It (2017) (1 Viewer)

[Lou Sytsma]

IT Sequel Carves Out 2019 Post-Labor Day Release http://deadline.com/2017/09/it-sequ...mber-2019-release-andy-muschietti-1202176651/

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

It becomes the first horror movie to make more than half a billion dollars at the global box office

 

[Robert Crawford]

I could see them going with unknowns, like they did when they were casting the kids. I don't have a strong preference either way, as long as they're believable as the same people and do a good job.

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/it-chapter-two-who-would-you-cast-as-beverly/

 

[Tino]

It becomes the first horror movie to make more than half a billion dollars at the global box office

Adjusted for inflation The Exorcist is still the #1 horror film of all time tho.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Adjusted for inflation The Exorcist is still the #1 horror film of all time tho.

And deserves to be as "It" was good, but it's not in that film's class.

 

[Malcolm R]

Adjusted for inflation The Exorcist is still the #1 horror film of all time tho.

Yep, but no one adjusts for inflation or it would show that the movie business has gone into the toilet over the past few decades, selling only a fraction of the tickets that they used to. By ignoring that, they can continuously trumpet new records and ever higher grosses that gain the headlines and drive discussion on forums like these.

Domestic tickets sold (from BOMojo adjuster):

It = 30.4 million tix (to date)
The Exorcist = 103.2 million tix (initial release, 1973)

Domestic gross using 1973 ticket prices (from BOMojo adjuster):

It = $53.8 million
The Exorcist = $193 million

Rather sad, considering the population of the U.S. has increased by about 120 million since 1970.

 

[Tino]

And deserves to be as "It" was good, but it's not in that film's class.

I really like IT. But like I said in another thread, Annabelle Creation is way scarier.

And The Exorcist is in another league altogether.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Adjusting for inflation isn't perfect, either, though. Ticket prices and concession prices have gone up faster than people's salaries. There are a lot more competing forms of entertainment than there were in 1973, and home video was still a couple years away then.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Adjusting for inflation isn't perfect, either, though. Ticket prices and concession prices have gone up faster than people's salaries. There are a lot more competing forms of entertainment than there were in 1973, and home video was still a couple years away then.

True, but if you were around back in 1973, you would have recognized that The Exorcist was one of those films that was in a class by itself. It was a pop culture phenomenon. Similar to The Godfather, both based on bestseller books.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

True, but if you were around back in 1973, you would have recognized that The Exorcist was one of those films that was in a class by itself. It was a pop culture phenomenon. Similar to The Godfather, both based on bestseller books.

No question. It's probably the most famous horror movie of all time, and with good reason. I'm just saying that adjusting for inflation doesn't create a true apples-to-apples comparison.

 

[Robert Crawford]

No question. It's probably the most famous horror movie of all time, and with good reason. I'm just saying that adjusting for inflation doesn't create a true apples-to-apples comparison.

Doing apples to apples comparisons can be difficult, it's like comparing what Babe Ruth did to what MLB hitters are dealing with today.

 

[Tino]

Plus older films films have the benefit of multiple rereleases.

 

[Colin Jacobson]

Plus older films films have the benefit of multiple rereleases.

Even if you ignore those, it's just such a radically different entertainment market than it was 40+ years ago.

In 1973, the average TV got 3-5 channels and your town would have a handful of single-screen movie theaters. No Internet, video games, cable, "video on demand" and the like.

Movies simply had MUCH less competition for entertainment time/dollars.

I'll leave arguments about whether movie quality has gone into the crapped to others, but in today's market, it wouldn't matter. It's simply impossible for a movie to dominate in the same way it would have in 1970s...

 

[Josh Steinberg]

It's the same with TV - you'll never get the ratings from the days when there were 3-5 channels and no timeshifting, but for whatever bizarre reason, that's still what networks expect.

 

[SamT]

I easily get scared by scary movies, Insidious, The Conjuring. For whatever reason this did not scare me. I liked the cast though.

 

[TonyD]

Yeh I agree. Wasn’t real scary. Was more a bunch of kids bonding through a really horrible event.

 

[Tino]

I wasn’t scared either. A bit creepy. But very entertaining.

Annabelle Creation was the scariest film I saw last year.

 

[Malcolm R]

I easily get scared by scary movies, Insidious, The Conjuring. For whatever reason this did not scare me. I liked the cast though.

I found myself laughing at the trailers for this when it came out. For a short while I thought it was intended as a Naked Gun-style spoof.

 

[Tino]

By the way this is released this Tuesday.

I’ll be picking up the UHD/4K.

 

[TonyD]

I found myself laughing at the trailers for this when it came out. For a short while I thought it was intended as a Naked Gun-style spoof.

Not sure why you or anyone would have thought that.