I am not a film maker in any way. So then why do so many news sites tell me about how much money the film has taken in during its first weekend, week, etc…?

As a film fan / viewer, why should I care?

Any sort of historical explanation would be very appreciated.

  • Pandantic [they/them]
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    10 个月前

    Kind of sucks in my opinion because all it means is “Other people like it”.

    It doesn’t even mean that, it just meant that they anticipated liking it and payed movie theater money to watch it. It could, by another metric, be seen as a flop or bad movie. Especially when it comes to opening weekend revenue because all that means is their advertising worked and got butts in seats for the first 3 days it was out.

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      Excellent point that’s absolutely true. It means “Marketing worked” (at least early on)