Not sure if this has already been discussed, but what did everyone think about the opening weekend box-office gross? The movie resurrected $24.5 million domestic, and I think $42 million worldwide. This was compared to a reported $21 million budget. I have no idea what the marketing spend was.
I don't exactly know what to think of this. Seems pretty good to me; I guess we will have to see how it holds up over the coming weeks. I read that if the studio and/or financers (not sure if this was co-financed or not without checking, but Paramount does tend to spread the risk) are satisfied, there may be a prequel...which I would love to see made. That actually might work in this post-It (2017) world when you think about it...imagine if it were set in the 80s with high school kids instructed by a younger Jud about the Micmac land. Besides burying their pets (and they can start off with frogs/pigs from biology lab!), they eventually bury someone they accidentally hit in a drunken-driving accident (and maybe before that they bury a favorite teacher who passed away). So many ways to do it. In some ways, I wish Jason Blum was shepherding this project, if you get what I mean...
Another thing I wonder is if movies like this might be better off on streaming platforms as exclusives. And I also wonder why this particular release date...why go up against Shazam, any idea on that? Wouldn't an earlier date have been better? What type of counterprogramming is this...older females? Just older people in general? I suppose for certain they wanted to stay clear of Avengers.
I don't exactly know what to think of this. Seems pretty good to me; I guess we will have to see how it holds up over the coming weeks. I read that if the studio and/or financers (not sure if this was co-financed or not without checking, but Paramount does tend to spread the risk) are satisfied, there may be a prequel...which I would love to see made. That actually might work in this post-It (2017) world when you think about it...imagine if it were set in the 80s with high school kids instructed by a younger Jud about the Micmac land. Besides burying their pets (and they can start off with frogs/pigs from biology lab!), they eventually bury someone they accidentally hit in a drunken-driving accident (and maybe before that they bury a favorite teacher who passed away). So many ways to do it. In some ways, I wish Jason Blum was shepherding this project, if you get what I mean...
Another thing I wonder is if movies like this might be better off on streaming platforms as exclusives. And I also wonder why this particular release date...why go up against Shazam, any idea on that? Wouldn't an earlier date have been better? What type of counterprogramming is this...older females? Just older people in general? I suppose for certain they wanted to stay clear of Avengers.
