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Probably a degree of unfamiliarity with the character. The first two Iron Man films had low OS grosses. So there's likely a degree of giving it time to grow and improving the OS marketing.

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For CM, Deconnick personally shepherded in a group of dedicated fans, that existed (and perpetuated) despite basically having no support from Marvel. (This is a common problem: creators often have to do their own publicity for their books.) That means there was a group of very keyed in people that started talking about the film from the getgo, and in unrelentingly positive ways. These hardcore fans aren't the moviegoing audience, but they do start the word of mouth that makes the audience excited.

300m-ish. Unless there's a fan campaign for it, like with CM. And BW has never really had that concentrated support. People like some runs (like Grayson's or Rucka's) but they don't rally for it like Deconnick's CM.

Basically ignoring BvS and JL. Which might be the best way forward. WW84 seems to be ignoring at least some of the character beats there, BoP and TSS are probably not going to lean too heavily on Suicide Squad, and I doubt The Batman will go there at all. It would probably be a first, too, for an active franchise to effectively discard some of its films.

At least David Harbour looks like he's having fun.

Nothing is ever truly locked. 340 is likely, tho. Final talky will largely depend on how it holds through the holidays. (it's not likely to repeat F1's amazing post New Year performance, so that period won't have a big effect)

Does F1 still have the post-Thanksgiving weekend record?

I was going to watch the first film this evening, but after I got home from work, I realized I could hop down to the Pacific Science Center and see 2 on IMAX laser. Totally worth it. I listened through the songs a few times earlier today, and they're all growing on me. One interesting thing is that while I like other songs better, Into the Unknown is really strong as a memorable, singalong number. Show Yourself, The Next Right Thing, and even All is Found are emotionally stronger, but ItU is amped up in such a way that I'd expect it to get more play. (Just listen to it and walk. It exudes power. Your steps will be more confident.) I wonder if we'll get an every language album of it like Let it Go had.

Zootopia getting a sequel will require the directors being on board and having an idea that works. Byron Howard is working on something with Lin Manuel Miranda, and Rich Moore isn't at Disney anymore. So there probably isn't a lot of impetus there. Despite being slightly more sequel-happy of late, WDAS still isn't super keen on it. The next two films are originals (Raya and the Last Dragon and the Howard/Miranda joint) and then it's probably the four other originals announced. This is a similar situation as Pixar. There are two announced originals, and four other directors working on other originals. If I was taking a guess, it's probably that Jennifer Lee and Pete Docter (as the head of story, post-Lasseter) are more keen on original ideas, rather. Lee (and Buck) seemed resistant to doing Frozen 2 at first; it took over a year for it to be announced. So I can't imagine that they'd be keen to work on a third, not anytime soon, at least. And Docter, when asked about doing a sequel to Inside Out, pointed out the difficulty with that as a concept, because the characters had been developed entirely with that story in mind; figuring out a second story is not necessarily easy.

I'm not even sure it's worth it for me to do a top five. I've seen so few films this year, relative to my normal. (God, I miss having free time.) There was an over 3 month gap between Hobbs & Shaw and Frozen 2. Yeah, just checked and it looks like I've only seen 12 films this year.

It's too soon for me to rank the F2 songs with F1. I'm very familiar with the songs from Frozen, because I've listened to them so many times. Where for the second, I've seen the film once and don't yet own the soundtrack. However, it feels like F2 has a better balance of songs throughout the movie, with two happening in the third act, and both have full emotional impact. In F1, only Fixer Upper is in the third act. And I think that all the F2 songs are a better fit thematically or storytelling-wise. Do any of them have the showstopping power of Let It Go? I'm not sure, but even if not, overall it's a stronger, more balanced selection.

Eh. CACW is probably worse than either. And CAWS is better than either, so the Russos can do some things okay. The fadeout at the end of IW was well done, and Thor was great. Endgame had some enjoyable sequences, too. Ant-Man is a big plus in the movie. Both of them suffer because Thanos' reasoning is just so, so stupid, which makes it almost impossible for me to take him seriously. Oh, and the ending of Endgame is terribad, effectively ruining Captain America as a character. None of the Avengers films are good, but they're enjoyable enough popcorn fare, worth a watch with an invested crowd. And, I suppose, good fodder for significantly better written and realized fanfic.

KO was a lot of fun with a pretty full house when I saw it on Saturday. Each Avengers film is worse than the previous.

F2 could take the OW multi crown from WW for films above 100m opening.

https://nowtoronto.com/movies/features/disney-frozen-2-indigenous-culture-sami/ Interesting

Okay, wow

Okay. Wow.

Yes

In 2015, they basically did give up on advertising The Good Dinosaur in favor of TFA. Which wouldn't make sense here, but I suppose in the minds of some fans, anything that isn't totally focused on their own franchise is blasphemy.

Disney's back catalogue doesn't really entice me. If there's something very specific I want to watch, I'd probably either opt for a rental, library check-out, or, if I really want it (like most WDAS entries), I'll just buy it. The comparison of service original programming is mostly what I look at. Netflix has a massive advantage there, because it's been doing it for a lot longer. And there are several active originals that I follow. (It's seriously a great service for original animated shows.)

The more I think about it, the less D+ is worth it, at least for the first year or two. Same with Apple+. The lack of original content is key. Mandalorian isn't worth it alone.

I keep forgetting about the BOM redesign until I go to the site and can't find anything. So many idle curiosity moments killed dead by the paywall.

I believe the studio can set two trailers that must be shown with their own features (or to give the theater a choice between a few). The other trailers shown are up to the theater. The studio trailers might be included in the movie hard drive, which is essentially like including it on the print.

The last film to have a 15/70 release was Interstellar. They closed the theater for about three or four months to upgrade in time for the opening of AOU. Part of that was switching the projector to IMAX laser. Which is still really good. (Cinerama uses a Christie 6P laser.) I saw Interstellar 1 & ⅔s times there. The first time there was a fire alarm that went off right. as. everything. was. about. to. happen. (It was just before they "took a walk".) Since they couldn't get it sorted, they refunded us and gave us free tix for another show. I kinda wish they'd have kept it around, if only for Nolan. Cinerama showed Dunkirk in 70mm, which was cool, but it wasn't quite the same as the full IMAX. Frozen would have been cool, but it was also the final pre-Hyperion film, so it probably wouldn't look as good as newer features. Zootopia was fantastic there, though.