How A Movie Actually Makes Money + How Netflix Movies Work + Movie Review: Big Time Adolescence + Movies Delayed Due To Coronavirus

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Movie Mix Movie Podcast. I a movie Mike on Twitter and Instagram. Add Mike Destro and a lot has happened in the world of movies since the last episode. I got on here last week and talked about James Bond, which is the first movie that delayed its release, and since then a bunch of movies have come out, either delaying production or delaying when it's gonna come out in theater. So I'm gonna talk about that. I'm not gonna dwell on at the entire episode. I did find a way to kind of make this own interesting episode, even if you're tired of hearing about the coronavirus, because over the last week we've kind of been just inundated with it. And I'm not a news podcast, I'm a movie podcast, So I'm gonna find a way to tie into movies to where we can still kind of learn something together and have some fun in here to just kind of distract us a bit. But it's really big in the news right now, so it's kind of hard to avoid it, especially when the box office hit a twenty year low over the weekend, like they made around fifty five to fifty six million dollars at the box office, and that's every single movie in theaters, which is insane. The lowest has been in twenty years. And about fifty million dollars is what a typical blockbuster movie. When a movie does well as the box office, it makes about fifty million. So you're talking about every single movie in theaters, including new ones that came out there, like Movie Still came out over the weekend, but all combined made fifty five million dollars, which is insane. So I kind of wanted to look at on this episode is just how exactly a movie makes money. So when a movie goes into theaters, all the costs that go into it, and with the number that gets reported, like what does that actually mean? Is what I'm gonna be talking about in this episode. And also, I think a lot of us right now are gonna be just watching stuff on Netflix and stuff on Hulu. So I'm also gonna look at how those movies make money because it's a little bit different in the fact that don't have a theatrical release, So I'll talk about that. I also watched the movie over the weekend with Pete Davidson that which was brand new on Hulu, so I'll give a review on that, and then at the very end, I'll just kind of touched on the coronavirus news of all the movies getting delayed or pushed back because of it. So that's what I'm covering on this episode. A lot to get too, So again, just thank you for checking out this episode. Again, I'm gonna try to make it fun and talk about movies. So we're kind of thinking about that right now. So if you don't mind hitting that five star rating, or if you're listening on iHeart Radio or any other podcast app, just hit that subscribe buttons. You get brand new episodes every single Monday. But without further ado, let's get into this episode of how movies actually make money. Here we go in a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast. One man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast. A man with so much movie knowledge, he's basically like a walking I MTV with glasses from the Nashville Podcast Network is movie movie podcast. Alright, So today we're talking about how a movie makes money because you hear it every single week when a movie does well at the box office. It's like, oh, they made a hundred million dollars, this is like the most successful movie of all time. But there are actually a lot of costs that go into it. And sometimes it's a little kind of skewed of how much a movie actually makes and how much because how much spent to put in it isn't always out there entirely. They kind of put production costs out there, but the overall cost of what it is to make a movie is a lot more than studios kind of report. A lot goes into making a movie. So what I did is a bunch of research on what all the numbers mean and how much like a typical movie in the box office would make. So I'm looking at about like a hundred million dollar blockbusters. So you an average movie probably makes about fifty million, but when a movie does really well is about a hundred million dollars at the box office. So I'm going to kind of break it down of what each step takes to get there, which there are a bunch of steps they in costs that are leading up to that to make it too, even to getting into in the theater. So so what we have to look at first and going into the cost of making a movie is the overall budget. So this has to do with everything from development, which has to do with getting the final script, the pre production stuff which is building a team planning to shoot, the actual production which is shooting the movie, and then the post production which is the editing, the visual effects, the sound design, and music. So all this goes in to this factory of how much it costs to make a movie. This also includes like the cast and crew wages, and also like the director and the lead actors. This is all factored into just the initial budget. And also what we'll get into later is some of these people will end up making a certain