Is it time for hollywood movies to keep their budget in check?

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Josh Horowitz' take on Avatar box office and cultural footprint, and Avatar 2 prospect

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'The Hangover' was released 13 years ago. The $35 million movie became critical and commercial success. It grossed $467 million worldwide and won the Golden Globe. It became the highest-grossing R-rated comedy ever in the US, breaking a record previously held by Beverly Hills Cop for almost 25 years

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Blockbusters in 2023

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Adam Aron, CEO of AMC theaters, explains 'Sightline'

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People complain that nothing original comes out of Hollywood anymore, but then two of the largest and most original films of 2022 completely bomb at the box office. Where’s the disconnect?

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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is now tied with Eternals for the lowest RottenTomatoes rating of any MCU movie

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'Puss in Boots: The Last Wish' has crossed $300 million. Will the Oscar nomination give enough boost to propel it to $500 million? It is yet to open in several countries, including Japan and Turkey. It has 95% RT verified audience, A CinemaScore, and 89% positive audience PostTrak.

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'Logan' opened 6 years ago this weekend. The $97 million R-rated movie directed by James Mangold grossed $619 million. It received 93% RT with 8.0 average critics rating.

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🇺🇲🇨🇦 'Knock at the Cabin' is the 7th movie from M. Night Shyamalan that reached no. 1 in North America box office

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Who's winning March 2023?

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What are your predictions for 65? Will it bomb?

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Iman Vellani on ‘The Marvels’ box office performance

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🇺🇲🇨🇦 Four movies from four different genres are the top four this weekend. Cinema is getting healthier!

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box office of comic book movies for 2022

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'Dungeons and Dragons' will open on March 31. The first trailer has 18 million views and 143k likes on Paramount Pictures main YT channel after 6 months, the second trailer has 7.9 million views and 20k likes after 21 hours. What's your prediction?

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Spielberg’s prediction from 10 years ago

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John Wick: Chapter 4 is now Certified Fresh at 93% on the Tomatometer, with 82 reviews.

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The line to see Avatar: The Way of Water in Natick, MA. Thursday Dec 22,2022 with crappy weather.

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Is superhero fatigue real? Yes.

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🇺🇲🇨🇦 Now that Creed III is assured to open #1 this weekend, Jonathan Majors starred in two #1 movies on back-to-back weekends. The last time this happened with two live-action performances was in January 2013 when Jessica Chastain starred in Zero Dark Thirty & Mama (or Josh Brolin in 2018?)

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Variety confirms that 'Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania' cost $200M.

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🗺️ Top 20 Highest Grossing Hollywood Movies of 2022 (updated)

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All 51 $1B Films

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Sony was seriously going to make a The Last of Us movie in 2014, directed by Sam Raimi. Did it have a chance for BO success, or did we dodge a huge bullet?

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John Wick Chapter 4 epic opening!

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Eddie Redmayne sounds doubtful about the future of Fantastic Beasts 4.

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Shazam's director on the future of the franchise

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James Cameron now owns 3 of top 5 highest international grossers.

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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania gets 'B' Cinemascore

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Just thought this was interesting, I dont know if any theaters in the US do this but if they did I wonder how it would affect their income and everything

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Highest Grossing Franchises per Decade.

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Predictions for Dungeons and Dragons? The movie comes out in 2 months but the last trailer was 6 months ago

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Memes aside, what are your predictions for Cocaine Bear? Will it bomb or be an unexpected hit?

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'Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves' is now Certified Fresh at 90% on the Tomatometer, with 84 reviews.

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AMC shows a runtime of 87 minutes for ‘65’

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🌏🌍🌎 The 10 quickest films to reach $1billion at the box office from fastest to slowest

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We don't talk too often about Anne Hathaway grossing over 6 billion at the box office without MCU, Star Wars or Avatar.

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Which box office bomb in history has surprised you the most?

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Julia Alexander on Twitter analysing 'Shazam! Fury of the Gods' bombing.

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Everything Everywhere All At Once made more than Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness over July 4th weekend

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Gal Gadot reportedly won’t play Wonder Woman in the DCU moving forward.

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The Six Films to Gross $2 Billion in Chronological Order

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Everything Everywhere All at Once has officially outgrossed Morbius at the domestic box office. So proud to see it. (via Box Office Mojo)

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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is executively produced by George Lucas (his first comeback after his last film, Red Tails in 2012) and Steven Spielberg. John Williams will provide the music (likely his last ever film score). How well do you think this film will do?

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Morbius opened one year ago this weekend. The $83 million movie grossed $167 million, was a critical & commercial failure. It became the subject of internet memes mocking its reception and quality; the popularity of the memes led Sony to re-release the film in June, to another commercial failure.

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Strange World has ended its domestic run with $37.9 million

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$110 million production plus $40-50 million in marketing....opening weekend of $3.5 million. Ouch.

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'Watchmen' opened 14 years ago this week after 18 years in development hell. Directed by Zack Snyder, the $138 million movie grossed $185 million. The film polarized fans and critics. A director's cut with 24 minutes of additional footage that was released in July 2009 was better received.

