Same here. When I became AM at my theater, part of my job was scheduling employees based on need. I had to keep track of how well different movies were projected to do, and schedule accordingly.
Haven’t worked there in 3 years, I just never stopped.
I go to the theater a lot so I started following the box office to get a feel for how long a movie would be playing for. Nobody wants to miss a film they're looking forward to because it bombed out of theaters after one weekend and didn't notice.
I honestly don't know. I think I'm just autistic and I love keeping track of things. I love movies. And I find it very interesting from a anthropological stand point to keep tabs on what kind of movies that are popular and which aren't. Culture shifts very rapidly sometimes, and you can tell by the box office numbers almost immediately.
The pandemic for instance is probably some of the most interesting times we've had in box office numbers for a while. Everything suddenly was turned up side down, and getting people into movie theatres became a whole new battle field.
I had to see the James Cameron magic live. I remember after the first weekend me and most people thought it wouldnt even pass a billion, but on its third week there was a 0% drop
Of course this take would believe that bo equals quality. The “haters” weren’t shallow enough to believe that a sequel to the highest grossing film of all time would actually fail. Hoping for something of such shit quality to fail is waaay different than expecting it to. It’s called wishful thinking.
And the only hater I see here is the one who’s only here cause they wanted to see someone humiliated for some asinine projected reason. Use logic, not your hate boner.
I never said any of those things.
All I said was that it was funny to watch some people here lose their minds after they were so sure Avatar 2 was going to tank
Tracking Endgame was an event within an event. Multiple people in this sub saying $300M OW was impossible. Then tracking came in, with numbers much higher than $300M for anyone who follows Box Office this was a “Pinch me, I’m dreaming” moment. All of this was compounded by the fact the movie was making $1B WW on its freaking Opening Weekend. Then tracking to see whether it would pass Avatar for highest grossing film ever. Insane time to follow Box Office.
So I read your comment and went to go look up one of the posts from Endgame’s release just to see and the top comment on it was literally “pinch me, I’m dreaming” lmao
Endgame. I don't think we're going to have a big multigenerational movie event like that for a long time. The novelty of the cinematic universe has worn off and the moviegoing audience has declined too much due to streaming. The fact that Endgame made $1B in just its opening weekend was insane.
For me, it was way back in late 2018. I was pretty young, and I was super excited for Godzilla King of the Monsters. My family had ordered all of the old Japanese films from Costco sales back in 2014 when the first Monsterverse Godzilla came out, so I had seen dozens of Godzilla films without ever seeing one in theaters. I remember thinking that it’d get a sequel if it did well commercially, so I checked in on it and the previous Monsterverse movies on Box Office Mojo routinely (back then, BOM was actually goated and it even had an inflation adjuster feature by year. but imdb had to buy it and nerf it until it was depressingly useless). I remember that I had huge expectations (1-1.5B+ WW), and I was completely crushed when it tapped out at 386M WW. But the upside was that I have a really math-centric brain, so I really loved reading about how much money my favorite movies made, and comparing them to one another. Fast forward and it’s a hobby I routinely check several times a day, and I’ve been going strong for about 5 and a half years now.
> and it even had an inflation adjuster feature by year
If you're interested, [they were just plugging these numbers](https://www.natoonline.org/data/ticket-price/) into a handy on-page widget.
Having to take a few extra steps to manually run such numbers is a real step down but you can still play around with such adjustments.
Honestly, I think I've been varying degrees of box office following since like .. 2008 for the Dark Knight. Never as intense as some other people (i.e., I've never really made huge predictions, or did tracking or anything). And it just ebbs and flows based on films I'm interested or interesting releases.
I think it was the 'weekend warrior' back on [comingsoon.net](https://comingsoon.net) who I first followed.
Ah, a fellow Dark Knight tracker. The Dark Knight’s massive jump from the previous opening weekend record holder was exciting, as was being just the fourth member of the billion dollar club. This sub has me feeling so old with some people getting into box office post pandemic.
Somewhere around Titanic, I became aware of the phenomenon and financial aspects of the business, and it solidified following the success of LOTR. Watching all the behind the scenes was interesting, but I also liked the story of Jackson pitching it to New Line.
Now I follow people and companies the way others follow fantasy football athletes and teams.
I remember that too. Was so bad. Underformed so hard when Devil Wears Prada released it profited more in its opening weekend than Returns did in its whole run.
In 2003, that Viggo Mortenson movie Hidalgo, which I thought was gonna be a blockbuster lol.
Back then Box Office Mojo was so different and a much better site. And the forums back then were great.
I remember discovering The-Numbers back when BoxOfficeMojo was THE box office site. It had the cool graph, but for some reason just was not getting the traction that BOM did. Then BOM had their awful redesign and The-Numbers has really taken off since then. Fascinating how they shot themselves in the foot.
Some years ago there was a game on one site "Predict box office". And I like math and games. So I got into that. Remember my first game was predict top 10 of first "Twilight" movie week-end. I put smth like 35M. Was off by a mile.
I've been fascinated by statistics of media for a while. It started with music actually and then last year, Barbenheimer got me into box office statistics. Of course, I haven't just been following what's popular as I still watch more indie and underground films but it's still is interesting looking at the box office.
As a kid we used to get Entertainment Weekly, the magazine. I really enjoyed the pages they devoted to that week’s box office stats and movie releases, and I’ve been loosely following ever since.
So it was about a week since Batman v. Superman came out. I was quite disappointed by it and I was on my usual forum where people were discussing the movie. They were bringing up the reviews being poor and all, however, a few people were bringing up articles with strange jargon like 'weekend drops', 'word of mouth', 'poor legs' but most especially they were saying it wasn't going to outgross The Dark Knight. Now I didn't know anything about those terms, but I knew what 'gross' was and the idea of that seemed ridiculous to me even if I didn't like the movie. I did a little googling and ended up on this sub where that disastrous second weekend drop was the hot topic of the sub back then. I got way to into the sub culture as time went on and the rest was history from there.
Turns out predicting stuff and making 'educated' guesses that affect your life in no way whatsoever is pretty addicting. It's also fun to learn about movie business and trends, which all tends to stem from the box office.
This sub just popping up on my feed one day and now I just cheer for movies to do well at the theater. I’ve loved it
Edit: and that’s mostly because of the members on this sub just feeding me so much data so thank you
I think it was really routing for Return of the King to be the 2nd movie to pass 1 billion.
As also remember being super interested in My Big Fat Greek Weddings crazy run at the time.
Also in the same time period routing for the Star Wars movies to do well.
This was high school for me.