amount based on how well the movie does. So say an actor makes a deal to where like, okay, I'll do this movie for twenty million dollars, but I also want some of the box office amount in ticket sales. I want that edit into my contract. This is also gets factored into this budget. Or say like a big time director wants to take on a project, but he's only willing to do it for this amount of money, and then this the profits That is where this also gets factored into, and budgets have just been getting bigger and bigger over the years. So what I'm just looking at in this episode, I'll kind of base all the numbers on a typical movie that makes about a hundred million dollars at the box office, which is considered like a big, you know, summer blockbuster hits. So it's something like Jurassic World took a hundred and fifty million dollars to make, is what they reported. But when you actually look at the numbers, they end up spending about about twelve more than they actually report. So if they say it costs a hundred and fifty million dollars to make, they actually probably spend about nineteen million more, and they kind of just factored in other ways, and they don't really want to put that number out there that way, Whenever the box office numbers come out, they look higher and it looks like they actually made more of a profit then probably they actually did. And then there are a bunch of other costs and making a movie that you don't really think about. So all of this just leads into how much it costs to get the movie made. So that hundred and fifty million dollars that they report, which is actually more like a hundred and sixty nine is actually a lot more when it comes to all the other costs of making a movie. So now when you get into is the other cost of making a movie. So this is even before a movie is making money yet. So this is all in the hole so far. So you have your movie shot, you have your either your hour and a half, your two hour movie. It's ready to go. But there are a bunch of other costs that are get factored into this, and it's stuff we don't really think about it because we just see like, oh, how much of that movie take to get made, and then how much did you make it the box office? Like oh wow, that made so much money. But there's a bunch of other hidden costs that really go into making a movie successful. And this includes marketing, which, aside from just how much it makes takes to make a movie, marketing is probably this next biggest thing to factor in because once the movie is made, they gotta sell it. They gotta make posters, they gotta make trailers, they gotta send out them the actors to promote the movie. They gotta put commercials on TV, on radio, they gotta do all this stuff to market the movie. They gotta make promotional items and stuff out to TV networks, to radio stations, they make like weird little stuffs animals to promote the movie in any way to just build a buzz around the movie and to get people into the theater and excited about this movie. And the weird part about this is that actually, like the bigger the movie, the less they end up spending on marketing, which you think would be a little bit different because like a movie like The Avengers, they're gonna spend less money on advertising than like a brand new John Cena movie, because a John Cena movie maybe doesn't have as much of a draw to audiences to get into the theaters. So The Avengers are kind of good and like, okay, we can spend a little miss less money on advertising, and like a John Cena movie he has a brand new whatever action romcom coming out, they're going to spend a lot more money putting out the world of like, oh, here's this John Cena movie. They want the word to travel and get people into the seats for that opening weekend, because the opening weekend is pretty much make your break for like a bunch of new movies, like whether or not to get a sequel and whether or not how much they actually make on that first weekend is really what they're going for. So all this marketing cost is just driving people to that opening weekend to get that biggest number possible to put on paper. So again, looking back at that number, say a movie took a hundred and fifty million dollars to make, the average marketing costs would be about a hundred and twenty one million dollars. So about of the budget is going to be just straight up marketing the movie and selling the thing. And overall, when you factor everything else in besides that, it comes out to be about thirty percent of the average costs to make in a movie is just spent on advertising. And then you think, okay, we have the movie made, we have our advertising, we're good to go. Right, No, there's still more costs need to be factored into how much it costs to make a movie. You have what you call our prints, which are the physical copies of the movies that they send to the movie theaters. So back in the day they would actually send like the thirty five millimeter film. Now it's a hard drive, so essentially they put the movie on a really big file and they put it on this hard drive, and the movie theaters rent out essentially those hard drives to show their movies in their movie theaters, and what they're called