it's over
October was a bust at the box office as big-budget tentpoles and awards contenders like Disney’s “Tron: Ares” and Dwayne Johnson’s “The Smashing Machine” struggled to sell tickets.Overall revenues for the month were tragic with $425 million across all titles, the worst collective haul since October 1997 — when psychological thriller “Kiss the Girls,” slasher “I Know What You Did Last Summer” and supernatural mind-bender “The Devil’s Advocate” were the top-grossing titles — with $385 million, not adjusted for inflation.(!) Sci-fi sequel “Tron: Ares” ($126 million globally against a $180 million budget) and A24’s “Smashing Machine” ($19 million against a $50 million budget) were particularly expensive for their respective studios to produce and resulted in tens of millions of dollars in theatrical losses.But movies of all sizes and genres, including the family adventure “Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie” ($68 million), Channing Tatum-led dramedy “Roofman” ($27 million), Aziz Ansari’s fantastical comedy “Good Fortune” ($14 million) and Neon’s supernatural thriller “Shelby Oaks” ($3.2 million), struggled to appeal to their target audiences.“The major releases this month failed to deliver. Simple as that,” says box office analyst Jeff Bock of Exhibitor Relations. He also believes that Hollywood under-delivered on scary movies during the spookiest month of the year.https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/october-box-office-record-low-ticket-sales-smashing-machine-tron-ares-flop-1236567987/
>>215675806thats because nobody wants to see this dumbass anymore. what happened to actually good actors?
>>215675825>“Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie” ($68 million), Channing Tatum-led dramedy “Roofman” ($27 million), Aziz Ansari’s fantastical comedy “Good Fortune” ($14 million) and Neon’s supernatural thriller “Shelby Oaks” ($3.2 million),I haven't even heard of those... dead medium
>Rock: I'm tired of doing films where I just smash stuff, I'm going to try something totally different in my new movie.>Reporter: Nice. What's you're new movie called?>Rock: The Smashing Machine
>stop buying spec scripts from white guys>hehe fuck them, lets do DEI and IP forever>entire industry crashes and burns within a decadeWow nonwhites and women are seriously retarded
>>215675847My two local theaters closed well before the pandemic the writing was on the wall like a decade ago already
>The Rock>Jared LetoThese two no talent 50 year olds washed out charisma blackhole actors would never draw anyone to the theaters, what the fuck are they even thinking.
>>215675889kek
>>215675975that'll be $30 million, please
Tron has never been successful, its box office poison. Not a good example to use
>>215676035...yeah, but there was NOTHING ELSE.They all wait for Wicked to save the year.
>saves Hollywood
My small local theatre only has like 6 screens and two of them are being used for Chainsaw Man. I'm pissed they aren't even bothering to show Bugonia or Frankenstein
>>215675806The future of hollywood will be meme movies that appeal to the ZoomGod like Minecraft
>>215675806>>215675825>not adjusting for inflationthis is the real kicker
>>215675847Roofman is actually good. but its a realist crime story about a literal who so was never going to make much. maybe it will get nominated for things.
>>215675910the best spec scripts are in the Black List. sometimes one gets made and it is always either bad or a box office failure or both.
>>215676366Are they open on weekdays? The one near me starts screening on Thursdays and shuts down again on Mondays. Can't even see Slopsaw man on a Thursday afternoon either cause most of the screens until 19pm are showing Leo's anarchocommunist fantasy.
I've never gotten the appeal of The Rock
>>215676617I think he got carried in his early days by the wrestling crowd, and later by Insta self-promotion... until people realized he has ZERO charisma.
>>215675806Why don't they just stop making shitty movies?>>215675825
>>215675806Meanwhile HE alone saved October last year>90m on a 2.5m budget and on way less screens than all these flops
>>215677274cringeslop
>>215676617I liked him because he was funny to me as a 10 year old watching wrestlingHe also grew up in my hometown so I gave him a breakHe is no longer litty in my book
>>215676018>Seth RoganI avoid
>>215677487cringeKINO
Don’t worry Zootopia 2 will make 1B
>>215677274>>215677695Safe edgy bullshit for redditors while its director cries on Twitter about drumpf, chungus PoCerinos and misogyny. Le Boys/Peacemaker all over again.
