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Quorum has this between where Quantumania and GOTG 3 were at the same point in their tracking. An opening between those two sounds right to me.

What movie should counter-program with Barbie's sequel?

WB should move Dune 2. Otherwise it will be like how The Little Mermaid and Mission Impossible got their thunder stolen by opening a week before a much bigger movie.

Monsters University is the most underrated Pixar sequel/prequel.

I still think The Marvels will be very successful. The incels will start up their campaign against Brie Larson again and people will see it to spite them.

Returns is great.

Evil Dead has always been a niche franchise.

It would be funny/unexpected if The Flash and The Marvels outgross GOTG 3 this year.

This has to be moving. Either up to Dune 2's spot and that gets pushed to next year or Wonka gets pushed to March or something.

I think the new cast additions and a good trailer are really boosting Fast X. It will probably open huge and then fall off. Spider-Verse, Transformers, and Elemental will all be hurt by an overcrowded June.

I wonder if the Guardians are feeling overexposed. They were all over Infinity War, they were in Endgame, Thor: Love and Thunder, and the Holiday Special.

WB is pulling out all the stops to build buzz for this.

There's a chance that The Marvels opening day > Shazam 2's domestic total

Shazam and Ant-Man 2 only did ok domestically during the 2018/2019 superhero peak so I wouldn't take their sequels bombing as a big predictor of anything for the genre.

The Hunger Games prequel won't flop, will probably do first Fantastic Beasts numbers.