He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.
Poised to debut on the PVOD market this coming week, along with the psychological thriller Verity and the sci-fi flop The Dog Stars, a new DreamWorks animated film is eyeing a further reduction in its theater count. The movie has performed disappointingly in its theatrical run, and has been unable to recoup its reported $80 million budget. Going by the traditional 50-50 split in revenue between theaters and studios, the film needed to gross more than $160 million worldwide in order to break even. But this is virtually impossible at this stage. In recent years, the animation industry has reduced spending by a significant percentage, with more cuts expected as artificial intelligence becomes more commonplace. This has resulted in a feast-or-famine landscape for the previously dependable market for animated movies.
Earlier this year, Minions & Monsters tapped out with just over $500 million worldwide against a reported budget of $80 million. While this is a solid result, it’s a fraction of what the five previous installments of the Despicable Me franchise have grossed. Two of those movies topped the $1 billion mark worldwide, while three others grossed more than $900 million globally. Minions & Monsters was the franchise’s lowest-grossing entry since the first Despicable Me movie, which was released more than 15 years ago. Two other animated hits this year — The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and Toy Story 5 — managed to gross more than $1 billion each worldwide. On the other hand, Pixar’s Hoppers grossed under $400 million worldwide, while Sony’s Goat concluded its run with less than $200 million worldwide.
Four worlds and four completely different ideas of what a good life
looks like. This is where you belong, what it would ask of you, and what you would get back in
return.
You belong somewhere old enough that the mountains have names and
somebody can still tell you who gave them. Middle-earth is for people who think the right
thing is worth doing even when it will not be finished in their lifetime.
- This is the only world on the list where doing good is understood as a very long defeat,
fought anyway, by people who will never see how it ends. - You are drawn to grandeur, to white cities and deep forges and the sense that almost
everything you touch is older than your entire family line. - The Rings of Power is set in the last good age before it all goes wrong, which gives
every quiet scene in it a slightly unbearable weight. - You would take the hard road, and you would take it on foot.
You want the sea, a crew, and absolutely nobody telling you where
you are allowed to go. The Grand Line is the world for people whose main ambition in life is
finding out what is over there.
- One Piece has run for decades on one very simple engine, which is a group of people who
each want something impossible and have decided to go and get it together. - You collect people. Your ideal crew is a set of misfits who were each written off
somewhere else before you turned up and offered them a better idea. - The world is enormous and deliberately ridiculous, and the emotional gut punches land
harder because of that rather than in spite of it. - You would set sail knowing the map runs out, which is more or less the entire point of
it.
You would rather be feared and useful than liked and useless. The
Continent is a world where the monsters are the straightforward part of the job and the
people are where it all gets complicated.
- Witchers get paid to do what nobody else will and resented for existing at all, which is
a trade most people would refuse and you would probably accept. - You have no real illusions about which side is the good one, largely because on the
Continent that question tends to have a disappointing answer. - The best of these stories are not about the fighting. They are about somebody with a
rigid code being repeatedly cornered into caring about people. - You would take the coin, finish the job properly, and be out of town before the story
got told wrong.
You want the myths to be real and loose in the actual world, and
you want to find out at about thirteen that you were never anywhere near as ordinary as
everybody kept telling you.
- Percy Jackson takes the oldest stories we have and drops them into car parks and diners,
which makes the gods considerably funnier and a great deal worse. - You would be the kid every school gave up on, who turns out to have been built for
something nobody thought to test for. - The series is genuinely about friendship rather than destiny, and it says so out loud
every time a prophecy tries to get in the way. - Camp Half-Blood is the real fantasy here: a place where the thing that made you
difficult everywhere else is the thing that makes you belong.
Here’s How Much the DreamWorks Movie Has Grossed So Far
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Image via DreamWorks AnimationThis week sees the release of Laika’s stop-motion fantasy film Wildwood, which is projected to deliver a soft opening. To make way for it, Universal is pulling Forgotten Island from nearly 580 theaters. The movie, which pays tribute to Filipino culture, opened in more than 3,500 theaters, but will enter its fifth week of release in around 1,500 theaters. Forgotten Island has grossed roughly $65 million so far at the worldwide box office, against a reported budget of $80 million. Despite its disappointing box-office performance, the movie received excellent reviews. It’s now sitting at a “Certified Fresh” 95% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “A candy-colored ode to friendship and Filipino folklore, Forgotten Island bursts at the seams with imagination while never losing sight of the compelling relationship at its core.”
Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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