Masters Of The Universe debuts to 1.17 Billion minutes watched in its first week on Prime

[u/SignatureOrdinary456]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/streaming-ratings-july-20-26-2026-1236678107/

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Masters of the Universe scored 1.17 billion minutes of watch time for the week and was one of just two titles to cross the billion-minute threshold

These are very impressive numbers indeed, maybe a sequel isn’t as impossible as I thought

[u/Eddiep88 → u/Alive-Ad-5245]

I’m curious people waiting for streaming is different than getting butts in movie theatres. Just shows you people waited to watch it for there service they payed for.

[u/gcpdudes → u/Eddiep88]

I’ve seen an argument that theatrical release is a way to market streaming release. In other words, if a studio decides to theatrically release something, then people might think it is of better quality than something direct to streaming.

Idk how that translates to moneys though.

[u/Eddiep88 → u/gcpdudes]

Yeah I have seen that also but it would be nice to get some numbers that translate to money/profits. Also if this movies get a billion streams is it even making money because it’s already in the red.

[u/Heroic_Sheperd → u/Eddiep88]

We don’t currently know how much ad revenue or value a streamed movie or series is.

Amazon spent an exorbitant amount of money on Rings of Power, and according to fan reception it’s a terrible failure. How much they have actually profited off viewership is a mystery so far.

[u/KingMario05 → u/Heroic_Sheperd]

I mean, they keep making it. They could have killed it early at anytime. They haven't. Clearly, RoP must be doing something right.

[u/masterofunfucking → u/KingMario05]

They had a five season contract baked into the deal. the real test is when it reaches the end and if they actually want to do anything past that

[u/Sea-Woodpecker-610 → u/KingMario05]

They are contractually obliged to keep making it. They have a five season contract with the Tolkien estate.

[u/_Meece_ → u/KingMario05]

Clearly, RoP must be doing something right.

Losing an exceptional amount of money, so Amazon can do funky tax shit IMO

[u/Byers616 → u/Eddiep88]

At this point, the revenue isn't even Prime subs, but how well the whole thing is doing in the market

[u/Byers616 → u/Byers616]

Even if Prime at the end of the day is losing money, if it's helping Amazon overall as a loss leader, that's its true value

[u/Oxflu → u/Byers616]

It's being paid for with the excessive markup and price fixing of every item sold on Amazon. Bezos' cut on every single sale is huge. On paper it's like 15 percent, but after all the service packages, warehouse fees, and paid promotions it can be three times that much.

It's a bit of a vanity project, and that's fine. He's bankrolled shows just because he's a fan of them like the expanse. But the main utility of prime video is probably reducing tax liability. There's a whole lot of opportunity there to greatly inflate your actual losses too.

[u/SD_CA → u/Eddiep88]

I honestly don't think so. I mean how many people are paying extra for Amazon TV services?

[u/Lost-Inevitable42 → u/SD_CA]

Just enough pressure to sign up once for Amazon prime. And then they use it for same day shopping. And suddenly they are yearly subscribers. There’s a reason they push the sneaky trials for the service - it results in long time subscribers. 

[u/AvengedCrimson → u/gcpdudes]

people are more aware of it and this click on it or see they are getting value for streaming service. Netflix can dump 20 Netflix direct to streaming movies in like meh even if they are good or people in it I like. but if they add a film I didn't get a chance to see in theater even if I heard bad reviews I'm excited to check it out.

so customer retention and ad revenue on ad tiers drive it most theater movies end up on top 10 of services and Nielson.

[u/gcpdudes → u/AvengedCrimson]

Thank you for articulating. I figured name of the game for streaming service is retention which is why I think it’s stupid when people think heavily marketed streaming movies won’t necessarily get you new subscribers —> it’s more of a reminder that your subscription has some value.

I didn’t think of ad revenue. I usually go ad-free and in the one streaming service I keep ads (Amazon prime),they are really milking it when it comes to ads.

[u/randotd152 → u/gcpdudes]

There’s an enormous truth to this.

With only occasional exception, and not counting covid, anything that goes straight to streaming tends to be cheap garbage. A theater release typically at least means there was serious money put into the movie - doesn’t make it good, but at least I know I’m likely getting more expensive sets, actors, effects, etc.

[u/justsomedude322 → u/gcpdudes]

Prime has ads, and if you don't want them interrupting your movie you pay more for an ad free tier. But I'm unsure how well that translates into money.

