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2025 Wide Release Prediction Game Thread

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Monday, May 19, 2025 8:12 PM

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Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning (2025)

Production Budget: $400,000,000 (worldwide box office is 0.0 times production budget)

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Mission-Impossible-The-Final-Reckoni
ng-(2025)#tab=summary

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Most expensive films adjusted for inflation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_films#Most_expens
ive_films_(adjusted_for_inflation)
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Tom Cruise has made it his life’s work to save the theatrical movie. He has faced down the pandemic, thrown himself off a cliff, and materialized from on high to show us that the righteous path leads to the multiplex.

With “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,” we have reached the apotheosis of Cruise’s Christ-like journey; nearly three hours of mythmaking and self-aggrandizement make abundantly clear that Ethan Hunt is no longer just a hypercompetent spy — he is literally Cinema Jesus.
https://www.boston.com/culture/movie-reviews/2025/05/14/mission-imposs
ible-8-final-reckoning-review/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, May 19, 2025 10:08 PM

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Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning (2025)

Production Budget: $400,000,000 (worldwide box office is 0.0 times production budget)


Nothing you pirates do is going to hurt Paramount anywhere near as much as they did when they greenlit this thing.

A few years ago, after it was very apparent that Part 1 was going to be a MAJOR money loss for Paramount, I said several times "let's wait and see what the budget for Part II is. Maybe they front-loaded all these costs for tax purposes or something and we'll find out Part one cost a legal consideration of $1 or something, and I laughed at how crazy that would fuck up the movie stats and records from then on if they did something like that.

They spent another $400 Million on part 2. SMH...



New Prediction: This movie, the last of a beloved franchise which to my knowledge never went woke but was just put in the the hands of increasingly less competent DEI departments running Paramount into the ground, will be the final nail in the coffin for Paramount.

Paramount will be sold for scrap parts after their next quarterly earnings call.

They do not have the money to weather this loss at this time.



It's going to sound pretty weird in 2055 when 30 somethings who aren't even born yet make Youtube videos talking about the fall of various media companies during and after the death of the Democratic Party, and the Tom Cruse movie is going to be blamed for the end of Paramount like the video game E.T. is singularly blamed for the fall of Atari by many today even though that's not true either.

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Tuesday, May 20, 2025 12:10 AM

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. . . the Tom Cruse movie is going to be blamed for the end of Paramount like the video game E.T. is singularly blamed for the fall of Atari by many today even though that's not true either.
Paramount and Skydance (its logo is on Mission Impossible) are play toys for the multi-billionaire family of Larry Ellison. If it shrivels up and dies, that is good.

Paramount and Skydance merge, signaling the end of the Redstone family reign in Hollywood and the rise of a new power - July 8, 2024

https://apnews.com/article/paramount-skydance-redstone-entertainment-m
erger-8ba177aebe4ec6c3152e5b8ef82a72e0

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Tuesday, May 20, 2025 12:44 AM

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Quote:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
. . . the Tom Cruse movie is going to be blamed for the end of Paramount like the video game E.T. is singularly blamed for the fall of Atari by many today even though that's not true either.
Paramount and Skydance (its logo is on Mission Impossible) are play toys for the multi-billionaire family of Larry Ellison. If it shrivels up and dies, that is good.

Paramount and Skydance merge, signaling the end of the Redstone family reign in Hollywood and the rise of a new power - July 8, 2024

https://apnews.com/article/paramount-skydance-redstone-entertainment-m
erger-8ba177aebe4ec6c3152e5b8ef82a72e0

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two



You won't ever see me shedding any tears when billionaires lose money.

On this one thing I think we can find common ground.

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Tuesday, May 20, 2025 1:08 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
. . . the Tom Cruse movie is going to be blamed for the end of Paramount like the video game E.T. is singularly blamed for the fall of Atari by many today even though that's not true either.
Paramount and Skydance (its logo is on Mission Impossible) are play toys for the multi-billionaire family of Larry Ellison. If it shrivels up and dies, that is good.

Paramount and Skydance merge, signaling the end of the Redstone family reign in Hollywood and the rise of a new power - July 8, 2024

https://apnews.com/article/paramount-skydance-redstone-entertainment-m
erger-8ba177aebe4ec6c3152e5b8ef82a72e0

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two



You won't ever see me shedding any tears when billionaires lose money.

On this one thing I think we can find common ground.


We can argue all we want about politics man, but we've been fucked six ways from Sunday by all of them our whole lives.

It's just a shame that nobody in our government ever bothered to step up and make sure that all that corporate gobbling up of everything else never took place. It really has ruined everything over time.

Maybe all of what we're seeing right now is the phoenix burning up and maybe we'll see some good things rise from the ashes.


Capitalism is great when there's undiscovered country and the people with the money needed the people with the muscle to get the jobs done. I'd imagine it was a lot better when there were less than 1 Billion people on the planet too.

But once you get to that point past where we're all consumers and we've become the product, it's not all that it was cracked up to be anymore.

Have you ever thought about the implications of the Covid timeline? Where within the "greatest country on the planet" we were able to wipe out more than 20% of the jobs by calling them non-essential with the snap of a finger and nothing actually broke that mattered when we did it outside of some empty shelves and a lack of toilet paper for a few weeks? I'm putting aside of how much all of that fucked up eveyrone in the head and I'm just talking about from a logistical standpoint.

After a few bad months and some real unease that felt worse than reality actually was in the beginning, that all sort of leveled out at one point. I mean, the only reason that there was never pure bedlam and people shooting each other for food was because we dumped trillions and trillions into the economy to keep it afloat... but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm just saying that once some initial hiccups were ironed out, people stopped panic buying and the scalpers stopped being able to sell toilet paper for $5 per roll on ebay, things just worked again even though tens of millions of people who were working 2 months ago were no longer doing anything other than consuming.

Considering how huge and immediate of a cultural shift all of that was, it all went rather smoothly when looking at it through 20/20 hindsight and you're not living through the non-stop daily barrage of news coverage always telling you that the sky is falling and life as you know it is about to end tomorrow.

There's already a lot more than 20% of adults in the country that don't work even when you don't count seniors. Then you can Thanos snap away 20%-25% more of those people's jobs and nobody who was still working really noticed it all that much. Maybe a certain product you wanted wasn't available, even by any other brand, but it's not as if anybody was close to actual food shortages and grocery stores didn't have any food. I remember not being able to buy milk for a few weeks until I found the one place who had the lockdown on the local milk that wasn't effected by larger level shipping problems that everyone else had. But it's not like the stores still weren't full of food even if what I was looking for that day was out of stock.



A lot of us have jobs only because of how many other people there are living. That's it. That's the only reason for the jobs. What's the point of that?

Why every time I turn around do I see nothing but adults doing the jobs that only kids were doing back when I was in high school and I started my first job?

What's the end goal here? I mean, for all of us.

Hell... What's the next goal?

Anybody got any sort of plan?

If we're going to go on and keep a huge surplus of unnecessary people and we're just going to keep adding more and more of them every year, there's got to be a reason why.

To keep social security and healthcare and any form of insurance and all the various ponzi schemes we've built our society on running?

That's a terrible reason, innt? Unless we start colonizing other planets, that can't go on forever and it's going to absolutely fuck the lives of everyone who's alive when that finally becomes unsustainable.

... Unsustainable isn't the right word. Either by incompetence or by design, all of this that we've been doing has already been unsustainable since before we were born.

What is the word for "The Powers That Be decide that now is the time to let all of us know that 25% of us are no longer necessary and that we're no longer necessary?"