>>215677788>safe edgy
How long until The Rock gets fed up with not getting enough money and goes back to shit film and wrestling.
>>215677874I think he wants some award or something
>>215677800Yeah. The worst you can say about the term is it’s redundant. As “edgy” has always meant going to the edge of what’s acceptable.
>>215676018The only way this cast could be less appealing would be to swap Keanu for Awkwafina or Jesse Eisenberg.
>>215675910> hehe fuck them, lets do DEI and IP foreverI was just thinking when was the last time a movie had cultural impact that wasn’t part of an established brand. Probably Avatar in 2009. There are people growing up who have never known a movie that was a cultural sensation and not based off superheroes or Star Wars (superheroes in space) in their lifetimes.
>>215675806the rock is a chud = box office failurethe a24 ping pong movie will fail to because they cast mr wonderful that chud piece of shit
>>215675806>meanwhile anime
>>215675827>what happened to actually good actors?they were phased out by the turn of the century. the superheroes took over. its just been batman, spiderman, superman and x men etc as the stars the people playing the parts are replaceable. no tv stars either just all reality shows.
>>215676018The hardest of hard passes.
>>215676035The previous movies were considered unsuccessful because they underperformed expectations.This movie outright lost money.
>>215675910>retarded headcanon to justify being a chudClassic.They didn't stop buying scripts from white guys. They've literally always bought scripts from Jewish-white guys. The difference is that since the writers' strike over 15 years ago, they wanted to no longer be reliant on writers and cater to their temper tantrums. So they've spent 15 years purposely using weak scripts, focusing on branding and marketing metrics, training audiences to accept slop. Now they can hire their retarded nephews because the scripts don't matter.
barely anything worth watching these dayspic related is the only film i enjoyed this year
>>215675806That's fine. Hollywood doesn't care about making money so it will continue to shit out content that appeals to no one.
Post Covid reality “Do I need to pay 16-20 dollars per ticket to see this in theaters or can I just wait 35 days for steaming?”
>>215679119actually this has been debunked
>>215676018>Two ugly women, a jew and an indianNot even keanu could interest me in watch that
>>215679143whoops
>>215675825Traditionally the studios would have held movies like Sinners for October for the Halloween Scary Movie crowd. But this year especially saw a lot of horror released between April and August the typical "blockbuster season". That's probably the main driver, people aren't going to see an MMA Movie when what they want is a slasher.
>>215679119>Jewish-white guysNo they didn't. The vast majority of Jew scripts are what you see now - adaptations of some book or comic. Original scripts were written by whites.
Does the constant circlejerking about how DA WOKE HOLLYWOOD WILL DIE ANY DAY NOW!!!! really not get old? Is it a shitskin subhuman thing where you don't even remember what you posted an hour ago?
>>215679191>Films that prior you had to wait about at least half a year before they were able to be rent and purchased are now available in about a month causing self canabilizing profitsYou know Matt Damon pointing out the DVD industry however archaic it was, truly was at least allowing Hollywood a more stronger degree of creative freedom. I sincerely do not see why any studio or company would back a streaming platform at this point financially>inb4 muh data harvestingStop for a second and ask yourself what is this data truly actually worth. Its for targeted advertsing but unless you're a mouth breathing funko pop collecting redditor when does an Ad ever convince you to buy something. It seems to me billions of dollars has been wasted on assuming how consumers will act.
>>215679527The funny thing about that data mining is how useless it truly is. I go on facebook now, and they know my whole hand, great they sell the data know all the movies I like, know I'm a real big sports fan, they know what I went to college for and where all my passions truly are. So now facebook is unusable, I don't want to see AI Slop about who the best Point Guards or Defensive Linemen were I want to see how that girl from college and those guys from high school are doing. Not sifting through Engagement Slop about 60s Folkies, 80s Punkers and 00s Alt Rockers and old pictures of New York neighborhoods.
>>215679838Pretty much true. The only social media platform I still use regularly because its the only one that hasn't thrown up massive amounts of roadblocks to keeping up with my friends. Them throwing ads in between stories is infuriating. What is a social media platform that hasn't been completely slopified?
