Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, the first in the best-selling military shooter since Microsoft completed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, looks like a cross between a ‘90s political documentary and a Mission Impossible movie in its new trailer. The game will launch on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC on October 25, 2024.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard (formerly Dragon Age: Dreadwolf) is getting its first official gameplay reveal on Tuesday, June 11. BioWare gave us a brief teaser for the long-awaited RPG at the Xbox showcase. The name change feels like a pivotal moment for the game, as the studio is no longer leaning on Solas, the…
Today during the Xbox Summer Showcase, Bethesda and id Software announced Doom: The Dark Ages, coming in 2025. It’s the next entry in the long-running and super popular Doom series and looks to be something rather different than previous installments.
Today during the Xbox Summer Showcase, Bethesda and id Software announced Doom: The Dark Ages, coming in 2025. It’s the next entry in the long-running and super popular Doom series and looks to be something rather different than previous installments.
In a summer full of movies underperforming at the box office, the old-fashioned star power of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence propelled Bad Boys: Ride or Die to a strong start this weekend with a $56 million opening. That’s at least $10 million more than even the most optimistic box office predictions (we predicted way less) and a strong rebound for Will Smith, whose box office prowess has been in question ever since the infamous Oscar slap seemingly hurt his brand.
Whatever the case, audiences seemed more than willing to embrace the star again. The Bad Boys four-quel posted the franchise’s second-biggest opening, following Bad Boys For Life, which started with $62 million in 2020. While some might view that as a bit of a comedown, let’s not forget that the business in movie theatres was much healthier in the pre-pandemic days. With not much competition for adult audiences until A Quiet Place: Day One later this month, Bad Boys: Ride or Die should have great legs at the box office and should go down as one of the season’s bigger moneymakers.
Note that the only other film this summer that opened bigger than Bad Boys: Ride or Die was Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which grossed $2 million more for a $58 million opening. However, that tentpole film was PG-13 and appealed to the family audience that might have been kept away from Bad Boys due to its (refreshing) R-rating. Overall, this is a great start and proof that the franchise definitely still has legs.
However, while Bad Boys defied the recent box office slump, other movies this weekend weren’t so lucky. Ishana Shyamalan’s The Watchers proved to be a box office dud for Warner Bros, with it opening in 4th place with a disastrous $7 million and a horrible C-minus CinemaScore rating (Bad Boys earned a solid A-minus). Furiosa also had a disastrous 61% drop this weekend, with it slipping to 6th place with $4.2 million and a $58 million total. Why did it do so badly? Simple – it lost all of its premium screens to Bad Boys: Ride or Die.
Meanwhile, The Garfield Movie held on to second place with a $10 million weekend and a $68.6 million total. It will certainly turn a profit for Sony, but it wasn’t the box office juggernaut that some might have expected it to be. It’s had a lot of competition for the family audience thanks to John Krasinski’s IF, which climbed the chart to third place with an $8 million finish as it closes in on $100 million. Word of mouth has really given this one strong legs.
So far, the summer’s biggest moneymaker has been Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which leapfrogged over Furiosa to fifth place with a solid $5.4 million weekend and a $149 million total. The Fall Guy also showed better staying power than expected, considering it’s already on VOD, with a seventh-place finish with $2.7 million and an $85 million domestic total. It likely won’t hit $100 million, but it will come relatively close.
Renny Harlin’s The Strangers: Chapter 1 lost a chunk of its audience this weekend due to its VOD debut, earning $1.84 million in tenth place. However, the $34 million domestic total is more than decent for this low-budget franchise starter.
If you look at the box office chart below, one of the most interesting things to note is that the re-release of Lord of the Rings in its extended edition format ate up 8th and 9th place. Fellowship of the Ring came in 8th place with $2.4 million, while The Two Towers was behind it with $1.9 million. Re-releases have proven to be unexpected moneymakers this summer, with the recent Alien and Phantom Menace re-releases also doing exceptionally well. I’d expect more to come.