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Tuesday, May 20, 2025 11:32 AM

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What is the word for "The Powers That Be decide that now is the time to let all of us know that 25% of us are no longer necessary and that we're no longer necessary?"
In the latest Mission: Impossible, The Powers That Be was called "The Entity" and the mission was to kill it before it killed 25% or more of America's population. America has had a mission like that in the past. The Japs and Germans were killing 25% or more of the population of countries they invaded and Americans took on the mission to kill Japs and Germans. The result was an economic boom to replace the lingering Great Depression. 6ix, there are numerous real-life Missions: Impossible, if you choose to accept them. Besides saving a billion lives, there would be an economic boom in America from the work needed to save those lives. Here is one mission from today: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/20/sea-level-rise-mig
ration

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Tuesday, May 20, 2025 2:16 PM

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What is the word for "The Powers That Be decide that now is the time to let all of us know that 25% of us are no longer necessary and that we're no longer necessary?"
In the latest Mission: Impossible, The Powers That Be was called "The Entity" and the mission was to kill it before it killed 25% or more of America's population. America has had a mission like that in the past. The Japs and Germans were killing 25% or more of the population of countries they invaded and Americans took on the mission to kill Japs and Germans. The result was an economic boom to replace the lingering Great Depression. 6ix, there are numerous real-life Missions: Impossible, if you choose to accept them. Besides saving a billion lives, there would be an economic boom in America from the work needed to save those lives. Here is one mission from today: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/20/sea-level-rise-mig
ration


Okay. I see you're not interested in an actual conversation.

That's not a mission.

That's just a future problem that nobody in the Democratic Party has ever offered any legitimate and cost-effective means of combating.

And it's one of the reasons that the Democratic Party is dead and they will never make a comeback. They can't lie about fixing the environment anymore either because nobody is buying it anymore when they say they will.

Everything your party relied on to win votes doesn't work anymore.


If you have something serious to propose, I'd suggest you write to your congressman and give them the ideas because your dead party can't come up with shit on their own.



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Tuesday, May 20, 2025 2:27 PM

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Thunderbolts still strong but the movie business aint what it used to be, Final Destination Bloodlines expected to have a big weeked


Made it's production budget back from the US Box office alone on opening weekend.

Easily makes money, but we already knew that it was going to despite the high budget.

Although, it wasn't a Bloomhouse or A24 joint and this may have gotten some real heavy marketing compared to what they would have gotten. Still have to give this one the 2.5x treatment because it's WB.

$125 Million to break even.

Internationally it did just a little better so we're already at $105 Million worldwide. Easy peasy.

Still though. $50 Million is a big gamble on a horror flick in 2025. I'm glad it worked out for them this time, but it might not next time.

Anybody remember 2023's The Last Voyage of the Demeter? No?

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Last-Voyage-of-the-Demeter-The#tab=s
ummary

$45 Million budget in 2023 adjusted for inflation at $47,376,700 today.

Grossed $13.6 Million in the US and bowed out with a worldwide total of $20.4 Million, with a little over $2 Million in DVD/BluRay sales since then.

Glad to see physical media making a small comeback, btw...

Demeter's budget was nearly $3 Million less than Final Destination Bloodlines', but it lost Universal somewhere in the area of $100 Million and ended up one of their rare flops in an otherwise stellar year.

Though the loss here was probably quite a bit less than that because I think Universal knew they had a big flop on their hands and didn't put any marketing budget into Demeter.

... Plus, when a movie makes that little, it ends up being the movie theaters themselves that end up eating a lot of that pain too. They'd be splitting that $20 Million roughly 50/50, so if Universal didn't dump any money into marketing, their actual losses on this were probably only around $30 Million. And with how much money Universal raked in during 2023 while just destroying everyone else that year, that $30 Million loss probably ended up becoming a wash somewhere with tax write-offs or whatever tricks their accountant teams use to maximize profits.

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Wow... Bruce did something I've never seen him do before and actually cite inflation in a comparison when showing that it beat 2009's release after inflation was calculated in.

https://www.the-numbers.com/news/259350830-Weekend-projections-Bloodli
nes-lands-with-excellent-51-million-debut

His assessment from there more or less mirrors my own, most of which I already stated above...

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Final Destination is highly unlikely to have a second weekend anything like Sinners did, but our model is predicting its final box office at a little over $150 million right now. With another $51 million from international territories this weekend, the film should end with something around $300 million in total worldwide, making it highly profitable, based on an estimated $50-million production budget (and maybe the same again to market).


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Tuesday, May 20, 2025 6:09 PM

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Wes Anderson Mocks Trump’s Movie Tariffs at Cannes: ‘Can You Hold Up the Movie in Customs? It Doesn’t Ship That Way’

https://variety.com/2025/film/festivals/wes-anderson-mocks-trumps-movi
e-tariffs-cannes-1236403035/

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Wednesday, May 21, 2025 6:40 AM

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a Holiday period, Vacation Weekend...Halloween is kind of a vacation worldwide, the big one is the USA, next market China, followed by European film industry a mix of French, British, Italy, Germany, Spain etc some East European still have vacation around the Soviet May Day period but changed to a folk festival or 'National Day'

Aus kind of does its own thing at times have summer while everyone else has a winter

in the USA
Memorial Day May 25–31, floating Monday
Independence Day 4th day of July
Labor Day September 1–7, floating Monday
Thanksgiving Day November 22–28 ...some form of Thursday


China has somewhat unofficial holiday vacation festival days, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and National Day.
31st day of May Dragon Boat Festival
1st of October National Day
Jun. 6th of October Mid-Autumn Day

some old Chinese Festivals are based on old Chinese Calendars and Lunar cycles like Western religion festivals


Jurassic World Rebirth




Disney and
Need something to keep China out of the animation Oscars?

Zootopia part 1 Budget $150 million Box office $1.025 billion


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Wednesday, May 21, 2025 2:49 PM

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Please stop with the Jurassic Park movies. Please.

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Wednesday, May 21, 2025 8:42 PM

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Bruce's article for the weekend said this...

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Bloodlines’ opening is the third hit in a row for Warner Bros., following A Minecraft Movie and Sinners, and the studio now leads Disney by over $100 million in what is essentially a two-horse race (so far) for top-earning studio in 2025.


Well that's not the whole story now, is it Bruce?

First of all, we don't count previous year releases anywhere else, so we're going to take those off both lists. That means buh-bye right away to Moana 2 and Mufasa. This doesn't amount to much... Around $130 Million in 2025 profits for Disney on the tail-end of 2 movies that grossed over $1.7 Billion in 2024, but I'm not going to allow Bruce to add that in unless I'm also adding in the production budgets too. And as you'll see below, that $130 Million isn't helping Disney out of their 2025 mess anyhow...


Disney 2025 releases:

1 Captain America: Brave New World
2 Thunderbolts*
3 Disney’s Snow White

WB 2025 releases:

1 A Minecraft Movie
2 Sinners
3 Final Destination: Bloodlines
4 Mickey 17
5 Companion
6 The Alto Knights


Production budgets:

Disney:

1 Captain America: Brave New World - $180 Million
2 Thunderbolts* - $180 Million
3 Disney’s Snow White - $269.4 Millon

TOTAL Disney 2025 Release Budgets Combined: $629.4 Million

WB:

1 A Minecraft Movie - $150 Million
2 Sinners - $90 Million
3 Final Destination: Bloodlines - $50 Million
4 Mickey 17 - $118 Million
5 Companion - $10 Million
6 The Alto Knights - $45 Million

TOTAL WB 2025 Release Budget Combined: $463 Million


World Wide Gross per 2025 release:

Disney:

1 Captain America: Brave New World - $415 Million
2 Thunderbolts* - $330 Million
3 Disney’s Snow White - $204 Million

TOTAL Disney 2025 Worldwide Box Office: $949 Million

WB:

1 A Minecraft Movie - $931 Million
2 Sinners - $321 Million
3 Final Destination: Bloodlines - $117 Million
4 Mickey 17 - $127 Million
5 Companion - $37 Million
6 The Alto Knights - $10 Million

TOTAL WB 2025 Worldwide Box Office: $1.543 BILLION


What do we know so far...?

