BOX-OFFICE potential in the Multiverse of Madness

Cinemas are steadily recovering after the pandemic and I've come to the conclusion that the audience for medium and small size movies just seems to be taking a little bit longer to visit them. But there is certainly an upwards trend.

Take this year's Paramount films for example. Besides Top Gun that became a massive hit you have Sonic 2 that already has made more than the first one, which came before the lockdowns, and it keeps going. The Lost City did really well for an original film and then you have Jackass and Scream that were very successful as well. Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is A24's highest grossing film. Elvis is tracking to make 110-170 million in the US alone, Black Phone another 45-70.

I think slowly but steadily people will return to cinemas for all kinds of movies. It may take a few years and maybe it won't be exactly like before due to streaming, but there is a need for this kind of experience that will never be replaced with home video. To go out, to be around people, to participate in a collective way. It's like thinking that once food deliveries started to happen people would stop going out to eat.

Hopefully this box office rising will continue for cinemas in the future and waiting for a streaming release will always be an option for those who prefer the comfort of their household.

It's almost like after being stuck in their home for about two years people actually want to go out and do things and were sick of watching movies on their tiny screens.
 
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BOX-OFFICE potential in the Multiverse of Madness

BOX-OFFICE potential in the Multiverse of Madness

And the beat.....and back patting....goes on......

Thanks for the reminder......everyone almost forgot.:hehe:
 
It's almost like after being stuck in their home for about two years people actually want to go out and do things and were sick of watching movies on their tiny screens.

People are over the pandemic. No ones wearing masks anymore (but i still am hehe) and people are going out and doing their best to get back to pre-2020 life so yeah i think the movies are going to see a surge of business in the next year or two.
 
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I had guessed we'd be in the 800M range so it's doing better than I thought. Now that it's on Disney Plus, I doubt it cracks a billion, right? That seems impossible.
 
I had guessed we'd be in the 800M range so it's doing better than I thought. Now that it's on Disney Plus, I doubt it cracks a billion, right? That seems impossible.
0% chance of that happening. That being said, the fact that it wasn't released in a few large markets makes it every bit as popular as others in that club. Marvel is very, very happy with how this did.
 
0% chance of that happening. That being said, the fact that it wasn't released in a few large markets makes it every bit as popular as others in that club. Marvel is very, very happy with how this did.

I wonder if anyone will ever reveal ( officially or not ) the kind of numbers and benchmarks they look at for Disney+ performance versus theatrical performance. I mean, presumably *someone* is calculating "equivalent ticket sales' internally, so that they can go "Okay, if we do this release schedule, we can expect X million dollars in marginal ticket sales, versus if we do this release schedule and get Y million dollars instead". Working with these numbers enough, someone could probably feed them backwards and estimate, based on Disney+ streaming data, approximately how many tickets would have been sold in a "traditional" movie release window.
 
I wonder if anyone will ever reveal ( officially or not ) the kind of numbers and benchmarks they look at for Disney+ performance versus theatrical performance. I mean, presumably *someone* is calculating "equivalent ticket sales' internally, so that they can go "Okay, if we do this release schedule, we can expect X million dollars in marginal ticket sales, versus if we do this release schedule and get Y million dollars instead". Working with these numbers enough, someone could probably feed them backwards and estimate, based on Disney+ streaming data, approximately how many tickets would have been sold in a "traditional" movie release window.
I’d be very interested to see it if it was ever available.
 
Yeah I would be very interested to see how they calculate that with the Disney+ release, but they will probably never share that info.
 
I knew this wouldn't hit a billion without China but this is a great box office for this film. Considering no Russia and parts of the middle east either.
 
One reason I'm very suspicious about streaming and streaming profitability is we rarely get hard numbers, not to mention that all the major streaming companies or major streaming service owners have been reporting major losses:

Comcast Beats Wall Street Estimates With Strong Q2 But Peacock Premium Subscriber Levels Flat At 13M – Deadline
Paramount Expects $1.8B in Streaming Losses This Year – The Hollywood Reporter
Warner Bros. Discovery sinks on $3.42 billion loss, HBO Max restructuring plan revealed
Netflix Lost $50 Billion in Value Overnight
 
0% chance of that happening. That being said, the fact that it wasn't released in a few large markets makes it every bit as popular as others in that club. Marvel is very, very happy with how this did.

I don't know about anyone else but the fact that a movie starring Doctor Strange can make close to a billion dollars worldwide is pretty amazing to me. I always thought Doctor Strange had potential and could do some decent business, but I never imagined this. This is a major movie franchise character now. I used to only think the biggest characters that Marvel Studios could make movies out of were probably Iron Man, Captain America, and maybe an Avengers movie, but they've pretty much hit home runs on almost everything they put out.

If you look at it movie for movie, no movie franchise has the track record that the MCU does at this point.
 

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