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I think TA shouldn't be compared as it is an origin story movie depicting the origin of a team forming for the first time. This type of movies focus mainly on the character presentation and interractions and TA did it better than Xmen1 or First Class ever did, with the extra difficulty of bringing coherently 4 main characters from their own movie, their own different universe and this with balancing them in a cohesive way....a balance that was never present in Xmen1 or first Class. The continuity and in depth progression of the character was never depicted as better than in TA compared to other CBM featuring a team. You really need a very skilled writer and director to succeed in that. It's totally different from both CA2 and mainly DOFP that are sequels, hence are there to add more depth and focus on the follow up adding a bigger story and progressing on the character journey since it has already taken the time of setting the origin movie in the first movie. Now AOU will be another beast and on par as Xmen2, Xmen 3 and DOFP because it will be a sequel to an origin story featuring a team, the follow of the the team already formed, so you can advance with the story which will be the main focus, not the interractions as character devlopment will take the back seat from the storyline.

I actually have long lost cousins in the US...some of my father's cousins made the Vietnam War...never came back ...my family extends in three continents since the 60's....mainly DRC and Angola for the african countries, several european countries (i have a dosen of french, swiss, german, belgian and english cousins mainly both by soil and blood mixed), the US and Cuba.

LOL I will, i have angolan blood in me and my parents are in their portuguese home right now. I wish they win that game for sentimental reasons and also because if they lose, The USA and Germany are qualified and will only need to maintain status quo when they meet in the next match. That's why i think Portugal will give it all today and if it wins, then, everyone will have a chance to get in that next level according results in the last match.

We will see. It's all on the US's hands to win his next match against Portugal. If i doesn't, then Ghana will and deservedly too.

I wanted Ghana to win. There is still a slight chance they may win for the next step but it's not in their hands anymore. They have to give it all and win the the next match and hopefully have a nice goal average to finish at the second place if Germany beat the US. Sorry for the US but i really think Ghana is the best african team right now and i want one african team in the next round.

Olive, is there some tracking about presales for Maleficent ? How much could it reach in China ?

Our boys regained their self control in time !

They reached the final three times including in 2010 but never won.

For once, i would love for De Oranjes of The Netherlands to win. They always had a solid team but for some reason never won, reaching and losing the final three times

Switzerland !

DOFP despite being the first in 3D, has the baggage of former movies which led to feeding that erosion of its fanbase from movie to movie. EOT and HTTYD2 marketing were shit and failed on building up the hype. Add the fact that it's the WC and that children, teens and young adluts from age 12 to 22/25 years old are into their exam session and it was stupid to release those movies during june. You can have the greatest product out there. If you don't know how to hype it to sell it to its full potential, then it's your own fault. Spider Man and Maleficent had the most noticeable marketing in my country...big posters all over the place 2 months before their releases, TV posts in french and english, taking the main big poster place for itself at the theater, ect..... DOFP had also some significant marketing like posters at bus stations, TV spot, small posters weeks before at the theaters. CATWS had zero marketing, no poster, no TV clip, no nothing until the night before its release with a single small poster and three weeks only of movie releases, hence why i believe MS has enterred the cultural phenomenon phase of awareness as there were enough people aware of it despite the lack of any single poster the day before its release...so i beleive people are looking about the next MS movie on the internet and are so far hooked on it, aware that each movie is a piece of puzzle aiming at the next climatic Avengers Ensemble.

I was embarrased and sad for Spain...but happy for our cousins

TASM2 is a plotless, straight from that first brain storming session messy draft dressed up in a so called finished product and deserves to be outgross by an average one that is technically a movie with a plot whatever it is...especially when that said movie only needed to deliver a simple plot and exploit one of the biggest liked character ever to hit those financial heights. When you waste that much of a goodwill, ruin future sequels of one of the most beloved character, own one of the biggest property in movie industry, a property that only need to be maximized in a good movie year in year out, you deserve a slap in the face and a kick in the butt. I hope the shame that will come out of it will give Avi Arad and Sony a reality check. Just because you own a property that will gross tremendously no matter what, doesn't mean that you can keep on ruining it to the point of delivering one of the laziest, neglected draft that wouldn't even been greenlit to go into production if it was any other. That TASM2 is technically a mess of a movie not just a mediocre movie. It's a bag full of ideas put together without coherence whatsoever.

Where is Spidey ?

It's a two trips. Yes it didn't have 3D, hence it had a cheaper price and usually cheaper price means, a lot more people will see it in the movies multiple time cause they can afford it with less financial constraints than today. Today, the price of tickets are outrageous compared to the average wage, hence more people will try to get copies than paying to watch it in theaters...CA2 was the most downloaded movie in April. This wouldn't have happen if it was released like 10years ago.. Besides, though there were no expanding markets ( it started around TA and Avatar's time and have tremendously increased ) the market was less saturated than today with less competition, less movies released in a short period of times. It enables movies staying a lot longer in theaters with softer theater counts weeks in, weeks out. Again, there are both advantages and disadvantages from different movies released in different eras. And like, it's a lot more difficult for a singer to sell CD's today than 15 years ago, it's also a lot more difficult to sell movies today than years ago for reasons i have just mentioned.

I think, it will open bigger like most CBM sequels of succesful first movies due to a rush factor on the first weekend. I don't see better legs though even if it coulddefniotely match its first movie if it open bigger. From Xmen to Spidey, to TDK trilogy, they all had a bigger OW in their respective sequel

Regardless of if it will end up having a bigger domestic gross than TA, AOU being a Marvel sequel could very much end up having an OD matching every single CBM OW this year and an opening weekend bigger than their entire domestic run bar CA2. That's just how monsterous of an OW this movie may have. No wonder no other CBM wants to open even weeks after it...bar fellow Marvel's. TASM2 featuring Marvel's former main attraction won't even match TA opening weekend....which is insane when you think about it.

LOL. One is a comic book adaptation with comic book super hero, the other not...even the males in comic book adaptations are not believable compared to normal, every day people...they are by essence enhanced, fantasy related characters with over the top body types ...

$217M - $222M

Again, i am a she and i didn't respond to extrapolate its domestic take. I responded specifically to this post :

BoxOffice ‏@BoxOffice · 1m GODZILLA took in an estimated $1.77M on Friday. Domestic total now stands at $180.86M. #Godzilla

This. And i am a she Mundial will be in most people's mind next friday in Europe, Africa and South America. 2 games a day during the first week will take a lot of people's spare time to go to the movies.

Depends on how much it can do this weekend because next weekend will be the World Cup and it is entering its 4th weekend, a crucial point in a lot of countries where imovies usually experience a huge drop of theater counts because of new releases.

Very good numbers from the top 3