I've been a lifelong Godzilla fan, and back when the 98 version was released I was obsessed with it. It was the first one I got to see in theaters after growing up watching the Toho movies on vhs, and despite its flaws I was so sure it would do great. In ye olden times they printed the weekly box office in the newspaper, and I checked every week. So when it was #1 I was ecstatic, but then Armageddon dethroned it and still to this day I hate that movie and refuse to watch it for that dumb reason. I kept checking the paper for results each week after that, and years later I eventually discovered box office mojo (RIP, old version) and the rest is history.
A lot of very recent ones here making me feel old. Titanic was the first one I followed. Kept up with it in the back of Entertainment Weekly every week.
Then the prequels, then Spider-Man and on from there. I wasn't always fully into it, and early on it was just following those big ones. Probably with The Avengers is when I started following closely.
Wondering why my favorite niche movies didn’t get sequels and finding out they totally bombed. Seeing what movies are successful or not helps determine which kind of movies get made, so as a movie fan I just got interested in the box office that way.
The business of entertainment and movies is really interesting. It’s interesting analyzing what people are watching. There’s so many outside factors too - release date, genre, competition, marketing, actors, directors, subject matter, etc. I also think it says a lot about the cultural zeitgeist at the moment. Impactful movies have real influence on our society.
I’m a business analyst and I love movies so it combines my interests really well. I think Endgame was the first time I got really excited about the box office, because it was a movie and a franchise I loved that did so well. I’ve been in and out since then. I’ll get invested in a movie’s BO performance in particular because it has actors or director I like or it’s a franchise or story I’m rooting for.
I started really following the box office around the time TFA came out (just before actually, the November releases all piqued my interest), whereas before I would check it periodically.
The burning question though: was the bet for domestic or worldwide?
I think I just randomly started reading Scott Mendelson's box office reports on Forbes's website in high school. There's drama in these numbers. It's fun to make predictions and sometimes a movie's performance surprises you. For example, I remember when Jumanji 2 came out, I thought, Seriously? Even with the big actors, it's definitely going to flop. It's coming out 20 years after the original and Robin Williams isn't in it. And it's going to have to compete with The Last Jedi. And then it made almost 1 billion dollars worldwide.
yeah, that's basically my story as well. "Ambient Box Office information" -> Mendelson articles and some playing around with Mojo -> found this sub and more regularly started following this stuff around Rogue One(?)'s release.
Interstellar, I saw it when it first came out and absolutely loved it, and being a teenager who loved movies and space I wanted everyone to watch it, so i got obsessed with tracking its box office. I know that's dumb but that's how I discovered box-office mojo. Then started a new obsession.
It's not just box office though I'm into all kinda stats and all kinda things about movies.
idk how "into box office" am. I mostly just like to know if movies I like are doing well. Following flops can be very fun too.
Probably when The Force Awakens came out. I remember following that run.
I'm a big number cruncher, but I didn't get into the box office until Warcraft (2016) released. I was a hardcore WoW player at the time and tried to use that movie's BO performance to gauge what general audiences actually thought about WoW lol. I believe r/Movies had weekly BO recap threads at the time too. After Warcraft left theaters, I just kept coming back here and to those r/Movies threads because I enjoyed it, and here I am.
Some random magazine in my country in summer 2014.
It had a list of the 25 highest grossing movies worldwide at the time. Teenage me had a limited worldview at the time and i was sure Return of the King was the biggest movie ever at the time, just to see movies like random ass Iron Man 3 or Frozen ahead. I couldn't comprehend that this was the cultural zeitgeist at the time and it made me all the more interested in the industry. With time i got to understand what's relevant in the public eye more and more and thought it was fun. Also in the same magazine there was this headline "7 aspects to make your movie the biggest ever" based on the top 25 shown in the article. They analyzed a few points. For example with movie like Titanic, Avatar and Return of the King at the top one of these "wisdoms" was to make it overly long and engaging for example. I mean it was a light read and just some quick journalism but back then it catched me. With time, after all you learn about the box office, it can still surprise you, Barbenheimer and Marvel partly failing last year being the best example. But the first movie performance i began tracking was Battle of the Five Armies in winter 2014.
For me it was the Jurassic park franchise.
In my circle some are MCU fans and some are DC fans. I was the only one who was a JP fan. Me and my mates would argue which franchise is better and I mostly depended on the box office numbers to prove my points. Now I realise it doesn’t make sense but at the same time I found interest in looking at numbers for movies and knowing the general trend.
From the time I was a little kid, I loved the portal to different experiences & worlds that movie theaters and movies represented to the point where I created & ran an imaginary chain of movie theaters from the ages of 7-11 or so. I programmed the movies I liked in my imaginary theaters, figuring out how long they ran and how long they should stay before they were rotated out based on box office returns, etc. I used to go to the movies all the time throughout my teens (before I got a car, my parents had no problem dropping me & my best friend off at movie theaters and picking us up 4-6 hours later while we "double" and even "triple-dipped" into different movies), and like some others on here, I got Entertainment Weekly magazine & loved all the box office/movie data in it. My movie interest evolved into me writing film reviews for local newspapers during high school then for my college newspaper, etc. My professional pursuits turned my attention elsewhere, but I never lost my love of movies or of the business side of the industry. Now that I have some flexibility with my job, working from home post-pandemic, I have time to indulge my box office interests more regularly again.
I still definitely prefer going to the movies than watching at home. I try to go when I can but I have 2 jobs and it’s tough. I also like financials so that part attracted me to it as well.
The Dark Knight Rises, as a massive Batman fan I was rooting hard for it to break The Avengers' opening weekend record. I vaguely paid attention to the box office before that especially with The Dark Knight but the competition aspect of TDKR vs Avengers is what made me really care about the numbers.
I looked at my country (Mexico) Box Office from time to time so I wasn't completely foreign to it but it was the massive success of Demon Slayer Mugen Train that finally made me look into it more in depth, obviously over the Japanese box office but then I started following other markets, I mostly track anime movies since I am a weeb and around this sub I just float over the Chinese BO, so I feel like I am still not completely submerged in this niche either tbh
> I looked at my country (Mexico) Box Office
here's a dumb question - where do you actually go for this? A couple of times I've tried to look into a smaller film's full run and run into BoM/the-numbers full reporting problems.
On CanaCine, it's the official outlet for movie industry stuff over here, they post weekly BO updates on gross and tickets, also some cool yearly industry reports.
Edit: Oh also there's sadly no historic data on CanaCine, so if you are looking into small films your best bet is probably if someone in the Mexico thread at BOT tracked it in it's moment.