Next weekend, Pixar’s Inside Out 2 will be released. They hope this movie will reverse their box office slump. Do you think it will open north of $60 million? Let us know in the comments!
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In a summer full of movies underperforming at the box office, the old-fashioned star power of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence propelled Bad Boys: Ride or Die to a strong start this weekend with a $56 million opening. That’s at least $10 million more than even the most optimistic box office predictions (we predicted way less) and a strong rebound for Will Smith, whose box office prowess has been in question ever since the infamous Oscar slap seemingly hurt his brand.
Whatever the case, audiences seemed more than willing to embrace the star again. The Bad Boys four-quel posted the franchise’s second-biggest opening, following Bad Boys For Life, which started with $62 million in 2020. While some might view that as a bit of a comedown, let’s not forget that the business in movie theatres was much healthier in the pre-pandemic days. With not much competition for adult audiences until A Quiet Place: Day One later this month, Bad Boys: Ride or Die should have great legs at the box office and should go down as one of the season’s bigger moneymakers.
Note that the only other film this summer that opened bigger than Bad Boys: Ride or Die was Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which grossed $2 million more for a $58 million opening. However, that tentpole film was PG-13 and appealed to the family audience that might have been kept away from Bad Boys due to its (refreshing) R-rating. Overall, this is a great start and proof that the franchise definitely still has legs.
However, while Bad Boys defied the recent box office slump, other movies this weekend weren’t so lucky. Ishana Shyamalan’s The Watchers proved to be a box office dud for Warner Bros, with it opening in 4th place with a disastrous $7 million and a horrible C-minus CinemaScore rating (Bad Boys earned a solid A-minus). Furiosa also had a disastrous 61% drop this weekend, with it slipping to 6th place with $4.2 million and a $58 million total. Why did it do so badly? Simple – it lost all of its premium screens to Bad Boys: Ride or Die.
Meanwhile, The Garfield Movie held on to second place with a $10 million weekend and a $68.6 million total. It will certainly turn a profit for Sony, but it wasn’t the box office juggernaut that some might have expected it to be. It’s had a lot of competition for the family audience thanks to John Krasinski’s IF, which climbed the chart to third place with an $8 million finish as it closes in on $100 million. Word of mouth has really given this one strong legs.
So far, the summer’s biggest moneymaker has been Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which leapfrogged over Furiosa to fifth place with a solid $5.4 million weekend and a $149 million total. The Fall Guy also showed better staying power than expected, considering it’s already on VOD, with a seventh-place finish with $2.7 million and an $85 million domestic total. It likely won’t hit $100 million, but it will come relatively close.
Renny Harlin’s The Strangers: Chapter 1 lost a chunk of its audience this weekend due to its VOD debut, earning $1.84 million in tenth place. However, the $34 million domestic total is more than decent for this low-budget franchise starter.
If you look at the box office chart below, one of the most interesting things to note is that the re-release of Lord of the Rings in its extended edition format ate up 8th and 9th place. Fellowship of the Ring came in 8th place with $2.4 million, while The Two Towers was behind it with $1.9 million. Re-releases have proven to be unexpected moneymakers this summer, with the recent Alien and Phantom Menace re-releases also doing exceptionally well. I’d expect more to come.
Next weekend, Pixar’s Inside Out 2 will be released. They hope this movie will reverse their box office slump. Do you think it will open north of $60 million? Let us know in the comments!
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Whether you want to know about Elden Ring’s New Game + modeor master Ubisoft’s new free-to-play Call of Duty-like shooter XDefiant, we’ve got tips for you in the pages ahead.
Whether you want to know about Elden Ring’s New Game + modeor master Ubisoft’s new free-to-play Call of Duty-like shooter XDefiant, we’ve got tips for you in the pages ahead.
