Inside Out 2 Races Toward a Billion Dollars, Box Office Updates, and Mailbag Questions
/Film Weekly
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4.4 • 942 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
On the June 24, 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 weekend’s box office numbers.
In The News:
- Inside Out 2 Has Already Dethroned Dune 2 as the Biggest Movie of 2024 So Far
- Inside Out 2 Just Hit A Box Office Milestone Not Seen Since Avengers: Endgame
- A Quiet Place: Day One Set To Be 2024's First Big Horror Box Office Hit
- Russell Crowe’s Horror Flop The Exorcism Just Broke the Worst Kind of Box Office Record
In The Mailbag:
Dalton from Seattle wrote in: In response to you and Ryan discussing renting theaters: We have a theater in Seattle that does just what you two were describing. A few years ago, some friends and I rented out The Beacon Theater here in Seattle. It's a small, very fun vintage theater with one screen. They serve candy, popcorn, beer and wine. They offer an amazing service where you can request an old film, and they will track down the digital film print of the movie to screen for you. We watched the original Ghostbusters movie. It was such a blast. It's such a cool business idea. I'm hoping to rent it out and request the original 90's TMNT sometime in the near future. Thought you guys might get a kick out of that!
Finally circling back around to the rest of the email written in a while ago by Wes from Dallas/Ft. Worth, and there are multiple points to address here. First, he wants to know, Ryan, why the world of box office reporting does not always take inflation into account when comparing past data to current data.
Similarly: why is there such a focus on dollars and not the number of tickets sold?
While I wouldn't mind paying a premium to go to the movies, it would have to come with a premium experience, and it just isn't so. And what does that mean for people with lower incomes? Unfortunately, it seems like we are approaching a point where a premium experience may not even be possible if studios can't justify making enough movies for theaters to exist. Assuming movie theaters start closing down, what outlook do you see ten years from now if things don't change? Will going to the movies be like going to the Opera with limited showings only on specific dates and very expensive tickets? What changes would you make to fix the industry?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily. Today is Monday, June 24, on today's episode of the show. |
| 0:05.7 | We're going to be talking about the weekends box office numbers and we're going to dive into the mailbag and answer a couple of |
| 0:10.7 | listener questions. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at slash film. |
| 0:14.3 | And I'm joined on today's episode by slash film staff writer and box office analyst Ryan Scott. |
| 0:18.9 | Hey everyone, how's it going? All right Ryan, man, we got to talk about Inside Out too. |
| 0:24.6 | Like this movie just keeps on rolling, right? |
| 0:27.4 | Well, yeah, it was funny because I was looking at this weekend as one of the weekends that Hollywood had seemingly sort of abandoned this summer. |
| 0:37.8 | And also up top, I apologize. I'm getting over a sinus infection, so if I got to clear my throat and stuff while I'm talking I apologize but that aside |
| 0:47.0 | You know so we had like the bike riders open this weekend and you had the exercise open this weekend and so like that seemed like small potatoes not so much |
| 0:56.7 | up until last weekend we hadn't had any movie that had opened to a hundred million dollars or more this year and as we know |
| 1:02.2 | inside out to to open to $154.2 million. |
| 1:08.3 | Well, the movie held like Gangbusters. |
| 1:10.8 | It made $100 million in its second weekend. Now the finals have not officially hit the boards yet |
| 1:17.3 | But deadline has reported that it did a hundred and one million. So my concern is that it was going to go down a little bit, but it looks like it did |
| 1:25.2 | clear 100 million in that second weekend. That being the case, it is now only the seventh movie in history to make a |
| 1:32.2 | hundred million dollars or more and its second weekend at the domestic |
| 1:35.0 | box office and the last time this happened Ben was when Avengers Endgame came out in 2019. |
| 1:41.9 | So the fact that we're talking at all about |
| 1:43.7 | Avengers end game and the box office right now in a positive light is pretty |
| 1:47.1 | cool. Yeah that's wild. I was wondering when the last time that happened. |
| 1:50.5 | Avengers end game that is I mean that's pre- Pandemic obviously that's like that's back in I mean 2019 I think you could say was like the peak for theatrical |
| 1:58.4 | The theatrical business right like there were so many movies yeah Yeah, 2018, 2019 were both just like |
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