How Many Movies Should the Average Person See Per Year? Plus IF, The Strangers, and More Box Office Takeaways
/Film Weekly
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4.4 • 942 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On the May 20, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott to talk about the latest film and TV news.
In The News:
- Box office recap
Listener email: Melissa in St. Louis writes in: Hi Ben, I enjoy listening to the box office recap every week, and I wanted to reach out to you and Ryan to ask: How many movies should the average person go see in a year for a healthy domestic box office? When you talk about the money that needs to be made by a specific movie or the overall industry, I’m always curious how that breaks down to the level of a hypothetical individual audience member. I know there’s differing ticket prices and formats and all sorts of other variables, but I’d appreciate hearing your rough estimate of the Average Joe’s movie-going quota for a year, or even just the summer season.
Tom Rothman Deadline interview
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily. Today is Monday, May 20th, |
| 0:03.6 | 2024 on today's episode of the show. We're going to be talking about the |
| 0:06.6 | latest film and TV news. My name is Ben Pearson. I am an editor at slash film |
| 0:10.4 | dot com and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott. |
| 0:15.6 | Hey everyone how's it going. |
| 0:17.2 | All right Ryan let's just jump right in here tell me what happened at the |
| 0:21.0 | box office this past weekend. |
| 0:22.3 | Yeah so um it was what happened at the box office this past weekend? |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah, so it was, you know Ben, would you believe me if I told you it was a disappointing weekend |
| 0:28.2 | at the box office? |
| 0:29.2 | Unfortunately I would. |
| 0:31.2 | Yeah, that's where we're at right now. Yeah, you and I had a conversation at the end of last week that was like, I had sort of been speaking about things in a way that was like, maybe and you're like, no, I think we've arrived at the point of it's happening just we need to make our peace with it and so yeah so John Krasinski's if big family friendly animated movie |
| 0:52.1 | CGI animated live action hybrid movie. |
| 0:55.0 | Top the box office with $35 million domestically. |
| 0:59.0 | You know, not bad for an original family friendlyfriendly type movie it also made 24 million internationally for a 59 million dollar worldwide launch |
| 1:08.8 | The problem is the movie cost 110 million dollars to make. Certain tracking had suggested it could go as high as |
| 1:15.3 | 40 million, which would have been a little better, obviously. But yeah, it's okay. It's kind of in the same range as Free Guy, which opened a 28.3 million dollars in August of 2021 under pandemic |
| 1:29.8 | circumstances. That movie went on to make 331 million dollars worldwide so if if can kind of hang around |
| 1:36.7 | You know do some international numbers it couldn't wind up in a similar range |
| 1:40.8 | Assuming Paramount keeps it in theaters long enough to allow for that to happen. |
| 1:46.5 | You know, which would mean the movie itself would be okay. |
| 1:49.7 | And you know, that's assuming a decent hold, all these other things. |
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