Eric Deetz

This! Like without X-Men's influence, there's no Fantastic Four or Daredevil. Which hey, they were hits at the time, even if they weren't the greatest. Marvel Comics wouldn't be out here realizing the stable of heroes they had and wouldn't go independent. And again, Kevin Feige got his start with the X-Men movies. Without those movies, would he be at Marvel Studios in the first place? That's a legit query right there.

X-Men more than doubled Blade's box office. And despite the attempts at making things "grounded" and "realistic", the X-Men movies were far more identified and promoted by their Marvel branding than the Blade movies ever were. If anything, Blade was advertised less on the Marvel brand and more on just being a Snipes action movie. Plus, the first X-Men came out at a time when the only superhero movie character making any sort of money was Batman. And even then, we were post-Batman and Robin. By this point, superhero movies were completely dead. I don't really see why we're downplaying one of the biggest hits of the year. A movie that, at that time, had the sixth biggest opening in box office history. Now I'm not saying it was the main impetus why Marvel became as big as it was. Spider-Man was a guaranteed hit no matter what. But it certainly did a lot to make Marvel popular and cool with today's kids. Hell, the first X-Men was Kevin Feige's first job. You can argue that these movies could have grossed more, but without X-Men, we literally wouldn't even have The Avengers or Avengers-level hits. So there.

What are you trying to say about BOT, hmmm? 😠

Well if it only reaches 99, I guess Ryan Reynolds is out of a job. How sad.

We're so close to Lion King getting dethroned. STAY IN LINE

Ready for the 100M second weekend to come in with actuals lmao

Nobody on Film Twitter will care mate.

350 should happen. Might get to 360 tbh.

Alien will probably stop its run, but is beating out Everything Everywhere (77.2M) still a possibility?

Roughly 80% of the time I see people bring up inflation here, it's typically just trying to downplay a movie's success or just to instigate a fight. Obviously the metric isn't totally invalid, but I do often feel like I have to sideeye people when they bring it up. It was especially annoying back in 2019 when Marvel nerds and Cameron nerds were trying to use inflation to dog on each other's movies, even though Endgame and Avatar were both objectively massive hits.

Where are the flowers for Free Guy bringing back “Fantasy”? Mariah’s best bop ever imo