1. For WB, Minecraft alone has made almost as much as all 3 major 2025 Disney releases combined.

2. At $463 Million in combined budgets, WB needed $1.158 Billion to break even.

3. Currently, WB has grossed $1.543 Billion worldwide and is sitting on a 2025 profit of nearly $400 Million.

4. At $629.4 Million in combined production budgets, Disney needs $1.574 Billion in worldwide grosses to break even.

5. Currently, Disney has grossed $949 Million and is nearly $550 Million short of breaking even.

6. Out of all of the above movies still in theaters, WB has the only few that are still going to add anything significant to either of those totals.



Disney better hope that the Lilo and Stitch movie makes that $1 Billion dollar mark people are saying it will. It's going to need that just to pay for the other 3 flops and there won't be any profit.


There ain't no race here, Bruce. WB is almost $1 Billion ahead of Disney so far this year once you balance the other side of the ledger that you didn't even mention in your article.

Get your tongue out of Bob Iger's asshole.

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Thursday, May 22, 2025 6:16 AM

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the scene has changed
now its Sonic, Mario, that Oppenheimer, Japan anime, new Godzillia, South Korea tv, the Chinese animation thing, Minecraft and Barbie

Tv/Streaming...when some must watch episode thing comes out....how much does Walking Dead, Simpsons or Boardwalk Empire or Yellow Stone or Superbowl or Grey’s Anatomy or Soccer the FIFA World Cup or the fight between Mike Tyson and Buster Douglas or Vampire Diaries or Dallas or Game of Thrones cost the box office?
...I know tv audiences are different
and sometimes tv might help a brand


but don't they also compete with each other?


since the days of HBO and other studios doing big product shows it was decided people might stay at home


Apple TV+ miniseries Hawaiians vs other Hawaiians




and instead of going to movies will they stay home and watch SKorea tv for example?

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Thursday, May 22, 2025 8:27 AM

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Okay. I see you're not interested in an actual conversation.

That's not a mission.

That's just a future problem that nobody in the Democratic Party has ever offered any legitimate and cost-effective means of combating.

And it's one of the reasons that the Democratic Party is dead and they will never make a comeback. They can't lie about fixing the environment anymore either because nobody is buying it anymore when they say they will.

Everything your party relied on to win votes doesn't work anymore.


If you have something serious to propose, I'd suggest you write to your congressman and give them the ideas because your dead party can't come up with shit on their own.



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The “Final” Mission: Impossible Movie May Mark the End of More Than Just the Franchise

This old-fashioned blockbuster could be the last of its kind, whether or not you “choose to accept it.”

By Dana Stevens | May 22, 2025 5:40 AM

https://slate.com/culture/2025/05/mission-impossible-final-reckoning-t
om-cruise-movie-8-review.html

When the first Mission: Impossible movie was released in 1996, it had been 30 years since the espionage series by that name debuted on American television.

. . . the quaint old-Hollywood precept that when audiences keep returning to a series, it’s not for the brand name but for the star. It’s impossible to imagine this cheerfully ludicrous franchise holding together, to whatever extent it does, without Cruise at its center. His scary degree of commitment—the same quality that makes his off-screen persona so peculiar and at times off-putting—has become the most unifying through line of the M:I films. Is he, at long last, getting too old for this shit? That question is brought up by several characters over the course of The Final Reckoning . . .

Whatever the much-repeated words Tom Cruise does his own stunts mean exactly—and they often mean more than you might think—sequences like the biplane battle are testimonials to the power of analog filmmaking when it comes to engaging an audience in the stakes of a story. Cruise really is out there, clinging to the side of that plane as it swoops and dips over a non-green-screen landscape of cliffs and canyons. A real thing is happening in a real place; real risks have been taken, real craft and skill deployed, and a gobsmacking quantity of real money spent, in order to accomplish the oddly humble goal of entertaining an audience. If you’ve never seen a Mission: Impossible movie, Final Reckoning will not be the one to win you over to the franchise’s loopy appeal: It’s too long, too self-referential, too dependent on the viewer’s affection for characters who were better developed in earlier installments. But whether or not this one is really the last in the series (and in interviews, Cruise and McQuarrie have been equivocal on that subject), Final Reckoning is a noble exemplar of a dying breed: the big, dumb, fun action blockbuster with a bona fide movie star at its center, putting it all on the line—and hanging on for dear life—just to keep us at the edge of our theater seats.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Thursday, May 22, 2025 5:50 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


They forgot to mention, of course, that this one is going to end Paramount.

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Friday, May 23, 2025 4:08 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Uggh... I forgot the Lilo and Stitch movie is going to be another live action remake.

That's going to make a Billion?

Do better people. Don't pay for that.

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Friday, May 23, 2025 5:54 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Why We're Stuck In An Endless Hell of Live Action Remakes

https://www.decodingeverything.com/p/brief-history-of-live-action-rema
kes-dragons-lion-king-beauty-and-the-beast


The answer is you.

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Saturday, May 24, 2025 5:12 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


The quality of movies did not cause reduced ticket sales.

The real cause? Roku is slowly murdering the habit of attending movie theaters

05-22-2025

Roku is still riding the streaming wave. The company ended 2024 with 89.8 million streaming households, an increase of 9.8 million year over year. In the first quarter of 2025, it streamed 35.8 billion hours of video, up 5.1 billion year over year—and more than 10 times what it was doing per quarter when it went public in 2017.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91324863/roku-anthony-wood-2025

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, May 24, 2025 5:51 AM

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You were warned to stay away from screens, both movie and TV:

The Incredibles 2’s Screenslaver: the most controversial film villain ever?

The evils of screens and high-tech mind control are fought off in Pixar’s latest. But the rest of cinema doesn’t want to know

By Steve Rose | Mon 2 Jul 2018

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/02/the-incredibles-2s-screen
slaver-the-most-controversial-film-villain-ever

The Incredibles were pretty much the only superheroes in town when they arrived in 2004, but so much has happened since – such as Marvel taking over the box office – they are in danger of being left behind and crowded out on their return. But, actually, The Incredibles 2 takes one audacious move that makes the entire superhero genre look old-fashioned.

The villain of the piece is a mysterious entity known as the Screenslaver, who hypnotises people and controls their minds through TV screens. In a monologue, the Screenslaver rails against the very passivity Incredibles 2 is catering to: “Superheroes are part of your brainless desire to replace true experience with simulation … Every meaningful experience must be packaged and delivered to you to watch at a distance so that you can remain ever sheltered, ever ravenous consumers.” Whoa there! This is a dangerously valid point. Quick! Get to a fight scene!

Quite understandably, the evils of screened entertainment are somewhere that screened entertainment itself rarely wants to go. It’s a blind spot, and for the sake of its survival, it needs to be ours, too. You might occasionally get a media-mogul Bond villain like Jonathan Pryce in Tomorrow Never Dies. At best you’ll get a dystopian reality show such as The Running Man or The Truman Show. Or maybe an inane TV show-within-the-show, as with The Lego Movie’s Honey, Where Are My Pants? or Idiocracy’s Ow My Balls! to be lapped up by a subdued populace. More explicit warnings against the screen are usually confined to horror: the spirits who enter through TV white noise in Poltergeist; the demonic video cassette of Ring; or A Clockwork Orange’s eyelid-clamping Ludovico Technique.

Going further than any of those was David Cronenberg’s Videodrome (1983). Cronenberg, a former student of Marshall McLuhan, lays out a landscape of race-to-the-bottom ratings chasing; mass media literally warping perceptions of reality; and, behind it all, a conspiracy to brainwash audiences with a TV-transmitted virus that’s not far off the Incredibles’ Screenslaver.

