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Ah, movie theaters.
A place to take a fun mini-vacation for a few hours and visit a safer New York with Tobey Maguire swinging overhead as Spider-Man or hang out with Frodo and Sam as they trek to Mordor in The Lord of the Rings.
That is, until things started changing.
We entered the Darkest Timeline and most of you didn’t even notice until we we’re in the thick of it. I could write a 20 page article on that topic alone.
It began around 2011.
That year brought the rise of the ‘smart’ phones and apps. Imagine what society would look like after 14 years of being saturated with smart-phone. Well, we don’t have to imagine.
Those devices started to disrupt not only social skills, but also darkened theaters with pockets of distracting glowing LED screens.
And then the decline of social manners.
People got more rude and noisy.
And prideful. So if you tried to ask them to be quiet, many don’t say “Oh, I’m sorry” but take the request as a threat on their life and now you must be destroyed.
Then came the woke films, attacking everything decent.
And now we see AMC paying the price, literally. $202 million lost.
YIKES https://t.co/PTHe6B7zGN
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) May 12, 2025
Breitbart reports:
Last year, AMC Theaters lost $163.5 million during this same quarter. This year, that number climbed to a $202.1 million loss.
Thanks for nothing, Snow White!
Gross revenues for the quarter ending this March fell nine percent, from $951.4 million last year to just $862.5 million this year.
“[T]he box office results from January to March were the lowest they have been since 1996,” admitted AMC Chairman Adam Aron.
But.
According to Aron, things are looking up for the rest of the fiscal year.
“Anyone trying to draw any conclusions about the success or appeal of movie theaters from the results of the first quarter of 2025 is likely to be mistaken,” he said, “because the industrywide domestic box office in Q1 was in our view a distorting anomaly that has already corrected itself.”
His conclusion: “We continue to believe that moviegoing demand for the balance of 2025 and all of 2026 will show great strength.”
Per Variety, the second quarter of 2025 is already looking up, “thanks to hits such as Sinners, Minecraft, and last weekend’s Thunderbolts*.
(Thunderbolts is a hit?? Nope. It’s currently bombing.)
Sorry, folks! It’s the same old story!
THUNDERBOLTS continues underperforming at the box office! It only brought in $33.1M, which comes under the estimates of $35M.
It’s also the sixth-worst second weekend in the MCU, all of which have come post-Endgame.
New Avengers isn’t… pic.twitter.com/paM3zIdnB7
— Cosmic Book News (@cosmicbooknews) May 11, 2025
Here’s a tip on how to figure out if a movie is profitable hit.
- Go to wikipedia for movie entry.
- Look at the box office amount $ on right hand side.
- Cut box office amount in half. (Because about half of the money goes to the theaters and half goes to the studio.)
- Is the half portion going to the studio more than the budget? If yes, then that’s profit. (But they don’t really get all that profit because you have to factor in marketing costs, which generally isn’t included in the budget)
The following is for Thunderbolts:
Budget $180 million
Box office $272.2 million
Half of box office so far is: $136 million, which is a lot less than the budget of $180 million.
And then you have to minus the marketing cost, which could be another $50-100 million. So they need a lot more just to get close to cover the budget, let alone making a profit.
Someone just mentioned they saw the movie over the weekend, with a grand total of 5 people in the audience.
It’s trajectory is nose-diving.
Gaslight harder, Variety.
Variety adds that “the comparisons to the first quarter of 2024 were always going to be challenging, considering that sequels to popular franchises like Dune and Kung Fu Panda were released during that period.”
I do find it fascinating that Variety will admit in a report like this one what it never will when doing box office analysis.
Whenever Variety — or any trade publication that depends on the studios for advertising dollars, access, and scoops — analyzes the box office, it’s all about lame-ass excuses: Streaming is killing movie theaters. We’re still dealing with the pandemic. Americans audiences are too racist, sexist, and homophobic to make this $400 million movie about an Eskimo superhero a box office hit.
What Variety and Company do not have the moral courage to do is admit to and address the one simple fact that is killing movie theaters: most movies suck the big one today. The movies are unappealing. The actors are unappealing. The whole industry is unappealing.
But look at how this Variety report on AMC’s quarterly figures says exactly that without saying it.
There’s also the fact that movies aren’t in theaters very long anymore.
the theater is slowly dying and it’s because the window to see a movie is getting smaller and smaller. back in my day we could see a movie we love several times over the span of a few months bc there was no rush to get it on vod pic.twitter.com/vLOJuI01d4
— lina (@evermoresivy) March 17, 2025
And if Hollywood does happen to announce something decent like maybe the new Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (which should be called The Dead Reckoning Part II), new Jurassic World Rebirth and Tron 3, it’s still a gamble to see it opening day where all the fun and hype is, because you’re not sure if halfway through the movie something woke and degenerate might be thrown in.
I myself haven’t been to the theaters since Jurassic World Dominion in 2022.
And if the movie is pure gold, and it has the all-clear sign from reviewers that it’s not woke, there’s also other factors at play that will deter people from going.
This is why malls are dying.
It’s also my movie theaters are dying.
And a good number of other public spaces, for that matter.
People cannot behave themselves. pic.twitter.com/GQiWmANbKl
— Eric Matheny (@ericmmatheny) March 31, 2025
Theaters can be just as dangerous as an island full of dinosaurs roaming free.
2023
63-year-old man is brutally attacked inside Florida movie theater after asking couple to move out of his pre-booked VIP seat
-DailyMail
— The Daily Sneed
(@Tr00peRR) May 8, 2025
(@Tr00peRR) I plan on going to see the new Jurassic World. I figure if I go to the earliest showing, it should be safe. Pray for me.
The theater industry’s next plan: Alcohol.
Will alcohol do it? Nope.
If anything, it would probably increase the violence. Ever been to a bar?
Movie theaters are trying everything to bring audiences back — from pickleball to cocktail bars https://t.co/okWfaX6v15 pic.twitter.com/PKKcPqCSM3
— New York Post (@nypost) March 28, 2025
But maybe, just maybe, if Disney re-releases their woke version of Snow White, that flopped at the box office a few months ago, maybe this time it will be a hit over Mother’s Day weekend!
Who wants to tell them?
How could they think this would work?
Guess how well it did.
It opened to around 1,300 theaters. The profit they made comes out to about $50 per theater.
$50
Anyone other than Hollywood knows how to make movies great again.
#3 is racist tho
— INSANE_PERSON_POSTER_GUY (@INSANE_POSTER68) March 28, 2025
So enjoy Minecraft movie, kids. Who knows how long it will be before the fun offered at theaters is a constant staple.
Imagine being movie theaters who have complained endlessly for years that their business is dying, and then complaining when a cultural phenomena brings boatloads of kids in who are having a blast and your reaction is “stop that.” Make teens only showings if others are disturbed https://t.co/a3cNsT9EoS
— Jacob Patterson (@JPatKY) April 10, 2025
Until theaters get fixed, most are opting to stay home, like this guy.
Watch him break down the price comparison.
Home VS Theater.
But we’ll miss the Vegas-like carpet and mini arcade they offer while we wait for theaters to be great again.
This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.