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Why F9 and Quiet Place have flourished -- and others have failed
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In the movie business, a few box office successes — and a lot of uncertainty
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‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ is the first film ‘hit’ of the vaccine era. But that era still contains plenty of cloudiness. Steven Zeitchik © AP/AP This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows a scene from Godzilla vs. Kong. The movie s qualified success has experts unsure of theatrical moviegoing. (Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP) The battle in the newly released “Godzilla vs. Kong” is between a giant mythical ape and a massive radioactive lizard, two forces wreaking smoldering havoc on all that lies in their path as they attempt to destroy each other. But the film is at the center of an even more brutal struggle between the entertainment business’s need to bring people back to movie theaters and consumers’ potential reluctance, for a variety of reasons, to return, a skirmish less of nature gone wrong than humans’ true nature.
Godzilla vs Kong is a hit, but movie theaters fate is still far from certain
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Turns out it was right.
The latest Patty Jenkins-Gal Gadot collaboration garnered $16.7 million in the United States during the Friday-Sunday Christmas holiday weekend, or nearly 2 million tickets sold. Those are the highest three-day totals for any new movie in American theaters since pandemic lockdowns began last March â a noteworthy and even surprising result given the fact that the movie was concurrently available to consumers at home, though some experts caution against reading too much into it.
Numbers for the new film, in which Gadotâs Diana Prince takes her adventures to the Cold War period, easily topped the other two major theatrical releases since the pandemic began, Warner Bros.â âTenetâ and Universal Picturesâ âThe Croods: A New Age.â Both of those titles failed to take in $10 million over Friday-Sunday periods on holiday weekends (Labor Day and Thanksgiving, respectively). The $16.7 million total also exceeds the $12-$14 million