2025 Wide Release Prediction Game Thread

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JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, October 25, 2025 10:37 PM (P)

it looks like some Japan cartoon horror called Chainsaw Man by Sony Pictures can reach number1

the other two incoming are Regretting You and Springsteen

Universal's Black Phone 2 grossed an estimated $3.79M on Friday
https://bsky.app/profile/boxofficereport.bsky.social/post/3m3zmnepd4c2
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Bugonia 1st Friday $320,000

The Thirteenth Floor (1999) vs. Bugonia (2025) vs. The Birdcage (1996)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Thirtee
nth-Floor-The/Bugonia-(2025)/Birdcage-The#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Bugonia (2025) vs. Nine (2009) vs. Nosferatu (2024)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Bugonia
-(2025)/Nine/Nosferatu-(2024)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Solaris (2002) vs. Bugonia (2025) vs. The Pink Panther (2006)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Solaris
/Bugonia-(2025)/Pink-Panther-The-(2006)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Bugonia (2025) vs. Bangkok Dangerous (2008) vs. Alien: Resurrection (1997)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Bugonia
-(2025)/Bangkok-Dangerous-(2008)/Alien-Resurrection#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Alita: Battle Angel (2019) vs. Bugonia (2025) vs. The Grudge (2004)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Alita-B
attle-Angel-(2019)/Bugonia-(2025)/Grudge-The-(2004)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Bugonia (2025) vs. Quarantine (2008) vs. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Bugonia
-(2025)/Quarantine/Avengers-Age-of-Ultron#tab=day_by_day_comparison

TRON: ARES | 48.6M overseas | 105.5M worldwide
https://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/33204-tron-ares-486m-overseas
-1055m-worldwide/

Disney's Tron: Ares grossed an estimated $1.30M on Friday
https://x.com/BORReport/status/1982100639867174913#m

Johnny Depp To Star In ‘Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol’ At Paramount
https://deadline.com/2025/10/johnny-depp-ebenezer-scrooge-movie-ti-wes
t-1236586975/

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, October 26, 2025 12:02 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
The Thirteenth Floor (1999) vs. Bugonia (2025) vs. The Birdcage (1996)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Thirtee
nth-Floor-The/Bugonia-(2025)/Birdcage-The#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Your comparison here after talking about horror movies dug out an old memory and made me laugh...

I was playing a few drinking games with my girlfriend, her roomate and some of her other friends before going to a campus party and we were playing some game where you had to answer a question without any hesitation if you pulled a certain card and one of her roomate's ex-boyfriends got asked "what's the scariest horror movie you've ever seen?" and he said "The Birdcage".

Somebody said "That's not a horror movie" and told him to drink and he refused and total deadpan he said "That's the scariest movie I've ever seen."

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, October 26, 2025 6:02 PM (P)

an upcoming action drug bust shoot em up dark comedy crime thriller film directed by Michael Dowse Canada and written by Gary Scott Thompson and Tom O'Connor the Fast n Furious movies

Trap House

Demon Slayer
Friday
$150,000 / $131,887,639

One Battle After Another still makes money
Friday $650,000 / $64,106,387

Tron Ares
Friday $1,300,000 / $59,767,203

Smashing Machine
Friday $13,565 / $11,294,735

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, October 27, 2025 4:05 PM (P)

Sony Group has no desire to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, CEO says
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/media-entertainment/sony-group-has-no
-desire-to-buy-warner-bros.-discovery-ceo-says

Disney and other box office ? this year Snow White remake is still at 18th place in the US

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, November 4, 2025 3:25 PM (P)

old Back to the Future has returned to cinema for a re-run

some Indian Hindu Telugu-language movie 'Baahubali' got a release in North America but it doesnt seem to go anywhere

Baahubali: The Epic (2025) vs. Tron: Ares (2025) vs. Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Infinity Castle (2025)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Baahuba
li-The-Epic-(2025-India)/Tron-Ares-(2025)/Demon-Slayer-Kimetsu-no-Yaiba-The-Movie-Infinity-Castle-(2025-Japan)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Disney's Tron: Ares grossed $3.05M this weekend (from 2,575 locations). Total domestic gross stands at $68.15M.
https://x.com/BORReport/status/1985474028648501706#m

Save the Green Planet 2003

Bugonia remake Budget aprox $45–55 million
https://deadline.com/2025/10/box-office-chainsaw-man-springsteen-regre
tting-you-black-phone-2-1236596417/
Springsteen Budget $55 million

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, November 4, 2025 3:32 PM (P)

normally its cheap slasher films not expensive block buster attempts

This year's October box office was the lowest in 28 years – and Halloween was the worst weekend of the year

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/years-october-box-
office-lowest-114119471.html

Warner Bros.’ Sale Is a ‘Red Alert’ Moment for Theaters
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/warner-bros-sale-red-alert-135727547.html
Theaters have already been calling on Hollywood to give them more films, but Warner's acquisition could crush those hopes

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 5:19 PM (P)

Five Nights at Freddy's 2...successful?

it missed a chance to win the Halloween box office

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, November 6, 2025 5:39 AM (P)

I have no predictions for FNAF2, I've been so out of the movie loop for the last 6 months or so.

I think it will show well and make a few bucks, but won't come anywhere near the bragging rights they had after the first movie made so much even when it was streamed at the same time at no additional charge to Peacock customers.

Kids movies seem to be what is really driving most of the Box Office in 2025. Whether it's kids movies that were made for kids, or kids movies that were aimed for adults...

WORLDWIDE TOP 10 (Allegedly):

1 Ne Zha 2 $2,000,944,213
2 Lilo & Stitch $1,037,869,713
3 A Minecraft Movie $957,195,130
4 Jurassic World Rebirth $868,348,944
5 Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie $667,982,716
6 How to Train Your Dragon
7 F1: The Movie $630,303,615
8 Superman $616,584,465
9 Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning $591,353,074
10 The Fantastic Four: First Steps $520,636,922

I'll make no bones about it... I don't believe China at all when they say that Ne Zha 2 made over $2 Billion. There are zero checks and balances on the Chinese Government telling themselves, their citizens and the world that the movie their government created made twice as much money as any Hollywood film to come out in 2025.

We aided and abetted them lying about creating Covid in a lab with our funding. We'll apparently just ignore this completely ridiculous and bogus claim and let it stand. Honestly, it isn't very important when compared to other worldwide issues, so I can hardly fault the logic.

Are you going to be the American reporter that goes undercover and digs up the real dirt on these claims and live to tell about it? I know I'm not.

Anyway...

Even with that $2 Billion movie in there, that Top 10 is one of the saddest things I've seen. It's so little.

I can't speak for the Chinese movie, but nearly everything else I see up there is trite crap...

Not one, but TWO live action remakes. Universal joins Disney, cashing in on the nostalgia with How to Train your Dragon alongside Lilo and Stitch.

The seventh or eighth or ninth or whatever Jurassic Park movie nobody asked for.

The fourth or fifth Superman reboot nobody asked for.

Number 9 is probably not half bad, but is the second of the final two Mission Impossible / Tom Cruise installments that lost hundreds of millions of dollars despite making more than half a billion.

And all of this while a Japanese Anime that only cost $20 Million to make embarrasses nearly everyone else on the entire Top 100 list and off of it with how much money that raked in worldwide.

The only even remotely interesting movie in the Top 10 is the F1 movie. And I say that knowing that I have no interest in racing on any level and will probably never see it. But I always did like Days of Thunder, so maybe it's worth a watch.

They made a huge mistake not releasing FNAF2 before Halloween though. I'll bet some people got fired over that. That will probably come back to bite them in the ass with their second problem, which is the fact they had more 250% for the budget this time around with $51 Million.

The first movie needed less than the sequel's production budget to break even, and it went on to make nearly six times that. FNAF2 is going to need to make $125 Million just to break even this time around. My guess is that it does this fairly easily, but doesn't really make much money beyond that. It might surprise me and make over $250 Million worldwide, but I kinda doubt it.

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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, November 7, 2025 12:04 AM (P)

'Kids' movies not sure...its possible we might have some late arrivals in December that will spill over into Jan, February of 2026

a new Avatar is late December, new Sponge Bob, remake of The Running Man in November, Foreign movies Sisu was a hit so there is Sisu Road to Revenge...not sure if there will be a 'Sonic' type movie that sees earings cross into the next year, if there is early 2026 has Greenland 2 Migration, 28 Years Later The Bone Temple, Return to Silent Hill

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, November 7, 2025 12:05 AM (P)

Disney / 20th Century's Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere grossed $692K on Tuesday (from 3,460 locations). Total domestic gross stands at $17.35M

https://x.com/BORReport/status/1986167660619702667#m

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, November 7, 2025 7:04 PM (P)

Behind ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Sequel Deal: Netflix Awards Sony $15 Million Cash Bonus for First Film, Raising Total Payout to $40 Million

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kpop-demon-hunters
-netflix-awards-sony-1236420465/

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, November 13, 2025 4:52 PM (P)

unpredictable overseas?

Cinemas in Singapore turn to private bookings as movie attendance falls
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/cinema-hall-bookings-private
-alternative-content-events-5462191

the latest hope for cash is Predator Badlands

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) vs. Predator: Badlands (2025) vs. Sarah’s Oil (2025)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Avenger
s-Age-of-Ultron/Predator-Badlands-(2025)/Sarahs-Oil-(2025)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Predator: Badlands (2025) vs. Captain America: Civil War (2016) vs. Nuremberg (2025)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Predato
r-Badlands-(2025)/Captain-America-Civil-War/Nuremberg-(2025)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Alien: Covenant (2017) vs. Predator: Badlands (2025) vs. AVP: Alien Vs. Predator (2004)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Alien-C
ovenant/Predator-Badlands-(2025)/AVP-Alien-Vs-Predator#tab=day_by_day_comparison

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, November 14, 2025 5:33 PM (P)

Paramount, Comcast, Netflix Prepare Bids for Warner as Deadline Approaches

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/paramount-comcast-netflix-prepare-b
ids-for-warner-as-deadline-approaches-999cbec3

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, November 15, 2025 5:10 PM (P)

Predator Badlands $15,898,455 on Friday

followed by a strong weekend

then first Thursday?

