"Novocaine" is off to a good start at the box office with an estimated $8.5 million opening weekend, but the marketplace is in a terrible slump.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26891333

“Novocaine” is off to a good start at the box office with an estimated $8.5 million opening weekend, but the marketplace is in a terrible slump.

  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    185·
    5 days ago

    Between this and mickey 17 flopping, there really has to be a wake-up call for cinemas that people don’t want to go. No point in paying an expensive ticket and outrageously priced popcorn if your failed movie will end up on streaming 4 weeks later.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      5 days ago

      No, what I think cinemas will get from this is that people are not interested in original films anymore (I am unsure if both movies are… I am leaning towards that they are) and then keep selling us the same movies over and over again.

      • psyspoop@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        I think Novocaine is original. Mickey 17 is an adaptation of the novel Mickey7

    • psyspoop@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      5 days ago

      Not sure if I’d call Novocaine a flop yet considering it had a relatively modest budget of $18m. It might make enough to break even or profit still. The bigger indictment is Black Bag with a budget of $50m and opening lower than Novocaine.

      I think instead we’re seeing more evidence that the mid budget movie doesn’t have a place in theaters anymore and the only movies worth putting in theaters are tentpole blockbusters or lower budget movies that don’t have to make a ton to break even.