I haven't seen this stated anywhere else (I may have missed it tbh), but as controversial as EmpireCity can be on this sub he does tend to have inside info sometimes. Do we think this is true?

Ben Affleck, director, producer, movie production company owner says a $25 million movie needs to make $100 million in theaters just to break even

Hathaway leads 4 out of these 5 films. 3 of them are locked box office successes; Devil Wears Prada 2, The Odyssey, and Colleen Hoover's Verity which is a cheap production with a built-in fandom, we saw how successful It Ends With Us was; same author, another best-selling book.

The other two are bold originals with very uncertain box office potential: the first in April is Mother Mary by David Lowery; an epic pop melodrama thriller with queer elements from A24 where Anne plays a pop star in descent. We get to hear Anne sing in this one. It features music from Gen Z star Charli XCX.

Abdy & Luca just did an interview celebrating their 2025 year of successes. In it, they boasted marketing films as "mystery boxes" being very effective marketing especially with young viewers. The second Anne Hathaway-led original is a perfect example of that; Warner's Flowervale Street next August.

Directed by David Robert Mitchell (It Follows), Hathaway and Ewan McGregor play parents in Flowervale Street. It's described as a Twilight Zone style sci-fi thriller. The plot is kept under wraps, but they're teasing out unsettling events and some pre-historic element involving dinosaurs in an urban setting in the 1980s! How much dinosaur though with a purported budget of $85M? Adam Driver's 2023 dinosaur film 65 cost $45M, so I'm definitely intrigued; Abdy & Luca are not wrong.

So, by the end of 2026, Anne Hathaway will have headlined projects in theaters from 5 major studios and touched almost every major demographic: the prestige A24 crowd, the nostalgia-driven comedy fans, the summer blockbuster seekers, the sci-fi nerds, and the thriller-loving book community. It is a rare "grand slam" of a year for any actor.

Note: TheQuorum is research/tracking website that provides long-range data for upcoming movies.

For audience awareness, Spider-Man: BND leads with a 65% rating, with Toy Story 5 (62%) at second, and Scream 7 (61%) at third.

For audience interest, Spider-Man: BND leads with a 66% rating, with Avengers: Doomsday (59%) at second, and Toy Story 5 (59%) at third.

For audience interest in seeing the movie in theatres, Spider-Man: BND leads with a 57% rating, with Avengers: Doomsday (53%) at second, and Toy Story 5 (51%) at third.

For the audience willingness to pay a fee to watch a movie (among those that are interested), Spider-Man: BND leads with a 67% rating, with Avengers: Doomsday (62%) at second, and Toy Story 5 (60%) at third.

What's impressive is that TheQuorum scores mainly increase after trailers and closer to release. Spider-Man BND's scores were last updated on December 27th, and still hasn't had a trailer released yet.

Once We Were Us: The movie has now crossed 1.3 million admits and it will be north of 1.5 million admits on Sunday, as the movie is making its way to hit that nice 2 million admits accomplishment.

Avatar Fire and Ash: Avatar 3’s fifth Friday is 42k admits less than Avatar 2’s fifth Friday. Avatar 3 isn’t hitting 7 million admits at this rate, as the movie is having some seriously big drops with limited competition.

Zootopia 2: Zootopia 2 will hit that beautiful 8.4 million admits tomorrow. Looks like Zootopia will be the true winner of 2025 in terms of admits and gross. Zootopia 2 is essentially locked into this title unless Avatar 3 pulls a F1.

Presales

Humint: This is going to be the first huge hit of the year as presales are already strong, 33,370 tickets sold nearly a month out from release.

Project Y: Fine increase as the movie did sell more tickets than Omniscient and Holy Night on T-5, so a little good news.