2024 was another slow post-pandemic year for the US domestic box office [OC]
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2024 was another slow post-pandemic year for the US domestic box office [OC]
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Graph made in R, data from [boxofficemojo.com](http://boxofficemojo.com)
The closest movie theater (Ironwood, MI) hasn’t re-opened.
Good movies are few and far between these days.
Holy shit what happened in 2020?!
Seems like weekday sales never recovered
You mean the Robbie Williams ape biopic isn’t doing well? Huh
Kudos for posting some genuinely beautiful data. I’ve never seen this view before and it’s great. Well done.
Help is on the way – Sylvester Stallone, John Voight and Mel Gibson will save Hollywood! Somehow…
Not only do the movies need to get better, they need to dramatically draw back the bullshit they force audiences to sit through before the movie. I’ve been to three movies in the last 6-9 months. Each time there was over 30 minutes of commercials and previews.
Just like our streaming services now, I’m fucking tired of paying to be advertised to.
Everything is going to streaming these, why bother going to the theaters when the movie will be on Amazon Prime in a few months anyway
The actual reason for 2022-2025 being slow isn’t because the pandemic, or “lack of interest in movies” or even worse the excuse “no good movies are coming out”
It’s actually just because of streaming. I would argue more movies than ever before are being released right now. They are just on streaming. And their quality isn’t overall less than pre pandemic movies
Tickets are two expensive and maybe I’m just getting old and jaded but I have trouble finding things I want to watch.
Paying premium prices and not being able to pause and take a piss is a hard sell.
I haven’t looked into it, but I speculate that there’s a vicious cycle at play here. Covid gave filmmakers a swift kick in the dick, filmmakers became more risk averse, they make ‘safer’ movies, people burn out on them, movie finances suffer, they make safe movies, et cetera. One has to wonder if they’ll ever snap out of this funk.
Maybe because Hollywood is generating absolute garbage schlock. Wash rinse repeat. Flashing lights. Fast cuts. Bullshit “funny” jokes. CGI. Lots of explosions. Lots of sequels. Devoid of any redeeming qualities.
Or cartoon sequels. With jokes that say, “Hey, parents. These double entendres are for you.”
People can’t seem to see that they are being duped.
Part of the problem is movie budgets getting out of control almost across the board. Mediocre family films, dramas, action, musicals… most of them cost upwards of $200 million now regardless of genre. This means they all need to make much more money both abroad and domestically to be profitable. It’s not a sustainable trend.
Red green color blindness makes this data quite lackluster. 🙁
What’s crazy to me is that it feels like the amount of money spent on making movies is at an all time high and yet they just aren’t making the money back to be considered profitable.
Is this adjusted for inflation?
Edit: Nvm, just saw that it was
I don’t see anyone mentioning all the strikes that happened in 2023. That would understandably impact the quantity and quality of films released last year.
Great infograph.
I think we’ve moved far enough past the pandemic that it’s less of a factor than high prices, shitty movies and the quality of in-home streaming are.
I want to go to the movies, but everytime I look at what’s playing I change my mind.
They keep making shitty movies people stop paying to see them.
What’s up with that Sunday in September?
It feels like this is the “new normal” so Hollywood better just accept it.
The shift towards streaming has fundamentally changed the landscape. With so many films skipping theaters altogether, audiences are left with a narrower selection of what feels worthwhile to see on the big screen. It’s a tough sell when the average blockbuster experience is riddled with ads and high ticket prices, making home viewing more appealing than ever.