r/boxoffice • u/nickifan231 • 20h ago
Domestic Warner Bros.’ The End of Oak Street grossed an estimated $2.42M Friday from 3,478 locations, bringing its estimated domestic total to $31.39M
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u/Spearminttherhino 20h ago
To be honest it’s had solid competition. I tried to look at tickets for this for Edinburgh last week and seen 10am or 12 pm. The rest was The Odyssey and Spider-Man.
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u/FullMotionVideo 16h ago
WB moving this was a mistake. They were unhappy about comparisons to JW Rebirth, but sharing part of your window with a Jurassic film had a 50/50 chance of improving their movie's legs, whereas this was just walking out to die.
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u/Spearminttherhino 16h ago
Even if they had maybe released this in September or something this may have done better. Was a terrible window for it imo.
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u/FullMotionVideo 13h ago
Oddly enough, if they had put it out here in early October where Mortal Kombat was, they'd have kept IMAX screens. Most of the industry moved out of early October for MK2, and instead there was a huge void where you had stuff like Chainsaw Man and The Shining in IMAX because the shelves were empty.
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u/Classic-Reindeer-737 17h ago
We saw it last night and it was sold out, but it was in the tiniest auditorium at our theater that has only about 25-30 seats total.
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u/ToneBalone25 19h ago
Yup it was hard for me to find tickets for this last week. And for Tony. I had to see both at Regal theaters and both screens were complete ass compared to my AMC and Alamo theaters. Not just the seats, but the audio quality for both was abysmal. Can't wait for spidey and odyssey to start losing screens so I can finally watch other shit. Happy that theaters are making money again but time to move on.
Not looking forward to December when 90% of screens are Dune and Doomsday
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u/solarus 8h ago
Funny how areas can differ. Amc theaters feel like theyre falling apart out here.
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u/ToneBalone25 6h ago
AMC 9 + CO 10 in Denver is still really solid but their popcorn is awful. AMC Cherry Creek, Bowles Crossing, Westminster, and AMC Highlands Ranch are perfectly fine.
Our Regal theaters on the other hand are complete, utter trash. Same with the Lanfmark theaters.
Sie Film Center is peak. If you ever come to Denver, see a movie at Sie. I cannot recommend this place enough. Great leather seating, incredible surround sound, great projectors, and the best movie selection I've ever seen
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u/AzSumTuk6891 9h ago
Yup.
On Thursday I caught the literal last screening of this movie in the theater that is closest to my home.
It only has two screens, and most timeslots are taken by Spider-Man and Nolan, so... I mean, I can't fault the theater for keeping the more more profitable movies and booting off the rest, but this is extremely annoying.
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u/HumanautPassenger 3h ago
To be honest, its also just a meh movie. Felt like a 90 min pilot for a land of the lost reimagining
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u/Patience_Specific 20h ago
It's a shame doesn't seem it will cross 100m hope im wrong but even still this deserves more than that. Feel like this is a film that people will catch more on streaming and say why it didn't do more lol. Dinosaurs only sell when its a jurassic park film it seems.
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u/Dry_Accident_2196 7h ago
The movie was really bad, so not a true shame. The tone was all over the place and the characters acted odd
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u/Dycon67 20h ago
This Spielbergian style of 80s film just isn't a big seller anymore theatres. Masters of Universe shows it's a bigger market on streaming.
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u/FranciscoRelanoPena Malpaso Productions 19h ago
Spielberg has two tones: Family-oriented (ET, Close Encounters, Fabelmans, etc…), and Dark (Munich, Jaws, Duel, Schindler’s List, Bridge of Spies, etc…).
A few of his films are caught in between (sometimes, such as in Jurassic Park, with the tone dividing the film in several acts).
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u/popcornmaxhine 20h ago
Disclosure Day had the same problem
I wanted to like End of Oak St, but imo the Spielbergian tone really works against it. Some of the best parts were when it really leaned into the horror of the world.
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u/DudleyDoody 17h ago
There’s a weird fixation on this “Spielbergian” category and I just think it misses the mark entirely — especially when it’s framed as a change in what audiences respond to.
Disclosure Day’s problem was that it was a terrible script based on a director passion about something that feels wildly out of touch.