>>2156801704chan's Blue Boards and none of us even know who each other are.
>>215679527Studies don’t like sharing profits with theaters and the longer a movie is out the the percentage goes to the theaters. Why they put it on VOD when it hits 50%. The whole “theaters take half” is bullshit. Studios get up to 70-90% opening weekend. Movies now are entirely frontlines making most their money within the first three weeks. Add on so many new releases that take away theaters each week from said movie, just nothing in it for studios to keep a movie in theaters for months
I dont know why you would watch the Rock doing whiteface when you could just watch the real documentary
>>215675825>not adjusted for inflationholy SHIT
>>215675889I miss Norm MacDonald
>>215680350They're turning October into a second Dump Month as opposed to a Genre month because Zoomers and Zillennials are more inclined to Horror during all seasons. The last couple years there have been a lot of think pieces in culture magazines and blogs about the rise of Horror's Legitimacy, it's box office strength and the depth of some deeper horror movies. This has led studios to move horror into the more profitable months instead of just going "people wanna see the Halloween movies near halloween!" So they release their big ones in the blockbuster months as opposed to holding them for Spooky Season. Instead they can release a few of their movies that weren't gonna make a lot of money anyways, especially the ones that are more Oscar-baity (One Battle After Another is gonna get a lot of noms and Tron: Ares while complete shit is gonna get a lot of Technical Noms, Smashing Machine is the Rock's Academy Invite) but none of those movies were ever gonna be billion dollar blockbusters, Tron has always failed, PTA is a Kino Director not a Blockbuster Guy, The Smashing Machine was not a traditional Dwayne Johnson movie for the Dwayne Johnson crowd. But they need to be in theatres close enough to Oscar Season for the Academy Voters to remember them. So that the beer-gutted Special Effects guys in LA and New York go "Oh yeah, the New Tron, yeah that really looked awesome, way better looking movie than Superman" and all his peers can go "Yeah I know what I said about the Rock Movies, but Dwayne, I remember I met him once when I was doing a WWE Commercial and he's really a nice guy, that Smashing Machine performance, how can anyone say that wasn't perfect"
>>215678296John Wick
>>215675806>What do I wanna do with my night...spend 2 hours watching woke slop designed to make me feel like shit, orr....Play a fun shooty pew pew game....
>>215675806Meanwhile, Japan keeps on winning.
>>215680700>wasn't a one-off for crunchyroll>total gross was 139 millionI guess for Japan those are big numbers?
>>215680736For something that has a production budget of 4 million dollars? Yeah. 140 million is a lot of money.
>>215680569not reading that but cool paragraph
>>215680763Right, but it still grossed less than Dog Man.JAPAN IS TOTALLY WINNING U GUIZ!
>>215679326Source?
>215680900>thread is about October's box office>retard gets so triggered by a Japanese animated movie that did extremely well in October that he posts a western animated film that was released in fucking JANUARY
>>215675806New movies have no pull. After nearly a century of gimmicks, technicolor, widescreen, surround sound (lest we forget the multiple failed attempts to make 3D a thing). Hollywood is officially out of ways to trick people into going to the theater for movies everyone knows will be on streaming two months later.The only theaters that are doing well are repetoire theaters. Because of nostalgia I guess. People like seeing movies they love on the big screen. But new movies? Nobody cares anymore. I guess you have the blockbusters. Christopher Nolan, Dune, but I think even there the audience has shifted to home viewing.
>>215676018Nightmare blunt rotation.
>>215679326>>215679119Jews tend to be producers more than being directors or writers. It's the most cushiony job.>adaptations of some bookMostly written by non-jews.>or comicUnless it's a Stan Lee story arc, or a Jerry Siegel story arc, it was probably not jewish. Most of the adapted batman movies are based on Frank Miller's writing, who is not jewish.
>>215680971>Because of nostalgia I guess+ there are a gazillion movies, and everyone now has access to some "movie databank"
>>215677274>>215677788>GoreslopThe director got Me Tooed by a woman(most probably fake accusations) but redditors soon will crucify him.
>>215675806Litty bros... h-has the light gone out?
