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Originally posted by second:
There is another movie in theaters now demonstrating the phenomenon of diminishing returns on each new film in the series. Kung Fu Panda 4 (or is it 5 if you count Secrets of the Furious Five?) has the same problem as Ghostbusters: each new movie sells fewer tickets worldwide than the previous movie, but Panda is not yet losing money.

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/franchise/Kung-Fu-Panda#tab=summary

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Stand-up comic Max Bernal and his 11-year-old autistic son Ezra set off on a road trip in this vivid portrait of a family figuring out how to understand one another. Having recently blown up his career and his marriage, Max is living with his father Stan and is profoundly at odds with his soon-to-be ex-wife Jenna about how to address their son’s special needs. When Ezra is expelled from yet another school, Max makes the controversial decision to take Ezra in the middle of the night, embarking on a cross-country odyssey.

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Originally posted by second:
Pure sarcasm: I am EXCITED by these highly anticipated movies

Most Anticipated Movies
• Not Another Church Movie
• The Garfield Movie
• Mufasa: The Lion King
• Tarot
• IF
• Deadpool and Wolverine
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• The Watchers
• The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
• Ezra

https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/domestic/all-movies/cum
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More Pure Sarcasm: I am so excited by these movie titles (some arriving in December) that I will buy tickets right now! I don't want to miss any of them, especially the last one on the list, Ezra, arriving at the start of the summer season May 31st.

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Stand-up comic Max Bernal and his 11-year-old autistic son Ezra set off on a road trip in this vivid portrait of a family figuring out how to understand one another. Having recently blown up his career and his marriage, Max is living with his father Stan and is profoundly at odds with his soon-to-be ex-wife Jenna about how to address their son’s special needs. When Ezra is expelled from yet another school, Max makes the controversial decision to take Ezra in the middle of the night, embarking on a cross-country odyssey.

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https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Ezra-(2024)#tab=summary

I do not doubt that Ezra is Rain Man (1988) for the 21st Century, except Dustin Hoffman's role in Rain Man is hopefully played by an actual autistic child because Hollywood is all about authenticity.
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Rain-Man#tab=summary
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095953/awards/ Rain Man wins Best Picture Oscar!

My local theater: https://www.showbizcinemas.com/movies/nowplaying/baytown/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

"Not Another Church Movie"??? Jesus Christ. I thought we were finally rid of those low-effort parody movies.

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Originally posted by second:
Free copies of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire were made available on May 07, 2024 at 09:43

The movie opened on March 22.

That is 46 days between March 22, 2024 and May 7, 2024

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Just to note, the leak of the movie had nothing to do with the failure of Ghostbusters. This has been an obvious flop since opening weekend and it's all been documented in this thread.

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California produces too many movies. Most are not good but if you wait for one and a half months, the not-particularly entertaining film will be available at a price that matches the time-wasting and worthlessness of the product.

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Okay.

But the problem is bigger than that in 2024.

California isn't making too many movies right now. They've hardly put out anything compared to any year prior to now in the last 30 years. They've got to pad out the theaters every week with old movies.

Joe Biden*'s economy is what's killing Hollywood in 2024. Up through the middle of 2023 people were still gladly going to the theaters in droves to watch shitty movies.

They're not doing that anymore now.



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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The new Ghostbusters will not make close to half of what Dead Reckoning made and won't even make more than the currently 5th place Chinese film so far this year. Since it had a budget of only $100 Million it will probably end up doing slightly better than the 195.28% MI made vs. its own production budget, but at this point I'm wondering if it will even make 200% of the budget or just slightly above.

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6ix, accept the Truth: Failure is Habitual in Hollywood. Failing is not a unique condition caused by the economy, politics, or whatever bogeyman you are flogging, 6ix.

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6ix, accept the Truth: Failure is Habitual in Hollywood. Failing is not a unique condition caused by the economy, politics, or whatever bogeyman you are flogging, 6ix.

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Incorrect. Failure is NOT habitual in Hollywood. If it were, it would have collapsed a long time ago.

Your version of history, as is your version of pretty much everything, is a fantasy you made up in your head and will not be discussed here. Take it to Twitter.

Meanwhile, the studio execs have finally figured out what they were doing wrong these last 5 to 10 years and they're in the process of firing everyone involved. The writer/actor strikes backfired hugely and ended up being a great excuse to axe 2/3rds of them without any consequences.

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6ix, accept the Truth: Failure is Habitual in Hollywood. Failing is not a unique condition caused by the economy, politics, or whatever bogeyman you are flogging, 6ix.

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Incorrect. Failure is NOT habitual in Hollywood. If it were, it would have collapsed a long time ago.

Your version of history, as is your version of pretty much everything, is a fantasy you made up in your head and will not be discussed here. Take it to Twitter.

Meanwhile, the studio execs have finally figured out what they were doing wrong these last 5 to 10 years and they're in the process of firing everyone involved. The writer/actor strikes backfired hugely and ended up being a great excuse to axe 2/3rds of them without any consequences.

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Every movie is a success for the people listed in the credits at the end because those people get paid even if the studio produced another turd that leaves the more sensible members of the theater audience disappointed at wasting four hours on a movie, plus their money.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The new Ghostbusters will not make close to half of what Dead Reckoning made and won't even make more than the currently 5th place Chinese film so far this year. Since it had a budget of only $100 Million it will probably end up doing slightly better than the 195.28% MI made vs. its own production budget, but at this point I'm wondering if it will even make 200% of the budget or just slightly above.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Ghostbusters did just barely crack $195 Million.

$195,103,000

It's still outperforming even my updated prediction tables by around $3.5 Million for the 7th week, and so it's about a week ahead of where I thought it would be now. That's good-ish news. It won't be nearly enough though.

I'm interested in seeing the final number. It's pretty hard to really pin down anything this year because the box office is behaving far different than it did last year.

I'm sure it's going to hit $200 Million at this point, but I have no idea how long that will take.

My guess is that it falls short of that by the end of next weekend, but it probably will manage it by the weekend of the 18th if it's not pulled from a ton of theaters here and internationally before then.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It must have been yanked from a lot of international theaters after writing that, and it only remains in 228 theaters this week in the US.

It's at $199,645,000 worldwide right now.

It only made $25k on Thursday and it was showing in more than 3 times as many theaters. It only made $330k this weekend.

It's hit $200 Million with rounding, but will it actually hit that mark before it's gone?

It is quite possible it only has 4 more days before it's gone. It's going to need at least 2 more weekends without losing any more theaters to get there unless Bruce can dig up $350k out from under the international couch cushions.

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