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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The link isn’t working for me. After Zootopia 2, what are the other top movies?

At this point, I will cheer for anything that brings people into the theaters. We need to keep the theaters alive, or a rapidly consolidating clique of global streamers will completely control distribution and, pushing upstream, dominate what is produced even more than they do today.

The streaming model has the industry in a qualitative death spiral. Theatrical distribution, ticket sales and butts in seats create space for independent films to find an audience. I probably won’t watch the flying spandex, comic book and animated movies, but they keep the doors open, and the little indie movies can find screens down the hall.


6 posted on 11/30/2025 6:03:36 PM PST by sphinx
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To: sphinx

Zootopia 2 $96.8M
Wicked: For Good $62.8M
Now You See Me: Now You Don’t $7.0M
Predator: Badlands $4.8M
The Running Man $3.7M

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/


7 posted on 11/30/2025 6:17:22 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ( )
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To: sphinx
We went and saw "Rental Family". It was good. Half in Japanese so you do need to read the subtitles for part of the movie and also very Japanese in feel.

But it is probably one of the more thoughtful movies I have seen in sometime about a real and growing problem in the world. People need family. What happens when for some reason or another you don't have one?

It is not a preachy movie or one with a "message" (much less The MESSAGE) but does present a solution that some people in Japan are using to fill the void.

8 posted on 11/30/2025 6:28:13 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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