>Global box office receipts are up slightly from a record-setting 2015. Yet Hollywood is having one of its glummest summers in a long time.
>So far, this year has included roughly the same number of hits as 2015, but many more flops and moderate disappointments. Some movies that fell short of studios’ big expectations are The Huntsman: Winter’s War, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Independence Day: Resurgence, The Legend of Tarzan and Ghostbusters.
>Most of these movies cost more than $US100 million and some close to $US200m. There have been 15 big-budget disappointments or flops so far in 2016, compared with eight at the same point in 2015.
>At Comcast’s Universal Pictures, box office has plummeted 53 per cent, coming off a record-setting 2015 in which it released blockbusters Jurassic World, Minions and Furious 7. This year it has released only one major hit, the animated comedy The Secret Life of Pets, and several flops, including Warcraft.
>Fox and Warner Bros are in close competition for second place with a little over $US1.1bn of box office in the US and Canada so far. Universal has close to $US1bn. Paramount and Sony Pictures Entertainment, both devoid of blockbusters, have grossed about $US500m each. wsj.com/articles/rising-box-office-masks-glut-of-big-budget-film-flops-1471192593
It's like when Norks have to pretend they are happy taking photos with Kim Jong
Justin Collins
Is hollywood finished?
Joshua Jackson
>you'll never be a disgusting fat old man that fucks supermodels
Nathan Turner
Spielberg knew this.
Oliver Anderson
Spielberg was right. 2017 is going to be worse, expect a total disaster.
James Nguyen
>The Huntsman: Winter’s War, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Independence Day: Resurgence, The Legend of Tarzan and Ghostbusters. >sequel, remake/sequel, sequel, remake, remake
Maybe if they stop being so god damn unoriginal?
Henry Cruz
I don't know, maybe it's time for Hollywood to enter the creative phase again. You don't NEED $100+ million budget for every movie and add marketing on top of that.
William Diaz
It's obviously the fault of piracy. Look for new laws targeting pirates when Hillary gets elected.
Carter Morris
They've sacrificed stories that people actually give a shit about for sequels that spend half their budget on special effects
Jose Price
>that image
Taylor Swift is in a languorous haze, that whore next to her looks like her heart stopped beating in the limo on the way to the event, the third one looks like Harvey's devoted, paid slut... Lorde isn't even trying to hide her disgust.
Isaiah Rogers
GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY WAIFU
Josiah Jenkins
Party's over
Nicholas Stewart
>Some movies that fell short of studios’ big expectations are The Huntsman: Winter’s War, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Independence Day: Resurgence, The Legend of Tarzan and Ghostbusters.
are hollywood jews retarded?
im literally a fucking nobody and even i could tell all of those would bomb hard the second they were announced
Joseph Bailey
How does no one in Hollywood realize that now is the perfect time for a Neuromancer movie?
Asher Cruz
because even normies are starting to get fatique from all the shitty remakes and reboots, sequels, prequels, etc
mix that in with more and more people now would rather stay at home and bingewatch a netflix show than be ripped off at the movies and there ya go
Angel Gonzalez
Maybe spending $50m on CGI, $20m on A-listers and $100m on advertising isn't sucha great idea
David Carter
He and Lucas talked about this years ago, right?
Jonathan Hernandez
That's Lorde? Jesus Christ, either this is the first time I see her or my mind tried to erase that monstrous face from memory.
Ryder Gray
how could you say that ;__;
Levi Ross
They should start appealing to China and start casting Asian actors and actresses
Wyatt Smith
I'd prefer this to all the niggers honestly
Zachary Morales
is this honestly a surprise to anyone especially in the movie business, the supposed experts? are they literally living in ivory towers? how can they not understand a single thing about their audience?
Isaac Thomas
This is it right? This is the end of movies. Internet and other media killed it People wouldn't come to theaters except for big effects, and now not even for that.
It's been a good one and a quarter century
Sebastian Thomas
I'd prefer that to all the white ''people'' tbqhwuf.
Jeremiah Rodriguez
they should do a roast of Weinstein then literally crucify him and film it
I'm sure he would be willing to die for the amount of shekels the whole production would rake in
Isaac Long
This is real creepy shit negro
Jonathan Myers
>taylor only hangs out with uglier girls so in comparison she's 3x more attractive
I can't tak her seriously anymore
Juan Wright
Hollywood dying and all I had to do to contribute was sit on my arse and download those movies from the internet
Zachary Myers
This is what summer 2017 looks like >Guardians of the Galaxy 2 >Baywatch >The Nut Job 2 >Pirates of the Caribbean 5 >Wonder Woman >The Mummy >World War Z 2 >Cars 3 >Kingsman 2 >Transformers 5 >Despicable Me 3 >Uncharted >Spider-Man: Homecoming >War for the Planet of the Apes >Dunkirk >Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets >Jumanji >Alien: Covenant >The Emoji movie >It
It's going to be a massacre
Cooper Roberts
>>Pirates of the Caribbean 5 fucking finally man
Gabriel Richardson
>The Huntsman: Winter’s War, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Independence Day: Resurgence, The Legend of Tarzan and Ghostbusters.