is digitill cinema prints. There these d cps, it's pretty much a big hard drive with a really big file on it, and then it has this other little tiny file that kind of gives all the permissions for the hard drive. So this is why movies really don't get leaked from movie theaters and what they kind of all set out not to do. So they have this little file on the hard drive that tells it essentially when it can even be played at what time it can be played in different like permissions on that even like what kind of projector has shown on. So so the movie theaters get this version, and also when it goes out to like TV stations or like satellite, they get a different version of the movie too. But it's all on this hard drive. So the physical cost of creating these hard drives and shipping them out to movie theaters is about sixties seven million dollars, so on top of all the marketing to make in the movie, it takes just sixties seven million dollars in addition just to get that movie to all these theaters worldwide. And then another factor into what it costs to make a movie is all the residuals. So what I talked about earlier is that first of all, you have unions for cast and crew, which they have set up with the Hollywood studios, and then you also have here where an actor will kind of get residuals for their part in the movie. So sometimes you'll see like actors who they end up making a lot of more money just based off of like a movie's longevity over the year. So like Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump initially asked for less up front and more on the back end, so over time he's made a lot of money off Forrest Gump just based on his residuals that he gets every time the movies played on TV. So an actor could have a really good pay to if a movie is not only profitable at the box office, but they also have these residuals, and also the movie studios like it because if a movie doesn't do well at the box office, they don't have to pay up as much. And then finally factoring the last amount of what it takes to make a movie is financing costs, which is anything from like borrowing money from studios to make up movie. Also, like when you have a movie overseas, you've got to account for like and see conversions, all that kind of associated and defiancing costs, and then you just have overheads. So pretty much studios charge their own productions and overhead fee which covers like the time of the staff spends on the project, the cost of the deals to make the movie. All that kind of stuff is just their movies overhead all right. So now that's all of the costs that go into making movie. Let's look at how actually they turn that around and make a profit off that. So the biggest income driver for any movie is going to be that initial theatrical release. That's where they make really all their money. So, say a movie makes about a hundred and twenty nine million dollars at the box office domestically, they go on to make another two hundred forty three million dollars internationally. You combine that and you get that gross box office number, which is about three hundred and seventy three million dollars. So that's kind of the amount you get here. So that's the amount that they always kind of report out there like, oh, this movie made three hundred and seventy three million dollars the box office this weekend. It's a big hit. But before they see any of that money, too big costs have to be deducted from it, which is the sales tax and what the movie theaters takeaway. So the actual movie studio will get about fifty of the box office gross domestically and of the international growth. So you have that three d and seventy three million dollars or so, like a big impressive number, but what they actually end up taking from that is about a hundred and sixty nine million dollars. And then you got to go in and remove what it took to market that movie, which for this example it was about nine million dollars. So then you're left with about seventy million dollars, a total about forty of the overall income. That big number that we saw initially went down and now we're looking at seventy million dollars. So that is all that plays into the box office numbers. And then you move on to home entertainment, which is everything you can do to watch the movie at home. Essentially, so this same kind of movie will make an average of a hundred and thirty four million dollars just on home entertainment. So first of all, that kind of sounds like it more than it made of the box office, but there's other costs in here. They do have to spend some money on advertising here, which is about another twenty million dollars. And then obviously if they're making DVDs that they're making Blue rays, that's gonna cost about another thirty million dollars to make those and get those shipped out to stores. And this is why movie studios are kind of hurting that people don't really buy Blu rays or DVDs as much. They still make a pretty good amount of money because last year the number one selling Blu ray was The Avengers Endgame, which made about sixty nine million dollars, and the number one selling DVD was Aquaman, which made seventeen million dollars. So there's still some