{"id":2135981,"date":"2025-11-05T01:44:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2135981"},"modified":"2025-11-05T01:44:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:44:35","slug":"delusional-movie-fans-keep-whining-about-the-media-reporting-insanely-low-box-office-numbers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/delusional-movie-fans-keep-whining-about-the-media-reporting-insanely-low-box-office-numbers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Delusional\u2019 movie fans keep whining about the media reporting insanely low box-office numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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All year long, there has been a strange collective whine among delusional movie fans.<\/p>\n

The gist of their babyish gripes: Why must the press keep bringing up Hollywood\u2019s distressingly low box-office numbers?!<\/p>\n

The past few months have seen a spate of underperforming titles: Bong Joon Ho\u2019s \u201cMickey 17<\/a>,\u201d \u201cThe Smashing Machine<\/a>\u201d starring Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson, \u201cCaught Stealing<\/a>\u201d with Austin Butler and the Jennifer Lopez musical \u201cKiss of the Spider Woman<\/a>\u201d among them.<\/p>\n

\"Jeremy<\/span><\/div>\n

Jeremy Allen White stars as Bruce Springsteen in \u201cDeliver Me From Nowhere,\u201d which has struggled at the box office. AP<\/p>\n

The latest wobbler about a warbler is \u201cSpringsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere<\/a>\u201d starring Jeremy Allen White as The Boss.<\/p>\n

Irate social media users turn into Medea every time outlets so much as mention the projects\u2019 failures.<\/p>\n

Their nonsensical shrieking has been incredibly confusing to me, since they\u2019re not railing against some novel trend.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood trade publication Variety has been regularly reporting these figures since 1922.<\/p>\n

The website Box Office Mojo was founded in 1998.<\/p>\n

And \u2014 hello! \u2014 the movies are a major American business, not a pop-up art gallery in Bushwick. Some rake in more than $1 billion. The media also dutifully says when Starbucks shuts down its outposts or when the Apple Vision Pro flopped.<\/p>\n

I seem to recall my sports section colleagues writing that the Toronto Blue Jays recently lost a rather important baseball game.<\/p>\n

But all of a sudden in the entertainment world, plain facts are personal and irredeemably offensive. Coddling snowflakes from the truth even extends to basic showbiz receipts.<\/p>\n

\"Social<\/span><\/div>\n

Social media users are miffed that press outlets are reporting the box-office failures of movies like Jennifer Lopez\u2019s \u201cKiss of the Spider Woman.\u201d AP<\/p>\n

\u201cWho cares about what a movie made or makes?,\u201d wrote one shaken X user. \u201cOne of the most useless statistics of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI literally don\u2019t care whether a movie makes money or not,\u201d added another dolt. \u201cDoes it go into your pockets? No. It got made, shut up.\u201d<\/p>\n

And most hilariously, a certifiable genius said, \u201cThe obsession with the box office is killing movies and creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, of course! Accurate reporting of grosses is the biggest problem facing the film industry today \u2014 not the ubiquity of streaming services, lackluster and poorly made products or plummeting audience interest.<\/p>\n

\"\u201cThe<\/span><\/div>\n

\u201cThe Smashing Machine,\u201d starring Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson, was a notable underperformer in 2025. AP<\/p>\n

Scroll through X and you\u2019ll find thousands of similarly dumb posts assailing the perceived overfocus on what flicks earn versus what they cost to make.<\/p>\n

The reality is that if there are more box-office-related headlines lately it\u2019s because there are so many hyped-up films taking a tumble.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a fan of any of them, great.<\/p>\n

Get mad at your fellow consumers for not buying tickets.<\/p>\n

But you should care about how well they fared at the cash register, because it affects what your favorite artists who made them do next and the studios\u2019 perception of their genres. Enthusiasm for musicals, for example, tends to ebb and flow with hits and misses.<\/p>\n

Recall the old Hollywood phrase \u201cbox office poison\u201d about actors who could no longer guarantee a crowd. Nothing new.<\/p>\n

Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet has not led three December wide releases in as many years because he\u2019s not a huge draw.<\/p>\n

\"Timoth\u00e9e<\/span><\/div>\n

Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, who stars in \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d this December, has been a rare box-office bright spot the last several years. x\/RealChalamet<\/p>\n

Filmmakers, it seems, are more clear-eyed than film buffs.<\/p>\n

Who cares about what a movie made or makes? How about James Cameron.<\/p>\n

The director, whose \u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash,\u201d hits theaters in December, is always to-the-point about what his epic alien series needs to accomplish to be considered a success.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe spend a lot of money on these movies, and that\u2019s kind of the banquet that we put before a global audience for the same ticket price as seeing some little indie,\u201d he recently told Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the quid pro quo with that is we have to make a lot of money in order to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Obviously!<\/p>\n

And, whether \u201cFire and Ash\u201d does or doesn\u2019t make a lot of money, you can be damn sure that the press will tell you.<\/p>\n

As we have done for 100 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

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