Eric Prime

And also to clarify to @EmpireCity, I do not hate you. I have issues with your posting style and statements you have made before, but I do not hate you nor do I have any interest in removing you from the forum. If I offended you in anyway or made any implications that made it seem as such, I deeply apologize.

@EmpireCitythis was the post you were warned for. You were never warned about your post relating to LGBT rep in Disney animated movies whatsoever. I hope this is all cleared up, so please do not spread falsehoods on the forum any longer.

Is he a builder? 🤔

Moderation We are done with the fights here on “the gay agenda”, whether anti-vaxxers are idiots or not, etc. Please get back on track, or face consequences. Anybody who wants to fight further can do it in PMs, but not here. Anyways, yay Minions. Kevin is my fave!

2018 with Incredibles/Fallen Kingdom IIRC

Yo, the gay agenda being so powerful that it takes down an entire company sounds rad as shit. More gayness in kids movies please, we gotta take down those awful capitalist fat cats!

They shoulda got Stephen Lang to voice the teenage son tbh

Wait...that's who Sigourney is playing? O...kay?

I know people complain about how it's all Chapek's fault, but Disney+ was going to screw over their animation division no matter what. Unless it took over a year for those movies to come to the service, which would never happen, Disney+ was going to make consumers wait until it comes home. Why spend money for it now when it would be free a little later? Things are accelerated of course because of COVID and the D+ originals and stuff like that, but Disney losing their box office might because of D+ was always the endpoint IMO. Which hey, we all got sick of Disney dominating the box office and bullying the theaters, so I guess we got what we wanted.

There was no Early Access.

Imma be honest here, like obviously Top Gun 2 is the story of the summer and the most incredible performance...but Minions 2 is not that far behind, and you could make a solid argument that it's the crazier opener. The last couple movies had bad reception and most animated franchises similar to this like Ice Age get some big diminishing returns. So how is this going leaps and bounds ahead of DM3 and debuting only slightly behind the first Minions? It can't just be Lightyear bombing. Is it just because of the Minions name? I don't get it.

You're saying Krypto the Superdog throws the dog voiced by Kevin Hart into the sun for saying one too many homophobic slurs? I knew he was a true ally!

I think a 40M minimum is a little generous (I'm pegging for a 35M opener), but I would be shocked if Super Pets opened on the level of The Bad Guys. I'm far from that movie's target audience, but it's a film that combines superheroes, talking animals, wacky humor that will for sure feature like 5 fart jokes, and Dwayne Johnson as the star. That's basically everything kids love. The only other things you need to add are a dinosaur and outer space and you're all set.

Nope Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-21 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 65 243 13040 1.86% Total Seats Sold Today: 15 Comp 0.494x of F9 T-21 (3.51M)

Thor: Love and Thunder Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-7 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 185 6729 34527 19.49% Total Seats Sold Today: 265 Comp 0.366x of Spider-Man: No Way Home T-7 (18.32M) 1.126x of The Batman T-7 (24.32M) 0.567x of Doctor Strange 2 T-7 (20.47M)

Minions: The Rise of Gru Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 173 2921 33844 8.63% Total Seats Sold Today: 1403 Comp 3.707x of Jungle Cruise (10.01M) 0.864x of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (5.4M) 1.539x of Lightyear (8M) Lightyear comp is what everybody else is saying...so I guess I'll go with that.

I mean the whole Russian ban always felt super performative anyways. Having Doctor Strange 2 not play in Russia wasn't really a statement, but just performative attempts to seem like they're against "the enemy". Does it really matter if studios are done restricting this stuff?

I was this close to crying if they actually bumped this to 2024, but this is like the perfect date, only because I get to see my baby back to back. I might even do a Dune/Wonka double feature

Disregarding the quality control issue I talked about earlier and my own anecdotal experiences for myself and others, when there's too much of a thing, even if it's the best thing ever, it's no longer special or exciting anymore. Still can be fun of course, but not the exciting thing it once was. That's a fact with everything. Going out to a fancy restaurant is fun, because you only go there on special occasions. Heading to the McDonald's drive-thru isn't fun, because you go there every time you don't feel like cooking. Disneyland is an incredible experience when you go every couple of years, but a passholder basically complains about everything related to the park because they go there all the time. Video game series like Call of Duty were the biggest thing ever a decade ago, but now that they put out a new game every year, while still selling tons, you never hear people talking about it like they were in the Black Ops/Modern Warfare days. It's not the hip new thing anymore, because we're all used to it everywhere we go. When you have 5 shows and 4 movies a year in just one franchise, that's about...what, a third of the year with MCU media? That's a huge chunk of a year just on Marvel. A huge chunk where people will you see Marvel stuff, watch promos, see people argue about it on Twitter, etc. Even when it was only three movies, you had a couple months of breathing room where Marvel wasn't in the conversation. But now, you can't even discourse about a Marvel thing, because everybody's moved on to talking about the next Marvel thing. And I know every time I say this I get the whole "WELL YOU DON'T HAVE TO WATCH THESE SHOWS. NOT EVERYBODY WATCHES ALL THE MOVIES", but that doesn't fix anything. You're still getting forcefed all this content down your throat through promos and tweets and billboards. So if you want to avoid or ignore the stuff you don't care about...you can't do that. And sure, you can argue that if maybe the movies or shows were better, then it wouldn't be a problem, and that there are numerous. But outside of the fact that there is almost never one defining factor, the overexposure is still a huge problem. I love Seinfeld, but if there were spin-offs about George and Newman and J. Peterman, and they were just as hilarious, I wouldn't be happy. I would just be tired of seeing nothing but Seinfeld. And I feel confident in saying I would not be alone on this. And if you want me to use actual media examples of overexposure hurting somebody, though I know these are far from perfect and not 1:1, here's just two big ones. Back in the day, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire was the biggest thing ever. It was this massive gameshow phenomenon with over 30 million viewers tuning in. Then it started airing five nights a week, the ratings plummeted because everybody was sick of it, and the primetime version was canceled not long after. People were sick of it being on every single day. And it's not like there was an issue with quality control. It's a game show, and everybody loves Regis Philbin. Dreamworks Animation were rivaling Disney back in the day, but when they started venturing into TV and having cartoons on Nickelodeon, stuff like Kung Fu Panda 2 drastically underperformed, because you can just watch Kung Fu Panda on TV, and the studio dealt with diminishing returns until Katzenberg had to sell it to Universal, and they are still far below the totem pole when it comes to animation studios at the box office. Sony Animation is arguably on better footing than Dreamworks. I'm sure you can make arguments about other issues these properties had, but saying overexposure was totes not a factor for their downfalls has to be a reach. So yeah, if these Disney+ shows never happened, I think there would be a lot more excitement and better grosses for Widow or Shang-Chi or Strange 2 or even Eternals.