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 […]
We all know there is a seasonality to the box office. Genres can thrive in some months and completely strike out in others. Case in point: horror films. Over the past ten years, November has been a dead zone for the genre. Only two films have debuted above $10M, and none has opened above $15M. […]
Take JOHN WICK, swap out some bees for a dog and Jason Statham for Keanu Reeves, and voila, you’ve got THE BEEKEEPER. Ok, that’s not necessarily fair, though Statham’s latest revenge pic shares some of the same DNA as WICK. Regardless, BEEKEEPER looks like a bloody good time. Statham may have had a misfire with […]
Every Saturday, The Quorum posts the tracking schedule for the week ahead. This is where you can see which films will be surveyed for the coming week. What may need to be clarified is when we begin tracking a film and the survey frequency. As part of our tracking 101 series, let’s explain The Quorum’s […]
© 2024 The Quorum, LLC, All Rights Reserved.