Inside Disney's Blockbuster Summer | Charting with Dan! 

Petition for dan to only ever refer to the tickets sold number as the BIS number and never explain what that stands for

Some people put on reruns of The Office or Friends, I like to go back and watch old episodes of Charting with Dan and Honest Trailer Commentaries...

You forgot to mention that Far From Home will be the first billion movie from Sony since Skyfall, you have to mention that for your next charting next Tuesday.

Dan, you called Toy Story 4 3 again... Go home and think about that!!! Just kidding, love your work.

We all know movies can have legs but now they can have tails?? Dan has taught me so much about movie anatomy.

That subtle Grace shade...I laughed!!!

I sure hope Lon is the permanent co-host on charting. Kinda seems like it at this point. Perfect compliment to Dan on this show.

Should get shirts that say "Do you even chart?"

I would like to file Lon's comment at 24:22 as one of the best quotes in Screen Junkies history!

The reference to Grace means that Beyond the trailer and Fandom Entretainmen exist in the same youtube universe?

This is why 2018 was a better year for film: the top movie at last year's box office was not a DIsney film. Of course, I refer to John Travolta's magnum opus, *Gotti* .

You know why I'm here, the avengers watch and quality content 😎

If Lion King does end up working for the general public the way Aladdin did, then I don't know if people are ready for how huge the grosses could be. People forget that for almost a decade (until Finding Nemo) the original Lion King was the highest grossing animated film of all time (not adjusted).

Haha... That poke at grace :D

damn the shade they threw at grace!!! hahaha

The grace Randolph shade is hilarious 😂

Avengers: Endgame still has Australia, Chile and MAYBE South Korea in August. That alone along with Comic-Con next weekend, will help Endgame pass Avatar.

Been waiting all day for this! I LOVE THE BOX OFFICE!!! Avengers Wil be #1!

A strategy that I think theater chains can adopt to encourage more viewing of the smaller films is to have different ticket pricing for different films, preferably based on budget. I might not have financial issues with watching a lot of films, but it still feels kind of odd to me that a huge expensive fancy blockbuster like Spider-Man costs the same amount of money to view as a much cheaper film like Yesterday or Midsommar. I read somewhere that ticket sales for smaller films skyrocket on $5 Tuesdays and similar discount days, so this might be a viable strategy in a market with increasing bigger budget gaps.

The grace shade 😂

Not a Monday without some charting with Dan and Lon

My theater only ever gets packed for big blockbusters and superhero movies, but still, BOTH Crawl and Stuber were completely empty when I saw them.

wow! Lon dropping the spoiler bomb! scar kills mufasa???

On your left Avengers Endgame! 🇺🇸 👍 👏 🙌 🔥 👏 ❤️ This is it.

Hey Dan, could we get a spoilers talk about Midsommar? There's a bunch of stuff I'd love to hear your thoughts on

11:33 It's so refreshing that you guys leave your movie insider bubble and realize that going to the movies is rare for a lot of people and may only happen 1 or 2 times a year. You bring that up a lot which I appreciate. I know this may sound so obvious to some, but there are some people who don't realize this. Subscriptions like AMC A-List (the only one that seems to be working on a large scale, to my knowledge.) help get more people to the movies more frequently, but $20 a month is still a decent amount to a lot of people, especially for something like entertainment. (That's not counting any theatre snacks if they choose to buy some.)

Some people might but I'm not spending money on a re-animation of the Lion King when there's so many new movies out this summer.

Dan, Avengers EG did set a record against Avatar for highest worldwide grossing film all time during its 1st uninterrupted theatrical run. Avatar made $2,777,223,601 before closing on 8/8/10 and it reopened on 8/27 to add $10.7M to its total cume. EG is now $4M above that at $2,781,212,415. Is it a technicality that Avatar took two weekends off before releasing a special edition? Possibly, but it is a gap that is only different from the Star Wars re-releases in degree but not in kind.

I like the dig at the move math girl.

Weird anecdote, but I am wearing the same t-shirt as Lon and wanted to announce that to the world for some reason.

Three months in release for Endgame... bear in mind that Avatar was 34 weeks in release (& includes it's special edition re-release in its total)... so it is more of a sprint than it might have seemed

"Please, just, come on, buy out a few AMCs you cheap bastards." My favorite Lon quote so far.

Today I watch charting on my phone, next week I watch on my $190 4k tv. Thanks Amazon.

I dont think Aladdin will be able to resist Far From Home, I think even Toy Story is gonna lose to it.

