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It’ll only help the box office and theaters, my only question is how MoviePass stays profitable long term. It’s impossible for them to maintain a profit with price that low.

Civil War was the 3rd MCU Crossover movie. TLJ is also doing over 200m+ more in total gross than CW(and as a reminder 200m is more than enough for a successful movie in its own right) and 175m-200m over AoU. Marvel is also a different franchise from SW. The movies do lower grosses than SW but there’s a vast mine of different properties. You can release three marvel movies a year and it’s okay because they’re not summed down to lightsabers, skywalkers and space battles. Ragnorak, Black Panther, Homecoming and Infinity War all have their own different appeal from each other (whether or not plot structures are formulaic)

It had a better return on investment but TLJ is still making quite a bit more profit than Sniper made. There are points where simple cumulative sums are more important the return rates. More profit is always going to be more profit (though obviously not everything big budget you invest in is going to be Star Wars, so AS is obviously a very good investment), and that’s not even looking at the fact that TLJ is much more franchiseable and has much higher external revenue to further prop up sales

JW’s run was much more surprising but not really more impressive at all. JP and Lost World both showed the potential was there for a JP movie to have a record breaking opening weekend, it wasn’t unprecedented at all. I think there’s a difference between a run being surprising and a run being impressive. For example, if TLJ had been any other movie people would go nuts at how massive it actually is, but because it’s the sequel to the TFA it’s a disappointment. It’s surprising in the opposite direction but the numbers it’s pulling are still highly impressive. It doesn’t matter what movie it is, it’s hard for me to see a movie as a disappointment if it pulls anything around or over 400m. I’ll be pretty annoyed if IW doesn’t do 500m+ numbers or sub-Ultron or something and people call it a disappointment. I think, ultimately, expectations are overall null when analyzing how well a movie did. If I’m a studio, I’ll look at the total gross, budget and then maybe the legs (maybe it did great but there’s evidence I might need quality control to keep the high numbers up). A 600m+ movie is exceptional, and I’d always pick to have a movie like TLJ over a suprising hit like American Sniper if I want to maximize profits for my studio.

Yeah, TFA’s run was not expected. People expected it to be huge, but even during its lead up (when people were all aboard the hype train) there were people saying under 200m OW and under 700m DOM.

How do you guys feel about still submitting 100 movies when you send in a list but then announcing a Top 150?

Lol, this was a joke but now it might actually happen!

If it wasn’t for the title, I wouldn’t have even known it was slender man. I would have thought it was a Trailer for a bad student film.

Not the Teen’s Choice Awards!

I’m going to make a club I Can Only Imagine OVER Avengers: Infinity War OW and DOM!

My most anticipated for 2018! 1. Deadpool 2 2. Roma 3. Backseat 4. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote 5. Solo: A Star Wars Story 6. First Man 7. Mary Poppins Returns 8. Where’d you go, Bernadette? 9. Mary, Queen of Scots 10. If Beale Street Could Talk

Mortal Engines is doomed to be the new Valerian now

So are you thinking The Grinch or Poppins for DOM crown, then?

Got my first “Consider looking into our grad program” email today (U-Chicago), pretty stoked that I’ll be applying during the latter half of this year.

A few notes! Remember to on the ballots to Both me and Spaghetti (preferably the same message), it can get confusing if one of us has some of the ballots and the other has the other half. Also, for actors, if you aren’t sure if somebody goes in Lead or Supporting, then first check what they qualify as for the Oscars (or the cat they’re being campaigned in). So that means Mark Hamill is lead, Adam Driver is Supporting, Willem Dafoe is Supporting, Armie Hammer is Supporting, Chalamet is lead etc. If there’s a specific issue with thinking an actor is categorized wrong this we can address it in this thread!

100m is oddly possible, those are some strong legs.

Did a quick edit of my predictions

This looks campily hilarious

2018 thread is up!

Not a franchise until the sequels are actually released, in 20 years or so

You really can't measure buzz for a movie if there isn't even a trailer yet...

I don't think it's a done deal that Solo doesn't four peat. I think it's the shakiest bet though.