Hollywood's Abysmal 2024 in Numbers
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UPDATED: Wednesday, April 29, 2026 01:06
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A Mid-Year breakdown of the Top 10 flicks worldwide in 2024 vs. End-of-Year 2023.
2023 Top 10 (Full Year):
Place / Movie Title / Worldwide Gross
1 Barbie - $1,432,340,485
2 The Super Mario Bros. Movie - $1,361,553,421
3 Oppenheimer - $976,120,348
4 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 - $845,468,744
5 Fast X - $714,567,285
6 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - $681,222,435
7 Man Jiang Hóng (CHINA) - $634,631,282
8 Wonka - $629,037,798
9 The Little Mermaid - $568,345,048
10 Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One - $566,644,143
2024 Top 10 (First Half of Year):
Place / Movie Title / Worldwide Gross
1 Inside Out 2 - $1,014,926,251
2 Dune: Part Two - $710,865,636
3 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - $569,907,104
4 Kung Fu Panda 4 - $545,608,913
5 YOLO (CHINA) - $479,597,304
6 Pegasus 2 (CHINA) - $469,847,217
7 Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - $387,434,301
8 Article 20 (CHINA) - $339,663,274
9 Bad Boys: Ride or Die - $331,957,666
10 Boonie Bears:Time Twist (CHINA) - $276,297,758
Notable Mentions:
1. In 2023, only one Chinese movie (or non US movie period) made the Top 10. Man Jiang Hóng did not play at all in the US and still managed 7th place worldwide for the year.
2. In the first half of 2023, 4 Chinese movies remain on the Top 10 list. Two of them are close to half a Billion dollars and could very well stay on the Worldwide Top 10 list when the year closes. Boonie Bears at 10th place will be off the list shortly after Despicable Me comes out next weekend. I'm pretty sure there's no way that Article 20 (8th place) would survive on the Top 10 through August.
3. Worldwide 2023 Top 10 total gross was $8,409,930,989. Worldwide 2023 Top 10 total gross for only US movies in the Top 10 was $7,775,299,707.
4. Worldwide 2024 Top 10 total gross so far is 5,126,105,424. Worldwide 2024 Top 10 Total gross for only US movies in the Top ten is only $3,560,699,871.
Keep in mind that these aren't Cumulative numbers that are going to improve just because there is half a year left. In order for either of these numbers to grow further, it requires new movies coming out that top the list and push other movies off the list so they're not counted anymore.
The only real benefit to this for anyone is the US Box Office when they do make anything that will displace any of the current 4 Chinese movies off the Top 10 and/or prevents new Chinese releases from making the Top 10 list.
Now, a look at budgets and actual money made or lost on these...
2023 Top 10 (Full Year):
Place / Movie Title / Worldwide Gross / Budget / Gross Profit
1 Barbie - $1,432,340,485 / $151,000,000 / $1,054,840,485
2 The Super Mario Bros. Movie - $1,361,553,421 / $100,000,000 / $1,111,553,421
3 Oppenheimer - $976,120,348 / $100,000,000 / $726,120,348
4 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 - $845,468,744 / $220,468,744
5 Fast X - $714,567,285 / $340,000,000 / (-$135,432,715)
6 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - $681,222,435 / $100,000,000 / $431,222,435
7 Man Jiang Hóng (CHINA) - $634,631,282 / $72,200,000* / $454,131,282
8 Wonka - $629,037,798 / $125,000,000 / $316,537,798
9 The Little Mermaid - $568,345,048 / $250,000,000 / (-$56,654,952)
10 Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One - $566,644,143 / $290,000,000 / (-$158,355,857)
Total 2023 Top 10 Gross Profit: $3,964,430,989
Total 2023 Gross Profit for US Movies in the Top 10: $3,510,299,707
2024 Top 10 (First Half of Year):
Place / Movie Title / Worldwide Gross / Budget / Gross Profit
1 Inside Out 2 - $1,014,926,251 / $200,000,000 / $514,926,251
2 Dune: Part Two - $710,865,636 / $190,000,000 / $235,865,636
3 Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - $569,907,104 / $135,000,000 / $232,407,104
4 Kung Fu Panda 4 - $545,608,913 / $85,000,000 / $333,108,913
5 YOLO (CHINA) - $479,597,304 / $100,000,000* / $229,597,304
6 Pegasus 2 (CHINA) - $469,847,217 / Unknown** / $219,847,217
7 Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes - $387,434,301 / $160,000,000 / (-$12,565,699)
8 Article 2
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crashed and its not just costs or scripts or retired actors or inflation
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I bet none of these people are voting for Joe Biden* a 2nd time.