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Luiz Fernando on Twitter argues that WBD is lacking money to give their movies proper marketing. If this is true, how would this impact box office outcomes of WB movies box office this year?

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James Bond and Ethan Hunt

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James Cameron (Titanic, Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water) joins Anthony and Joe Russo (Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame) as the only directors to helm 3 $1B films.

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M3GAN has now surpassed Scream (1996) as the 2nd highest grossing slasher film with $173,198,199 at the Worldwide Boxoffice.

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What will be the next movie to enter the top 5?

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Why are faith based movies so successful?

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How do you think ‘Wonka’ is going to do? This was announced two years ago and was filmed in Fall 2021. Originally set for this March but was pushed due to DCEU reshuffle. It is currently slated to come out for Christmas. According to Timothee Chalamet, he has seven musical numbers.

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6 years ago on this weekend, Split was released. The M. Night Shyamalan thriller had a 9 million dollar budget and would gross $138,141,585 Dom and $278,754,594 WW. This movie really revitalized Shayamalan’s career after decade of critical misses and box office duds.

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Gender skew by platform catalog

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The real winner this weekend was ‘Violent Night’ crossing 50 mil

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Will Dungeons and Dragons be an unexpected major box office success?

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The Batman arguably has had the best audience and critical reception of all CBM released in 2022 and possibly throughout Covid (a period where the going has been rough for the genre). Will the sequel (OCT/2025) see a significant jump from the 770M gross of the original?

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Of the two most recent superhero movies, which is more surprising: ✨ 'Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania' failing to gross $500 million; or ✨ 'Shazam Fury of the Gods' failing to outgross 'Morbius'?

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The amount of people who were on this sub a week ago trying to make Avatar 2 a box office bomb.

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'The Lion King' remake was released 3 years ago. The $260 million film opened with $191.8 million, breaking July OW. It grossed $1.663 billion to become the highest-grossing animated film of all time, the highest-grossing musical film of all time, and the highest-grossing remake of all time.

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Jon Landau, Avatar's producer, gave update on Avatar sequels.

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Why were the new ‘Star Wars’ movies so expensive?

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24 years of M. Night Shyamalan!

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Top 20 Biggest Hollywood Movies of 2022 (actuals)

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'Puss in Boots: The Last Wish' has passed 'Black Adam' to become the 10th highest grossing movie of 2022

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Highest grossing films of Timothee Chalamet‘s career so far

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Warner Bros is distributing an animated film titled Mummies. It's releasing next week in the US. I haven't seen any sort of trailers for it, or heard about it. So, I'm guessing that it'll be a limited release?

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Disney Renaissance Box Office: Originals VS Remakes

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Deadline reports that a source claims Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny cost $329M to produce, plus $100M in marketing. Harrison Ford was paid $20M.

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Brendan Fraser returned to the screens with his first major role since 2013 in “The Whale”. Since then, global audience demand for Fraser skyrocketed, earning him a peak demand ranking of #15 among all talent worldwide.

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10:30 AM showing of Mario on Easter Sunday...

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Top 25 Highest Grossing Directors (Worldwide Totals)

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QUESTION: Why do people think Kang will boost Quantumania's box office even though general audiences don't know who Kang is?

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Are these a safe bet for the highest grossing films of 2023?

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Disney released 'Apocalypto' 16 years ago today. Written, directed, and produced by Mel Gibson, the $40 million grossed $121 million worldwide. All dialogue is in a modern approximation of the ancient language of the setting: the Indigenous Yucatec Mayan. It received 3 Oscar nominations.

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Box Office predictions for Left Behind: Rise of the AntiChrist?

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I find it fascinating that Avengers Endgame is the only sequel to be found on this list

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Thor: Love and Thunder gets B+ Cinemascore

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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice opened 7 years ago this weekend. The $300 million movie was directed by Zack Snyder. Despite an estimated $165 million in marketing spend and massive commercial tie-ins, it performed below expectations grossing $873 million and received mixed reviews from critics

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Top Gun: Maverick today at 8:45 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. No tickets have been sold yet for it, not sure this movie is going to do well at the box office.

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Babylon is officially rotten at 59% from 135 reviews. What is your final prediction for the film before it hits theaters tomorrow?

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I don't think so

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Biggest Domestic Grossers since the Pandemic

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Barbie has officially passed Wonder Woman and becomes the highest grossing movie directed by a woman ever. Congrats to Greta Gerwig and the team.

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🇩🇪 Yesterday, AVATAR - THE WAY OF WATER replaced James Cameron colleague TITANIC as the highest-grossing film of all time after 24 years, 10 months and 10 days.

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Jurassic World opened 7 years ago this week. The $150 million movie broke The Avengers' opening weekend record (with $208.8 million) and became the first movie to pass $500 million in global opening weekend, eventually grossed $1.67 billion, becoming the third highest-grossing film of all time.

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The Flash was the first film to change dates and run from this billion dollar juggernaut. Whose next?

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12 of Emma stones films have made 3x their budgets or more

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Mario or Spiderverse: which animated movie will win the overall Worldwide Box Office?

