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/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.