“Never give up the con.”
Hollywood will never admit that this movie was anything less than wildly successful.
That article is embarrassing.
Actually, it is wildly successful. Some theaters were showing it around the clock. What is even more impressive is that it is almost a 3 hour movie, which means theaters show it one less time during the day, cutting into the box office. Theaters hate 3 hour movies for that reason.
It is already the 12th most popular movie of the year and it has been in the theaters only 3 days.
Some movie theaters have already sold out for the entire week. It is Nolan’s best opening globally and third best in the US after two of the Batman movies.
It received an “A” Cinema score from the movie goers, which means it will have legs in the weeks to come. The cinema score is very predictive of how well it will perform in coming weeks.
It will certainly finish with $1 billion worldwide and is attracting movie goers who do not frequently go to the movies - maybe once or twice a year, if that.
Then it gets sold to streaming services, cable, pay per view, purchases and rentals and little of that is shared with anyone - that will add up to several hundred million at least. And it will generate millions in the decades to come.
As an example, the first Mission Impossible movie with Tom Cruise still generates $10 million dollars a year in revenue just from people purchasing it - both physical and digital copies and digitally renting. All of that goes right to Paramount’s bottom line.
Young Washington with Kelsey Grammar is an outstanding movie and I urge everyone to see it. Support these patriot and talented filmmakers instead.
They have to. This was their last chance with ever-increasing p8ssed off investors to “prove” blatantly woke movies can make money.
And factually, right now, it has not proven that. It has quite far to go to conclusively be the only one this year that proves that.