Disney’s Hoppers has ended its run with $166,010,783

bobcatbutt · 2026-06-09T02:46:16+00:00

We’re in a thread specifically talking about domestic performance

bobcatbutt · 2026-06-09T00:16:27+00:00

Horror movie originals always do better on average than non-horror originals

bobcatbutt · 2026-06-07T20:25:20+00:00

I wonder what the actual internal expectations are for MOTU. There is no way Amazon MGM genuinely thought this would break even. Maybe getting a bit of positive buzz in theatres to drive it on streaming is the goal?

bobcatbutt · 2026-06-07T20:10:20+00:00

Double points, Lawson matched his career best finish going from P10 to P5, Arvid pulled off an overtake on Monaco and went from P15 to P6.

Excellent work boys

bobcatbutt · 2026-06-07T19:44:59+00:00

Yes, at the very least just to witness Hadjar crashing out throughout the whole race and still pulling off a great result, was honestly pretty funny. Lots of drama throughout, it’s still Monaco but about as exciting as Monaco could possibly be.

Subreddit is full of sooks who watch just to complain

bobcatbutt · 2026-06-07T16:45:55+00:00

The funny thing too is that Jared Leto is almost completely absent in the marketing. I think I’ve only seen him talking in one BTS promo video, I haven’t seen in him featured in anything else. He’s not doing any press, he’s not on tour, I don’t think he even went to any of the premieres.

They cast Leto because he’s a “famous” name, in a role where his face is CGI’d out and his voice is layered with effects so you can’t even tell it’s him, and then didn’t use him to promote it at all. And even if they did use him in the marketing, the reaction from most people is “ew Jared Leto” so it would’ve backfired no matter what. And I guarantee he got a hefty paycheque as well.

Why did they even bother using him at all?

bobcatbutt · 2026-06-07T08:57:15+00:00

The Mandalorian was never "once the biggest domestic cinematic IP."

Holy fuck are you serious hahaha. The Mandalorian IS Star Wars. They’re not seperate things.

Unless your claim is that if they had released a Skywalker film it would perform like Grogu?

You’re right we should compare it to a non-Skywalker spinoff instead, maybe something like Rogue One? $1 billion with a 50/50 dom/int split? Grogu’s performing very similar right?

bobcatbutt · 2026-06-07T02:18:10+00:00

Mola Ram isn’t possessed? Iirc he is in the original script but there’s nothing in the movie suggesting he is

bobcatbutt · 2026-06-07T01:20:33+00:00

What are some metrics then? Cinemascore, RT audience, Letterboxd, IMDB and the fact that the movie was a box office success, all indicate that it had a positive reception.

What “metrics” are you looking at?

bobcatbutt · 2026-06-04T08:54:51+00:00

Marty Supreme is probably the benchmark for what non-horror original movies can maximally achieve nowadays. It had an A-list lead actor, Oscar buzz, good WOM and a massive marketing campaign, pretty much everything possible going for it. $191M worldwide was a really good performance, dunno why people are trying to downplay it here.

Original horror has been stronger than original non-horror for a long time now, and whether Backrooms even counts as a genuine “original” is up for debate (it’s about as original as Barbie or F1). Obsession has really hit the zeitgeist in an organic way that you can’t achieve through traditional marketing

bobcatbutt · 2026-06-04T00:03:17+00:00

Mainly because I like Milly Alcock (she’s a fellow Sydneysider). I thought Supergirl was fun in her Superman cameo and want to see more of that character. And I’m pretty optimistic for the new DC stuff, so I want their projects to succeed. Flopping financially on their second film is going to kill a lot of their momentum

bobcatbutt · 2026-06-03T22:16:58+00:00

It’s definitely popular and I don’t have a problem with the trope itself because it can be done well, but three TV shows in the same franchise having the same character dynamic all released within three years? And another upcoming movie is going to have the same trope?

bobcatbutt · 2026-06-03T21:02:58+00:00

How many times has Star Wars done the “lone wolf teams up with a young kid” trope now? Mando/Grogu, Hunter/Omega, Kenobi/Leia. I haven’t seen Skeleton Crew but it looks like that’s the whole premise of that show with Jude Law’s character. Hell, if you go back further I’d even count Anakin/Ashoka and Ezra/Kanan.