“The battle for the mind of North America will be fought in the video arena,” says Videodrome’s media messiah Brian O’Blivion. If that is the case, we haven’t caught up. Time and again our screen heroes confront evil on a physical battlefield, with weaponry and superpowers. Even The Incredibles 2 resolves its media crisis with an action climax. But, in the present world, our threats are increasingly immaterial: fake news, social media propaganda, trolls, hacking, viruses and a US president whose worldview is shaped by Fox News – his own Screenslaver.

If weapons are really useless against this, don’t expect the movies to break it to you.

The Incredibles 2 is in UK cinemas on 13 July

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, May 24, 2025 1:59 PM

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The quality of movies did not cause reduced ticket sales.

The real cause? Roku is slowly murdering the habit of attending movie theaters

05-22-2025

Roku is still riding the streaming wave. The company ended 2024 with 89.8 million streaming households, an increase of 9.8 million year over year. In the first quarter of 2025, it streamed 35.8 billion hours of video, up 5.1 billion year over year—and more than 10 times what it was doing per quarter when it went public in 2017.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91324863/roku-anthony-wood-2025

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


This is having a much larger negative impact on traditional cable TV than it ever will have on movie theaters.

People aren't going to see movies because there's still a glut of half-assed DEI projects that were too far completed to outright cancel, there's a shortage of movies in general still because of the actor/writer's strikes and because all the venture capital dried up and they used that opportunity to slash more than half of the movies and shows they were planning on making. Which is why you never saw a cartoon for My Racist Baby and you haven't heard a word out of race grifter Kendi for years now.

And Joe Biden*'s economy made going to the theaters cost so much that people are making real decisions about which movies they can afford to see in a theater right now.

Hollywood only continues its downward slide for one or both of 2 reasons.

1. They continue the woke DEI shit that nobody wants to pay to see.

2. The economy continues to tumble.


At least right now, it doesn't look like either of those things are going to happen.

And, other than just giving up and dying, with nowhere really left to go but up, Hollywood should start posting some improvements over the coming years.

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Sunday, May 25, 2025 10:09 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

This is having a much larger negative impact on traditional cable TV than it ever will have on movie theaters.

People aren't going to see movies because there's still a glut of half-assed DEI projects that were too far completed to outright cancel, there's a shortage of movies in general still because of the actor/writer's strikes and because all the venture capital dried up and they used that opportunity to slash more than half of the movies and shows they were planning on making. Which is why you never saw a cartoon for My Racist Baby and you haven't heard a word out of race grifter Kendi for years now.

And Joe Biden*'s economy made going to the theaters cost so much that people are making real decisions about which movies they can afford to see in a theater right now.

Hollywood only continues its downward slide for one or both of 2 reasons.

1. They continue the woke DEI shit that nobody wants to pay to see.

2. The economy continues to tumble.


At least right now, it doesn't look like either of those things are going to happen.

And, other than just giving up and dying, with nowhere really left to go but up, Hollywood should start posting some improvements over the coming years.

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6ixStringJack, you are full of shit. Barry Diller, famous at Paramount, exited the movie business. He knows why the business is dying and there is nothing about politics. It is all about the personalities running Hollywood. Actually, it is a LACK of personality. The new owners have none. They are human zeros and their taste in entertainment is execrable/excretion/putrid. So the human zeros end up dumping the product on streaming a couple of weeks after it premieres in the movie theaters. The dumping is killing movie ticket sales.

Diller Speaks: Hollywood’s Most Fearsome Legend Bares His Soul

By Maer Roshan | May 21, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/barry-diller-
interview-hollywood-legacy-memoir-who-knew-1236222652/

Your book captures a version of Hollywood that’s almost mythic now. You write about these operatic, over-the-top characters — Robert Evans, Marvin Davis — who make their modern equivalents seem anemic. Do you feel nostalgic for that time?

It certainly was a time of more flamboyance. The business required big personalities, extremes, people who operated without restraint. That used to be the fun — and the engine — of the entertainment business. Now it’s different. Everyone is more cautious and conformist now. Worried about being canceled or sued. The rough edges have been sanded off. We’ve gone from a town to a spreadsheet. And obviously that can’t help but impact the creative output as well.

You mean because Hollywood is now run by tech companies?

That’s part of it. Netflix, Amazon, Apple — they control the game now. But they don’t have any real roots in this community. They didn’t grow up yearning for Hollywood. They don’t care about its history, its mythology. Their interests are driven by entirely different models. Amazon doesn’t care if your movie is good — they care if it helps keep people subscribed to Prime and buying socks. Not exactly a recipe for greatness.

Do you think that true of Netflix as well?

Netflix won’t even tell you how many people watched your movie. Why? Because they don’t want you to know. Their business is entirely algorithmic. They care about satisfaction across a vast catalog. Your individual film? It’s just another tile in the grid. It’s no big deal if it succeeds or fails.

So how do you make something that lasts in this environment?

That’s the problem. Great work doesn’t sit in the culture anymore. It’s gone in a flash. One hand clapping in a forest. We used to have shows that 50 million people watched on the same night. Now? If something gets 7 million, it’s a smash hit. There’s just too much. Too many options, too much noise. And streaming — while miraculous in its own way — has fractured everything.

Is that why you got out of the movie business?

We stopped producing movies a couple of years ago. If I were starting out today, I don’t think I’d do it. It’s not just about the breadth of the audience, it’s about the sense that you were part of something. That your work had cultural gravity. That’s hard to feel now. The community is gone.

Is it nostalgia? Or do you really believe the system was better then?

It’s not about better or worse. It’s about ethos. There used to be a kind of inbred, incestuous quality to Hollywood that was actually good. It breathed its own air. It had a small-town feeling. Now it’s just an outpost of the cloud.

What about the audience? Does it care anymore?

That’s the biggest loss. We used to make movies or TV shows and you could immediately feel the impact. People talked about it. It lingered. A hit movie could live on for a whole summer. Now things drop on a streaming service, maybe trend for a weekend, then disappear. Nothing lasts.

Are you still watching new stuff?

Of course. I consume a lot. I liked the first few episodes of Your Friends and Neighbors with Jon Hamm, then it sort of fell apart. I’m watching MobLand now — Helen Mirren is fantastic, and even Pierce Brosnan, whom I never thought much of, is great in it. But mostly, I feel like I’ve seen everything before. It’s hard to surprise me. But I’m 83!

You left Hollywood when it was still riding high. These days a lot of people seem to be writing it off. Do you share in that pessimism?

I don’t think Hollywood studios will go out of existence. But I think they’ll be much smaller operations than they have been in the past. Their days of dominating media have passed, and Hollywood will never recover from that. Hollywood is now under the dictatorial realm of the technology companies, so they are a smaller piece of the pie.

You’ve been pretty critical of the tech overlords’ impact on Hollywood. What don’t they get about entertainment?

They’re just different. Their brains are trained differently. Tech is binary. Ones and zeros. You have these gigantic companies controlling the culture now where the person at the top has never actually made anything. It’s astonishing. They’re overseeing entertainment without ever having touched it. It’s a system designed for predictability and efficiency — which is the exact opposite of creative work. That’s the tension. Now, someone like Steve Jobs — he was also an artist. An Edison. But those kind of people are rare. I actually think Bezos is closer to Jobs than most people give him credit for. He’s got enormous wisdom. But most of the others are pretty flat.

What about Musk?

Musk is will. Pure, brute will. A willful machine. I admire what he’s achieved, but it’s execution, not imagination. He can build the car, sure. But that’s not artistry.

You mention in the book that you never use data or research to guide your creative decisions. Why is that?

