Box Office (Up and Down)?

[Cinemaman]

Hi folks. I want to say that every year is beinbg worser than another.

I will wrie only those movies, which made more than $300m domesticly and $600m in worldwide.

Just look at this:

2001
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

2002
Spider-man
Star Wars: Episode II, Attack of Clones
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

2003
Finding Nemo
The Pirates of the Caribbean
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2004
Passion of the Christ
Shrek 2
Spider-man 2

2005
Star Wars: Episode III, Revenge of the Sith

But also with every year we are getting more and more movies, which makes huge opening weekends, like:

2002
Spider-man - $114m

2004
Shrek 2 - $108m

2005
Star Wars: Episode IIII, Revenge of the Sith - $108m

2006
X-Men: The Last Stand - $102m

So we can say that with every year movies making less and less money, except 2001.

We can expect only 2 movies in this year, which will make more than $300m domesticly and $600m in worldwide. They probably are SR and POTC2.

Of course the main enemy is piracy, but also as we can see, DVD sales giving more money than theatres.

Whaqt we can expect in the future? Goind higher or lower?

 

[black_dust]

Lower because they keep jacking up the prices to go and watch the dam things!

 

[Cinemaman]

I thin, bcause Hollywood lost new ideas of movies, that is why people have no interest anymore to see next movie blockbuster.

There is no fresh idea.

 

[Brian2887]

I don't think originality the is problem. I think that Hollywood is losing touch as to what appeals to audiences. They don't know how to make a movie people want to see.

 

[WarBlade]

Whaqt we can expect in the future? Goind higher or lower?

2006 may well be another declining year with the bulk of the big hits jammed into the middle of the year and very little to round off on. There's not much there to compete with last year's Harry Potter, Narnia and King Kong.

2007 I think we might see a little bit of a rebound happening.

Lower because they keep jacking up the prices to go and watch the dam things!

Which happens because exhibitors are trying to survive the declining market, and shock of all horrors, inflation. Seen petrol prices lately? Stop moaning.

 

[primemover]

You can't take such a limited sample and expect to hold up for the whole year, that's just bad statistics.

Here are the total worldwide box-office totals for the top 10 for the last 5 years, which represents a much broader sample of each years hits:

2005 5.9 billion
2004 6.0 billion
2003 5.9 billion
2002 5.7 billion
2001 5.3 billion

and so far 2006 is on par with the last 5 years

Don't see much of a slump or a downturn there.

I thin, bcause Hollywood lost new ideas of movies, that is why people have no interest anymore to see next movie blockbuster.

There is no fresh idea.

This is just plain wrong, Hollywood is as derivitive as it's always been, read this.

 

[Galactus]

You can't take such a limited sample and expect to hold up for the whole year, that's just bad statistics.

Here are the total worldwide box-office totals for the top 10 for the last 5 years, which represents a much broader sample of each years hits:

2005 5.9 billion
2004 6.0 billion
2003 5.9 billion
2002 5.7 billion
2001 5.3 billion

and so far 2006 is on par with the last 5 years

Don't see much of a slump or a downturn there.

Don't forget that ticket-prices gets higher every year. So even if 2004 seems to be a bigger year than, say, 2001 if you just look at the money it doesn't really shows if more or fewer tickets were sold

 

[Immortalfire]

Hi folks. I want to say that every year is being worser than another.

You did not just say, "worser"

 

[Cinemaman]

You did not just say, "worser"

Without cavils.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

People aren't going to the movies anymore because they can just buy the bootleg DVD of the movie at every corner of a 99 cent store.

 

[primemover]

Don't forget that ticket-prices gets higher every year. So even if 2004 seems to be a bigger year than, say, 2001 if you just look at the money it doesn't really shows if more or fewer tickets were sold

That is definately a factor, though looking year to year in such a small timeframe it isn't as large of a factor as when thinking of decades or further.

2004 was a monster year though!

 

[livrule]

Ahhhhhh come on everyone ... cinema goers are simply becoming jaded.

Every year we are swamped with images of the big summer EVENT movies .... we get excited and 9 times out of 10 what we end up with is ****.

We live in a time where Lucas has served up three very average Star Wars movies.
Where James Cameron is snubbed in favour of Paul Anderson who somehow manages to totally mess up an AVP movie.

Quality has been tossed aside in favour of fast productions and short, sharp profits.

I hoped that the LOTR movies had proved what can happen when money, care and the right choices are made ......... guess not.

 

[Darthphere]

We can expect only 2 movies in this year, which will make more than $300m domesticly and $600m in worldwide. They probably are SR and POTC2.

Of course.

 

[TheVileOne]

I wouldn't rule out Cars just yet.

 

[Cinemaman]

I wouldn't rule out Cars just yet.

Cars can also make $300m, but I think it will make $270-280m.

 

[Oakley]

Entertainment Weekly ran a huge article about this trend of less movie money awhile ago, and its discovery was that a lot of people don't like the experience of going to movies as much as all the other reasons given. I have to say, given some of the loud-mouthed, cell-toting people of which some are rude enough to bring a newborn through 3 year old to a rated-R movie, I don't even enjoy the movies as much. Personally, I've seen less movies this year so far than I ever have by this mid-year point. Too expensive, too rude, and a lack of creativity at the box office is pushing me away.

If you look at the last 5 years top ten box office movies, most of them are sequels, book/comic book adaptations, or remakes. How creative!

 

[Oakley]

I think this whole "pirating" thing is kind of a lame excuse for why the box office isn't doing well. Granted, people are doing it, but I doubt that the average moviegoer just decides to download the movie instead. They might wait for the DVD, but I doubt piracy is that huge. Movies just aren't the entertainment pull they used to be. Floods of similar movies come out all the time, and a lot of it is fluff that should never make it to the screen.