wildphantom

I thought Abigail had breakout written all over it when the first trailer dropped. Yet I’d forgotten it was even coming out this weekend until recently. Uni really haven’t ramped this up at all. Surprising considering the critical reception it’s had. They should have screened this weeks ago and got the hype rolling.

bet its shifted some toys though! I’m sure overall it’s done alright for Sony. Hard to see a third from here in its current guise.

All fair. I don’t expect a match for last year overall anyway, so maybe that’s why I’m not as concerned. The strike was always going to have an impact.

Count me in the field that thinks Garfield is going to do great. Garfield, Inside Out, DM4 could make close to a billion between them. That’s Barbenheimer money right there. So all we need to make the rest up are equivalents for Mermaid, Guardians and Spidey in terms of gross. Deadpool and Twisters could do average $325 million each. Then Furiosa, Quiet Place, Apes, Fall Guy, Alien, Bad Boys - these can all do between $100 and $200 million. At least one of these is bound to overperform. Horizon is the wild card. Will either do middling or massively breakout imo. IF - big question mark on that one. Everyone is down on it due to the lack of IP, but who knows? I don’t get the ambivalence from some. We’re going to have a very good summer I think. The key being that the major family movies perform big, and I think they will. If it won’t quite add up to last summer, then it will at least be more than solid. Here’s hoping for some surprises.

not going to get to see this until Thursday, but I suspected there’s deep subtext there so that sounds great. Can’t wait to see it.

PVOD is fine. Just needs to be further out, and then the streaming release further out again. This movie came out on March 1st and was declared one of the greatest theatrical experiences in years. We’re not even halfway through April and people can buy it next week? I really just don’t understand the rush. It cheapens the theatrical window psychologically if you’re telling audiences ‘don’t worry, it’ll be at home next month’. Anyway, I’ve been arguing it forever the past couple of years. Whilst some studios are lengthening their windows, some aren’t. Is what it is.

Oh I know. I anticipated the reaction. Anything I write about PVOD/streaming being rushed out and Eric bites every time for some reason. I agree on the PVOD element of what you’re saying by the way. Despite it being utterly pointless to rush a film like Dune out in my opinion.

Like clockwork 😉

What sort of message does it send out as it gets rushed to digital for no reason at all. Civil War should keep those screens to itself in my opinion.

Build more imax screens!!

Cracking OD for Civil War. Hopefully the internal multiplier will be better through the weekend than some think on here. Polarising for a film like this is in no way a bad thing. Likely to have equally good WOM from those that will find it having something to say a reason to see it, no matter what side of the fence you end up on.

I’m very hyped. This and Joker in the final quarter for adult audiences are going to do absolute gangbusters.

should be at about $96 million by the end of the weekend and $100 million by the end of the following one.

That stunt Cruise was doing at the Hollywood sign a couple of weeks ago I expect is something for CinemaCon. So wouldn’t surprise me if he at least has a reel of something to show his support for theaters. Or maybe something to say within it about his WB deal.

Should reach it comfortably. It’ll be at around $97 million by the end of next weekend.