Because data can’t predict anything meaningful in creative work. It can’t tell you if something’s a good idea or a bad one. It can’t tell you if a performance is brilliant or flat. You know, back in the day we had all those dial-test screenings — people turning a knob when they liked something or didn’t. Utter nonsense. Garbage in, garbage out. You have to trust your gut. That’s the only thing that works. Most people are so insecure about keeping their jobs that they need data to justify their every decision. It’s like, don’t blame me, blame the data! I prefer to go with my gut.

Has your gut ever steered you wrong?

Oh, endlessly. Of course! I’ve backed plenty of turkeys. But the process is still better than anything else I know. It’s how I’ve always made decisions — whether it’s a show, a movie or even an ad campaign. I remember recently we were casting a voice for a new Hotels.com campaign. We tested four options, and the worst, whiniest voice tested highest. I said, “Nope. We’re going with the one that actually sounds right.” And we did. Because your ear knows better than a damn focus group.

You write in the book about keeping your instincts “clean.” What does that mean?

It means resisting cynicism. Cynicism corrodes instinct. The older you get, the more it creeps in. You start thinking you know too much, that you’ve seen it all before. You lose your naïveté — and that’s a killer. I’ve always tried to hold on to mine — maybe way past the expiration date. But it’s what keeps your instincts sharp.

You also say you have never been motivated by money — which is a pretty surprising claim from a billionaire.

My parents were well off, so unlike most people, I didn’t grow up worrying about money. It was never a motivating factor for me. I’ve never made a single decision based on it. And once you have a certain amount — unless you have truly grotesque tastes — what else do you need? People ask, “Why keep going after the first billion?” It’s not about that. For me, all I ever wanted was to matter.

To be seen?

Exactly. To be part of something, to leave a mark. That’s what drives most people in this business, whether they admit it or not.

At one point, you made a bid to buy Shari Redstone‘s company. What would you have done with Paramount had you succeeded?

Well, it would have been a big pain in the ass! As I’ve said, I bid on it more out of duty than desire. Duty in the sense that Paramount had been two big chapters of my life. And this would have been the third chapter. So it would have been a kind of closing of a circle. Also, I believed that if I did get control of it, I knew what needed to be done. I can’t articulate what that is — because that would be inappropriate. Part of it, though, would’ve been leadership. I’ve always believed hiring an outside CEO is basically an admission of failure. Ideally, you grow people inside the company — people who marinate in its culture. You can interview someone for a hundred hours and still not know how they’ll function in your world. But when the sale became an auction, I said, “I’m not going to win against someone with a vastly better balance sheet.” And I thought, “Do you really want to do this?” In the end, I said, “No, I really don’t.”

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Sunday, May 25, 2025 1:02 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

This is having a much larger negative impact on traditional cable TV than it ever will have on movie theaters.

People aren't going to see movies because there's still a glut of half-assed DEI projects that were too far completed to outright cancel, there's a shortage of movies in general still because of the actor/writer's strikes and because all the venture capital dried up and they used that opportunity to slash more than half of the movies and shows they were planning on making. Which is why you never saw a cartoon for My Racist Baby and you haven't heard a word out of race grifter Kendi for years now.

And Joe Biden*'s economy made going to the theaters cost so much that people are making real decisions about which movies they can afford to see in a theater right now.

Hollywood only continues its downward slide for one or both of 2 reasons.

1. They continue the woke DEI shit that nobody wants to pay to see.

2. The economy continues to tumble.


At least right now, it doesn't look like either of those things are going to happen.

And, other than just giving up and dying, with nowhere really left to go but up, Hollywood should start posting some improvements over the coming years.

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6ixStringJack, you are full of shit.


No. I'm not.

It's why I'm better at this than people who are paid to do it.

Not going to bother reading any of that wall of text that I know was written by a moron because you decided to post it.



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Monday, May 26, 2025 6:54 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

No. I'm not.

It's why I'm better at this than people who are paid to do it.

Not going to bother reading any of that wall of text that I know was written by a moron because you decided to post it.
Trump is a fast talker but a slow reader, prone to boredom after 50 words. Trumptards are the same.

Hollywood is killing itself with stunts that inflate the cost of production. And the unnecessary risk of injury and death doesn't increase the profitability.
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Mission: Impossible (1996) 5.7 (worldwide box office is 5.7 times production budget)

Mission: Impossible (2000) 4.6

Mission: Impossible (2006) 2.7

Mission: Impossible (2011) 4.8

Mission: Impossible (2015) 4.6

Mission: Impossible (2018) 4.4

Mission: Impossible (2023) 2.0

Mission: Impossible (2025) 0.5 (worldwide box office is 0.5 times production budget)

https://www.the-numbers.com/custom-search?searchterm=mission+impossibl
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‘Mission: Impossible’ Stunts, Ranked By the Danger They Posed To the Health and Safety of Tom Cruise

Whether he's scaling the world's tallest building, holding his breath for six straight minutes, or jumping from plane to plane in the latest installment, Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, there's nothing Tom Cruise won't do to entertain us. We've ranked his greatest stunts in order of riskiness.

By William Goodman | May 23, 2025

https://www.gq.com/story/mission-impossible-stunts-ranked-by-danger-to
m-cruise

Since its big-screen debut in 1996, the Mission: Impossible franchise has distinguished itself from other spy-movie franchises because it has one thing its competitors don't: Tom Cruise—and more specifically, Tom Cruise risking life and limb to entertain us by performing insane stunts. With each subsequent Ethan Hunt adventure, we get more stories (like this one, from the pages of GQ) about Tom Cruise doing something extremely risky in order to enthrall an audience, whether he's learning to hold his breath underwater for six minutes or scaling the exterior of the world's tallest building.

In the series' seventh installment, Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Hunt states to a character that their life “will always be more important to me than my own,” which feels like a declaration of Cruise’s guiding philosophy when it comes to stunt work. Recall Matt Damon's story about a dinner conversation he had with Cruise about a stunt in Ghost Protocol and the safety coordinator who deemed the stunt too dangerous for Cruise to execute; the punch line of that story is Cruise telling Damon “So, I get a new safety guy.”

Cruise fulfills his mission statement in the latest and purportedly final Mission: Impossible film, Mission: Impossible — Final Reckoning, by first hanging off the wing of a biplane and then jumping from it to another, nearby plane—establishing a new benchmark for both blockbuster-film stunt performance and actorly self-endangerment. As the franchise races into the sunset on a speeding bullet train, we’ve ranked the craziest stunts from the Mission series by degree of danger, from least to most.

11. Tom Shatters a Giant Fish Tank (Mission: Impossible, 1996)

Danger Level: Mild

An exploding fish tank feels like small potatoes in the larger scope of the Mission series, but Cruise has said the stunt was indeed “very crazy.” Talking to Graham Norton in 2018, Cruise recalled that he and the stunt coordinator couldn’t get on the same page about the timing of the explosion, resulting in a Who’s On First-like back and forth about whether the “go” was on the count of three or the count of one. Considering the sequence involved a detonation, glass, and plenty of water, the potential for danger was high, but hardly life-threatening.

10. Tom Does a Free Solo Climb (Mission: Impossible 2, 2000)

Danger Level: Unnecessarily high.

Cruise’s wholehearted approach to dangerous stunt work began in earnest with John Woo’s Mission: Impossible 2. The actor put Alex Honnold to shame with an extensive free solo climbing stunt in the film’s opening. "I was really mad that he wanted to do it, but I tried to stop him and I couldn't," Woo told Entertainment Weekly back in 2000. "I was so scared I was sweating. I couldn't even watch the monitor when we shot it." Woo’s nervousness stemmed from the fact that Cruise insisted not only on doing the climb himself but refused to wear any protective gear except for one thin safety wire throughout the staggering seven different takes it took to get the shot as he climbed over the constructed cliff face. His dedication comes through in the final product and is easily the highlight of an otherwise lackluster installment in the franchise, albeit one that has its partisans on this team.

9. Tom Hangs Off the Side of Plane (Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation)

Danger Level: Super-deadly.