>>215675825I really wanted to like Ares because I am a fan of the series. It's not the sequel we should have gotten.
>>215681038Yeah exactly. People can watch most movies at home, but they will go out to see a movie they really love on the big screen. Thus repetoire theaters are doing surprisingly well, while first run theaters are seeing a major decline.
>>215680569October always been dump month. You got college football, NFlL and school sports on the weekend and kids are still in school during the weekday. Why you dump lower budget shit out in October and big budget stuff you put out during Christmas holiday and summer
>>215679239I think Keanu is also semetic
>>215676103literally the only movie to look forward to in the slightest
I’ve said in a previous post, Hollywood is dead because social media killed movie stars. Stars sold movies. Got some unknown movie with no built in audience? Put Tom Cruise in it or Will Smith or Bruce Willis etc. Because stars can’t sell movies, studios now rely on big IPs to sell it. Why everything is a remake, capeshit movie or big IP movie like Barbie
>>215681412Disney sent Tron: Ares out to die precisely because they wanted to bury the franchise forever. Now they have an excuse to never touch the Tron IP again. There has never been a Tron product that was a financial success.
>>215675806>three decade lowThe mid 90s did not have particularly bad movies. It's economic.1995 was a few years after a global recession. So is 2025.
>>2156816222025 is just the middle of this not-quite-recession of penny pinching and pocket squeezing amongst the traditional Middle Class. AI has led to a sort of economic stagnation that mostly hit middle class jobs, professions like Journalism, Banking, Tech and Entertainment have largely narrowed and slimmed down. A lot of the kids who went to college are stuck sort of middling, their incomes are stagnated. These are the people who watch a lot of the movies that were heavy-hitters this month. Everyone who likes A24 and Paul Thomas Anderson is in those worlds. Most Tron fans fall into that category. And that's the group of people who have been hit most hard by the last 5 or so years of consolidation, slimming down for profitability and AI. That's why you see this mix of love and hostility to AI in Middle Class places. One Battle After Another failed because there are a bunch of college educated 30 somethings who are stuck with hours that won't let them go on a date in a job that makes them feel like they're not datable.
>>215681622>>215681732all of that can be true, but there was no dip after the 2008 financial crisis
>>215681575Pure idiot logic. Disney lost 132 million on Tron bombing. If they didn’t want Tron they wouldn’t have made it. There was zero demand for Tron. They put it out in October so wouldn’t have competition.
People can't afford to see movies in this Trumpconomy.
>>215681545So start casting streamers. Put Destiny or Hasan as your lead man.
>>2156817922008 wasn't even bad. I graduated into it and it didn't affect me at all. I think it was hard to find jobs for like 6 months and then everything went back to normal. Our baseline economic expectations today, when we are supposedly not in a recession, are way lower than they were after 2008 which we were told was as bad as the great depression. Yet, back then, people could rent a 1BR in the city on minimum wage. They could open a mortgage in a nice suburb with 2 median salaries. A highschooler could buy a used car with half of his summer job's earnings. All of that was already disappearing before the pandemic, and 2020 just put the final nail in the coffin.
Generation X is 60 years old and Millennials are aging out. Theaters are a 20th century pastime that Z-A don't know or care about
I'm not interested in watching films about figures who lived in obscurity. I never heard of this fighter. Why should his exploits get a second jab at glory through The Rock and why would I care if it wasn't that exciting enough the first time around?>N-no wait it's my life.....through the lens of an actor!I don't care. We shouldn't celebrate men and women spending time away from their children so they can play pretend professionally.
>>215682059trvke
>>215675806The vaxx-dieoff
All these copes. The products Hollywood is churning out suck, plain and simple. The entire business has been hollowed out and is utterly devoid of talent and creativity.
>>215681995I was walking past AMC the other night and they were doing a K-Pop Demon Hunters Sing-Along, and frankly that's probably the future of theaters. Jessica Tisch's grandad blew up all the old Lowes theaters that had one or two screens playing one or two movies in a beautiful Art Deco ornate experience environment because the Multiplexes were mogging them economically, now only a few small towns and some LA and NYC neighborhoods really have 2 screen theaters. And that's why she has job security.Watching a movie live in theater has been changing, frankly during that decline you see in the mid-10s I was already using movie theaters as a dark space to do semi-public sex acts that get Colorado Republicans in Trouble. The successful theater today is one that knows how to appeal to these Events type things, the Taylor Swift One Night Only events, the Sing Along to the KPop Demon Hunters, the traditional Rocky Horror/Room type theater experiences.
