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Despicable Me 4 BEATS Disney’s Inside Out 2 at the Box Office...
Despicable Me 4 just dethroned Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out 2. HOWEVER... it didn’t make as much opening weekend. Could it beat Inside Out in the long run? ➡️ Tip Jar and Fan Support: http://ClownfishSupport.com ➡️ Official Merch Store: http://ShopClownfish.com ➡️ Official Website: http://ClownfishTV.com ➡️ Audio Edition: https://open.spotify.com/show/6qJc5C6OkQkaZnGCeuVOD1 Family-friendly movies, particularly animated films, are performing well at the box office, prompting Hollywood to focus on diversity, inclusion, good characters, and knowing their audience. 00:00 Despicable Me 4’s box office numbers are lower than Inside Out 2’s, with the latter performing better in the initial week. 01:30 Despicable Me 4 beats Inside Out 2 at box office with 47.2 million, both family movies perform well financially. 03:30 Despicable Me 4 has a lower budget than Pixar and Disney films, but Inside Out 2 has already made over a billion dollars at the box office. 04:07 Inside Out 2 is predicted to beat Despicable Me 4 at the box office, with criticism of Hollywood’s trend of ruining established characters and narratives in family films. 05:20 People want family-friendly movies at the box office, and Hollywood should give them what they want. 06:20 Despicable Me 4 beats Inside Out 2 at the box office with a 120 million 5-day opening, as pandemic shifts movie-going habits towards streaming. 07:46 Animated films are outperforming other genres at the box office, with potential for success in upcoming releases like Moana 2 and Deadpool/Wolverine. 08:31 Family-friendly movies are outperforming adult-oriented films at the box office, prompting Hollywood to focus on diversity, inclusion, good characters, and knowing their audience. About Us: Clownfish TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary channel that covers Entertainment and Tech from a consumer’s point of view. We talk about Gaming, Comics, Anime, TV, Movies, Animation and more. Hosted by Kneon and Geeky Sparkles. Disclaimer: This series is produced by Clownfish Studios and WebReef Media, and is part of ClownfishTV.com. Opinions expressed by our contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of our guests, affiliates, sponsors, or advertisers. ClownfishTV.com is an unofficial news source and has no connection to any company that we may cover. This channel and website and the content made available through this site are for educational, entertainment and informational purposes only. These so-called “fair uses” are permitted even if the use of the work would otherwise be infringing. #Disney #Animation #News #Commentary #Reaction #Podcast #Comedy #Entertainment #Hollywood #PopCulture #Tech
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We don't have neon today as he is elsewhere. You're probably going to get me for the entire weekend, and we'll have to just, you know, have fun together. So it's you and me this weekend, everyone. Today, we're going to talk about the Spickle Meese Box Office. And we're going to compare it to Inside Out 2. And then we're going to look at some takeaways from this and where the trends are, and what Hollywood's takeaways should be, whether or not it will be, who the hell knows it's Hollywood. So before we get into it any further, please like and subscribe. If you do, I'll give you a woohoo woohoo, and we're going to talk about this. So the Spickle Meese 4 premiered this week at the box office. Now it started Wednesday, I want to say, Tuesday or Wednesday. And it's going to have a five-day total. So they're estimating the five-day total with about $120 million. Inside Out 2 did about, I think, $155 million. Yes. We only have domestic numbers. I'm not having the global numbers. It's easier to compare it to keep it apples to apples here. Inside Out 2 is going to do better than the Spickle Meese for the initial week. Now whether that continues to carry on, I don't know. But Inside Out 2 is performed better than the Spickle Me. We can even look at these here. Inside Out 2's box office, they released in 4,440 theaters. It did $154.2 million. We can look at the dailies here on the Friday, 63.5 million. Saturday, 51.2 million. Sunday, 39.5 million, roughly. On those first three days, they did the 154. Now if you look plus, they five to five, you add the Monday and Tuesday. They're coming in at $205 million. So they're obviously ahead of the Spickle Me. I only have the first day. It came out Wednesday. So Wednesday and Thursday, the dates I have. It was a holiday. A lot of people didn't go out. $27 million, roughly, for the first day. $20 million, roughly, for the second day. And then it picked up after that. They said here that ended up doing $27 million on Friday. And brought the three-day total to $47.2 million. So their three-day total is $47.2. Inside out, three-day total was twice as much, roughly. So inside out too, obviously, they're better. But it released first. And that's why I think the thing we need to look at is, when you look at is, these movies seem to be bringing the box office. They seem to be bringing attention. Movies geared towards families, towards the audience that, you know, is general. I won't say general audience, but you know what I mean? The adults and kids both love seem to do better. When we had, you know, two or a minor brothers, for example, it did very well, $131.36 billion, sorry, $1.36 billion. Its three-day weekend was $146.4 million, which is still behind Inside Out too, but ahead of, you just pick on me, four. And it did five days, about 204.6 million, which is about the same, maybe a little bit more than Inside Out too did. But they did very, very well. Five Nights at Freddy's is another one that did very, very well. Now, the difference between where they might win as far as the Spickle Me 4 and, like, through Mario Brothers and that is because their budgets are lower. I think the budget for the Spickle Me 4, their guessing is about half of usually a cost over at Pixar and Disney for one of their films. So they're going to be a little bit ahead in that regard already because they didn't cost as much. But we already hit over a billion dollars with Inside Out too, so they're definitely making their money back. There's no question. What is that currently? Domestically, if there were 500 million, I think, globally, last I checked, it was 1.1 billion. I don't know what it is now, but it's definitely doing well domestically. But this has been out for, you know, a while now. It'll be interesting to see, you know, this is, like, the third or fourth week. It'll be interesting to see how the Spickle Me performs in the long run. I think Inside Out too is still going to beat it, but it's a win for families at the box office. Because what's been happening with Hollywood as of late, even for family films and air quotes, they keep trying to push certain narratives. They take things that are established and then ruin it, like, light