Is the time of too many unneeded sequels and reboots coming at an end?
Chase Johnson
ive seen elle do something exactly like this, whats the deal?
Michael Wood
gotg 2, spiderman, and war for the planet of the apes might do alright
cars 3 maybe too because of all the toys they'll sell
all others should bomb
Thomas Phillips
I wanna fuck and lick all of Lorde
Kevin Price
>>The Nut Job 2 Didn't the first one bomb?
Zachary Long
Some met gala thing
Levi Gutierrez
Maybe if Hollywood stopped putting out so many hackjob schlocky movies with poor writing there wouldn't be so many flops
Quality > quantity
Owen Rivera
>that webm
Horrible.
Grayson Carter
>World War Z 2
Fo real?
Joseph Perez
wtf she cant dance
Joshua Lee
And he himself had a high budget film flop this year too (BFG). Also it was him and Lucas who kickstarted the whole modern blockbuster model with Jaws and Star Wars (later ET and the Indy movies) and hopefully now it will all finally come crashing down.
Jacob Roberts
>GotG2 >pirates 5 >uncharted My inner pleb is giddy with excitement
Hunter Rivera
>>Pirates of the Caribbean 5 I swear there's been more than 5
Charles Garcia
Well she is pretty much the whitest person on Earth
Adrian Jenkins
>Some movies that fell short of studios’ big expectations are The Huntsman: Winter’s War, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Independence Day: Resurgence, The Legend of Tarzan and Ghostbusters. Is the ONLY way to become a studio executive to be related to one or to save the life of one?
How can people with so little clue what the fuck they're doing be in charge of billions of dollars worth or resources?
>Alien: Covenant At least I'll have one excuse to go outside.
>Transformers 5 FOR FUCK'S SAKE LET MICHAEL BAY DIRECT A GOOD SCRIPT HE'S SO TALENTED BUT YOU'RE MAKING HIM DIRECT THE SAME MOVIE FIVE TIMES NOW REEEEEEEEEE
Owen Gray
>all of them are either sequels or reboots
Gee what a fucking surprise
John Morris
>20 movies >"Summer" is 8 weeks long
APOCALYPSE UPON US.
Austin Nguyen
>Am I so out of touch? >No, it's the public who are wrong
Jordan Bell
>muh audience fatigue, muh compelling stories No, its just because there"s too many movies, people can't watch all of them
Owen Rivera
I WHIP MY HAIR BACK AND FORTH
Levi Allen
>yfw this will be blamed on the lack of PoC movies >yfw their failure will then be blamed on the audience
Jonathan Hill
>fatique
Parker Hall
>Success >Flop >Failure >Scrape Success >Nope >Nah >No >Flop >I can't remember how well original did, so Flop >Success >Success >A film about a video game? Flop. >Success, just about >Flop >Flop >Nope >Flop >Nope >Failure >Dunno
Fucking spam blocker won't let me post
Asher Price
Forgot Justice League in November 2017.
James Carter
>summer 2017
Nicholas Richardson
Except China want to see people like Matt Damon, they are not interested in some no name Asian American actor
Americans need to understand most of the world doesn't do identity politics
Luis Myers
>November >Summer
Ameritard Education, everybody!
Nolan Reyes
They'll blame millennials and torrenting on it but for the most part, it's because of them laziness. They think cranking out low effort sequels to known properties is guaranteed cash. People want to see good movies not mass produced paint by the numbers shit.
Parker Long
>the emoji movie
this cant be fucking rea- >its fucking real
Jayden Phillips
Well you're dumb and wrong. A simple google search could tell you that
Jason Jackson
Because more & more people prefer to just stay at home & watch Netflix
I expect Star Wars 8 to under perform as well, no way will it get close to 2bil this time
Sebastian Phillips
You're sort of right. I don't think anyone was clamoring for sequels to Snow White or Independence Day. For the most part, nerds have a track record of going to watch shit like Ninja Turtles though.
Asher White
o i am laffin
Benjamin Morris
This is what summer 2017 looks like >Sequel >Reboot >Sequel >Sequel >Remake >Remake >Sequel >Sequel >Sequel >Sequel >Sequel >Recycled IP >Reboot? >Sequel Remake >Wait is this actually an original concept? >Recycled IP >Remake >Sequel? >Finally an original concept >Remake?
Jacob Hall
just as god intended
Aaron Taylor
>living in a hole for the past year
Logan Bailey
World War Z 2 sounds like an astromech designation.