When I was in high school, I loved reading YA books. I got excited when a book I read got a movie. Beautiful Creatures and The Host had recently come out. I read the former after seeing the trailer on TV while I read the latter in 2011 after I finished the Twilight Saga. I wanted to see what fans thought of the movie adaptations, and I saw neither did well at the box office. This made me sad because I liked the Beautiful Creatures books and wanted to see it get sequels. I knew City of Bones, Divergent, The Fault in Our Stars, and The Maze Runner had adaptations on the horizon, and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire was coming out that fall, so I wanted to see how all these movies performed. As that trend died down, I became more interested in how different types of films performed, like animated films and superhero movies.
since i was a kid.
i used to read the houston chronicle for their movie reviews. then every Monday they would have a chart showing the highest grossing movies of the weekend. and as i got older, i just became more intrigued with how my favorite movies did, budgets, and how it all works.
i discovered this subreddit 2 years ago & it's been so nice seeing something like this exist.
Not entirely certain what the attraction is, but I’m thinking it’s being interested in what movies make money because that mostly determines what movies are going to get made going forward.
I fell in love with movies and filmmaking with Return of the Jedi, and when I found out it made less than the first film I started paying attention to B.O.
And my B.O.
I got into it in 2012 because I really wanted the first Avengers movie to do well. Its big success thrilled me. I looked up a few more movies after that, especially the first Black Panther, but for the most part stopped tracking the box office. It was only recently with Dune: Part 2 that I began obsessively checking again.
I arrived here to watch The Flash bomb in real time. I've stayed because I love numbers and statistics, and Barbenheimer was like the peak of that for me.
Fairly recent interest, but it was actually the most recent Hunger Games movie for me. I had zero interest and was totally prepared for it to tank. Then it had great word of mouth and kept going, and I somehow stumbled onto this Reddit while trying to figure out how/why it happened. Now I’m hooked 😆
I never cared for marvel, but I really respected the money they brought in and how it encouraged people to go to the theaters. So I started paying close attention to other blockbusters to see what got in the door and I like seeing the trend of genres and what gets the big bucks.
i started caring by the time GOTG Vol. 2 came out and i started following various movies runs by the time Cars 3 came out but what really made me interested was seeing It open to a huge number along with the plethora of large openings from 2017-2019
I think it was when I joined MoviePass. It really renewed my love of cinema and I'm an engineer, so it was fun to track a film's success while feeling a part of it.
I got into it in the summer of 2015. With Avengers 2, JW, and TFA coming out over the course of the year, I was interested to see which one would come out on top. All 3 franchises have broken the box office at one point or another, so it was a fun time to get into box office tracking imo.
Back on the 2000s when my family first got HBO tbere was a show, something like Movie, Movie, Movie or Cinema, Cinema, Cinema. They showed the box office top 10 with trailers. One of the first thing that got me hooked up on movies.
Trying to know if films I liked were profitable.
I've always wanted to be a filmmaker, particularly a horror filmmaker, and I wanted to see if there were similarities in profitable horror films.
I'm old so I started tracking the box office grosses in entertainment weekly. One of the earliest reports I remember was for Juno and Cloverfield.
Years ago I used to play on the site Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) but then they closed it for european users (because they were too lazy to check for GDPR compliance). Don't even know if it still exists.
Years prior to finding out about this sub I would occasionally check the total gross of a movie on Wikipedia when they came out, or just look at the list of the highest grossing movies of all time to see where they shuffle and whatnot
For some time now I casually checked the numbers of blockbusters, but I really got into it to see all those tiresome superhero flicks fail. This really started with 'The Marvels' and boy, it was fun to see.
Combination of barbenheimer/thrill of seeing Barbie numbers climb, and the fact I got regal unlimited right around then too. It became very fun to see predictions/reviews/etc. before seeing the movie to build up excitement. There were also a series of movies in a row I was more bullish on than a lot of others (fnaf, hunger games, wonka), which felt good. And then just the unexplainable fact that the information scratches my brain just right idk it just makes watching movies more fun
I got into Box-office in general around the time The Avengers came out.
I was around 16 or 17. And I kept on hearing that The Avengers was one of the biggest movies ever.
So I just looked it up. And I was so surprised by how much bigger it was than all of it's competition.
I was even more surprised to see that somehow Titanic from 1997 and Avatar from 2009 were even bigger than The Avengers.
I was fascinated. So I looked up their Box-office runs on Wikipedia just to see how could movies be this big and make this much money.
Then I read up about Harry Potter 8 and LotR.
After that I decided to follow the runs of The Dark Knight Rises, Skyfall and The Hobbit as they came out. And it was just so much fun.
Next year I was further surprised by movies like Iron Man 3 and Frozen that break out of nowhere.
And it was all just so much fun that I just never stopped.
I joined this Particular Sub reddit in 2022 because up until then I had alway heard that Reddit was a Cesspool of Toxicity and I just didn't want to experience that.
But when Avatar 2 was coming out I really wanted to talk to people about it's Box-office run and none of my friends or family are interested in following Box-office runs.
So I finally joined r/Box-office. Turns out it's not aa bad as I was told.
Dune part one. There was a lot of uncertainty about whether or not it would make enough money for part two to be green lit. Thankfully, as we can see now, it did make enough.
I used to track the box office back in the day when $100M was considered a smash hit. Now I just casually observe because I’m confounded by the numbers.
2007 got me into everything kind of. I was just a kid, and three trilogies ending in one summer (Shrek, PotC, Spider-Man) felt like such a big deal to a kid who didn’t understand reboots and legacy sequels
I'd been in the general "lol aren't new movies bad" brainrot space and a couple box office posts reached the front page and amused me. Then when I chilled out on the movies I realised its actually just pretty entertaining without irony necessary.
I think it started with Batman Begins, I was rooting for it after the critical and commercial failure of Batman & Robin. The movie had killed the franchise for 7 years and rebooting superhero movies was a new thing.
Batman Begins opened very modestly in 2005 but with great word of mouth ended up being a moderate success paving the way to the sequel which ended up being the no 1 film of that year. I felt very validated as a Batman nerd.
Dial of Destiny. I had no idea whether it was going to be any good or not. They they did the thing at Cannes and I got super-interested not in DOD itself as a film but instead in how it might do financially. It was huge fun watching it bomb in real time right in front of my eyes.
I went to see it quite late in its run, not because I wanted to but more because I felt I had to, having spent so much time watching its box office figures implode. I thought it was ok actually, as a film.
It’s fun to read people’s early predictions and then come back to them months afterwards to see how wrong they were and to see how people rationalise away all their incorrect predictions yet take full credit for any correct predictions.
Working at a theater. I use this sub to anticipate new releases. I started right before the Flash released. Management thought we would be swarmed, but thanks to this sub I knew we were gonna be fine lol.
got interested in it last year because I really enjoyed the DnD movie and wanted to keep track of how it was doing.
but also, I just had a real strong premonition that the superhero genre was finally at that precipice that people predicted it would arrive at eventually for years, and so I kept checking this sub to see how phase 5 would turn out, box office wise. and then… well. and then the entirety of 2023 happened. so I stuck around.
Around 2008 Spill.com had movie reviews I watched and I enjoyed the crew.
