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  1. Well deserving ! Congrats to Endagme for closing this MCU chapter with a bang ! For a former small company set above a garage, that was still on the verge of bankrupcy when IM was released on a loan, while bigger studios were publicly laughing and mocking the very much idea of the MCU featuring B/C characters who could potentially rival the likes of Batman, Superman and Spiderman, that success is the ultimate revenge. The MCU is the modern fairytale of rags to riches made by one of the most dedicated team out there. Congrats to the whole Marvel family, Feige and the MCU fandom for staying dedicated and focused !
  2. This ! As some critic said, IW is the brawn while EG is the brain. To me, IW because of the structure of the movie : relentless chase, somber thriller, a bit like the Terminator was really entertaining while its follow up, the resolution was more emotional because it focuses on the characters, the emotions. I can't separate the two. They are two parts of the same movie. The first part focusing on the chase, the other focusing on the dealing of the consequences, the aftermath, the pain. One was bound to be more rhytmic and punchy while the other more emotional and reminiscence of all the journey leading to it. It's like seeing one movie where the punchy part is all concentrated on the first part, while the second part focuses on more calm moments where you can breath, reminisce and get into emotional nostalgia. I don't see how we can separte the two from one another. I will always put them together in any ranking. IW+EG are the highlights and the best movie of the Infinity Saga.
  3. I don't know for other countries, but the Dark Knight was indeed re-released a few days during the end of december 2008 in Belgium after having closed its run previously around september/october. I remember clearly. At the time, its worldwide numbers were around $996M. I went to see it a third time just before New Year's Eve, after previously seeing it in August 2 times.
  4. But they didn't have their first succcess belittled and only validated once they had other successes didn't they ? All their breakthrough successes have been validated and recognized as such from the get go, without being conditionned by their career pre or post it successful or not.
  5. Just like all those directors didn't need to have a standalone critical and commercial success after their breakthrough movie, to validate that particuliar success at the time, the Russo Brothers don't need to do it just to prove they earn the current success. They earned that success whatever happen next and anyone implying the contrary just try to discredit their current success and belittle it.. Plus, I am not aware that their aim was to follow any other director foostep that their own path just to validate and give credit to their current success with the MCU.
  6. Call me crazy but to me, $950M is pretty much gauranteed at this stage. Why ? Because a movie like Avengers, that opened with $150M less, managed to add an additional $123M after hitting $500M on day 23. I am pretty convinced that Endagme will need even less days for to hit $850M and then add even less than Avengers did to reach $950M.
  7. $43M will put its overall domestic BO at $400M domestic in...4 days ! Insane !
  8. Gitesh Pandya‏ @GiteshPandya 1m1 minute ago Record-smashing launch for #AvengersEndgame which becomes 1st film in #boxoffice history to generate a billion-dollar-plus opening wknd. Eye-popping $350M domestic debut crushing #InfinityWar's old record by 36%. $859M intl since WED for thunderous global haul of $1.21 BILLION!
  9. Infinity War is more entertaining, thrilling and bonkers to me while Endgame is the best overall movie because Infinty War was more of a thriller going crescendo, punchy and relentless, a bit like a Terminator movie with a relentless, unstoppable, agressive quest of the stones by the bad guy and an end that left us speechless. It hit hard like a storm from the very beginning with action throughout the movie. Endgame is the resolution, the closure part.
  10. I've seen Endgame two days ago in a Brussels theaters that was packed in a way i have never seen in my lifetime. Long files of people from the stairs already. The movie itself is astounding as far as i am concerned...I said movie, because to me it really felt has a wonderful, one of a kind type of movie that just happens to have some cbm fantasies in it rather than the other way around. RDJ deserves an Oscar and Chris Hemsworth acting really shines .
  11. Source : https://www.screendaily.com/box-office/shazam-looks-to-extend-international-rule-as-hellboy-enters-fray/5138519.article
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  13. Source : https://www.screendaily.com/box-office/shazam-looks-to-extend-international-rule-as-hellboy-enters-fray/5138519.article
  14. Source : https://www.screendaily.com/box-office/shazam-looks-to-extend-international-rule-as-hellboy-enters-fray/5138519.article
  15. Source : https://www.screendaily.com/box-office/shazam-looks-to-extend-international-rule-as-hellboy-enters-fray/5138519.article
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  18. So, it did like around $70M sans China. $70M x3 (overseas BO sans China) + Japan BO + $50M (China) = $250m - $275M overseas. That's where I think its overseas final BO may very well fall or a bit better like $300M if legs improve next week.
  19. Through Thursday ! Many markets opened on Wednesday and report what they made in two days.
  20. Indeed ! i feel like $275m-350m is where it could fall !
  21. Most tentpoles are international products made for consumers around the world. They are designed to please the kind of taste that is widely shared among different people whatever their national sensitivity. Disney produced that kinda of products and of course the financial return per movie is more impressive since the size of consumers is global. Movies like US and others are designed first and foremost for consumers whose size is smaller as national sensitivity plays a larger part in it. They are not as immune as tentpoles to different sensitivitis, tastes found around the world. Besides, those types of movies have to deal with lethal opponents : TV, streaming. Let's be honests, theaters are the perfect vehicle for tentpoles that are usually grand spectacles with visuals. Considering financial constraints, most people will rather spend money to the theaters to experience grand specatcle or a 4 quadrant movies they can share with their kids. The like of US, will be a second choice for families and will be postponed more easily. Another aspect to consider is that tentpoles and animation movies have a bigger market shares abroad within their genres because they are mostly US made and they are virtually no national rivals. But for non tentpoles movies, they find themselves competing also with national movies as most countries produce also those kind of movies.
  22. Not only that but IW is the only $2B movie that did reach that milestone out of Christmas season. To me both Avengers and IW runs are equally REALLY impressive, having reached respectively $1.5B and $2B milestone movies at a time where there were just a few of them and without benefitting from that massive Christmas holliday boost nor by being somewhat rereleased. I think with the exception of the Avengers series, there won't be another movie reaching $2B during the spring/summer time in a very long time.
  23. I would have said $450M - $500m without Dumbo and Endgame. I will go for $400 - $420M for now.
  24. People forget so easily that it first and foremost a BO site where we talk about it on a technical point ! We talk about numbers and how to translate them into daily and ultimately final revenues based on past data, their similar behaviour from similar products released during the same period of time. We can then use aggregated past tendencies to refine forecasts.
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