After Ghost Protocol—more on that later—no Mission film was complete without a signature, outrageous stunt. In his first effort as a Mission director, Christopher McQuarrie gave us Cruise clinging to the side of an A400 cargo plane as it took off—an image so memorable it became the central focus of the movie’s marketing. McQuarrie recently stated the fear around the A400 stunt wasn’t so much about Cruise falling off (he was strapped into the door through a rigged vest) but external factors beyond their control, like a rock on the runway or a bird strike while the plane was taking off. With so little protection, the timing had to be perfect.

8. Tom Jumps Out of a Plane 100 Times (Mission: Impossible: Fallout, 2018)

Danger Level: Technically low, but made higher by insane repetitions.

While still extremely dangerous, the challenges around the HALO (high altitude, low opening) jump in Mission: Impossible—Fallout were mostly logistical. McQuarrie and crew had to create a new style helmet for the sequence that not only provided oxygen for Cruise (who is the first ever actor to perform the jump, typically reserved for military operations) but also had lighting in the interior, so audiences could see his face. The timing of the natural lighting made it so the jump could only occur in a three-minute window, so the jump required over 100 attempts to get it right. The real risk came from ensuring Henry Cavill, Cruise, and the cameraman all hit their marks, so they wouldn’t collide in midair while falling at 200 miles per hour. In any other movie, this would be the showstopper. And yet, in Fallout, it’s just the aperitif.

7. Tom Holds His Breath Underwater for Six Minutes (Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, 2015)

Danger Level: Navy Seal levels of difficulty

Much of the pre-release marketing of the Mission films in the last decade includes Cruise discussing his training to execute on a stunt accordingly. Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation leaned into the fact he learned how to hold his breath underwater for a staggering six minutes to shoot the underwater vault heist sequence as practically as possible—and all in one long take, despite the fact the finished sequence is intertwined with multiple cuts. Legend has it that safety and compliance teams on set were extraordinarily nervous about the whole thing, and Cruise had to convince them that it was safe before the stunt could proceed.

6. Tom Is Finally Proven Mortal (Mission: Impossible — Fallout, 2018)

Danger Level: Low, but it’s always the one you least expect.

For all the dangerous stunts Cruise has pulled off in the Mission movies, it’s odd that something as simple as a broken ankle is the only major injury he's suffered in the line of duty. While jumping from one building to another, Cruise landed and knew immediately he’d messed something up; the bone-break take is the one McQuarrie used in the final cut. Filming on Fallout was subsequently delayed while he recovered, but Cruise seemed to take it in stride; a behind-the-scenes clip shows him shrugging it off like he forgot to grab something at the grocery store.

5. Tom Pilots and Falls Out of a Helicopter (Mission: Impossible — Fallout, 2015)

Danger Level: Extremely high.

There are three major “holy shit” moments in Fallout’s third-act helicopter set piece: Cruise jumping onto the rope as the helicopter takes off, Cruise free-falling off the helicopter, and then Cruise piloting the chopper himself while performing a 365-degree corkscrew dive. The scariest bit of all is probably the drop, when Cruise's Ethan tries and fails to get a grip on the helicopter's landing skid and plummets straight down, catching the rope at the last second. In real life, each time he performed the stunt—which was several times—Cruise collided with the load at the bottom of the rope and got the wind knocked out of him. The corkscrew dive was no joke, either—per stunt coordinator Wade Eastwood, it was so dangerous that “most pilots wouldn’t attempt it."

4. Tom Films The Final Reckoning’s Underwater Sequence (Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, 2025)

Danger Level: Blindingly high.

I’m still unsure how Cruise and McQuarrie filmed the big underwater sequence for The Final Reckoning, which sees Hunt descend to the bottom of the ocean and infiltrate the sunken Sevastopol submarine. A behind-the-scenes feature reveals that most of it was shot in a few different environments, including a giant pool and an Inception-like rotating rig that was partially submerged. At first, it doesn’t seem that more complicated than the Rogue Nation underwater sequence—until you learn that Cruise was wearing a suit that increased his body weight by 125 pounds and breathing his own carbon dioxide, something you are very much not supposed to do. Oh, and on top of that, per a Tonight Show interview, Cruise did it practically blind, due to the reflection of the lights.

3. Tom Climbs the Burj Khalifa (Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, 2011)

Danger Level: Technically very high, if less blatantly death-flirtatious than other, later M:I stunts.

It's a guy climbing a building—practically the easiest thing in the world to fake on a set with a replica, a green-screen, and/or a little CGI. But not in Thomas Cruise Mapother IV's world. Not in the world he's living in. For Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, Cruise shot a scene where Ethan Hunt climbs the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, by actually climbing the world’s tallest building, using only a single safety rope. A single misstep, and everything could have gone south very quickly. Although it's arguably been eclipsed in terms of sheer stunt-work chutzpah by subsequent Mission set pieces, this stunt set the tone for everything else that’s followed, and cemented Tom's dedication to reality in an increasingly effects-driven subgenre as a core value of the Mission franchise.

2. Tom Motorcycle Jumps Into Free-Fall (Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One, 2023)

Danger Level: Basically trolling death at this point.

In comedy there's a concept known as “a hat on a hat"—the idea that when you layer one joke on top of another, different joke, you risk the whole thing falling flat. In less-skilled hands, the now-legendary cliff bike jump in Dead Reckoning came with very high hat-on-a-hat potential. It combines elements of previous Mission stunts—notably the HALO jump and the Paris bike chase from Fallout—but it’s staged and shot in such a way that it feels breathtaking at every turn. The fact that Cruise performed the stunt several different times, despite its high risk, is stunt work at its very best.

1. Tom Jumps Between Planes (Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, 2025)

Danger Level: How is Tom Cruise even alive right now?

“I don’t understand two things: I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film, and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead,” director Steven Soderbergh once marvelled—and while he was referring to the action sequences from George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road, the quote is equally applicable to Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, and specifically the set piece in which Cruise flies a biplane at extremely low altitude (itself a pretty crazy thing to do) before subsequently hanging off the side of that plane (crazier) and then jumping from that plane to another, different plane in midair.

The stunt was so dangerous that, per this piece about Final Reckoning's stunts by GQ's Zach Baron, professional wing walkers supposedly said it could never be done. Furthermore, there was a distinct possibility that Cruise could catch hypothermia, while enduring winds over a hundred miles per hour. Oh, and if a downdraft had hit one of the planes, there likely wouldn’t be enough power to avoid a crash. The fact that this scene exists and no one got hurt (or wound up with a one-way ticket to the Oscars' “In Memoriam” montage) while doing it feels like nothing short of a miracle. It’s an absolute barn-burner of a conclusion for a franchise that, when it comes to stunts, has become synonymous with making the impossible, well, possible.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, May 26, 2025 12:58 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

No. I'm not.

It's why I'm better at this than people who are paid to do it.

Not going to bother reading any of that wall of text that I know was written by a moron because you decided to post it.
Trump


Shut the fuck up.

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Monday, May 26, 2025 1:02 PM

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Gross...

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Lilo-and-Stitch-(2025)#tab=box-offic
e

Keep buying shit, people.

I don't want to hear any complaining out of you about Disney live action remakes when you're still giving them a $340 Million opening weekend in 2025.

You get what you deserve.


Meanwhile, if this movie hits a about $1.3 Billion, Disney will break even for the year so far. So at least it's not as if they're going to be doing well even if this performs great. They've already suffered three massive flops costing them just around $900 Million for the year before this dropped.

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Monday, May 26, 2025 2:01 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Well... Maybe this one actually isn't shit...

