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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Disney's fiscal year ends on the Saturday closest to September 30. This means that for most years, the fiscal year ends on September 30th, but occasionally it will end on a different date to ensure it aligns with this Saturday. For example, in fiscal year 2024, Disney's fiscal year ended on September 28, 2024, according to the SEC.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Disney Leads U.S. Box Office With $1.1B Year To Date, But Warner Bros Is Billion-Bound Too
https://deadline.com/2025/06/box-office-2025-disney-warner-bros-123643
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2026 Could Be One Of The Biggest Years Ever At The Box Office
https://www.slashfilm.com/1889952/why-2026-box-office-biggest-years-ev
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Yes, Elio, the latest animated film from Pixar, is experiencing a significant box office failure, marking the worst opening weekend in the studio's history. The film grossed only $21 million domestically and $14 million internationally, totaling $35 million globally, according to That Park Place, The Daily Beast, and Variety. This performance falls short of even Pixar's previous lowest debut, Elemental, which earned $30 million domestically and $44.5 million worldwide. Despite mostly positive reviews and high audience scores, the film failed to attract significant ticket sales.

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Two years after M3GAN, a marvel of artificial intelligence, went rogue and embarked on a murderous rampage, its creator, Gemma, has become an advocate for government oversight of AI. Unbeknownst to her, a defense contractor has created a military-grade weapon known as Amelia, the ultimate infiltration spy. However, as Emlia's self-awareness increases, it becomes less interested in taking orders. Hoping to stop Emilia, Gemma decides to resurrect M3GAN, making it faster, stronger, and more lethal.

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AMC works really hard to make going to the movies terrible

By Colette Bennett | July 1, 2025

https://www.thestreet.com/entertainment/amc-works-really-hard-to-make-
going-to-the-movies-terrible

As streaming media has exploded in popularity over the past few decades, fewer and fewer people have seen the point of getting into the car and going to the movie theater.

Despite being a beloved activity that people have adored for well over a hundred years, going to the movies really isn't what it used to be.

Add up the price of a ticket or two, overpriced concessions, the cost of driving to and from the theater — not to mention the high possibility of loud groups of kids who don't mind talking over the entire movie — and it's just not appealing.

The pandemic hit movie theaters hard, and although America has recovered, the movie theater industry hasn't.

Typically it made between 10 and 11 billion a year before 2020, but since then, it hasn't exceeded more than 8 billion, per data from Box Office Mojo.

One way theaters coped with getting people back in theater seats was to entice them with limited-edition merchandise like themed popcorn buckets, which actually did wonders for their bottom line. AMC alone raked in $65 million from sales of this merchandise.

Now AMC has a new idea to change the theater experience. But unlike its innovative collectible popcorn buckets, this will actually add yet another reason to justify staying home on the couch with Netflix.

Your movie date just got longer

We all go to the movies expecting to see trailers before the show starts, and some people even like it that way, knowing if they're running a bit late, they won't miss the main event.

AMC has decided this is a good thing, and as of July 1, will now show more pre-movie ads than ever, including "as much as" a whopping five minutes of commercials, as well as a new ad called a "Platinum Spot" that will play before the last few movie trailers you see.

Trailers and other promotions can mean the movie doesn't start for 25-30 minutes, according to the AMC website.

The advertising decision comes as the result of an agreement AMC made with the National CineMedia ad network, which is the largest of its kind in the U.S.

Back in 2019, AMC declined using these ads, despite the fact other chains such as Regal adopted them, saying it believed that moviegoers would react "quite negatively" to them.

But it has since pivoted, saying in a June Bloomberg interview, “While AMC was initially reluctant to bring this to our theaters, our competitors have fully participated for more than five years without any direct impact to their attendance."

Why AMC is making this move

AMC has had its share of struggles over the past few years. While it's been slowly recovering since the pandemic, 2024 didn't pan out so well, with AMC reporting a decline in revenue in 2024's Q3 and an attendance decline.

AMC also announced on July 1 that it had entered into a new agreement with its creditors, which will provide $223 million of new money financing that will be used to refinance its debt.

The agreement will also allow AMC to equitize at least $143 million of its current debt, and has the potential to allow the company to equitize as much at $337 million.