Xbox’s upcoming revival of Perfect Dark finally revealed a first look at its gameplay at the Xbox Showcase this year and it actually looks pretty great. The fluid first-person shooter gameplay seems to blend high-tech spying technology with agile movement to make for a satisfying spy fantasy. The game is being…
Physical media has had a rough go of it in 2024. Best Buy completely exiled their supply of DVD’s and Blu-Ray’s to the point that you can’t even buy them online. Target has followed suit with a severely diminished section. Thankfully, Walmart has picked up the slack and even purchased Best Buy’s supply, meaning any of those sweet Steelbooks that Best Buy offered can now be purchased at Walmart. But anyone that’s been in Wally World knows that they take their security very seriously, sometimes at the detriment of collectors. So now one of the last places to buy physical media often has shelves full of dented and bent boxes. Amazon isn’t much better if you’re wanting to go that route. And that’s not even addressing the pricing issue.
I need to make it very clear that I absolutely love boutique labels like Scream Factory, Arrow Video, Vestron Video, and more. They provide wonderful releases that I never in a million years thought we’d actually receive. Hell, I’ve got a copy of The Guyver showing up on 4K in just a few short weeks. I never would have imagined that would happen. And it makes sense to pay a premium for a film that I never thought would actually be released on the platform. But not every film fits these parameters.
The cost of streaming is often a subject of debate because these streaming sites like to increase their prices multiple times a year at this point. And with their crackdown on password sharing, it’s making streaming less appealing than ever. Yet making the switch to Physical is damn near impossible for some people. Let’s just look at 4K Ultra HD Blu Ray players which run, at their cheapest, a whopping $200. Thankfully, modern gaming consoles feature 4K players, but even those run at least $400. Still, there are a lot of gamers out there, so let’s just posit for a moment that a player as an entry point isn’t the end all, be all. But what about the price of an individual movie?
I remember fondly back when movies were released with a base price of $19.99. The first week of sales would often give a few dollars off, so you could usually walk off with a brand-new movie for around $15. Nowadays, I can’t walk off with a brand new Blu-Ray for under $25 the week of release. Make it 4K and push that number up to $30. And happen to miss the opening week price? Well, add another $5 or $10 to the total. Then those sweet Scream Factory releases? $35 at minimum. Sure, there are some exceptions to the rule, and it is a bit more understandable that independent companies such as them would put out more expensive discs. But, on average, we’re paying nearly $10 more than we were just ten years ago on discs.
Even bargain bins have gotten to be so much more niche. The Walmart bargain bin is relegated to mostly simple 480p DVDs versus the days of countless $5 Blu-rays. How else are people supposed to easily access Captain Ron and The Addams Family? As collecting physical media becomes more and more niche and geared towards collectors, companies start to get greedy all in the name of the almighty dollar. Since the general public is no longer buying, they’re instead releasing for collectors. So now a small market is expected to prop up an entire industry. We’re getting the same re-releases we would have gotten years ago, yet now at a premium. Just look at the recently announced Drive 4K Steelbook whose price tag is a whopping $35.
So what can be done about this? Really, we just need to be speaking with our wallets. We can’t allow Physical Media collecting to become what so many others have: a collector’s nightmare. Just look at the sweet Crow Steelbook that released a month ago which almost immediately went out of stock when it went up for pre-order and flooded eBay at absurd prices. They released far fewer copies than they should have and, rather than printing more, decided to increase their value through resellers. (To note, The Crow‘s disc is being put out by Paramount Pictures. Drive‘s by Sony Pictures. Neither has a ton of extras, like you’d find on a label like Arrow Video or Scream Factory. So what’s going on here?) Any shoe collector will tell you how terrible this practice is and we don’t need it in physical media. So make sure to identify companies that are doing it, and avoid them in the future. Teach them a lesson and vote with your wallet.
Now I want to hear from you guys. Do you still collect physical media? What is the most ridiculous price you’ve paid for a movie you wanted? What’s your favorite boutique media seller? Do you think physical media is just too expensive? Let us know in the comments!
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