>>215682158You’re an idiot. Not even up to dispute theater attends been on a decline even before Covid. Covid accelerated it by 15 years. Everything is going steaming. Theaters becoming more and more not profitable option. You have to spend a fortune on a big even movie and record amounts now on promoting it because their is so much competing shit
>>215680900Dog man cost over 10 times as much to make, the net on Chainsaw Man is way higher lol
>>215681961>He doesn’t remember when Hollywood tried giving Youtubers moviesNobody wants to pay to go see talentless hacks, those platforms work because you can rot away to them on your phone for free
>>215682287>Everything is going steaming.And flopping there too. No one cares about any of this slop.
>>215682383How do you know if shit is “flopping”on streaming? Del Taco’s Frankenstein is going to be massive when it hits Netflix this weekend.
>>215682807Probably how many of the swinging streamers (the ones who go month to month with different streamers) swing to Netflix because the Frank Stein movie and how that benefits Netflix economically. That's kind of what I assume.There will be people who just stay subscribed to a streamer no matter what, there are people who only subscribe to 2-3 streamers at once and if they say switch to HBO Max for the Chair Company and I Love LA, then Warner sees I Love LA and the Chair Company as that successful, if Netflix adds Frankenstein by Del Toro and a bunch of people switch to Netflix for the month, then it was successful.Doesn't matter if you watched a few classic episodes Mr Show and finally watched And Just Like That... what matters is that for a couple months you gave HBO Max money to watch the Chair Company or I Love LA.
>>215675806it's october and pretty much no horror movies came out, are studio heads legit retarded?
watching horror movies in theaters in 2025 is a humiliation ritual >the couple that brings a literal infant >the group of teens that watch tiktok on full volume >the boomers that loudly ask their wife "who is that" for a character that is appearing for the first time>that family that got coaxed into watching an R rated movie thanks to viral social media advertising that are loud throughout the entire movie and leave halfway through when a character gets decapitated or talks about eating ass
>>215682287This post reeks of reddit midwittery. Streaming services are floundering too. The only thing experiencing real growth right now is piracy.
>>215683193Wrong. Netflix steamrolled WB and Disney in the steaming wars. The studios know future is srteaming and tried to be top dog and got their ass kicked. Why these mergers are happening and will continue to happen. It’s a battle of who will have the biggest libraries that will win
>>215678947>>215680700>cgiredditfag
>>215682807Frankenstein will be forgotten within a week like all streaming slop
>>215675806>called Tron>no Tron in the movie
>>215683343the sad thing is netflix was a pure middleman who also invested most into creating streaming technology. they were in the absolute worst position to ever win a streaming war and THEN they steamrolled. every single studio fucked up so hard that they ruined all of their chances to survive.
>>215683588I remember getting netflix by mail and it was superior to now. They had everything. I guess all that free $ wasn't good enough for Hollywood.
>>215684102Netflix was best when it was killing Blockbuster, now that it's killing the Studios it's the bad guyLiterally a reverse Godzill, started off as a good destroyer saving us all from evil, ended as a violent monster recklessly destroying our cities.
>>215683193Or tik tok? They have decades of social engineering success, egged on by fed psyops it's a total doom
>>215684149Netflix eeded inflation, deficit, toxic social fabric to win. Then it's dumbed down slop to really lock in a circling of the drain. Perfectly timed as if all by design
>>215684243Ted Sardanos will never be as lovable as Godzilla
>>215682321>the net on chainsaw man is way higher lmaoWe're talking about cultural reach, you retard, and Dog Man had more reach than Chainsaw Man.
>>215683343>>215683588And they lost to Amazon. Amazon is the most subscribed streaming service in the US...And that was 3 years ago that happened.
>>215675806combining movie theaters with fast casual dining was a mistake but it was a mistake in the right direction. the answer is to combine night clubs and movie theaters.