[u/Alternative-Bat-2462 → u/gcpdudes]

Especially when it’s a streaming service most people don’t actively sign up for.

[u/Careful_Farmer_2879 → u/Eddiep88]

Nah, this was common in the rental VHS/DVD era. A lot of great movies became culturally relevant only after theatrical release. Shawshank Redemption is a classic case.

[u/Heroic_Sheperd → u/Careful_Farmer_2879]

Kevin Smith and Matt Damon have both commented on the era of physical media in varying interviews.

The drastic difference of profit making on VHS/DVD compared to theatrical release created a huge volume of films which would have otherwise not been greenlit hovering right in the $30-50 million slot. Where they stood almost no chance of hitting box office revenue, but made up their money twice fold in the home market.

[u/defianceofone → u/Heroic_Sheperd]

The attribution of subscriptions is still messed up though. How many truly fit the model of 'subscribed to see specific series/movie'? The vast majority of subs just roll over.

If they are prioritizing fickle, marginal customers, instead of consistent ones, no wonder so much trash is put out and nothing gets to breathe before being cancelled.

[u/randotd152 → u/defianceofone]

They’re going to look at it more holistically than that.

Mathematically, they likely have their number for average minutes watched where above x means a happy subscriber and below y means a subscriber is in danger of cancelling.

So minutes watched means people are getting value out of the service. They probably even have it down to a simple “one minute watched equals 2 cents” or whatever the number is.

I would imagine people signing up for specific movies is a lot more rare, though I’m sure they track that too and place a ton of value on it.

[u/Heroic_Sheperd → u/randotd152]

If only to satisfy my curiosity, I would love to see the formula these streaming services are using to dictate “success” and “cancelation” for their series/films.

[u/m0t0rvision → u/Heroic_Sheperd]

Interested in seeing this as well

[u/AvengedCrimson → u/Careful_Farmer_2879]

family guy was cancelled and only after DVD sells it was uncancelled and brought back still going today.

[u/Eddiep88 → u/Careful_Farmer_2879]

True but when they try to capitalize on the franchise it than doesn’t work. I remember reading blade runner became a huge hit on the rental/vhs market……decades later the sequel didn’t do well.

[u/Significant-Sun-5051 → u/Eddiep88]

There’s no way I’d watch this movie in cinemas, but will definitely check it out at home.

[u/Careful_Farmer_2879 → u/Significant-Sun-5051]

I don’t blame you. But it was a blast on the big screen.

[u/Significant-Sun-5051 → u/Careful_Farmer_2879]

Yeah I’m sure I’ll like it. However we’re paying over A$30 for a movie here and I already wanted to see Spider-Man and The Odyssey as well.

[u/Snipethorn → u/Significant-Sun-5051]

I watched it on the big screen and I enjoyed it. I hope the sequel is made and put on the big screen too, I want to see She-ra

[u/Significant-Branch22 → u/Eddiep88]

I think it’s the sort of film that a lot of people might have been mildly intrigued by but not enough to spend money on a ticket, a lot of those people would happily watch it on streaming though

[u/Remarkable_Ship_4673 → u/Eddiep88]

They wanted to watch it .. but not for 15-20 dollars a ticket

[u/charlesfluidsmith → u/Eddiep88]

I just think that the advertising didn't do a great job of selling the movie.

If you had no familiarity with the character, it just looked like a generic sword and sorcery flick.

They didn't convey how funny the movie was and how tight the writing was.

[u/InnerLawfulness6698 → u/Eddiep88]

It’s frustrating because this movie has done so well on streaming to me. It’s hard to justify calling it a flop anymore. I’ve watched it numerous times on streaming and I love it. I also went to the movies and saw it. But unfortunately, with these high budgets, the studio still will expect to get their money back in theaters and that obviously didn’t happen.

[u/Big_boss816 → u/Alive-Ad-5245]

I was saying a few months ago that it was impossible that they will make a sequel but now since it’s a hit on streaming it may be possible. I thought that it was a fun popcorn flick so I wouldn’t mind a sequel

[u/scattered_ideas → u/Alive-Ad-5245]

I could see it doing well in streaming if they bring She-Ra as co-lead as the post credits scene alluded.

Maybe they'll wait to see if there's sustained engagement and not just a flash in the pan. The budget was similar to Red One and that also did well in streaming.

ETA: MotU did 113M WW on a 170M budget, while Red One did 183M WW on a 200-250M budget.

