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No one is saying the flop is ALL on KStew, but lbh, if this had made 20+ million, people wouldn't hesitate to give her some of the credit for it. Same applies when the opposite happens.

It's not odd at all when one of them had Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, and Rihanna vs. KStew and 2 other girls.

I mean, it's campy female detectives...with the right cast I think that can work anytime, regardless of if people even know what the tv series is. Had this starred Zendaya, Lili Reinhardt, Lupita, Emma Stone, JLaw, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Awkafina, it'd probably have been fine. You could even keep KStew and just go bigger with the other two. But this was never going to sell with just KStew and two nobodies. And I do think Naomi Scott WILL be big eventually, but this was too soon to expect her to have any audience draw.

Yikes, B- for a Christmas romcom is pretty toxic.

I only saw marketing for Dr. Sleep at the actual theater. I feel like they really didn't break through with the general audience at all. Last Christmas just seems like a downer, which is the last thing people are looking for in a November Christmas movie.

Emilia was fine in S8, but there was nothing extraordinary. She had some great facial expressions during Dany's downfall, but the actual talking scenes were as stilted as ever. Take away her wig and costumes and you basically have the same meh performances she's given in every film role she's taken on. I do think she has a likeable presence and I enjoy her interviews as herself, so I'm fine if she makes a post-GoT career for herself, but based on her output, it's just hard for me to imagine. The comparison to Emma Watson is pretty spot-on, tbh. They played iconic female roles that played to their strengths, but there's a certain stiff, forced quality to their acting when they try to expand their range.

I think most of the younger GoT cast are pretty bad actors, tbh. The writers learned to write for Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner, but neither has much range. Harington and guy who played Bran were both so bad that I think it affected Jon Snow and Bran's arcs, because both characters are way more complex in the books. Emilia's performance was like 50% wig/aesthetics/cgi dragons. Madden was the only one who lived up to/surpassed what was in the books. I'm pretty sure they'll all disappear in the next 5 years.

Tracking for After is all over the place. Variety still has it from anywhere from $3-$12 million.

Your avi is making me imagine an alt-verse where this stars Blake Lively, Lupita, and Gina Rodriguez.

These just don't look very fun? The trailer will tell us more obviously, but for a first look at a property as cheesy and over the top as CA, these look dull.

Renner did call Black Widow a whore.

lol, sure.

Welp. Time to realign expectations. It's a solid number, but considering how promising pre-sales looked, it's a bit of a letdown.

People with the knives out for fairly factual box office headlines

Well. This is some creative spinning.