Official Box Office Discussion for the weekend of 25 - 27 November 2022 (Glass Onion & Strange World edition)

Submitted by The_h0bb1t t3_z7lvfu in movies

* = hasn't premiered in other territories or limited release

Weekend domestic top 10 Domestic Weeks Weekend gross Domestic gross change Worldwide gross Budget CinemaScore
1. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 3 $45,583,904 -31.4% $676,036,389 $250,000,000 A
2. Strange World New $12,151,384 - $28,279,408 No source B
3. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery * New $9,400,000 - $13,280,000 $40,000,000 Not rated
4. Devotion * New $5,902,803 - $9,004,070 $90,000,000 Not rated
5. The Menu 2 $5,478,956 -39.2% $33,984,410 $30,000,000 B
6. Black Adam 6 $3,255,486 -29% $377,736,860 $200,000,000 B+
7. The Fabelmans * 3 $2,220,234 +2,374.3% $3,430,000 $40,000,000 Not rated
8. Bones and All * 2 $2,204,463 +1,721.8% $5,809,000 No source B
9. Ticket to Paradise 6 $1,850,170 -42% $161,906,000 $60,000,000 A-
10 The Chosen Season 3: Episode 1 & 2 2 $1,585,840 -81.9% $13,509,630 No source Not rated

“I've seen too many In need just to turn a blind eye ”

Wakanda Forever continues to outrun Multiverse of Madness by $25mil and Love & Thunder by $90mil at the same time of their respective runs in the domestic box office. It's already sitting $75mil under Love & Thunder's and $280mil under Multiverse for their total, world-wide runs. (Which is hard to get weekly data from).

Newcomers are Strange World and Glass Onion, which is now in limited release. The Menu kept on holding on with the famous '40% drop week 2'.

According to some websites, Strange World is bombing hard and set to lose $100mil, which at first glance I took with a grain of salt, because earlier this year, DC League of Super-Pets premiered to a "meagre" $23mil. And while it wasn't a runaway success initially, it had some long legs, (probably) turning a profit.

The biggest difference between these two is the budget behind Strange World, which is reported as $180mil (which is the same as with most new IP's for Disney Animated movies) versus the reported $90mil from Super-Pets. So even if Strange World would follow in the footsteps of SP, it would probably still not turn a profit at the end of the road.

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Wizdumber t1_iy7njfq wrote

Devotion is one of the least surprising bombs ever.

Netflix threw away money by not having Glass Onion on more screens.

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CapnSmite t1_iy7smz7 wrote

Seriously. I've been dying to see Glass Onion since it was officially announced. Originally thought it was supposed to be on Netflix last week, found out it's not until next month, and immediately tried to find a showing near me. Nothing within 80 miles.

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MulciberTenebras t1_iy7wha4 wrote

I drove 50 the other day just to see a showing. So fucking worth it.

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unknownuser492 t1_iy8kfku wrote

I'm finally going to be near somewhere that it's showing tomorrow, only to discover today js the last day of the run. Will have to wait for Netflix release.

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koogums t1_iyaeyqu wrote

The theater run for it is so short. Couldn't go over the weekend because of visiting family for Thanksgiving. Was going to go this week after work, but didn't realize today was the final day.

Ah well, at least it'll be out on Netflix super quickly.

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sexygodzilla t1_iy8tme1 wrote

This movie could've easily matched the gross of the first one but god forbid Netflix question their model. They could be cornering the market on mid budget releases and be part of the larger cultural conversation but they'd rather spend up to 200 million dollars for no one to watch the Gray Man.

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bravesgeek t1_iy8rswv wrote

Devotion commercials and posters and even the name scream Hallmark

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mopeywhiteguy t1_iyam3hp wrote

I genuinely think Netflix has no idea what people actually like about streaming/their service

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TheTrueRory t1_iyb6z6e wrote

Glass Onion was sold out all weekend in my city. People really wanted to see it.

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nesatzuke t1_iy787b8 wrote

Disney Animation & Sci-fi Story

Name a more disastrous duo.

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ihatereddit1221 t1_iy87opg wrote

Glad to see The Menu have modest success.

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[deleted] t1_iy8dbi2 wrote

Devotion bombing was so obvious. Releasing that movie right after Top Gun just ended their crazy theater run was never gonna work. Why didn’t they move it?