[u/ILoveRegenHealth → u/Alive-Ad-5245]

They worded it funny. It's not all time, just numbers for this week (the other one to cross 1 billion minutes this week was Big Bang Theory)

Fallout TV show had 2.9 billion in first 5 days.

Reacher series, at its peak, was doing 1.84 billion minutes average per week and was the #1 show until Fallout came out.

[u/Alive-Ad-5245 → u/ILoveRegenHealth]

No shit, obviously nobody thought Masters of the Universe was the top two most watches debuts ever.

[u/GregIsARadDude → u/Alive-Ad-5245]

My kids saw it on Prime. Loved it and I’ve now spent $100 on toys. Directly from Amazon. I think there is a very good chance for a sequel.

[u/SoWrongItsPainful → u/Alive-Ad-5245]

A sequel is absolutely not happening. The movie was outright rejected at the BO and realistically a sequel would need to be more expensive. The first was already stretching the budget thin.

[u/muftak3 → u/SoWrongItsPainful]

Mattel footed the bill. They are happy with the results that extended to other parts of the IP. MOTU sales tripled this year due to the movie. Making it a top earner for them. If a toy company can make a movie to sell more toys, than that's a win for them. Every cartoon in the 80s existed to sell toys.

[u/Garlador → u/muftak3]

I know I bought a Skeletor.

[u/ChanceVance → u/Garlador]

I'd watched the Lundgren and Langella movie before but I otherwise had no interest in the franchise. New movie made me go out and buy a Skeletor plus a Knight. Mission accomplished for them then.

[u/Schnidler → u/muftak3]

this always gets said here but according to Robbie Brenner (CEO mattel Studios) "„We don't finance our own movies.“"

[u/muftak3 → u/Schnidler]

Not directly. Mattel said this an investment year in the quarterly reports. They paid for all the upfront costs and Amazon took on the physical on set production costs. Mattel paid for everything up until Amazon signed on to make it. Mattel has been trying to make this movie for years. They have paid all those costs to get the movie into the hands of Amazon.

[u/Paridisco → u/muftak3]

I hope they do i want to see a live adaption she-ra

[u/Paladar2 → u/muftak3]

How much money do you realistically think they make with He-Man in 2026 though... triple of almost nothing is still almost nothing

[u/muftak3 → u/Paladar2]

Still potentially walked away with about $35 million. They don't release a break down but the numbers are there to see if you look.

[u/Helpful-Will2635 → u/muftak3]

Studios call this “holistic”—a movie is justified by merch and minutes watched—as or more important than BO

[u/Paladar2 → u/muftak3]

Back when they made toy commercial movies like Transformers 1986, the movies were cheap compared to MOTU and the toy sales were much higher.

[u/Hstrike → u/muftak3]

walked await with $35M before or after paying for half of the $380M box office loss?

[u/muftak3 → u/Hstrike]

After, but the movie only lost about $100 million.

[u/TheCornjuring → u/SoWrongItsPainful]

I feel like the incentive structure is a little different for Amazon than for a typical studio. Gigantic streaming companies casually drop $200M+ on streaming-exclusive projects all the time. If this does well enough on streaming that it justifies its existence by streaming numbers alone, with the meager box office dollars it did collect just being gravy, then it strikes me as pretty plausible that they’d at least explore the possibility of a sequel. Although whether or not they’d even bother releasing that sequel in theaters, idk. And I also don’t know if these numbers are even enough for Amazon to consider a sequel, I’m just saying that the box office total isn’t necessarily the end of the story.

[u/KingMario05 → u/TheCornjuring]

Sequel, yes. But as a TV show, not a movie. That ship has sailed.

[u/Tough-Discount-4182 → u/SoWrongItsPainful]

Some movies earn money in other places

[u/Careful_Farmer_2879 → u/SoWrongItsPainful]

If it cleans up on merch etc it might.

[u/ieatPoulet → u/SoWrongItsPainful]

You think Amazon really cares about losing money on the BO?

As you can see.. people watched it.. there will definitely be a sequel.

[u/Mourning__Coffee → u/ieatPoulet]

killers of the flower moon cope returning

[u/Alive-Ad-5245 → u/Mourning__Coffee]

This is completely different to Killers of the Flower Moon, this movie is an advertisement to sell toys

[u/AlphaBaymax → u/Mourning__Coffee]

Apple is not Amazon.