$1,712,829 /
$53,304,860

Predator: Badlands (2025) vs. A Quiet Place (2018) vs. Alien: Resurrection (1997)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Predato
r-Badlands-(2025)/Quiet-Place-A-(2018)/Alien-Resurrection#tab=day_by_day_comparison

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, November 16, 2025 2:14 AM (P)

I've heard some people like Yellow Flash say he thought the movie would break even, but I don't see Predator making its money back. I think in Yellow Flash's case, he's been about as bored with Hollywood and movies as I have and he stopped paying attention and forgot how these things work.

It made less than 80% of its production budget back on opening weekend worldwide, and when I was paying attention and cataloging the Top 100 for 2 years there, only 2 or 3 other movies with an opening weekend under 80% came back. Universal's Migration came back and actually made Universal a lot of money. Disney's Elemental more or less broke even at the end of its run, which was a miracle with how low the opening weekend turnout was compared to how high Disney budgets usually are. But they were both kids movies.

I think this is a case of anybody who wanted to see it has already seen it, and there won't be many repeat viewings. Bruce is only predicting less than $16 Million this weekend, which is right around where I would have expected the fall to be from $40 Million. It made a projected $3.5 Million last night compared to $10,098,445 on opening Friday, which is a 65% drop. It's marked as a -78% drop when compared to the opening weekend including Thursday's previews.

To put that into perspective, with preview nights included, The Marvels (2023) dropped -87% on the 2nd Friday and Indiana Jones 5 only dropped -67%. Both were massive, massive flops for Disney.

It needs in the area of $260 Million to break even. Right now it's got $96. I'll add another $15 Million domestic for Sat/Sun just to be safe, and I'll give another $40 Million for the international market 1st week finish/2nd weekend. Now you're at $151 Million. (And I think this is pretty conservative and they won't get that high. I'm just not going to change it because there could be some new countries in there that would boost it back up even if there are sharp 2nd weekend drops everywhere else).

Where do you go from there? How are you going to get $110 more million when your 3rd weekend is going to be grossing somewhere around $6-$8 Million domestic, and the opening weekend was a pure 50/50 spit domestic/international?

Somehow this thing got a Cinemascore of "A-". I don't understand that since it sounds like word of mouth for this movie is not good.

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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, November 16, 2025 6:03 PM (P)

that Japan Anime Chainsaw Man seems to struggle, the overall sucessful of Anime at US cinema might be more of a sign of Hollywood weakness than a sign of strength of those Japanese cartoons

'Keeper' movie, another horror that missed Halloween?

However its budget is reported as low as 6 Million
https://deadline.com/2025/11/box-office-now-you-see-me-3-running-man-p
redator-badlands-1236617534/

Predator: Badlands (2025) vs. The Predator (2018) vs. Prometheus (2012)

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Predato
r-Badlands-(2025)/Predator-The-(2018)/Prometheus#tab=day_by_day_comparison

BLACK PHONE 2 | 50.3M overseas | 120.4M worldwide
https://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/34060-the-black-phone-2-503m-
overseas-1204m-worldwide/

Running Man a 2025 dystopian action thriller remake, Now You See Me is a 2013 a criminal thriller talented magicians stealing items movie, American heist film, this is another remake a third installment, Now You See Me: Now You Don't

Friday, November 2025
https://x.com/BORReport/status/1989751301027274860
1. #NowYouSeeMe - $8.40M
2. #RunningManMovie - $6.45M
3. #PredatorBadlands - $3.50M
4. #RegrettingYouMovie - $1.22M
5. #Keeper - $1.05M
6. #BlackPhone2 - $740K
7. #NurembergFilm - $700K

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Where do you go from there?

I dont know, maybe they are expecting a huge overseas in China, Germany, Japan, France, Australia?

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, November 17, 2025 4:28 PM (P)

‘Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle’ Opens at No. 1 in China

https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/demon-slayer-infinity-castle-
china-box-office-1236583392/

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 5:41 PM (P)

David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance Said to Prep $71 Billion Warner Bros. Discovery Bid With Three Arab Sovereign Wealth Funds

https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/paramount-warner-bros-discovery-arab
-sovereign-wealth-funds-1236584624/

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 11:35 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance Said to Prep $71 Billion Warner Bros. Discovery Bid With Three Arab Sovereign Wealth Funds

https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/paramount-warner-bros-discovery-arab
-sovereign-wealth-funds-1236584624/

We will see. There was an update that either you missed, or that happened after you posted the article. At the very top now:

Quote:
UPDATED: Paramount Skydance has denied a Variety report that the company was forming an investment consortium with the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi to submit a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery,

“The information Variety published is categorically inaccurate,” a rep for Paramount Skydance said in a statement. “This is a confidential process, which we respect and, as such, will not be commenting until the process is over.”

This is a huge fucking problem though, if true.

If you thought Woke was bad, just wait until the camel jockies buy up all of our media in fire sales, due to all of these companies destroying themselves with the woke shit.

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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, November 20, 2025 6:34 PM (P)

a kids movies usually does well during the Christmas period in 'The West' while Asia also takes a break but the celebration centers around New Year

Zootopia 2, big numbers expected
https://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/32964-zootopia-ii/page/2/#com
ments

‘Moana’ Trailer Sails To 182M Views In First Day, 2nd Best For A Disney Live-Action Movie Behind ‘The Lion King’
https://deadline.com/2025/11/moana-trailer-record-traffic-1236624044/

‘Wicked: For Good’ Aims for Biggest Opening of 2025 With $150 Million to $180 Million Debut
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/wicked-for-good-box-office-op
ening-weekend-projection-record-1236584693/

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, November 21, 2025 3:36 PM (P)

Paramount, Netflix & Comcast Submit Warner Bros Discovery Bids

https://deadline.com/2025/11/paramount-netflix-comcast-submit-wbd-bids
-1236625396/

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, November 22, 2025 10:18 PM (P)

Oscars: Academy Reveals List Of Eligible Documentary, Animation & International Features

https://deadline.com/2025/11/oscars-eligible-films-2026-documentary-an
imation-international-1236625972/

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, November 23, 2025 4:12 PM (P)

Brendan Fraser Says ‘Batgirl’ Cancellation Is an Example of Movies Being ‘Commodified’ in Hollywood: ‘It’s More Valuable to Burn it Down and Get the Insurance’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/brendan-fraser-batgirl-movies-commo
dified-content-hollywood-1236589653/

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, November 24, 2025 1:41 AM (P)

Looks like Wicked 2 is going to be the top grossing US movie of 2025 according to Bruce.

https://www.the-numbers.com/news/260340830-Weekend-projections-Wicked-
For-Good-soars-to-150-million-domestic-debut

Bruce must have forgotten that Avatar 3 drops on December 19th.

Although I'd love to see everyone check out of that and watch it make less than Wicked, I doubt very much that's going to happen.

C'mon Bruce. You do this for a living, dude.

Wicked 1 made $756 Million worldwide.

Avatar 1 made $2.923 BILLION worldwide back in 2009 which after 16 years and 4 years of Bidenflation in the middle of it is probably closer to $5 Billion today than it is to $3 Billion.

Avatar 2 three years ago made $2.322 BILLION.

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Wicked-
(2024)/Wicked-For-Good-(2025)/Avatar/Avatar-The-Way-of-Water-(2022)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

So what if Wicked 2 is making 30% more domestically and 17% more internationally on opening weekend? Absolute BEST case scenario it breaks $1 Billion (and I'm being EXTREMELY generous saying that).

For Wicked 2 to be the top grossing movie of 2025, Avatar 3 would have to lose about 60% of it's 2022 audience without even factoring in 3 years of inflation to those numbers.

Stop simping for the two Ozempic addicted, glassy-eyed weirdos. They're just not into you dude.

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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, November 24, 2025 2:27 AM (P)

Disney / 20th Century's Predator: Badlands has passed the $150M global mark. The film grossed an estimated $7.2M internationally this weekend. Estimated international total stands at $83.3M, estimated global total stands at $159.6M.
https://bsky.app/profile/boxofficereport.bsky.social/post/3m6cqiv25lc2
t

part II of Wicked is expected to have a boost in the US with parents taking kids to the movie during Thanksgiving

nu Disney’s Snow White will probably fall down more on the yearly charts

the new Wicked might struggle in Europe and Asia but its doing very good in the English speaking world

https://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/34054-wicked-for-good/#commen
ts

Wicked: For Good (2025) vs. Wicked (2024) vs. Frozen II (2019)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Wicked-
For-Good-(2025)/Wicked-(2024)/Frozen-II-(2019)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Predator: Badlands (2025) vs. Wicked: For Good (2025) vs. Moana 2 (2024)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Predato
r-Badlands-(2025)/Wicked-For-Good-(2025)/Moana-2-(2024)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Wicked: For Good (2025) vs. Rio 2 (2014) vs. Les Misérables (2012)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Wicked-
For-Good-(2025)/Rio-2/Miserables-Les-(2012)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, November 24, 2025 7:00 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Disney / 20th Century's Predator: Badlands has passed the $150M global mark. The film grossed an estimated $7.2M internationally this weekend. Estimated international total stands at $83.3M, estimated global total stands at $159.6M.
https://bsky.app/profile/boxofficereport.bsky.social/post/3m6cqiv25lc2
t

And what did Jack have to say...

November 15th:

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It needs in the area of $260 Million to break even. Right now it's got $96. I'll add another $15 Million domestic for Sat/Sun just to be safe, and I'll give another $40 Million for the international market 1st week finish/2nd weekend. Now you're at $151 Million. (And I think this is pretty conservative and they won't get that high. I'm just not going to change it because there could be some new countries in there that would boost it back up even if there are sharp 2nd weekend drops everywhere else).

Where do you go from there? How are you going to get $110 more million when your 3rd weekend is going to be grossing somewhere around $6-$8 Million domestic, and the opening weekend was a pure 50/50 spit domestic/international?

Yerp.

Now they need $100 Million more, and they're going to make around $2.5 to $3.5 Million next weekend.

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Be Nice. Don't be a dick.