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Lilo-and-Stitch-(2025)#tab=summary

Quote:
Audience approval for Lilo & Stitch is sky-high, with CinemaScore reporting an “A” rating, and an “A+” from younger fans. The audience is 36% male, 64% female, and breaks down as 56% “general audience”, 29% parents and 15% kids, per Disney. That general audience score is notable, and one of the reasons the film is doing these numbers. 30% of the audience is 25–34, a demographic that will include some parents with kids, but many who are not. The audience is culturally diverse too: 39% Hispanic, 34% Caucasian, 12% African-American, 8% Native American/Other, and 7% Asian.


I know that Bruce is a closeted Trump hater. That much is clear from years of gleaning his political position over years of reading his articles. He is much more intelligent than your average "journalist" out there, and knows better than to drag politics into his website, which is why the-numbers will outlive much of his competition... but the mask always slips every once in a while.

That being said, I don't think he puts any outright false stats out there either. The only "false" things he does is what the entire industry does... things like never counting inflation so they can always say the word "record breaking" even though most of the records stopped being broken in the 1970s, before many of us were born.

So if he puts out the current Cinema Score at an A/A+, I'm not going to double check that claim. The audience, particularly the kids, seem to love it.



I do think it's kind of weird though that 56% of the people watching this are neither kids or parents/guardians taking kids to see it.

I guess the creepy dudes who have no business going out in public to watch a kids movie in theaters full of kids are in good company and can just disappear into the crowd when more than half of any random showing of the movie this weekend was childless adult babies going to see it.





Also to note... Disney should be thanking the Mexican Americans this weekend. While the current trending has a minority percentage almost exactly in line with their demographic makeup of the country everywhere else, white people did not go out to see this one at only roughly 1/3 of the audience in attendance. Hispanics came out and were nearly 40% of the audience in the states on Opening Weekend.

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Tuesday, May 27, 2025 1:32 PM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


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Shut the fuck up.

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On one hand, Mission Impossible [2025], has worldwide box office of 0.5 times production budget.

On the other hand, a live action version of Disney cartoon from 2002 has worldwide box office of 4.2 times production budget.

Maybe audiences do NOT want to pay to see billionaire Tom Cruise indulge in his hobby of being a semi-pro stuntman. For example, nobody pays multi-billionaire Jeff Bezos to indulge in his hobby of being a semi-pro astronaut. His company, Blue Origin, pays. Tom Cruise's company should pay, not movie audiences.

Mission: Impossible (2025)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Mission-Impossible-The-Final-Reckoni
ng-(2025)#tab=summary

Lilo & Stitch (2025)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Lilo-and-Stitch-(2025)#tab=summary

Lilo & Stitch (2002)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Lilo-and-Stitch#tab=summary

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025 4:52 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


So Thunderbolts seems to have caught Nu Captain America or its at least right on the heels of Captain America Brave New World

so maybe $410+ ?

Lilo & Stitch is strong, a kids animation

Final Destination Bloodlines 2025 is doing ok, it has a Budget $50 million, the Original Final Destination had a Budget of around $20 million

$23.0M internationally this weekend. Estimated international total stands at $92.5M.

https://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/32977-final-destination-blood
lines/page/2/#comments




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Wednesday, May 28, 2025 6:52 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


The Latest ‘Mission Impossible’ Is a Movie That Missed the Vibe Shift

https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/the-latest-mission-impossible-is-a-
movie-that-missed-the-vibe-shift/

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Thursday, May 29, 2025 12:53 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


April 27th:

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
-44% drop for the weekend. $22,720,000.

Worldwide Total after Weekend 4: $816,567,000

It wrapped up Weekend 3 with $695,526,515, or $121 Million for the week.


Let's be super conservative and say it only drops -40% week to week from here on out...

Weekend 5: $889 Million (+72 Million)
Weekend 6: $932 Million (+43 Million)
Weekend 7: $957 Million (+26 Million)
Weekend 8: $972 Million (+15 Million)
Weekend 9: $981 Million (+9 Million)
Weekend 10: $986 Million (+5 Million)
Weekend 11: $989 Million (+3 Million)
Weekend 12: $991 Million (+2 Million)

It gets close if we give it 3 full months and straight -40% drops from here on out.

But I don't see either of those scenarios playing out, let alone both of them.


Weekend 8 + 3 Days: $940 Million Worldwide

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Minecraft-Movie-A-(2025)#tab=box-off
ice

They're behind schedule.

$230k domestic on Wednesday.

Minecraft will not be a $1 Billion movie. Most likely not even if you were rounding up since it's still about $10 Million short of being able to do that with the $1 days far behind it at this point.

But at $940 Million worldwide, that's up in the air. I could easily see Bruce pull $10+ Million out from under the international couch cushions with a number that big.


It still did $300 Million better than the high end of my original prediction. Congrats on the win regardless.


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Friday, May 30, 2025 5:49 AM

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Thunderbolts might not beat Nu Captain America, its stuck right behind on its heels and earning less and now the box office is busy so it will have trouble picking up any more money. Thunderbolts has been in theaters for less than four weeks and it’s about $50m ish behind

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Sinners
-(2025)/Captain-America-Brave-New-World-(2025)/Thunderbolts-(2025)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

4th Wednesday almost the same $179,165,966 vs $176,310,746

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Friday, May 30, 2025 2:28 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Thunderbolts might not beat Nu Captain America, its stuck right behind on its heels and earning less and now the box office is busy so it will have trouble picking up any more money. Thunderbolts has been in theaters for less than four weeks and it’s about $50m ish behind

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Sinners
-(2025)/Captain-America-Brave-New-World-(2025)/Thunderbolts-(2025)#tab=day_by_day_comparison

4th Wednesday almost the same $179,165,966 vs $176,310,746


Nah... Thunderbolts already lost this race, unfortunately.

That's just bad timing for them is all. Blacktain Anti-America had zero competition surrounding it for weeks in the worst box-office 1st quarter I've seen.

Where Thunderbolt fails now is the international box office. Even though it looks like Thunderbolts will almost certainly beat Anti-America in the states if given the same amount of time before it gets yanked, It's still down $53 Million from Anti-America worldwide.

That's a gap far too wide to cross at this point, even if Bruce surprises with an extra $10-$15 Million international.


They both lost Disney money, and along with their other failure so far this year that I already forgot about, they're about $900 Million in the hole so far and those losses will gobble up most of what Lilo and Stitch ends up making. The only way they end up in the black again off of L&S is if it grosses around $1.2 Billion or more worldwide. After that they start making money again in 2025 until they (probably) lose money on Fantastic Four and some other bullshit movie I heard is still coming out from them this year that I've already forgot and nobody wants.


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Monday, June 2, 2025 4:34 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Rules China Box Office

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/tom-cruise-mission-impossible-china
-box-office-1236415430/

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Monday, June 2, 2025 1:56 PM

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Quote:
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Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ Rules China Box Office

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/tom-cruise-mission-impossible-china
-box-office-1236415430/


2 weekends in and it's still $47 Million from breaking even with just the production budget.

Not going to matter on this one. This is the final nail for Paramount.


That's what you get for spending $400 Million and making Disney look frugal with their budgets, you dumb shits.

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Monday, June 2, 2025 5:52 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


KARATE KID: LEGENDS added another $12M international this weekend, $26M total.
https://x.com/ERCboxoffice/status/1929206292104593492
UK ($3.4M)
GER ($2.2M)
Middle East ($1.4M)

Warner Bros.'s Sinners grossed $5.27M this weekend (from 2,138 locations). Total domestic gross stands at $267.13M.
https://x.com/BORReport/status/1929614479916257516
Daily Grosses
FRI - $1.560M
SAT - $2.160M
SUN - $1.550M


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Tuesday, June 3, 2025 12:12 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Didn't have much hope for Karate Kid.

Sounds like a blip. You know if they broke the bank on that budget or not? I can't even be arsed to look it up, honestly.

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Tuesday, June 3, 2025 3:42 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Didn't have much hope for Karate Kid.

