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The Predaking said:

IIRC, it was like the 12th family movie of the summer, came out at the end of the summer, and parents didn't want to bring their kids back to see it with all the death of their beloved characters.

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They actually address that last point specifically and how it doesn't seem to hold up.

The other stuff, too, and a little more.

Worth watching, as a Beast Wars fan.

LBD Nytetrayn said:

They actually address that last point specifically and how it doesn't seem to hold up.

The other stuff, too, and a little more.

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Well, they say it's because it debuted in the #14 spot, so word of mouth about the deaths and violence wouldn't have affected the first week. That is a fair argument, but I bring up the fact that it came out right as kids are getting ready to go back to school and it was following the following movies to theaters that would have robbed from its target audience:

Short Circuit
My little pony
Space Camp
Ferris Buellers Day off
Back to School
Karate Kid Part 2
Labyrinth
The Great Mouse Detective
Aliens
Flight of the Navigator
Howard the Duck
Stand By Me


All of these films just ate away at the family friendly or action/scifi films for that summer. It seems that they agree with me on this point and think that is the main reason it bombed in the box office.


On top of that, their other argument was that the movie held on and made a lot of money on the following weeks. This is not true.





You can see that after the first weekend it had a 48% drop off. That is about average for films that aren't hits. If it is a big film, a popular one that is going to sell a lot of tickets(Pre-covid that is) then the drop off rate would be around 20-30%

While it did make a good portion of its money in the next four weeks, it didn't hold on and just kind of dropped off, despite having a holiday weekend to help. So like I said, parents didn't bring their kids back to see the film, which is a shame, as I think parents could actually sit through TFTM a lot better than most of the kids movies I have seen.

"The memory cheats," as they say -- but I do still recall that my mother and I attended a premiere showing in our locality. It was a matinee at one of the smaller theatres, but one in the centre of town. So already it seems that there may have been some booking issues (possibly caused by the crowded release market, though at 11 I knew little or nothing of this).

What I do recall is that my mother was decidedly not a fan of the soundtrack! (It likely didn't help that we were near one of the speakers.) We didn't see another theatrical showing (and I would not until Botcon 2000).

Now, if one was to talk VHS rentals....