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Varekai79 t1_iy8j5ry wrote

Johnathon Majors is set to be a much bigger star when he shows up as Kang in the MCU but as of right now, he's still a nobody to the general public.

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[deleted] t1_iy8lj8x wrote

I really feel it's up to what they actually do with Kang. Are they actually going to make him into something other than a person chewing the scenery and apples?

Also, besides Majors Devotion has 0 names that I know. And the director has done nothing to deserve this kind of budget either. I don't understand these kind of films. There's surprisingly many of these "huge budget and a bunch of no names and at best average director". How the fuck do they go though. Like the Point Break remake, it had a budget of fucking 100 million. With no real big names or director.

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TheTrueRory t1_iyb74xc wrote

The bigger question is why does it have a $90million budget. That's insane, I doubt it ever would have turned a profit without an American Sniper type miracle run.

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SuchSense t1_iy7ifpk wrote

Interestingly Disney Animation seems to have had the most difficulty in reaching prepandemic grosses. It's an especially bad look when DreamWorks (The Croods, The Bad Guys and probably Puss in Boots) and Illumination (Minions) are doing just fine.

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FTNatsu-Dragneel t1_iy8rtnx wrote

Cause we can just wait for it to go on Disney+

Out of all the animated studios, Disney’s are probably the ones people have the most access too (especially families with kids) so they can just wait a month and it will be on Disney+ rather than spend the extra money to see it in theaters and risk getting sick

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ptwonline t1_iya7z5w wrote

This is probably a big factor when there is not much "Can't wait to see it!" factor like for Black Panther.

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WeightFast574 t1_iycr8a4 wrote

I have an 11 year old and an 8 year old, and I gave them the option last week and they didn't even know what Strange Planet was. It was an emphatic vote for Black Panther.

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The_h0bb1t OP t1_iy7jhyt wrote

I honestly hadn't heard of Strange World until the recent headlines. I haven't even seen a trailer, which is the opposite of most DreamWorks films, which I hear about so far in advance that I forget they exist when they release.

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MulciberTenebras t1_iy7wbvj wrote

Odds are Chapek decided to cut costs by not spending on any advertising for the film (rather than bloat the budget even more for this when it bombed). On top of that it's been speculated that the inclusion of a gay main character gave Chapek even more cause to want to bury the film (so as not to add more ammo to the anti-LGBT conservatives already mad at him after the Disney employees forced the company to speak out against the Florida bill).

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TheMadLurker17 t1_iy9bz04 wrote

For awhile, I regularly saw trailers for this, then all of a sudden nothing. Cutting back on trailers as you near a films release date speaks volumes.

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Jefferystar94 t1_iy87f5v wrote

The miniscule advertising for this one didn't really help matters, but I'd say the general audience has gotten too used to their stuff popping up on Disney+ and are content to wait.

Raya got a dual release, Encanto was on it a month after it hit theaters, Pixar had 3 movies premiere on it, and I wouldn't be surprised now if SW was fast tracked for the platform

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JugendWolf t1_iyd0dqx wrote

Disney has already announced that Strange World would be streaming by Christmas before the movie opened in theaters.

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Jefferystar94 t1_iyd22si wrote

Would certainly be news to me! Afaik it was going to hit D+ in France around it's theatrical release (because it won't be screened there due to the country's strict rule on release windows), but I have seen nothing yet to show it's happening elsewhere.

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JugendWolf t1_iyd4it6 wrote

I remember reading somewhere that it would ony have a 30-days-long theatrical window, but now googling for the information, I can't find it, so maybe they didn't announce it.

It will definitely happen though with these numbers.

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121jigawatts t1_iy9y5xm wrote

people keep complaining about disney sequels but when original IPs bomb of course theyll go back to sequels, sigh

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omnilynx t1_iyafk26 wrote

On the other hand, watching movies you don't like just in case they start making movies you do like seems like a poor strategy.

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TheTrueRory t1_iyb7a2m wrote

Everyone saying I had to go see Free Guy because it was an original comedy movie never took into account original comedy movies can be bad.

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IslandChillin t1_iy7dei6 wrote

Strange World bombing is wild to see

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GarlVinland4Astrea t1_iy87bum wrote

Is it? There was like no advertising at all for it

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WeightFast574 t1_iycreaj wrote

Yeah, my kids (11 & 8) had never heard of it. I put the trailer on for them and they had a resounding "meh" reaction.

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