Indiana Jones and the Lackluster Box Office

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Although audiences like it, not enough are buying tickets. Maybe it needs more trannies and gays? LOL

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462764/


https://variety.com/2023/film/box-office/indiana-jones-5-opening-day-dial-of-destiny-1235659612/
Indiana Jones and the Lackluster Box Office
"The Dial of Destiny" landed a $24 million opening day -- not exactly a great tone-setter for a blockbuster that cost $295 million to produce.
The release from Disney and Lucasfilm is expected to debut near the bottom of projections, with a three-day opening of $60 million or so. It’ll be more than enough for the Harrison Ford action-adventure film to land in the top spot on domestic charts, setting itself up to draw crowds through the Fourth of July holiday — but it’s not exactly the victorious tone-setter for one of the most expensive American blockbusters ever made. With a whopping $295 million production budget, “Indiana Jones 5” faces quite the trek to theatrical profitability....

...Nobody in the industry has been projecting good numbers for the DreamWorks Animation film and this pin-drop opening represents the proverbial Band-Aid getting ripped off. Facing strong competition for family audiences in “Indiana Jones” and animated holdovers “Elemental” and “Across the Spider-Verse,” “Ruby Gillman” doesn’t have any hope to recoup its $70 million production budget. For what it’s worth, ticket buyers have been positive, as indicated by the “A-” grade on Cinema Score.
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The problem with entertainment media today is that the market is saturated. Movies? How old school. There are like a bazillion streaming services, another gazillion websites, and everything in between. No longer are there three TV networks. Movies get released but when you can stream them, buy a CD, or whatever, theaters have become largely passé. If they want to survive, they need to change their approach to showing movies. Maybe add upscale dinner, a bar, and make it a complete night out or whatever.
 
Hollywood now makes low quality WOKE propaganda, and good old movies are still (not for long likely) available on streaming....this is a no brainer.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
The problem with entertainment media today is that the market is saturated. Movies? How old school. There are like a bazillion streaming services, another gazillion websites, and everything in between. No longer are there three TV networks. Movies get released but when you can stream them, buy a CD, or whatever, theaters have become largely passé. If they want to survive, they need to change their approach to showing movies. Maybe add upscale dinner, a bar, and make it a complete night out or whatever.
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If true, then why are businessmen still investing in such ventures?
 
Doc Dutch said:
If true, then why are businessmen still investing in such ventures?
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Who knows? Maybe they're doing it for tax reasons or the way it's financed. Remember Mel Brooks' The Producers? Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder only made money if they produced a flop on Broadway...
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Who knows? Maybe they're doing it for tax reasons or the way it's financed. Remember Mel Brooks' The Producers? Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder only made money if they produced a flop on Broadway...
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So it's possible for a person to be rich, a billionaire even, and still be a fucking moron? If so, I agree. Still, there's the whole "burn me once" thing. Someone would have to be a truly fucked up individual to make that kind of mistake twice. A truly demented soul too fucking stupid to have that much money....but in America, they are allowed to do that. Do you object, Terry?

Why do you think rich people keep investing in movies that lose money? Wouldn't they eventually go broke? How long does it take to lose a fortune when spending millions of dollars at a time?
 
I came within hours of making a very rare trip to the theater to see Avatar 2 on baby Imax, which would have been a $50+ outing. After I watched it for free on my tv I knew that I dodged a bullet.....that would have pissed me off.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I came within hours of making a very rare trip to the theater to see Avatar 2 on baby Imax, which would have been a $50+ outing. After I watched it for free on my tv I knew that I dodged a bullet.....that would have pissed me off.
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It would have pissed me off too...and I haven't seen it yet. LOL

Such events are more "date" events. Better, IMO, to spend the money a dinner and a small local concert....or, my favorite, a picnic blanket, snackbasket, wine and a mid-evening isolated hilltop or plains to "look for constellations and satellites". :thup:
 
It's a very long weekend, we'll see what the box office looks like. We're going tomorrow.
 
Doc Dutch said:
It would have pissed me off too...and I haven't seen it yet. LOL

Such events are more "date" events. Better, IMO, to spend the money a dinner and a small local concert....or, my favorite, a picnic blanket, snackbasket, wine and a mid-evening isolated hilltop or plains to "look for constellations and satellites". :thup:
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All that time and money with great tech spent on telling a crap story....makes my skin crawl.
 
Doc Dutch said:
It would have pissed me off too...and I haven't seen it yet. LOL

Such events are more "date" events. Better, IMO, to spend the money a dinner and a small local concert....or, my favorite, a picnic blanket, snackbasket, wine and a mid-evening isolated hilltop or plains to "look for constellations and satellites". :thup:
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I saw Avatar II TWOW back in TX in 3D. The ticket cost me $10 (matinee). I don't know where HE10 is getting the $50 cost - perhaps he considers spending $40 in junk food at the concession stand part of the normal cost of seeing a movie? Anyway for the $10, it was worth it. I liked the special effects. The story was kind of a theft of the Star Trek IV The Voyage Home + Aquaman plots - but again - for $10, I felt I received more than my money's worth.
 
LurchAddams said:
I saw Avatar II TWOW back in TX in 3D. The ticket cost me $10 (matinee). I don't know where HE10 is getting the $50 cost - perhaps he considers spending $40 in junk food at the concession stand part of the normal cost of seeing a movie? Anyway for the $10, it was worth it. I liked the special effects. The story was kind of a theft of the Star Trek IV The Voyage Home + Aquaman plots - but again - for $10, I felt I received more than my money's worth.
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Texas is cheaper, but agree that it is probably total cost for two with snacks and drinks.

3D and IMAX both help make movies an "experience". The last movie I saw in the theater was "Gravity". Great in IMAX. Not sure if we saw it in 3D. I do remember the depth of field in orbit.

Most movies are better at home on a big screen tv. :)
 
Doc Dutch said:
So it's possible for a person to be rich, a billionaire even, and still be a fucking moron? If so, I agree. Still, there's the whole "burn me once" thing. Someone would have to be a truly fucked up individual to make that kind of mistake twice. A truly demented soul too fucking stupid to have that much money....but in America, they are allowed to do that. Do you object, Terry?

Why do you think rich people keep investing in movies that lose money? Wouldn't they eventually go broke? How long does it take to lose a fortune when spending millions of dollars at a time?
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Doc Dutch said:
You're posting about Trump's "poorly educated" and those who trust the corporations to take care of them better than unions, Terry?

The criers and whiners too stupid to be in charge of their own money?
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You really are a delusional retard...

Changing the subject won't help your case. The sort that invests in movies that lose money are the sort that fell for Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme. They weren't small money and chump change investors but rather millionaires who got rich but were still stupid.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
You really are a delusional retard...

Changing the subject won't help your case. The sort that invests in movies that lose money are the sort that fell for Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme. They weren't small money and chump change investors but rather millionaires who got rich but were still stupid.
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LOL Why do you think repeating back to me what I posted makes me a delusional retard, Terry?

Dutch said:
So it's possible for a person to be rich, a billionaire even, and still be a fucking moron? If so, I agree. Still, there's the whole "burn me once" thing. Someone would have to be a truly fucked up individual to make that kind of mistake twice. A truly demented soul too fucking stupid to have that much money....but in America, they are allowed to do that. Do you object, Terry?

Why do you think rich people keep investing in movies that lose money? Wouldn't they eventually go broke? How long does it take to lose a fortune when spending millions of dollars at a time?
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Are you okay, Terry? You seem to be troubled and not able to follow discussions like you used to do.
 
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