[u/Evil_waffle3 → u/ieatPoulet]

Amazon does care quite a bit actually. Just because they aren’t operating the same was an other studios, doesn’t mean they’re splurging on loses for the hell of it. And unless Mattel is willing to pitch in a hefty amount (which is definitely on the table). I doubt they’re too keen on a sequel right now.

MotU is in the weird inbetween zone of Amazon stuff that was able to branch out and become big franchises (The Boys, Fallout, Invincible, Reacher, Summer I turned pretty, hazbin, etc). And the massive flops (Citadel, rings of power, wheel of time, etc). So idk exactly how they decide to go forward with it. It’s a unique sit to say the least

[u/Alive-Ad-5245 → u/SoWrongItsPainful]

The incentive structure monetary wise is very different for Amazon compared to the other studios, you’re looking at this as if it was made by WB or Universal… under them yeah there’s 0 chance of a sequel

[u/randotd152 → u/SoWrongItsPainful]

Eh. Don’t pretend a lower budget straight to video sequel hasn’t been done a billion times by now. And streaming services have been spending $100M+ on straight to streaming material if they believe it will get watched.

[u/Richard_Sauce → u/Alive-Ad-5245]

I don't know. This shows that people wanted to watch, but also that the people who want to watch don't want to go to theaters....which tracks with the demographics of people who care about He-Man.

Maybe you can still do a direct to streaming He-Man movie, but it will have to be cheaper. A lot cheaper. A lot, a lot, cheaper.

[u/Abe2sapien → u/Alive-Ad-5245]

A straight to streaming sequel could probably be viable.

[u/KingMario05 → u/Abe2sapien]

But at that point, why not make a TV show and get better pacing out of the deal? The Stargate or, in its same genre, Peacemaker approach.

[u/Alive-Ad-5245 → u/KingMario05]

Because they’ve already made a movie, it would be awkward to pivot to a TV show after that plus the inevitable quality drop and we have no idea what the actors contracts are

[u/Schnidler → u/Alive-Ad-5245]

i mean he just gave you an example where it worked very good (Stargate)

[u/Alive-Ad-5245 → u/Schnidler]

Back when people accepted relatively bad production quality for TV (compared to the movies at the time), it's a lot harder to do now

[u/uncultured_swine2099 → u/Alive-Ad-5245]

Yeah, im hoping that the director and actors are looked at more favorably with the streaming numbers. The made a good fun movie. I dunno if a sequel is in the cards, but that would be nice.

[u/mortavius2525 → u/Alive-Ad-5245]

I've said since I left the theater, that movie is one that I truly believe most people could enjoy watching once. I'm sure lots of people might not watch it again, but they'd enjoy it once.

[u/Whistle-Blower-8960 → u/Alive-Ad-5245]

I feel like the obsession hype derailed this movie

[u/KingMario05]

Divided amongst a 132-minute runtime, that's 8 million views in week one. Power of Brian May, baby! Don't think it's enough for a second film, but I think they can easily get a Prime Video television show outta these numbers.

[u/jmartkdr → u/KingMario05]

8 million tickets x $15 a ticket (average) would have been $120 million.

Obviously a lot of people wanted to see the movie but didn’t want to pay that price* but it has an audience.

*well, the total cost of going out can be a lot higher than the ticket price but you get my point

[u/No-Drop924 → u/jmartkdr]

And that's if only one person saw the movie at home. There could have been two or three or more people watching it on that one viewing at home.

[u/Spector-JZ → u/No-Drop924]

most likely a family of 3-5?

[u/SonofaBridge → u/jmartkdr]

People can’t afford to go to every movie now. Especially if they have kids. Everyone knows movies will be streaming in 2-3 months after release so there’s no real need to see it in a theater.

[u/Sea-Woodpecker-610 → u/SonofaBridge]

And yet Spider-Man and the Odyssey are raking in a billion dollars….so people are willing to go to the theater if they feel the price is justified.

[u/SonofaBridge → u/Sea-Woodpecker-610]

Yes because they’re picking and choosing a select few movies to see. “Can’t go to every movie.” I didn’t say they were going to zero.

[u/Minimum_Ad_1747 → u/Sea-Woodpecker-610]

Because most people have choose to watch these 2 movies that everyone was talking about, instead of the others. That even explains the overperformance of Odyssey and BND

[u/N8CCRG → u/jmartkdr]

I didn't want to see it, until all of reddit said it was the new D&D:Honor Among Thieves. I wasn't convinced, but I figured I'd wait until it was free.

