The first three showtimes for The Beekeeper at my local AMC in Dallas are sold out on both Friday and Saturday. Very unusual, as though some group bought out six screenings or something.
Wonka getting to 150 mil will be a win. It's an old IP.
What I don't get is Hunger Games tracking at 50 mil. Maybe Gen Z doesn't read as much as millennials.
That Spotlight thing they're doing, where the shows under that banner aren't connected to the rest of the MCU, that should apply to all of the series. Disney Plus series should operate like the Netflix series did. They connect to one another and maybe occasionally reference what's going on in the big screen MCU, but otherwise they're their own thing.
Probably a mistake to have a majority of the marketing centered around two characters general audiences haven't seen before. Most of the folks who flocked to phase 3 do not watch the Disney Plus series.
The good news is Universal isn't advertising that Peacock release at all. I was just watching something on the app and an ad for the movie came up. No mention at all that it was going to be on Peacock. Just "in theaters (insert date)"
https://www.boxofficepro.com/long-range-box-office-forecast-killers-of-the-flower-moon/
Long-range tracking for this is impressive. Those trailers in front of Oppenheimer might do wonders. Plus, the power of Leo.
The 100 min runtime is whatever. The trailers are what are dooming this. What's worse is it looks like there was no communication between the Secret Invasion team and The Marvels team. Fury sounds like a different person