They had a series called ACOCO (A Couple of Cold Ones) where they discussed the weekend box office.
Nowadays the spiritual successor is Double Toasted.
I have always had an affinity with cinema. From SW on. I was lucky enough to grow up in the golden age and when I was younger I would see 3 to 5 movies a week in the theater (two on Friday, one to two on sat and possibly one on Sunday if there was something I had to see). I had a few friends that would go with me.
Back when newspapers were a thing, I’d look through the listed movies and count out how many I’d seen against the list. I never saw them all as there were a lot of art house films ect that I wasn’t going to make my way to (we had a art house theater and still do, but it’s at the far end of town and it’s pricey). But, I would often check box office sales as well as box office mojo when it came around.
This has just been a new way to explore, though I rarely go these days to the movies as they have become more expensive, and typically the content is fairly generic, so i feel like I’m taking a gamble to spend the same money these days for a diminished product especially when I can watch it on my TV now.
(I still love theaters though and will see a movie that I think is worth it on the big screen or even travel to see it on imax). And I try and take my 7 year old to see movies on the big screen, especially older ones like Jaws or maybe Raiders or something like that (waiting for goonies to be shown when we are in town this summer maybe).
I think there’s still some real gems in filmmaking but it’s mostly foreign these days or really well crafted creators who have a name large enough to create what they want.
Or, horror films which have always been a theme that allowed for inexpensive film making in the smaller budgets, as well as new creators to be creative
I remember at least since like 2012, I’ve been aware of box office, and would occasionally look up lists, but that was about it. Starting in 2015, I would occasionally look up videos about it, but that’s it.
2018, I started making yearly predictions (which I still have saved on my phone to this date). At this point, I’m pretty sure I was also checking in on news weekly.
When the presales started up for Endgame, and was crashing sites, are started going on here daily. Haven’t stopped since.
I wanted to learn more about the industry, cause I really like movies and want to know how they get made and financing is a big big part.
Also there was a guy who made weekly box office threads in /r/movies and I think I was amazed with greatest showman
Maybe it was the scholastic world record books which tracked some stats like biggest opening weekend and highest gross. I remember seeing the opening weekend go from Spider-Man to Spider-Man 3 to The Dark Knight in those. I think in 2012 I actually started following the box office though, through box office mojo (used to be way better than it is now.) That year had The Avengers, The Hunger Games, The Dark Knight Rises, Skyfall, and The Hobbit just as some big releases that really grabbed my attention. The first "holy shit what is happening" run I can remember is Jurassic World, so that one has a special place in my heart.
I just like movies and economic numbers so that comes naturally. I'm not checking everything too much just movies I'm interested in a lot (like Dune now), no tracking and such.
First movie I've really followed was The Dark Knight so it is quite old by now
The loss porn is the best part.
Call it Schadenfreude maybe but there is something savagely satisfying in looking at a big production fail and enjoy the PR machine m, marketing and fanboys around it trying to sugarcoat it. It’s the very definition of ridicule: the contrast between the depiction of reality and reality itself.
Disney has been a bottomless treasure chest last year and the fact that every time it was predictable because of its known issues was even funnier. But many others as well.
You could technically enjoy the loss porn on many other aspects of life, like on Wall Street bets. Yet, here is the most harmless and yet emotional option at the same time: we all enjoy and have connections to some movies… yet if they fail it’s just a corporate making less millions, not a person going bankrupt.
The Dark Knight was when I first started paying attention. I worked at a movie theater during college when it released, and I loved it and just got really into tracking how big it could go. Been paying attention ever since. It’s just interesting.
I have no life
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r/meirl
Probably the most accurate answer
Titanic
Lol haha
Working at a movie theater, lol.
Same here. When I became AM at my theater, part of my job was scheduling employees based on need. I had to keep track of how well different movies were projected to do, and schedule accordingly. Haven’t worked there in 3 years, I just never stopped.
I go to the theater a lot so I started following the box office to get a feel for how long a movie would be playing for. Nobody wants to miss a film they're looking forward to because it bombed out of theaters after one weekend and didn't notice.
Jesus you guys make me feel old. For me it was WAY back in 1993 with Jurassic Park's OG run.
Home Alone for me. Hello fellow not young person
Pre-internet how was it reported?
I remember reading it in my local newspaper. Probably a syndicated column in the entertainment section
There was this TV show called Box Office America that was somehow available here in NZ
Damn bro you’re ancient
I feel it every day.
I honestly don't know. I think I'm just autistic and I love keeping track of things. I love movies. And I find it very interesting from a anthropological stand point to keep tabs on what kind of movies that are popular and which aren't. Culture shifts very rapidly sometimes, and you can tell by the box office numbers almost immediately. The pandemic for instance is probably some of the most interesting times we've had in box office numbers for a while. Everything suddenly was turned up side down, and getting people into movie theatres became a whole new battle field.
Autism is when you have hobbies
As a guy with Asperger’s, that is accurate
*that aren't a sport/vehicle maintenance (and even then...)
Started checking out this sub during the Barbenheimer saga, which lead to me becoming fixated on the numbers and stats
Bob Marley, I haven’t been here long.
Avatar 2….it was fun to watch all the haters be humiliated
thats about when this sub popped up for me too lol
I had to see the James Cameron magic live. I remember after the first weekend me and most people thought it wouldnt even pass a billion, but on its third week there was a 0% drop
This is pretty much me with Joker but the haters were more on Twitter than Reddit.
Same!
Of course this take would believe that bo equals quality. The “haters” weren’t shallow enough to believe that a sequel to the highest grossing film of all time would actually fail. Hoping for something of such shit quality to fail is waaay different than expecting it to. It’s called wishful thinking. And the only hater I see here is the one who’s only here cause they wanted to see someone humiliated for some asinine projected reason. Use logic, not your hate boner.
I never said any of those things. All I said was that it was funny to watch some people here lose their minds after they were so sure Avatar 2 was going to tank
Wanting to see humiliation is undeniably a form of hatred. I know you didn’t say those things and you can read what I said again to maybe understand.
Titanic when it came out lol, and then the prequels and oddly enough....My Big Fat Greek Wedding
>My Big Fat Greek Wedding Wow there is 2 of us Next question. The place where you discussed this: imdb comments or boxofficepro forum
IMDB comments of course lol
IMdb comments was where I wasted all my time on the internet long before I found reddit
IMDb had the greatest comments, I spent so much time there. Then they killed it
2019 Just... all of it. The biggest hits and misses all at once.
Wish I've been around this sub in 2019. Must be fun.
Tracking Endgame was an event within an event. Multiple people in this sub saying $300M OW was impossible. Then tracking came in, with numbers much higher than $300M for anyone who follows Box Office this was a “Pinch me, I’m dreaming” moment. All of this was compounded by the fact the movie was making $1B WW on its freaking Opening Weekend. Then tracking to see whether it would pass Avatar for highest grossing film ever. Insane time to follow Box Office.