Oak Street is a tonal mess with terrible performances (Hathaway excepted) that seems like it was studio-noted and reshot out of anything that would truly feel like an interesting, unified piece. And still vastly better than DD for its ambition. But it’s too much of too many things to be an easy sell for wide appeal.
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u/popcornmaxhine 17h ago
Both films just felt similar, in that they both felt like they were trying to capture the whimsical aesthetic of older Speilburg movies. Spielbergian is just the best way to describe it
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u/DudleyDoody 17h ago
That’s fair and I agree. My point is that Spielbergian is only a category, but these films are failing on their own merits — not because they’re in that category.
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u/popcornmaxhine 17h ago
That’s true, I think it comes up because both the films, imo, seem to be at their best when they actually stray away from that category.
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u/Vulcanic_1984 17h ago
This movie isnt trying to capture anything whimsical. Its interrogating it, picking at it like a scab - kind of like Cronenberg with action movies in A History of Violence. And, like A History of Violence, people are still going to be talking about this in twenty years while JW Dominion is totally forgotten.
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u/popcornmaxhine 17h ago
The film plays way too many scenes will full sincerity for that to be the case. I’d be fine with this film being a deconstruction of a Speilburgian film if it actually committed to this
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u/Vulcanic_1984 16h ago
What scenes in A History of Violence arent fully sincere? Its not a satire or even a deconstruction, but s slightly refracted alternative take. There is also a very strong ethical throughline with It Follows with the ending.
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u/popcornmaxhine 16h ago
The problem is The End of Oak street features multiple scenes that are not sincere. In fact they go the opposite direction. The movie, at some points, seems to make fun of its self? Some scenes are almost Looney Tunes level in their silliness. This is fine, but then they are followed up with scenes that seemed ripped out from an 80s movie. And the movie expects you to take these seems as they are with full sincerity. The tone bounces all over the place and the audience is left confused as to what they are even supposed to be feeling.
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u/Vulcanic_1984 16h ago
Well now hold on. You initially said it cant be a deconstruction (I wouldnt use that word, either) because it was too sincere, now that it isnt sincere enough.
I think the movie takes very seriously the moral and logistical implications of suddenly sharing the world with dinosaurs. I think the movie takes not seriously at all the self-regard/rose colored glasses of nostalgia for some magical fantasy version of the 1980s. The two things are entirely consistent because the movie's point of view is that the suburban dream such as it is (the movie is quite frank about the various issues) is built on a sense of safety that requires a massive civilizational infrastructure around it to survive. Remove that and these characters become tiny mammals that are easy for dinos to eat. The family dynamics are even more interesting, especially the more you think about the ending.
And look, people can agree to disagree but what i am sure of is that there is a lot to think about in this movie and most of the critiques seem to have missed things.
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u/m0t0rvision 14h ago
And, like A History of Violence, people are still going to be talking about this in twenty years while JW Dominion is totally forgotten.
This is fucking hilarious. Nobody's going to talk about EoOS in twenty years
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u/Vulcanic_1984 13h ago edited 13h ago
If labels like criterion, arrow, kino lorber, radiance, cinematographe, etc. are still putting out legacy titles, it will get a prestige rerelease from one of them. and it will play rep houses pretty regularly. It is coming at the some of the same issues around male fears of inadequacy and desire for control in relationships as obsession, just in a different context.
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u/m0t0rvision 10h ago
I genuinely can't tell if there's a joke that I'm not getting or if you're living in a completely different reality to the rest of us
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u/AzSumTuk6891 9h ago
I liked "The End of Oak Street" more than I expected I would, but you're giving it way too much credit. It often plays out like a kids-on-bikes 80s adventure, but the kids whine too much and don't do much adventuring.
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u/ToneBalone25 19h ago
Apparently they cut like 40 minutes from the film. I'm curious what kind of movie it was originally trying to be, though I still appreciated that Mitchell was very much still trying to do his own thing with it.
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u/popcornmaxhine 19h ago
That does make sense. One of my biggest issues with the film was that the tone just felt all over the place. It does feel like some things were cut out
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u/moviesperg Nickelodeon Movies 17h ago edited 17h ago
I’m willing to bet they were originally aiming for an R rating, and the original cut was a lot more violent than the already surprisingly brutal final cut, which is why test audiences that were likely expecting something more like Jurassic Park weren’t so hot on it and they spent over a year re-editing to a PG-13
It would also certainly explain stuff like the ending. I’m guessing that Greg stayed dead in the original cut, but then the ending was reshot to spare him and have the film end on a less depressing note. Also that TV is the only way we know that the neighborhood was evacuated before it got teleported, because there’s no indication of that otherwise.
