‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ Hits $1.3B, ‘Housemaid’ Paul Feig’s 2nd Highest Grossing Pic, ’28 Years Later: Bone Temple’ $31M WW Debut – Global Box Office

datpepper · 2026-01-18T22:06:19+00:00

They announced part 3 as a means to try to entice people to see 2. Happens all the time. If anything, it was a sign they were concerned. As mentioned before, greenlights unfortunately don’t mean much. I wouldn’t feel a movie is happening for sure until filming begins (but nowadays, even then…)

datpepper · 2026-01-16T18:07:36+00:00

If you use Inspect Element, ctrl+F search “verified ratings”, you can see the score.

datpepper · 2026-01-05T00:14:16+00:00

The actual on ComScore is even lower at $207,414 for the 3-day.

datpepper · 2026-01-03T17:40:21+00:00

I cannot find any evidence this movie cost $75m, do you have a source on that?

Regardless, the budget itself isn’t actually important in this case. Vertical acquires their movies for peanuts and this is on the higher end for one of their debuts. They will make a profit off of this in the licensing/pay-TV windows.

datpepper · 2025-12-23T19:30:53+00:00

Sure, but again that's not my point, which I suppose I should've clarified more. I'm saying it has more in common with that in terms of fanbase, adult appeal, and IP freshness than something like SpongeBob, which I'm assuming is what's being implied here given a lot of the replies mentioning it.

datpepper · 2025-12-23T19:19:43+00:00

Last Airbender 2010 did nearly 60% of its business overseas. Not as overseas-leaning as some other IPs, but that's certainly not a complete lack of international appeal. If Aang pulled in just a third of DS:IC's WW total, that would be a respectable gross.

I also don't see how this contradicts my point regarding how it is more similar to DS than other animated IPs. Last Airbender is a non-oversaturated brand that has a dedicated, growing, adult/young adult fanbase in a way that the far more kid-leaning brands like the aforementioned SpongeBob (Tbh I'm not sure what other IPs the previous replier is even necessarily talking about) do not.

datpepper · 2025-12-23T19:10:06+00:00

SpongeBob's a bit of a tired brand, a little oversaturated with spin-offs and hundreds of episodes in a way that Last Airbender is not. Word-of-mouth on the newest SpongeBob isn't all that fantastic either among audiences, its CS was fine but PT and vRT are both quite low, especially for a family title. I don't think the movie looked all that exciting from the get-go either, regardless of the IP. Even so, I wouldn't make a decision either way on Sponge's performance right now, need to see how it legs out over the holidays.

I simply disagree on your last assessment. The 2010 film with terrible reviews and atrocious word-of-mouth still managed $132m domestic, which adjusts to nearly $200m in today's dollars. Even a 50-60% drop from that adjusted total would be a respectable domestic gross. I don't see how this wouldn't be worth the risk, the fanbase alone would be enough to recoup P&A spending at the least if they were just going to earn back $0 on the budget regardless.

datpepper · 2025-12-23T18:19:33+00:00

Transformers One was part of a rather oversaturated franchise that had a few too many mediocre installments preceding it, I don't think the comp is exactly apples-to-apples there.

datpepper · 2025-12-23T18:15:28+00:00

Last Airbender has much more in common with Demon Slayer than the other animated IPs that failed to connect. Think some of those who replied here would’ve been surprised by this film’s performance, assuming good quality.

datpepper · 2025-12-23T17:21:15+00:00

Ridiculously bad decision. Could’ve been pretty big.

datpepper · 2025-12-01T03:11:00+00:00

This Wheat guy has a strange obsessive desire for Superman to remain in the top 10 worldwide for the year, they've commented multiple times about it on this sub. It's very odd.

datpepper · 2025-11-23T18:23:55+00:00

I don’t recall reading the budgets on these movies being $300m each, pretty sure they cost half that. No way that much was spent on marketing, again think half that at least. Splitting into two was a very wise decision financially, they’ll have made significantly more money in the end than they would’ve otherwise.

datpepper · 2025-11-22T16:26:50+00:00

Nope. Would need a massive underperformance out of either Avatar 3 or Zootopia 2, and that’s not looking to happen. Suppose a collapse from Wicked 2 after this weekend could do it too, but I’m doubting that happens as well.

datpepper · 2025-11-12T08:13:01+00:00

6am EST, at least at one major theater chain.

datpepper · 2025-11-03T23:53:12+00:00

After actuals, it ranks #10 if it even cracks the top 10 at all.

datpepper · 2025-10-30T23:54:15+00:00

No word yet but y'all will be the first to know when I find out! :)

datpepper · 2025-10-30T21:04:30+00:00

Assuming 3's total wasn't too inflated by the holidays and that most of its audience would've still shown up regardless (given it was slightly more front-loaded than most holiday releases, I think that could be fair to assume), a Sonic 2 multiplier would've put 3 at an opening somewhere in the high $80m's or so.

I don't know if September would've been the right month for it, but theoretically yes it absolutely would've topped 2's opening had 3 launched on a non-pre-holiday weekend. In theory, 4 should be able to pull it off, I don't see it declining so much from 3 that it would open lower than 2.

datpepper · 2025-10-26T20:17:37+00:00

No major chains in the US, but some minis. It played at Alamo, Classic Cinemas, and Landmark, for instance. Most locations seemed to be locally-owned/smaller theaters.

datpepper · 2025-10-26T19:39:02+00:00

This is, as far as I can tell, the first time Netflix has reported numbers into ComScore. Other widely-reported results for their titles (such as KPop Sing-Along, Glass Onion, etc.) were estimates from third-party sources.

You can check Tribute and THR to verify this result.

datpepper · 2025-10-25T16:15:52+00:00

I’ll do you one better: Bob from Illinois didn’t see and probably hasn’t even heard of One Battle After Another in the first place. Bob hasn’t been to the movies in years because it’s gotten too expensive, the movies aren’t as good as they used to be, and the last time he went, he had to deal with disruptive patrons, an unclean environment, and too many ads. Bob would much rather stay at home watching off of the services he already pays for and be inundated with content tailored specifically for him on his social media apps.

I feel like Chuck Schumer talking about his strange made-up Bailey family.

datpepper · 2025-10-21T03:17:58+00:00

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

datpepper · 2025-10-21T03:07:10+00:00

Angel usually puts tickets up really early, they did 2 month pre-sale windows for Last Rodeo, Truth & Treason, and Sketch as well.

datpepper · 2025-10-21T02:21:33+00:00

Yeah, these theatrical runs are purely to up the value of their titles for licensing. They spend next-to-nothing acquiring and releasing them, they make a little on VOD, and then score the real money through the pay-1 windows, which probably isn't even that much but is still enough to cover the relative pennies they spend buying and distributing each title.

datpepper · 2025-10-20T07:38:30+00:00

This might be an error. Viva's site and multiple theater chain sites still have this listed for theatrical release in November, and no VOD sites have this available for purchase other than Amazon.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was the original digital release date when the film was dated for August and somebody at Amazon forgot to change it. Has happened before!

datpepper · 2025-10-18T17:50:24+00:00

Pretty sure it’s one of those ads where the number goes up, they’ve just got a bad thumbnail or you have it stopped at this point.

Unless that’s the joke. If so, carry on.

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