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I care. Doctor Strange is the best non-Wakandan thing in the MCU at the moment.

Maggie, we already have something for this kind of stuff already

Then why are you here? If you don't like theatrical releases, why go into a forum all about theatrical releases? Just seems like a waste of time to me.

...where have you been the last five years?

Moderation @Firepower Please read above. I really don't like it when folks don't listen to me.

Sing 2 Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-40 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 49 210 9354 2.25% Total Seats Sold Today: 10

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-6 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 68 759 15113 5.02% Total Seats Sold Today: 42 Comp 0.665x of F9 T-6 (4.72M) 1.646x of The Suicide Squad T-6 (6.75M) 0.454x of Shang-Chi T-6 (3.99M) 0.679x of Venom 2 T-6 (7.88M) 0.666x of No Time to Die T-6 (4.2M) Yeah, I think this movie's dunzo. Mickey's Law kills another. Or I guess maybe we should change it to Feige's Law, because apparently people only like to watch Marvel movies anymore. Shit's bleak.

If I can throw my two cents into what would be good for Encanto, I think even the lower end of BOP's tracking could be okayif only because kids movies just aren't performing well at all this year and that's kind of concerning to me. Tom and Jerry, Raya, Peter Rabbit, Boss Baby, Space Jam, Paw Patrol, Addams Family, all fell around the 40-70M range, and are still the biggest cream of the crop for kids titles (Jungle Cruise and Cruella are PG-13 and skew towards an older audience, so I don't think they count). Clifford is going to fall into that same range as well. The only two movies that will pass Croods 2's 58M are Space Jam and maybe Addams Family. That's not good at all. Now it's true a lot of these movies were either terrible or weren't going to gross much in the first place, and I know almost all of these had a day-and-date functionality. And yeah, that stuff will impact their grosses. But even then, other movies had day-and-date and grossed way more than these movies, so...yeah, the bigger issue is less "families choosing to watch them at home" and more "families don't want to go to the movies at all". So if Encanto did 75M...yeah, it still wouldn't be good, and would probably shrink the theatrical windows for Turning Red and Lightyear next year, but it's at least a sign of a pulse for animated family films, and I'm sure Encanto will sell a lot of dolls and soundtracks anyways. If Sing 2 continues the momentum, even if it barely gets to 90M or 100M, that would also be "good" for the medium and shows that young kids and families are slowly coming back. Although at the end of the day, I do think even those grosses will make the big studios concerned and will put a good chunk of their animated/kids movie offerings as a day-and-date offering. You'll all bellyache over it, but parents will be happy about that kind of stuff.

@Cap 🤯

Almost as if, golly gee willikers, that reshoots don't mean the movie is set to be an epic disaster and that the evil Papa Feige is destroying Sam Raimi's perfect vision. Almost as if it's a totally neutral concept and you shouldn't jump to conclusions. What a concept!

Moderation Yeah, we're done with this right here. We've all seen this song and dance routine with reshoots before and we know that it doesn't mean anything. It could mean the movie's good, it could mean the movie's bad. And a bad production does not equal a bad movie, nor does it mean the director's original work was tarnished and destroyed and that the evil producers are destroying some beautiful classic. You all know better than this. I'm sure you all have your reasons as to why you know this film is doomed forever and that Sam Raimi's beautiful art is getting destroyed, but the fact of the matter is that you don't know what's going on. You straight up don't, so please stop acting like you know what's going to happen. Cut the drama, or get out of here.

Some of you guys are gonna be really annoying for the next few months, huh?

https://deadline.com/2021/11/clifford-the-big-red-dog-opening-day-wednesday-1234872144/

No, more that because it's not a Disney movie or looks like a Disney movie, it is punished to underperform. And while ticket sales were promising, the film is simply doomed to fail, because it doesn't have the Disney castle behind it. It was all just a ruse to make us think Mickey's Law isn't actually real. But Mickey's Law knows how to play some cruel tricks. -------------------------------- Okay, I'm just messing with ya. I don't actually think Mickey's Law is a real thing. Just something funny I made up when a bunch of non-Disney tentpoles two summers ago were bombing left and right. I still think it's worth a good chuckle that some outside force is hurting all the other studios, so I'm just being silly. If you want my real answer, it could very well be that Ghostbusters got upfront demand from the fans and isn't really getting anybody else in. That's the issue that hurt NTTD last month. But a couple of bad days, even a week before release, can be just that. And yeah, every movie has a slowdown in sales or just gets bad days where few sales happen. I'm sure once we get into the ramp-up for release that Afterlife starts picking up in sales and that the last two days were just a fluke, and from a raw previews perspective, it's still gunning for an opening on par with the Feig film, which would still be really good for this, especially because it'll likely be a cheaper film than the Feig title.

For Non-Disney titles, anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Disney films can do poorly, but those aren't because of impacts by Mickey's Law. Likewise, the Sony Marvel movies are oftentimes exempt, because the masses are too stupid to realize they aren't from Disney. DC movies also arguably fit into that camp (I have to explain to my Dad like once a month that Batman or Aquaman or Wonder Woman aren't Marvel characters) I coined the phrase back in 2019, but you can argue that Mickey's Law's impacts go as far back as 2016. I'm assuming Bob Iger was bitter Universal won the studio share in 2015 despite all the hits they had and created this law to spite all the other studios.

Sing 2 Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-41 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 49 200 9354 2.14% Total Seats Sold Today: 39

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-7 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 68 717 15113 4.74% Total Seats Sold Today: 42 Comp 0.680x of F9 T-7 (4.82M) 1.728x of The Suicide Squad T-7 (7.08M) 0.466x of Shang-Chi T-7 (4.1M) 0.691x of Venom 2 T-7 (8.01M) 0.679x of No Time to Die T-7 (4.28M) Two bad days in a row here. Nothing too scary I suppose, but I am starting to hear some warning bells that Mickey's Law will continue its unstoppable reign.