Will California continue to vote Radical Left
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People are craving a Gladiator sequel in 2024 just as much as they're craving a Twister sequel, and if Gladiator carried the same $200 Million price tag that Twisters did, they're just going to lose more money.
Joker 2 will be fine if they kept the budget low.
another for the Predictions thread?
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Hollywood is dead...
Why Hollywood Is Dying
'Nobody goes to the movies anymore': Hollywood is now 'dead'
Hollywood is Dying. What Happened?
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
People are craving a Gladiator sequel in 2024 just as much as they're craving a Twister sequel, and if Gladiator carried the same $200 Million price tag that Twisters did, they're just going to lose more money.
Joker 2 will be fine if they kept the budget low.
another for the Predictions thread?
Sure. I got the Twisters one right already, despite the false media hype surrounding it, including by people who should know better.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President.
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sold his part of Disney
https://deadline.com/2024/07/ike-perlmutter-sells-entire-disney-stake-
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Awwwwwwwwww...
We're back down to $90 a share, huh?
What happened to that rally?
They currently have a movie that's going to gross over $1.5 Billion, making it the most profitable movie in the last 3 years even over Top Gun: Maverick, yet their stock has dropped $12 per share since Inside Out 2's release date.
I guess it's nice to have one big win when everything else you're doing is failing all around you. Not that it's doing them much good, apparently.
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Whoops... we're back under $90 a share today.
It would appear the fact that IO2 has already out-grossed Barbie and is only 2 or 3 days away from out-grossing Top Gun: Maverick is not doing anything to impress the Market.
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https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/chris-pine-star-trek-2.html
According to Chris Pine, the core audience for those Kelvinverse films were “the diehards,” and he said (channeling Star Trek fans everywhere) that Paramount should focus more on making films that appeal to those hardcore fans rather than “trying to please people who don’t want to see what we do.”
While he didn’t get into the gritty details, it sounds like he is calling out Paramount for doing things like making every cinematic Trek adventure a breathless action film when this is a franchise built on more mellow concepts like exploration, understanding, and philosophy.
The Stakes Are Too High
Before you write off all of Chris Pine’s thoughts here as simple pandering or pie-in-the-sky hopes, you should know that he is very clear-eyed about the problems facing Star Trek and other major Hollywood franchises.
He pointed out Hollywood’s obsession with making big-budget blockbusters, saying that it takes “half a billion dollars to make these films that you like” (we’re assuming he’s counting the cost of marketing into this).
These huge production costs mean that “for it to be considered successful and everyone to be paid back, you have to make extraordinary amounts of money.”
Chris Pine seems to think Paramount has backed themselves into a corner with Star Trek films, embracing the mentality that each one of them needs to have a budget big enough to make Quark’s eyes bulge out.
Then, because of the outsized budget, there is the perceived need to make the film appeal to as many people as humanly possible. The end result is the worst of both worlds: a film that appeals neither to general audiences nor franchise diehards and simply flops.
Perhaps reading our minds (maybe Chris Pine has picked up some mild telepathy from starring alongside Star Trek’s most famous Vulcan for so long), the actor proposed a simple solution for Paramount.
“I think we just make a much smaller film that’s more story-driven, more character-based, there’s less sh*t exploding…Also shoot it on film, not digital. And then you have the fanbase.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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