will this flop?
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Gut feeling, it'll just about cover its costs.
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No, next question
shareIt might break even or make a slight profit. The franchise ended with Scream 3, which was not even good. Scream 4 was completely unnecessary. Also a January release date is never good as it is well known as the dumping month for movies (films that are bad or the company has no faith in, so they release them very early in hopes of making as much money with terrible or little competition, or just release them quickly and have people forget about them).
shareI thought Scream 4 was a better movie than 3, but 3 brought the franchise to a logical conclusion.
If they could've man part 3 have part 4's feel and pacing it would have been ideal.
It's been over a decade since the last film... which flopped (and was actually a better movie than part 3).
January is known as one of the slowest months in regards to moviegoing attendance.
On the positive side maybe Scream 4 was made slightly ahead of time, like in a time when nostalgia-reunion movies weren't a thing (Force Awakens, Halloween 2018, Ghostbusters Afterlife, etc) so maybe Scream 5 could take advantage of that?
If I had to bet I would say it will flop.
Scream 4 disappointed at the box office but it certainly wasn’t a flop.
It still managed to gross over $97 million on a $40 million budget.
There’s been hardly any buzz for this fifth film though, I think it’ll be lucky to make a profit.
Scream 4 was a flop.
The 40 million is only the production budget... once advertising is factored in the actual investment was closer to 100 million.
Out of the 97 million worldwide box office gross the studio only gets roughly 50-55%, the remaining 45-50% is split with theaters.
Out of a 80-100 million investment the studio made with luck about 53 million back.
Wow, I definitely didn’t know theatres took that much.
My mistake, I just thought it was a box office disappointment compared to the trilogy but knowing this then yeah that’s a definite flop.
I suppose it would have made back some money from DVD and blu-ray sales.
Be interesting to see what this fifth film makes, it’s getting mostly positive reviews so far from critics.
No, but it might underperform. The intrest for this one doesn't seem to be there like Halloween (2018).
shareHard to say.
Amongst younger Horror fans who don't care for 'classics' (pre-90s films), Scream is the old school masterpiece. When you see people list their favorite Horror films you often get two different types of lists. The first is a list of 70s and 80s classics and the other type is a modern (21st century) dominant list with maybe one or two older films on it, Scream is almost always present on the second type of list.
The success of the recent Halloween films has shown that Slasher films can still be box office hits.
I'm thinking it'll make a decent enough profit but it won't be a smash hit and won't reach anywhere near Halloween (2018).
i suspect it's going to do quite well.
my kreskin-like abilities to predict grosses have a solid track record of miserable failure.
so discount everything i say by all means.
but i'm gonna say it pulls in 40m opening weekend, and does around 100m domestically in total.
kids and younger men are the only people reliably going to theatres right now. i think they're gonna turn out in solid numbers for this.
i'm also hearing that people who've actually seen it think it's a good crowd-pleaser. that won't hurt.
14.5 million yesterday
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