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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Inflated prices to match Hollywood inflated egos.
You can’t have burning crosses in your closet. It’d set the Klan sheets on fire. Then what’d you wear to the next meeting./;^}
“ 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?”
Have you started on the script yet?
FWIW, I don’t believe Hollyweird’s numbers any more than I believe Deep State’s.
Thus, perfectly encapsulating everything Rocco stated.
People bravely whining from their keyboards about the arts sucking, doing zero to improve things, and critiquing the doers…
You get the culture for which you pay. Or don’t.
Capitalism works. Yet I bet our keyboard warrior doesn’t so much as download a track.
[all I can offer is changing stick figures on a sticky note pad!!]
LOL!
No, I don't have a P.R. director. I haven't spent much time promoting my stuff because I'm content to write and record. Perhaps at some point I'll hire someone to promote my music but frankly, I just haven't bothered to do that yet - maybe that's because I don't have to rely on my art to pay my bills so I have no creative pressures, which is great.
My point was that though conservatives bitch about the Left dominating the Arts, even when they have an easy opportunity to support a non-leftist artist, they don't. And FR being a conservative forum inhabited overwhelmingly by conservatives, there is no better site to prove the point I was making. Freepers don't buy stuff? Really?
Again, by being a d*ck, you proved my point. Bravo!
Everything you said is right on the money. Thanks!
The analogy:
Big Media Interviews -> Joe Rogan/Podcast/Live Streaming Interviews
To
Hollywood -> Independent, streaming productions.
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That said, I agree wholly with Rocco DiPippo’s post.
Hollywood is largely dead to me, and this from a person who would occasionally go to three movies a week in a theater 30 years ago. It doesn’t mean they cannot occasionally release a movie that is not bad, but that is the exception now.
Just look at these: Disney’s Moana 2, and the second weekends of Universal’s Wicked and Paramount’s Gladiator 2.
All retreads. I watched two movies within the last several weeks online that were followups: “Inside Out 2” and “DeadPool vs Wolverine”.
The best I could say about each was, in the first case, the animation was okay, and in the second, that the CGI was not bad.
That’s it.
Hollywood can rarely write an original story that is worth a cup of warm spit, and rehashing an older movie simply exposes that fact.
I watched several excellent political movies within the past month: “What is a Woman?” and “Am I Racist?” from Matt Walsh and DailyWire, as well as “Vindicating Trump” by Dinesh D’Souza.
Interestingly, if you do a search about “Trump Movie” on DuckDuckGo, I went through nearly ten pages of returns, all about the hit-piece movie “The Apprentice” which was released online just before the election, and only one or two on “Vindicating Trump”.
I am proud you think Im a d*ck.
you might as well go over to bluesky and post, because we are all too stupid here on F.R. to see how right you are about your opinions on what music to buy on free republic.
The good news is, Ellen degenerates home in the U.K. flooded while she was there.. did God send a message??
I noticed DirecTV sh putting on some of their older movies this holiday. HBO, Showtime, STARZ. Worth watching for a few days.
TCM also putting on some good old Oldies- AGAIN!
Haven’t been to a theater since 2010 to see True Grit.
First the theme song.
I stayed home and watched “Reagan”, it was enjoyable.
Here’s the source. LOL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWCI5xkVXVg&list=PLVGV1CNlxJ-m7ai2nwR1wN93nM5B1xACF&index=7
Lets go to the Instant Replay:
You looked at nothing, you didn't click on the link or you'd have instantly discovered that my stuff is on YT. All you did was be a d*ck.(emphasis added)
Thus, the name is directed at you, and you alone, and is based on facts presented and your demeanor.
I am proud you think Im a d*ck.
What a queer thing to say.
you might as well go over to bluesky and post, because we are all too stupid here on F.R. to see how right you are about your opinions on what music to buy on free republic.
Not everyone on FR is stupid. Just some folks, e.g., the ones calling for forced sterilization of minors.
Have a great day!
“ First the theme song.”
I will watch when ready!
It could also go the direction of a Hallmark Christmas movie!
I don’t follow “Hollywood” earnings, but their pattern seems to be: failure, failure, failure, failure, failure, huge success, failure, failure, failure.
Doodlebob, yesterday , today and forever, you’re always consistent. You are far from right, but you’re different
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