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Honestly I don't really see any 100M opener until Spider-Man. Even disregarding capacity and same-day VOD windows, none of the movies coming down to the pipeline scream "100M opener" to me. Maybe F9, but I think June is too early for that kind of stuff to happen. Though at this point, I don't think the studios have reaching that mark as a top priority at this stage

Oscars thread is now up!

In an awards season nobody truly cares about, we are finally at the grand finale. The pandemic has pretty much made movies, especially awards darlings, irrelevant. So there's no real hype or major discourse as there has been in previous years. Whether or not that's a good thing is, of course, up to you. But for the few of us who do care, we should still have some good fun as we see the people we love get rewards, the people we hate get rewards, enjoy some movie trailers, and have all our questions answered. Will Chloe Zhao's Amazon propaganda win it all? Will Pixar win the Animated Feature award again? Will Netflix come up short in trophies? Will there be meltdowns? Well...okay we all know the answer to that last one. As always, follow the usual rules. Be nice, be civil, have fun. Do anything stupid, you're getting warning points. Enjoy!

Oh, you take Parrot Analytics seriously? That's cute.

Well yeah it's fifth because it's alphabetical. And do you have a source for AoT getting more views than WandaVision?

These doughnuts are great! Jelly filled are my favorite! Nothing beats a jelly filled doughnut!

Eh fair enough. FWIW anime has always been my one blind spot when it comes to geek/pop culture. I think the last anime show I watched was...Pokemon like...13 years ago, and the only other anime show I can think of that has me even remotely interested is Beastars. And even then, I'm just interested in Beastars for the furry stuff. Haven't even seen Ghibli movies before. It still seems weird this did so well compared to everything else, but I guess this is just a fan culture I have no real idea about.

Even then, during the run-up to its release here, I never saw any discussion about Demon Slayer online, apart from the Tracking Thread of course. Maybe I'm not following the right people, but it's still strange to me this is overperforming like crazy over any other anime movie here in the States

This Demon Slayer movie is still so weird to me. I'll admit I don't watch anime but I think I have enough of an idea on geek culture that I know what's big and I'm aware of the big names today like Attack on Titan and My Hero Academia. But I never even heard of Demon Slayer until the box office reports for this started to come out and I don't see anybody on Twitter or whatever hype up or talk about this show or movie. So how is this movie doing so much better than that Dragon Ball Broly movie or all the other anime movies that come out here every year? Is the show really that popular? Is it just that there's nothing out in theaters? Am I talking to the wrong people? I don't get it!

Talks about the trailer around the 5 minute mark

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So...it is not time?

"It is time!" - Rafiki

Sorry for not getting this up sooner, but here's the RTM thread if you want to go into spoilers