Julian Cruz
>design your whole production concepts around market research study >can't study that which doesn't exist >make blockbusters which aren't original but just based on a pre-existing franchise bc MUH BRAND AWARENESS Oh gee I don't know what could've gone wrong
Hunter Hall
One thing people aren't taking into account is the weather in the US. We had record setting floods in the south then the east. Its still flooded where I live.
Nicholas Bennett
>The Emoji movie truly these are end times
Dominic Gonzalez
What did he say exactly?
Xavier Collins
lucky trips speak truth
Josiah Perez
>Uncharted
I might actually give this one a chance. We've needed a good traditional adventure/supernatural movie ala Indiana Jones for awhile. It could be terrible, but if it's well cast & written then this could be a fun one.
>Tom Cruise The Mummy FUCK no. Cruise is 50+ now and should not be pulling the action hero roles anymore.
Jacob Turner
It's a Sony movie. Nuff said.
Luis Thompson
Tom Cruise doesn't make bad movies.
Blake Gomez
>A Nolan movie will bomb
Jace Reed
Guise, remember the leaked sony emails? Among them there was a ppt of a market research study for a fucking POPEYE movie, based mostly on the fact that popeye has a 100% brand recognition in the west. I mean ffs, POPEYE, the crappy 1930's spinoff of Betty Boop, and they're considering THAT before any original idea, how fucking dense (and lazy) can you get?
Jordan Diaz
of COURSE it's doing the dreamworks face
Kevin Watson
This. With marijuana illegality almost out the window, they'll need new crimes to be harsh on. And with the added threat of "cyber terrorists" hacking her sweet Democratic Party, seems a given that she'll push for tough on pirate legislation
Bentley Hughes
>Popeye, starring Mel Gibson would watch
Angel Torres
His action movies are fine. His action scenes though? Get off the box, Tom and try giving us a full shot that last more than 2 seconds.
Charles Ross
>Guardians of the Galaxy 2 >Pirates of the Caribbean 5 >Cars 3 >Transformers 5 >Despicable Me 3 >Spider-Man: Homecoming Hits
>Baywatch >Wonder Woman >The Mummy >World War Z 2 >Kingsman 2 >War for the Planet of the Apes >Dunkirk >Alien: Covenant >It Underperforming but profitable
>The Nut Job 2 >Uncharted >Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets >Jumanji >The Emoji movie Flops
Carson Sanchez
moar liek the JUST movie amirite?
Hunter Thomas
There's already been a successful Popeye movie you fucking fetus. Stop trolling me.
Bentley Wright
they thought they were making good movies and blamed their shortcomings on millennials
Hunter Price
>>Wonder Woman >>Kingsman 2
>>Spider-Man: Homecoming
>>War for the Planet of the Apes
Jaxson Lopez
i might just see 1 of those in sinemas
Brandon Powell
>successful
Jonathan Scott
>Guardians of the Galaxy 2 >Baywatch >The Nut Job 2 >Pirates of the Caribbean 5 >Wonder Woman >The Mummy >World War Z 2 >Cars 3 >Kingsman 2 >Transformers 5 >Despicable Me 3 >Uncharted >Spider-Man: Homecoming >War for the Planet of the Apes> >Dunkirk >Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets >Jumanji >Alien: Covenant >The Emoji movie
Jaxson Price
>the emoji movie WHAT. THE. FUCK. WHERE. THEY. THINKING
Kevin Allen
Jumanji is going to bank nigga.
Mason Thompson
I like that they gave it hair. Because they assumed that a bald yellow face smugging at the camera for 90 minutes would be too creepy unless it had a shock of trendy, equally yellow hair. Then it would zip past the uncanny valley
William Morris
>The Nut job 2 Wasn't the first one a flop? I'm honestly surprised it's getting a sequel.
But yeah, it's sad just how much of the summer box office is pure sequel bait right now.
What I hate is that even the new stuff sets up future parts in the original movie. I hate how everything has to be a trilogy now. We need more stand alone one shots.
Andrew Russell
>reboots >remakes >sequels >video game movie >the only movie that sounds remotely interesting is a fucking nolan movie
big budget movies have seriously gone down the fucking shitter this decade
Isaiah Ramirez
Popeye is a pretty cool franchise though. It hasn't been done to death either, like the other remales/reboots/sequels we're getting.
I really liked the live action movie musical with Robin Williams and Shelley Duval.
Looks average to me. Something for ADD kids to watch.
Dominic Murphy
>>The Nut job 2 >Wasn't the first one a flop? I'm honestly surprised it's getting a sequel.
Think the Alpha & Omega cheap sequels. The CGI assets from the original film are already made and it's just a matter of rigging them on basic backgrounds.
I'm betting they were able to make a sequel for FAR less than the original and execs green lit it becasue it would turn a profit this way.
James Bailey
Hello Mr. Goldbergstein? I've got some great scripts for you. Dr. Doolittle and and Hello Dolly. The audience is sick of musicals? Don't be a putz, the goyim will watch anything. Give me a couple million and I have those goys eating out our hands.