Suicide Squad bombs at the box office. $26.5M Domestic.
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Godless Socialist CEO
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I think you mean to say "Deadpool" proved that.
I looked to see who has the most post in here and behold
We got a few YEARS until theaters are even somewhat back to pre-covid. Talking like 2024 at the earliest.
hopefully these actors adjust their asking price because that cut of theater revenue ain't happening for a minute.
Deadpool didn't make a billion is the angle in the argument.
But yeah, Deadpool making money hand over fist as an R Rated comic jawn did open the door.
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Right, that's kind of my point. Joker never gets made if Deadpool didn't walk so it could run
The movie would have done well enough in normal times. I see a bunch of people talking about this is a referendum on James Gunn, and the content was too much. Pretty much the Snyder stans. This was no better or worse than Deadpool. If Covid wasn't a thing the box office would have been a lot bigger. Way bigger to where no one would be talking about why it bombed, even though we're still in the pandemic. It got good reviews all around. Plus it's rated R. So no one under 18 would be able to walk in there. That's a huge chunk of cash they're missing out on. Then it's on HBO Max. I saw it in the theater, but I'm vaccinated. The 2nd and 3rd time watching it was on HBO Max. So there goes the money I would have spent on the movie. Well more like money AMC would have allocated since I have A-List. I don't think the movie bombing is indicative of anything other than the time we're currently living in.
I'll also say that who I saw at the movie were the fans of this. It wasn't the casual fans or the general audience. Just looking at the AMC app, the only showings that were booked were the Dolby theaters in my area, and the dine in theaters. So people chose to go to the theaters with the most comfortable seating. And if you have A-List you can go to those at no extra charge. So just my opinion, this also shows that the fans alone can't carry these movies. The studios need everyone to come out.
I'll also say that who I saw at the movie were the fans of this. It wasn't the casual fans or the general audience. Just looking at the AMC app, the only showings that were booked were the Dolby theaters in my area, and the dine in theaters. So people chose to go to the theaters with the most comfortable seating. And if you have A-List you can go to those at no extra charge. So just my opinion, this also shows that the fans alone can't carry these movies. The studios need everyone to come out.
Devil Plisken…CMS
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Oh shyt
Nigerianwonder
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It's never coming back to what it was. The theater industry needs to change. And the answer is starring them right in the face. Netflix, HBO, and Amazon need to get into the theater business or partner with existing chains the allow their subscribers to watch their bigger movies in theaters. Theaters make most their money on concessions so if my hbo max subscription also allowed me watch movies like suicide squad in theaters for free it would be a win win for everyone.
yeah, I get HBO Max for free with my AT&T Fiber Gig plan so they already getting my bread. Problem is the theaters want BOTH the ticket and concession bread.
They get half of the ticket and all of the concession bread. That's hard to only get one of those money streams.
Theaters will return as there is no home viewing experience that can replicate that. Question is how long will it take? I put 3 years BEST case scenario, but all sides will have to adjust.
SuburbanPimp
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This is gonna be an ongoing issue. We might look back in years and realized streaming may have killed the movie industry. Between box offices tanking and DVD sales pretty much being non existent. I think movie budgets will shrink and we will get less quality movies
Nigerianwonder
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Theaters will have to take what they can get. Streaming services are not going away and they are dropping $100+ million on movie budgets these days. Theaters need to find a way to partner with them to show these big budget movies and that will bring more people through their doors.
Every movie coming out is gonna flop going forward. Might have a big/ decent sales first weekend but they are falling off a cliff by the second weekend. There is too much competition from streaming services these days where we don't gotta go to the theater to see big budget movies anymore.
MajesticLion
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ha @ the folly interns are tasked to come disseminate to people
ha @ HBO being "free"
ha @ wanting people to pay, twice...one for the service and another by going out in the middle of a damn pandemic
ha @ Disney cutting out the middleman and expecting people to pay twice on the same.damn.platform.
ha @ pretending the movie isn't just an exceedingly bad GotG clone with far worse/dumber musical interludes and forced bro humour and always has been
ha @ all of it
ha @ HBO being "free"
ha @ wanting people to pay, twice...one for the service and another by going out in the middle of a damn pandemic
ha @ Disney cutting out the middleman and expecting people to pay twice on the same.damn.platform.
ha @ pretending the movie isn't just an exceedingly bad GotG clone with far worse/dumber musical interludes and forced bro humour and always has been
ha @ all of it