@WrathOfHan @Blankments Trailer time! Sorry for missing the last few months! 17x: Inside Out 2: Wonka, The Boy and the Heron, Wonka Round 2, The Color Purple, Soul, Wish, Migration, Turning Red, Kung Fu Panda 4, Luca, Shrek 2, We Grown Now, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Wildcat, IF, The Garfield Movie, Young Woman and the Sea 13x: Alien: Romulus: Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, The First Omen, Late Night with the Devil, Alien, Abigail, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The Watchers, A Quiet Place: Day One, Horizon: An American Saga - Part 1, MaXXXine, Deadpool & Wolverine, Trap Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, We Grown Now, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, IF, The Garfield Movie, Young Woman and the Sea, The Watchers, Inside Out 2, Thelma, Inside Out 2 Round 2, Horizon: An American Saga - Part 1, Trap 12x: Twisters: Dune: Part Two Round 2, Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire, Civil War, Challengers, The Fall Guy, Ezra, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, The Bikeriders, Thelma, A Quiet Place: Day One, Horizon: An American Saga - Part 1, Janet Planet 9x: Speak No Evil: Alien, Abigail, The Watchers, Kinds of Kindness, MaXXXine, Longlegs, Twisters, Deadpool & Wolverine, Trap 8x: Despicable Me 4: Turning Red, Kung Fu Panda 4, Luca, Shrek 2, The Fall Guy, IF, The Garfield Movie, Inside Out 2 The Wild Robot: Kung Fu Panda 4, Luca, Shrek 2, We Grown Now, Mars Express, Young Woman and the Sea, Inside Out 2, The Lion King 6x: The Bikeriders: The Creator, Ferrari, The Beekeeper, Dune: Part Two Round 2, Abigail, The Fall Guy Fly Me to the Moon: The Garfield Movie, Ezra, The Watchers, Thelma, A Quiet Place: Day One, Janet Planet Deadpool & Wolverine: Monkey Man, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, The Fall Guy, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Kinds of Kindness Transformers One: IF, Inside Out 2, A Quiet Place: Day One, Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1, The Lion King, Twisters Elio: Frozen, Beauty and the Beast, The Incredibles, Coco, The Lion King, Moana 5x: Trap: A Quiet Place: Day One, Horizon: An American Saga - Part 1, MaXXXine, Twisters, Deadpool & Wolverine Borderlands: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Wildcat, Inside Out 2 Round 2, Kinds of Kindness, Deadpool & Wolverine Mufasa: The Lion King: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Young Woman and the Sea, Inside Out 2, Inside Out 2 Round 2, The Lion King 4x: The Watchers: Dune: Part Two Round 2, The First Omen, Abigail, The Fall Guy Daddio: Love Lies Bleeding, Immaculate, We Grown Now, Janet Planet Kinds of Kindness: Ezra, The Bikeriders, Thelma, Janet Planet White Bird: Thor: Love and Thunder, Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, The Little Mermaid, IF Wicked: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, IF, Twisters, Deadpool & Wolverine 3x: A Quiet Place: Day One: Alien, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Bad Boys: Ride or Die MaXXXine: Challengers, The Fall Guy, The Watchers Longlegs: Dune: Part Two Round 2, Immaculate, Abigail Harold and the Purple Crayon: The Garfield Movie, Inside Out 2, The Lion King Joker: Folie a Deux: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Trap Moana 2: Inside Out 2, Inside Out 2 Round 2, The Lion King 2x: 1x:

When it comes to science fiction mumbo jumbo in movies, it's just best to smile and nod and let it happen.

Should have never doubted Mickey's Law. How foolish of me.

I can PM you if you would like to join.

I've liked all of M. Night's movies from Split onwards, but that's his last movie that really landed with the GA. I don't think it's a big reason, but the badwill from his last couple movies probably didn't help. The reviews for Trap also aren't all that, so that makes it even worse for fence-sitters.

So like...I kinda get the casting decision. But honestly, I'd be curious of the box office in an alternate world where Harold and the Purple Crayon starred an actual child and had Zachary Levi as the dad or uncle or something. Because to quote The Fairly Oddparents, when a little kid is using his imagination to draw stuff with a purple crayon, it's kind of cute. When a grown adult does it, it's just plain creepy.

https://deadline.com/2024/08/box-office-deadpool-wolverine-second-weekend-trap-1236030041/ 6.6M Friday for Trap. Should reach mid-teens. Pity. But I'm doing my part later today!

Gonna get around 627M by the end of the weekend. So yeah, 650M is happening. Jurassic World found dead in a ditch.

He's talking about me. I'm the moderator. And you know what? He's right. I do give out most of the warning points. And sometimes, I can be harsh with that stuff. I've been told that a lot. But somebody has to do it. And I'm just trying to do what I think is best for the forum. Sometimes I'm right, sometimes I'm wrong. But I feel my warnings are pretty fair 98% of the time. And for the most part, they seem to be working. Besides, a 2-point warning that only lasts a month is pretty light all things considered. A slap on the wrist. Something you can quickly learn and quickly change just like that. And most of the time, people learn from my warnings and don't cause any trouble. Good thing we got the "10 points and you're out" system in place, where people can be given multiple chances to learn. And don't worry LMD, you're allowed to call me out directly. Prefer if you just did it privately, which you did literally yesterday, but you can say my name. I'm not above anybody. I have thick skin. I don't ban people the second somebody criticizes me, like you're pretending I do. And hey! If you bring up a good and valid point, I'll listen and internalize it. Frankly, I've been hit with way more insulting rhetoric than being called "the mod who hands out all the warnings". You're good hon.