money to be made here, and they make some pretty good money back basically because the movie is already done. It's already made, and they just kind of have to push it out there with production costs. But they're able to get a pretty good return on this. But with the fall of kind of blue rays and DVDs. Over time, they'll see less and less money, the same way the music industry is seen less and less on CD sales. But if you're wondering why, you go to the store and you still see brand new DVDs, Yes, people still do buy them. The next way a movie will make money is on TV. So the average income for the same kind of movie would be about eighties six million dollars. And this pretty much has little to no direct cost of the movie studios because they typically they charge a distribution fee to whoever is going to put out the movie, and then it's out there. It's either on cable or like TV over the year. And this is kind of why you think sometimes that movies don't do so well at the box office. They get on like maybe like a TBS, and you're like, why this movie isn't that great, But it ends up kind of making a profit bag because so this is where maybe a movie that didn't do so well on the box office kind of gets a second live because maybe you wouldn't pay money to go see it in theaters. But if you already have cable and you're scrolling through and you watch and maybe TBS and you see like a movie with Will Ferrel that's maybe not his best movie, but it's there and you watch it, and it's a way these movie studios still make money on maybe a flop or a movie that didn't perform as well as they thought. They can put it on TV and still get some money back from it. And then you have video on demand, which is essentially like Amazon, iTunes or any way you pay for a movie at home, be a pay per view, and this is kind of where movies are starting to go more because if you don't go see a movie in theaters, you can just click a button and have it in your home. I think maybe eventually there'll be a wave to have brand new movies in your house, but if you want to do that now, it's actually really expensive. There's this thing that essentially only rich people can have where you pay to have this box in your house to where you can have movies streamed into your house before they're even released, and it costs like two d and fifty dollars, but it actually costs like two hundred and fifty dollars just to rent a movie for twenty four hours, and you have to pay a lot of money just to get this box in your house. I think it's like twenty or thirty thousand dollars just to put it in your house. But until that's available with all of us at a cheaper price, we kind of have to sit around and wait until a movie comes to us. And I think they should have a quicker turnaround time because it's kind of like if you go see a concert, like say you go see a new band, you leave there and you go stream their music when you get home. There's really not that for movies. If you go see a movie, you have to wait another six months or so. It's probably a lot less now, but essentially to watch that movie at home. How cool would it be just to be able to go see a movie in theaters and then be like, oh, I kind of want to see that again. You take it home right after, or you wait a bit and you kind of don't have to go to the theater and you can watch it in your house. Also, when this is airlines, you can get on a flight, you hop on there, you hit a touch screen, and you can watch a movie on your flight. And while it's free to us, the airline actually has to pay to have those movies in there, and they can make another two point seven million dollars by licensing out their movies to airlines. And that's pretty easy money for them because all they had to do is make a deal, put the movie on the airplane, and their instant money. And then the final way a movie makes money is through merchandising. So say a big Hollywood production something like Star Wars would make an average of another eleven point five million dollars just in merchandise. But then again, Star Wars is a bit different because they're kind of the o G s of movies making money off merchandizing. And that's kind of why them and Disney pair so well together right now, because Disney is like so hyper focused on the merchandizing because essentially their movies are commercials for their merch. So they put a movie out that's about ninety minutes of an animated movie. It's a great feel good story and that's a great Disney classic, but they see it as a commercial for their their merch. I mean, they make so much money off toys, off of it, t shirts, and I mean anything that Disney can put their characters on is what they're making money off. Of and this is really big for them when it comes to like The Avengers or anything like Pixarre and then even I mean maybe not right now in the world of today, but Disney World and Disneyland, those attractions are based on the movie. So as long as they're turning out new movies, putting out new stories, new characters, they get more people into the parks, and they're selling merch They're selling tickets to their their parks. So merchandizing is huge for Disney. For some of the other movies, it's not as big. Um