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, November 27, 2025 12:47 PM (P)

Intl opening wknd for #WickedForGood is on track for about $76M with nearly one third of that ($24M) coming just from UK!
https://x.com/GiteshPandya/status/1992264161552740710

Nu Wicked

$69,117,615 /$69,117,615

1st Saturday

$43,415,440 /
$112,533,055

1st Sunday
$34,471,585 /
$147,004,640

1st Monday
$14,701,415 /
$161,706,055

1st Tuesday
$15,734,865 /
$177,440,920

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, November 28, 2025 12:04 AM (P)

Disney / 20th Century's Predator: Badlands grossed an estimated $900K on Wednesday (from 2,750 locations). Estimated total domestic gross stands at $79.32M

https://x.com/BORReport/status/1994078733104558144#m

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, November 28, 2025 5:55 PM (P)

James Cameron Says if Avatar: Fire and Ash Doesn't Make Enough Money to Justify Avatar 4 and 5, He's Ready to Walk Away and Write a Book to Resolve the One Thread It Leaves Open

https://www.ign.com/articles/james-cameron-says-if-avatar-fire-and-ash
-doesnt-make-enough-money-to-justify-avatar-4-and-5-hes-ready-to-walk-away-and-write-a-book-to-resolve-the-one-thread-it-leaves-open

Sisu: Road To Revenge North America Box Office: Nordic Action Sequel’s 23% Tuesday Jump Pushes It Into the Year’s Top 150 Domestic Earners
https://www.koimoi.com/box-office/sisu-road-to-revenge-north-america-b
ox-office-nordic-action-sequels-23-tuesday-jump-pushes-it-into-the-years-top-150-domestic-earners/
Sisu: Road to Revenge remains below par at the box office despite a wide release and a recent weekday push

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, November 28, 2025 7:54 PM (P)

Disney's Zootopia 2 grossed an estimated $41.6M internationally on Wednesday (from 17 international markets), including $34.0M in China.
https://x.com/BORReport/status/1994077937956790359#m
Estimated global total through Wednesday stands at $81.1M

A24's Eternity grossed $616K on Thanksgiving Thursday (from 1,348 locations). 2-Day total domestic gross stands at $2.07M.
https://bsky.app/profile/boxofficereport.bsky.social/post/3m6p5az5puc2
x

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, November 28, 2025 7:59 PM (P)

Zootopia 2 Box-Office: Pixar Sequel Sets China on Fire After Beating 5th Highest Fast & Furious Movie
https://fandomwire.com/zootopia-2-box-office-pixar-sequel-sets-china-o
n-fire-after-beating-5th-highest-fast-furious-movie/

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, November 29, 2025 10:52 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Disney's Zootopia 2 grossed an estimated $41.6M internationally on Wednesday (from 17 international markets), including $34.0M in China.
https://x.com/BORReport/status/1994077937956790359#m
Estimated global total through Wednesday stands at $81.1M

A24's Eternity grossed $616K on Thanksgiving Thursday (from 1,348 locations). 2-Day total domestic gross stands at $2.07M.
https://bsky.app/profile/boxofficereport.bsky.social/post/3m6p5az5puc2
x

Opening weekend hasn't even started and I'm calling this the Worldwide Number 1 movie in 2025...

after you remove the Communist Chinese lie...

and before you add back Avatar 3.

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Saturday, November 29, 2025 2:43 PM (P)

the New Wicked? adapting the second act of the 2003 stage musical loosely based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz novel.
huge gap between US domestic and some of those predicted and expected worldwide earnings, its a massive rift and seems to only do ok in the English speaking world.

nu Wicked movie, Wicked For Good

international $77,551,083
Worldwide Box Office $254,992,003

Family Fantasy Musical Romance

the British opening / box office
$23,293,218 gross $24,665,646
the French $1,866,843 gross $2,087,085

it seems to do ok in Poland, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Ukraine, Greece and Norway but these are smaller markets
the movie is doing ok in Mexico
its mostly died in Asia Pacific but nu Wicked has been doing ok with Aus earnings
Australia opening $7,535,784 gross $8,611,303

Budget $150 million
https://variety.com/2024/film/box-office/wicked-gladiator-2-box-office
-tracking-1236213633/

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, November 30, 2025 12:56 AM (P)

The new Wicked got knocked down to 2nd place
https://bsky.app/profile/boxofficereport.bsky.social/post/3m6rvk43hhs2
4

Estimated Daily #BoxOffice Top 7 for Friday, November 28, 2025

1. #Zootopia2 - $38.50M
2. #WickedForGood - $26.05M
3. #NowYouSeeMe - $2.62M
4. #PredatorBadlands - $1.80M
5. #RunningManMovie - $1.40M
6. #EternityMovie - $1.14M
7. #RentalFamily - $800K

but its already beaten Captain America Brave New World on Domestic

Worldwide the new Wicked is less impressive but it should now pass Final Destination: Bloodlines

Nu Wicked...so maybe
a prediction $450,550,000 Domestic if it has staying power? and poor overseas, the English language songs cost the international box office??

1st Wednesday

$17,420,000 /
$194,861,000

1st Thursday

$12,790,000 /
$207,651,000

2nd Friday

$26,050,000 /
$233,701,000

‘Zootopia 2’ Hopping To $525M+ Global Opening; Overtakes ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Record For Biggest Hollywood Single-Day In China – International Box Office
https://deadline.com/2025/11/zootopia-2-global-international-box-offic
e-china-record-1236629598/

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, November 30, 2025 2:49 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Looks like Wicked 2 is going to be the top grossing US movie of 2025 according to Bruce.

https://www.the-numbers.com/news/260340830-Weekend-projections-Wicked-
For-Good-soars-to-150-million-domestic-debut

Bruce must have forgotten that Avatar 3 drops on December 19th.

Although I'd love to see everyone check out of that and watch it make less than Wicked, I doubt very much that's going to happen.

C'mon Bruce. You do this for a living, dude.

Wicked 1 made $756 Million worldwide.

Avatar 1 made $2.923 BILLION worldwide back in 2009 which after 16 years and 4 years of Bidenflation in the middle of it is probably closer to $5 Billion today than it is to $3 Billion.

Avatar 2 three years ago made $2.322 BILLION.

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Wicked-
(2024)/Wicked-For-Good-(2025)/Avatar/Avatar-The-Way-of-Water-(2022)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

So what if Wicked 2 is making 30% more domestically and 17% more internationally on opening weekend? Absolute BEST case scenario it breaks $1 Billion (and I'm being EXTREMELY generous saying that).

For Wicked 2 to be the top grossing movie of 2025, Avatar 3 would have to lose about 60% of it's 2022 audience without even factoring in 3 years of inflation to those numbers.

Stop simping for the two Ozempic addicted, glassy-eyed weirdos. They're just not into you dude.

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I can't find the thread where I was talking about Wicked 2. It wasn't the Hollywood thread in the
RWED either. Oh well.

I'd already posted that on Monday and Tuesday that Wicked 2 was about $1 Million lower per day
than the first Wicked last year.

Friday was a bad drop though...

Last year on the 2nd Friday, Wicked made $31,728,865

Last night, Wicked 2 only made $26,050,000.

Despite the initial opening weekend bump, it doesn't look like the interest is still there.

I said I was being generously conservative with Bruce and that Wicked 2 could possibly end up
grossing right around $1 Billion vs whatever A3 is going to make, but that's clearly not the case.

Wicked made $756 Million worldwide last year. I don't believe that W2 will cross that threshold now.

It really depends on how Monday looks, actually. After the Thanksgiving holiday came to a close,
the next Monday saw a 72% drop from the previous week, and by that Thursday it had made less than
$5 Million. It is possible that maybe save Cheap Seat Tuesday, W2 will make less than $5 Million
per day all week leading into Weekend 3.

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Sunday, November 30, 2025 8:15 PM (P)

yeah Friday WickedForGood knocked down to second place with $26.05 M but third and fourth place are far behind, not sure if it has staying power

Zootopia 2 reaches 2 million viewers in five days, breaks Korean speed record

https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-entertainment/2025/11/30/S6I5KIDPJJDENLMY
N2Y3D4FOBI/

Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, $150 million...expensive but less expensive than nu-SnowWhite

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/11/disneys-zootopia-2-creative-
team-guide-us-through-their-return-to-the-urban-jungle/

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, December 1, 2025 1:11 AM (P)

Zootopia 2 might be the best of the year in French cinema, very strong overseas reaches 1M tickets heading towards best opening of 2025 in France

also ‘Zootopia 2’ Record $272 Million box office openings in China

Running Man remake is crashing, $34M total, its bust, perhaps will bomb even if it does overseas, another turkey, another box office flop?

‘Zootopia 2’ Scores Fourth-Biggest Global Debut in Box Office History With $556 Million, Including Record $272 Million in China
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/zootopia-2-box-office-fourth-
biggest-global-debut-china-record-1236595743/

Predator Badlands could be the most successful Predator movie but all Predator films struggle to make money

Nu Wicked

2nd Saturday

$21,610,000 /
$255,361,000

2nd Sunday

$15,080,000 /
$270,441,000

Estimated totals through Sunday for Wicked: For Good by international market include:
https://x.com/BORReport/status/1995191657348919551
U.K. - $42.7M
Australia - $13.7M
Germany - $6.2M
S. Korea - $5.5M
Mexico - $5.4M
Philippines - $4.2M
Netherlands - $3.6M
Spain - $3.5M
Brazil - $3.3M
France - $3.2M

Universal's Wicked: For Good grossed an estimated $29.4M internationally
https://bsky.app/profile/boxofficereport.bsky.social/post/3m6ubavodbk2
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6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, December 1, 2025 3:17 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Predator Badlands could be the most successful Predator movie but all Predator films struggle to make money

At this point, they've long destroyed the interest of core fans.

Good luck getting the idiot goons to keep tuning in.

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Monday, December 1, 2025 4:07 PM (P)

The Running Man remake seems to be dying

Quote:

Nu Wicked...so maybe
a prediction $450,550,000 Domestic if it has staying power? and poor overseas, the English language songs cost the international box office??

For now it seems Only 1/3 of its money on tickets are from overseas...poor international showing outside the English speaking world.

