As of right now, Lion King is releasing on July 19. There's an untitled Sony Animation movie schedued for the 26th (that may move, and even if it doesn't, it's Sony so anything short of Cloudy or Hotel Transylvania 3 would get steamrolled), a Spongebob movie and a "WB Event film" on August 2nd, Artemis Fowl tentatively on the 9th, and an untitled Universal movie on the 16th. I'm not sure I see another company willingly stepping into that wake, even with the fact that everyone knows that August is there for the taking if you step up.
Huh, I figured July would be more packed considering how quality this July was and all the talks of the other Disney movies that summer, I guess they're just more in May/June (I also may have only just remembered Star Wars got bumped).
The absolutely most full theater I saw this year was Beauty and the Beast and the audience absolutely ate it up. If Lion King can capture even a fragment of that magic it's going to make a killing and then some.
Avengers 4, Aladdin, Toy Story 4 AND Lion King within the span of a couple of months? Diör lawd, Disney.May/June of 2019 is s fairly stacked (not as stacked as May/June 2018), and actually stays so all the way until Lion King. Things only open up after that. From Box Office Mojo:
May (Details)
Untitled Avengers (BV) - 5/3
The Rosie Project (TriS) - 5/10
Uglydolls (STX) - 5/10
Aladdin (2019) (BV) - 5/24
Minecraft (WB) - 5/24
June (Details)
Charlie's Angels (2019) (Sony) - 6/7
The Secret Life of Pets 2 (Uni.) - 6/7
Untitled Fox/Marvel Film I (2019) (Fox) - 6/7 (the timing would suggest either FF of some sort or a sequel to something that came out this year [Logan])
Untitled DC Film (June 2019) (WB) - 6/14
Toy Story 4 (BV) - 6/21
Cowboy Ninja Viking (Uni.) - 6/28 (currently starring Chris Pratt, IIRC)
Transformers 7 (Par.) - 6/28
July (Details)
Spider-Man: Homecoming 2 (Sony) - 7/5
Top Gun (2019) (Par.) - 7/12
The Lion King (Live Action) (BV) - 7/19
Minecraft coming out the same day as Aladdin seems a bit crazy.
Minecraft will be interesting to watch. Its an unbelievably gigantic IP but will that carry over for the film as well?
No idea how to feel about it
Current climate Minecraft is a bigger IP than Aladdin no? (I don't think Minecraft out-grosses Aladdin btw but I see the thought process)
Way bigger. But when the live action Disney movie marketing machine starts kicking into gear, I don't think Minecraft can compete.
I'm pretty sure Minecraft is like the biggest children's IP in North America alongside Star Wars and Pokemon.
"Be A Man" is the greatest of all time.
Transformers 7 (Par.) - 6/28
Minecraft will be interesting to watch. Its an unbelievably gigantic IP but will that carry over for the film as well?
No idea how to feel about it
Yeah if I recall correctly, TFA had the standard 8pm on Thursday screenings. And 10:30 screenings. And midnight.
and then 1am
2am
4am
6am
and all throughout release day. It was ridiculous.
Figured thread would be more active with It's run
Speaking of did... 7.9 million on Wedn
mother!s biggest disadvantage, obviously, will be facing the box office monster ITs second weekend. The studios release timing for mother! has always been a head-scratcher given the close proximity to the Stephen King adaptation, but given the latters massive over-performance, mother! faces an even tougher challenge now. Twitter and Facebook activity are far behind that of Crimson Peak and House at the End of the Street, the latter of which similarly starred Lawrence in a fall-time thriller that opened to $12.3 million on this same weekend in 2012.
boxoffice.com predicts a sub $10 million weekend for mother! (their latest long term one had it at $11 million).
And the reason is simple:
I was about to say that this is the dumbest thing Paramount has done all year but then I remembered Monster Trucks.
I think you're confused with "Now You're A Man"
If Blade Runner doesn't break Fury Road levels of revenue I will have lost all faith in humanity
I don't see it getting there. Sorry.
I don't see it being as good as Fury Road for starters.
Saw a double feature tonight.
IT was ok... but Wind River was a fucking masterpiece. I mean...holy shitballs!!!
Me.I mean, what is?
Do we know what 2049's budget is reported to be yet?
Great stuff.http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/ne...n-domestically-with-record-wednesday#/slide/1
IT has crossed 150M and broke both the Tuesday and Wednesday September box office records in the process.
Dunkirk, Christopher Nolans sweeping WWII epic thats still playing in 52 markets around the world and tucked away another $15.4M from both domestic and international audiences this week, crossed the $500M milestone at the worldwide box office today. In terms of ranking this weekend in worldwide grosses, Dunkirk was third behind Warner Bros other worldwide phenom, Stephen Kings horror pic It, and Sonys Spider-Man: Homecoming, which opened big in China. In fact, Spideys $70.8M take ranks as the largest opening of a superhero movie in the Middle Kingdom.
First director to have 5 films in a row gross over $500 million.
Go read the last few pages of the (now locked) Episode 9 thread.I have no idea what that gif means or why it is here.
Go read the last few pages of the (now locked) Episode 9 thread.