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Revenge of the Sith opened 17 years ago today. The $113 million movie grossed $849 million WW, the second highest grossing film of 2005, behind Harry Potter Goblet of Fire. Its Thursday opening of $50 million was the biggest single day ever for a movie in history, destroying Shrek 2 ($44.8 million)

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Hollywood's Top 10 Summer Movies (worldwide)

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Now We Know Why Netflix Is Staying Away from Theaters

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Do you think Barbie and Oppenheimer releasing on the same day will impact their box office performances?

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Tom Cruise made around $50 million from Mission Impossible: Fallout

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The Matrix Resurrections opened to mixed reviews. It bombed at the box office, grossing $37.7M DOM and $157.3M WW on a $190M budget. The failure of the fourth installment has likely killed any future interest in the Matrix franchise.

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Disney's John Carter released 11 years ago today. With a budget of $306.6 million, the film only grossed $284.1 million WW, becoming one of the biggest box office bombs of all time

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The 20 highest-grossing films of all time at the worldwide box office.

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‘80 For Brady’ scores an “A-“ CinemaScore rating

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Avatar: The Way of Water Worldwide Gross after 5th weekend compared to the other Biggest Movies of All Time

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THE SIX WILDCARDS OF 2024

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Spider-Man No Way Home is now the highest grossing movie ever in Mexico!

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Seven years ago, Mad Max: Fury Road released in theaters. The $155-185 million R-rated movie grossed $154 million DOM and $376 million WW. Considered one of the greatest action films of all time, it received ten Oscar nominations and won six Oscars, the most at the ceremony.

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'The Whale' opens this weekend. It currently has 69% RT, 7.0 average critics rating, 8.4 IMDb. What's your final prediction?

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'John Wick: Chapter 4' gets an A on CinemaScore, the best in the franchise

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A DCEU overview: what went wrong?

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How much will 80 for Brady make opening weekend?

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At the peak of their popularity, which of these leading stars would you say was the the biggest box office draw?

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We don’t talk about Bruno

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🌏🌍🌎 Where do you think 'Avatar The Way of Water' will end up when all is said and done?

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Top Ten Domestic Grossers after the pandemic began

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The insane career of James Cameron

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Now that The Flash is bombing, DCEU has six consecutive flops, starting from Birds of Prey. Is this a record? Has there another film franchise that has worst results?

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Todays trailers

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'The Super Mario Bros. Movie' gets an A on CinemaScore

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‘PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH’ ended up beating ‘ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA’ at the global box office.

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How do you think Elemental will do? Will it be a success and put Pixar back on the theatrical map, or be a box office bomb?

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What is your final predictions for Avatar: The Way of Water before the movie comes out this friday?

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According to Variety, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is carrying a $100 million budget. This is Illumination's most expensive film to date.

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Will Blue Beetle outgross Shazam 2 WW? Both have the same budget ($120M)

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Avatar: The Way of Water is officially the 7th highest grossing film of all time globally, surpassing Jurassic World

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The American Society of Magical Negroes has been pulled from release after only 3 weeks with $2.4M.

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Now that Avatar: The Way of Water is about to outgross Top Gun: Maverick, here are the top 12 highest grossing film of all time arranged by release order. Only TGM is lower than $1.5B WW.

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After a day and a half of release, Avatar is sitting at a 78% critics score with 307 reviews and a 94% Audience Score with 2,500+ reviews.

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Oppenheimer reportedly clocks in as Christopher Nolan's longest film at around 3 hours. Source - PuckNews)

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'Puss in Boots: The Last Wish' gets an early 98% RT verified audience score. What's your updated prediction (OW, DOM, WW)?

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According to Deadline, 80 for Brady has a $28 million budget

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2023 Filmed for IMAX

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'The Shape of Water' opened 5 years ago today. The $19 million film eventually grossed $195 million. It received 13 Oscar nominations, and won four, including Best Picture & Best Director for Guillermo del Toro. It was the second fantasy film to win Best Picture, after LOTR The Return of the King.

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Avatar 2 is now the 14th-highest-grossing film of all time...

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According to Variety, 'Avatar: The Way of Water' is carrying a $350 million budget

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'A Man Called Otto' currently has 69% RT and 6.4 average critics rating. What's your final prediction?

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Budgets of the 5 latest MCU movies/shows!

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Highest Paid Hollywood Executives in Last 5 years

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Updated top 20 highest grossing Hollywood movies in 2022

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4chan on James Cameron and Avatar

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According to Variety, 'M3GAN' is carrying a $12 million budget

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Variety has adjusted their budget estimate for Shazam! Fury of the Gods to $125M, in line with Deadline's estimate, and up from their previous estimate of $100M.

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According to The Filmik, Babylon's loss is around $75 million

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Highest earning actors of 2023 according to Forbes

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🇨🇳 'Black Panther Wakanda Forever' drop under 6.0 on Douban before release

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Which delayed year would Avatar 2 have done the best in? What about the worst?

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Disney+ Announces Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Streaming Release Date as Feb 1st

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The stars aligned for my locally owned Theater on Friday night.

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Twenty highest grossing movies worldwide, excluding China gross.

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