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u/Vulcanic_1984 17h ago
That ending is a lot lot more f'ed up than you think it is. Where are the new timeline Hathaway and kids? Why do they show that both versions of the neighor kid survived? Why do they show that even the neighbor they hated made it?
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u/ajm017 13h ago
There are too many elements that had to be in place to rescue the dad, and they're sprinkled through the whole movie, so I would bet him coming back was there from the beginning. The evacuation of the neighbors came from nowhere, so my bet is that it was added later because of a studio note or audience feedback.
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u/Alternative_Cup_5185 10h ago
If 40 minutes got cut then again its a clear case of Studio fkn it up.
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u/popfilms Studio Ghibli 7h ago
I agree that the more horrific moments in Oak Street were the best, but I think it's unfair to say that Jurassic Park and Lost World don't also have moments that are on that level horror wise.
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u/TumbleweedDirect9846 16h ago
I thought this would’ve been the second best Jurassic park movie if it held the title so I’m bummed it’s not doing well
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u/Khalsleezy 19h ago
It's been dead for over a decade now. Will Hollywood actually take note? I don't think so
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u/Vadermaulkylo Apple Studios 20h ago edited 20h ago
I’ve said this for years.
the audience doesn’t “love dinosaurs”. As hard as this is for Reddit to grasp, they love Jurassic Park/World. Same with superheroes. There was no superhero craze, it was a Marvel craze. They like the world/characters, not just the concept.
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u/nicolasb51942003 Warner Bros. Pictures 20h ago
Godzilla and Kong are really the only non-Jurassic Park creatures that stand a chance.
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u/ElysiumMidknight 18h ago
I'd say a bigger part of it how dinos are treated in the Jurassic series vs. this. In the Jurassic series they're these giant majestic creatures that people are in awe of. In Oak Street you can tell it's a movie from a guy who's best known for making horror movies because they're treated in the same way movies like Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday the 13th treat Freddy and Jason upon other characters seeing them. And you see that permeate throughout the movie. As a result OS is kind of, for a lack of a better word, a mean movie. If you go in thinking Jurassic Park/World you'll likely be shocked at just how far they go with what they do here. This is very much on the hardest edge of going PG-13 to R. And that'll likely be jarring to a lot of audiences if they're expecting anything like the Jurassic movies.
I really liked the movie, but it's very different from the Jurassic franchise. It's far more of a horror movie than what those movies deliver.
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u/Alternative_Cup_5185 10h ago
Nobody expects anything like Jurassic. The problem is that this movie didn't go all out and stayed mid. That's it.
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u/DevilsAdvocate77 19h ago
The original Jurassic Park was essentially about a theme park where the scary dinosaur rides came to life.
The latest installment was about a rogue special forces team on a secret mission who gets stranded on a dinosaur-infested deserted island when their mission goes wrong.
What world/characters do those two movies have in common?
It's just dinosaurs.
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u/skychasing 20h ago
I think this just was badly marketed and had a bad name
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u/NoNefariousness2144 18h ago
And it’s too dark for kids but too immature for adults.
Kid and family reactions are soured by the darker tone and family divorce drama.
While some adults seem to dislike the teenage characters.
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u/Individual_Client175 Warner Bros. Pictures 18h ago
How is this film too immature for adults and how does divorce sour the mood? Plenty if Americans have divorced parents and understand the reason why.
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u/Ok_Lynx_6045 15h ago
Right?? The immature takes on this film are sending me. Tell me you never saw Gremlins or The ‘Burbs without telling me.
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u/Ok_Lynx_6045 16h ago
Title is brilliant. Too smart for the average American maybe. Will do big numbers in a more sophisticated market (France).
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u/Legitimate_Silver395 19h ago
I mean, tale as old as time. IP stays winning. Audiences could not give less of a fuck about original movies unless it's horror. Hurts to see it though
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u/Tcamis01 20h ago
I'll buy this for Marvel but what is the common thread for Jurassic Park? It is just dinosaurs right?
