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Inflation and what it means to these massive openings being reported
Posted on 2/17/25 at 1:16 pm
Posted on 2/17/25 at 1:16 pm
Sort of a spin-off of the Captain America and their reported $192million opening. The hype train trying to spin-off success on failure gets old. Looking at the numbers, if Brave New World hits 3x domestic gross off its opening weekend, we are looking around a $270 million domestic. Sounds great until inflation is applied. Here is how it will slot in history
What is even more damning, the numbers are still inflated. Going for round numbers, inflation is currently around 100% from 1995 to 2025. Movie tickets have increased 147% in that same time frame.
This is not a specific bash of Marvel either, it is the industry and what they are offering. The post Covid numbers are staggering when you just like at tickets sold
While it is easy to blame the home options now; VHS, DVD, HBO, Showtime, Cinemax and streaming existed before covid. Yes covid changed the watching habits of many, but people have returned when Hollywood produced something good. Top Gun, Spiderman, Barbie, Super Mario, etc.
They have gave up on entertaining the masses regularly though and increased prices on the poor souls they trick into going to a movie. I am not sure how long Hollywood survives, barely matching the box office numbers from 20 years ago.
What is even more damning, the numbers are still inflated. Going for round numbers, inflation is currently around 100% from 1995 to 2025. Movie tickets have increased 147% in that same time frame.
This is not a specific bash of Marvel either, it is the industry and what they are offering. The post Covid numbers are staggering when you just like at tickets sold
While it is easy to blame the home options now; VHS, DVD, HBO, Showtime, Cinemax and streaming existed before covid. Yes covid changed the watching habits of many, but people have returned when Hollywood produced something good. Top Gun, Spiderman, Barbie, Super Mario, etc.
They have gave up on entertaining the masses regularly though and increased prices on the poor souls they trick into going to a movie. I am not sure how long Hollywood survives, barely matching the box office numbers from 20 years ago.
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Posted on 2/17/25 at 1:33 pm to DarthRebel
Havent been to a theater in years. If i really dont wanna wait til something is out on streaming ill pirate it
Posted on 2/17/25 at 1:39 pm to DarthRebel
If they reported # of tickets sold and used that as the primary metric, you'd get a much better sense of how badly the movie theater industry has nose dived over the past 20 years.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 3:23 pm to StansberryRules
the chart shows from 1995-2019 they seemed to sit between 1.2 and 1.5 billion tickets sold.
Clearly Covid changed the game.
to be fair, TVs have gotten better
Streaming services have movies on demand
Theatres are all starting to downsize audience number and focus on experience.
Same with a lot of sports stadiums
Clearly Covid changed the game.
to be fair, TVs have gotten better
Streaming services have movies on demand
Theatres are all starting to downsize audience number and focus on experience.
Same with a lot of sports stadiums
This post was edited on 2/17/25 at 3:25 pm
Posted on 2/17/25 at 3:50 pm to SammyTiger
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Theatres are all starting to downsize audience number and focus on experience.
This was pre-covid, that is why you see a decline in tickets sold and increase in revenue. There has been little change in that area post covid.
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to be fair, TVs have gotten better
Streaming services have movies on demand
This is where I think there is an impact, however not a loss of 500 million tickets. We are far enough from covid now, that the delay in productions and quality of productions should be gone.
I think the lingering impact from covid is, Hollywood has lost touch what the audience wants. They have always been a bubble, and it was amplified with the world lock down. The consolidation of studios and power as well has stiffled creativity.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 3:55 pm to DarthRebel
Another post covid change is that movies come to streaming after 2 months rather than 6 months.
Even more incentive to stay home and wait rather than going to a theater
Even more incentive to stay home and wait rather than going to a theater
Posted on 2/17/25 at 3:55 pm to DarthRebel
I really thing Covid made people realize theatres just aren’t worth it.
They spend 2 years basically not going to them and now people only go see big event films
and family movies for theatre experience
They spend 2 years basically not going to them and now people only go see big event films
and family movies for theatre experience
Posted on 2/17/25 at 3:55 pm to SammyTiger
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Streaming services have movies on demand
Within weeks of the theatrical release. Companion is a horror movie that released recently and is now available on VOD 17 days later. There is so much content that audiences can wait 2 weeks to watch at home without resorting to piracy.
Posted on 2/17/25 at 4:03 pm to Esquire
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Within weeks of the theatrical release.
it’s right at the point where studios stop making as much money off ticket sales.
Posted on 2/18/25 at 1:25 pm to SammyTiger
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it’s right at the point where studios stop making as much money off ticket sales.
I wonder what the streaming financials are for these films. Does it offset the lack of theatrical run?
Posted on 2/18/25 at 1:28 pm to SammyTiger
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I really thing Covid made people realize theatres just aren’t worth it.
I agree, but the content has also not been great. Hollywood lost creativity through covid as well. Sub-par creativity and people realizing they do not really need it for sure is a combined whammy for them
Posted on 2/18/25 at 1:32 pm to DarthRebel
most of the time get Studio makes less and less of the ticket sales revenue and movies tend make most of the revenue early on too.
at 45 days Avengers made 586m of the 621m it made domestically.
so for Disney, getti bff people to buy Disney plus because they can see this move so soon is a good deal.
shite deal for theatres.
at 45 days Avengers made 586m of the 621m it made domestically.
so for Disney, getti bff people to buy Disney plus because they can see this move so soon is a good deal.
shite deal for theatres.
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