150,168,000 aka 33% + $450,550,000 = Guesstimate 600,718,000 Worldwide

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, December 1, 2025 6:08 PM (P)

Every Record Zootopia 2 Box-Office Broke in 5 Days, Ranked

https://fandomwire.com/zootopia-2-box-office-records-broken-in-5-days-
ranked/

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, December 2, 2025 12:22 AM (P)

Running Man remake is dead

Shaun of the Dead (2004) vs. The Running Man (2025) vs. Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Shaun-o
f-the-Dead/Running-Man-The-(2025)/Top-Gun-Maverick-(2022)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

The Running Man (2025) vs. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) vs. The Long Walk (2025)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Running
-Man-The-(2025)/Guardians-of-the-Galaxy/Long-Walk-The-(2025)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Budget $110 million
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/running-man-edgar-wright-glen-powel
l-naked-most-expensive-1236570642/

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, December 2, 2025 2:46 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Running Man remake is dead

Wonderful.

You want to remake a movie, Hollywood?

Remake a bad one and make it a good one.

We're fucking done with your shit.

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Tuesday, December 9, 2025 3:54 AM (P)

Predator: Badlands grossed $1.85M this weekend

Wicked down to Third spot

a Japan Anime movie at Fourth Place

the game creator of FiveNightsAtFreddys was hated by Hollyweird after he wrote positive stuff about Trump during Covid

1. #FiveNightsAtFreddys2
2. #Zootopia2
3. #WickedForGood
4. #JujutsuKaisenExecution
5. #NowYouSeeMe

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 4:56 AM (P)

It's not just the 3rd place thing. Did you see that Wicked 2 fell off a cliff in the 3rd week?

I said that if it managed to make over $5 Million per day during the week it still had a chance of outgrossing the first movie.

But every single day, including Cheap Seat Tuesday was under $5 Million, and I think there may have even been one day under $3 Million. It only grossed $5 Million on Friday and Sunday, and just over $7 Million on Saturday. I think the weekend drop is something in the area of 75% from Weekend 2.

That movie is dead. I'm beginning to wonder if it even has enough gas left in the tank to outgross Fantastic 4 now.

And somebody, for the love of god, get Ariana a cheeseburger before she literally dies.

And keep that crazy, bald black woman and her voodoo magic away from her too.

That poor girl.

Everybody involved in the making of these movies should be brought up on charges.

Where the fuck is Dan Schneider and why hasn't somebody put that pedophiles fucking head on a pike yet?

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Wednesday, December 10, 2025 12:44 AM (P)

1 Billion coming soon?

Disney's Zootopia 2 grossed an estimated $17.6M internationally on Monday. Estimated international total stands at $715.0M (including $435.7M in China)

https://bsky.app/profile/boxofficereport.bsky.social/post/3m7l2pynmvs2
e

and that Japan toon, seems to be a mix of violence, the occult, demons and magic some kind of dark horror fantasy Japanese magic fighting theme.

there are too many Red Black slashes of red black light and flashing White lights for me to enjoy the animation, the animation looks kind of clunky or jumpy
also Disney has better frame rate, while Japan does make A LOT of Manag comicbooks and Anime toons, you have to respect other studios like Disney more drawings per second in the old Disney Animations and respect Disney for Animating at 24 frames per second (fps) is the standard

it seems to be one of the 'most popular anime'

Jujutsu Kaisen Execution

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, December 11, 2025 12:07 AM (P)

FLASHBACK: November 23rd

https://www.the-numbers.com/news/260340830-Weekend-projections-Wicked-
For-Good-soars-to-150-million-domestic-debut

Quote:
Wicked: For Good will storm to $150 million this weekend, according to Universal’s Sunday-morning projection. That should give it the second-best weekend of 2025, behind A Minecraft Movie’s $162.8 million, although it’s not yet completely guaranteed to exceed Lilo & Stitch’s $146 million over Memorial Day weekend. With Thanksgiving coming up, Wicked Part 2 will have long legs almost by default, and looks like a good bet to end 2025 as the top-grossing movie of the year.

How are you so bad at this, dude? All of those computers and all of that electricity wasted on you.

Only 22 days in theaters now, and it only grossed $1,313,080 on Monday, and it's only going to make about $8 Million over the weekend.

$298,869,900 gross in the US / $143,922,164 gross International / $472,972,064 Worldwide

And this is just the Domestic woes. Nobody outside of the US even seems interested in it, and the only movie on that graph it will beat on the worldwide stage before it's out of theaters is Thunderbolts.

What are we even talking about here, Bruce?

Put down the crack pipe.

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Thursday, December 11, 2025 1:56 AM (P)

Universal's Wicked: For Good grossed $1.31M on Monday (from 3,985 locations). Total domestic gross stands at $298.87M.

https://x.com/BORReport/status/1998486202476077108#m

big overseas numbers reported for #Zootopia2 hashtag Japan, China, unusually high numbers on a Monday I think it might be a Catholic Holiday in Argentina, Spain
So you have parents taking kids to see the animation
Budget $150 million
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/11/disneys-zootopia-2-creative-
team-guide-us-through-their-return-to-the-urban-jungle/

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, December 11, 2025 4:20 PM (P)

Wicked: For Good (2025) vs. Zootopia 2 (2025) vs. A Minecraft Movie (2025)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Wicked-For-Good-
(2025)/Zootopia-2-(2025)/Minecraft-Movie-A-(2025)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Nu Wicked

2nd Saturday
$21,675,380 /
$255,250,980

2nd Sunday $13,950,055 /
$269,201,035

2nd Monday
$2,717,475 /
$271,918,510

2nd Tuesday

$3,678,035 /
$275,596,545

2nd Wednesday $2,458,755 /
$278,055,300

2nd Thursday

$2,146,360 /
$280,201,660

3rd Friday

$4,510,010 /
$284,711,670

when are the kids on vacation? kids with school holiday can boost movies, I'm not sure it has much staying power in US cinema it could be less than 1 million by the 3rd Thursday when the next bunch of movie toon releases arrive

its beating Zootopia 2 but that doesnt matter as nu Wicked overseas numbers are terrible
foreign markets hate it

within the world cinema experience, you do get these movies that flopped in the USA and do ok overseas like Battleship year 2012, Resident Evil, ‘Blade Runner 2049’ movie, ‘The Great Wall’, Everest year 2015
and you also get movies that did good in the USA but terrible overseas, 8 Mile, Divergent, Straight Outta Compton, and since the Culture Wars of 2016 Ghostbusters etc you now have politics helping movies crash, movies that Flopped Because they Lecture the Audience

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025) vs. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) vs. Alien: Romulus (2024)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Five-Nights-at-F
reddys-2-(2025)/Lara-Croft-Tomb-Raider/Alien-Romulus-(2024)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, December 12, 2025 6:22 PM (P)

Arabia wants to own Hollyweirdos

Hollywood for Sale? Gulf Billionaires Back $24 Billion Blitz on Warner Bros. Discovery
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hollywood-sale-gulf-billionaires-back-1
92635966.html

An Exhibitor’s Guide to the Warner Bros. Acquisition
https://www.boxofficepro.com/an-exhibitors-guide-to-the-warner-bros-ac
quisition/

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, December 12, 2025 11:46 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Arabia wants to own Hollyweirdos

Hollywood for Sale? Gulf Billionaires Back $24 Billion Blitz on Warner Bros. Discovery

Exactly what I predicted that was going to happen.

Our fucking government had better not let that happen.

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Saturday, December 13, 2025 4:54 PM (P)

how to mess up easy Orwellian stories?

box office bomb of 2026 - Animal Farm

GKIDS' release of Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution grossed $445K on Thursday (from 1,833 locations). Total domestic (North America) gross stands at $12.41M.
https://x.com/BORReport/status/1999541405920731622#m
This weekend's location count for Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution is 1,935 locations.

Canadians are no longer firebombing cinema for showing Hindu films

Neo-Wicked
it will be lucky to hit 350 Domestic?

Universal's Wicked: For Good grossed $1.32M on Thursday (from 3,985 locations). Total domestic gross stands at $303.60M.
https://bsky.app/profile/boxofficereport.bsky.social/post/3m7szhdeu3c2
w

in November I made a prediction

I was way off with my prediction of 600,710,000 Worldwide ...but at least I didnt predict it to go to 1 Billion like some professional movie magazine idiots

strong staying power in the US but overseas numbers for nu-Wicked are terrible

3rd Saturday
$7,359,125 /
$292,070,795

3rd Sunday
$5,486,025 /
$297,556,820

3rd Monday
$1,313,080 /
$298,869,900

3rd Tuesday - PASSING 300
$2,016,290 /
$300,886,190

3rd Wednesday
$1,386,695 /
$302,272,885

US / North America cinema Domestic

Top5
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
Zootopia2
nu-Wicked
Japan toon Jujutsu Kaisen Execution
Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025)

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025) vs. Now You See Me: Now You Don’t (2025) vs. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Five-Nights-at-F
reddys-2-(2025)/Now-You-See-Me-Now-You-Dont-(2025)/Sleepy-Hollow-(1999)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Wicked: For Good (2025) vs. Beauty and the Beast (2017) vs. The Running Man (2025)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Wicked-For-Good-
(2025)/Beauty-and-the-Beast-(2017)/Running-Man-The-(2025)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025) vs. Doctor Sleep (2019) vs. Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution (2025)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Five-Nights-at-F
reddys-2-(2025)/Doctor-Sleep-(2019)/Jujutsu-Kaisen-Execution-(2025-Japan)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

PREDATOR: BADLANDS | 83.6M overseas | 165.7M worldwide
https://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/34055-predator-badlands-836m-
overseas-1657m-worldwide/
the highest grossing ever in the 38-year old franchise at $177.5M, surpassing the reported global box office of the series’ previous champ, 2004’s Alien vs. Predator

Universal's Five Nights at Freddy's 2 grossed $2.34M on Thursday (from 3,412 locations). Total domestic gross stands at $75.98M
https://x.com/BORReport/status/1999589552244048096#m

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, December 13, 2025 7:19 PM (P)

Shorts can't be embedded here, unfortunately, but this one is worth the click.