Commenters on social media did not take well to the news of the new ads.

"I would like to warn AMC to expect 25-30 years of me never coming back to their theaters," said X user TexasPharmD.

"Just another reason to avoid the movies," X user Laz252 said.

"Stop. I like how they want more people to watch movies, but they're also still making the experience worse," X user 360 No One said.

By Colette Bennett

Colette Bennett is a multi-faceted writer that covers retail, tech, entertainment, and more. Before joining TheStreet, Colette was a Senior Producer for Yahoo! Finance, and prior to that, a reporter for CNN. Also a novelist, her debut "Enter the Meta" is now available via Simon & Schuster.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Do you think it's possible that Fantastic 4 just isn't ever going to be popular with the mainstream?

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
the world is watching less superheros but they still watch 'Dinosaurs'

‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ expecting big World Wide International money a post-Covid Record?

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Do you think it's possible that Fantastic 4 just isn't ever going to be popular with the mainstream?

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the trailer looks good but this franchise has always struggled, it was popular long ago, they had a Hanna-Barbera toon way back in the late 1960s

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Scarlett Johansson has officially become the highest grossing actor of all time. $14.615B in worldwide box office gross from leading roles.
https://awardsradar.com/2025/07/06/box-office-report-july-6/

DC WB Superman’s budget aprox $200M
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/james-gunn-superman-wont-flop-700-m
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the trailer looks good but this franchise has always struggled, it was popular long ago, they had a Hanna-Barbera toon way back in the late 1960s

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That makes sense. At one time, during the 60's, Fantastic Four was Marvel's most popular property.

But it's a relic. For whatever reason it didn't age well. My friends NEVER talked once about Fantastic Four during the 80's or 90's. They didn't bother having any cartoons for them, and when they did finally make a movie we didn't even know about it because it was made never to be shown to the public just to maintain the rights.

They've tried putting the on the big screen like 3 times now and nobody cares.

I think they probably nailed the asthetic for this new version, and I think had they not had a bunch of DEI writers and bullshit from the last 5 years involved, just because of the look of this thing I think it would have done well.

But it's a girlboss POS with nobody's favorite Pedro Pascal as the lead punching bag.



Seriously...

The dude is in everything, but almost everything he's ever been in has been a flop...

https://www.the-numbers.com/person/218750401-Pedro-Pascal#tab=acting

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Those international numbers are the nail in the coffin I think for the entire plan to reboot the DC universe for the 5th time.

Good riddance anyway. Maybe we can just let the Cape Flicks die for a decade or two now.

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Superman (2025) vs. Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) vs. Iron Man 2 (2010)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Superma
n-(2025)/Thor-Love-and-Thunder-(2022)/Iron-Man-2#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) vs. The Batman (2022) vs. Superman (2025)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Spider-
Man-Far-From-Home-(2019)/Batman-The-(2021)/Superman-(2025)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Superman (2025) vs. Logan (2017) vs. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 (2023)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Superma
n-(2025)/Logan-(2017)/Guardians-of-the-Galaxy-Vol-3-(2023)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
so it makes money?

$225 million

https://www.thewrap.com/superman-success-stakes-box-office-dc-studios-
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/mission-impossible
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big drops in Asia, just American fatigue or comicbook fatigue in general or Superhero fatigue? Japan doesnt really like DC.

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Absolutely impossible for us to track at all when they pull these kinds of stunts.

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More weird international numbers. I archived them this time, but Box Office Mojo is replicating what the-numbers shows now so it probably won't be changed.

https://archive.ph/3pr6O

Now we're up to $142.8 Million internationally. Doesn't make sense that they'd put those numbers out on Friday night / Saturday morning.

That may be accurate if it's up to date as of Thursday. Because even with just a $95 Million opening weekend internationally, I would expect somewhere around $170-$200 Million at the end of Weekend 2, since the 1st week and 2nd weekend combined is usually pretty close to double the first weekend for the internationals.

It would also mean that yes, Superman should fairly easily cross $400 Million by Sunday night.

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after Superman remake?

‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Expected To Be Big With $190M-$210M Global Box Office Opening ($100-110M Domestic, $90-100M Overseas)

https://deadline.com/2025/07/fantastic-four-box-office-opening-1236465
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