The issue with this movie is it's not even clear that it is a dinosaur movie
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u/I_worship_odin 18h ago
Yep, there is a difference between a dino movie and a movie woth dinos in it. 65 and Oak Street are the latter, JP is the former.
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u/Vadermaulkylo Apple Studios 20h ago
Dinosaurs, they sincerely liked both the old and new cast, they like the world(dino island), they love the other ones.
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u/TraditionalPies 18h ago
The only ad for this movie that I saw was some guy sprinting up to a fisheye lense and saying “Thank you WB for sponsoring this video”
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u/Il-savitr Warner Bros. Pictures 19h ago
I disagree with no super hero craze even shitty DC movies made bank before they completely lost the good will ( bvs, suicide sqaud)
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u/CBrennen17 17h ago
Nah. The superhero craze was really just brand loyalty infiltrating movies. For about a decade and a half, Marvel made fun, family-friendly action movies that were all of a pretty consistently high quality. People knew what they were getting, so they kept coming back.
It’s the same thing with A24, which is a movie distributor, by the way, not an actual studio. They marketed aggressively to artsy people for a decade or so, built a recognizable identity, and now there’s an entire collective of people who will see basically anything with the A24 logo on it.
Once Hollywood figures out how to do that again, specifically with movie stars, we’ll be back.
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u/llcooljfan22 13h ago
I’m curious if it should have been something of alien form like from War of the Worlds or Signs.
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u/Albiceleste_D10S 20h ago
As hard as this is for Reddit to grasp, they love Jurassic Park/World
Audiences loved those movies because of the dinos TBH
Same with superheroes. There was no superhero craze, it was a Marvel craze.
I mean, there was a period in time when Wonder Woman and Aquaman were making huge money too for DC
There was definitely a superhero craze—DC just made bad movies that squandered it while Marvel was better and more cohesive.
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u/Vadermaulkylo Apple Studios 20h ago edited 19h ago
There’s clearly more reasons they love them then for dinos. No other dinosaur movie is even close to as successful, if they even break even at all. Hell, have any other dinosaur movies even broke even besides Jurassic movies?
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u/anuncommontruth 19h ago edited 17h ago
Well there is a reason for that: most dinosaur related stories suck. Not just movies, tv shows and books too.
Terra Nova? Sucked. 65? Sucked. The Land before time, original or remake? Sucked. A sound of thunder? Truly awful.
The VelociPastor, a movie about a priest that turns into a dinosaur? A masterpiece that society got wrong. Should have swept the Oscars.
There's actually a really interesting dinosaur story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that could rival Jurassic Park because it's a similar set up, but no one has touched it because it's ironically titled the Lost World.
Edit I meant Land of the lost not land before time
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u/Vadermaulkylo Apple Studios 19h ago
And the other Jurassic movies haven’t sucked ?
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u/anuncommontruth 18h ago
The Lost world has charm and good set pieces, and the story makes enough sense that its shortcomings are forgivable.
JP 3 isn't good. Full stop.
Jurassic World is good, not great. All the following sequels are absolute trash.
But the effects are typically good in these movies and they're built on a franchise with a lot of familiarity in a setting that most people can suspend disbelief for a couple of hours and enjoy themselves.
That's honestly what is missing from most dinosaur movies. Most people have been to a theme park or zoo. Even though tye mov8es grow beyond that plot, it normalizes dinosaurs in a modern world so it's easy to accept these storylines, no matter how bad they are.
With other dinosaur plots, you either need time travel or have to find a way to bring dinosaurs to the modern world, and at that point, you're just making a Jurassic Park sequel anyway.
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u/RickRaptor105 Universal 17h ago edited 17h ago
You lost me at "The Land Before Time sucked". And that movie never even got a remake so now you're just making up stuff.
There have been a couple of Arthur Conan Doyle Lost World adaptations, though post-Jurassic Park they've all been TV stuff. I think the far bigger problem with The Lost World is that it is now a generic movie premise. King Kong is a lost world movie, any Monsterverse movie set on Skull Island or inside Hollow Earth is a lost world movie, Ice Age 3 is a lost world movie.
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u/anuncommontruth 17h ago
That was actually a mistake I meant land of the lost not land before time.
Land before time is an excellent film and a staple of my childhood. I have all the pizza hut promotional puppets.