Just reply to my video for the link.

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Saturday, December 13, 2025 8:09 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shorts can't be embedded here
https://
www.
youtube.
com/
shorts/
j82zvimy80Y

Just reply to my video for the link.

just take out shorts and replace youtube with youtu dot be
youtu.be / j82zvimy80Y

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, December 13, 2025 11:17 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shorts can't be embedded here
https://
www.
youtube.
com/
shorts/
j82zvimy80Y

Just reply to my video for the link.

just take out shorts and replace youtube with youtu dot be
youtu.be / j82zvimy80Y

Holy shit dude. That's awesome. I guess I never tried that.

Did you know this the whole time, or did you just figure it out right now?

I can post so much more here now that I thought I couldn't before. There are so many things like scenes from movies and TV Shows up there in shorts format I thought were just not embedable here.

Papa Meat is getting a ton of blowback from the college "educated" lefties for that one.

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Sunday, December 14, 2025 8:04 PM (P)

kind of logically tried / guessed the youtube. be replace url thing some weeks ago

the hype for Japan anime wave is over?

GKIDS' release of Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution grossed an estimated $606K on Friday (from 1,935 locations). Estimated total domestic (North America) gross stands at $13.02M.
https://x.com/BORReport/status/1999945384853111192#m

Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution (2025) vs. Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001) vs. Parasite (2019)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Jujutsu-Kaisen-E
xecution-(2025-Japan)/Fabuleux-destin-d-Amelie-Poulain-Le-(2001)/Parasite-(2019-South-Korea)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) vs. Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Infinity Castle (2025) vs. Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution (2025)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Crouching-Tiger-
Hidden-Dragon/Demon-Slayer-Kimetsu-no-Yaiba-The-Movie-Infinity-Castle-(2025-Japan)/Jujutsu-Kaisen-Execution-(2025-Japan)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution (2025) vs. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba—The Movie: Mugen Train (2020) vs. RRR (2022)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Jujutsu-Kaisen-E
xecution-(2025-Japan)/Demon-Slayer-Kimetsu-no-Yaiba-The-Movie-Mugen-Train-(2020-Japan)/RRR-(2022-India)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, December 14, 2025 11:57 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
kind of logically tried / guessed the youtube. be replace url thing some weeks ago

Good find man.

Quote:
the hype for Japan anime wave is over?

Nah. I don't think so.

It probably was never going to rise to the peak MCU heights. Maybe in the future, but if America and other Western studios fire all the DEI hires and make good cartoons here again, they should have competition.

In this case, it's probably not a super popular cartoon. I'm far from an anime expert myself, but I've never heard of this one before. This sounds to me like a case of "Thunderbolts" vs. "Deadpool".

American culture has warmed up very much to Anime since I was in high school and the only way to watch them were to buy extremely expensive VHS imported dubs at the mall. But that doesn't mean that every cartoon they put out is going to be a hit.

And I would warn Japan against trying to make that a thing here. If they flood the US market with their low-tier crap, it's going to detract from their money makers. Keep the crap on streaming and out of the theaters.

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Monday, December 15, 2025 12:09 AM (P)

We have a winner

‘Zootopia 2’ Overtakes ‘Lilo & Stitch’ to Become 2025’s Highest Grossing Hollywood Movie With $1.13 Billion
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/zootopia-2-highest-grossing-m
ovie-2025-1236608395/

rumors of Big nu-Avatar Pre-Sales in China and overseas

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, December 15, 2025 6:30 PM (P)

Universal's Wicked: For Good has passed the $450M global mark.

https://bsky.app/profile/boxofficereport.bsky.social/post/3m7xjnpesx22
k

Budget $150 million
https://web.archive.org/web/20241120185111/https://variety.com/2024/fi
lm/box-office/wicked-gladiator-2-box-office-tracking-1236213633/

nu-Wicked doing good in the USA but terrible overseas numbers

3rd Thursday
$1,322,410 /
$303,595,295

4th Friday
$2,270,000 /
$305,865,000

4th Saturday
$3,650,000 /
$309,515,000

4th Sunday
$2,630,000 /
$312,145,000

70% of its earnings are in the USA, so what is overseas 30% and outside the Anglosphere even less in non-English speaking countries

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 11:36 PM (P)

Lionsgate's Now You See Me: Now You Don't grossed $2.37M this weekend (from 2,411 locations). Total domestic gross stands at $59.33M.

https://x.com/BORReport/status/2000666580448154095#m

Rob Reiner Death: Christopher Guest, Jamie Lee Curtis Remember 'Spinal Tap' Director
https://deadline.com/2025/12/rob-reiner-death-christopher-guest-jamie-
lee-curtis-reaction-1236648479/

worked until the end, on Spinal Tap 2 and comedy food drama The Bear

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 6:28 PM (P)

Warner Bros. Discovery Rejects Paramount’s Hostile Bid, Citing “Significant Risks”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/warner-bros-r
ejects-paramount-hostile-offer-bidding-war-1236446771/

Universal's Five Nights at Freddy's 2 grossed $1.47M on Monday (from 3,579

https://bsky.app/profile/boxofficereport.bsky.social/post/3ma52bck5oc2
c

Nu-Wicked

4th Monday
$908,725 /
$313,053,335

4th Tuesday
$1,327,360 /
$314,380,695

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, December 21, 2025 9:31 PM (P)

nu-Wicked still has staying power in the USA but Low International numbers, its dead overseas

Box Office: ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Kicks Off With $88 Million Domestic Debut, Adds $257 Million Overseas for $345 Million Global Opening
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/avatar-fire-and-ash-box-offic
e-opening-weekend-james-cameron-1236613727/

YouTube Shuts Down Channels Using AI To Create Fake Movie Trailers
https://deadline.com/2025/12/youtube-terminates-screen-culture-kh-stud
io-fake-ai-trailer-1236652506/

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, December 22, 2025 12:27 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
YouTube Shuts Down Channels Using AI To Create Fake Movie Trailers
https://deadline.com/2025/12/youtube-terminates-screen-culture-kh-stud
io-fake-ai-trailer-1236652506/

That ain't helping anyone.

At least we know when a fake trailer is fake, and making fake movie trailers can at least be entertaining and requires at least the smallest amount of work.

Meanwhile, my home feed is stuffed with 60% of the results full of nothing but AI slop stealing content and ad revenue from real humans who spend days, weeks or even months making genuine content.

This needs to stop.

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SECOND

Monday, December 22, 2025 3:00 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:

Box Office: ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Kicks Off With $88 Million Domestic Debut, Adds $257 Million Overseas for $345 Million Global Opening
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/avatar-fire-and-ash-box-offic
e-opening-weekend-james-cameron-1236613727/

How will Hollywood sell tickets to free movies?

Avatar.Fire.and.Ash.2025.1080p.HDTS.x264-LOL.mp4

Bittorrent link: 8448915521bc83a9d3a1702c0955f77948d3e20f

https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=81545900

https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=avatar%20fire&cat=0

If you don't use BitTorrent, then download the movie directly from https://usersdrive.com/wjfv7cfe4d2y.html. However, UsersDrive is much slower, with speeds of around 500kB/second and a download time of approximately 2.5 hours. Speed might be erratic.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, December 22, 2025 3:34 AM (P)

Shut up, faggot.

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Monday, December 22, 2025 4:10 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut up, faggot.

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The best bit of dialog from Avatar: Fire and Ashes was about Trumptards in outer space. Kiri (Sigourney Weaver) orders the sea monsters to: "Kill them. Kill them all." There was none of this libtard nonsense about talking politely with evil people to persuade them to be slightly less selfish/stupid/violent ignoramuses.

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

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, December 22, 2025 4:24 PM (P)

The Running Man concluded its five-week theatrical run in North America with box office receipts totalling $37.82M.

https://x.com/MovieNumbers/status/2002117193673379849#m

JAYNEZTOWN

Monday, December 22, 2025 5:19 PM (P)

‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ opens with $345 million at global box office

https://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/2025/12/avatar-fire-and-ash-ope
ns-with-345-million-at-global-box-office.html

Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) vs. Jurassic World (2015) vs. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Avatar-Fire-and-
Ash-(2025)/Jurassic-World/Star-Wars-The-Rise-of-Skywalker-(2019)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Avatar (2009) vs. Titanic (1997) vs. Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Avatar/Titanic-(
1997)/Avatar-Fire-and-Ash-(2025)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, December 22, 2025 5:23 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut up, faggot.

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The best bit of dialog from Avatar: Fire and Ashes was about Trumptards in outer space. Kiri (Sigourney Weaver) orders the sea monsters to: "Kill them. Kill them all." There was none of this libtard nonsense about talking politely with evil people to persuade them to be slightly less selfish/stupid/violent ignoramuses.

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

You're right.

We're going to be doing this to all Muslims soon.

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Monday, December 22, 2025 5:25 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ opens with $345 million at global box office

https://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/2025/12/avatar-fire-and-ash-ope
ns-with-345-million-at-global-box-office.html

It needed $400 Million to assure profit with the $1 Billion it needs to break even.

Awwwwww....

I doubt very much we'll see an Avatar 4. Sorry James. You're not going to get to make the 12 movies you wanted to make.

Why the fuck is this movie over 3 hours long????

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Friday, December 26, 2025 2:27 AM (P)

Disney / 20th Century's Avatar: Fire and Ash grossed an estimated $21.9M internationally on Christmas Eve Wednesday.
https://x.com/BORReport/status/2004238583633531275#m
Estimated international total stands at $353.6M (including $71.5M in China), estimated global total stands at $483.3M.

Disney / 20th Century's Avatar: Fire and Ash grossed an estimated $10.7M on Christmas Eve Wednesday (from 3,800 locations). Estimated total domestic gross stands at $129.69M.
https://x.com/BORReport/status/2004220189886632140#m

6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, December 26, 2025 5:04 AM (P)

Cameron’s Crash: ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Is More Than Three Hours of Tediousness

https://cvindependent.com/2025/12/camerons-crash-avatar-fire-and-ash-i
s-more-than-three-hours-of-tediousness/

Quote:
James Cameron has been a petulant whiner on the promotional tour for his latest monstrosity, Avatar: Fire and Ash. He’s warning that if the third Na’vi adventure doesn’t make big bank, well, then no more Avatar for you, you ungrateful pieces of shit!

