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The Thirteenth Floor (1999) vs. Bugonia (2025) vs. The Birdcage (1996)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Thirtee
nth-Floor-The/Bugonia-(2025)/Birdcage-The#tab=day_by_day_comparison

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:


Where do you go from there?

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David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance Said to Prep $71 Billion Warner Bros. Discovery Bid With Three Arab Sovereign Wealth Funds

https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/paramount-warner-bros-discovery-arab
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UPDATED: Paramount Skydance has denied a Variety report that the company was forming an investment consortium with the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Abu Dhabi to submit a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery,

“The information Variety published is categorically inaccurate,” a rep for Paramount Skydance said in a statement. “This is a confidential process, which we respect and, as such, will not be commenting until the process is over.”

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Disney / 20th Century's Predator: Badlands has passed the $150M global mark. The film grossed an estimated $7.2M internationally this weekend. Estimated international total stands at $83.3M, estimated global total stands at $159.6M.
https://bsky.app/profile/boxofficereport.bsky.social/post/3m6cqiv25lc2
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It needs in the area of $260 Million to break even. Right now it's got $96. I'll add another $15 Million domestic for Sat/Sun just to be safe, and I'll give another $40 Million for the international market 1st week finish/2nd weekend. Now you're at $151 Million. (And I think this is pretty conservative and they won't get that high. I'm just not going to change it because there could be some new countries in there that would boost it back up even if there are sharp 2nd weekend drops everywhere else).

Where do you go from there? How are you going to get $110 more million when your 3rd weekend is going to be grossing somewhere around $6-$8 Million domestic, and the opening weekend was a pure 50/50 spit domestic/international?

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Disney's Zootopia 2 grossed an estimated $41.6M internationally on Wednesday (from 17 international markets), including $34.0M in China.
https://x.com/BORReport/status/1994077937956790359#m
Estimated global total through Wednesday stands at $81.1M

A24's Eternity grossed $616K on Thanksgiving Thursday (from 1,348 locations). 2-Day total domestic gross stands at $2.07M.
https://bsky.app/profile/boxofficereport.bsky.social/post/3m6p5az5puc2
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Looks like Wicked 2 is going to be the top grossing US movie of 2025 according to Bruce.



https://www.the-numbers.com/news/260340830-Weekend-projections-Wicked-
For-Good-soars-to-150-million-domestic-debut



Bruce must have forgotten that Avatar 3 drops on December 19th.

Although I'd love to see everyone check out of that and watch it make less than Wicked, I doubt very much that's going to happen.


C'mon Bruce. You do this for a living, dude.


Wicked 1 made $756 Million worldwide.

Avatar 1 made $2.923 BILLION worldwide back in 2009 which after 16 years and 4 years of Bidenflation in the middle of it is probably closer to $5 Billion today than it is to $3 Billion.

Avatar 2 three years ago made $2.322 BILLION.

https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/custom-comparisons-extended/Wicked-
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So what if Wicked 2 is making 30% more domestically and 17% more internationally on opening weekend? Absolute BEST case scenario it breaks $1 Billion (and I'm being EXTREMELY generous saying that).

For Wicked 2 to be the top grossing movie of 2025, Avatar 3 would have to lose about 60% of it's 2022 audience without even factoring in 3 years of inflation to those numbers.

Stop simping for the two Ozempic addicted, glassy-eyed weirdos. They're just not into you dude.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Predator Badlands could be the most successful Predator movie but all Predator films struggle to make money

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Nu Wicked...so maybe
a prediction $450,550,000 Domestic if it has staying power? and poor overseas, the English language songs cost the international box office??

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Running Man remake is dead

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Wicked: For Good will storm to $150 million this weekend, according to Universal’s Sunday-morning projection. That should give it the second-best weekend of 2025, behind A Minecraft Movie’s $162.8 million, although it’s not yet completely guaranteed to exceed Lilo & Stitch’s $146 million over Memorial Day weekend. With Thanksgiving coming up, Wicked Part 2 will have long legs almost by default, and looks like a good bet to end 2025 as the top-grossing movie of the year.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Arabia wants to own Hollyweirdos

Hollywood for Sale? Gulf Billionaires Back $24 Billion Blitz on Warner Bros. Discovery

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