looking at just the average of what other movies will make off of this is about one million dollars, which is still pretty good. But if you don't have anything attached to like a toy line or um like any kind of collectibles from a movie, you get less merched. People aren't really gonna buy a t shirt for a movie, but when it comes to animated movies, man, they can really crush it here. And the weird thing about when they put out the first Star Wars movie as is that the toys weren't ready by the time the movie came out, which is kind of what's happening now with Babe Yoda um with the Mandalorian coming out last year, but Baby Yoda still hasn't shipped. So Star Wars is kind of creates a buzz over their merchandizing and they make a lot of money. And like back in the day, those toys just flew off the shelves, making them a lot of money. And they kind of saw a correlation between the toys coming out with the movies and how much money they would make off the toys, because when there was the years that they didn't put out at a new Star Wars, they were still making toys and they weren't really making any money. So they were like, George Lucas, please make another movie because we need to sell these toys. They need to have kids go to the theaters and see like, oh, I remember that character. I love that character. I want to go home later and go to a store and have my parents buy me that character. So these movies are really just the vehicles to kind of pushed towards this merchandise, and a movie studio like Disney really can really just clean up here. So that is essentially how a movie makes money, all the costs that go into it. All right, So I'm gonna talk about now how a Netflix movie makes money. So you're probably wonder when they put out these movies with like Will Smith and Mark Wahlberg, like, what is it a benefit to them? So last year The Irishman, which was the Martin scorsesey movie that ended up being nominated for Best Picture. That costs Netflix like the most they've ever spent on a movie at one and fifty nine million dollars to make that, and they claim that's twenty six allion people watch that in their homes. But you wonder what's the profit there, because nobody really hoped to Netflix just to watch that movie. If you already have a subscription, what difference is that if you cook play on it or not. So really, what Netflix cares about is how many subscribers they have. That's how they make money. You pay a monthly fee and you're able to watch anything on their service, and that's essentially how they make money. That's what they care about. The benefit to movie studios and filmmakers to Netflix is that there's really no worry. There's a lot less like anticipation when it comes to They don't have to meet box office numbers, they don't have to meet like critics. They don't care what people say. Once the movie comes out. There's a lot less of that because once a movie gets put on Netflix, it's out there. The deal is done. How a Netflix movie works is they essentially make the deal. They have this algorithm that determines how much they should spend on creating original content, and then they based that around how much they will pay for a movie to get put on their service. Because Netflix distributes the movie and then the movie studios, they don't have to worry about distribution. They don't have to worry about even like advertising, all that stuff I talked about earlier. None of those returns matter for a Netflix movie. Once they paid for the movie, it's there. That's it. They got their paycheck. They're good. So that's essentially how Netflix movies get made. They make the film, they get a check, that's it. That's simple. And what Netflix does to kind of make money off of this is they rely on the word of mouth in a way that kind of theaters can't afford to. Because the movie gets put out on a certain weekend and then somebody watches it, They tell a friend to watch it, and they get more people talking about the movie, and then maybe that in turn brings more subscribers to their service who come to watch that movie, and then they see all the other stuff they have on their so and then essentially they're not coming just to see that movie like you would in a movie theater. But once you get somebody there, you hope that they stick around and end up paying for your service. So that's kind of how Netflix makes money off of their movies. So it sounds pretty good. You make a movie, you get that check, and you're good to go. I think what I kind of see less of is that Netflix doesn't really have any franchises, Like there's not like a part two is being made of a bunch of movies. They essentially put out one movie and then that's all. Can you kind of hear about it? So I think it kind of takes away from franchises a bit, and also it takes like, while it does take away the risk for directors and filmmakers, sometimes that risk is good. One of the highest grossing and most profitable movies ever was Paranormal Activity. So that movie only costs fifteen thousand dollars to make. That's it. It's a pretty basic movie. If you've seen it. It's basically like a lost footage movie where all this paranormal stuff hence the name, happens in the