The law of diminishing returns is in full effect for his overblown, tedious franchise, both financially and artistically. Fire and Ass is down somewhere around 35% in domestic box-office receipts compared to the opening of the prior film in the trilogy, The Way of Water Is the Equivalent of 50 MGs of Melatonin. I hope Christmas has been ruined for James Cameron, and, oh god, I hope his latest cinematic digital dump is the last of the storyline.

Actually, calling the Cameron-penned plot of Fire and Blue Assholes a “storyline” is a stretch. It’s basically the same movie as the last one, with a bunch of slim, blue Rastafari-knock-off distant relatives of Jar Jar Binks and John Travolta’s character in Battlefield Earth running around with their asses hanging out, occasionally hissing like cats, and saying “bro” a lot. The mundane dialogue is an attempt to propel the same endless story of humans trying to screw with the environmentally sound Na’vi, with countless, repetitive battle scenes thrown into the mess.

Bro...

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Friday, December 26, 2025 3:45 PM (P)

Wicked: For Good is still doing ok in Australia and nu-Avatar and Zootopia 2 fighting for 1st and second place

in Europe its difficult t o get reports during Christmas its mostly Avtar vs Zootopa but some unsual ones are Dead of Winter (2025 film) doing very good in Finland, I believe Dead of Winter is a US indie film with some overseas funding, website Rotten Tomatoes, 77% of 73 critics' reviews are positive.
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 the horror is doing good in Croatia

the Avatar story is perhaps kinda video game simple like a Pocahontas or Dances with Wolves with bad guys from Earth with military machines...its somewhat empty of character but its spectacle sells

https://mimorin2014.com/blog-entry-50702.html

Avatar is doing ok overseas but it could be doing better, its at Fourth Place in Japan
Seat Rank Sales (Compared to Previous) Seats (Occupancy Rate) Avatar 3 has lost 40% + of its seats

a local movie is doing well
'Japan falls into emergency state due to a series of devastating typhoons'
https://asianwiki.com/Emergency_Interrogation_Room:_The_Final

Zootopia 2 has been at number 1 in Japan

South Korea. Avatar: Fire and Ash hit number 1 spot in S Korea and Zootopia 2 at 2nd place

the trend of local made films in their foreign markets pushing Hollywood films out and then spreading to box office across other regions continues

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, December 27, 2025 4:30 AM (P)

Did you catch that last weekend an A24 movie that only opened up in 6 theaters hit the Top 10 list for the weekend with just under $1 Million? Per theater it out-grossed Avatar 3 by about 6 times.

They opened it wide to 2668 theaters on weekend 2 and it got 2nd place with $18 Million.

Sounds like great news for Marty Supreme, until you see that the production budget for that movie was somehow $70 Million.

Oops.

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Saturday, December 27, 2025 9:36 PM (P)

Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) vs. Marty Supreme (2025) vs. Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Avatar-Fire-and-
Ash-(2025)/Marty-Supreme-(2025)/Avatar-The-Way-of-Water-(2022)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

prediction overall?

I think we did ok

user SECOND maybe there were predictions but having gone through a quick scan a quick speed read on some of the thread I see mostly article links posted

but as stated if you predict 'Flops' most of the time you are correct!

Snow White LMFAO that prediction was easy

Wick Ballerina 2025 another easy prediction

Bugonia a budget 55 million a Box office $39 million... we knew it would flop, I dont think we took much notice

Predator Badlands...those Predator Alien movies rarely make money in theatres even if they are liked

Nu-Tron was just terrible

it could be one of Hollywood's worst years yet but there was that really bad year after the Covid virus

Critics cant save or promote a film, Dwayne Johnson Movie ‘The Smashing Machine’ got great reviews but still crashed

Both of us realized Zootopia 2 would be a big winner

Trump Voight Hollyweird...neither of us expected Trump to pass all that tariff sanctions Law to save that Commiefornia film industry that hates him anyways

Ne Zha 2....I dont know maybe its real, if it was the first time the Chinese had their own epic story George Washington meets Superman, Paul Bunyan, Spider-Man, John Henry steel driving man and Robin Hood meets Greece and Rome
...and if maybe it appeals to everyone including kids
plus maybe just maybe if the tv and your facebooks and tiktoks was spamming everyone to go see it like they told everyone to see it like the first Gladiator or Avatar or Captain Marvel or Black Panther or Avengers...
...and if China had gotten much richer which it has done
also if Hollywood / Hollyweird was in decline
plus it it was the holiday vacation season which it was then maybe just maybe

but a figure just short of 2 Billion is a VERY HIGH number

Minecraft Movie?
did we call that? not really
it almost broke 1 Billion $958,111,414

much stronger than either of us predicted and it stayed at number 1 for most of the year

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Even without seeing the international numbers, I'd say my top-end prediction of $650 is looking pretty good right now. Could make even more than this if the interest stays high and it gets a proper run in theaters before getting yanked. And this could be the first time in a long while that the Chinese box office plays a factor in the end result.

‘Mickey 17’ crashed bad I did not see it crashing so hard,

on the horror genre they should have kept budgets 'Lower' but Sinners had good feedback

the comicbook genre continues to die but its not dead, Superman did ok but not enough to relaunch the Warner Bros DC franchise...WB might be for sale
Thunderbolts, Fan4 superhero stuff is mostly dead...mostly...they are moving on to Japan toons
New Captain America struggled

it was expected a lot of SJW DEI Tranny Open Border 'politics messages' type of stuff would flop and it did

Anime and the South Korean market and indie US and indie European film is here and everyone wants a Video Game made into a show or movie
Matt Walsh hates Japan film, their toons but does he have a secret type fethish sin spending his nights watching sinful Japanese toons...and later calls it work of the devil.

Now the SKoreans are outsmarting animation studios with K-Pop Demon Hunters

People see left vs right and Palestine Israel in everything even when its not, its just a movie guys!
but we are in a political divide now and 'culture war'

Stephen King is dumb and cant keep his mouth shut even after a horrific shooting
and Trump pisses on the grave of murdered celebs

“Wicked For Good” overseas it flopped but it continues to sell in the USA.
FNAF2 and new-Avatar are still in cinema theaters...continuing

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, December 28, 2025 4:29 PM (P)

Nu-Avatar movie

Avatar Fire and Ash

1st Thursday
$24,000,000 /
$153,693,465

2nd Friday
$22,600,000 /
$176,293,465

2nd Saturday
$22,200,000 /
$198,493,465

2nd Sunday
$19,200,000 /
$217,693,465

Estimated Daily BoxOffice Top 8 for Friday

1. #AvatarFireAndAsh - $22.60M
2. #MartySupreme - $6.73M
3. #Zootopia2 - $6.70M
4. #AnacondaMovie - $5.40M
5. #TheHousemaidMovie - $5.25M
6. #David - $4.74M
7. #SpongeBobMovie - $3.84M
8. #SongSungBlue - $2.66M

https://x.com/BORReport/status/2004963884416073771#m

Looks like they are trying to make Racing (F1), Arena Fighting (The Rock) and Sportsball a thing again...or is it Sport/Comedy?
...or is it a drama??

Disney / 20th Century's Avatar: Fire and Ash grossed an estimated $22.6M on Friday (from 3,800 locations). Estimated total domestic gross stands at $176.29M.

https://bsky.app/profile/boxofficereport.bsky.social/post/3may57sv2k22
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Marty Supreme (2025) vs. Cars 2 (2011) vs. Jerry Maguire (1996)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Marty-Supreme-(2
025)/Cars-2/Jerry-Maguire#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) vs. Marty Supreme (2025) vs. Barbie (2023)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Night-at-the-Mus
eum-Battle-of-the-Smithsonian/Marty-Supreme-(2025)/Barbie-(2023)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Marty Supreme (2025) vs. Inside Out 2 (2024) vs. Meet the Fockers (2004)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Marty-Supreme-(2
025)/Inside-Out-2-(2024)/Meet-the-Fockers#tab=day_by_day_comparison

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, December 29, 2025 3:22 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Hollywood budgets are still way too high

and our predictions are more accurate than 'movie industry experts'

Yeah. I think overall we did pretty good this year.

Maybe one wrong prediction each?

We were certainly way closer to the truth in almost every movie we bothered commenting on than Bruce or anybody over at Variety and Deadline were all year long.

I really don't buy that Chinese "win" though.

I'm sure now that the year is over it will probably get at least some coverage, but I don't get the feeling that anybody else has been taking it that seriously either. Pretty sure I haven't ever seen a single article pointing this out to anyone at least.

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Monday, December 29, 2025 3:37 AM (P)

Comparisons for A3 vs. A2's 2nd weekend are just about worthless.

Anyone writing about it doesn't seem to shy away from pointing that out, but they'll still celebrate the numbers by comparison, nonetheless.

Christmas fell on Sunday last year.

This will be the last big week for it, and then the kids go back to school.

Let's see what it does next weekend.

I have some serious doubts right now that it can even make half a Billion in the US before it's out of theaters. Unless it has amazing legs, it probably falls quite a bit short of that, actually.

