Box Office Thread

Talk about stalled engines.

Do we know how the Spider-Man movie did yet?

Edited by Karxrida on Dec 16th 2018 at 11:36:42 AM

Shouldn't have gone up against "into the spiderverse"

Spider-Verse has made 35 million thus far. Its budget is 90 million.

I think it also got the highest December opening for an animated movie…

Basically Sony struck gold with this one. So hopefully they will keep their animation arm busy with more comic book adaptation, sparing us more awful movies along the line of Pixels, while also finally delivering what could and should have been a thing for years, high quality animated Comic book adaptations. If they take that niche and Marvel has the MCU while the DCEU dabbles around with their elsewhere stuff in lieu of a proper cinematic universe, we all can be happy.

x2 That's only domestic and it seems to be at $50 mil right now.

I hope it makes a profit because it's a damn good movie and deserves to be successful.

Next week is gonna crush the film too much competition.

I am very worried about all films involved.

Aquaman at least is doing great internationally... Spider-Verse not so much unfortunately.

I have a feeling Aquaman (2018) is probably going to be the highest-grossing film this month. It has some really good competition, but I'm not certain Mary Poppins Returns or Bumblebee will drawn in enough of a crowd to truly stand out compared to the next big superhero film, and this is probably the only weekend Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is going to do well before the holiday season really gets going. I could be wrong, but I feel like the hype for Aquaman has been significantly stronger than most of the other films this December.

In hindsight, Alita: Battle Angel made a really good move pushing their release date back to February... albeit the weekend after The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part.

Edited by chasemaddigan on Dec 16th 2018 at 10:24:00 AM

My money is on Mary Poppins. Nostalgia works always.

Is Spider-Man out in Japan yet? The Japanese love Spider-Man and could save it.

For real though this movie shouldn't fail it's too good.

I wonder if the Spiderman movie with the weird name that I can't remember could get an Oscar nomination for animated feature. Apparently people are raving about it.

Well Spider-Verse is critically acclaimed for its story, characters, and most definitely the unique and amazingly fluid and dynamic animation style that involves successfully lowering its frame-rate to look like something straight out of a comic book thus giving it a beautiful never before seen look in both cinema or general animation history.

So hopefully it does get nominated and even more so win an Oscar for best animated feature which would be an all around rightfully deserved victory.

Edited by slimcoder on Dec 17th 2018 at 12:30:03 PM

It would certainly be a change of pace from the usual Disney/Pixar output.

The animated academy awards are way more open to animated Superhero movies - after all both The Incredibles and Big Hero 6 won - but it has a bias against sequels, Toy Story 3 being the notable exception.

So I would say that Sony has a good chance, especially since it is out now and gets a lot of buzz.

I haven't seen Spider-Verse yet but it's a noteworthy film for its visuals alone.

I wouldn't say there's a bias against sequels. It's just that fairly few animated sequels are equal to or better than the original movie. Shrek 2 and the Toy Story sequels are the only ones that come to mind, and even Shrek 2 and Toy Story 2 partially suffer from the tendency for anmated sequels to rehash the lesson/moral of the original movie.

Edited by Galadriel on Dec 18th 2018 at 8:26:50 AM

True. But the academy has a tendency to not even nominate them.

If anything, this will be the year in which it will become clear if the Disney bias really exist...because animation fans pretty much agree on Into the Spider-verse being the best offer of the year.

And HTTYD 2.

Edited by Spinosegnosaurus77 on Dec 18th 2018 at 9:35:57 AM

Whoever thought spending 100 million on Robin Hood and Mortal Engines was smart should be thrown off the boat ASAP.

Decent, but not up to the level of the original in my opinion.

Well, HTTYD 2 won the Annies that year...but then, they are slightly screwed towards Dreamworks still.

So I just realized something.

2016's The Mermaid, despite not being relevant enough in the west to even have its own Trope page apparently, became one of the highest grossing movies of all time in China.

The Meg was a international joint project earlier this year that made money well beyond what it initially was expected to.

Right now Aquaman is kicking ass, especially in China.

And the sequel to Avatar is coming soon and reportedly is largely set underwater. And being Avatar, is destined to make international gangbusters.

So who's expecting like fifty undersea adventures to come out trying to corner an imagined market in the coming years.

Edited by ShirowShirow on Dec 19th 2018 at 4:46:12 AM

Well, Disney had the Little Mermaid remake in planning for quite some time. And if they have rescued the rights from legal limbo, I certainly wouldn't complain to see Namor.