Amph The 2021 Box Office Blood Vaccine

Interested in: Cruella, Black Widow, Shang Chi, Dune, Eternals, Spider-Man.
Maybe: Luca, Encanto, Venom 2: Carnage.

What's this Cinderella movie, Disney already did that live-action remake a few years ago?

And Matrix 4 is not only actually happening, it's this year?

 

Nothing on that list makes me want to trade even harmless germs with other moviegoers.

 

It's @Ghost I believe a modern version of it as it's not even a Disney film. Sony is making and distributing it. And Matrix 4 principal photography finished last November so it should have no issue making a December release date.

And the only movies that I personally be interested in seeing at the theater this year is TG: Maverick and No Time to Die. Everything else I can wait or watch it on HBOMax.

 

Here's hoping that possibly the most pathetic project in Hollywood history, The Suicide Squad, flops even harder than the first. Probably not possible, since the very laws of physics dictate that the movie couldn't possibly suck as much, but let me dream.

 

what makes this the most pathetic project and also...the first one didn't flop, it did modestly well.

 

The popularity of a piece of cinematic excrement such as Suicide Squad is a bellwether of how brain dead our society has become.

 

You seem like a peach.

 

That's Academy Award winning Suicide Squad to you
Nah that movie was bad, probably one of the worse things I've seen in theaters. But there's tons of talent behind this new one, and it's a decent concept I'd like to see done correctly, they're hitting all the right boxes this time.

 

Yea the movie industry is in for another tough one

 

Suicide Squad did over $300 million domestically (less then ninety movies all time can say that) and did nearly $750 million worldwide. $$$ wise it did very well for what was expected of it. The problem was it just got panned so badly by critics and many audience goers but as they say, someone must have like it since it made really good dough. I actually like the first hour or so of it. Then it just absolutely collapses. I mean they are essentially fighting faceless monsters for most of the second half. Does not get any more boring then that.

I think @Jedi Knight Fett you are correct for at least most of the year. But if things are "back to normalish" by around the holidays? I think you could see the box office heating up fast. I keep saying that history while it does not repeat it definitely rhymes and as many experts have said, we could be looking at the "roaring twenties" all over again as many people are ready to just bust loose and enjoy life again which could very well include the movie theater experience as they are sick and tired of watching it at home with no real social experience.

 

Cry Macho seems worth a watch just for the novelty of a 90 year old actor/director directing and starring in another action movie. Every new Eastwood movie may or may not be his last, and the excitement of it has more appeal than any potential content of his movies.

 

Just wanna note that the Bob Odenkirk action film Nobody raked in $7 million over the weekend. I also saw it this week and the theatre was sold out (which means half capacity right now but hey). Its budget was $16 million so it might actually make that back in theatres before going to VOD.

I'm excited to be vaccinated and back at the movies. I feel like I'll be going every week for a while.

 

When I saw Godzilla vs Kong yesterday, there were quite a number of people in the theater.

 

After this AMAZING result i wonder if Disney isn't regreting pushing back Balck Widow so far.
Clearly Disney understimated people hunger for coming back to theaters !

 

Naw. It’s only $32 M. That’s a fraction of what the movie would have made opening weekend in regular times.

It will be lucky to make a profit in theaters. July should do much better for Black Widow.

Unless on the flip side everything is closing down again by July because we see a huge spike in COVID cases after so many people went to the movies in April.

 

I disagree with that take because the last Monsterverse movie, Godzilla King of the Monsters FLOPED; this one is just a hundred million dollar behind the total the last one made in "normal"times. This movie was never an easy sell. And actually it was first postponed (novembr/2019) for editing reasons, long before the Covid Pandemic, 'cause WB tought the movie had problems and would be a even bigger flop than GKOTM.
Now, as the part in bold, that's is also one of the reasons Disney gamble may backfire. They got hope everything will be okay by july.

 

Fair enough to. $32 million would not be a big opening for an MCU film.

 

The problem is nobody really knows what Disney might be thinking because revenue for digital only releases is a black box. It could be "Oh no, we screwed up, we could've had a blockbuster" but it could just as easily be "$32 million is chump change compared to our BW rental projections, the fools."

Edit: To say nothing of the possibility that Disney could view some films as acceptable loss leaders as they continue normalizing streaming platform releases.