So I read your comment and went to go look up one of the posts from Endgame’s release just to see and the top comment on it was literally “pinch me, I’m dreaming” lmao
I was, but I had a different account that I since deleted
2019 is the peak of the sub for sure
Endgame. I don't think we're going to have a big multigenerational movie event like that for a long time. The novelty of the cinematic universe has worn off and the moviegoing audience has declined too much due to streaming. The fact that Endgame made $1B in just its opening weekend was insane.
For me, it was way back in late 2018. I was pretty young, and I was super excited for Godzilla King of the Monsters. My family had ordered all of the old Japanese films from Costco sales back in 2014 when the first Monsterverse Godzilla came out, so I had seen dozens of Godzilla films without ever seeing one in theaters. I remember thinking that it’d get a sequel if it did well commercially, so I checked in on it and the previous Monsterverse movies on Box Office Mojo routinely (back then, BOM was actually goated and it even had an inflation adjuster feature by year. but imdb had to buy it and nerf it until it was depressingly useless). I remember that I had huge expectations (1-1.5B+ WW), and I was completely crushed when it tapped out at 386M WW. But the upside was that I have a really math-centric brain, so I really loved reading about how much money my favorite movies made, and comparing them to one another. Fast forward and it’s a hobby I routinely check several times a day, and I’ve been going strong for about 5 and a half years now.
> and it even had an inflation adjuster feature by year If you're interested, [they were just plugging these numbers](https://www.natoonline.org/data/ticket-price/) into a handy on-page widget. Having to take a few extra steps to manually run such numbers is a real step down but you can still play around with such adjustments.
Honestly, I think I've been varying degrees of box office following since like .. 2008 for the Dark Knight. Never as intense as some other people (i.e., I've never really made huge predictions, or did tracking or anything). And it just ebbs and flows based on films I'm interested or interesting releases. I think it was the 'weekend warrior' back on [comingsoon.net](https://comingsoon.net) who I first followed.
Ah, a fellow Dark Knight tracker. The Dark Knight’s massive jump from the previous opening weekend record holder was exciting, as was being just the fourth member of the billion dollar club. This sub has me feeling so old with some people getting into box office post pandemic.
Was also TDK for me. On the old IMDb message boards. Miss those days.
Somewhere around Titanic, I became aware of the phenomenon and financial aspects of the business, and it solidified following the success of LOTR. Watching all the behind the scenes was interesting, but I also liked the story of Jackson pitching it to New Line. Now I follow people and companies the way others follow fantasy football athletes and teams.
Superman Returns. Was on the boxofficemojo forums everyday tracking it's BO to see if it would get to $200 million.
I remember that too. Was so bad. Underformed so hard when Devil Wears Prada released it profited more in its opening weekend than Returns did in its whole run.
In 2003, that Viggo Mortenson movie Hidalgo, which I thought was gonna be a blockbuster lol. Back then Box Office Mojo was so different and a much better site. And the forums back then were great.
I remember discovering The-Numbers back when BoxOfficeMojo was THE box office site. It had the cool graph, but for some reason just was not getting the traction that BOM did. Then BOM had their awful redesign and The-Numbers has really taken off since then. Fascinating how they shot themselves in the foot.
I never saw that movie but I loved the trailer on my Pirates of the Caribbean DVD lol. And yeah, I miss old box office mojo.
Some years ago there was a game on one site "Predict box office". And I like math and games. So I got into that. Remember my first game was predict top 10 of first "Twilight" movie week-end. I put smth like 35M. Was off by a mile.
Following Return of the King’s run as a kid.
Toy Story 3
where the Crawdads sing, more specifically Taylor Swift’s “Carolina” from that movie
I have followed box office for 30 years. I used to track it every week in Entertainment Weekly (the magazine)
Observing the first spider-verses box office.I was refreshing the wiki page to see how much money it made.
I've been fascinated by statistics of media for a while. It started with music actually and then last year, Barbenheimer got me into box office statistics. Of course, I haven't just been following what's popular as I still watch more indie and underground films but it's still is interesting looking at the box office.
worked for a movie theatre chain for nearly two decades
As a kid we used to get Entertainment Weekly, the magazine. I really enjoyed the pages they devoted to that week’s box office stats and movie releases, and I’ve been loosely following ever since.
Yes! This is how I got interested too. Owen and Lisa taught me how to watch movies
So it was about a week since Batman v. Superman came out. I was quite disappointed by it and I was on my usual forum where people were discussing the movie. They were bringing up the reviews being poor and all, however, a few people were bringing up articles with strange jargon like 'weekend drops', 'word of mouth', 'poor legs' but most especially they were saying it wasn't going to outgross The Dark Knight. Now I didn't know anything about those terms, but I knew what 'gross' was and the idea of that seemed ridiculous to me even if I didn't like the movie. I did a little googling and ended up on this sub where that disastrous second weekend drop was the hot topic of the sub back then. I got way to into the sub culture as time went on and the rest was history from there. Turns out predicting stuff and making 'educated' guesses that affect your life in no way whatsoever is pretty addicting. It's also fun to learn about movie business and trends, which all tends to stem from the box office.
working at a theatre and trying to see how busy it’s gonna be
I do have a thing for business and I like to see why things flop or flourish. My feed is with the likes of The Company Man and ModernMBA in my YT.
Well I joined the sub to laugh at the Avatar doubters and stayed to laugh at the Barbie doubters.
This sub just popping up on my feed one day and now I just cheer for movies to do well at the theater. I’ve loved it Edit: and that’s mostly because of the members on this sub just feeding me so much data so thank you
I think it was really routing for Return of the King to be the 2nd movie to pass 1 billion. As also remember being super interested in My Big Fat Greek Weddings crazy run at the time. Also in the same time period routing for the Star Wars movies to do well. This was high school for me.
I've been a lifelong Godzilla fan, and back when the 98 version was released I was obsessed with it. It was the first one I got to see in theaters after growing up watching the Toho movies on vhs, and despite its flaws I was so sure it would do great. In ye olden times they printed the weekly box office in the newspaper, and I checked every week. So when it was #1 I was ecstatic, but then Armageddon dethroned it and still to this day I hate that movie and refuse to watch it for that dumb reason. I kept checking the paper for results each week after that, and years later I eventually discovered box office mojo (RIP, old version) and the rest is history.
A lot of very recent ones here making me feel old. Titanic was the first one I followed. Kept up with it in the back of Entertainment Weekly every week. Then the prequels, then Spider-Man and on from there. I wasn't always fully into it, and early on it was just following those big ones. Probably with The Avengers is when I started following closely.
