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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Yeah the death of Hollywood is always over reported. And counter programming can be quite successful. Angel Studios is making a lot of money, and even some good movies.
btt!!
The highest box office thanksgiving in history. 440 million is not a bad haul.
It is dying when the only movies making money are remakes of old movies and sequels. Fresh new ideas are not the mainstay of a woke industry that prides itself in not offending anybody.
To wit:
Moana 2
Gladiator II
Wicked (Wizard of Oz)
When everything costs 20-40% more, of course box office takes will be more.
EC
I’m actually classically liberal so I’m not right. Well done. Thank you for the compliment.
Have a great day.
The top three movies are sequels or re-hashed do overs. Not one original idea in Hollywood. Pitiful. Even more pitiful are those who line up and pay for this dreck.
That sounds pretty close to Schitt’s Creek.
Is that “unprecedented $420M” adjusted for inflation?
Agreed!
I noticed this in the past few days with Christmas decorating - many of my neighbors have put up beautiful Christmas displays, extravagant lights, huge blow-ups, etc. - that I haven’t seen in years.
I too believe it is from the Misery Index lifting.
Why? It’s not like these movies are any good.
And they all have numbers.
“Wicked” is actually “Wicked 1” (or maybe “Wicked 2.0”).
Hahahaha...the “Trump Curse” lives! Good. The more these people leave, the better off our country will be.
I am a big fan of the Minions...total silliness, but I agree...the last one was not as good. You get where I am coming from.
I used to be a huge Pixar fan, unbelievably good story telling, fun graphics...but now...it is simply tired and unoriginal.
Interestingly, someone else just posted this thread earlier today:
Director of Cold War film ‘Red Dawn’ said movie’s success taught him lesson about liberal Hollywood:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4282001/posts
QUOTE: “This year marks the 40th anniversary of the iconic Cold War thriller “Red Dawn,” a film by a Hollywood conservative that showcased patriotism, a love for the American military and warned of the dangers of gun control. Yet, it also taught the man behind the movie a deep lesson about the mentality of liberal Hollywood.”
No I didn't - I called you, and you alone, a dickhead. Stop twisting my words.
I am proud you think Im a d*ck.
People are usually proud of what they've done or who they are. Okay, so you really are a dickhead, and proud of that too! Congrats!
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."
Go back and read my original comment using your best reading comprehension skills. It's as if you're responding to someone on another thread.
Frankly I think you're just being deliberately bolshie and ignorant.
Okay - I'll try to make my original point another way: Freeper LS, who nearly everyone knows is author and conservative activist Larry Schweikart, recently posted a link to an article on his website. Several Freepers were bitching and moaning about Larry charging a subscription fee to access the article. WTF?
Larry's an established writer, historian and activist. He's on our side and he writes for a living - and he's a member of this forum, yet some of his fellow FR members were ragging on him essentially because he expects to get paid for his work. Oh the horror! The drift was more or less that he was "pimping his blog" here. Really?
If conservatives won't financially support the work of folks like Larry, how will they continue countering leftist tripe or offering fare that isn't drenched in ideology aimed at destroying the West and poisoning the minds of our young folks?
As far as I go, I don't rely on my art to pay my bills. But there are plenty of non-leftist musicians, writers, film makers and visual artists who do - and they need our financial support, not mindless criticisms and pointless bullshit.
Thanks. I still post free about 50% of the time at Larry Schweikart, but the Bible says a “workman is worthy of his hire,” so I expect at least half the time people can pay if they want to know what I think.
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