Oh hang on. Hold up now. Do I smell..... Grace Randolph shade?! Goddamn it, I think I do! You guys are too much!!! XD

After seeing the trailer for Crawl, I thought it would be equivalent to hurricane heist last year. Ratings have me surprised and interested to check it out

The problem with comedies are not the theaters its the movies themselves. 1) most comedies dont have that much comedy in them. (I laugh more watching The Wolf of Wallstreet then i do from a comedy) 2) they try to tell to many jokes that dont land any punches to them. Idk where this idea came from but they try to tell a joke per minute and it stupid. Tell a good story first and build the jokes in. When u look at how many jokes a comedy will tell vs how many joke u laughed at u will see the problem. They tell like 200 jokes and you might only laugh at like 4 of them. 3) pretty much every comedy is made with the camera quality of a Disney Channel Original lol. For real, the cinematography is not good. They look like tv movies and cheaply made. Which i know you can say that most comedies are low budget but take someone like Wes Anderson who also makes low budget film and youll see the difference. (Make the movies look like it deserves to be in theaters and ppl will come) Bonus: All movies should have a better quality then Tv if their in the theaters. If they dont, ppl wont waste their time spending money to watch a movie with shittier quality then stranger things. Even if its good the quality sucks.

We should keep in mind that Endgame has only been in theaters for 11 weeks, Avatar was in theaters for 30+

Oooh, a jab at grace with the "nobody talking about Spider-Man", so edgy.

I really wanted to see Booksmart in the theater but my trips to the cinema during that period were to see Yesterday & Spiderman. If I'd gone to see another that would've been it but, as you said, it just wasn't a high enough priority & my viewing slots were limited.

Dan has turned Monday’s into my favorite day of the week

What if the price of a low budget movie be cheaper then maybe more people would go to them.

Spider-man FFH is definitely gonna surpass Aladdin overall at the domestic box office, so the "Disney will have the top 3 Summer movies" isn't gonna happen.

I thought it was weird that Booksmart was released wide instead of being released in a few theaters and then expanded like an indi movie. It definitely felt more like an indi movie and I wonder if it would have been more successful, or at least perceived as more successful, if they had taken time to build momentum and word of mouth. It was a great movie and hopefully more people will see it on streaming.

Lon dropping oh its sad aladdins hit the bottom made me lol

Since 2015, Disney has had at least 3 films in the top 10 box office films of the year In 2016, the top 5 grossing films of the year were Disney films (same with 2017 and 2019 currently if you include merchandising from the Spider-Man films) Still to some from Disney this year: Maleficent 2, Frozen 2, and Star War 9 (I might have missed some) All hail our mice overlords!

We all make Mistakes Dan like some ppl liking Ironman 3, I respect people's opinions but that is a mistake

THE BEST SEGMENT OF RU-vid!!!! CHARTING WITH DAN!!!!.... You want to know about the movie business???... You have to wacht this chart!!!

I'm not going to see the live animation of Lion King because I already seen the 90's version so I'm going to skip it until Tarantino's 9th film once upon a time... in Hollywood comes out.

I'm on vacation in a small town in Ohio right now, and our local theater is literally only playing a single film on all of it's screens this friday: The Lion King. This movie is going to be huge!

That Grace Randolph shade was so good

this is my favorite show on this channel

I was having a hard time sleeping, and then I saw this video just came out! Thanks for giving me something to do

buy out theater seats for Endgame and give the tickets away to those in financial distress?

His name is Stu and he drives an Uber... Hillarious!

I love Dan and think he's on point all the time. BUT c'mon, Aladdin is one of the MOST beloved classic Disney movies. It shouldn't be so surprising that's it's made almost 1 billion. Beauty and the Beast made 1.2 or 1.3 billion. So Aladdin can at least make a billion.

soon movies will only be made by disney and we won’t call them movies we’ll call them disneys

Crawl isn’t in the north east of England in any cinemas haven’t seen it if it was out I would see it

Where is this week's episode?

I saw Stuber ALONE on SATURDAY at 4:45 and I ENJOYED it!

"Buy out a couple of theaters you cheap bastard." - Lon Harris

These charting videos come out at like 3-4 AM where I live so whenever you say that these come out on monday I always get confused as to what day it is for a sec

Wow Aladdin could be Disneys 3rd billion dollar movie this year.

Endgame is just $6.8m behind avatar now. Will it pass?

