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  • Fresh Devils vs Frozen Ghosts at weekend box office

    Fresh Devils vs Frozen Ghosts at weekend box office

    So many have been looking forward to March 22 for a long time–movies to finally choose from at a box office that may be enjoyable!!

    GHOSTBUSTERS FROZEN EMPIRE is taking on another little movie that could, LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL, this weekend..

    So many are hopeful that the old busters will make them feel nostalgic inside, the magic may be wearing thing. The 30 year rule has passed–the idea that nostalgia only works well if this movie would have been made in 2014, not 2024..

    That said, it will most likely do well, even with reviews that are less then stellar like this from BLOODY DISGUSTING:

    Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire can’t decide between nostalgia, humor, or heart. So, it opts for a scattershot version of all three. Whereas Afterlife grappled with family legacy, Frozen Empire isn’t sure of itself beyond addressing the shift from old guard to new. But it’s still far too reliant on nostalgia to serve as the next step in the franchise’s evolution, and that also includes the formula, right down to updated lines like “Are you the flame master?” It winds up a series of charming moments cast adrift amidst an overly simplistic, familiar story.

    But the other movie set to draw attention from horror fans is LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL–it has received mostly decent press at this point. The movie’s limited release is unfortunate, too bad it is not wide, but it is exciting. Hopefully you will be able to find a theater showing the movie — it seems like it is just one of those that needs to be experienced in a dark theater on a big screen..

    It is predictable that the seniors will be top dogs at the box.. Nostalgia will get one last win for the Gipper of 1984 Slimer fame.

  • Bob Iger marvels at the blame for failure

    Bob Iger marvels at the blame for failure

    Bob Iger is not in reality.. he is blaming the ‘pandemic effect’ for dismal performance of MARVELS.. little did he realize people just .. didn’t like it. Period.


    MORE.. ″The Marvels was shot during Covid,” he explained.

    “There wasn’t as much supervision on the set, so to speak, where we have executives [that are] really looking over what’s being done day after day after day.”

    Bob, Bob.. the movie may have been shot then but all of the advertising was done after..

    All of the big splashy product placements.. billboards. Trailers.

    Not one bit sparked interest .. the fanbase seemingly gave up when all of the characters they were fans of were pushed to the side for a new universe that no one seems to understand or desire..

    What would Elon Musk have to say about this..?

  • The fall of the house of Marvel

    The fall of the house of Marvel

    There is tremendous hand wringing about the movie THE MARVELS and its release at the box office. Its failure has been blamed on mail dominated fan bases–bias! Discrimination! The movie was just so perfect but yet not appreciated.

    But a viewing of the film.. really.. can prove otherwise. The script was weak. The lines were awful. Any small bits of humors were far and few between and for the most part it was a showcase of how we are at a point of no return with comic book movies. They have worn us down.

    And even the greatest Marvels fans? Well they too may be done with all this madness in the Marvelverse!

    The first week for the film was fairly low. The next week it dropped substantially. We are now at a point where the studio is going to be hardpressed to make much money from this movie.

  • $78 MILLION AT FREDDY’S!

    $78 MILLION AT FREDDY’S!

    Move over movie critics.. You officially don’t matter.

    The reviews are in. They aren’t pretty. And no one who wanted to see the film cared.

    Now did people want to enjoy or just laugh? Tough to tell..

    But Blumhouse will laugh to the bank regardless with a $78 million weekend for a film that was not predicted to get close to MARIO BROS levels..

    Other poms poms for Freddy‘s:

    –Biggest opening weekend for a horror pic YTD, besting Scream VI ($44.4M)

    –Third biggest opening ever for a videogame pic, behind Super Mario Bros ($146.3M) and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ($72M)

    DEVELOPING..

  • No more true believers in the Exorcist franchise

    No more true believers in the Exorcist franchise

    Well…. It flopped.

    Various sources this morning are lamenting a weak weekend release for THE EXORCIST. Despite some appealing early buzz, the movie seemingly lost its way. It will reportedly earn $27 mil this weekend in domestic runs. Keep in mind the studio purchased the rights for .. drumroll.. $400 million

    Buyers remorse as the devil is in the details.

    Reporting from DEADLINE with analysis of what went wrong:

    Universal originally had the horror theatrical release date of Friday the 13th this month before AMC’s Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour landed on that date. However, going earlier really wasn’t the problem here for Exorcist: Believer. It was always in the execution.

    Social media analytics firm RelishMix noticed online chatter that had many piling on the rhetorical issue of remakes, as they questioned, “Why re-paint the Mona Lisa of Horror?”