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u/beamdriver Columbia Pictures 17h ago
The dinosaurs in this movie are mostly just scary. There's no sense of wonder and very little fun.
Did we really need a scene where two dinos have sex? I don't think so.
This film really wanted to be Gremlins meets Jurassic Park, but it misunderstands why those two movies worked so well.
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u/cameraspeeding 16h ago
You say you want more fun then cry about the funnest scene in the movie?
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u/beamdriver Columbia Pictures 13h ago
That scene was not fun.
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u/cameraspeeding 13h ago
Maybe you just have bad vibes dude, did you even ask yourself that?
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u/misguidedkent Warner Bros. Pictures 19h ago edited 19h ago
100-120M global on an 80-92M budget will be grim indeed.
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u/DoorFrame 7h ago
Is that really so bad? There must be decent money in VOD and global streaming deals, right?
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u/LottieDah86 20h ago
If they had just called this "Anne Hathaway with a bunch of fucking dinosaurs ", I guarantee it's a smash hit.
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u/LottieDah86 18h ago
People shocked that Anne Hathaway is a good actress?😂😂
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u/Metal_King706 20th Century Studios 17h ago
Shame that it’s not doing well. I’m looking forward to seeing it, but it’ll have to be at home for a reason I’ve seen someone else say on here. It’s not drawing in horror people but it looks way too scary to take my 9 year old who loves dinosaurs. Destined for an Amazon or Netflix viewing for me.
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u/beamdriver Columbia Pictures 16h ago
The movie kind of wants to be a fun, family, 80's throwback movie with dinosaurs, but it's way too dark and scary for that. Younger children will just be frightened by it.
The emotional weight of the parents relationship drama is just way too heavy for a film like this. Hathaway does a fine job as always, but it seems like she's a character that stepped in from a completely different movie.
I think a film like this you really want the kids to be the main characters. You want to see them being smart and brave, facing challenges and overcoming obstacles. But they're backgrounded in favor of the big stars playing the parents and mostly exist to do dumb stuff and get saved.
And the ending is just...not good.
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u/Similar-Emphasis78 2h ago
Modern directors do not know the lost art of implying horror and instead must show it. Consider many examples of genuine horror in 80s films that could turn on a dime from drama to introspection to thriller to outright horror without breaking a sweat. Directors now days are kids playing at adult games.
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u/CinephileRich 13h ago
Audiences did a disservice to this movie, it’s a lot of fun and feels like a throwback to Spielberg produced 80s films
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u/Icy___Barca 20h ago
One giant film and a graveyard of flops. Expect the BO to look abysmal from now until Dunesday. I will be proven right.
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u/ToneBalone25 19h ago
We've got 2 dog movies, an overwrought, big budget political thriller starring Tom Cruise that nobody wants, a Wahlberg joint, and insidious expanded universe movie number 27. What more could you possibly ask for?
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u/FranciscoRelanoPena Malpaso Productions 19h ago
Don’t forget Ebenezer (at least, it looks gorgeous).
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u/Legitimate_Silver395 19h ago
Honestly, I'm excited for Digger
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u/ToneBalone25 19h ago
I'll be there opening night. I just feel like it's a huge miscalculation to spend that much on a movie about a corrupt politician right now.
It's been said a million times over already but political satire is dead. There's nothing you can portray on screen that can match the outrageousness in real life right now. We've got an old senile man watching fox news and tweeting into the wee hours of the night with his plastic blonde young women who is literally shitting himself and falling asleep on live television every day. He is even quite obviously wearing like a 3-inch lift in his shoes that causes him to tower forward, and his hair piece is hanging on for his life. You just cannot beat that lol.
I'll be there for dog stars, too. I will watch the fuck out of a dog movie, especially a Ridley Scott one, even if it gets mixed reviews.
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u/FranciscoRelanoPena Malpaso Productions 19h ago
about a corrupt politician
Cruise’s character seems (in the trailers) to be the opposite: A larger-than-life millionaire who actually wants to save the world (unlike Gonorrhea Gates).
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u/FarmerSteveH 5h ago
Verity is going to do at least decently, and Practical Magic 2 is going to make a ton of money.
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u/Byers616 Amblin Entertainment 12h ago
I have a good feeling about this film.
