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I didn't love this at first viewing like I did Rogue Nation and Fallout. I'm curious to see how other fans of the franchise will react. I wouldn't be surprised if reception with fans is more divisive than it has been with critics.
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Looks like there's still potential in the Transformers franchise. This movie opened better than The Flash and Indiana Jones, and is having good late legs, despite not receiving much attention on social media and in the press, before and after its release.
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1 hour ago, Brainbug said:
Out of curiosity: What is your favourite comedy?
I hate to be so basic, but for me it’s Mean Girls. It’s probably every millennial gay man’s favorite comedy, but that’s deserved. Such a perfectly hilarious and iconic movie.
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The hype for this movie is fascinating, it became viral on social media for no specific reason. Hollywood studios may try but I doubt they will ever be able to replicate what happened here.
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I'm glad I was wrong about this not getting the same critics reception than Rogue Nation and Fallout.
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I would love this being a great directorial debut for Patrick Wilson, cause he seems like a nice guy, but the movie looks terrible.
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9 hours ago, Issac Newton said:
Character Promotion in China
Weren't people claiming Shang-Chi was banned because of Simu Liu's comments about China? Guess that was BS if Barbie is not only being released there with Liu in the cast, but also putting up posters of him.
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1 hour ago, ZattMurdock said:
What if neither Mission: Impossible, Barbie or Oppenheimer don’t "save the summer" at all?
It's my most anticipated movie of the year, and I'm pretty confident in its quality, considering how much I loved the previous two, but I have a feeling M:I7 will be seen as a disappointment. Looking at the budget number, and expectations of an increase thanks to Top Gun Maverick, I just feel like it will be seen as an underperformance, as I think there's a very high chance it drops from Fallout. And I wouldn't rule out a significant drop, like $600m worldwide. The marketing makes it seem kinda derivative, and in a year when audiences are rejecting franchises that aren't offering something special and unique, that's concerning. I also don't expect it to be better than Fallout, as that movie was already so great, so it also won't help that reviews won't be calling it an improvement or the best in the series.
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13 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:
This seems like a decent hold internationally (-57%, compared to the -67% drop domestic). Is $300m still in play?
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To me, The Force Awakens is a rehash of the original sort of like these new Scream movies have kind of remade the first two. It didn't feel pointless, it felt at the same time something comfortable but also something fresh with a promising future. It was a great theater experience, and a perfect blockbuster/franchise movie.
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20 minutes ago, 21C said:
I really think that people are waaay overstating how much of an impact that had. Do you guys seriously think that The Flash would've made like 20 million dollars more opening weekend if not for that announcement? lol At most it'd have made 500K-3 million dollars more. Same with Shazam.
His DCU announcement video has only like 1 million views on youtube. The GA doesn't know shit about it. The movie looked bad and people weren't interested on it.With every website and social media page reporting/discussing it, I think the vast majority of the audience for DC films was made aware that the DCEU is getting rebooted.
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Deadline estimating a -68% drop for The Flash
8.) The Flash (WB) 2,718 (-1,538) theaters, Fri $1.4M (-68%), 3-day $4.8M (-68%), Total $99M/Wk 3
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12 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:
THE $1M+ CLUB: THURSDAY
1. INDIANA JONES ($7.2M)
2. ELEMENTAL ($2.4M)
3. SPIDER-MAN ($2.3M)
4. NO HARD FEELINGS ($1.3M)
5. THE LITTLE MERMAID ($1.22M)
6. TRANSFORMERS ($1.21M)
7. THE FLASH ($1M)
Even Transformers now ahead of The Flash 😳
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2 hours ago, dxmatrixdt said:
i'm torn between a 9 and a 10 for this, but i am leaning toward a 10 because of the CGI.
Are you being sarcastic?
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I love all the 3 options for Lois Lane. None of the actors running for Superman impress me, to be honest.
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DEADLINE: You’ve got this coming out in theaters in October, and you’ve got Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom coming in December. DC’s been through some adversity with The Flash not overwhelming, Black Adam either. The first Aquaman was the brightest spot in the DC canon excepting Batman. Is this a movie you’re excited about?