>>215680671This is what RE4 looked like to me in 2005
>>215680671why are these bad guys so comitted to dying for the cause? i get giving it a try if your one of the first 3 or 4 guys but after that isnt it kind of like diving into a woodchipper?
>>215675806Streaming has been cutting into theatrical releases but its not because of quality. The stuff on streaming is as bad if not worse as the stuff in theaters. The difference is if something sucks on streaming you can just turn it off whereas you have to pay for transportation to the theater, tickets and (probably) food only to find out the movie is shit.
>>215684342not so much, amazon merged their streaming service into their normal delivery service. they also spent a retarded amount of money on their new studio that probably has done nothing but lose more money. if they weren't reselling other people's services they'd have zero viewers.
>>215684342Not accurate. If you have Amazon Prime they count it as a subscription. Most people have Prime to save on shipping not because of their stupid streaming service
>>215675806arent oscar snubs supposed to bomb at the box office but win lots of awards?
I'm still amazed by just how fast streaming turned into an even shittier version of cable TV.
>>215685011It’s tragic
People don't go outside anymore for fear of mass shootings. More news at 11. If Hollywood wants to survive, it needs to drive its anti-gun propaganda to the absolute MAXIMUM.
>>215685011Get a job you bum. If you have one and are still so clueless you need to start making an enemies list.
I think it's pretty cool they made a movie about Mark Kerr, but I didn't even hear about it.
>>215677800If he raped them instead of murdering them it would cause a significant greater backlash and would probably not be shown in theaters. So yes, safe edgy.
>>215685587I'm about twenty minutes in, and I like it. It's got an interesting feel to it. Very different from other sports movies or biopics I've seen. It's chilled out or subdued even.
>>215679207I rebunked it.
WB is putting The Batman 2 out in October. No way in fuck it will make a billion. Why they so scared of it having competition?
>>215684622>The stuff on streaming is as bad if not worse as the stuff in theaters.gee I wonder why
I don't really understand why people still go to theaters. I got a nice OLED tv at home and a popcorn machine.
>>215676018>keke palmercute>keanuheckin chungus>everyone elseabsolutely disgusting, what the fuck were they thinking
>>215679191there are some movies i know i HAVE to see in theatres (DUNC DUNC, Warfare, Furiosa) because of the audio aspect of it, but there might be like 1 a year
Everyone has a backlog so huge that they could stop seeing every new release and be fine.
>>215677800I knew a depressed girl that did that to herself in HS.(Not the arms and legs part obviously)Hope she’s better now…
>>215683165>all these god damn families and old people are ruining my theater experience>and the TEENS with their TICK TOCKYou have no idea how bad things really are
>>215687020sandra oh's pre-2010 career was fucking legit and and if the year was still that she would be a completely reasonable choice in basically anything.
>>215679295Yea this actually makes sense. Whoever decided to release a wrestling and a scifi movie in october is retarded. A sinners rerelease would have probably done really well from the season alone
>>215684557They have a parasite in them that is controlled by a master parasite leader. They're drones
>>215676018absolute millennial core>jew rogan>jeet rogan>keanu reddit>that asian lady>random nog
>>215676018Aziz is the fourth most famous person on that poster but he is the only one with his name on it.
>>215675806The UFC sucks The only good movie I've seen was Warrior. Tron has always been lame.
>>215681478No
>>215676103I see you.
>>215684385>combine night clubs and movie theaters.eh... based
It's kind of weird to think how quickly movies and TV are being killed off by the internet, relative to newspapers, despite being invented centuries apart.
>>215681792The capeshit bubble kept it from falling off a cliff but it was still trending down before 2020 (looking at the adjusted graph)
>>215678296>Ataturd>cultural impactpick one
>>215684385>combine night clubs and movie theaters.Was the no singles policy not already enough now they have to go through that too?
>>215687059I wish they weren't so focused on being loud. I have tinnitus for a couple days whenever I go to a movie in any theater anywhere
>>215680671Tell me that shit isn't a resident evil...
