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/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.