2025 Wide Release Prediction Game Thread
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Tuesday, April 28, 2026 17:16
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Leo should know.
He was now in two of the biggest made for streaming flops ever to hit the theaters.
Or is it three? Wasn't he in that Michael Jordan biopic flop a year or two before Killers of the Flower Moon too?
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Yup. It's been 3 now:
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Air-(2023)#tab=summary
Awwwwww... That's cute, Second. You're going around and changing my signature in every reply all over the board today.
Somebody is on tilt, huh?
It's been a very, very LONG time since you've gotten a single piece of news that made that dark little heart of yours happy, innit?
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Comparisons for A3 vs. A2's 2nd weekend are just about worthless.
Anyone writing about it doesn't seem to shy away from pointing that out, but they'll still celebrate the numbers by comparison, nonetheless.
Christmas fell on Sunday last year.
This will be the last big week for it, and then the kids go back to school.
Let's see what it does next weekend.
I have some serious doubts right now that it can even make half a Billion in the US before it's out of theaters. Unless it has amazing legs, it probably falls quite a bit short of that, actually.
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I wrote that on December 28th, and then I haven't been able to update it since.
As of January 30th, the Domestic Box Office of Avitar is $381,826,673.
Worldwide Box Office is only $1,367,721,650
Avatar 3 needed around $2.5 BILLION to break even.
It's projected to have made $1,200,000 on Friday in the states, and didn't break 1 Million a single day during the week prior.
This movie will have cost Disney well over $1 BILLION in losses when this is all said and done, making Indy 5 look like a winner in comparison.
Avatar 3 will go down in history as Hollywood's biggest loser. And the way things are going, I don't expect you're going to see budgets anywhere near what they've been over the last 10 years and it will hold that title for at least a generation if not two.
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‘Zootopia 2’ a huge hit from last year and continues into 2026...massive money from China perhaps the Disney movie keeps going it can continue earning cash until the Chinese Lunar New Year Festival
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Movie ticket sales are down because former moviegoers can watch at home for free. Even students who are training to make movies don't care to watch in theaters.
By Witney Seibold | Feb. 3, 2026 5:00 pm EST
https://www.slashfilm.com/2092475/how-increase-attention-span-longer-m
ovies/
. . . many film students are starting to eschew the idea of in-person screenings altogether, preferring to watch movies in their dorm rooms alone via a campus streaming service. And even then, professors were able to track their students' watching habits and found that many kids didn't even finish watching the films assigned to them. One student admitted to watching movies at double speed.
. . . Trying to get a younger student interested in the traditional Hollywood three-act structure may be a doomed endeavor. Many of us older filmgoers may assume that a student would be made more alert by a fun, light, action-packed movie with a lot of incidents and a story that unfolds naturally over 90 to 120 minutes. But for a kid used to quick-gratification narratives, waiting for traditional screenplay climaxes as they were written in the 1970s can feel like a chore. Why wait for a movie's protagonist to have their catharsis at the start of a film's third act when a catharsis can be had almost right away online?
Read More: https://www.slashfilm.com/2092475/how-increase-attention-span-longer-m
ovies/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Hollywood studios doomed by 'ultra-realistic' AI video tool
By Ian Youngs | Feb 13, 2026
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjd9nllng22o
It immediately set alarm bells ringing in Hollywood and beyond, with Deadpool writer Rhett Reese warning: "I hate to say it. It's likely over for us."
While many users are likely to be delighted to have its powers at their fingertips, Reese, who co-wrote and executive-produced the Deadpool films among others, said he was "terrified" by the implications.
"So many people I love are facing the loss of careers they love. I myself am at risk," he wrote.
"When I wrote 'It's over,' I didn't mean it to sound cavalier or flippant. I was blown away by the Pitt v Cruise video because it is so professional. That's exactly why I'm scared.
"My glass half empty view is that Hollywood is about to be revolutionized/decimated. If you truly think the Pitt v Cruise video is unimpressive slop, you've got nothing to worry about. But I'm shook."
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Keep trying to explain away the death of the ideology that drives your black little soul, Second.
You dumb little hobgoblin.
I don't envy your shoes.
It sucks to be you.
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Quote:That clip is from Roxanne [1987]. Using that movie as a demonstration of why cinemas are not selling many tickets:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Keep trying to explain away the death of the ideology that drives your black little soul, Second. You dumb little hobgoblin. I don't envy your shoes. It sucks to be you.
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Download Roxanne for free from https://uindex.org/search.php?search=Roxanne+1987&c=1
https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=Roxanne+1987&cat=0
The trick is not limited to 39-year-old movies. You can download movies that are still playing in theaters.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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I was downloading movies almost 25 years ago myself, idiot.
This has very little to do with it. I've proven that time and time and time again here with the numbers and I refuse to take your bait and waste any more time schooling you on this issue. You are a waste of everyone's time.
Everybody rejected your woke bullshit. California made making movies so expensive that nobody can afford to make them anymore.
There used to be waiting lists to rent out studios in Hollywood. Now they have over 40% vacancy every day.
You destroyed Hollywood. Just like YOU destroyed your party.
Pat yourself on the back, retard.
Everyone hates you.
Have a nice day.
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Quote:What is killing Hollywood now was predicted 21 years ago in Death Spiral
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I was downloading movies almost 25 years ago myself, idiot.
This has very little to do with it. I've proven that time and time and time again here with the numbers and I refuse to take your bait and waste any more time schooling you on this issue. You are a waste of everyone's time.
Everybody rejected your woke bullshit. California made making movies so expensive that nobody can afford to make them anymore.
There used to be waiting lists to rent out studios in Hollywood. Now they have over 40% vacancy every day.
You destroyed Hollywood. Just like YOU destroyed your party.
Pat yourself on the back, retard.
Everyone hates you.
Have a nice day.
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https://slate.com/culture/2005/07/hollywood-s-death-spiral.html
TL;DR version: Releasing movies on DVD a few days after premiering in theaters will kill ticket sales. (Update for 2026: Streaming movies shortly after their theatrical premieres is killing ticket sales.)
6ixStringJoker, before you were born, I was being paid to write programs in Fortran on the CDC 6600 supercomputer at the University of Texas at Austin Computation Center. I earned thousands. How much have you been paid for your programming? Nothing?
Better than downloading Roxanne [1987], After Hours [1985] https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=After+Hours+1985&cat=0 (The protagonist worked a job just like the one 6ixStringJoker had -- typing at a computer.)
"Why are Adam Sandler movies not perceived as moral cataclysms?" - https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/moral
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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I was downloading movies almost 25 years ago myself, idiot.
This has very little to do with it. I've proven that time and time and time again here with the numbers and I refuse to take your bait and waste any more time schooling you on this issue. You are a waste of everyone's time.
Everybody rejected your woke bullshit. California made making movies so expensive that nobody can afford to make them anymore.
There used to be waiting lists to rent out studios in Hollywood. Now they have over 40% vacancy every day.
You destroyed Hollywood. Just like YOU destroyed your party.
Pat yourself on the back, retard.
Everyone hates you.
Have a nice day.
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