'The Crow' Is Dead on Arrival; 'Blink Twice' Fizzles - Weekend Box Office

My box office breakdown for Sunday, August 25th.

#TheCrow #BlinkTwice #BoxOffice

[jadapandy]

Alien Romulus has definitely made it's money back and is already profitable. If a movie makes 3 times it's cost, it's a winner. It's done that.

[jacketernity]

Speaking of top 10 lists, I would be curious what your top 10 of all time are if you were ever to do a video on the topic. Great video as always!

[JohnJacobSchmidtt]

I thought the Channing Tatum movie was about Epstein Island. That's what I gathered from the commercials and from the synopsis on Google.

[nevskislake]

The Third Man is easily in my Top Five Favorite Films list. I was blown away by that movie. My husband and I loved it so much that we had to listen to The Adventures of Harry Lime radio drama series because we wanted more Harry Lime.

Thank you, as always, for this box office breakdown video, and I hope you have a good week, James.

[KadeemG]

The Expendables 4, Borderlands, and The Crow. Lionsgate seems desperate to find an audience outside of John Wick and Hunger Games and now, three misfires in a row. Oh, I forgot the Gentleman Welfare movie by Guy Ritchie. I enjoyed the movie, sucks that it flopped hard thanks to Lionsgate’s poor marketing. I think it’s going to be a future cult classic soon.

[CinemaMack]

With this Crow bombing and cancelling any sequels, can we say we prevented a murder?

[AdrianMendoza]

I've never seen 'The Third Man'. I need to check it out. This weekend I did check out a rerelease of 'Rear Window' and 'Strange Darling'. I loved 'Strange Darling' and I will watch your review.

[Father_Daniel]

Finally saw Alien Romulus and really enjoyed it. Fede Alvarez did great. I haven't seen any ads or trailers for Blink Twice til I saw it was releasing this weekend. Not suprised the Crow bombed. No one seemed happy with the style they were going for and it's received some terrible reviews.

[KadeemG]

Boy, next week is going to be another slow and agonizing box office. I think Alien: Romulus is the last movie of the summer movie season because Friday, we got another AI-themed movie coming from our good old boys at Blumhouse (AfrAId, whatever the movie is called. Stupid Sony marketing) and a new Ronald Reagan biopic. I don’t care about AfrAId, it’s just going to be another mediocre Blumhouse movie that I don’t care (Night Swim was okay, Imaginary sucked). I hope the Speak No Evil remake could end the Blumhouse drought of 2024 on September 13th. For now, I’m just going to check out the 4DX re-release of the original Twister at Regal this Friday.

[jadapandy]

Glad I saw Strange Darling than The Crow.

[jmil]

Lionsgate just needs to do John Wick and low to mid budget action thrillers. The big budget movie other than Hunger Games doesn’t work for them

[ziggy]

My Tentative Top Ten Movies of 2024 (subject to change):

👑#1. Dune: Part Two
🥈#2. Strange Darling
🥉#3. Oddity
Didi
Hitman
Kill
Love Lies Bleeding
Challengers
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Alien: Romulus

[rorys.]

I highly recommend watching Industry. Season 3 is airing 9PM HBO Sundays ATM. After being let down by HOTD and The Boys this summer, Industry is top tier entertainjent

[enriquecabada]

i watched strange darling to an almost empty theater while dune 2 is still the best movie of the year for me so far, Strange darling is now my favorite i really enjoyed it hopefully Willa Fitzgerald will get some kind of recognition during awards season and more people will see it.

[Bradford]

There was one session of The Crow at a cinema near my home last week & that’s it.

[Dk._]

Great video, love these breakdowns/discussions.

Loved Romulus and wish it was doing better box office wise because like you I want to see the franchise continue in film, as long as the films are good.

The Blake Lively controversy is being dismissed as stupid internet drama about being mean in interviews but is actually about how maybe she and her husband Ryan Reynolds took control over the film from the director (including re-writes during the writers strike) and might be trying to get him cancelled in order to justify it.

On top of that, Lively is promoting the film in a way that some say is tone deaf because she’s using it to promote her hair care line and alcohol brand when the film deals with domestic violence.

It seems like audiences don’t care in terms of its box office success but I’d love to see some serious attention paid to what may be a very serious issue about creative control and professionalism if true (in general, not necessarily aimed at you).

Can’t wait for Anora!

[jadapandy]

Just re watched Furiosa & Horizon part 1 again on Max this weekend. Great movies today's strange audiences didn't back. Too bad. Now we won't see great westerns or post-apocalypse flicks anymore. Two of my favorite genres.

[johnaslover]

Dude, yes, 2024 is already a great year for film. I didn't LOVE anything in 2023 (...maybe The Holdovers)... I think I could assemble a list of ten films I love from this year already. Sasquatch Sunset, Problemista, The Sweet East, Hundreds of Beavers, are all masterpieces of indie cinema, and there are still so many good ones yet to come. Suck it, TV.

[KrystleLovesHorror]

I’m sure you don’t remember my comment on your Oddity review, but I keep meaning to let you know I saw it and really liked it! 😆 I made a huge mistake watching it at 9:50 a.m. on a Monday, though, because I was alone in the theater. I was in your shoes at one point thinking, “Man, I’m really dumb for not listening to James and how it made him want to almost leave because of the anxiety … why did I watch this alone?!” 😫 😂 Just had to share that with you because you were NOT joking about that. 👀 And I haven’t been scared by a movie in a while, but I legit jumped outta my chair at one point. 🤣

[johnnyskinwalker]

Let me say you provide pretty good content. I like your personality and I'm impressed by your knowledge. I discovered the Third Man on video in the 90s and I was blown away and similar to you it has remained in my Top 10 of my favorite movies of all time. When you see Orson Wells for the first time in the movie out of shadows, it is a mind-blowing experience. The appeal for me in movie has to do a lot with friendship between the two characters.

I am a big supporter of the theater experience as well. There's nothing like it. And I think I would love if companies would go away from the mega theater chains like cineplexes and go movie to the classic movie houses for real cinephiles. There was a pure cinema atmosphere to them that is not there in the big cold places that we have now. But companies should think about going back to theaters business given that streaming ultimately has proven to be a costly enterprise with little returns. Streaming has destroyed theater, regular TV and also physical media. Those were three lucrative revenue streams that are going more and more away. I feel like if tomorrow Disney, Warner, NBCUniversal, Paramount dropped their streaming services, went back to keeping their movies in theaters longer, then bring back the video clubs and then at the end of it sell their product to the remaining streaming services like Netflix, Tubi, Amazon, Apple TV, their business would be far healthier.