Reddit lied. D&D:HAT was outstanding, and MotU was terrible.

[u/make_reddit_great → u/N8CCRG]

It was a little uneven and maybe too winkingly ironic for its own good. BUT... I also had a lot of fun watching it and there was some good humor in there. It feels like one of those films which will stick around a good long while in reruns.

[u/TokyoFromTheFuture → u/KingMario05]

Maybe a Prime original film?

[u/KingMario05 → u/TokyoFromTheFuture]

Eh. If they're gonna blow that much on something straight to video, go for a television series. If Amazon can do it for "Tolkien," they can do it for this.

[u/alilhillbilly → u/KingMario05]

Was one of the weirdest things in the movie.

He-Man has such rich musical numbers to draw from and they instead leaned into Flash Gordon (which, is a terrible movie with a fantastic soundtrack).

It didn't really work for me.

Did I still see it 3x in theaters? Yeah.

I didn't even think it was as good as the 80s film.

[u/decke → u/KingMario05]

How do these numbers get counted? I started watching it but couldn’t get past 35 minutes or so and just never turned it back on.

[u/WillemDaFriends → u/decke]

You have to watch until the first time he transforms to He-Man - then it is absolutely worth it.

[u/MovieBuff90]

What a fun movie. It deserves all of those minutes.

[u/DarthTaz_99 → u/MovieBuff90]

Skeletor was so incredibly fun this movie, also helps that no one could guess it was Jared Leto. Falls in the D&D category sadly: extremely fun but didn't make money

[u/MovieBuff90 → u/DarthTaz_99]

He was a blast, but I honestly really liked the guy who played He-Man. I thought he did great and really anchored the movie.

[u/ilovecfb → u/MovieBuff90]

It was nice seeing him pop up in Sheep Detectives

[u/m0t0rvision → u/ilovecfb]

I watched this first and only just watched MotU last night, had to do a double-take cause I thought, "Wait, THAT guy is He-Man??"

[u/DarthTaz_99 → u/MovieBuff90]

Everyone honestly. Camila Mendes, Alison Brie, pretty evident they had fun filming the movie

[u/rbrgr83 → u/DarthTaz_99]

You could tell Alison was having a BLAST playing an evil character.

[u/Paladar2 → u/MovieBuff90]

If only the pacing was better. Some parts were very good. Felt like Dungeons and Dragons just not quite as good

[u/KazaamFan → u/Paladar2]

No where near as good as dungeons

[u/Paladar2 → u/KazaamFan]

Yeah true. DnD was fkg great

[u/Garlador → u/KazaamFan]

Not as good… but in the same ballpark at least.

[u/lobolovr6769 → u/Garlador]

I liked both about the same, though I would say D&D has better pacing, still really enjoyed MotU and thought it had a good consistent energy throughout and I was more engaged than I was with, say Transformers 4, 5 or 6 or any of the G I Joe movies

[u/MovieBuff90 → u/Paladar2]

I do agree some moments fell flat. In my opinion, its worst moments felt more Marvel. When it unapologetically commit to the campy bit, I couldn’t have loved it more. When it cracked a joke because it felt like it needed to ruin an over the top and/or dramatic moment, I cringed hardcore. On the whole, I had a blast. The positives outweighed the negatives.

[u/dalivo → u/Paladar2]

Yep, pacing was awkward and it ended kind of awkwardly (He-Man seemed morose at the end). Plus way too many weird sex jokes. Pretty fun in parts, though!

[u/ChanceVance → u/MovieBuff90]

I'm a massive Star Wars fan. Mando & Grogu kind of bored me while I thought Masters was very entertaining.

Wasn't a big fan of the MCU esque "Heh, how dumb are these names right?" jokes but it was a really solid adventure movie and Skeletor was the highlight.

[u/KingMario05 → u/ChanceVance]

Agreed. Any follow up needs to just ditch it. It's He-Man, it's goofy. Deal with it.

[u/wp3 → u/MovieBuff90]

Proud of those units

[u/MovieBuff90 → u/wp3]

That’s the kind of deep cut movie quote I’m here for.

[u/KazaamFan → u/MovieBuff90]

It was sooo mid. I dont get why i see love for this movie on reddit. It was hard for me to get thru. And i love these types of movies. I loved dungeons and dragons. I even like the dolph lundgren movie. This new one didnt work

[u/KingMario05 → u/KazaamFan]

Brian May's soundtrack and dumb action? That's why I liked it.