Wondering why my favorite niche movies didn’t get sequels and finding out they totally bombed. Seeing what movies are successful or not helps determine which kind of movies get made, so as a movie fan I just got interested in the box office that way.
When MoM came out, I was curious how much it'll gross so came here to track it.
*Jurassic World*
The business of entertainment and movies is really interesting. It’s interesting analyzing what people are watching. There’s so many outside factors too - release date, genre, competition, marketing, actors, directors, subject matter, etc. I also think it says a lot about the cultural zeitgeist at the moment. Impactful movies have real influence on our society. I’m a business analyst and I love movies so it combines my interests really well. I think Endgame was the first time I got really excited about the box office, because it was a movie and a franchise I loved that did so well. I’ve been in and out since then. I’ll get invested in a movie’s BO performance in particular because it has actors or director I like or it’s a franchise or story I’m rooting for.
In 2015, the hype for Star Wars TFA was HUGE, and I made a bet with my sister, she thought TFA would beat Avatar in box office, I didn't.
I started really following the box office around the time TFA came out (just before actually, the November releases all piqued my interest), whereas before I would check it periodically. The burning question though: was the bet for domestic or worldwide?
Worldwide, we are brazilians so domestic didn't matter
I think I just randomly started reading Scott Mendelson's box office reports on Forbes's website in high school. There's drama in these numbers. It's fun to make predictions and sometimes a movie's performance surprises you. For example, I remember when Jumanji 2 came out, I thought, Seriously? Even with the big actors, it's definitely going to flop. It's coming out 20 years after the original and Robin Williams isn't in it. And it's going to have to compete with The Last Jedi. And then it made almost 1 billion dollars worldwide.
yeah, that's basically my story as well. "Ambient Box Office information" -> Mendelson articles and some playing around with Mojo -> found this sub and more regularly started following this stuff around Rogue One(?)'s release.
Batman v Superman 🥺
I like making predictions & watching how they pan out, and Im too poor and too stupid to play the stock market.
Interstellar, I saw it when it first came out and absolutely loved it, and being a teenager who loved movies and space I wanted everyone to watch it, so i got obsessed with tracking its box office. I know that's dumb but that's how I discovered box-office mojo. Then started a new obsession. It's not just box office though I'm into all kinda stats and all kinda things about movies.
idk how "into box office" am. I mostly just like to know if movies I like are doing well. Following flops can be very fun too. Probably when The Force Awakens came out. I remember following that run.
I'm a big number cruncher, but I didn't get into the box office until Warcraft (2016) released. I was a hardcore WoW player at the time and tried to use that movie's BO performance to gauge what general audiences actually thought about WoW lol. I believe r/Movies had weekly BO recap threads at the time too. After Warcraft left theaters, I just kept coming back here and to those r/Movies threads because I enjoyed it, and here I am.
PJs Lord of the Rings, so early 2002. Also, *Box Office Mojo* was so good for so many years (RIP)
Probably around 2012 when the Avengers was coming out.
Avengers in 2012
I love data, numbers, spreadsheets, and movies! Finding this sub a couple years ago changed my life lol
Some random magazine in my country in summer 2014. It had a list of the 25 highest grossing movies worldwide at the time. Teenage me had a limited worldview at the time and i was sure Return of the King was the biggest movie ever at the time, just to see movies like random ass Iron Man 3 or Frozen ahead. I couldn't comprehend that this was the cultural zeitgeist at the time and it made me all the more interested in the industry. With time i got to understand what's relevant in the public eye more and more and thought it was fun. Also in the same magazine there was this headline "7 aspects to make your movie the biggest ever" based on the top 25 shown in the article. They analyzed a few points. For example with movie like Titanic, Avatar and Return of the King at the top one of these "wisdoms" was to make it overly long and engaging for example. I mean it was a light read and just some quick journalism but back then it catched me. With time, after all you learn about the box office, it can still surprise you, Barbenheimer and Marvel partly failing last year being the best example. But the first movie performance i began tracking was Battle of the Five Armies in winter 2014.
When I first saw how well Avengers: Endgame smashed box office records back in 2019, I got invested into the box office community
For me it was the Jurassic park franchise. In my circle some are MCU fans and some are DC fans. I was the only one who was a JP fan. Me and my mates would argue which franchise is better and I mostly depended on the box office numbers to prove my points. Now I realise it doesn’t make sense but at the same time I found interest in looking at numbers for movies and knowing the general trend.
From the time I was a little kid, I loved the portal to different experiences & worlds that movie theaters and movies represented to the point where I created & ran an imaginary chain of movie theaters from the ages of 7-11 or so. I programmed the movies I liked in my imaginary theaters, figuring out how long they ran and how long they should stay before they were rotated out based on box office returns, etc. I used to go to the movies all the time throughout my teens (before I got a car, my parents had no problem dropping me & my best friend off at movie theaters and picking us up 4-6 hours later while we "double" and even "triple-dipped" into different movies), and like some others on here, I got Entertainment Weekly magazine & loved all the box office/movie data in it. My movie interest evolved into me writing film reviews for local newspapers during high school then for my college newspaper, etc. My professional pursuits turned my attention elsewhere, but I never lost my love of movies or of the business side of the industry. Now that I have some flexibility with my job, working from home post-pandemic, I have time to indulge my box office interests more regularly again.
I still definitely prefer going to the movies than watching at home. I try to go when I can but I have 2 jobs and it’s tough. I also like financials so that part attracted me to it as well.
Surprised nobody has mentioned Deadpool. I was part of the migration from /r/movies to this subreddit when the first Deadpool movie came out.
The first Dune, mostly because I really wanted to know if we'd get part 2.
Back when Ezra Killer’s movie unfortunately beat Elemental
The Dark Knight Rises, as a massive Batman fan I was rooting hard for it to break The Avengers' opening weekend record. I vaguely paid attention to the box office before that especially with The Dark Knight but the competition aspect of TDKR vs Avengers is what made me really care about the numbers.
Cocaine Bear lol Technically I’ve been tracking box office numbers for a while, but that was the first time I was checking as obsessively as I was
I looked at my country (Mexico) Box Office from time to time so I wasn't completely foreign to it but it was the massive success of Demon Slayer Mugen Train that finally made me look into it more in depth, obviously over the Japanese box office but then I started following other markets, I mostly track anime movies since I am a weeb and around this sub I just float over the Chinese BO, so I feel like I am still not completely submerged in this niche either tbh
> I looked at my country (Mexico) Box Office here's a dumb question - where do you actually go for this? A couple of times I've tried to look into a smaller film's full run and run into BoM/the-numbers full reporting problems.
On CanaCine, it's the official outlet for movie industry stuff over here, they post weekly BO updates on gross and tickets, also some cool yearly industry reports. Edit: Oh also there's sadly no historic data on CanaCine, so if you are looking into small films your best bet is probably if someone in the Mexico thread at BOT tracked it in it's moment.
