Boxoffice Podcast

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Daniel Loria and Rebecca Pahle discuss Avatar: The Way of Water’s stronghold in the box office on its fifth week and the latest updates from the ICTA LA Seminar series - pricing adjustments to bring in more moviegoers.

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Episode Resources:

• MoviePass
• International Cinema Technology Association (ICTA) 
• Weekend Box Office: Avatar: The Way of Water Earns Third-Highest Fifth Weekend Ever

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:29 Avatar: The Way of Water’s 5th weekend
• 04:54 New films performing surprisingly well
• 07:04 Titles debuting this weekend
• 09:15 Does every movie have to cost the same?
• 11:40 MoviePass relaunch update
• 15:42 What to watch this weekend

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Rebecca Pahle and Shawn Robbins provide us insight into the continued performance of Avatar, the Way of Water as well as this weekend's crop of new releases. In the feature segment, Rebecca speaks with Caryn Coleman, the founder and executive director of the nonprofit organization, The Future of Film is Female  about the organization’s effort to help and support women filmmakers through its funding, exhibition, and promotion programs.

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Episode Resources:

• The Future of Film is Female
• MLK Box Office Forecast: Avatar: The Way of Water Looks to Top Titanic‘s No. 2 All-Time Fifth Frame at $30M+; All Eyes on M3GAN‘s Hold and A Man Called Otto‘s Expansion

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 02:21 Avatar: The Way of Water continues to perform
• 05:01 M3gan box office debut
• 06:10 Horror films of 2022
• 06:49 A Man Called Otto
• 08:14 Upcoming weekend title releases
• 12:26 The Future of Film is Female history
• 15:14 Focused on promoting films directed by women
• 19:18 There’s a lot of amazing films that have gone nowhere
• 24:25 Sales split
• 26:34 Convincing people to watch short films
• 29:25 How to support the organization 

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Russ Fischer, Daniel Loria, and  Rebecca Pahle give us an overview of last year’s box office records and 2023’s upcoming slate from five major studios. 

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Episode Resources:

• Weekend Box Office: Avatar: The Way of Water Scores Fourth-Highest Third Weekend Ever Domestically

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 04:08 Avatar: The Way of Water
• 05:14 Disney’s 2022 box office numbers
• 10:19 2023 slate from Disney
• 14:30 Universal’s 2022 hits and misses
• 17:10 2023 slate from Universal
• 21:31 Paramount’s 2022 and 2023 film slates
• 28:22 Sony’s 2022 box office films
• 34:24 Sony’s 2023 slate
• 42:14 Warner Bros. 2022 films
• 44:41 2023 slate for Warner Bros.
• 55:47 Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning 
• 58:05 The top must-see list for 2023

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Russ Fischer, Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Shawn Robbins bring back the biggest news and updates, and the box office numbers of the most anticipated and surprisingly, the most unexpected films of 2022.

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Episode Resources:

• St. Jhude Children's Research Hospital

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 02:07 Box office numbers for 2022
• 06:59 Biggest business news this year
• 08:47 Warner-Discovery partnership
• 14:36 Bob Iger coming back to Disney
• 17:25 Top Gun Maverick coming on Memorial Day
• 22:14 Huge movie surprise this year: RRR
• 26:59 The launch of National Cinema Day
• 30:33 Best horror movies this year
• 35:18 Disappointments this year
• 38:42 Netflix’s promise of going theatrical
• 40:08 Transition period for Lionsgate
• 45:04 Favorite movie going moments of 2022

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Russ Fischer, Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle discuss the opening weekend–and second weekend holdover potential–of Avatar: The Way of Water, as well as Christmas releases providing counterprogramming potential. In the feature segment, representatives from data firm Omdia, exhibitors National Amusements and Marcus Theatres, and premium cinema provider ICE Theaters discuss the role premium formats have played in exhibition in 2022.

This episode is sponsored by ICE Theaters.