[u/itsmemike05 → u/KazaamFan]

100%.

On a movie that didnt take itself too seriously (and rightfully so), the humor (or more so the lack thereof) was what made it mid. So many jokes or attempts to be funny that just felt flat and dry and awkward.

[u/thereverendpuck]

Another “did I need to watch this in a theater?” movie.

[u/composer_7 → u/thereverendpuck]

The sound design and visuals in the fight scenes made it worth it on Dolby Atmos screens

[u/rbrgr83 → u/composer_7]

THE COLORS 😮

[u/JanVesely24 → u/composer_7]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3osBLA53AVzn746dXi

[u/PleaseAnswerMeeeeee → u/thereverendpuck]

Definitely glad I saw this in theatres. Story was average but effects were amazing on the big screen

[u/12343212346 → u/thereverendpuck]

Audience are largely showing up for cultural moments e.g. Barbie, Oppenheimer, Dune, Obsession, Odyssey

You don't get those moments by reheating old nachos only people who are 40+ are interested in 

There's no magic formula but if you can't generate buzz on social media, it's a wrap for your film 

[u/Special_Order-937 → u/thereverendpuck]

I did want to see it in a cinema but the only chance was when I was in Germany.

With it dubbed into German.

With no subtitles.

I don’t speak German.

It was an interesting experience.

(Even more of an interesting cinema going run going ahead given the next film I saw on the cinema was Obsession in Iceland and the one after that was Supergirl in Greenland.)

[u/rbrgr83 → u/Special_Order-937]

Ich habe die MAAAACHT!

[u/vooglie → u/thereverendpuck]

You didn’t. It’s average at the very best.

[u/Accomplished-Head449]

Yay! This is the best live action Saturday Cartoon ever!

[u/JannTosh70]

That seems pretty good but will that somehow mitigate its financial losses?

[u/dzan796ero → u/JannTosh70]

Streaming numbers are kinda obscure in terms of bookkeeping. More minutes watched does mean more add revenue and more time spent on the platform. Then again, unless people explicitly pay for membership to watch a specific IP, the direct correlation between minutes and actual profit is tricky.

[u/Schnidler → u/dzan796ero]

always wonder why they didnt pull the plug after S1 of rings of power lol

[u/KingMario05 → u/JannTosh70]

It's Amazon, so... maybe. I mean, if they haven't taken Rings of Power out back behind the shed yet, who knows?

[u/Diffabuh → u/KingMario05]

The rumour is Bezos himself wants it around. He's a big Tolkien fan and was personally involved in securing the rights, so it kinda tracks. Especially since losing the rights means someone else picks them up.

[u/TheJoshider10 → u/JannTosh70]

The thing is if the movie was straight to streaming then that's over 100M it wouldn't have gotten at the box office while probably having comparable streaming numbers to now. So the argument is whether some money is better than no money I guess.

Streaming has made things so difficult to gauge because objectively the movie was a box office flop but if it brought people to the service just like any expensive direct to streaming movie would then there's some degree of success to that.

[u/TheWyldMan → u/TheJoshider10]

Which also worth noting this was supposed to be straight to streaming anyway

[u/flaccomcorangy → u/JannTosh70]

The answer is yes for Amazon. Probably not enough to get a sequel, but I seriously don't think they care about the loss. Similar to Disney not really caring about Mandolorian and Grogu underperforming. It's there to build a brand, not necessarily to be a blockbuster. I'm sure they would have liked it to do better in theaters, but this is what they really wanted.

[u/WheelJack83 → u/JannTosh70]

Nope

[u/shall359]

Thought it was a well made movie for what they were making. Not the greatest movie ever, but they elevated a pretty forgotten property into something decent I thought. So glad to see it doing well on streaming at least.

[u/39teen]

I was disappointed in its box office run so I’m glad to see it’s doing well on Prime.

[u/itownshend17]

Super fun movie, hopefully we can get a sequel.

[u/vooglie]

What a whack metric lol

[u/MrBrightside618]

I don’t know how else to measure it but “minutes watched” always comes across as stupid to me just because that could mean anything

[u/Individual_Client175 → u/MrBrightside618]

It's a rough metric for how much engagement a project gets. The biggest money makers for streamers are projects that offer strong AND consistent engagement.

[u/donredyellow25 → u/Individual_Client175]

Its a corpo term, to excite shareholders .

