Fantastic Beasts has worst opening of any HP film

[Pennywise 36,079]

If you are still a fan of all that, and are giving your money to it, you are a part of the problem. And don't even try the "sEpArAtE aRt fRoM aRtIsT" excuse lmao 

[Sexxx 5,647]

Who is watching this **** 

 

We didn't need any movies after the deathly hallows pt 2

[Galvon 1,868]

4 hours ago, StrawberryBlond said:

Not surprised. Forget any controversies swirling around, I was totally confused after the second one. I genuinely did not know who all these characters were, didn't know what was going on with the plot, didn't seem to understand why I was expected to know what was going on. I've never left a cinema completely bamboozled as to what I just saw. If an adult can't understand it, how are children and teens expected to? Shocked to find recently that there were 5 movies planned for this, I originally thought it was going to be a trilogy, which is why I thought I'd have to watch the third one as I can't stand giving up on a series when I'm only one away from finishing. But 3 more movies of more baffling stuff for 2+ hours? No thanks.

I think children and teens mostly will understand it easier than adults actually.

[pachinko 10,415]

Please keep watching the film multiple times so they green light the remainder. We need to see what happens to Dumbledore love story! 

[salty like sodium 1,916]

On 4/18/2022 at 1:14 AM, CameltoeKween said:

This is such a clickbait claim lmao NO films are opening that well post-pandemic. Plus it's a holiday weekend.

 

Here are the year's top 10 highest grossing films in the US so far:

1. The Batman (Warner Bros) $365,035,121

2. Uncharted (Sony) $144,985,555

3. Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Paramount) $119,612,388

4. Scream $81,641,405

5. The Lost City $78,575,759

6. Morbius (Sony) $65,118,131

7. Dog (MGM) $61,394,519

8. Jackass Forever (Paramount) $57,743,451

9. Death on the Nile (20th Century Studios) $45,610,165

10. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (Warner Bros) $43,000,000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2022_box_office_number-one_films_in_the_United_States

 

In the grand scheme of things the movie is doing fine, and will probably get at least one more greenlit. Fans are loving the movie and while I haven't seen it yet I plan on going this week 

Also isn't this like film #11 in the HP franchise? I can't see any other franchise (aside from Marvel) pulling these numbers during a pandemic for the eleventh sequel lol

[Cameltoe Chariot 15,230]

24 minutes ago, salty like sodium said:

Also isn't this like film #11 in the HP franchise? I can't see any other franchise (aside from Marvel) pulling these numbers during a pandemic for the eleventh sequel lol

Exactly, everyone is just foaming at the mouth to cancel everything connected to R*wling and desperately trying to convince themselves and anyone who will listen that the film is the biggest bomb in cinematic history 

[Suuus 5,632]

22 hours ago, pachinko said:

Johnny Depp could have doubled these figures. 

Blame amber heard for that one

[Suuus 5,632]

5 hours ago, Pennywise said:

If you are still a fan of all that, and are giving your money to it, you are a part of the problem. And don't even try the "sEpArAtE aRt fRoM aRtIsT" excuse lmao 

You can still love harry potter and not agree with everything jk rowling does i am so sick and tired of people like you seriously get of your high horse 

[MelbHawker 6,583]

8 hours ago, alecks said:

Theseus

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15 hours ago, CameltoeKween said:

Exactly, everyone is just foaming at the mouth to cancel everything connected to R*wling and desperately trying to convince themselves and anyone who will listen that the film is the biggest bomb in cinematic history 

Well, it is a film with a $200 million production budget. The fact that the domestic opening is only 43M does not bode well for its long-term profit generating power. Realistically, the film needs to make at least 400M to cover marketing, production, salaries to actors etc (keep in mind that china box office...movie studio only gets about 1/4 of those $$ in particular) to break even. The closer it can get to 400M domestic the better for it to accomplish this. Yes there is the ancillary market (streaming, airplanes, hotels, pvod, etc) but for it to suggest they make another movie, it's gotta make a profit. 

It's not the biggest bomb ever but to say that the franchise has some serious issues to work through cannot be overstated. 

p.s. I finally saw it and it is easily the best of the 3 films that have come out from the Fantastic Beats line. It really is a shame that it's not reflected in the $$$ (what actually matters for the future of more films). 

[Eros92 2,513]

I was a little confused in the first 20 minutes of it but once it started going it was super good. Probably my favorite out of the 3 FB films so far. I feel like if I had rewatched the first 2 movies before this one I wouldn't have been confused but I almost completely forgot what happened last film haha

So far it's made 193.4 million off a 200 million dollar budget so I can easily see it make it's money back. I hope so as well cause I wanna see where they take it. I feel like they could kinda side step the Dumbledore/Grindelwald plot and focus more on Newts adventures for sequels. 

[gerbilgal 22]

It’s time to retire the franchise

[Nathan 2,079]

17 hours ago, Eros92 said:

 

So far it's made 193.4 million off a 200 million dollar budget so I can easily see it make it's money back. 

Just to give some insight into this (if you didn’t know, ignore if you did)

Production is 200 Mil, marketing is usually about the same. So 350/400 Mil. 
 

it has made 200 mil as the box office, but Warner only gets around 50% of that. So as it stands right now, they would need it to take about 500 mil more at the box office for it to turn a profit/break even.

Any box office from China, Warner only gets around 25%. 

if the movie does 600 mil it would be enough for green light a sequel as they also get revenue from HBO Max, Blu-ray, planes/hotels etc.

Not sure how it works with merchandise for Warner (don’t know the deal they have with Rowling Estate), but I don’t see FB merchandise setting the world on fire anyway.

Despite the movies being pretty poor quality, I would image the story will be finished, even if it’s in a straight to streaming movie for HBO Max. So if you do like them, I wouldn’t worry too much. 

[Guest]

They need to purchase the franchise from her like they did with Star Wars. She is ruining it.

As a standalone movie, I enjoyed it, but there were quite a number of inconsistencies and writing decisions with retconning between the second and third movie that I thought were really poorly done.

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On 4/18/2022 at 7:33 AM, tomdsgn said:

It’s a Harry Potter movie and it’s behind Jackass and Morbius LMFAO

This lmao