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Mango

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  1. Whatever lessons Hollywood takes from this weekend will be the wrong ones. expectation: wow two well received movies that aren’t comic book or reboot with beloved directors and actors and unique production designs exploded at the box office? And they both look amazing despite neither costing $200m? We should take this kinds of risks more often! reality: lol go see saw patrol
  2. Zelda trilogy done in the vein of LotR. 3 hour epics. Christmas release. nah it’ll probably be an Illumination movie but I can dream edit: as far as untapped IPs go
  3. Barbenheimer is off to an epic start, from the looks of it, seems like this train is just getting started. Oppenheimer’s $10m would lead to $68m if it follows Nope’s exact trajectory, and $83m if it follows John Wick 4. $70m seems very likely imo, hoping for even more. Barbie I’m more unsure on, it seems like the audience is a bit unique for this one. Hoping $150m or more.
  4. Barbie then Oppenheimer seemed like the best choice at first. Pink and fun followed by existential dread. but the more I thought about it, Oppenheimer then Barbie makes more sense. Matinee of Oppenheimer, get some heavy subject matter with some brilliant acting from your fav 21st century performers, then maybe grab a quick late lunch or drink and go in for some light hearted fun and mild satire.
  5. Yeah, hopefully these are just early showing kinks. I mean, hell, it’s had to have been forever since the last 70mm screening there. With any luck they get it up and running smoothly quickly.
  6. Pooler was a potential option, and the next best seeing how that is a full 1:43 laser system, but the chances of seeing it on 70mm made me go with Mall of GA. Hopefully they get these kinks worked out before the weekend shows. Being one of the only houses in the country playing 70mm IMAX is a big deal, and botching this would not look good on Regal MoG. I saw Interstellar there and everything was immaculate.
  7. Yeah these reactions are selling me on this, as if I needed to be sold. Seeing this on IMAX 70mm the Monday after release. It was already my most anticipated of the year, and even though it’s only a week away it feels like an eternity. I hope Nolan gets to keep Nolan-ing forever. With any luck those new 70mm IMAX cameras will be completed soon and his next film he can just go batshit and shoot the entire goddamn thing in the format.
  8. Those were some good times on these boards! For any newer members curious to the start of the forum meme, here’s BOM’s straight up disclaimer they attached to Transformers 2’s opening weekend report: * Note: Revenge of the Fallen's weekend gross fell $3 million short of Paramount's Sunday estimate, which would have put the five-day opening at $198.2 million. Though shy of $200 million, it would have still ranked second among the all time five-day starts. However, Paramount revised its grosses from Wednesday and Thursday upward, and that's what pushed the total past $200 million. Wednesday went from $60.6 million to $62.0 million, and Thursday went from $28.6 million to $29.1 million. Paramount reported that the differences came from unreported showings from the movie's midnight openings on Wednesday night, which went from the previously reported $16 million at around 3,000 theaters to $16.8 million at close to 3,300 theaters, as well as late reports from institutional IMAX locations and theaters in Puerto Rico and some Caribbean islands (which the studio counts in its domestic numbers), which accounted for $1.1 million of the difference. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/article/ed3464102916/ I’d seen the “Puerto Rico” joke spread to some other box office related areas of the internet around that time, too. Third time is the charm, hopefully!
  9. I wonder how far of a drive it will be for me to see this in 70mm. Does anyone know all the current IMAX’s in Florida set up for the format? If any at all? Not trying to book a hotel for it but I’d be willing to make it a day trip.
  10. Avengers was definitely the game changer. That movie exploded in 2012 beyond most peoples expectations. Dark Knight Rises was the movie to beat that year and Avengers did it at the beginning of the summer. That said, I remember around 2014, after the “divisive for fans” Iron Man 3 and generally disliked Dark World, there was definitely a period there where people were wondering if Avengers was kind of a fluke and the MCU peaked with it. Winter Soldier was a surprise in performance and reception, but Guardians 1 was definitely looked at skeptically by a lot of people. I remember tons of people expecting it to be the MCU’s first flop. Even when early word of mouth and tracking came out, very very few expected it to beat Winter Soldier. Let alone end up the biggest movie of the year thus far. Avengers shot the MCU into the stratosphere, but I’m pretty sure it was Guardians that made a lot of people come to the realization “Marvel can do no wrong” at that point in time.
  11. I know this gets brought up every time a comic book movie seems to be a lot darker or violent than expected, but the reactions and reviews to this seem a lot like a “Batman Returns” situation.
  12. I think this is a good point. “Peak” MCU was arguably 2018-2019. BP, IW, Captain Marvel, and Endgame absolutely blowing away expectations as the hype for the MCU reached feverish peaks. Outside of No Way Home, which had the advantage of 20 years of nostalgia with the worst kept secret in Hollywood, plus arguably being the first big 4-quadrant event in a post-vaccine world all going for it, no MCU movie really has reached those heights. Strange 2 was highly anticipated for similar reasons as that film, and you could even argue expectations got the best of that film and really ended up being a con for it. Add in the mixed reception of phase 4 and it makes sense Guardians 3 isn’t exactly lighting it up in presales. That said I think the doom and gloom is overblown a lot. A decrease from Vol 2 isn’t exactly the end of the world. Sounds like fans of the Guardians franchise itself will likely be invested in this one, and could lead to better legs.
  13. Honestly out of the James Gunn family I’m hoping for Karen Gillan and Bautista as Poison Ivy and Bane
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