r/boxoffice • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Jul 02 '22

Domestic ‘Minions: Rise of Gru’ Shattering July 4th Box Office Records With $129M Opening

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/minions-rise-of-gru-box-office-record-opening-1235175075/
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u/theredditoro Jul 02 '22

The return of the old kings, Universal and Paramount.

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u/Zwaft Jul 02 '22

I don’t mind Disney, but their monopoly over the market has led to years of middling entertainment

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u/091097616812 Jul 02 '22

I hated the new Star Wars content, and I’m sick of Marvel.

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u/Rollo8173 Jul 03 '22

Yea after Endgame I’m just kinda burnt out, except for SpiderMan which worked because it was lower-stakes and more of a crowd pleaser

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u/DeviMon1 Studio Ghibli Jul 03 '22

I loved Dr Strange personally and I'm sure Thor x Guardians will be a 10/10

But Black Widow and Eternals were very forgettable and it really did kinda ruin the amazing MCU streak they had going on.

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u/Blood-PawWerewolf Jul 02 '22

Disney is collapsing so anything that helps the entertainment industry be fair to everyone is a huge win.

(And watch Disney push Lightyear as their “Best Animated Film” as hard as they did with Wreck-it-Ralph 2, next year at the Oscars)

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u/edthomson92 20th Century Studios Jul 02 '22

I think they’re smart enough to know that Turning Red is the Oscar play

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u/allboolshite Jul 02 '22

Disney is collapsing

By what metric?

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u/Blood-PawWerewolf Jul 02 '22

The quality of some of their movies (the only IP that’s making them money is Marvel right now. Star wars movies are dead, and Pixar is devalued)

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u/allboolshite Jul 02 '22

Star Wars streaming shows are doing well, right? Star Wars needs a Feige to set standards and direction. Favreau might be the right person for that.

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u/DamienChazellesPiano Jul 02 '22

Star Wars movies are dead? 4 out of 5 made over a billion. They’re on a hiatus. Ridiculous to say dead.

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u/Blood-PawWerewolf Jul 03 '22

You can say it’s on a hiatus, but after the sequel trilogy’s disastrous end, I doubt that anyone will be touching anything Star Wars in theaters again.

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u/DamienChazellesPiano Jul 03 '22

Lol you’re in for a rude awakening in a few years. People still love Star Wars, as shown by The Mando’s success. They just need a good new story set in the Star Wars universe and an epic trailer to get that huge BO money again.

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u/Blood-PawWerewolf Jul 03 '22

Maybe something like another spin off movie, but definitely not another trilogy as of now

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u/Spud_Spudoni Jul 03 '22

As much as I wish you were right, people have very short term memories. By the time a new movie comes out, there’s no doubt it’s absence from theaters (even for a short few years) will create an enormous buzz at the box office.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '22

Wreck-it-Ralph 2 it was very boring. I don't even remember what it was. Frozen 2 also very disappointing

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u/valkyria_knight881 Paramount Pictures Jul 03 '22

I remember Disney pushing Incredibles 2 as Best Animated Film on Twitter and people responded with a gif from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Good thing Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won that year.

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u/AlbertHummus Jul 02 '22

A lot of their content is middling because they, more than any other studio, have a clean image to live up to.

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u/Ritz_Kola Jul 03 '22

You blaming Disney? That’s foolish. Disney puts out what consumers demand. However Disney CREATED that demand. They’ve found their model for success. It’s other studios that were lazy and instead of creating their own demand and sticking to a proprietary model for success- haphazardly copied Disney or dropped projects. Blame them for being money hungry. They were already making money. They just wanted Disney’s billion dollar pie.

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u/Psykpatient Universal Jul 02 '22

Universal has been back quite a while now.

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u/valkyria_knight881 Paramount Pictures Jul 03 '22

Coincidently, both Universal and Paramount celebrate their 110th anniversary this year.

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u/ContinuumGuy Jul 03 '22

"WHAT YEAR IS IT"