I'm sorry Dan, but there is NO way Disney will have the top 3 movies of the summer, since Spiderman will at the very least beat Aladdin (meanwhile Spiderman vs. Toy Story seems like an open race). A little disappointed there ;) Of course if you count Spiderman as a Disney movie, they're not only likely to have the top 4 of the summer, but probably 8 of the top 10 movies of the year overall, maybe even the entire top 8 (if Frozen 2 does well, and ofc Star Wars), which is even crazier.

This episode was a Delightful Pleasure!

That money argument whilst fair is a little broader than most think. For instance a friend thought it was odd i've seen 15 movies this year and said " gee that's a lot of money." 15 dollar tickets where i go so (with concessions on occasion) i've spent around 200-250 at the cinemas which out of context seems a big amount, however i went for birthday drinks with friends and spent 70 dollars on the one night and I know plenty of people who do that a lot more and spend a lot more. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that we all if fortunate enough spend money on things that we don't need it's just that some things seem to be more acceptable to spend money on than others. Frankly i'd rather see a movie than get drunk but that's just me.

Dan and LON... I need DON to be there together in each of these shows.

The real push now in the Avengers vs Avatar battle is to have it become the highest grossing movie ever in time for the advertising push when it’s released in a couple weeks on Dod and blu-Ray

That Grace Randolph shade at the beginning of the video... and I oop

„The online chat is very disconnect to the box office!“ So true.

The mouse rules the world.

I've been saying for the last 2 years that studios need to just make comedies straight for on demand. My couch with my friends and my food is the best way to watch a comedy.

Lon "Dropping Bombs" Harris!

DAAAAAAAAN! LOOOOOON! Great show.

WoW! DISNEY literally owns every franchise that I love. 😅There is no resistance to The House of Mouse this year. Just saying.

Why do they call the Lion King a live action remake? Its a bunch of CGI animals! Its basically another cartoon.

Like it or not, Disney played the LOOOONG game, really. She always had a LOT of concerned about brand perception, thing other studios did not. Now they have massive nostalgia to cash in, associated with good marketing and bussiness decision on buying companies that appeals to different demographies. She has the classic fairy tales for kids, has the most famous super heros, has star wars for the older demographies. I don't like monopolies, buy Disney had some brilliant marketing and business strategies so far, hard to deny their success.

Were you thinking of The Department of Energy for your fifth pick? 😂

HOLD THE PHONE.....Did Dan just make a Herman’s Hermits reference?!! #BeStillMyHeart. THIS is the quality content I come for!!!!

So can we expect Disney to announce Aladdin sequel soon? I would love to see Mena and Naomi together again.

I wonder if toy story 4 will join the billon dollar club?

Dan reaffirming that he does not care for realistic looking animals talking, kinda makes me wonder if there is a story behind this discomfort, or it's a simple "I don't like this" case.

Aww, Dan put himself in time out for confusing Sony/Disney with Spiderman. "I'll go home and think about what I've said." No need to do that. You are awesome!!

Lion King is going 170 plus. 200 million is very much in play. And worldwide, China numbers are not great but this film is going to kill everywhere else.

I am surprised that Lion King did not open early in Africa not China since Lion King takes place in Africa.

I waited all day for Charting!

"Rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic" - classic Dan

Was that “nobody’s talking about Spider-Man” shade towards Grace Randolph? 🤣

Sometimes in different countries movies come out on different dates who makes those decisions? And why? (Toy STory: www.imdb.com/title/tt1979376/releaseinfo)

I am almost certain spider man will pass Aladdin domestically. So Disney probably won’t end up with the top three movies of the summer.

hahahaha yeah, NO ONE is talking about spiderman.... 😂😂😂

Since it will be more than 10 years when Avatar 2 is released I see Avatar getting a release

I think this is disney one off best year. I'm curious to see if the love n money keeps pouring in for the marvel movies now that the line up is going to change m losing the names that have been from the jump. Black panther n captain marvel got huge bumps from the w avenger movies coming after them.

Disney is big dumb. The Last Black Man in San Francisco should make $1 billion

People forgot that Cap is old now so a leisurely stroll is more his speed for passing blue aliens. Oh no .... are the Navi going to be in Avengers 7?

you guys are right you cant really compare years apart because of inflation and other variables but still you can see who's coming out on top just within the year

Dan said Toy Story 3 right before the 16 minute mark! Lol!

Why do you guys sound like you're annoyed every time the endgame/avatar discussion comes up? I find it exciting that the all time global record could be beaten. I don't care that Disney owns both properties, one was created and released by them, the other was just inherited

"Just buy out a few AMC's ya cheap bastard". Salty Lon, salty.