>>215681478>>215689019Birthplace: He was born in Beirut, Lebanon, because his mother was living there at the time. Ethnicity: His ethnicity is a mix of English, Hawaiian, and Chinese and Portuguese.He was raised in Lebanon, Australia, Canada and USA. Citizenship: He is a Canadian citizen and also has American and British citizenships.
>>215681545scrolling killed the tinseltown star
>>215691209>Citizenship: He is a Canadian citizen and also has American and British citizenships.Apparently he only has Canadian citizenship. Though he inherited potential American and British citizenship from his parents.
When are we going to get good movies again?
>>215676617He was somehow way more charismatic as a wrestler than as an actor. I’d rather watch Batista or John cena in a movie at this point. The rock killed his own brand through pure corporate greed.
>>215675806look at those post-op bitch tits and hgh gut. What a poser. KWAB
>>215676018The trailer wasn't funny and seemed to spoil the whole movie. Who thought this would turn a profit?
>>215676018Ill never watch anything with jew rogen in it
>>215679119>jewish whiteNow this is cope
>>215677274>Senseless satanic horseshitGreat standards, everybody.
>>215676617The shower room scene is pretty kino>I will not give that order!
why don't they get rid of antitrust shit with regard to the film industry? would help out a lot
damn am I the only one who thought the trailer got smashing machine looked decent
>>215684102damn, you're right. i never looked at it like this before. selling stuff by mail actually allows you to sell everything. renting from a store means limited selection because of limited physical space and streaming means limited selection because of IPmail>streaming>store
>>215676617The problem is that in movies, he's never late 90s/early 00s Rock, which is when he had aura. He's always mid-00s Rock, who's not quite intense enough to be the next Arnold or Sylvester. But late 90s Rock might have always been doomed to crumble, because at his core, he's a politician. Sylvester has no problem playing a gritty hardass with masculine values because he is one. Arnold is an autist, so he naturally comes across as unusual. Even when he was at his peak in wrestling, people who didn't like The Rock were noting that he was a one-trick pony who just spouted the same catchphrases again and again. As opposed to Austin (another person who's pretty close to how he acts in front of the camera), who could keep producing new trash talk all day.I guess that the lesson here is that you need a straight-talking tough guy to play your straight-talking tough guy.
>>215675806The big difference here is that in the 90s, they'd have hot and cold periods. That's perfectly natural in any market. And they had the adaptability to get through the cold periods.Now it's just down, down, down, and the decline is caused by extreme internal rot. Sometimes they have a lucky streak but those are extreme outliers. The Igers and Kennedys didn't have the foresight to use a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with infinite money from investors and a massive new market filled with curious, excited prospective customers (China) to solidify their juggernaut status for the next twenty years (the alleged business experts were too stupid to even understand why they were seeing record profits), and they definitely don't have the wisdom and expertise needed to save themselves from the consequences of their stupidity and hubris.
>>215676018>seth rogen>aziz ansariyeah that's a double eww no fucking thanks
>>215676018Aziz Ansari -- Age: 42Seth Rogen -- age 43Keke Palmer -- age 32Sandra Oh -- age 54Keanu Reeves -- age 61They are all too fucking old.
>>215694295they actually bought original scripts from new writers in the 90s. execs actually read scripts and took calculated gambles on cool ideas. now they just throw hundreds of millions at talentless DEI hacks to shove their retarded ideology into franchise IP.
The movie would have been great if they casted anyone but the Rock. The storyline was good
>>215684317cope and seethe
>>215695547Casted is not a word.
