Eric Quinn

Moderation We're not doing this "short runtime means bad movie" stuff anymore. It's leading to nothing but toxic fights that aren't going anywhere and we have zero reason to believe that this will result in a bad movie. And no, I don't care what "evidence" you have. Please talk about something else, or threadbans will occur.

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Pretty sure this series will just be shorts like all the other Disney/Pixar "series" have been. These shows really just exist as replacements for the bonus feature shorts you would get in the DVD. But I guess they could be cute and shows Disney wants to keep the franchise popular and in the limelight.

Another interesting detail I'm surprised you didn't mention was how the film sadly destroyed finances and grants given to films by the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) because of bigotry and Republicans being Republicans. A lesbian sex scene was in this, some Washington Times writer threw a fit because lesbians and Black women and sex, then Republican rep Peter Hoekstra used this as a vessel that led to the NEA using their funding on a "case-by-case basis", rather than giving funds to art groups in general, which only hurt the diversity of all the projects for everybody. It's a very sad part of this film's legacy, but a necessary one to show how evil conservatism can be in terms of censoring art and the long-lasting damages they have given towards tons of queer artists and queer people in general.

Not really. It's actually largely because animated movies typically don't get a ton of PLFs in the first place. Unless you're a major property like Mario or a big sequel like Toy Story 4 or Minions 2, you're not getting IMAX or PLFs, since families typically don't buy premiums anyways. Even Wreck-It Ralph 2 didn't get IMAX due to Fantastic Beasts 2 and only got them a week or two after release, because Beasts 2 failed to make much money out of it and there was nothing else to replace it with. Wish will likely get few premiums as well in favor of Napoleon, but it's not because "oh no Disney movies bomb now", but because of the market and how these type of movies sell.

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Guys, I'm not always on social media. I don't think I even follow Swift on social media 😆

Don't think so. If there's public information about this Eras theatrical release, feel free to make one.

Seems a bit high. Shang-Chi's IM with 3M would get it to 25.7M. And that movie is two years old and had previews start at 6PM. Even moving it up a tad, to like 9x its preview, is still just 27M. Which would still be good and fine for this, especially since its target audience don't go to the movies anymore and it's the last movie anyways.

Quorum Updates Expend4bles T-23: 34.19% Awareness It Lives Inside T-23: 18.97% Awareness Dumb Money T-37: 15.77% Awareness The Exorcist: Believer T-44: 37.39% Awareness Ordinary Angels T-44: 10.4% Awareness Next Goal Wins T-79: 9.66% Awareness Captain America: Brave New World T-331: 42.32% Awareness The Equalizer 3 T-2: 53.68% Awareness Final Awareness: 100% chance of 10M, 90% chance of 20M, 70% chance of 30M Medium Awareness: 100% chance of 20M, 60% chance of 30M Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie T-30: 37.2% Awareness T-30 Awareness: 87% chance of 10M, 61% chance of 20M Animation/Family Awareness: 80% chance of 10M, 40% chance of 20M Freelance T-37: 23.75% Awareness T-30 Awareness: 53% chance of 10M Low Awareness: 32% chance of 10M

Finally pinning this up now that we have a less cluttered pinned section at the moment and this is also just over a month away.

I mean…have you seen Promising Young Woman?

@Claire of Themyscira your time has come.

Moderation Not the Ashoka thread. Please stay on topic

61% on RT with 23 reviews. 58 on MC with 12 reviews. Good to know the king of the "sure I guess" franchise continues to be "sure I guess".

That is also true sadly. There's always going to be a major audience sector that don't like seeing those goshdarn cartoons and will always make franchise installments like these more niche. People see those Disney remakes for a reason after all.

Quorum Updates Bottoms T-4: 16.15% Awareness A Haunting in Venice T-18: 25.89% Awareness Wish T-86: 23.06% Awareness Journey to Bethlehem T-74: 11.01% Awareness Furiosa T-270: 14.56% Awareness The Equalizer 3 T-4: 54.61% Awareness Final Awareness: 100% chance of 10M, 90% chance of 20M, 70% chance of 30M Medium Awareness: 100% chance of 20M, 60% chance of 30M My Big Fat Greek Wedding T-11: 36.87% Awareness Final Awareness: 34% chance of 10M, 2% chance of 20M Low Awareness: 33% chance of 10M The Nun II T-11: 49.67% Awareness Final Awareness: 100% chance of 10M, 90% chance of 20M, 70% chance of 30M, 40% chance of 40M, 30% chance of 50M Horror Awareness: 100% chance of 30M The Creator T-32: 15.49% Awareness T-30 Awareness: 12% chance of 10M Medium Awareness: 0% chance of 10M Saw X T-32: 43.76% Awareness T-30 Awareness: 100% chance of 20M, 93% chance of 30M, 73% chance of 40M Horror Awareness: 100% chance of 30M

I mean the first live-action movie in 1990 broke box office records and the 2014 movie made $500M. Don't think going into live-action hurt the franchise's appeal whatsoever. Honestly the big issue here in hindsight is that Mutant Mayhem didn't really have much of a hook to distinguish itself from the recent movies outside of the funky art style. So it really only got the hardcore fans excited. Plus the 2014 movie came out when there was a hot new cartoon on Nickelodeon that was averaging 2-3 million viewers an episode. The last show, Rise of the TMNT, flopped, with its second season dumped on Nicktoons. And there hasn't been anything new with the property apart from a Netflix movie that came and went last year. So it doesn't help that a lot of kids today don't have the same Turtle fever that kids 10 years ago had. And in the end, it's still gunning for a solid 120M domestically and has strong reception that will help keep the franchise chugging along. If Paramount were smart, they would find a way to send this to Netflix if they want a good sequel bump. Spider-Verse got a huge second wind of popularity when it played on there.