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I don't necessarily they will strike immediately on May 1st (I could be wrong here). They just have the authorization to and will not be operating under a current contract. If they are still in good faith bargaining, they will hold off until it's clear no deal can be made.

Don't think it really matters much. If it's good, people will show up. There is still a chance they cut a decent portion out of the movie. McQ and team are very cognizant of pacing and how an audience engages with a film. They cut a lot more out of Fallout at the end than you'd think.

INT numbers were good as well. Should do over 100m WW

Would say this looks better than KotCS (a film I enjoy and think has some rather standout action scenes) since that, despite clear effort, still had too much Janusz-milky flair over the classic, practical look of the original 3. This one still doesn't have as much of a stripped-down look as I would have liked, but it gets closer. They also clearly shot as much as possible on practical locations/sets, the chase scene in Morocco in particular looks great. Also, the face de-aging, while not absolutely perfect, is the best I've seen considering the challenges of fully applying it to a massive action set piece with significant lighting changes. Still interested to see/hear what Ford moves and sounds like in the flashback, though it seems like they used a body double for the really stunt heavy stuff there. Overall, very excited for it. Indy is one of my absolute favorite franchises. I've been hopeful (even against better judgement) the whole time for this, but got especially excited since reading about what Mangold was trying to accomplish. By leaning into the whole age thing, not treating it only as a joke, but as an actual thematic underpinning of the story seems to be the best way to actually counteract the whole, "am I supposed to believe Indy is still having adventures as a geriatric!" take that seems to most plague the very idea of this movie. Looks like that faith is paying off with Disney's clear confidence in it.

MOTORING!

Pretty sure it starts at 6 AM EST and runs through 7:30 AM-ish. It's in London this year.

We may get a new trailer at Star Wars Celebration on Friday during the studio panel. They premiered the first promo still at last year's SWC.

Disney/LFL is clearly very confident in this. KotCS also premiered at Cannes, but only 4 days before release. This is premiering nearly 45 days before release.

The sad part is that it those reactions weren't even looking at the movie on a surface level. It is rather explicitly sad and not "movies are magic and solve everything." They seem to be reacting to the marketing campaign more than anything.

The hanging on a plane stunt was incredibly heavily marketed as well

Well it could be true that they gave it high scores but also gave notes that it felt too long. They cut quite a bit out of Fallout to pace it better.

Not sure if it will keep Dolby screens in the 2nd week or if Barbie or Oppenheimer will get. But I am assuming they don't want to move it up since Indy will likely hurt it more than Barbie/Oppenheimer.

I would say that the early embargo ending is more indicative of critical consensus than what Viewer Anon has heard, but that 3 hour runtime is a big concern personally.

It's pretty wild how successful the stunt hyping has worked for the franchise the past decade+. But it does show fundamentally how much love and care goes into these movies. People really like them because they can feel they are extremely well made and considered, even if ultimately they are big dumb fun action movies!

Fantastic movie. Had the theater to myself (that's what I get for seeing a Friday matinee in a small town), but what a great ride.

Teaser made me tear up. What a great trailer, immediately became an all-timer for me.

Don't think it will be universal acclaim, but certainly seems like a lot of folks love it. Tough to tell from the reactions, as it seems somewhat divisive, but plenty have said it's crowd pleasing. May just be one of those movies that doesn't necessarily get the best audience score but still gets solid legs based on the whole, "you just gotta go see it" factor,

First batch doesn’t include a lot of out and out critics (esp the big ones) but def seems the late embargo was more about spoilers than any concern about quality. If it’s as good as these folks are saying it is it will have no problem making money.

I know it essentially means nothing, but Nope is starting out with an 80/100 on Critics Choice. https://www.criticschoice.com/search/?s=nope

Way more walkup heavy than opening weekend. 70m seems to be a pretty safe bet at this point if 22m+ holds.

Even with really weak jumps/holds feel like 65m+ is extremely likely.

Never really been worth presale tracking in my area since it is always so low (it's incredibly walk up heavy), but top gun has really good sales at the regional chain for this weekend. This is exactly the area where I would expect TGM to over index, our county has the highest proportion of veterans in the state, and is generally pretty conservative.