2025 Wide Release Prediction Game Thread
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Lionsgate's Ballerina grossed $392K on Tuesday (from 1,796 locations). Total domestic gross stands at $56.23M.
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AMC works really hard to make going to the movies terrible
By Colette Bennett | July 1, 2025
https://www.thestreet.com/entertainment/amc-works-really-hard-to-make-
going-to-the-movies-terrible
As streaming media has exploded in popularity over the past few decades, fewer and fewer people have seen the point of getting into the car and going to the movie theater.
Despite being a beloved activity that people have adored for well over a hundred years, going to the movies really isn't what it used to be.
Add up the price of a ticket or two, overpriced concessions, the cost of driving to and from the theater — not to mention the high possibility of loud groups of kids who don't mind talking over the entire movie — and it's just not appealing.
The pandemic hit movie theaters hard, and although America has recovered, the movie theater industry hasn't.
Typically it made between 10 and 11 billion a year before 2020, but since then, it hasn't exceeded more than 8 billion, per data from Box Office Mojo.
One way theaters coped with getting people back in theater seats was to entice them with limited-edition merchandise like themed popcorn buckets, which actually did wonders for their bottom line. AMC alone raked in $65 million from sales of this merchandise.
Now AMC has a new idea to change the theater experience. But unlike its innovative collectible popcorn buckets, this will actually add yet another reason to justify staying home on the couch with Netflix.
Your movie date just got longer
We all go to the movies expecting to see trailers before the show starts, and some people even like it that way, knowing if they're running a bit late, they won't miss the main event.
AMC has decided this is a good thing, and as of July 1, will now show more pre-movie ads than ever, including "as much as" a whopping five minutes of commercials, as well as a new ad called a "Platinum Spot" that will play before the last few movie trailers you see.
Trailers and other promotions can mean the movie doesn't start for 25-30 minutes, according to the AMC website.
The advertising decision comes as the result of an agreement AMC made with the National CineMedia ad network, which is the largest of its kind in the U.S.
Back in 2019, AMC declined using these ads, despite the fact other chains such as Regal adopted them, saying it believed that moviegoers would react "quite negatively" to them.
But it has since pivoted, saying in a June Bloomberg interview, “While AMC was initially reluctant to bring this to our theaters, our competitors have fully participated for more than five years without any direct impact to their attendance."
Why AMC is making this move
AMC has had its share of struggles over the past few years. While it's been slowly recovering since the pandemic, 2024 didn't pan out so well, with AMC reporting a decline in revenue in 2024's Q3 and an attendance decline.
AMC also announced on July 1 that it had entered into a new agreement with its creditors, which will provide $223 million of new money financing that will be used to refinance its debt.
The agreement will also allow AMC to equitize at least $143 million of its current debt, and has the potential to allow the company to equitize as much at $337 million.
Commenters on social media did not take well to the news of the new ads.
"I would like to warn AMC to expect 25-30 years of me never coming back to their theaters," said X user TexasPharmD.
"Just another reason to avoid the movies," X user Laz252 said.
"Stop. I like how they want more people to watch movies, but they're also still making the experience worse," X user 360 No One said.
By Colette Bennett
Colette Bennett is a multi-faceted writer that covers retail, tech, entertainment, and more. Before joining TheStreet, Colette was a Senior Producer for Yahoo! Finance, and prior to that, a reporter for CNN. AlsNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
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Will James Gunn's Superman Make More Than Man Of Steel In Its Box Office Debut?
https://www.slashfilm.com/1902929/james-gunn-superman-man-of-steel-box
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I can't imagine that anybody is excited over this or Fantastic 4. How many times have we rebooted these things now and never gotten anywhere with them?
Superman had a few movies that went down as classics, really just because of good timing. You'd be hard pressed to find a character in literature that is more difficult to make interesting than Superman. And they already nailed it the first time so why do they keep trying to do it over again?
I guess that gives an argument at least to trying Fantastic 4 again since they've never made a good one, or one that anybody is ever going to care about.
Do you think it's possible that Fantastic 4 just isn't ever going to be popular with the mainstream?
I dunno. I was into comics when I was a kid and I never cared about F4. I already thought they were dated and kind of dumb in the mid-80s.
To me, the only thing that ever happened that was interesting with Fantastic Four in my entire lifetime was somebody getting Jessica Alba to wear that outfit.
Still wasn't enough to get me to watch the first movie from start to finish or even watch a minute of the 2nd flick.
Now we're just going to girl-boss our way with past-their-prime upper-mids with casting almost as bad as Borderlands, all while you know there's going to be at least a little bit of scolding left in there no matter how much Disney tried to tone it down in reshoots?
I hope you at least didn't ask Neil Druckman for advice on what you do with Pedro Pascal and Reed is still alive at the end of it.
Good luck!
