Box Office: ‘Bad Boys 4’ Rides to $56 Million in Opening Weekend (105m Global)
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Box-office is dead. If even Will Smith can't lead anything anymore with well known franchise...
Have you been living under a rock. Clearly Will Smith isn't a box office draw anymore due to the Chris Rock controversy, nothing to do with the industry as a whole.
shareNobody among viewers and his fans cares about him slapping some Chris Rock. LOL.
It's not about that. It's about box-office dying. They used to complain that Comic Book movies suffocate other movies and take away all the grosses. But it was not about that. Comic books were the only thing that people watched in masses. When people got tired even from them - everyone just stopped going into movies at all.
Not only did Bad Boys do better than expected, but less than a year ago Barbie made $1.4 billion, Super Mario Bros made $1.3 billion and Oppenheimer came just $26 million shy of hitting the $1 billion mark itself. It seems a little early to pronounce the death of the box office.
shareLook at this year. We came to a time when 56 millions for a summer blockbuster is considered success. Because others made less.
There were times when movie opened to 100+ millions to be considered "not flop".
‘Bad Boys 4’ is not flop only because somehow they were able to do that on a 100 millions budget instead of usual 200+ millions that movies are made now. This is how movies opened in 2019
1 Avengers: Endgame $357,115,007
2 The Lion King $191,770,759
3 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker $177,383,864
4 Captain Marvel $153,433,423
5 Avengers: Endgame $147,383,211
6 Frozen II $130,263,358
7 Toy Story 4 $120,908,065
8 Joker $96,202,337
9 Spider-Man: Far From Home $92,579,212
10 Aladdin $91,500,929
Everything on that list is from a huge franchise that is going to attract far more people than an R-rated Bad Boys film. It's all superhero movie stuff, Disney kids stuff or Star Wars.
Don't you think it might be better to compare it to the last Bad Boys film? While Ride or Die did make less in its opening weekend than Bad Boys for Life, it wasn't that much less.
Not just that, literally all of the films on that list are from the pre-pandemic era and before the rise of streaming services.
Which both made everyone comfortable with skipping theatres & watching everything from the comfort of their homes.
Well I suspect that is at least part of his point, that people don't care as much about going to the theater as they used to. While that may be true for some people though, I think that the overwhelming success just last year of Barbie, Super Mario Bros and Oppenheimer--and of Top Gun: Maverick the year before that--demonstrates that, for the right film, people will still turn out in huge numbers.
shareOh, my bad. I think there's still a market for "spectacle films". Look at Dune 2 & the new Kong movie this year. Both made over half a billion, each.
I mean sure, I've noticed a lot of people skipping theatres cause
a) The theatre experience is expensive(especially if you're going with friends or taking your family) & you have to deal with nuisances, inconsiderate pricks & the like.
b) The theatrical window has gotten so damn short. Now you don't "have to see it on the big screen" when you can just stream it in like a month's time. Sometimes sooner than that.
Honestly think they should
a) Stop releasing the movies on streaming so soon. And
b) Cut back on the number of blockbusters released in a freaking year. Cause there way to many "big movies". And they're not just exclusive to summer anymore.
I think that films have been devalued in many people's eyes because of how easy they are to get access to. When was the last time you last saw a line like this to get into a movie?
https://s.abcnews.com/images/Entertainment/GTY_star_wars_1983_as_151215_16x9_992.jpg?w=992
It just doesn't happen today. It hasn't happened in decades.
The advent of home video frankly was the first devaluing of films. But many, many years ago I worked at Hollywood Video and at that time (circa 2000), on weekends, we would have lines backed up to the back of the store of people trying to rent tapes and DVDs. So getting access to new, popular movies was still a big deal.
Streaming has been the second devaluing of movies. Now for a pittance, people are able to get access to thousands of movies that are waiting to be watched at the convenience of the viewer. And that's not to mention torrents.
And as you mentioned, there is almost no window anymore between the theatrical release and the streaming/home video release. In some cases it is even simultaneous.
All of this has lead to people thinking of movies as almost a disposable commodity.
That's why I'm saying that box-office is dead. Even summer movies can't open and bring money anymore.
Cause summer movies aren't "special" anymore. Blockbusters are coming out in February, March, November & December.
And also, streaming services like Netflix are releasing big movies all-year round.
That "pull" that summer blockbusters used to have is gone cause now it's summer all year round at the cinemas, baby!