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Monday, December 29, 2025 9:22 PM (P)

a Race to the Finish Line btw

Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) vs. Zootopia 2 (2025) vs. Wicked: For Good (2025)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Avatar-Fire-and-
Ash-(2025)/Zootopia-2-(2025)/Wicked-For-Good-(2025)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Korea Box Office: ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Dominates as ‘Zootopia 2’ Holds Strong
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/korea-box-office-avatar-fire-
and-ash-zootopia-2-1236618837/

Disney's Zootopia 2 has passed the $1.4 billion global mark. The film grossed an estimated $67.9M internationally this weekend. Estimated international total stands at $1.099B (including $561.1M in China), estimated global total stands at $1.421B.
https://bsky.app/profile/boxofficereport.bsky.social/post/3mb2prjjvws2
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markets
China $561.1M
US/Canada $321.4M
France $55.9M
Japan $52.2M
South Korea $49.1M
Germany $34M

Weekend Box Office Est. - Australia
https://x.com/numeroboxoffice/status/2005434566941810763#m
1. #AvatarFireAndAsh - $8.29M
2. #AnacondaMovie - $3.54M
3. #TheHousemaid - $2.86M

Universal's Wicked: For Good grossed an estimated $5.26M this weekend (from 2,008 locations), which was an 8% increase from last weekend. Estimated total domestic gross stands at $331.62M.
https://bsky.app/profile/boxofficereport.bsky.social/post/3mb2mvhcuas2
k

Estimated Weekend #BoxOffice
https://x.com/BORReport/status/2005329567788208143#m
1. #AvatarFireAndAsh - $64.00M
2. #Zootopia2 - $20.00M
3. #MartySupreme - $17.52M
4. #TheHousemaidMovie - $15.40M
5. #AnacondaMovie - $14.55M
6. #David - $12.69M
7. #SpongeBobMovie - $11.20M
8. #SongSungBlue - $7.60M

DEADLINE: 'Dune: Part 3' will keep all IMAX screens and not move from its December 18 2026 release date, when it opens alongside 'Avengers: Doomsday'
https://deadline.com/2025/12/box-office-2026-preview-1236657116/

Even 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' can't lift 2025 box office out of pandemic-crisis doldrums
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-12-29/e
ven-avatar-fire-ash-cant-lift-2025-box-office-out-of-pandemic-crisis-doldrums

Predicting Hollywood in 2026O
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/predictions-hollywood-2026/

Make-Up, Hair Stylists Guild Nominations: 'One Battle After Another'
https://variety.com/2025/artisans/awards/makeup-hairstylist-guild-nomi
nations-2026-frankenstein-1236618665/

SECOND

Tuesday, December 30, 2025 12:53 AM (P)

Why there's no good reason to go to a movie theater anymore

By Mick LaSalle | Dec 29, 2025
Mick LaSalle is the film critic emeritus of the Chronicle. Email: askmicklasalle@gmail.com

https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/movies-tv/article/movie-thea
ters-dying-lasalle-21257675.php

Dear Mick LaSalle: A recent Wall Street Journal article forecasted the curtain call for movie theaters within 10 years and cited declining attendance trends. Essentially, the current building footprints no longer generate the revenue per square foot needed for a reasonable return on investment. What are two things you would recommend to prevent the demise of the neighborhood multiplex?

Ken Kramer, Novato, California

Dear Ken Kramer: I don't have two things. I got nothing.

It used to be that the real experience of a movie was in the theater. If you saw a movie on TV, it was on a small screen, with commercials, and sometimes the movies were even cut short to fit the time slot the station needed to fill. Even after the arrival of VHS, the home video experience was still just a blurry, small-scale replica of the real thing. But that's no longer the case.

Today, the home video experience rivals the theater experience. Screens are big - if you have a video projector it can be 9- or 10-feet wide - and the clarity and sound are remarkable.

So why leave your living room to go to a movie theater? Why park your car and pay $18 for a ticket to watch 40 minutes of commercials and trailers before the movie even starts - just to be in an empty theater or, even worse, a packed house with people behind you coughing into your popcorn?

And that's a good night. A bad night is when you've got people answering their cellphones all around you and you're afraid to complain because, who knows, they might be crazy.

So I really see no reason why anyone would want to go to a multiplex, unless you're a teenage couple in search of a dark place.

That said, I do see why people would want to go to a specialty or repertory house, such as the Roxie, the Smith Rafael, the Stanford, the Balboa, the 4-Star, the Vogue and the Pacific Film Archive, because the programs there are well curated, and they show lots of movies you can't stream at home.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Tuesday, December 30, 2025 4:40 AM (P)

Shut up, faggot.

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Tuesday, December 30, 2025 4:07 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut up, faggot.

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6ix, you could write to Mick LaSalle, who is the film critic emeritus of the Chronicle. Email: askmicklasalle@gmail.com

Mick is more knowledgeable than 6ix about why TV is causing movie ticket sales to decrease.

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

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, December 30, 2025 4:12 PM (P)

So did James Cameron and a Wicked remake save Hollyweird or not?

How Stitch Became Disney’s MVP of 2025 - The mischievous alien starred in a billion-dollar grossing film, sold more than $4 billion dollars in merchandise, and took over for Mickey Mouse on a national tour.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/disney-2025-big-wi
nner-stitch-character-1236457944/

no showing as bad as Kraven the Hunter but how does it compare with Sonic 3 ...very good these runs have Sonic the Hedgehog 3 beaten, Spider-Man No Way Home...not so much

Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) vs. Wicked: For Good (2025) vs. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons/Avatar-Fire-and-
Ash-(2025)/Wicked-For-Good-(2025)/Spider-Man-No-Way-Home-(2021)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) vs. Wicked: For Good (2025) vs. Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

Nu-Avatar movie

Avatar Fire and Ash

2nd Monday
$11,000,000 /
$227,914,790

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Wednesday, December 31, 2025 4:18 AM (P)

Why pay for movie tickets?

51 Great Movies From 2025 Now Streaming: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners,’ ‘Bugonia,’ ‘Weapons’ and More

Dec 30, 2025 1:35pm PT

Check out a full rundown below of the best and/or biggest movies of 2025 now available to stream.

https://variety.com/lists/best-movies-2025-streaming/28-years-later-ne
tflix/

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, December 31, 2025 5:09 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut up, faggot.

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6ix, you could write to Mick LaSalle, who is the film critic emeritus of the Chronicle. Email: askmicklasalle@gmail.com

Mick is more knowledgeable than 6ix about why TV is causing movie ticket sales to decrease.

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

Oooooooooh! Film Critic Emeritus! We're so impressed with your title, Your Holiness!

No thanks. Not interested. I get my fill of talking to stupid people here everyday.

Me and Jaynez have been kicking their asses all over the place on predictions for the last 5 or so years, so I'm going to just laugh off any of your claims about their so-called "knowledge" on the subject, mkay?

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Wednesday, December 31, 2025 10:19 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Oooooooooh! Film Critic Emeritus! We're so impressed with your title, Your Holiness!

On one hand, the guy who made a living writing about movies wrote:
"Why there’s no good reason to go to a movie theater anymore"
By Mick LaSalle | Dec 29, 2025
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/movies-tv/article/movie-thea
ters-dying-lasalle-21257675.php

Mick LaSalle praises TVs as better for watching movies than movie theaters.

On the other hand, 6ixStringJoker, the angry poor white trash who voted for Trump three times and has an opinion on millions of things, differs.

Who is right? 6ixStringJoker and Trump are right, and experts are wrong. Ask Trump any question on any subject, and he always has the right answer and will instantaneously share his vast knowledge of all things. I asked Google to verify that. Google answered:

While Donald Trump frequently characterizes himself as having exceptional knowledge and providing correct answers, extensive fact-checking and public assessments present a significantly different reality.

Self-Characterization vs. Reality

• Self-Claims of Expertise: Trump has publicly claimed to be a "very stable genius" and has asserted he knows more about certain subjects than anyone else, including renewables, social media, tax laws, and debt. He recently stated he "got every answer right" on a cognitive test during his 2025 physical exam.

• Frequency of Falsehoods: Fact-checkers documented over 30,000 false or misleading claims during his first term—averaging 21 per day. As of late 2025, reports indicate he continues to rely on an array of false information to support his second-term agenda.

• Accuracy Ratings: Analysis by PolitiFact of over 1,000 statements found that approximately 76% were rated as "Mostly False," "False," or "Pants on Fire".

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, January 1, 2026 2:14 AM (P)

Nobody gives a single shit about your bullshit stats and your "educated" elitists anymore, dude.

Whether by stupidity or by design, they're always wrong about everything.

We're batting nearly 1.000 here, and they can't get a single prediction right, despite all that expensive schooling that mommy and daddy gave them.

You follow idiots and liars.

You are retarded.

Period.

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Thursday, January 1, 2026 11:29 PM (P)

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody gives a single shit about your bullshit stats and your "educated" elitists anymore, dude.

Whether by stupidity or by design, they're always wrong about everything.

We're batting nearly 1.000 here, and they can't get a single prediction right, despite all that expensive schooling that mommy and daddy gave them.

You follow idiots and liars.

You are retarded.

Period.

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6ix, you make too late predictions of winners after the betting window closes and before the race is finished. Your predictions make no difference. But you get the imaginary satisfactions of feeling superior, which is a pretty pitiful way to live. 6ix, your life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, January 4, 2026 1:33 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody gives a single shit about your bullshit stats and your "educated" elitists anymore, dude.

Whether by stupidity or by design, they're always wrong about everything.

We're batting nearly 1.000 here, and they can't get a single prediction right, despite all that expensive schooling that mommy and daddy gave them.

You follow idiots and liars.

You are retarded.

Period.

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6ix, you make too late predictions of winners after the betting window closes and before the race is finished.

Total 100% fabricated untruth.

Quote:
Your predictions make no difference.

Okay.

But I think you're biased because you're always wrong and I'm always right though.

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, January 4, 2026 1:47 PM (P)

Man... I knew it would never happen, but I was really hoping to see A3 not even make its production budget back. Looks like, thanks to the international audience, it will be hitting $1 Billion today (it already has, actually, with the uncounted international stuff Monday to Friday).

Ain't no way in hell it's making what it needs to break even though.

This will be the final Avatar movie.

Don't listen to James's bullshit about how he was ready to move on and tell different stories, which has been a story he started telling even before this movie dropped. He had a vision for 12 movies. The fact that you didn't keep showing up to shell out the $2 Billion to $2.5 Billion to keep seeing them broke his heart, and if you know anything about the perfectionist he is, this will eat him alive on the inside for the rest of his life.

It's too much bullshit dude. You can't spend three movies telling the same story without any meaningful story-line progression when the bill for production alone is $1 Billion per movie and counting.

You used to be one of the greats man. But you spent way too long drinking the Kool-Aid all the Yes-Men around you were feeding you, and now you're just a sad old man like Stephen Spielberg and George Lucas before you.

I know you won't have to pay for any of your bullshit out of your own pocket, but this will send ripples out through the rest of your career. Nobody is ever going to give you $1 Billion to make a movie again.

