Posted on 12/01/2024 10:56:30 PM PST by Angelino97
he Thanksgiving stretch is delivering an unprecedented estimated $420M at the domestic box office, that’s according to Comscore since our post yesterday.
EntTelligence reports 46M turkeys were eaten over the holiday while 30M people saw the top three movies. Moana 2 pulled in 17.4M admissions, Wicked 8.7M people while Gladiator II counted $3.3M over the Wednesday-Sunday stretch.
What’s clear in the current post Covid marketplace, is that while there is no floor to when a movie bombs, there is also no ceiling to when movies connect, and that’s what we had here in Moana 2, Wicked and Gladiator II over the Wednesday to Sunday holiday.
AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron says that this weekend is “a national phenomenon” when it comes to moviegoing.
That Wednesday through Sunday tally for all movies breaks the previous Thanksgiving record for all titles from 2018 when Ralph Breaks the Internet drove the marketplace to a $315.6M total.
Distribution sources always felt we were in for an enormous moviegoing rebound in the post Covid-post strikes era fueled by the massive want-to-see of Disney’s Moana 2, and the second weekends of Universal’s Wicked and Paramount’s Gladiator 2. For those keeping track, the 10-day box office since Friday, Nov. 22 when Wicked and Gladiator 2 opened is bound to gross a huge $681.5M.
As we told you, Moana 2 is setting a five-day opening and Thanksgiving record of $221M, Wicked became the highest grossing movie based on a Broadway musical ($263M) and will have the third best five-day take ($117.5M) over Thanksgiving while Paramount’s adult moviegoer destination Gladiator II is seeing $44M.
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For 30 years, I've replied that Hollywood and Big Media will do just fine. They always have. Shows get canceled. Films fail at the box office. It's just part of the normal process.
For 30 years I've said that conservatives need to enter the arts and create counter programming. Instead of sitting on the sidelines, waiting and waiting and waiting for Hollywood to go bankrupt and die.
And you were right.
Hmm. The goal shouldn’t be to make “counter” stuff but to make excellent stuff period. And not shy away from the system altogether — yet take advantage of more independent outlets and trends like the fact that so many things are being shot outside L.A. now.
I *rarely* go to the movies but did see both Wicked and Gladiator 2 without ever seeing the musical or Gladiator 1. Both were very cinematically engaging and wouldn’t have been the same on streaming, which I’ve never been big on even as a young millennial. I am happy theatrical releases are making a comeback.
Gladiator II was a lethargic movie to watch.
Don’t care if I ever see it again...
The Trump effect knows no economic or entertainment boundaries?
“Hollywood” as a viewing platform will die or shrivel up.. New viewing modalities will dominate the entertainment space.
Storytelling won’t die.
It behooves us to not enrich the movie makers which demean conservatives, Christians, and the denizens of “flyover” states. Conservatives need to start storytelling creatively using all viewing platforms.
>> The Trump effect
the Misery Index plummeted after Nov 5th
It’s all reboots, reinterpretations, sequels and re-hashes, whether movies or TV shows. Hollywood’s not dying. It’s a zombie hungry for nourishment, and all it can do is eat the brains of original thought from established money makers. Even genuinely talented writers are recycling their old work. We’re on the third spinoff of Big Bang Theory, and Meet the Conners has gotten so bad, I can’t watch it anymore. What’s next? The Beverly Hillbillies in which the rotten son of Mr. Drysdale’s snobbish wife takes his pampered nuclear family into the hills of Arkansas, driven out by Newsome’s mis-rule?
The Beverly Hillbillies’ rotten son of banker Drysdale’s snobbish wife takes his
pampered nuclear family into the hills of Arkansas, driven out by Newsome’s mis-rule......
You oughta pitch that to the desperate money-hungry Hollywood types
looking for new series potentials....it’d be in production in a nanosecond...../s.
The movie wasn't "fresh".
I'll rather watch a movie with an original script. But the studios will never greenlit it.
So we'll getting crap because it's what getting approved. If we boycott crappy movies, then we'll see studios willing to take more risks on movies with an original plot.
It’d be a rip-off of a Babylon Bee sketch, which is where I got the idea. Perfect for these useless d!ck-heads.
But in fairness, Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage is actually very good, showing a struggling Texas family without Klan sheets in the closet, or other nasty stereotypes, and two hard-working men with little education providing for their family. Chuck Lorrie is still good.
I’ve seen Wicked twice on stage. I was board with the movie and wishing for the end. It was too long and a musical on steroids with a pop musical star not a stage actress. I won’t go to Part 2
That will never happen. Creative people lean decidedly left. Yes, there are non-leftwingers (myself included) in the Arts but we're a small minority. I've been involved in the arts on several different fronts and was once married to a talented, working painter who had a broad professional circle, so I can confirm this with no doubts. Look up why Jordan Peterson says this is so.
The other reason is that "conservative" artists' work tends to be conventional, literal and not "edgy," so it doesn't get noticed like that of some idiot, for example, who drops a crucifix in a jar of piss.
A third reason is that conservatives generally don't support the work of non-leftist artists. Here's an example: I'm a musician who writes and produces his own music. My themes are anti-totalitarian, pro freedom and pro-traditional Western/Judeo-Christian values. For a few years I've posted links to my work here on FR. Now I realize that no matter what sort of art one kicks out only a small percentage of people will like it and even fewer will like it enough to buy it. My tunes cost around $1 to buy and a digital album goes for around $10. And though I've been posting links on FR to my work for the past several years I've sold a grand total of 4, $1 songs to Freepers.
Does my music suck? You be the judge.
A final reason for leftists dominating the Arts is because non-leftists and conservatives do financially support their work by buying movie tickets, music by leftwing idiots, Netflix subscriptions etc. - those proceeds ALL go to leftists, leftist politicians and leftwing causes.
Based on my long term experiences, non-leftists will never support a "conservative" Arts movement.
Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage is actually very good,
<><>shows a struggling Texas family
<><>without Klan sheets in the closet,
<><>burning crosses,
<><>or other nasty stereotypes.
lol....cute
And I haven’t been to a theater to see a movie in 20+ years, never been to a Hollywood play of any kind, haven’t watched MSM since 2012 and seldom if ever watch ABC, CBS or NBC unless it’s sports.
Personal choice.
Since Wicked is a derivative of another story, nothing original in this list. Seeks the theater crowd is the place for repeats and sequels. Does that mean the B Movie equivalents are going to streaming?
Can't wait to see the box office numbers for the Snow White remake. That should be out soon enough.
a plan I’ve had for years if ever I hit the numbers...
until then?... all I can offer is changing stick figures on a sticky note pad!!
Perhaps you should lower your standards and go post on YouTube..
Well, they’ll be doing it without my money thsts for sure.......you couldn’t pay ME to sit in a theater.
I saw Midway in the theater, I think that was 2019. Except for that, the only way to get me into the theater is if John Williams did the music.
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