By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - Movies & TV - U.S box office has its worst weekend in 15 years!

I'm kinda surprised people go to the theatre. So much other shit to do, I rather hang out at IHOP than watch a mediocre movie.



Recently Completed
River City: Rival Showdown
for 3DS (3/5) - River City: Tokyo Rumble for 3DS (4/5) - Zelda: BotW for Wii U (5/5) - Zelda: BotW for Switch (5/5) - Zelda: Link's Awakening for Switch (4/5) - Rage 2 for X1X (4/5) - Rage for 360 (3/5) - Streets of Rage 4 for X1/PC (4/5) - Gears 5 for X1X (5/5) - Mortal Kombat 11 for X1X (5/5) - Doom 64 for N64 (emulator) (3/5) - Crackdown 3 for X1S/X1X (4/5) - Infinity Blade III - for iPad 4 (3/5) - Infinity Blade II - for iPad 4 (4/5) - Infinity Blade - for iPad 4 (4/5) - Wolfenstein: The Old Blood for X1 (3/5) - Assassin's Creed: Origins for X1 (3/5) - Uncharted: Lost Legacy for PS4 (4/5) - EA UFC 3 for X1 (4/5) - Doom for X1 (4/5) - Titanfall 2 for X1 (4/5) - Super Mario 3D World for Wii U (4/5) - South Park: The Stick of Truth for X1 BC (4/5) - Call of Duty: WWII for X1 (4/5) -Wolfenstein II for X1 - (4/5) - Dead or Alive: Dimensions for 3DS (4/5) - Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite for X1 (3/5) - Halo Wars 2 for X1/PC (4/5) - Halo Wars: DE for X1 (4/5) - Tekken 7 for X1 (4/5) - Injustice 2 for X1 (4/5) - Yakuza 5 for PS3 (3/5) - Battlefield 1 (Campaign) for X1 (3/5) - Assassin's Creed: Syndicate for X1 (4/5) - Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare for X1 (4/5) - Call of Duty: MW Remastered for X1 (4/5) - Donkey Kong Country Returns for 3DS (4/5) - Forza Horizon 3 for X1 (5/5)

Around the Network
Lawlight said:
Chris Hu said:

Ghostbusters was last year it mostly failed because it was a terrible movie not the female cast.  The franchise not having a huge overseas following didn't help either because there a plenty of terrible franchises that get bailed out by overseas numbers. 

Funny you say that because critics think Ghostbusters is a good movie.

It was the identity politics that pushed people away, particularly when the director foolishly assumed that all the 'haters' were sexists and misogynists.



nanarchy said:
Lawlight said:

Funny you say that because critics think Ghostbusters is a good movie.

A few critics liked it, most thought it was average at best and a few totally panned it. At best you could say critics thought this movie was pretty average.

The majority liked it and recommend that you watch it.



Aura7541 said:
Lawlight said:

Funny you say that because critics think Ghostbusters is a good movie.

It was the identity politics that pushed people away, particularly when the director foolishly assumed that all the 'haters' were sexists and misogynists.

That is true. But it's also not a good movie. I recommend watching RLM's long review of the movie - the Mr Plinkett one.



It's just a slow week, box office will roar back when there's bigger movies and Star Wars VIII is out.

Mayweather fight + Texas being freaking underwater has something to do with it, there's just nothing big playing right now either.

Agreed that Planet of the Apes (which is a good movie) should've moved itself back into August where it would've been able to clean up.



Around the Network

Movies are a dying industry. And no it has nothing to do with politics.



I blame superhero movies.

It's like that's all people want to see anymore. Aside from that, only Disney movies and Star Wars seem to be keeping up.

It's actually pretty damn sad.



Inflation is probably a huge factor too. Tickets were, like, $3-5 for YEARS. Then they suddenly jumped up to $12-15, after 3D flicks became popular again.



Shadow1980 said:
Lawlight said:

The number of people going to the theatres is decreasing while the population is increasing. The average ticket price is going up every single year - that's what's keeping the numerical value up. Hollywood isn't in crisis - movie theatres are the ones facing a crisis.

Hard to say if it's actual number of people, since all we have are grosses and estimated tickets sold based on average prices. We don't know how many individuals made at least one trip to the theater in a given year, or how many of them were repeat visits. But in any case per capita ticket sales have indeed declined since 2002 (see chart from other post), as have total ticket sales:

That's a 16.6% decline. So, even in absolute terms we're seeing fewer tickets despite a growing population.

However, I decided to take a look at some different metrics to see if I could discern any detail about what changes in habits moviegoers might be exhibiting. While I did some rounding, I was able to determine that the top 20 movies of 2002 grossed just slightly over $6B adjusted domestically, while in 2016 the top 20 movies combined to around $5.7B, a decline of only about 5%. The top 10 movies of each year showed 2016 down only 1.5% vs. 2002, nearly flat. It's possible that moviegoers are simply reducing their trips and focusing on fewer titles that provide quality entertainment (for a given definition of "quality").

Whenever I have time, I'm going to piece together more detailed charts to see what I come up with.

That still shows ticket sales today are still higher than they were in 80s and first half of the 90s, even though movie tickets cost waaaaaaay more today. 

Plus you have larger foreign markets today like China and India, somehow that Mummy film starring Tom Cruise that everyone said flopped still took in $400 million worldwide from just box office tickets. 

Interesting too if you look at the 80s, you can see what presumably is a huge drop-off in theater ticket sales as households started to get VCR players after 1984, but then tickets start to ramp up again as the late 80s/1990s dawn. 1989 in particular, it looks like with Batman + Indiana Jones + Leathal Weapon 2 + Honey I Shrunk the Kids sent box office into a massive boom. 



Movies just have a lot more competition than they did many years ago. Before the only way to see a movie was in the theatre. Now you can watch movies on everything. Even a Gizmondo could play movies. However Hollywood movies also sucking is just biggest reason why they are doing so bad.



Tag:I'm not bias towards Nintendo. You just think that way (Admin note - it's "biased".  Not "bias")
(killeryoshis note - Who put that there ?)
Switch is 9th generation. Everyone else is playing on last gen systems! UPDATE: This is no longer true

Biggest pikmin fan on VGchartz I won from a voting poll
I am not a nerd. I am enthusiast.  EN-THU-SI-AST!
Do Not Click here or else I will call on the eye of shinning justice on you.