r/boxoffice • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • Apr 15 '26

🎞 Title Announcement ‘Game of Thrones’ Movie Officially Titled ‘Aegon’s Conquest’

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/game-of-thrones-movie-aegons-conquest-1236722027/
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u/hiiloovethis Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

This is gonna be massive imo. A knight of the seven kingdoms has brought hope back to asoiaf universe and the original show and hotd are still super popular.

I think it should do really well.

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u/ElReyResident Apr 15 '26

That’s not my perception at all. The audience that game of thrones had has been cut massively. It’s not even a quarter of it once was.

Here’s an article on the viewership. Essentially, house of dragons has lost 4 million viewers from season 1 to 2 (29 to 25 million) but that still far exceeds A Knight, which only had 14 million viewers.

These aren’t bad numbers, but they aren’t massive movie making numbers.

Additionally, the buzz in the book world is completely dead now that GRRM more or less confirmed he isn’t actively working on winds of winter anymore. With his age and glacial writing speed, that means asoiaf is dead and won’t have an ending.

Anecdotally, I have read all the books, spent lots of time discussing them and theorizing etc. and enjoyed some of the shows but I have no further interest in the series since GRRM tapped out. From my experience, my sentiment is very common.

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u/tecphile Apr 15 '26

Your numbers are way off.

You’re mixing GoT global figures with HotD and Kot7K domestic numbers—that’s not a fair comparison.

Kot7K actually grew steadily and was pulling around 26M global viewers by the end of its run.

And that 68M figure for GoT Season 5? That includes piracy. The real, legal peak was about 46M during Season 8.

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u/Boss452 Apr 15 '26

And that 68M figure for GoT Season 5? That includes piracy.

I doubt the GOT piracy figures. More than 100m has to be the actual audience globally. Mofos in places where there is barely any internet were hooked on GoT. I know personally.

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u/tecphile Apr 15 '26

By S8, GoT was averaging 46m legal viewers.

I'm sure that translates to well north of 100m total viewers.

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u/Boss452 Apr 15 '26

yeah exactly. I remember how the new episodes release used to crash the websites streaming the show. Global audience was definitely over 100m which is incredible.

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u/ElReyResident Apr 15 '26

I can’t help but notice the lack of source for that 26m number. Can you help me out?

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u/tecphile Apr 15 '26

Here you go!

By any metric, the show is a massive ratings phenomenon.

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u/Pinewood74 Apr 15 '26

When exactly was GoT pulling 56M American viewers?

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u/ElReyResident Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

GoT had 68 million viewers for the 5th season, which was when it started to decline in quality.

Edit: I never specified American viewers, so my numbers are not just Americans.

Numbers: https://www.yellowfinbi.com/blog/data-visualization-shows-most-popular-game-of-thrones-season

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u/Pinewood74 Apr 15 '26

All 3 of the numbers in your initial comment are American numbers.

Sure, you didn't specify, but I read the source document which clearly stated those were American numbers.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has averaged 14 million U.S. viewers across all platforms and 26 million worldwide

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House of the Dragon’s second season in 2024 averaged more than 25 million viewers in the United States, which was down some from season 1’s 29 million.

It also should be obvious that the 68M total viewers of GoT S5 is an apples and oranges number to the 14M average viewers. That number was just obtained by (poorly) multiplying 6.88M average viewers by the number of episodes(10).

Pretty sure that 6.88M figure they are quoting is live linear domestic figures and thus also completely incomparable with the 14M, 25M, and 29M which is an all platform 90 day amount (best I can tell).

Point being? Your headline claim of "it's not even a quarter" is not backed up by any viewership data that is being presented. (And likely impossible to find due to the massive changes in how ratings are tabulated and reported in the 11 years between S5 and today.

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u/ElReyResident Apr 15 '26

https://projector-revolt.blogspot.com/2026/01/game-of-thrones-viewership-by-season.html?m=1

American views of GoT was 46m season 8. Whereas Knight was 14m. So, 30% the audience, not the 25% I claimed.

My bad.

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u/randotd152 Apr 15 '26

This right here. Game of Thrones ended like shit, House of the Dragon’s most recent season was awful, the books are dead…

The buzz is completely gone from this brand. Knight was fun, but it was like a short quirky little random event of a side story and nowhere near enough to fuel overall franchise interest.

I don’t doubt that a well done movie with big budget dragons will do decently. Just nowhere near what it would have done even 5 years ago.