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Episode Resources:

• Omdia
• ICE Theaters

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:41 Opening weekend of Avatar
• 03:47 Premium format stats domestically
• 06:25 Audience demographics
• 08:30 Batman vs. Avatar
• 10:36 Premium format stats internationally
• 12:41 Christmas effect on movie weekends
• 13:44 Strange World vs. Sing 2
• 14:50 Babylon
• 16:13 Whitney Houston biopic
• 17:26 Crucial weeks for Avatar
• 19:19 What premium large format is today?
• 24:50 What does the future of premium screens look like?
• 27:02 Growth of premium screens in 2022
• 27:39 Films that worked the best under premium large format
• 30:02 Trends that worked best
• 34:00 Financial performance of PLF
• 36:46 Marketing higher ticket prices
• 39:38 Marketing outside of the film itself
• 43:14 Earned media
• 46:56 Mistakes to avoid when installing PLF auditoriums
• 49:53 Paying for the PLF experience
• 52:06 Effect of inflation in the PLF space
• 57:28 PLF in 2023

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Russ Fischer, Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Shawn Robbins bring us forecast for Avatar: The Way of Water and several titles set for release soon. In the feature segment, Russ and Daniel go through James Cameron’s blockbuster titles and overall film history.

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What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 02:21 Pressure put on Avatar: The Way of Water
• 03:18 Strange World 
• 07:19 Puss in Boots forecast
• 08:24 The Whale
• 10:27 Avatar: The Way of Water
• 16:04 Piranha II: The Spawning
• 18:50 The Terminator (1984)
• 24:37 Aliens (1986)
• 36:24 The Abyss (1989)
• 41:25 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
• 48:40 True Lies / Strange Days
• 54:40 Titanic (1997)
• 01:08:55 Avatar

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Russ Fischer, Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle cover another disappointing box office numbers and the possible reception of the upcoming film Avatar: The Way of Water. In the feature segment, we get to listen to the panel conversation Rebecca had with several exhibitors and specialty distributors on the state of art houses.

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Episode Resources:

• Spotlight Cinema Networks

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:44 Lowest domestic market weekend since September
• 02:46 The Fabelmans 
• 08:12 Bones and All
• 09:34 Avatar: The Way of Water
• 13:15 Longer theatrical run
• 15:46 Legendary titles
• 22:24 What program is working right now?
• 26:22 Plenty of fils to fill the screens
• 32:51 Percentage of moviegoers coming back
• 41:53 How can distributors help?
• 44:16 Are film festivals back?
• 48:07 Upcoming films in 2023
• 54:04 More access to undistributed films 

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Jesse Rifkin cover the Thanksgiving box office numbers. In the feature segment, Daniel talks to NCG Cinemas CEO Jeff Geiger about NCG’s roots and origins, and strategy of incorporating modern concepts into their theaters. 

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Episode Resources:

• Fathom Events
• NCG

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 04:15 The Amazon Studios deal?
• 07:51 Box office numbers for Thanksgiving weekend
• 12:53 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery release numbers
• 18:26 From bowling business to movie theaters
• 20:53 Family business through the years
• 24:16 Modern concepts 
• 27:11 Good content + good marketing
• 28:36 What about alternative content?
• 30:06 Staying competitive in digital content
• 31:33 Educating customers of change
• 34:29 Movie theater pricing
• 36:10 Getting back to pre-COVID numbers

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Daniel Loria and Shawn Robbins discuss the latest box office numbers and the latest executive changes over at Disney. In the feature segment, Russ Fischer joins Daniel to talk about the long history of films directed by Steven Spielberg. 

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Episode Resources:

• Fathom Events

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 02:15 Thanksgiving weekend movies
• 03:09 What can we expect from The Fabelmans?
• 04:38 Two new titles this week
• 06:58 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in week three
• 10:22 Executive shakeup at Disney
• 14:48 Fathom Events on screening The Chosen’s S3 episode 1&2
• 18:10 West Side Story
• 22:48 Jaws
• 34:29 Close Encounters 
• 41:46 Indiana Jones movies
• 45:28 Empire of the Sun
• 53:01 Saving Private Ryan
• 57:17 Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can
• 01:04:01 War of the Worlds, Munich
• 01:09:33 Bridge of Spies
• 01:14:06 Ready Player One
• 01:16:38 The Fabelmans

On this week’s episode of The Boxoffice Podcast, hosts Daniel Loria, Rebecca Pahle, and Shawn Robbins cover Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s box office numbers for its weekend debut. In the feature segment, Daniel interviews Ray Nutt, CEO of Fathom Events on the box office success of their 2022 offerings as well as plans to distribute more content internationally.

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Episode Resources:

• Fathom Events

What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 01:55 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever opening weekend
• 10:03 What helps drive concession sales? 
• 12:16 The Fabelmans premiere
• 16:15 Fathom Events: just about to double last year’s revenue 
• 18:08 Taking content internationally
• 19:39 Future plans for more growth opportunities
• 22:32 Quality content plays a huge role
• 24:25 The business model that works
• 26:16 Current event programs
• 29:52 The future of events cinemas