Sounds like a blip. You know if they broke the bank on that budget or not? I can't even be arsed to look it up, honestly.

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Quiet night around here. So I did look it up since Bruce didn't have it.

Variety said that it was $45 Million and that they expect it to make a profit due to the "modest" budget. To be fair to them, sadly, $45 Million does appear to be pretty modest in 2025, considering we've had 2 horror movies this year that were $50 Million and $90 Million already.

Worldwide Gross is just a few bucks over $46 Million, so unless anything crazy happens like a complete loss of interest by Weekend 2, I concur with their statement.

Unless marketing for this was a low-budget affair, which I honestly wouldn't know because we're 5 months into 2025 and I have yet to see a single commercial, it's probably not going to make all that much in the end, but it shouldn't lose any money for Sony or Columbia Pictures.

As time passes and I don't obsess over these movies any longer, I couldn't say with absolute certainty now, but I can't think of a single example where a movie didn't make money as long as it recouped at least 100% of the production budget worldwide after the first weekend. This one passed that test, even if just by only $1 Million.

It needs $112.5 Million to break even at RoT2.5x. If it doesn't buck the usual trend, it should be sitting somewhere just under $100 Million by the end of next weekend, and it will be making money, likely during or right before the start of Weekend 3. But by weekend 4 we're already looking at Domestic number of maybe $2 or $3 Million tops.

But hey... $30-$40 Million in profit off of a $45 Million investment ain't half bad. If I had a money printing machine where I could nearly double my money, I'd be using it every chance I had.

This is actually a real good example of what the studios need to get back to.

Make 8 of these movies instead of 1 Mission Impossible movie. Not only aren't you wasting all your budget on some high-priced prima-donna that most American's can't stand to look at anymore*, but you'd be putting 8 times as many actual working people to work and/or keeping those people 8 times as gainfully employed than if they were only making the one movie.

Your bonus is if you lose on one or two of them, you aren't betting the farm on them and you can always luck into one or two of those eight movies being a mega-hit that brings in a ton of cash.



Let's get away from CGI and overpriced actors and back to making good movies again.



*I love Tom Cruise. I wasn't referring to him specifically, although I'm sure with a PB of $400 Million, he was insanely overpaid for this latest MI movie given how bad the last one did and how much worse this one will do by comparison.

Can't blame his Agent for taking advantage of Paramount if they let him do it. They've got to know that Cruise has just about maybe 1 Top Gun and 1 Edge of Tomorrow sequel left in him before his action days are done. That won't mean the end of his career necessarily. I don't expect him to hop from that straight to redbox/netflix like Bruce Willis and idiot Robert Deniro. And as much as I love Nic Cage, Cruise will never be in that desperate situation to be doing movies with those types of budgets either.

Is there place in Cinema in 2025 and beyond for the Next Paul Newman?

If the answer to that is yes, I can't see a more fitting Golden Years era of Cruise's career than to follow in Newman's footsteps and make some great old man roles.

Who's up for a 3rd entry in the Poolhouse Saga, possibly some 70 years after the first movie?

I'm game.



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Thursday, June 5, 2025 4:45 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


Release date November 2025

Wicked: For Good first trailer reveals new songs, a wedding, and the first glimpse of Dorothy as fans try to figure out who will play the iconic character
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14782659/Wicked-Good-tra
iler-songs-wedding-Dorothy.html


Fantastic Four remake


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Thursday, June 5, 2025 11:38 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


After all the good press I was hearing about this since last year, I've now been hearing quite a bit of questions asking if this is going to lose money for Disney too.

Sounds like they made it another Girl Boss turd, with Pedro Pascal more than happy to play his recurring role as The Cuck.




You go, Girl!



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Monday, June 9, 2025 6:08 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


The Karate Kid is back, and this time with Legends. But is it any good?
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/the-karate-kid-is-back-and-this-
time-with-legends-but-is-it-any-good-20250604-p5m4uw.html

‘Lilo & Stitch’ Nears $800M Global, ‘Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning’ Tops $450M & ‘Ballerina’ Bows To $51M WW
https://deadline.com/2025/06/lilo-stitch-mission-impossible-ballerina-
global-box-office-1236426946/

Gavin Newsom Demands Trump Administration Remove National Guard From L.A. Amid ICE Protests: ‘Rescind the Order. Return Control to California’ Article
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/gavin-newsom-demands-trump-remove-na
tional-guard-la-protest-1236422793/

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Monday, June 9, 2025 7:09 PM

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Gavin Newsom Demands Trump Administration Remove National Guard From L.A. Amid ICE Protests: ‘Rescind the Order. Return Control to California’ Article
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/gavin-newsom-demands-trump-remove-na
tional-guard-la-protest-1236422793/


Nope.



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Tuesday, June 10, 2025 8:56 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


More interruptions, protests, LA is BURNING ....YET AGAIN

and Trump wants to tariff and sanction the rest of the film making world and save that mess? but Martial Law will fix it??

Disney's Snow White has ended its domestic run with a total domestic gross of $87,203,963.
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Disneys-Snow-White-(2025)#tab=box-of
fice


Hollywood loving the smell of its own farts

‘John Wick’ Spinoffs That Could Come Next
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/john-wick-spinoffs-that-could-
come/


Bourne Ultimatum (2007) vs. From the World of John Wick: Ballerina (2025) vs. Spectre (2015)

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Bourne-
Ultimatum-The/From-the-World-of-John-Wick-Ballerina-(2025)/Spectre#tab=day_by_day_comparison

Wick Ballerina

looks like maybe it won't reach 150

Budget $90 million



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Tuesday, June 10, 2025 9:04 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Does he really though?

Maybe he was just messing with them.



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Tuesday, June 10, 2025 10:08 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


are the Mexicans alien Martians now...Mars Attacks II?


'Mexico wants to blame their corrupt, gangster society on everyone and everything but themselves.
https://x.com/GoodEye1776/status/1930976626008838595
And thank you SCOTUS for taking four years to do what should have been done in one.'


Apple store in downtown LA being looted tonigh
https://x.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1932378941463110022

A solo counter-protester at the anti-ICE riots in downtown LA said her family was killed by undocumented immigrants. She was assaulted multiple times—maced, struck with bottles, punched, kicked, and run over by a bicycle.
https://x.com/Right_Now_Views/status/1931900896402980888


anyways predictions for Ballerina Wick??

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025 7:22 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


not much news from DisneyMarvel but WarnerBros/DC

quick another remake!

'Wonder Woman' movie officially in the works, James Gunn confirms

https://ew.com/wonder-woman-movie-officially-confirmed-dc-james-gunn-c
onfirms-exclusive-11744583

its over!?

With ‘Ballerina’ Falling Short at the Box Office, ‘John Wick’ May Finally Be Getting Stretched Too Thin
https://www.indiewire.com/news/box-office/ballerina-box-office-john-wi
ck-slowing-down-1235130920/

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025 12:21 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Let's go back to not making comic book movies again, mkay?

Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks.

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Thursday, June 12, 2025 6:47 PM

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no business like show business

‘Thunderbolts*’ Lost Millions of Dollars Despite Great Reviews. Where Does Marvel Go Next?

https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/thunderbolts-lost-millions-bo
x-office-marvel-next-1236427994/

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Thursday, June 12, 2025 6:58 PM

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‘Thunderbolts*’ Lost Millions of Dollars Despite Great Reviews. Where Does Marvel Go Next?



The dumpster.

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Friday, June 13, 2025 9:06 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


China still dominating with that animation thing, Hollyweird losing to others foriegn or indie film has been expected for a while


‘Jurassic World: Rebirth’ Heading To $115M+
https://deadline.com/2025/06/jurassic-world-rebirth-box-office-project
ion-1236432006/


Our Popcorn Movie Dystopia - SOME MORE NEWS: THE MOVIE



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