house. It was really cheap to make, but it ended up making a hundred and ninety three million dollars, so that makes it a really profitable movie. Another movie like Magic Mike, which cost seven million dollars to make, ended up making a hundred and sixty seven million dollars, so again they took us They took a risk putting these movies out, paying this money, but it was such a big hit. They had such a big return on that, which is something you couldn't really get through Netflix because you get kind of that upfront money, you get paid for it, but you don't really get anything in return. Again, it takes away then anticipatient of worrying about how well it's gonna do, but it also kind of takes away from this. You can't really have like an unexpected hit and if it is a highly successful movie. Probably the most one we would know was Birdcage with Sandra Bullock, which was a movie Netflix put out that kind of got everybody talking in the entire country, which was different for them. They haven't really put out anything on part of that sense, and in turn they probably got a lot more subscribers because of that movie, which allowed them to make other movies than kind of just overall adds to the big machine that is Netflix. I think really where they kind of have a space in is like movies that probably wouldn't get made that they are able to put out on their service, especially when it comes to like things like documentaries, lower budget stuff that people discover on Netflix, and those are really movies and projects that people kind of talk about a lot. So I think that's kind of cool to see like a smaller director get a chance to put out his documentary on Netflix. Something like in sen there's a documentary called Icarus which was paid for by Netflix and actually ended up in theaters and one of the best documentary Oscar back in tweens, So stuff like that it's cool too. But that just kind of explains Netflix's model where film producers kind of can sleep well at night knowing that they're not tied to these box office earnings and they already get their money, and then Netflix is cool because hey, we put out this movie, we know we can cover the cost, we know how much we paid for it. We have it only on our service, so it gets more subscribers and people paying money for our service. So that's kind of how the whole Netflix model works, all right. Gonna get into my review now of Big Time Adolescents starring Pete Davidson Griffin Gluck, who you may know if you watch the Netflix series called American Van Dole. He was in that also John Cryer and Machine Gun Kelly. And it is written and directed by Jason Orley, who this is his first ever directorial debut, and it's essentially about this kid who his sister dates Pete Davidson in high school and he's much younger than them, but he becomes friends with them, and then even after they break up, they stay friends. Pete Davidson isn't really the best influence on him. He parties, he does drugs, he drops out of college, but they just have this kind of bond because the kid doesn't have an older brother, so they hang out all the time. And then his parents kind of don't really approve of it, and they end up getting into some pretty big trouble. So I'll get into my review here, but first here's a bit of big time adolescence. This weekend, it's you at your party. You think I'm just gonna walk into a party and everyone's gonna want to buy pop from me? Call me crazy. So, like I said, this movie is directed by Jason Orley, who actually had the idea of maybe back five years ago, and he knew that he wanted Pete Davidson to play his character whenever he saw him on the Comedy Central roast of Justin Bieber and then he was like, that's it, Like I want Pete Davidson to essentially be this character. So his characters in the movie is named Zeke and the younger kid is named Mo. So Pete Davidson's character dated his sister in high school and this kid didn't really have any kind of big brother influence that we saw Pete Davidson and was like, hey, let's start hanging out even though you and my sister broke up. So Pete Davidson kind of takes him under his wing, but he's not really the best influence. He like parties, does drugs um. After graduating high school, he goes on to college, but he drops out and he's like working at some random like applying store, UM. But it's kind of cool to see the contrast of like a coming of age story that's told in a different way. What I like about it is, although Pete Davidson's kind of playing himself, I like seeing him in a movie and see that character more because really, I I mean, I'm a fan of his comedy. I like him on Ut and Nell, but I really don't get to see him fully kind of interact with other people because on Us and L it's essentially a skit and even in the stand up it's not really the same as seeing him in a movie. So I enjoyed seeing kind of his personality come out through this character. But it does kind of feel like, oh, it's Pete Davidson playing himself. But I think it works. So again, I won't spoil the movie. If you want to go watch it, um, if you have a Hulu account, it's essentially you pay for the subscription and it's free to watch. I always say it's free, but you're