>>215695483Have you seen the new batch of actors?That's explains why all the old farts
>>215675806The Rock needs to go back to wrestling other sweaty men
who the fuck wants to watch anything with seth rogen or jared leto lmao
>>215675806>>215675825>>215675847>>215676018Minecraft Movie ($957,949,195) + Superman ($615,984,465) + The Conjuring: Last Rites ($482,212,628) + Sinners ($367,000,000) + Final Destination: Bloodlines ($315,130,814) + Mickey 17 ($133,347,147)
>>215695909Superman would have made twice as that 10 years ago
>>215675806 (OP)>>215675825>>215675847>>215676018Lilo & Stitch(US$ 1,037,869,882. )+The Fantastic Four: First Steps (US$ 521,858,728)
>>215695909And much more films underperform or bomb
>>215695968Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning; $598.8 millionThe Naked Gun (2025) ; $102.1 million worldwide. Smurfs (2025) ;$120.8 million worldwide
>>215696000Yeah, and?a fuckton of movis underperform or bomb. And deservedly so
>>215695968yeah, but most movies are garbage, yet, per capita, most did well.I mean, they are garbage, yet so many did quite well.e.g.Univeral pictures sloppaJurassic World Rebirth ≈ US$ 868.5 million worldwide. How to Train Your Dragon (2025) ≈ US$ 636 million worldwide. The Bad Guys 2 ≈ US$ 234 million worldwideAll 3 movies are garbage
>>215675889The jokes write themselves
>>215696028name me studio and their movie that bombed.Again, most movies this year are garbage, yet each studio crossed over billion.I am saying that Hollywood did surprisingly good,
>>215676018I kneel
>>215675806What the fuck bros? I went to see it for the 5th time yesterday and yet again pissed myself laughing watching this litty summer flick. What are the rest of you doing?
>>215684622>>215686771Netflix sloppa is unwatchable garbage, however, streaming is only part of the equation. Even before streaming major channels wanted to get movies asap, people could buy DVD's or rent movies online (decades if not two decades old thing)Most movies this year are garbage, and if anything, Hollywood did too well
>>215684557The game isn't called Resident Sensible.
>jude>jigaboo>poo>bugs>mudslimes >orcsThe only other "'White actor' is a fucking half blood
>>215676018Anyone else fucking sick of seeing Keanu turning up with the same hair/shitty beard combo for every role?
>>215693766>>215676654>>215692254I'm glad other people have noticed thisIt's actually bizarre how fucking wooden and boring The Rock is because his entire career exploded in the first place due to him being so godamn funny and charismatic when he got the mic It's like he lost his powers the very minute he lost his Dave Matthews hair
>>215696039???? no?Per capita they are mostly bombs>>215696056Sure it did, apologist
>>215696152He's entered that phase where he's jsut apid to sit down and let the movie happen around him, for a paycheck, liek harrison ford.No need for effort. Effort doesn't make that paycheck fatter
>>215696152Keanu shaved five years ago and it was deeply regrettable
>>215696168you're illiterate idiot. I am saying that Hollywood got lucky. As bad as their movies are, most earned money.
>>215681478Nah. His mother is English, his father is a hapa from Hawaii.
>>215696000>The Smurfs (2011): $563 million>Smurfs 2 (2013): $347 million>Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017): $197 million>Smurfs (2025): $120 millionI'm sure the studio is celebrating
>>215677800Terrifier 1 has the feel of an actual fucked up nightmare, 2 and 3 both felt like a comedy slasher. Basically the same thing they did with Nightmare on Elm Street
>>215680700>>215680763>>215682321That budget weeb cope is full of shit. The anime industry is outright notorious for biohazard-level working conditions that make the American film industry's working conditions look dignified by comparison. One of the reasons why Disney's animated films tend to cost a lot is because they're animated in California AND employees/animators are actually paid well. MAPPA, the studio behind Chainsaw Man, is (or at least was) actually one of the worst offenders of abusing their animators. Ufotable, is also pretty shitty too. A former animator called them out a few years ago for refusing her maternity leave, and even rejected her compromise of working from home. Chainsaw Man isn't really benefiting all that much from the success of Demon Slayer and even Demon Slayer's success is still mostly coming from East Asia while in the West, it had a sharper decline than other Hollywood blockbusters that came out this year.Also, I don't think you can actors if they want more payment when they return to a role that became highly successful for them. Japanese studios are infamous for royally screwing over their actors. Disney voice actors are actually paid well for their labors while Japanese voice actors are literally paid McDonald's tier salary. That's kind of why Japanese voice actors does a lot of side hustling on the side like having a YouTube channel, a music career and radio podcast on the side. They don't actually make money from voice acting.
>>215696152It's probably hard for him to grow out the hair if they ever ask for more John Wick shit. So he just keeps it all the time. Plus he's old and successful and doesn't have to change. The studios probably ask him to keep the look too because that's how zoomers recognize him.