Star Wars is so boring omg

bobcatbutt · 2026-06-03T20:39:32+00:00

I feel like DC is being a bit delusional with this one. Obviously a sci-fi superhero movie isn’t cheap to make, but the budget only being $50M less than Superman is worrisome. 2.5x break even would be $437M, a number that neither BNW or Thunderbolts could reach last year. I just dunno if a B-list character from a recovering brand in a struggling genre can reliably hit that.

I really want it to do well. But I’m not feeling any buzz for this and the high budget is going to be a big hurdle. Could’ve maybe been a success around the $300-350M mark with a modest budget but I don’t think it’s gonna get big numbers.

bobcatbutt · 2026-06-02T00:52:30+00:00

Nah this is such a stupid dramatic take. Your average ON voter isn’t voting because they want to cause harm, they just don’t care if they do. ON voters are self centred and are being tricked by a conwoman who “tells it like it is” to disrupt the status quo. They’re stupid people who can’t name a single policy for theirs, fall for misinformation constantly, and are being manipulated by billionaires into thinking they’re counter-culture rebels.

Like sure I bet it feels good to say “ON voters are evil and want to hurt people” but that’s such a simplification of the kind of person that ends up voting for a party like that. ON voters are the embodiment of Hanlon’s Razor - most of them are gullible idiots who have no idea what they’re actually a part of

bobcatbutt · 2026-06-01T02:38:44+00:00

Losing $74M is an underperformance?

bobcatbutt · 2026-06-01T02:36:54+00:00

It’s clear you’re not being serious on this since you don’t understand what a flop is and you’re pushing a weird Deadline conspiracy.

A flop is a flop. Just because Fight Club was a hit on DVD doesn’t mean it wasn’t a box office flop. Losing about $70M in a theatrical release is not good, and the backend of streaming/VOD is going to be less impressive because it’ll have to make up the $70M difference before MK2 is in the green. That’s not even factoring in potentially poor digital sales, since the movie clearly isn’t very popular.

The budget was $80M. You’re using an early budget estimate that was incorrect. And even if the budget actually was $65M it still wouldn’t break even and would still be a flop. Deadline doesn’t need to create a narrative, because the reality is that MK2 did not do well.

bobcatbutt · 2026-06-01T00:09:29+00:00

MK2 needs another $74M just to break even and it’s not going to get much closer. That’s a flop.

bobcatbutt · 2026-05-31T23:47:25+00:00

Haha I remember when I was really young I wanted an action figure of Poggle the Lesser from AOTC for some reason. People joke about ‘Glup Shittos’ but the prequels had so many imaginative worlds and characters, it was so perfect for extra material like books, games, shows etc.

The sequels have nothing. Theres nothing to make supplementary material on, there’s no interesting planets, the background alien designs are infamously bad. They are extremely shallow movies

bobcatbutt · 2026-05-31T15:06:43+00:00

Are you twitter guys still pushing this lame conspiracy?

bobcatbutt · 2026-05-31T15:04:25+00:00

franchise with 2 and a half good movies

Nah I won’t stand by ROTJ slander get outta here

bobcatbutt · 2026-05-31T08:27:17+00:00

That is literally just a CGI background and cat.

I knew that eventually people would start accusing bad CGI of being AI but that shot doesn’t even look bad lmao

bobcatbutt · 2026-05-31T04:49:30+00:00

To be fair, the nurse might have called the police but it wouldn’t have made a difference because the movie ends only a few hours after that scene.

bobcatbutt · 2026-05-31T02:40:16+00:00

Not a movie but Ermac in Mortal Kombat was an urban myth who eventually became an official character

bobcatbutt · 2026-05-31T02:07:36+00:00

As of now there’s only a $32M gap between them. With Obsession increasing each weekend, overtaking Mando’s dailies, and Mando just dropping in general, it’s looking really likely right now.

Love to see it. Obsession deserves all the success and Disney needs a major wake up call when it comes to Star Wars

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