year. You had Buzz Lightyear by Love's Buzz Lightyear, so instead of doing, like, Buzz Lightyear Star Command, they just say, "Hey, we're making Buzz Lightyear a character from a movie." And the character from the movie is nothing like the character from the show, and it doesn't make sense, and people hate it. And they keep doing this. We keep getting these movies coming out wished. They wanted to spend so much time trying to make all these nods to Disney. And while some of it was clever, a lot of it felt lifeless, it felt corporate, it felt boring, and people didn't go. And the animation style did not look good, people thought. So a lot of animators were saying they thought it was kind of crap, too. It didn't do well. But it also could be because it had Disney on it. Pixar, however, is also associated with Disney, but it's Pixar. So people are trying to get another chance, even though we had Strange World. So we had Strange World Lightyear come out, didn't do well. You give people what they want, proper inside-out to movie, and they come to the box office and give you their money. It's really not that hard, but Hollywood doesn't seem to get it. You give people what they want, a proper Super Mario Brothers movie. Tons of money, big hit. People went like crazy and gave their money to the box office. You give people more to spic-well me. Now, to be fair, this one's coming in under what the other previous movies did, so it's not as popular as the other ones were so far. But it's still doing well, even with its different popularity, because you're giving families what they want. It's summer. People want to take their kids to the movies. They want to give their kids something to do. You want to make family memories. You want to make family memories. You're going to go to the family movies that you feel like you can take your kids to. Things that you know they love. Things that you know you all enjoy. Things that you're trusting not to, you know, or you're hearing from friends that it's fine to take your kids to because a lot of people are worried that if you take your kids to this movie or that movie, you're going to get more than you bargained for. And I'm sorry, people can be like, "Oh, you're big at all the cows come home." I'm the same general audiences. Like, personally, I don't care about all that stuff, but general audiences do. I'm sorry if that makes you mad, but they do. Clearly. And they're voting with their wallets. So I'm hoping that Hollywood sees this and they're like, "Oh, people want this. They don't want that." But anyway, so Despicable Me bounces back to 120 million five-day opening. They said the numbers, if the numbers hold, it's the same three-day post by Despicable Me 3. So if the numbers are staying where they are at, it's going to match Despicable Me 3, but I think it's under a lot of the other ones. They said evenings came in stronger than anticipated with better foot traffic than Wednesday and Thursday. Look, I get a holiday weekend. People say they go to the movies, but I think any more people don't. Like, if there's a holiday, they're going to go spend it with their families. I think the pandemic changed that. I think before the pandemic, people will go out. And I think some people do make a tradition to go out on Thanksgiving to see a movie or something. But a lot of people don't now. But a lot of people are just waiting for things to come to streaming because they don't want to go to the movie theater. They're afraid to go to the movie theater, or they got used to not going, and it makes it much cheaper, much easier, to sit your kids down in front of a TV where you can pause if little Timmy has to go to the bathroom and little Stacy wants on their bowl popcorn. You know, it's much easier, it's much cheaper. The good news is theaters are going to do a little bit better here. We're going to have Moana 2 coming out later this year, which will probably be another big boost as far as animation is concerned. But animated films are sticking it. If you're sticking it at a higher box of us totals than, you know, Dune 2 did. And, you know, Godzilla versus Kong, whatever the new one was, but I thought it was absolutely terrible. I watched part of it. No, thank you. I don't think it's a very good Godzilla movie. I think it's a great Kong movie with a little bit of the Godzilla sprinkle in, but I'm more of a Godzilla fan. But, you know, I think we're going to do well with Deadpool and Wolverine. But again, I think that's going to be limiting and the fact that the rating is going to keep a lot of people away. So I think it'll do really well if they give you a really good, proper Deadpool and Wolverine movie. And the fact that it's, people are going to go see it because they're very excited. They have something that's good. But I don't know how it's going to do, you know, as far as the numbers, how high the numbers are going to go on that. Because it's not, it's exclusionary to families. And that's a large audience as we're seeing. Dune 2, you know, has, God's a little Kong. Those have like adult, more adult audiences. And the kids, some kids come. But it's not, they're not doing as well as like these family movies are doing. Even Barbie, which like it or hate it, did really well because it was one that you could take your family to. And I think people are just desperate for family entertainment. And lately, Hollywood has made choices that isn't making family entertainment family entertainment as much as it used to be. Or taking, you know, IP they own and changing it in every way they possibly can to be more diverse and inclusive. But then it just turns off the, the people that we're going to go see it to begin with. Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully. We see from Hollywood that we're like, oh, look, if you give people proper things that they, and you give them what they expect, they're going to give us their money. If we give them a proper Deadpool movie, they'll give us their money. If we do more wanted to really well, they'll give us the money. I don't know where that got lost in translation, but you know, you give your customers what they want and they'll support your business. I don't know, guys, common sense is lost on Hollywood. Hopefully somebody there is getting a clue. Maybe since they're getting a lot of the bloat and they're, they're weeding out some of the voices that are like, I'll scream at once. The people in charge will like get a grip and get a clue in here that people want good things. They can trust good things. They know good things. They feel safe about supporting. And that doesn't not mean diversity inclusion can't be in it at all. It just means that you have to put good characters, good story, and you know your audience. It's really not complicated. Anyway, we'll talk to you later. Please like and subscribe. Bye! [Music] Thanks again for listening. More news and videos are available on our website at www.clownfishtv.com and on our YouTube channel, clownfishtv. 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