It won't be back to basics for you. At least not right away it won't. You should still have a few reasonable-budget movies ahead of you as long as you don't blow any of them.

I dunno man... You just fell pray to something you should have learned years ago just by watching other people fail.

I'm not even talking about woke shit. I'm just talking about storytelling and pacing.

I always think back to what could have been with the re-boot of Thundercats. It was one of the few remakes that anybody ever put out which I thought was a great improvement off of the original thing I loved when I grew up.

And they KILLED it.

Because they didn't stay on topic and they put a bunch of bullshit filler and "universe building" in the middle of it. They didn't get the 2 seasons they thought they would get, so we were left with another half-told story and robbed of the conclusion because instead of telling their story in 12 episodes, they gave us 6 episodes of bullshit filler on the side and people tuned out.

Nobody wants to sit through one 3.5 hour long movie, let alone 12 of them.

Really man... What did you think was going to happen?

Did you really believe you could keep working with larger budgets and you were going to have the first movie series that just increased viewership with every release?

Maybe the 80's and 90's version of you could have pulled that off.

Not whatever it is you've become today though.

*smh*

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SECOND

Monday, January 5, 2026 1:04 AM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

This will be the final Avatar movie.

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Even the biggest, most successful stars fear the future is on Television, not at movie theaters.

Leonardo DiCaprio Wonders if ‘People Still Have the Appetite’ for Movie Theaters:
Will They Become ‘Like Jazz Bars?’

Jan 3, 2026 1:42pm PT

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/leonardo-dicaprio-appetite-movie-th
eaters-1236622961/

Leonardo DiCaprio is worried about the future of moviegoing. During a recent interview with The Times of London, the “Titanic” star questioned if “people still have the appetite” for movie theaters. He also pondered if cinemas would “become silos – like jazz bars?”

“It’s changing at a lightning speed,” DiCaprio said of the film industry. “We’re looking at a huge transition. First, documentaries disappeared from cinemas. Now, dramas only get finite time and people wait to see it on streamers. I don’t know.”

By the way, there are free copies of Avatar 3 available for your TV.

Avatar Fire and Ash 2025 1080p HDTS x264-LOL
Avatar.Fire.and.Ash.2025.2160p.HDTS.H265.Dual.YG

https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=avatar%20fire&cat=0

Leonardo DiCaprio is depressed because his movie One Battle After Another, despite being rated the best movie of the year by many critics, will not make a profit from movie ticket sales. Production Budget: $140,000,000 (worldwide box office is 1.5 times production budget)

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/One-Battle-After-Another-(2025)#tab=
summary

Almost forgot that One Battle After Another is also available for free for your TV. You'll figure it out . . .

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Monday, January 5, 2026 4:26 AM (P)

Leo should know.

He was now in two of the biggest made for streaming flops ever to hit the theaters.

Or is it three? Wasn't he in that Michael Jordan biopic flop a year or two before Killers of the Flower Moon too?

...

Yup. It's been 3 now:

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Air-(2023)#tab=summary

Awwwwww... That's cute, Second. You're going around and changing my signature in every reply all over the board today.

Somebody is on tilt, huh?

It's been a very, very LONG time since you've gotten a single piece of news that made that dark little heart of yours happy, innit?

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, February 1, 2026 8:41 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Comparisons for A3 vs. A2's 2nd weekend are just about worthless.

Anyone writing about it doesn't seem to shy away from pointing that out, but they'll still celebrate the numbers by comparison, nonetheless.

Christmas fell on Sunday last year.

This will be the last big week for it, and then the kids go back to school.

Let's see what it does next weekend.

I have some serious doubts right now that it can even make half a Billion in the US before it's out of theaters. Unless it has amazing legs, it probably falls quite a bit short of that, actually.

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I wrote that on December 28th, and then I haven't been able to update it since.

As of January 30th, the Domestic Box Office of Avitar is $381,826,673.

Worldwide Box Office is only $1,367,721,650

Avatar 3 needed around $2.5 BILLION to break even.

It's projected to have made $1,200,000 on Friday in the states, and didn't break 1 Million a single day during the week prior.

This movie will have cost Disney well over $1 BILLION in losses when this is all said and done, making Indy 5 look like a winner in comparison.

Avatar 3 will go down in history as Hollywood's biggest loser. And the way things are going, I don't expect you're going to see budgets anywhere near what they've been over the last 10 years and it will hold that title for at least a generation if not two.

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JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, February 3, 2026 3:57 AM (P)

‘Zootopia 2’ a huge hit from last year and continues into 2026...massive money from China perhaps the Disney movie keeps going it can continue earning cash until the Chinese Lunar New Year Festival

SECOND

Wednesday, February 4, 2026 10:39 PM (P)

Movie ticket sales are down because former moviegoers can watch at home for free. Even students who are training to make movies don't care to watch in theaters.

By Witney Seibold | Feb. 3, 2026 5:00 pm EST

https://www.slashfilm.com/2092475/how-increase-attention-span-longer-m
ovies/

. . . many film students are starting to eschew the idea of in-person screenings altogether, preferring to watch movies in their dorm rooms alone via a campus streaming service. And even then, professors were able to track their students' watching habits and found that many kids didn't even finish watching the films assigned to them. One student admitted to watching movies at double speed.

. . . Trying to get a younger student interested in the traditional Hollywood three-act structure may be a doomed endeavor. Many of us older filmgoers may assume that a student would be made more alert by a fun, light, action-packed movie with a lot of incidents and a story that unfolds naturally over 90 to 120 minutes. But for a kid used to quick-gratification narratives, waiting for traditional screenplay climaxes as they were written in the 1970s can feel like a chore. Why wait for a movie's protagonist to have their catharsis at the start of a film's third act when a catharsis can be had almost right away online?

Read More: https://www.slashfilm.com/2092475/how-increase-attention-span-longer-m
ovies/

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

SECOND

Friday, February 13, 2026 7:19 PM (P)

Hollywood studios doomed by 'ultra-realistic' AI video tool

By Ian Youngs | Feb 13, 2026

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjd9nllng22o

It immediately set alarm bells ringing in Hollywood and beyond, with Deadpool writer Rhett Reese warning: "I hate to say it. It's likely over for us."

While many users are likely to be delighted to have its powers at their fingertips, Reese, who co-wrote and executive-produced the Deadpool films among others, said he was "terrified" by the implications.

"So many people I love are facing the loss of careers they love. I myself am at risk," he wrote.

"When I wrote 'It's over,' I didn't mean it to sound cavalier or flippant. I was blown away by the Pitt v Cruise video because it is so professional. That's exactly why I'm scared.

"My glass half empty view is that Hollywood is about to be revolutionized/decimated. If you truly think the Pitt v Cruise video is unimpressive slop, you've got nothing to worry about. But I'm shook."

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, February 14, 2026 7:20 AM (P)

Keep trying to explain away the death of the ideology that drives your black little soul, Second.

You dumb little hobgoblin.

I don't envy your shoes.

It sucks to be you.

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SECOND

Saturday, February 14, 2026 8:01 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Keep trying to explain away the death of the ideology that drives your black little soul, Second. You dumb little hobgoblin. I don't envy your shoes. It sucks to be you.

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That clip is from Roxanne [1987]. Using that movie as a demonstration of why cinemas are not selling many tickets:

Download Roxanne for free from https://uindex.org/search.php?search=Roxanne+1987&c=1
https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=Roxanne+1987&cat=0

The trick is not limited to 39-year-old movies. You can download movies that are still playing in theaters.

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, February 15, 2026 2:42 PM (P)

I was downloading movies almost 25 years ago myself, idiot.

This has very little to do with it. I've proven that time and time and time again here with the numbers and I refuse to take your bait and waste any more time schooling you on this issue. You are a waste of everyone's time.

Everybody rejected your woke bullshit. California made making movies so expensive that nobody can afford to make them anymore.

There used to be waiting lists to rent out studios in Hollywood. Now they have over 40% vacancy every day.

You destroyed Hollywood. Just like YOU destroyed your party.

Pat yourself on the back, retard.

Everyone hates you.

Have a nice day.

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SECOND

Sunday, February 15, 2026 7:07 PM (P)

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I was downloading movies almost 25 years ago myself, idiot.

This has very little to do with it. I've proven that time and time and time again here with the numbers and I refuse to take your bait and waste any more time schooling you on this issue. You are a waste of everyone's time.

Everybody rejected your woke bullshit. California made making movies so expensive that nobody can afford to make them anymore.

There used to be waiting lists to rent out studios in Hollywood. Now they have over 40% vacancy every day.

You destroyed Hollywood. Just like YOU destroyed your party.

Pat yourself on the back, retard.

Everyone hates you.

Have a nice day.

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What is killing Hollywood now was predicted 21 years ago in Death Spiral
https://slate.com/culture/2005/07/hollywood-s-death-spiral.html

TL;DR version: Releasing movies on DVD a few days after premiering in theaters will kill ticket sales. (Update for 2026: Streaming movies shortly after their theatrical premieres is killing ticket sales.)

6ixStringJoker, before you were born, I was being paid to write programs in Fortran on the CDC 6600 supercomputer at the University of Texas at Austin Computation Center. I earned thousands. How much have you been paid for your programming? Nothing?

Better than downloading Roxanne [1987], After Hours [1985] https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=After+Hours+1985&cat=0 (The protagonist worked a job just like the one 6ixStringJoker had -- typing at a computer.)

"Why are Adam Sandler movies not perceived as moral cataclysms?" - https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/moral

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

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, February 15, 2026 10:35 PM (P)

I was downloading movies almost 25 years ago myself, idiot.

This has very little to do with it. I've proven that time and time and time again here with the numbers and I refuse to take your bait and waste any more time schooling you on this issue. You are a waste of everyone's time.

Everybody rejected your woke bullshit. California made making movies so expensive that nobody can afford to make them anymore.

There used to be waiting lists to rent out studios in Hollywood. Now they have over 40% vacancy every day.

You destroyed Hollywood. Just like YOU destroyed your party.

Pat yourself on the back, retard.

Everyone hates you.

Have a nice day.

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