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  1. Yeah. It’s not like there was any other big animated film that summer of 2014, that would steal Dragon 2’s thunder or cut it’s legs off. Even Planes 2 which came in July, wasn’t really a big animated film to begin with. So what other movie prevented HTTYD2 from grossing $200M+ DOM or increasing from the first film’s numbers, despite this being another great animated sequel? Who knows? 🤷🏻‍♀️
  2. To be fair to Pixar though, some of their biggest animated sequels like Finding Dory, Incredibles 2 & Toy Story 4 did increase over their previous films. First two being first sequels that increased big (or insanely huge in Incredibles 2’s case), and one fourthquel that had a small but sure bump from the third film. And so far even after 6 years, Incredibles 2 still holds the golden crown as the highest grossing animated film in DOM-gross. With Illumination’s The Super Mario Bros Movie being a close second silver place.
  3. True. Despite those two being counter-programming on the same weekend in terms of the types of films they are (One comedy sequel that is R-rated and more for adults, while the other is an animated sequel for the families), Kung Fu Panda 2 did not make over $200M+ DOM like the film it competed against (The Hangover: Part 2). Fortunately for Dreamworks, they did have an animated sequel the year after (2012), that DID overshadow the R-rated summer blockbuster, when Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted vastly beat out the sci-fi horror film “Prometheus” by a landslide. And that was 12 years ago! So much has passed. 🤯
  4. Exactly! And the fact that the ending scene in the second film really showed that Po’s biological dad (Li Shan) was indeed alive and that there was the panda village which was fully utilized in the third film. 👩🏻‍💼🤩 Panda 2 had a lot of box office momentum after the first film. A well-liked first film, first animated film in the summer of 2011….and yet never got even close to KFP1’s DOM gross. Granted it beat the first film’s WW-gross, thanks to OS…but it never went close or even way above it’s predecessor in the domestic market. 😢😔 Considering we have seen big animated sequels to first films increase a lot. Shrek < Shrek 2 Despicable Me < Despicable Me 2 Toy Story < Toy Story 2 Frozen < Frozen 2 And then we have well-liked animated sequels that didn’t increase but rather decreased, DOM-wise. This and another critically liked Dreamworks sequel “How To Train Your Dragon 2” which came out in 2014 (three years after Panda 2). What did those two animated sequels not have that the ones (that did increase from their first films) did have? Despite those said two sequels being more fueled by emotional storytelling. 🤔
  5. The best way Shrek 5 could be huge if the film is as beloved as the first two films and Puss in Boots 2: The Last Wish. Plus that DWA could make the 5th film appeal to a new generation of kids who’s never seen any Shrek film before (aside from PiB2), which is our generation, and that they do more new elements and ideas with it.
  6. Not gonna lie, I was one of the only true believers (as a genuinely huge fan of the franchise) for the third film to breakout in a dead January 2016 (eight years ago), where there were nothing else in the scale of how much box office-wise the previous KFP-films before then, have performed. I even made clubs about it. And overperform on a grand scale, no less. 😬🥶👩🏻‍💼 And while the reception for KFP3 was high (with 87% critic rating on RT), the box office for that film didn’t really justify the critical praise it recieved. So good of a movie and yet Panda 3 underperformed in relative to the insane, yet hopefully box office predictions I had for it at the time. Thankfully Panda 4 finally did/is doing things what the other two sequels couldn’t do: A. Open over $50M+ B. Be on it’s way to $200M+ DOM due to no animated competition until late May. C. Be the hit DWA needed after the total flop of Ruby Gillman. Trolls 3 did a bit better in theaters though nothing overly spectacular.
  7. I think with lack of animated competition for nearly over two months, Universal & Dreamworks will do their best to push it over $200M+ DOM. Since what else is there for the animation market until Garfield?
  8. Wonder how much higher the actuals will go up for the bigger movies? 👩🏻‍💼
  9. With that Best Picture Win for Oppenheimer, how much more money do you guys think will add to the $1B-mark? Since it needs to do around $40M or so to get there, and the film hasn’t opened in Japan yet. What is the minimum or maximum gross that Oppenheimer needs to do there? 🙆🏻‍♀️🤔
  10. Awesome! Really excited to see what more returning Mario/Nintendo characters will make a comeback in the sequel (aside from the ones that appeared in the first film).
  11. These box office numbers for KFP4, are finally going up for the franchise. 😎🤩🙆🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️ Considering the previous two films didn’t increase with each entry. Especially with KFP2 back in 2011. That film had lots of things going for it. Being the first animated film in the summer season, goodwill from the first film and being the one animated sequel that fans and families was excited for the most. And while that film was well-received by critics and became the highest grossing animated film that year in worldwide numbers ($665M), it somehow never got the numbers of the first film or even above it like a mini-“Shrek 2” kind of bump DOM-wise, just $165M. $50M less than the first film’s $215M. And that film is arguably the one KFP-sequel that fans love the most. So what went wrong with that second film in the U.S at the time, box office-wise? 😢
  12. Is Dreamworks Animation looking at KFP4 as their first potential $200M+ DOM-blockbuster in 12 years since “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted” back in 2012? Considering there’s no other big animated film for a while until The Garfield Movie in May. So there’s nothing much else for the animation fans and families in over two months.
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