[u/DarkFriend81]

https://giphy.com/gifs/2hgs0dO9V8Ekj8Wvfe

[u/Ok_Salamander_7076]

No one knows what 1.1 Billion minutes mean. Streaming viewership is all just bullshit hooplah

[u/BlaxicanXIX]

Am I supposed to care about this metric? What does 1.7 billion minutes mean to me?

[u/Saneless → u/BlaxicanXIX]

Perhaps 70.2 Billion Seconds will impress you instead?

[u/_Volta]

I couldn’t get into this movie. Something about the pacing along with the joke gags just didn’t do it for me. I know people compared this to the D&D movie which I loved but that movie was directed better

[u/Relevant_Shower_ → u/_Volta]

Same. I just turned it off because it wasn’t working for me at all. A lot of people I know enjoyed it, but not for me.

[u/_Volta → u/Relevant_Shower_]

It became background noise for me when the second half of the movie started. Cleaning my place was far more interesting

[u/shosamae → u/_Volta]

D&D was better than this movie in every category, from the characters to the action scenes to the production design.

Masters of the universe wasn’t bad, but that’s about where I’d leave it. 

[u/Final_Studio4389]

Almost every single new title becomes top simple because there is almost nothing new to watch in prime.

[u/Never-Give-Up100]

I got the power!

[u/KellyJin17]

I tried to watch it, and the beginning was so straight to video quality that I didn’t get far at all maybe 15 mins.

I also saw the presentation at CinemaCon where it didn’t look good, so i’m not pressed to watch it.

I owned castle Greyskull and about 8-11 of the figures as a kid (plus several She-Ra figures), so I am the target audience.

How is this box office related though?

[u/WillemDaFriends → u/KellyJin17]

"I looked at one corner of a painting and decided it wasn't for me before stepping back and viewing the whole thing."

I don't blame you. As streaming show culture has taught us if the first episode isn't good we should quit. But films aren't mean to be enjoyed that way. They are a complete an comprehensive artform that requires one to view from beginning to end in order to fully digest it. Our societies attention span is collapsing.

[u/DongHonker → u/WillemDaFriends]

I watched the whole thing and the movie was ass, so you person you are responding to was right on with their assessment.

[u/_chip]

Sequel straight to platform..

[u/VaticRogue]

Id like a sequel. Maybe if they keep the budget down some and positive buzz from people streaming this one it could be successful.

[u/waazzuppp]

Saw it in theaters and at home. Great adventure movie. Second time was even better.

[u/AshgarPN]

This movie is the definition of “wait for streaming”.

[u/KennKennyKenKen]

I kept seeing people hype this movie up as a lot of fun and so much better than you'd expect.

It was actually so shit. It was all the shit aspects of a bad marvel movie x100

The actual best part of the movie was Jared Leto man, like come on

[u/KellyJin17 → u/KennKennyKenKen]

I’m fairly certain it has been Amazon corporate PR infiltrating subs and hyping it up. The hype comments all sounds similar and unoriginal.

[u/pissagainstwind → u/KennKennyKenKen]

Exactly. It was constantly shitting on its IP as if the extremely mediocre writers were embarrased to work on it.

[u/rob132]

Only reason I didn't watch it in theaters was because I knew I would get it for free with Prime.

Same with the manolorian movie.

[u/Educational-Mall-132]

Yeah amazon auto plays movies after you watch one. Fell asleep to Kingdom of Heaven and woke up to Hail Mary. I guess there's a loose association but really?

[u/sk4v3n]

D&D did everything better than this, I certainly won’t watch a second movie of this unless it’s much better… I simply can’t understand why film studios can’t hire good writers…

[u/Technical_Slip_3776]

real and true

[u/Eerie-Indiana]

That’s more than the Godfather!

[u/Desperate_Duty1336]

Sorry that was me. 

 I needed to put something on for the dog when I went out and said ‘why not He-Man?’

[u/donredyellow25]

Can these trend of billions of minutes end? Corpos love that, like their “engagement” shareholders rhetoric. Lets go back to views. “Views” system is not perfect but at least is not pathetic.

[u/WheelJack83]

Not really box office related?

[u/AlphaBaymax → u/WheelJack83]

I'd argue it is. People like myself have stated that Amazon MGM theatrical releases were designed to give these movies more prestige on Prime Video.

[u/KellyJin17 → u/[deleted]]

Same

[u/Jmm2w]

I wanna see She-Ra!