already paying for it. So what essentially happens is the kid takes a bunch of advice from Pete Davidson's character on you know, Getting Girls, how to make friends at school, but it's not necessarily the best advice because his life, in turn, hasn't really turned out how he wanted to. I don't think in the movie Pete Davidson really comes off as being a bad guy. I just think maybe he doesn't have it all together and he's just kind of trying to do the best with what he has. And I just saw so many parallels in this and like other people I know growing up, so I kind of related to it in that sense. So the kid takes his advice, it doesn't really turn out very well when it comes to the girls, and then he ends up trying to make friends with kids his own age because he's essentially in the movie just hanging out with Pete Davidson and his friends who are much older, which was something like I was kind of like in high school. I didn't really have any high school friends that I would go hang out with on the weekend, but like my older brother was seven years older than me, I like go hang out with him, and I'd be the youngest one in the crowd. So I kind of felt the kids in this movie just based on that. And he tries to make friends in high school, but Pete Davidson's advice is like, hey, you should probably go sound drugs at their parties, and you can kind of tell that that did turn out so well. I thought the movie was good overall. I thought it was pretty funny. I laughed out loud a lot. Um, it's a little more on the raunchy side. Is rated art. There's no like nudity or anything, but it's a bunch of language and drug use, so I'd say it's on the same scale and maybe like a super bad four year old virgin when it comes to the R rating. So if that kind of takes you away from watching a movie like this, maybe not for you, but if it needs something that's kind of a raunchier comedy in a way, not I wouldn't say it's super raunchy, but it's a little more on that side of those kind of movies. But I think it's pretty funny. I liked the story. I found it pretty relatable, and I was had my attention throughout the entire movie. It's about an hour and a half, so it's a pretty quick watch too, if you're looking for something on Hulu, which I think right now we're kind of I was trying to stay indoors and not go out a whole lot to the movie theaters. So it's a good at home watch if you want something funny, I give it about three point five out of five homemade tattoos. All Right, gonna get into some movie dues now. So last week I talked about James Bond to laying it's really stayed from April ten to there's November, and since then it just kind of caused a chain reaction of other movies just to laying either when the movie will come out or not even saying when they're gonna put it out now, or movies now are kind of starting to delay production due to the coronavirus. But James Bond was the first one to do this, and the one that kind of was the biggest to me was A Quiet Place, which is supposed to come out on March twentie and now the new data is unknown, but I saw John Krasinski post that he essentially doesn't think it's the right time to put it out because it's a movie that he wants everybody to see together, and with what everything going on in the world, he doesn't think it's a great environment to put the movie out right now. And as we saw over the weekend with his box office numbers being a record low in twenty years. I think they're making the right move here. It's kind of hard for me as a movie goer to see all these movies I was so excited to see and stuff that was just on my highly anticipated list for the year just be delayed, and kind of wondering how that's kind of kind of affect everything. Because the movie schedules essentially have their slots and they put them out in certain times of the year based on a lot of there's a lot of reasoning that goes into that, and delaying when it comes out. I just wonder what it's gonna look like later in the year when you have these other big movies now going up against other movies. It's really gonna change numbers. And it's just overall affecting like how people make money for these movies, and even like the production schedules of stuff coming out like one or two years later, Like how is that going to affect stuff down the line. So I'll run through now the list of just all the movies that I know so far who have that have got delayed or just kind of postponed for a bit. It got My Spy, which is the movie with Batista, went from March to thirteenth to April seventeen. A Quiet Place Too, like I talked about, which is supposed to come out of March twentieth. Now the new data is unknown. As of now, Disney has delayed Mulan from March to an unknown date. Peter Rabbit too, moved from April third to August seven. Love Birds moved from April third to now being unknown. The other new Marvel movie coming out, The New Mutants, moved from April third to now a date unknown um. And then a movie called Antler's moved from April seventeen to a new unknown date. And another really big one which was kind of the craziest of as far as how long they delayed it was the New Fast in the Furies nine movie moved from May twenty two of this year