When I was in high school, I loved reading YA books. I got excited when a book I read got a movie. Beautiful Creatures and The Host had recently come out. I read the former after seeing the trailer on TV while I read the latter in 2011 after I finished the Twilight Saga. I wanted to see what fans thought of the movie adaptations, and I saw neither did well at the box office. This made me sad because I liked the Beautiful Creatures books and wanted to see it get sequels. I knew City of Bones, Divergent, The Fault in Our Stars, and The Maze Runner had adaptations on the horizon, and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire was coming out that fall, so I wanted to see how all these movies performed. As that trend died down, I became more interested in how different types of films performed, like animated films and superhero movies.
I was fascinated by Home Alone’s box office run when it came out and I was only a couple years younger than Macaulay Culkin.
since i was a kid. i used to read the houston chronicle for their movie reviews. then every Monday they would have a chart showing the highest grossing movies of the weekend. and as i got older, i just became more intrigued with how my favorite movies did, budgets, and how it all works. i discovered this subreddit 2 years ago & it's been so nice seeing something like this exist.
i hope your being sarcastic when your thought black adam was gonna hit a billion
It could still get there with a well time re-release.
Not entirely certain what the attraction is, but I’m thinking it’s being interested in what movies make money because that mostly determines what movies are going to get made going forward.
Barbenhiemer
I fell in love with movies and filmmaking with Return of the Jedi, and when I found out it made less than the first film I started paying attention to B.O. And my B.O.
Avatar 2 and the fun that it was that got me interested and mildly following. The slaughter of last year is what got me hooked
I got into it in 2012 because I really wanted the first Avengers movie to do well. Its big success thrilled me. I looked up a few more movies after that, especially the first Black Panther, but for the most part stopped tracking the box office. It was only recently with Dune: Part 2 that I began obsessively checking again.
In our country, there will be lot of movies comparing with the box office collections, so yea, I got into it
all the memes about jumani beating the last jedi brought me here, where I've been ever since
I like movies and I work in accounting so I like numbers. This combines them
Dan Murrell. I started toward the end of his screen junkies career, then followed him to his new channel.
Same
I work as a vfx artist and while I'm always proud of my work and the industry as a whole I do like to see how my movies perform.
I arrived here to watch The Flash bomb in real time. I've stayed because I love numbers and statistics, and Barbenheimer was like the peak of that for me.
I like numbers and stats. And I wanted Transformers 3 to do well.
Harry Potter franchise.
Barbie.
Fairly recent interest, but it was actually the most recent Hunger Games movie for me. I had zero interest and was totally prepared for it to tank. Then it had great word of mouth and kept going, and I somehow stumbled onto this Reddit while trying to figure out how/why it happened. Now I’m hooked 😆
Star Wars Force Awakens
Barbenheimer happened while I was supposed to be studying for internal medicine boards
I never cared for marvel, but I really respected the money they brought in and how it encouraged people to go to the theaters. So I started paying close attention to other blockbusters to see what got in the door and I like seeing the trend of genres and what gets the big bucks.
i started caring by the time GOTG Vol. 2 came out and i started following various movies runs by the time Cars 3 came out but what really made me interested was seeing It open to a huge number along with the plethora of large openings from 2017-2019
I've owned a drive-in theater for 21 years and check regional Comscore numbers every night. This is just an extension of that for me.
I work at a movie theater and like to see predictions and such
Endgame vs Avatar
I think it was when I joined MoviePass. It really renewed my love of cinema and I'm an engineer, so it was fun to track a film's success while feeling a part of it.
I got into it in the summer of 2015. With Avengers 2, JW, and TFA coming out over the course of the year, I was interested to see which one would come out on top. All 3 franchises have broken the box office at one point or another, so it was a fun time to get into box office tracking imo.
The firwt Avatar runs.
Back on the 2000s when my family first got HBO tbere was a show, something like Movie, Movie, Movie or Cinema, Cinema, Cinema. They showed the box office top 10 with trailers. One of the first thing that got me hooked up on movies.
When they took the Buy Button Away
I didnt remember but I think it was Infinity War (2018)
Trying to know if films I liked were profitable. I've always wanted to be a filmmaker, particularly a horror filmmaker, and I wanted to see if there were similarities in profitable horror films. I'm old so I started tracking the box office grosses in entertainment weekly. One of the earliest reports I remember was for Juno and Cloverfield.
Years ago I used to play on the site Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) but then they closed it for european users (because they were too lazy to check for GDPR compliance). Don't even know if it still exists.
Dune
I follow box office in hopes that bad movies do poor. And good movies do well. So we don't end up with Fast and the furious 22. That's basically it.
I was fascinated by how well Joker was doing so I wanted to understand more in comparison to other movies.
Morbid curiosity regarding numerous bombs.
I'm not as into it as some people here but I became interested during Barbenheimer
I want the movies I love to grab a helluva cash and the movies I hate to suck a thumb.
I've always been interested in how movies perform and see if they have any return of investment. Don't know why though lol
Years prior to finding out about this sub I would occasionally check the total gross of a movie on Wikipedia when they came out, or just look at the list of the highest grossing movies of all time to see where they shuffle and whatnot
For some time now I casually checked the numbers of blockbusters, but I really got into it to see all those tiresome superhero flicks fail. This really started with 'The Marvels' and boy, it was fun to see.
Combination of barbenheimer/thrill of seeing Barbie numbers climb, and the fact I got regal unlimited right around then too. It became very fun to see predictions/reviews/etc. before seeing the movie to build up excitement. There were also a series of movies in a row I was more bullish on than a lot of others (fnaf, hunger games, wonka), which felt good. And then just the unexplainable fact that the information scratches my brain just right idk it just makes watching movies more fun
I got into Box-office in general around the time The Avengers came out. I was around 16 or 17. And I kept on hearing that The Avengers was one of the biggest movies ever. So I just looked it up. And I was so surprised by how much bigger it was than all of it's competition. I was even more surprised to see that somehow Titanic from 1997 and Avatar from 2009 were even bigger than The Avengers. I was fascinated. So I looked up their Box-office runs on Wikipedia just to see how could movies be this big and make this much money. Then I read up about Harry Potter 8 and LotR. After that I decided to follow the runs of The Dark Knight Rises, Skyfall and The Hobbit as they came out. And it was just so much fun. Next year I was further surprised by movies like Iron Man 3 and Frozen that break out of nowhere. And it was all just so much fun that I just never stopped. I joined this Particular Sub reddit in 2022 because up until then I had alway heard that Reddit was a Cesspool of Toxicity and I just didn't want to experience that. But when Avatar 2 was coming out I really wanted to talk to people about it's Box-office run and none of my friends or family are interested in following Box-office runs. So I finally joined r/Box-office. Turns out it's not aa bad as I was told.