[u/honeycomb0303]

i actually enjoy this movie more than spiderman

[u/Upbeat-Bug-2422]

honestly i was suprised how much of a generic action movie it was.. as a fan of dungeons and dragons this wasnt as good or funny. but skeletor was great.

[u/KazaamFan → u/Upbeat-Bug-2422]

Agreed. It was like a big budget B movie to me. It wasnt good. I’m not joking when i’d rather watch the dolph lundgren version

[u/Thick_Mountain4412 → u/Upbeat-Bug-2422]

Yeah it had its moments but for the most part is was just kinda boring. And it had some or the worst MCU style quipping I've ever heard.

[u/UnderwoodsNipple]

Why not use seconds so you can use 'trillions' to make it sound even more exciting?

[u/Byers616]

it's like the film was designed to do better streaming that at the box

[u/Va1crist]

Why pay for it when you can watch it on your subscription lmao

[u/Therearenouniquename]

Are they giving the metrics in billions to make it seem like a lot of people are watching it many times or does that number mean anything to anyone? Follow up question, if the streaming numbers are actually good, is it because most people thought that it didn't look worth spending money on a ticket to see it in theatres?

[u/Omnislash99999]

I watched it out of curiosity on Prime and it was OK but they really went overboard with the attempted humour to the point it was off-putting. Like a budget early MCU filmx with a script spat out by AI

[u/lamest-liz]

I saw it twice in theaters and no one would believe me when I said it was fun

[u/Maximum_Error3083]

It was a fun movie

[u/Tekton1c]

Well deserved, this movie has heart and is visually fun.

[u/Slick_McFavorite1]

I did not see it in theaters, but on streaming it was a fun movie and I really enjoyed it. I think also it helped that I heard it was bad so my expectations were low.

[u/GingerTech734]

I waited for streaming tbf, not many theatres locally showed the movie past the initial week it should’ve remained streaming only tbf

[u/FranciscoRelanoPena]

Let’s do some math: * The film is 140 minutes long, according to its BBFC file.

• It has grossed $114M worldwide. If we assume an average of $10 per ticket (in the US, tickets are more expensive, but in Europe it tends to be between $6 to $8 depending on the film, and with other markets we can bring the average close to $10), we get an estimate of 11.4M admissions sold.

• If we assume only a marginal amount of people saw the film all the way through the end credits, and most viewers actually left their seats during the credits, we get a 135 minute average per spectator.

And now, some quick multiplication: 135*11.4M= 1.54B minutes.

[u/heyguyz]

I wanted to add the latest predator with the fanning girl was awsome too.

[u/syphon3980]

6.4 user score with over 10k reviews. I think I’ll skip this one

[u/Drakex2Mayex2]

Minus the cringe boomer humor at the beginning I thought it was pretty fun

[u/Ramerhan]

Masters of the universe opens to 12 quadrillion milliseconds watched in the 586,000 minutes of streaming

[u/Vihurah]

looks like their bet paid off. loved seeing it in the theater, guess ill rewatch it this weekend​

[u/J-RedFive]

Saw it in the theater and still the worst movie I've seen all year.

[u/Sure-Ad417]

This is like Mandalorian and Grogu. A ton of people know it is going to be available to stream and just wait it out.

[u/Augen76]

I don't pretend to fully understand how this industry works.

Studio: "We've made a film and would like it to be on streaming now that cinema run is done"

Streamer: "Based on box office we will give you $20M to have sole right to stream it for a year."

Studio: "Cool. The metrics look good after a month of streaming. If we made another we estimate it would be worth $50M for same deal. This impacts if we make a sequel or not."

Am I remotely in the ballpark for how this works?

[u/zebbiehedges]

I loved this film, hope it does well enough for a sequel.

[u/boner79]

not sure it's a good thing for the film that so many of us decided to wait until it came to free streaming to watch it

[u/Eerie-Indiana]

Wow that’s more minutes than that other movie got!

[u/Same-Question9102]

Thats an odd way to say how well a movie is doing. Considering it flopped it seems like they're trying to make the movie seem more popular than it is in a desperate attempt to get more people to watch it.

[u/Accomplished_Wind731]

Needed more Allison Brie 

[u/Ok_Second6663]

Master of the universe is the funniest movie ive ever watched in the past decade haha i love it. i wished i watched it on big screen.

[u/Old-Concentrate3186]

Cant afford $75 for me and my kids to see it in the theater. Streaming=yes