Why 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Shattered Box Office Records
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How did Spider-Man: Brand New Day break the Avengers: Endgame box office record for the biggest domestic opening of all time?
  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    393·
    3 months ago

    Because Spider-Man is the most popular hero and I think everyone was waiting for the Marvel Cinema iteration to finally just be Spider-Man.

    • TheImpressiveX@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
      213·
      3 months ago

      The reason we don’t adjust box office for inflation::

      The measuring system for gauging a film’s success is based on unadjusted grosses, mainly because historically this is the way it has always been done because of the practices of the film industry: the box-office receipts are compiled by theaters and relayed to the distributor, which in turn releases them to the media. Converting to a more representative system that counts ticket sales rather than gross is also fraught with problems because the only data available for older films are the sale totals. As the motion picture industry is highly oriented towards marketing currently released films, unadjusted figures are always used in marketing campaigns so that new blockbuster films can much more easily achieve a high sales ranking, and thus be promoted as a “top film of all time”, so there is little incentive to switch to a more robust analysis from a marketing or even newsworthy point of view.

    • SmoothOperator@lemmy.worldEnglish
      44·
      3 months ago

      the plots are actually very interesting - you never know where they’re going to go.

      Hmm, at first things are going well, but then our hero suffers a crisis putting everything in doubt, only to be resolved by a fistfight and ultimately the power of friendship?

        • SmoothOperator@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Thanks for the reply! I definitely see where you’re coming from, and you’re right they are quite good as comic book implementations.

          I find MCU movies quite predictable overall, especially compared to e.g. Nolan’s Batman movies or the Joker movies, but I can definitely see that for many people that’s the point.

          Personally I am always a bit disappointed though, things usually get really interesting around the middle but then fizzles out into fist fights and the power of friendship. But as you say, this is absolutely the established format, and I can just go elsewhere if I don’t like it.

      • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        Got a regular Joseph Campbell over here.

        Traditional plot structures are used because they speak to something inside of people. Subverting that just to be different doesn’t make a movie better.

        • SmoothOperator@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Traditional plot structure, love it, traditional plot content, dull.

          The thing that made the Infinity War movies interesting was that something was finally at stake. It didn’t just resolve all the interesting ideas in a fist fight and the power of friendship.

          I mean, it sort of did in the second movie, but at least there was some true sacrifice and considerations about right and wrong along the way.

          /J. Campbell Jr.

    • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      132·
      3 months ago

      Overall popularity of Spider-Man (and related properties), Tom Holland, and the 3rd movie in this franchise was the highest grossing film of 2021. Good reviews generally a sign that people will show up for the sequel.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
    56·
    3 months ago

    Because Hollywood is consistently shit and people want an excuse to go to a theater and Project Hail Mary was too difficult to understand.