Meet the new app, same as the old app.

Don’t snap at me, but it would be more apt of you to make a flat pack, or create an app image, or you might get stuck in a tar ball.

Seeing these numbers, I can see why studios have been pivoting to digital post-COVID, as they don’t have to spend as much money sending their films to theaters, and they get a much larger percentage of the digital sales compared to box office gross.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

So many corporations have used the words “Pro” and “Max” that they have now become meaningless.

The Genie, obviously.

What you’re describing is called a “mid-budget movie”, and you’re right that there doesn’t seem to be much of them nowadays.

does being based on a book count?

Yes, The Wild Robot is technically an IP owned by the author Peter Brown.

People on the Internet often say that they want more original movies, but the box office proves that this isn’t always the case.

This is why Hollywood keeps making sequels, reboots, and adaptations, because they make more money than original movies.

And for that matter, original movies are still being made - they’ve just skipped theaters and moved to streaming (again, because they’re not as profitable as preexisting IP).

People have voted with their wallets. This is what the general public wants, whether we like it or not.

Here’s one:

When you put it like that, yeah, it doesn’t really make sense. It’s not like it’s gonna go out of stock…

But I can think of a few reasons. Maybe they have the money to pay for it now, but might not have it later. Or they just want to watch it the second it becomes available.

When talking about box office grosses, Hollywood never adjusts for inflation unless specified otherwise.

Grease (1978): $328 million

Wicked (2024): $634.3 million

Unadjusted for inflation, of course.

I thought they were a for-profit company all this time.

Is it really more effort to pirate? I’m not sure I agree with that.

Relative to your own experience and tech expertise, it’s easier. Look at this through the eyes of an average person. More people use smartphones than computers/laptops (and if they use laptops, it’s likely that they’re running a locked-down OS like ChromeOS). They probably don’t even know what a file or folder/directory is, much less a “torrent”.

“So you’re telling me I need to install this app that’s not on the official App Store to ‘download’ a movie, in the process exposing my IP address and potentially getting me in hot water with my ISP? Sounds dangerous to my security, better stick with Netflix and Amazon Prime.”

I don’t think piracy has that big of an effect on box office.

Most people don’t know how to pirate properly and are too afraid of “viruses” and navigating file systems to do it.

If piracy really were that big of a problem, they wouldn’t be doing this.

Yeah, it boggles me why Universal would do this. It feels like they’re leaving money on the table.

Maybe it’s not performing as well as they’d hoped?

It’s not a new meme, I just posted a .gif of the Fusion Dance from Dragon Ball Z.

As someone who was eagerly anticipating this movie and saw it in theaters, it’s a shame that it ended up having a terrible box office gross. I thought it was really good, and I appreciated the fact that I got to see 2D animation on the big screen again.

I think the best-case scenario for Rohirrim is that it blows up on streaming and digital.