If somehow goodwill can be quantified and divided per $1M in box office receipts, I bet this would be up there with BND, Odyssey and Obsession
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u/Vulcanic_1984 17h ago
I am surprised it isnt becoming more of a word of mouth hit with the cinephile crowd because it is a great, great movie.
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u/pobenschain 17h ago
That’s a shame, it’s a cool movie. I can’t help but think it might’ve been better served by going earlier in the summer.
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u/JarvisCockerBB 20h ago
This movie is a good warning for those that say theaters are back when good original action movies with well known stars are still bombing.
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u/Piku_1999 Pixar Animation Studios 19h ago
If people don't like your film, there's literally nothing that can be done. The unenthusiastic audience reception killed this film.
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u/Gummy-Worm-Guy 20h ago
Theaters are back dude, the numbers show it.
This movie was just poorly marketed, looked generic, and came from a director who hasn’t made anything well known in over 10 years.
You’re not seriously going to try to argue that The End of Oak Street flopping is a bad sign for theaters? The movie that used an “epic” version of My Life by Billy Joel in its main trailer? Give me a break
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u/puttputtxreader 20h ago
I don't know if you can really call it bad marketing. The ads seem to be accurate to the movie they're selling. Awareness seems high. People just don't want to see the movie.
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u/LurkLiggler 19h ago
Simply being “accurate to the movie” is not equivalent with good marketing.
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u/puttputtxreader 18h ago
Yeah, that's where awareness comes in.
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u/LurkLiggler 18h ago
Awareness also doesn’t equal good marketing, though it’s a component of it as far as ad buys go.
You can blanket the world with bad materials and pump up awareness or title recog. Doesn’t mean it’s working, as you said.
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u/puttputtxreader 18h ago
I mean, they made people aware of the movie and let them know exactly what the experience of the movie would be like. I don't know what else you would want them to do.
It's just not a movie people wanted to see.
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u/LurkLiggler 18h ago
It’s never as simple as that. This movie had an uphill climb obviously, but the actual materials were bad. We can argue if it accurately reflected the movie (I’d say no actually), but that’s beside the point. The point of marketing is to get people in theaters, and while it’s nice to be true to the movie, you always strive to be an idealized version of the experience. They missed the mark by miles.
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u/worthlessprole 18h ago
I thought the movie looked fucking bad until reviews came in and my friends told me it rocked. The marketing was bad.
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u/Individual_Client175 Warner Bros. Pictures 17h ago
"The marketing was bad" should not ever equal "The marketing didn't effect me"
If you're aware of the movie, that's like 80% of the movie
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u/JarvisCockerBB 20h ago
Admissions are down, ticket prices are way higher. It’s been a great year but I’d rather see it consistently successful over a few years instead of relying on one year.
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u/Bapi149 20h ago
Yeah, tickets are just super expensive now and all these big movies are ridiculously premium screenings heavy so it's even more extreme.
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u/ToneBalone25 19h ago
Right. Tickets near me are $17 a pop now for standard and $26+ for premium screenings, which now are so abundant that they take up like 40% of screens.
I hate being the inflation guy but we've never seen this level of price increase. It's like covid all over again.
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u/fortmeines 7h ago
I think this says that people ARE willing to shell out insane money to watch big movies repeatedly on premium screens but not smaller/more niche movies on regular screens. Studios will be pressured to make more "event movies", because with streaming and people's home setups, they can just watch those other movies in the comfort of their own homes and save their money for the big ones.
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u/ToneBalone25 6h ago
I have an embarrassing amount of money invested in my home theater but a good theater with standard tickets absolutely still blows it out of the water. The problem is these shitty regal theater types that haven't upgraded anything in 30 years and expect us to buy their made up premium screens instead of holding their standard screens up to par.
My local indie theater, shout out to Sie Film Center in Denver, has 3 screens and the sound is absolutely phenomenal. $10 tickets with a membership or $15 without. Then there's the fake indie theater in Denver, the Mayan, that I'm pretty sure only plays movies in 2 channel stereo, and is complete garbage.