to April second of twenty one. That's a long time to delay that movie. And I think the reason behind that is it's such a global movie in that movie not only makes a lot in the United States, but just has a really big international market. So I think just with everything going on in the entire world, they're like, yeah, this is a movie we just really have to wait out. We can't let this kind of affect our box office numbers because it's I mean, as we see it happening right now, it's crazy how little movies are making right now because movie theaters are either closing down and where cities it's really bad in and AMC and Regal have reduced how many tickets they sell by fifty, so they will only feel like, say a theater that fits five people, they're only selling two and fifty tickets to that showing that is I mean, that's half of people you can even get into theaters, and that's even less of people actually going in to field those teats. So even myself, like I was going to go to the movies this weekend, and I'm like, maybe I should go, and I know, I come on here, and I talked about how it's gonna take a lot for me to you know, kind of not want to go to the movies, which just even just the way technology is changing. But I felt like maybe it wasn't the best idea this weekend. Even looking at the box office numbers now. The number one movie was Onward, which I saw last week, and it only made ten million dollars the entire weekend, which that is like one, I think, maybe the highest Pixar drop in a very long time for a movie. And it's all because of this going on right now. And then you have movies delaying production. So The Batman, which is I am just super excited about with Robert Pattinson, that's just pulled off on production right now. Also Jurassic World Dominion, they've pulled off production on Flint strongest pulled off production. And the one I'm kind of waiting on seeing what happens to is Black Widow, which is Scarlett Johansson's solo movie. It's still scheduled to come out on May one, but with all these other movies getting pushed back and delayed, I don't know if that's gonna happen. And as of the recording of this podcast right now, it has not been delayed or pushed back anything so far that I've seen, So I'm waiting to see what happens with that. It would be pretty bummed if that one gets moved because essentially May is like the kickoff to summer blockbuster season, and it's a big Marvel movie that always comes out usually in May or like late April, and that kind of kicks it off for like a bunch of great movies. So, like I said, it's gonna be weird to have all these movies postponed and laid. But that's it for movie news for the week. Before I hop out of here, I got to give my shout out of the weekend. I usually do Instagram, but this week I'm doing Twitter because I've got a really nice tweet from at Club Sore, which is the Sore Losers Band Club, which is another podcast we have on the Nashville Podcast Network if you haven't checked out, it's a lunchbox where a Mondo and Eddie from the Bobby Bones Show. They do a sports show, which they're having a kind of difficult time right now. Maybe a little not as difficult as I am removing movies, but there's no sports right now, so it's hard for them to do their podcast. But those are three funny guys and they're gonna get on there and kind of do a show anyway with life after Sports. With their Twitter, it's kind of been blowing up with just like people doing stuff at home right now. So that's another good podcast to check out if you're I mean, if you're also hurting from the loss of sports and you want to see how those guys take it on right now, go check out the Sore Losers. But this tweet says coaches, If you like me, I need entertainment in this world of no sports, check out Mike d Stro's podcast Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. It's great even if you're not a big movie person. Check it out. So I appreciate that shout out at club Sore. If you want to follow me on Twitter at Mike d Stro. But the way you get an Instagram or Twitter shout out is all you have to do is tag me that you're listening to the podcast. On Twitter, you can just send me a tweet and tag me at Mike d Stros how you're listening, or on Instagram, just take a screenshot or a picture of wherever you're listening and tag me in it. Put it in your story and I'll pick one of those to reposted about the week and then give you a shout out next week. Hope you guys enjoyed this episode. I'll try to do more movie reviews on stuff streaming because I think that's kind of where I'm gonna be the next couple of months or so, so I'm gonna be looking out for not only new movies coming out streaming, but maybe stuff that you may have missed on there. There's a lot of kind of hidden gems in Netflix and like Hulu and Amazon, a bunch of good stuff out there. So I'll kind of put together some reviews on that, maybe even make some top list of different categories and stuff you can check out on the area if you're stuck at home and needs something good to watch. So look out for that coming up in the next episode. But I will talk to you guys next week here on another Monday of Movie Mix Movie Podcast. Until then later