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$250M locked in for Dune Part II. Nuts. The good kind of nuts. $300M in range?

Dune Part II...

Godzilla X Kong equally lacks a hook and is also following a well-liked film that commercially overperformed. Even more than Frozen Empire, strongly gives off "more of the same" vibes. Which if that's your cup of coffee, God bless. But that isn't going to be enough?

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire reeks of "Sequel to a well-liked film that nobody asked for" syndrome. Seeing the OG characters isn't the selling point Sony thinks it is to modern movie-goers. For us Millennials, I admit it looks like your average episode of The Real Ghostbusters cartoon. That's good enough for me. But my 13 year old nephew who didn't grow up with that in his pop-culture diet? 'Fraid not.

Someone I simultaneously don't get the hype or hate for.

Curious if the other Superman connection - working with one Mr. Bryan Singer quite a few times - will be brought up. Not going to hold my breath though.

It's been done before, a la War of the Worlds, quite a few X-Men films including First Class, etc.

Superman: Legacy will move back a week to July 18, the mid/late July slot WB is religious about. No harm, no foul.

If it's going to hit 2025, it's November or bust. Absolutely no doubt there. As for Blade... the fact that Coogler and Jordan - who both benefited quite well under the Disney/Marvel banner - are doing their own rival vampire film elsewhere... tells you exactly how things are going for the Daywalker.

They're both good guys.

Why Tom Cruise Should Team Up With Christopher Nolan as the Mission: Impossible Franchise Winds Down

Last time I checked, Batman Begins' adjusted for inflation gross - domestically - is $337M. They'd be thrilled with that number. As long as Legacy does it's job and leaves general audiences hungry for more.

Heh heh heh heh "Load."

This would most certainly explain why Disney agreed to make James L. Brooks' Ella McKay - his productions historically don't come cheap - out of nowhere. Certainly rings true with the decisions as of late, a la Toy Story 5, back-to-back Frozen sequels, Tron: Ares, a live-action Moana redo, etc. This also continues to show how desperate - not to mention, directionless - the Iger 2.0 regime is if they seriously think another Simpsons movie would remotely have the same impact as it did in 2007.

"Grading on a curve," Deadline?

The films that were Zaslav'd were films he inherited upon taking over the job. All originally intended for HBO Max. All developed and greenlit under the AT&T/Jason Kilar regime. One has to succeed or fail by their own decisions. Film Twitter and YouTube pundits can't seem to fathom this. WBD shareholders do, on the other hand. So while I fundamentally disapprove of the call to axe Coyote vs. Acme... I understand it. 2025 is the year everything hinges on as those are all projects exclusively fall on Zaslav's decision-making, including giving Gunn Superman which was one of his big moves.

Iger is too big of a PR pussy to actually make a tough, knowingly unpopular decision like that. He'd be too scared of "the optics." And Disney is in quite a bit of debt themselves.

Stevie Wonder saw this coming.

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Nothing in that article we didn't already know.

Don't see how it doesn't move to mid-late July given how Warners has been religious about that slot and under these circumstances. Especially if Part 2 delivers the goods like some have suggested. Their summer 2024 slate is weak sauce and there's about to be massive reshufflings all over the place from all the studios for next year.