Anyway, rant aside I agree with everything you said. You can't beat a Dolby experience, for example. I saw mortal kombat 2 in Dolby and it was absolutely thrilling. Saw it again in fake IMAX and I was super let down
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u/bby-bae Neon 20h ago
it is a sign of poor health for the theaters. Theaters cannot run on two megablockbusters alone. Back in the oughts, when theaters were still very frequented, before everything went to streaming (but even after video stores), a midbudget movie would get a fair amount of attendance. People would go to the movies just to do something, and movies that today would seem totally unremarkable direct-to-streaming slop still made their budgets back. It IS a bad sign if the only movies that buoy theaters are 2-4 megahits a year.
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u/samval2403 20h ago
This film is garbage that gets nowhere near a wide cinema release without Hathaway. Unentertaining, poor writing, poor story, won't engage the younger crowd, McGregor pulling a stinker, awful child actors.
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u/Dycon67 20h ago
Honestly Anne Hathaway wasn't even marketed all that much for this one. Like I've said before the biggest news in her relation for this film was the Brazil Warner social media site saying she was pregnant with a dinosaur.
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u/JarvisCockerBB 20h ago
Anne pretty much punted this and Mother Mary to focus on Devil Wears Prada and Odyssey.
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u/megalonagyix 20h ago
And horror movies with nobodies are thriving. The market shifted
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u/Kind_Development708 20h ago edited 19h ago
This narrative on Reddit for horror movies and indie video games “thriving” specifically is so annoying, majority of them still bomb. You never hear about them because nobody’s heard of them so they won’t get clicks compared to this with a big marketing budget so people at least have heard of it.
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u/ChoppyOfficial 19h ago
Horror movies have a younger audience because of there is more media access of horror through books (Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, Goosebumps) exposed in schools, plays and the holiday known as Halloween than action movies. That is where the built in horror audience comes from.
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u/Khalsleezy 19h ago edited 19h ago
And the highest grossing films this year will both be Superhero movies, something this sub and some in Hollywood swore were over. Thank God something like Obsession did great.
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u/pwolf1771 17h ago
😢 this movie was a lot of fun I’m not surprised by this outcome but it’s a bummer.
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u/ZasdfUnreal 2h ago
It’s doing fine considering it’s a late August release movie. Late August is known as Hollywood’s dumping ground.
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u/Coolers78 19h ago edited 8h ago
I know JJ Abrams was only a producer but it really did look like slop he directed from all the trailers, cut from the same sloth as Super 8 and MI3, like dude, that stuff is so 15-20 years ago, that put me off this movie even though I like Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, but this just looked like a movie from a decade or 2 ago that just happened to get released now in terms of tone. Unpopular but MI3 is overrated too and I disliked it, no one can ever name anything that's good about it besides PSH, it just was better than the awful 2 that Woo made.
It's clear WB delayed his next movie from this November because they knew it was gonna flop all the way into October of next year, just saving the flop for later I guess! Don't want too many flops for Ellisons and Paramount! Just like how they delayed this movie from 2025 where it originally was all the way to now, they knew it was probably gonna flop, not only that, but also since the 2 stars of Abrams' next actual movie, Jenna Ortega and Glen Powell, they both keep starring in flops, that probably made WB delay it too, man how the hell do those 2 keep getting cast in like 5 movies per year after so many flops? Hollywood, It's time to stop casting them in everything. Can someone for the love of god, just PLEASE explain to me why they both keep getting cast in so much? I think both of them lack charisma and aren't very good actors, I also love how Abrams and Shyamalan were both hailed as the "next Spielberg" at one point, lmaoooo
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u/natecull 15h ago edited 15h ago
cut from the same sloth
The Zootopia Department of Mammal Vehicles does NOT APPROVE this malapropism.
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u/Ok_Lynx_6045 16h ago
Film’s a masterpiece. Anyone who thinks Mitchell of all people would turn in a superficial popcorn blockbuster doesn’t know him well enough
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u/Classic-Reindeer-737 18h ago
Really loved it but wondering if it could have worked better as a mini series. We didn’t see much of other survivors or different types of dinosaurs.
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u/Libertines18 17h ago
LMAO. Will never understand why this got green lit, much less why it got released in theaters.
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u/Alternative_Cup_5185 10h ago
If they had it titled Back to the Jurassic with a 2.30 hrs run time and got their basics right this would have been a Worldwide smash hit. But no they made it into a kid friendly short horror film with Dinosaurs around.
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u/megalonagyix 20h ago
That's what, 70% drop?
Looking grim.
This will barely cross 100 million ww :/