I think it's actually expected to break $100 million, so it'll likely end up with a final box-office a bit higher. Taking physical sales into account, this'll be a VERY profitable movie when all is said and done.
I know you didn't ask for a review and I'll probably get flak for this, but I only found it okay/good, nothing great. The pacing, editing, and music in the first third are a bit poor and feel unnatural somehow. Caviezel is overly melodramatic in several scenes. The kids are surprisingly good actors, though, and the over-arching story is quite interesting.
You should. I went and saw it (in a "deep blue" area) and the theater was fucking packed. Just getting tickets was a massive pain, often sold out days in advance. I don't think they turned off the AC, but it definitely could not handle the amount of people in that room.
I would not be surprised at all if that 85 million was the media doing their best to low-ball and downplay how successful it is.
I feel like it being packed might actually be the result of it being in a deep blue area. Organic communication among the dissident factions might inspire people to come out from shelter and just see the movie.
This is good news but something weird to be mentioned, yellow flash mentioned it on a video, some theatres seem to be fucking with screenings. Suddenly turning on lights saying there's an issue, saying a showing is full sold when it isn't, fire alarms weird shit.
If it's doing this well despite this petty sabotage, this is coming close to being a cultural film where everyone finds time to see it.
I thought the reports of sabotage at the theaters were probably just paranoia or a marketing ploy, but the insane mainstream media coverage of the movie has convinced me that petty leftist theater workers probably are messing with screenings. We haven’t seen media go out of their way to destroy a movie like this since… I guess The Passion off the Christ? Makes sense, really lol
The reports were only saying that the company itself was not responsible for all of that happening. And yet no mention of holding theater managers that may have actually done such things responsible
I can't think of any leftist that runs or works in a theater (because, let's face it, that's who works at these palaces of propaganda) getting a phone call to help promote a movie they associate with QAnon and going along with any of it. Or, even in best case, fucking with the movie if they didn't know their higher ups would endorse it or simply not care.
And that there is why it's earnings are going up. People are buying more tickets to see it again, while whose who missed the first showings are finally going as well.
I mean, I doubt anyone would have heard about it until the screeching started. Which meant it needed time to get noticed, get articles, and have those articles read.
So it stands to reason that it would go up week two after a more middling first week. And now that its becoming "the movie they don't want you to see!" it'll probably grow a bit more.
I wouldn't have cared about this movie until the left started screeching about it. It's rather curious that the left always coincidentally takes the pro-pedophilia stance in whatever the controversy comes up.
It's not unheard of, it's just not common for standard block-buster movies.
The movie studios actually try to plan around this, knowing that some films with some producers can be left in movie theaters for months slowly, but reliably raking in money in their 2-3 showings a day; in case there are bigger movies that flop and can't gain in revenue.
I think it's actually expected to break $100 million, so it'll likely end up with a final box-office a bit higher. Taking physical sales into account, this'll be a VERY profitable movie when all is said and done.
I believe that is just domestic too, it hasn't been released internationally yet.
Same, but I did watch it in theatres.
I know you didn't ask for a review and I'll probably get flak for this, but I only found it okay/good, nothing great. The pacing, editing, and music in the first third are a bit poor and feel unnatural somehow. Caviezel is overly melodramatic in several scenes. The kids are surprisingly good actors, though, and the over-arching story is quite interesting.
You should. I went and saw it (in a "deep blue" area) and the theater was fucking packed. Just getting tickets was a massive pain, often sold out days in advance. I don't think they turned off the AC, but it definitely could not handle the amount of people in that room.
I would not be surprised at all if that 85 million was the media doing their best to low-ball and downplay how successful it is.
I feel like it being packed might actually be the result of it being in a deep blue area. Organic communication among the dissident factions might inspire people to come out from shelter and just see the movie.
More like $85 million despite local theater managers doing everything possible (within the realm of plausible deniability) to tank it.
This is good news but something weird to be mentioned, yellow flash mentioned it on a video, some theatres seem to be fucking with screenings. Suddenly turning on lights saying there's an issue, saying a showing is full sold when it isn't, fire alarms weird shit.
If it's doing this well despite this petty sabotage, this is coming close to being a cultural film where everyone finds time to see it.
I thought the reports of sabotage at the theaters were probably just paranoia or a marketing ploy, but the insane mainstream media coverage of the movie has convinced me that petty leftist theater workers probably are messing with screenings. We haven’t seen media go out of their way to destroy a movie like this since… I guess The Passion off the Christ? Makes sense, really lol
This is absolutely the bullshit that redditor service employees brag about all the time
If only.
Libs of tiktok has a compilation of it, apparently it's still failing as people don't give a fuck and are just sitting in to watch it fully lol
The reports were only saying that the company itself was not responsible for all of that happening. And yet no mention of holding theater managers that may have actually done such things responsible
Yep, anyone old enough to remember that movie is getting major deja vu right now.
I'm old enough to remember the movie existed, but not old enough to remember any controversy surrounding it. Besides the obvious, at least.
I can't think of any leftist that runs or works in a theater (because, let's face it, that's who works at these palaces of propaganda) getting a phone call to help promote a movie they associate with QAnon and going along with any of it. Or, even in best case, fucking with the movie if they didn't know their higher ups would endorse it or simply not care.
And that there is why it's earnings are going up. People are buying more tickets to see it again, while whose who missed the first showings are finally going as well.
Imagine, it could very well have a box office take equal to that of a movie with 15x its budget that came out nearly the same weekend.
If this movie beats Indiana Jake at the end of both films' domestic theatrical run, I'm probably going to injure myself laughing.
I mean, I doubt anyone would have heard about it until the screeching started. Which meant it needed time to get noticed, get articles, and have those articles read.
So it stands to reason that it would go up week two after a more middling first week. And now that its becoming "the movie they don't want you to see!" it'll probably grow a bit more.
I wouldn't have cared about this movie until the left started screeching about it. It's rather curious that the left always coincidentally takes the pro-pedophilia stance in whatever the controversy comes up.
It's not unheard of, it's just not common for standard block-buster movies.
The movie studios actually try to plan around this, knowing that some films with some producers can be left in movie theaters for months slowly, but reliably raking in money in their 2-3 showings a day; in case there are bigger movies that flop and can't gain in revenue.