    While horror has been bankable during the pandemic, and this opening for Exorcist: Believer (despite coming in under tracking’s $30M projection) in the wheelhouse of other genre openings, Evil Dead ($24.5M), Smile ($22.6M), The Black Phone ($23.6M) and Nun II‘s $32.6M, many still say that this actors’ strike, and performers’ unable to promote their wares is truly weighing down on ticket sales. A studio just can’t scream these movies from the hilltops in their promotions on social media, at premieres and festivals. Consider the fact that the phenomenal results for 2018’s Halloween began when Blumhouse blasted off the movie at TIFF’s Midnight Madness.

  • Flash: Smiling about Smile 2

    Flash: Smiling about Smile 2

    Smile grossed around $217 million worldwide on a $17 million budget.

    Planning went underwater quickly for a sequel while the iron was still hot. Deadline reported the sequel will be hitting theaters as soon as next year in 2024.

    “Paramount has set Oct. 18, 2024 for the next Smile movie.”

    Deadline also adds that original Smile director “Parker Finn is coming back to helm Smile 2.”

    While smile may make studio executives grinning from ear to ear at potential profits in 2024, the movie itself was one of the better. Additionally, the roll out of the film that included people creepily posing in baseball games and just smiling for nine innings really helped get the word out in an impressive way.

    Can they muster up a entrance into the box office fray as successful as their first go around?

    If not part 3 will be FROWN.

  • BARBENHEIMER SAVED THE SUMMER

    BARBENHEIMER SAVED THE SUMMER

    BARBIE AND OPPENHEIMER SAVED THE BOX OFFICE THIS SUMMER!

    Without them, movies this season may have faced calamity..

    “As a seemingly out of reach goal just a couple of months ago, the $4 billion domestic summer season box office has become a reality over Labor Day weekend, reflecting not only a strong lineup of films, but the desire by audiences to embrace the time-honored tradition of going to the movies in the hottest moviegoing season of the year,” says senior Comscore analyst Paul Dergarabedian.

    “Barbie” is the highest grossing film of the summer (and the year) with $612 million in North America and $1.36 billion globally to date. “Oppenheimer” also wildly outperformed expectations with $311 at the domestic box office and $850 million worldwide.

    Other top stateside earners this summer include Sony’s animated “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” ($381 million), Disney and Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” ($358 million), “The Little Mermaid” remake ($298 million) and the Jim Caviezel-led action thriller “Sound of Freedom” ($181 million). Those blockbusters helped to make up for underperforming tentpoles like DC’s superhero adaptation “The Flash” and Disney’s remake of “Haunted Mansion.”

  • Something finally defeats Barbie

    Something finally defeats Barbie

    From the Hollywood Reporter:

    Sony’s late-summer event pic Gran Turismodeclared victory at the weekend box office race with a $17.3 million domestic opening, a somewhat muted start for a movie based on a popular video game. The hope now is that an A CinemaScore from audiences will provide a turbo boost in the days to come.

    Directed by Neill Blomkamp, the racing pic had been set to launch nationwide Aug. 11 but switched gears because of the actors strike and the resulting prohibition on the cast — led by Orlando Bloom and David Harbour — doing any press. The studio instead hosted two weekends of sneaks and a handful of fan screenings to build buzz before opening the movie everywhere Aug. 25.

  • Box office rampage: Barbie beats Batman!

    Box office rampage: Barbie beats Batman!

    On Tuesday, the box office sensation notched another major milestone when passing up Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight to become the biggest Warner Bros. movie ever in North America, not adjusted for inflation.

    Barbie’s Tuesday box was $6.1 million, for a domestic total of $537.4 million. In 2008, The Dark Knight topped out at $536 million.

    Inspired by Mattel’s famous doll, Barbie jumped the $1.2 billion mark at the worldwide box office on Tuesday, where it is the second-biggest Warners’ release in history behind the final Harry Potter film, which grossed $1.34 billion globally, not adjusted for inflation. ..

    Developing..

  • Barbie stays strong! Demeter sinks

    Barbie stays strong! Demeter sinks

    Epically bad numbers for the horror flick LAST VOYAGE OF DEMETER but Barbenheimer continues it’s odd summer rampage on the box office.

    While did the movie do so bad? Some have opinions.. we think people are bored with vampires, the marketing was bad, and this is not the magic week of summer for horror. Closer to September always works better..

    But from Deadline, they say this:

    Unfortunately, the tanking of Amblin/Universal’s $45M-costing The Last Voyage of the Demeter stands out like a wart, since we haven’t had many misfires this summer. Granted, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One‘s profitability might be in question next to their exorbitant Covid costs. But these pics have put up tentpole grosses in the nine digits, and have been mass draws (just not as massive as they were hoped to be). Note the filmmakers aimed to keep this period horror pic as cheap as they could: Exteriors were shot in Malta, while interior were shot in Germany, both those countries respectively having tax credits of 50% and 30%.
    — Read on deadline.com/2023/08/box-office-barbie-last-voyage-of-the-demeter-1235460243/