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Depends on if it can survive a summer release until the end of the year but I'm rooting for it! Back-to-Back Oscar Nominee Colman Domingo would be a gift to us all.

Or they know the movie is a stinker and figure it's better to offload it on a dump frame instead of wasting a good spot. That would be my bet.

I merely liked the first movie and found the hysteria that surrounded its release completely unwarranted but that was an incredible trailer. I'm hyped.

Begins with 9 fresh, 7 rotten on RT. Marisa Abela's getting praised though despite issues with the movie itself (unsurprising given what a tightrope Winehouse's life was).

Definitely hope I get to encounter one of these at a movie theater these next few months lmao

I didn't see X or Pearl in theaters but will be checking this out on the big screen for sure. Good trailer.

Bowing at Cannes. Kevin Costner's 'Horizon' Sets Cannes Film Festival Premiere (variety.com)

That poster looks even more AI-generated than the one for Joker.

Since footage from it was apparently leaked last week I imagine the biggest thing Disney will be releasing is the first trailer and probably full cast announcement for Mufasa: The Lion King. Which checks out since the teaser would be a fitting attachment with Planet of the Apes in a few weeks.

Early buzz for this seems quite positive, I imagine it'll be a hit. If it checks off all the right boxes it could very well end up at the Emmys, which doesn't seem impossible given how barren the Drama field is this year, to the point where some shows that were originally intended to compete in Limited are now looking into potentially switching categories.

This looks delightful.

It's probably playing before Civil War this weekend. Challengers and The Fall Guy are also obvious titles to promote this with.

August doesn't look that great on paper unless any of its high-profile releases (with Borderlands, Alien, and - uh huh sure - Kraven leading the way) end up overperforming but that's always been a "cool down" month anyway as summer starts to come to a close, schools begin to return, and the entertainment industry look towards the commencement of awards season with the festivals starting around Labor Day weekend. September actually looks pretty solid IMO. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is obviously a major wild card that could go in a number of directions.

Plenty of other stills from the movie inside.

D23 has definitely become the place for Disney's biggest announcements. Most of all the projects that fall strictly under the Disney label itself than Marvel/Star Wars/20th Century.

CinemaCon (or as it was previously known as, ShoWest) has been around forever. Comic-Con tends to lead into the geeky side of pop culture, while this has always been the event where studios show off to theater owners what they have coming for them. National Association of Theatre Owners - Wikipedia

Moving beyond this weekend's openers debuting on the low end of expectations, I actually think 2024 hasn't been that bad of a year so far over 1/4 the way through. The March 4 brought life to the marketplace on various levels. If the year has felt lacking so far, that can chalked up to too many titles that were always too niche in appeal to find a broad audience and a number of the ones that, on paper, should have been slam dunks fell short in the quality department and underperformed because of it (Bob Marley: One Love likely would've soared past $100M instead of struggling to get there had the movie been better). Even the numbers for something like Argylle don't look nearly as dismal as they do on first glance when you consider it received such crummy reviews. Definitely not movies that deserved to have a martyr complex applied to them. Will say the year is now due for a horror breakout though, since what we've had so far either fell under the "too niche" column or probably maxed out their financial potential given their schlocky quality (Night Swim, Imaginary).

Marketing materials for Gladiator 2 are already up in the CinemaCon lobby (should probably get a thread for that event open since it starts tomorrow) so Paramount is going to have stuff to show off there. Always figured Transformers wouldn't officially start its marketing campaign until IF.

The family films seem pretty well spread out this year. Just need to get Moana 2 and Wicked off of the same weekend since they more or less target the same exact mother/daughter demos. Seems crazy that those two + Gladiator 2 are still all coming out over the pre-Thanksgiving through holiday weekend frame when Venom 3's move has left 11/8 wide open for the holiday kickoff title.

The Crow '24 does look pretty bad but still, something should've taken that date. June looks quite busy (though It Ends With Us is likely being delayed again).

It's still curious that nobody placed anything major on 5/31 unless they thought Garfield/Furiosa and Bad Boys were big enough that they would get lost in the shuffle being sandwiched between them. The Crow could've moved up a week to that date.

Been catching up on this thread and will say that if we're considering a prequel to The Omen not lighting the box office on fire as a sign original/non-IP-based movies are dead, it might be time to pack that discourse up. (aware that it's more disappointment for some that Monkey Man ended up the latest example of online hype not translating to the real world, but it won't be the last either)