News · moment 10 of 20
Hollywood's Prestige Movies Are Bombing
from Love and Lizards | The Tim Dillon Show #326 · #326
3 min
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Tim reads box office numbers showing prestige films like Armageddon Time, Tár, and Devotion are massively underperforming, and jokes about Emmett Till's story not being a 'fun summer film.'
- Hollywood's prestige films are spending heavily but tanking at the box office, with movies like Licorice Pizza and Nightmare Alley failing to draw audiences.
- Armageddon Time cost $30 million to make but collected only $1.9 million at the North American box office.
- Devotion cost over $100 million and has generated only $14 million in ticket sales.
- People aren't going to the box office anymore—they're watching films on streaming at home and studios can't measure success without box office numbers.
- Some of these prestige movies are just sad, like dramas about Stephen Spielberg's life with Paul Franklin Dano.
- Till, focused on Mamie Till Mobley whose son Emmett Till was murdered in 1955, collected $8.9 million in the U.S. and Canada.
- These emotionally challenging films deal with hard topics and aren't designed to be fun—nobody wants to take the family to see Emmett Till get lynched as a summer outing.
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