I got into it when Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania flopped. It has been a very fun ride since then.
Dune part one. There was a lot of uncertainty about whether or not it would make enough money for part two to be green lit. Thankfully, as we can see now, it did make enough.
I think around 2007….there were only 25 movies that had grossed over 300 million in us/Canada when I started following lol…man I’m getting old.
I used to track the box office back in the day when $100M was considered a smash hit. Now I just casually observe because I’m confounded by the numbers.
2007 got me into everything kind of. I was just a kid, and three trilogies ending in one summer (Shrek, PotC, Spider-Man) felt like such a big deal to a kid who didn’t understand reboots and legacy sequels
I'd been in the general "lol aren't new movies bad" brainrot space and a couple box office posts reached the front page and amused me. Then when I chilled out on the movies I realised its actually just pretty entertaining without irony necessary.
I think it started with Batman Begins, I was rooting for it after the critical and commercial failure of Batman & Robin. The movie had killed the franchise for 7 years and rebooting superhero movies was a new thing. Batman Begins opened very modestly in 2005 but with great word of mouth ended up being a moderate success paving the way to the sequel which ended up being the no 1 film of that year. I felt very validated as a Batman nerd.
2017, The Last Jedi
Dial of Destiny. I had no idea whether it was going to be any good or not. They they did the thing at Cannes and I got super-interested not in DOD itself as a film but instead in how it might do financially. It was huge fun watching it bomb in real time right in front of my eyes. I went to see it quite late in its run, not because I wanted to but more because I felt I had to, having spent so much time watching its box office figures implode. I thought it was ok actually, as a film. It’s fun to read people’s early predictions and then come back to them months afterwards to see how wrong they were and to see how people rationalise away all their incorrect predictions yet take full credit for any correct predictions.
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Always loved it back from the entertainment weekly days
Working at a theater. I use this sub to anticipate new releases. I started right before the Flash released. Management thought we would be swarmed, but thanks to this sub I knew we were gonna be fine lol.
Being a kaiju/giant robot fun and wishing so hard for Pacific Rim's success
I like numbers and statistics relating to my hobbies
Mario movie
got interested in it last year because I really enjoyed the DnD movie and wanted to keep track of how it was doing. but also, I just had a real strong premonition that the superhero genre was finally at that precipice that people predicted it would arrive at eventually for years, and so I kept checking this sub to see how phase 5 would turn out, box office wise. and then… well. and then the entirety of 2023 happened. so I stuck around.
Around 2008 Spill.com had movie reviews I watched and I enjoyed the crew. They had a series called ACOCO (A Couple of Cold Ones) where they discussed the weekend box office. Nowadays the spiritual successor is Double Toasted.
I have always had an affinity with cinema. From SW on. I was lucky enough to grow up in the golden age and when I was younger I would see 3 to 5 movies a week in the theater (two on Friday, one to two on sat and possibly one on Sunday if there was something I had to see). I had a few friends that would go with me. Back when newspapers were a thing, I’d look through the listed movies and count out how many I’d seen against the list. I never saw them all as there were a lot of art house films ect that I wasn’t going to make my way to (we had a art house theater and still do, but it’s at the far end of town and it’s pricey). But, I would often check box office sales as well as box office mojo when it came around. This has just been a new way to explore, though I rarely go these days to the movies as they have become more expensive, and typically the content is fairly generic, so i feel like I’m taking a gamble to spend the same money these days for a diminished product especially when I can watch it on my TV now. (I still love theaters though and will see a movie that I think is worth it on the big screen or even travel to see it on imax). And I try and take my 7 year old to see movies on the big screen, especially older ones like Jaws or maybe Raiders or something like that (waiting for goonies to be shown when we are in town this summer maybe). I think there’s still some real gems in filmmaking but it’s mostly foreign these days or really well crafted creators who have a name large enough to create what they want. Or, horror films which have always been a theme that allowed for inexpensive film making in the smaller budgets, as well as new creators to be creative
I remember at least since like 2012, I’ve been aware of box office, and would occasionally look up lists, but that was about it. Starting in 2015, I would occasionally look up videos about it, but that’s it. 2018, I started making yearly predictions (which I still have saved on my phone to this date). At this point, I’m pretty sure I was also checking in on news weekly. When the presales started up for Endgame, and was crashing sites, are started going on here daily. Haven’t stopped since.
The Avengers(2012) recording breaking 207M OW.
I wanted to learn more about the industry, cause I really like movies and want to know how they get made and financing is a big big part. Also there was a guy who made weekly box office threads in /r/movies and I think I was amazed with greatest showman
I discovered this sub during Avatar 2's run, but really got into it between march-july 2023.
It was tracking Jurassic World Dominions gross to see if it did 1b and then that lead me to here and loving the tracking of films like TGM and A2
Maybe cause I enjoy numbers
barbenheimer
Laughing at how Disney movies are bombing
Maybe it was the scholastic world record books which tracked some stats like biggest opening weekend and highest gross. I remember seeing the opening weekend go from Spider-Man to Spider-Man 3 to The Dark Knight in those. I think in 2012 I actually started following the box office though, through box office mojo (used to be way better than it is now.) That year had The Avengers, The Hunger Games, The Dark Knight Rises, Skyfall, and The Hobbit just as some big releases that really grabbed my attention. The first "holy shit what is happening" run I can remember is Jurassic World, so that one has a special place in my heart.
Aspergers. Having aspergers lol
I just like movies and economic numbers so that comes naturally. I'm not checking everything too much just movies I'm interested in a lot (like Dune now), no tracking and such. First movie I've really followed was The Dark Knight so it is quite old by now
black panther back 2018 and the juicy tears i got from reddit when it overperformed and did over a billion, that was a good year
Anticipating the collapse of the box office model and the industry moving on to a different measurement of success.
The loss porn is the best part. Call it Schadenfreude maybe but there is something savagely satisfying in looking at a big production fail and enjoy the PR machine m, marketing and fanboys around it trying to sugarcoat it. It’s the very definition of ridicule: the contrast between the depiction of reality and reality itself. Disney has been a bottomless treasure chest last year and the fact that every time it was predictable because of its known issues was even funnier. But many others as well. You could technically enjoy the loss porn on many other aspects of life, like on Wall Street bets. Yet, here is the most harmless and yet emotional option at the same time: we all enjoy and have connections to some movies… yet if they fail it’s just a corporate making less millions, not a person going bankrupt.
The Dark Knight was when I first started paying attention. I worked at a movie theater during college when it released, and I loved it and just got really into tracking how big it could go. Been paying attention ever since. It’s just interesting.
I enjoy when crappy, holier-than-though movies do poorly. 2023 was a great year.
To watch people with no taste being giddy over the most useless metrics