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the world is watching less superheros but they still watch 'Dinosaurs'
‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ expecting big World Wide International money a post-Covid Record?
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Do you think it's possible that Fantastic 4 just isn't ever going to be popular with the mainstream?
the trailer looks good but this franchise has always struggled, it was popular long ago, they had a Hanna-Barbera toon way back in the late 1960s
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the world is watching less superheros but they still watch 'Dinosaurs'
‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ expecting big World Wide International money a post-Covid Record?
I'm hearing the exact opposite, but we'll see on that one...
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Do you think it's possible that Fantastic 4 just isn't ever going to be popular with the mainstream?
the trailer looks good but this franchise has always struggled, it was popular long ago, they had a Hanna-Barbera toon way back in the late 1960s
That makes sense. At one time, during the 60's, Fantastic Four was Marvel's most popular property.
But it's a relic. For whatever reason it didn't age well. My friends NEVER talked once about Fantastic Four during the 80's or 90's. They didn't bother having any cartoons for them, and when they did finally make a movie we didn't even know about it because it was made never to be shown to the public just to maintain the rights.
They've tried putting the on the big screen like 3 times now and nobody cares.
I think they probably nailed the asthetic for this new version, and I think had they not had a bunch of DEI writers and bullshit from the last 5 years involved, just because of the look of this thing I think it would have done well.
But it's a girlboss POS with nobody's favorite Pedro Pascal as the lead punching bag.
Seriously...
The dude is in everything, but almost everything he's ever been in has been a flop...
https://www.the-numbers.com/person/218750401-Pedro-Pascal#tab=acting
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I was intrigued by the following review. Could it really be that bad, while looking so good?
You know what needs to go extinct? The 'Jurassic World' franchise
While the previous ‘Jurassic World’ films were disposable but were rescued by some cool chase scenes and effects, the latest lumbers and sinks like a dinosaur in a tar pit
By Cary Darling | July 1, 2025
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/entertainment/movies_tv/article/juras
sic-world-rebirth-review-20402484.php
"Jurassic World Rebirth," the third in the splinter "Jurassic World" franchise and the seventh film set in the "Jurassic Park" universe overall, is like a copy of a copy of a copy. Even at its best moments, "Jurassic World Rebirth," opening Wednesday throughout Houston, just serves to remind viewers of what they liked about the previous films.
That's a bit of a surprise since this installment marks the return of screenwriter David Koepp who co-wrote the original "Jurassic Park" and the follow-up, "The Lost World: Jurassic Park," with Michael Crichton, on whose novel the concept was based. Director Gareth Edwards knows his way around a giant monster movie, having directed the 2014 "Godzilla." But the result here, despite some effective touches and cool dinosaur moments, feels rote. It's a by-the-numbers summer blockbuster that seems longer than it is and is the weakest in the "Jurassic" franchise.
The movie is set five years after the events of the last film, "Jurassic World: Dominion," in which the public has grown weary of dinosaurs. The amusement park that once featured them has long been shut down and the remaining creatures live wild across various equatorial islands that are now off-limits to humans. But the fascination with them has long been extinguished, except among bookish scientists like Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey, "Wicked," "Bridgerton) who works at a museum that few visit.
But he gets his chance for relevance when he's recruited by a drug company represented by the slick Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend) to be part of a team assigned to extract blood from the three biggest air, land and sea dinosaurs in order to make a drug that will combat coronary disease. (It's never explained why the company needs blood from three separate creatures instead of synthesizing what they need from one. The only real reason seems to be so that we get to see our heroes fight off death in three different environments.)
Also part of the team is Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson), an expert at extracting things in dangerous situations, who hires her boat captain friend, Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali) and his crew to get them to the island. Simultaneously, a family of four — dad Reuben (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), daughters Luna (Teresa Delgado) and very young Isabella (Audrina Miranda), and Luna's slacker boyfriend Xavier (a very funny David Iacono) — is hoping for some bonding time with a trip on their sailboat, La Mariposa, to Cape Town.
Of course, the paths of the family, the team and lots of hungry, angry dinosaurs cross. When the dinosaurs, many of which are mutant breeds designed by Jurassic scientists back in the day before everything shut down, are on screen, "Jurassic World Rebirth" recalls the best moments of the previous movies. The fact that the biggest dino has a face that looks more like the creature in "Alien" is all kinds of disturbing. As is always the case with these movies, the technology and technicians that allow this world to be portrayed so vividly is always impressive.
