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It’s gonna be a nail biting suspense when GxK gets close to the $200M+ DOM mark. So far, only one Monsterverse film got there.

I think both those kaijus could make future appearances. Rodan is still alive and around. And Monsterverse might find a way to smartly bring back Ghidorah in any way, shape or form…if they commit to it.

Any previous Monsterverse film in the franchise you’d wish/want to see a theatrical re-release of?

It’ll get there eventually in the end. Question is how higher gross than G14’s $200M+ DOM will GxK be at. $202-205M?

How’s the $200M+ DOM goal looking for GxK? 😬🥶 Will WB try their best and push it to that mark? 🥺🙏🏻

With a great audience WOM and that it opened with a huge $80M, why would it suddenly not get $200M+? Are there any other cases where a good/well-received blockbuster with a huge OW, didn’t get to $200M+ in the past? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Speaking of theatrical re-releases of old movies that needs to happen in a special anniversary for more money….I want another re-release of the original ”The Lion King”! 🥺🙏🏻 Just $32M left to a billion worldwide! 😩😵‍💫

Still waiting for an official 30th anniversary theatrical re-release of Disney’s “The Lion King (the original film)”. 🥶 It would be very stupid and foolish for theaters if they didn’t re-release that film back on the big screen again in any way. Especially since the film’s lifetime WW-gross is at $968M so far. $32M left to that $1B-mark, and yet we’ve never seen any new theatrical return for the film since the 3D-release back in 2011 (thirteen years ago).

You guys aren’t alone when it comes to Toy Story 4. Loved it as well. And i watched all the TS films from the franchise. 🤩🙆🏻‍♀️ One of the several fourthquels that is both a crowd and critical pleaser, that many can enjoy. Still the highest grosser with $434M DOM & $1.073B WW. And as far as big animated fourthquels go…TS4 still has the highest RT-rating (97%) of all animated fourthquels.

You’re not alone. I also really did like Jon Favreau’s take of TLK. First time when I saw it and I still rewatch it every time when I’m in a good “Lion King” mood. It’s not the 1994 version (which that is a masterpiece of a movie), but I liked it more than fine. 👩🏻‍💼 Seems like the hate that movie got and gets even to this day & age, are from those who really never liked the lesser Disney remakes to begin with, or just were so frustrated by it’s existence. I do get why certain are not fans of the 2019 version and that’s fine. More power to them. But the way the internet treats that film is almost like it’s the “Disney Remake” equivalent of Shyamalan’s “The Last Airbender movie”, though not as severely hated and disposable as that one. Like, if anyone’s allowed an unpopular opinion about liking TLK (2019), that would be going against the popular opinion. I checked both the critical and audience reception for The Lion King (2019) on Rotten Tomatoes. While the 52% critical score for the film is a bit more meh and “run of the mill” for a Disney remake, the audience score is at a high 88% miraculously. This film though seems to be in an interesting situation where unlike the last TLK-film, by the premise of it…this one doesn’t really sound like a beat for beat same film and instead is a prequel about one of the most iconic and popular characters from the entire TLK-franchise, Mufasa. And while it’s not going to make anywhere near the numbers of the previous film, it’ll do fine. Not a massive hit, but not a massive bomb either. And we don’t know exactly how much better or worse (or even a similar quality) than the last film, critics and audience will think of this. Maybe we’ll like it or dislike it more than TLK (2019). It’s more like a “wait and see” type of situation for this one. 🤷🏻‍♀️

It could happen. We just don’t know how much higher up it could go with actuals.

Wonder which next Kaiju villain you want either Kong or Godzilla to go up against in future Monsterverse movies, whether it be original ones exclusive to this franchise or using one or more of Toho’s monsters? Since the previous monster antagonists were pretty dangerous threats to each title character. 🤔 “Godzilla (2014)” had the two MUTO’s, “Kong: Skull Island” had that one huge Skullcrawler, “King of the Monsters” had King Ghidorah and then the previous film “GvK” had MechaGodzilla. Usually the evil monsters are the biggest threats in these films.

Sweet. Surprising that none of the previous Monsterverse films have grossed over $600M+ WW, despite “Kong Skull Island” being the only one so far with a $400M+ OS gross. 👩🏻‍💼🙆🏻‍♀️ If King of the Monsters stayed put in the March 2019 slot instead of the very crowded May, would it have done more money? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Where do you guys think GxK:TNE will land DOM-wise? Can it beat Gareth Edwards’s Godzilla’s $200M? Considering this film has nothing big in April to compete against, where as G2014 had to go against TASM2, X-Men: DOFP, Maleficent and so forth in the summer of 2014.

We have seen cases in the past where certain movies have slowly pushed to the low $200M+ DOM-mark in the end: Superman Returns, Spectre, Godzilla (2014) and so forth. If a movie is at $199M in a late run…chances are that studios will do everything by adding theater counts to that said blockbuster, to make sure it gets to that blockbuster $200M DOM gross.

GodzillaXKong: The New Empire with it’s OD ($38M) above it’s predecessor’s OW ($31M). Very impressive considering the first one came out in a time when the pandemic was still a thing. So with a huge OW incoming and a pretty dead April for new movies, how fast might this film get to $200M+ DOM?

Are they good or bad numbers? 🤔

If KFP4 does at least get close to $200M DOM before Garfield arrives….i don’t see why Universal wouldn’t try to push it over there if it gets around $198-199M. It’s not like families are suddenly now avoiding it just so it could finish closer to the second film than the first film. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Heck, Illumination’s The Lorax got over that mark back in 2012, with lower reception though granted that was an original non-sequel animated film.

Speaking of older movies that needs another theatrical re-release to hit a certain special box office milestone, The Lion King (the 1994 original 2D-animated film) would be a perfect 90’s film to bring back in theaters for nostlagia’s sake, in order for it to be pushed to $1B+ WW, since it’s only $32M WW left to that mark. Considering the film celebrates it’s 30th anniversary this year (since it’s a 30 year old Disney movie), it would make perfect sense to re-release the film in theaters to both an old audience of adults who want to relive the old theatrical experience of seeing that film back in previous theatrical releases when they were young (1994, 2002, 2011) and to a new audience of kids who have never seen the original TLK in theaters. Jurassic Park got theatrical re-releases enough for that film to get over $1B+ WW, so why not try this with the original ”The Lion King”?

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? 🤷🏻‍♀️

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.

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. 🤯

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. 🤔

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.

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.