Perhaps January isn’t the sexiest month of the year, at least in terms of the box office. There are few filmmakers who beg studio distribution executives to release their film in January. But, perhaps, the first month of the year is worth a second look. Just ask Kevin Hart. A string of four January hits […]
With THE MARVELS having just arrived in theaters, there is a growing sense that superhero films have lost their way. The sequel to CAPTAIN MARVEL is on a path toward an opening near $55M, a far cry from its predecessor’s $153M debut. In fact, MARVELS may make less in total than CAPTAIN made in its […]
There’s something magical about the A-list two-hander, movies that unite a pair of top-tier movie stars on the big screen. When these films work, the charisma and star-power of the leads seem to be magnified as if the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. At The Quorum, we are especially fond of […]
In 2019, Bong Joon-ho’s PARASITE was showered with six Academy Award nominations and walked away with four wins, for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Film. Bong himself walked away with three statuettes. To this day, PARASITE remains the highest-grossing film for distributor Neon. How do you follow that up? Audiences have […]
There are some truisms in the world of release date strategy. One of them is that November will almost always have two animated releases. This year, the two offerings are TROLLS BAND TOGETHER and WISH. Furthermore, one animated film – usually a Disney title – is released on Thanksgiving weekend, while the other typically opens […]
Yikes. It was not a good month for posters. There were no A grades in October. In fact, none of these would have made the top 5 list in September. But it is interesting that fans gave high marks to a variety of titles. There’s a horror film, an animated film, an action thriller, an […]
The ongoing SAG strike is beginning to impact the release calendar. Three high-profile projects have just been pushed. Disney has ELIO moved from March 1st, 2024, to June 13th, 2025. That’s probably for the best, as ELIO has struggled to gain traction despite the presence of a teaser trailer and poster. ELIO would have represented […]
As we’ve seen over the past few years, the pandemic disrupted the rollout for dozens of titles. By now, however, most of those COVID-delayed films have already arrived in theaters—at least those worthy of a theatrical release. DISTANT, shot during the pre-vaccine days of the pandemic, has had one of the more unusual roads to […]
Last month, we noted that Disney has two remaining releases for the year. THE MARVELS will go a long way toward seeing if superhero fatigue has spread beyond the DC universe to the MCU. And WISH, Disney’s Thanksgiving release, is the studio’s opportunity to right the ship after several animation misfires, including STRANGE WORLD, its […]
The business model is clear. Make the movie for a song and enjoy the upside windfall. That’s the way horror films have been made for decades. Sure, sometimes budgets climb as high as $50M, but the vast majority are made for next to nothing. The five highest-grossing horror films of 2023 each cost less than […]
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