MIB International expected to take in $28.5M for its opening weekend. The previous low opening weekend for the franchise 4 films was $51M.

And Shaft at $8.3M for its opening weekend, wow...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/17/sequels-arent-the-summer-box-offices-problem-bad-sequels-are.html

It's been extremely underwhelming.

Literally every movie released is going to lose money

It's going to be catastrophic

Was convinced that FFH was gonna be a juggernaut, but it's not looking that great. Opened to $39M yesterday, which is not particularly impressive. (It's barely ahead of Amazing Spider-Man's opening Tuesday.)

This summer is really weird. One of the biggest blockbusters of all time followed by mostly flops or significant disappointments.

That is great for what it is, a mid-level marvel movie. This will be hugely successful for that. I don't think Marvel is shooting for $500 million+ domestic for each movie. I think now, if each can get between $800 million and $1 billion worldwide, they will be happy with that.

Avengers: Endgame was the victory lap for 10 years of movies. The expectations for the box office for individual movies out of that success should rise a little, maybe, but not by much, imo. So if a movie doesn't do that kind of business moving forward, its not a flop. FFH should make ~$150 million for the 6 day holiday weekend, which is pretty good. And itll have legs (pun intended).

Granted, that was mostly my own overly optimistic predictions rather than the movie under-performing.

But I'm just not all that impressed with the number. Especially considering inflation.

I've never understood the weird relationship between Spiderman movies and opening early during July 4th week/weekend.

The 4th is a Thursday this year, so why not get started on the 4th to give yourself a better opening day number to brag about and still have a long weekend ?

Far From Home, Aladdin, and Toy Story 4 are all on track to hit $1B. (Or come very close.)

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Far From Home, Aladdin, and Toy Story 4 are all on track to hit $1B. (Or come very close.)

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Update:

FFH - $1B
Aladdin - $990M
TS4 - $866M
Lion King - $713M

Lion King is on track to do $100M this weekend (domestic) and will undoubtedly cross $1B within the next week.

Aladdin will hit $1B probably within 10 days.

Toy Story 4 is the only one that is still a question mark.

5 days since this post, and both Aladdin and Lion King have passed $1B in that time.

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Calling my shots:

• Spider-Man: Far From Home - $450,000,000 - will top out around $400MM
• Toy Story 4 - $375,000,000 - will top out around $450MM
• The Lion King - $575,000,000 - looks like it will top out around here
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - $825,000,000

• F&F: Hobbs & Shaw - $295,000,000 - will top out around $140-150MM
• Joker - $160,000,000
• Frozen 2 - $525,000,000

• Once Upon A Time In Hollywood $140,000,000 - looks like a safe bet
• Ford v Ferrari - $195,000,000
• It: Chapter 2 - $175,000,000

• Ad Astra - $85,000,000
• Terminator: Dark Fate - $110,000,000
• Maleficent 2 - $95,000,000
• Child's Play - $125,000,000
• Jumanji Sequel - $250,000,000
• Charlie's Angels - $75,000,000
• Cats - $90,000,000

• Dark Phoenix - $110,000,000 - flop - $66MM final
• MIB International - $150,000,000 - flop - $79MM final
• Scary Stories - $70,000,000
• Gemini Man - $70,000,000

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Charlie's Angels absolutely bombs with an $8M opening weekend.

So many flops this year.

If it wasn't for Texags, I wouldn't even know there was a new Charlie's Angels. There has been 0 marketing for it. People aren't going to go see a movie if they don't know it exists.

Marketing has been damn near non-existent, but a friend told me it's not terrible. I'll wait for it to hit streaming though.

Frozen II $130 million domestic; $358 million worldwide.