I predicted in another thread and I would hate to be wrong.
Pets is doing WAAAAAY better than I thought it would. Incoming awful half-assed sequel?
Financially, no. There's still Alice through the Looking Glass. But in terms of impact to the studio? Probably. This was meant to launch a huge franchise for Sony. They desperately needed this to do well. Now it's back to square one.
The BFG is bombing so hard that people have forgotten it.
Make the animated movieThat the cartoon is some futuristic Ghostbusters doesn't inspire confidence either. The shared universe is essentially DOA.
The BFG is bombing so hard that people have forgotten it.
$21.6M for Lights Out this weekend. Budget was $5M.
$21.6M for Lights Out this weekend. Budget was $5M.
Another big victory for horror this year!
I wonder how the big showdown in October, between the sequels to Ouija and The Ring, is going to play out.
I couldn't disagree more, the Ghostbusters brand has never been anywhere close to being that big
It's really a shame studios look at these type movies and think the financial rewards just aren't worth their time. They'd rather make that Ghostbusters or BFG money than produce a small budget, low risk horror film.
It's really a shame studios look at these type movies and think the financial rewards just aren't worth their time. They'd rather make that Ghostbusters or BFG money than produce a small budget, low risk horror film.
Lets be glad for that, if everyone was in that low budget horror game it'd be milked dry in a year or two.
Im fine with maybe 4 incredible horror movies a year.
The returns are pretty low.
It's fun to talk about a film quadrupling its budget in that first weekend, but for these low budget films, marketing is the biggest expense. Lights Out had a modest campaign, but TV ad spending alone in the US was over $7M as of last week. Throw in radio, internet, and print marketing (plus distribution costs), and you're probably looking at $15-20M in additional sunk costs on a smaller film like Lights Out. Break even on that is going to be $40-50M domestic.
This particular film will recoup that from the Theatrical cut alone (with additional money to be made on streaming and home media), but it takes like 10-20 of these types of films to hit the profit levels of something like Zootopia, Civil War, or Secret Life of Pets. That's why everyone chases the blockbusters.
If Ice Age has to die for me to get a Peanuts sequel I'll take it
I forgot there was a Peanuts movie.
This is true. It would take a bunch of films to make-up the massive financial windfall those movies bring. But most studios simply aren't capable of creating that level of success for their IPs. Instead of chasing Civil War or Zootopia money, they should diversify their offerings. Maybe produce a couple of $5 million horror movies. Do a couple of Jack Reacher or Taken level action movies. Just build up a nice slate of reliable, low-risk releases, instead of channeling everything into a huge bomba that could sink the studio.
Weekend Studio Estimates
5) Ghostbusters - $6.2M - $71M total
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That's for the entire weekend?
That's for the entire weekend?
No it took in 6-7 on Friday alone
No, I copied and pasted the format from my post on Friday's numbers. We're still waiting on Ghostbusters
EDIT: Ghostbusters did well on Saturday. It will end up in the same range as Lights Out and Ice Age. As such, it might be #3 or #4 depending on the Sunday estimate.
So did the box office just recalibrate this summer to more reasonable opening weekend totals or were the movies just that bad this year? I think its a little of both personally.
You can't continue to make Ghostbusters, Star Wars, and Terminator forever.
Why are film studios willing to take chances on low budget horror films, but won't do the same for Action/Thriller films?
You can't continue to make Ghostbusters, Star Wars, and Terminator forever.
At some point in time, those intellectual properties were new and someone took a chance on them. It seems fairly shortsighted. Maybe studios are funding those kinds of movies, but they aren't good enough to get distribution.
One of these three will in fact continue to be made for forever.
Ice Age 5 got hammered. It's on the same level as Norm of the North in terms of the reception by critics.
The series will live on with straight to video sequels. They can dump the entire voice cast and get cheaper alternatives.