But the human stories aren't particularly compelling, despite some good performances. If there's supposed to be a spark between Johansson and Bailey, it never really ignites. And there's even the introduction of a cute CGI baby dinosaur that Isabella forges a bond with that is an obvious attempt to appeal to the youngest of moviegoers. But it just comes across as contrived and manipulative. Kil
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Another bad review. I have to download it to see if it stinks as bad as described:
'Jurassic World Rebirth' Shows Why Hollywood Fails to Make Great Dinosaur Movies
By Rita Dorsch | July 5, 2025
https://movieweb.com/jurassic-world-rebirth-why-hollywood-cant-make-gr
eat-dinosaur-movies/
We’d all be petrified if we encountered an Allosaurus in the wild, but people — and kids especially — aren’t afraid of dinosaurs. They’re fascinated by and love them.
Jurassic Park loved dinosaurs, too. It brought them back to life and perfectly captured the terror and wonder they inspire. Plus, it had the luxury of doing it first and the combined talent to do it best. In the years since, Hollywood has failed to adapt. Banking on that bigger is better (and the wild in-world notion that regular dinosaurs are boring), the Jurassic World movies have rehashed the same basic story but with increasingly ridiculous genetically modified (and digitally-rendered) big bads — Indominus rex, Indoraptor, and now Mutadon and Distortus rex — that never existed. We don't need old stories with fake dinosaurs. We need new stories with real dinosaurs.
I thrilled at watching Spinosaurus sails cut through the water because I love Spinosaurus, even if I know Spiny's main function will be to kill off tertiary crew members in the first act. Nobody loves or cares about the silly, made-up D. rex. The climax of Jurassic World Rebirth represents either the franchise's worst impulses, or, if we're being generous, meta commentary. The film comes down hard on the side that InGen shouldn't have played Frankenstein with these animals, and neither should've filmmakers. Until someone can figure out how to use these terrible, wonderful lizards to entertain and enlighten us again, there won't be another dinosaur movie that leaves a footprint.
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My review: If you are into monster movies, this is for you, but not for me.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Scarlett Johansson has officially become the highest grossing actor of all time. $14.615B in worldwide box office gross from leading roles.
https://awardsradar.com/2025/07/06/box-office-report-july-6/
DC WB Superman’s budget aprox $200M
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
the trailer looks good but this franchise has always struggled, it was popular long ago, they had a Hanna-Barbera toon way back in the late 1960s
That makes sense. At one time, during the 60's, Fantastic Four was Marvel's most popular property.
But it's a relic. For whatever reason it didn't age well. My friends NEVER talked once about Fantastic Four during the 80's or 90's. They didn't bother having any cartoons for them, and when they did finally make a movie we didn't even know about it because it was made never to be shown to the public just to maintain the rights.
They've tried putting the on the big screen like 3 times now and nobody cares.
I think they probably nailed the asthetic for this new version, and I think had they not had a bunch of DEI writers and bullshit from the last 5 years involved, just because of the look of this thing I think it would have done well.
But it's a girlboss POS with nobody's favorite Pedro Pascal as the lead punching bag.
Seriously...
The dude is in everything, but almost everything he's ever been in has been a flop...
https://www.the-numbers.com/person/218750401-Pedro-Pascal#tab=acting
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a Boomer comic maybe.
I think its just from a different era, the big sellers have been Spider-Man and Batman, maybe Xmen kind of sells or if you team up Ironman, Hulk, Thor, Hawkeye, Captain America, Black Widow into one movie you also get a huge hit but with Fantastic Four not so much
most comicbook hits are kind of grounded, Ironman is an inventor in a suit, Spider-Man's real alter ego has trouble paying the rent, Batman is gritty etc
The rest were godly, you had Superman which are guys with godly powers, the Flash runs so fast its ridiculous, then you have Flash Gordon I guess he's more real but elite he's also a polo player and Yale University graduate then he goes off to have this ridiculous Fu Machu adventure in 'Space' vs Ming int he movie with a 'Queen' soundtrack he plays football, its fun and campy I guess, you had Wonder Woman more super powers is she another of the gods like Superman?
maybe you can say Fantastic Four is from another time when the 'Nuclear Family' was a thing, good economy traditional happy Christian White family the economy is doing ok until some big KingKong moster comes along and 'Mr Fantatsic' has to figure out how to beat him with a spray or ray gun and rope. Maybe its from a time of The Waltons, The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson, the RedScare the Commie Russians are coming, John Wayne was the 'good' Cowboy shooting those savage red Indians the tv propaganda said, books you had The Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton, Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, East of Eden John Steinbeck, , Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak, Across the River and into the Trees Ernest Hemingway, some scifi writers started to rise during the days of the 'Space Race' the tv had Little House on Prarie, Fantasy Island, the Love Boat, Mr Ed, Hart to Hart, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Green Hornet, The Adams Family, Gilligan's Island, The Price Is Right, the Flintsones?
I guess Fantastic Four was revolutionary for the time...however by the time Tim Burton's Batman arrives, the Xmens or Blade its just way too dated
Fantastic Four was probably relevant in its time but then family would break apart, the 80s recessions, the 1990 oil price shock, divorce and crime and drugs, social issues like civil rights, ho
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