Amph The 2024 Box Office Blood Replenishment

But even those...maybe a couple of showings of a couple of films are doing alright.

But the precipitous fall off in revenue on these films tell us most of the theaters running any print older then 2 weeks, is probably playing to a near empty room.

It cannot just be about the next new release. If it is, then they better start making A LOT more movies for the theaters.

They need a new movie...per screen...every 2-3 weeks. The days when something like Titanic played to sold out shows for 4 months and hung on in the theater for 6 months are ancient and almost forgotten.

For the theaters to survive, it must be more content across the entire calendar, not a concentration.

Theaters don't do "seasonal" staffing very well...especially when the key seasons are opposite each other on the calendar (Summer/Christmas).

Is this likely? No. Is this a serious problem for the theater-owners? Oh yeah...they aren't dancing a jig yet.

I suspect most independent theater owners are looking for good box office draw on the calendar to leverage as a sales pitch to "get out" of owning these places.

There may be some nice weekends interspersed, and there may even be an upward trajectory yet from the darkest doldrums of COVID...but the writing is on the wall for this form of entertainment in it's current mass-audience format.

The only question is how the industry evolves. Does it collapse into scattered art houses with little to no backing from studios, who would rather you subscribe to their streamer.

Or is there more of a small "multiplex" formula with regular new content, exclusivity windows, and other incentives to come out instead of adding more to your watchlist at home.

 

You're right, it has never been the case. But in the past, older releases had a little more carryover then they do now.

At the very least, the era of the multiplex keeping 3-4 screens dedicated to a single title are over. Heck, even DP3 was down to single auditorium at my theater last week.

There has to be something to put butts in those seats.

We've blue-skied potential avenues before here...but ultimately, it is the watchlist at home that the theater's lineup is competing against.

They have to have intriguing, novel, exclusive, or group/participatory content for people to encourage them to get off the couch and schlep down to the multiplex.

 

They have to be promised “cultural event” movies, or gain that unpredictable energy like “Barbenheimer.”

People casually going to the movies to just go to the movies is pretty much dead. I think for 2 reasons:
*quality movies/shows on streaming (from the comfort of home)
*less disposable income at this time (insert the word “inflation” for the 10 trillionth time here)

 

I hope Taylor Swift is getting paid by the NFL to improve ratings. Not that she needs the money. Maybe they just give kelce a dating swift bonus.

 

Football widows skewing the figures?

 

That Sunday is definitely going to take a dive for NFL but all Sundays are less, Saturday is pretty key

 

Even before the pandemic and streaming, people were less likely to go to the movies on a reoccurring basis due to home viewing options being greater and the comforts of home being superior to sitting in a theater. It isn't nearly as important to see a movie quickly as it used to be.

 

Kelce remains hilariously underpaid for his actual on field work. But when your podcast sells for $100 million you can keep being underpaid on the field. Thank you very much Trav.

 

It's just so expensive to go to the movies. My Regal theater is 18 dollars for night shows, 14 or so for a matinee. More for 3D, IMAX, etc. The Regal theater made all my town's other theaters close, including the 4 dollar theater in the mall that showed 3-4 month old movies. I would go there almost every week or 2.. So unless I'm going with someone I will only see Alien or a movie that I am dying to see. A good horror movie will get me there, but i probably see 2-3 movies a year on the big screen.

 

Oh I agree, but it's a thing.

 

Beetlejuice x2 only making 34 million overseas vs 110 in North America. WB, like with Twisters, just getting a shrug from international audiences who apparently don't know or care about Tornadoes or Beetlejuice

 

@christophero30 That is even more expensive than our local Cinemark. It's only $11 for night shows, but the only matinee is before noon; therefore, every showing past 12 PM is $11. Our local "luxury theater" (is one of those meal plus movie theaters that is all decked out) has matinee prices of only $10, but we like the popcorn and soda pop (the only time my wife will ever drink soda is at the theater) better; therefore, we typically go to Cinemark even though they don't have the comfortable chairs which my wife loves, but I don't since those make me fall asleep. Still, two tickets to a mid-afternoon show (3 PM) plus a large popcorn and drink (which we split) were $35 when we went last Saturday to see Beatlejuice Beatlejuice. The price is one of several reasons that it will be the first and only movie we see in the theater this year, just the two of us.

I must confess, though, that we were a complete mess at the show. We changed our minds twice about where we wanted to sit, so the poor kid at the ticket booth had to change it twice; I wound up spilling a bit of the popcorn, which they were nice enough to refill a bit, etc. Therefore, it might be best we don't go see a movie by ourselves. The next time will be Thanksgiving Eve, and we will have the kiddos but seeing separate movies (my wife and daughter, along with her mother in law will be seeing Moana 2 while I take the boys to see Red One or perhaps Gladiator 2, but my wife is not keen on taking a couple of 8th graders to go see and I am tending to agree with her even though I love to see it in the theater), therefore, we should be much better instead couple of fools.

@The2ndQuest And it is a film that will do well on HBO Max so WB cannot be anything but happy with how its doing.

 

Alien will creep its way to $100 million in the U.S. and will remain for a short time the 10th biggest movie of 2024 worldwide, although it is already more profitable than a number of movies higher up on the list.

Cailee Spaeny finally has a legitimate box office success after many ambitious attempts, including Pacific Rim: Uprising, Civil War, Priscilla, and apparently a loose sequel to The Craft.

 

Good hold for b2juice. Alien will be knocked out of the 2024 top 10 very soon

 

Crow has left theatres at 9 million dollars in North America, never even made it to the opening weekend of 11 million of the original from 30 years ago. I think finally The Crow is dead.