HEARD: Oh, of course. These are very different kinds of projects representing two very different ends of the spectrum in my industry. There’s a ton of pressure on these big franchise movies, with millions and millions of dollars at stake, and compromises are part of trying to make it the most successful thing it can be. Then on the other end of the spectrum is a small indie film like In The Fire, a work of art and work of love, with nowhere near the same resources, and so there are compromises there. The best luck you can have as an actor is to be able to balance both. Aquaman, that franchise and the machinery behind it, I’m very honored, honored to be a part of that. And then there are these small passion projects like In The Fire, where I’m proud to have gotten to know the filmmaker and the cast, and we got dirty together, to breathe life into this story. There’s something cool about that, and I think success is an actor who is able to have both those things.
Amber Heard Talks Moving On With ‘In The Fire’ At Taormina Film Festival – Deadline
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20 minutes ago, dudalb said:
But how the Flash did will not have much impact on how Aqua 2 does. It will probably be a reverse of the WW/JL scneario where WW was a huge hit but did not keep JL from bombing because of the bVS connection;if it's good and fun like the first, Aquaman 2 will be a hit regardless of The FLash being a horrible bomb.
Wasn't Wonder Woman also connected to BVS? The character was introduced in BVS, and begins and ends making a connection between BVS and the Justice League film. There's more behind the JL bombing than that.
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Oh, I didn't know he announced this. So, the new DCU will pick up from where The Flash ended? I thought it was a complete reboot.
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The news for DC and Warner Bros.’ big-budget superhero pic The Flash — which opened last weekend opposite Elemental to a sobering $55.1 million — grew worse as it fell off 72 percent to $15.3 million for a domestic cume of $87.6 million. Unlike Elemental, The Flash received poor exit scores. (The studio had hoped for a decline of 55 percent.) Insiders concede the film, starring Ezra Miller, is a huge miss and is being rejected by audiences on a wholesale basis.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-flash-box-office-spider-man-1235523333/
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2 minutes ago, ZattMurdock said:
Ah, I disagree with that. The Justice Society was the one thing that made Black Adam kinda cool. Hawkman and Dr. Fate were both cool, at least. The Suicide Squad needs to rest for a bit. It’s a cool concept, but I feel like now they can be used as background characters and foils if they get integrated in the DCU, against Superman, Batman, The Authority, etc..
I liked the Justice Society in the film as well, but from a commercial perspective I think the Suicide Squad would have made it more appealing to fans and general audiences.
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8 hours ago, Speedorito said:
ZSJL was not “widely popular” it got less viewership than TSS (and both got less viewership than even stuff like Mortal Kombat).
It's important to consider that that data comes from Samba TV, and its reliability is still debatable. And according to them, Zack Snyder's Justice League was viewed by 1.8 million households in its first 4 days. Also according to them, the first episode of the Peacemaker TV show was watched by 638,000 households in its first 4 days, and the final episode by 584,000.
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The Suicide Squad should have been the characters going after Black Adam in his film, instead of the Justice Society. Perfect opportunity for a crossover. That was one of the many examples of the mismanagement of the DCEU under Walter Hamada, and the reason everyone stopped caring about this franchise.
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23 minutes ago, DAR said:
That has more to do with their structures than with strategy. A huge part of the revenue for Disney, Warner, Paramount and Universal come from the TV business. Paramount had a total of $30.1 billion in revenue last year, with 74% of that coming from advertisement and subscription (mainly from their cable TV channels). Sony isn't in the TV business, and their entire studio side (not including their tech, game or music business) had a total revenue of $9.5 billion last fiscal year. While the rise of Netflix isn't affecting any of Sony's existing business, streaming services are eating into the traditional TV, which are a big part of the revenue for the other studios. They had to get into the streaming wars in order to not shrink.
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2 hours ago, Mr Roark said:
Too easy to blame Snyder. Tsujihara, Emmerich, Johns, Hamada and Sarnoff are responsible for this mess.
This is what I always said. Snyder simply made the movies WB wanted from him. Man Of Steel was made before The Avengers came out, and up until that point The Dark Knight had been the most successful comic book movie. Green Lantern, which was made in an attempt to replicate the success of Iron Man and launching a DC shared universe, had just bombed. Going with a dark and gritty tone for the Superman reboot was for sure the studio's decision. If Snyder had not taken the job, someone else would have made a dark and gritty Man Of Steel.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1 | July 12 2023 | 99% on Rotten Tomatoes! | 290M budget so far, Cruise holding Paramount hostage for more money
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Some editing choices and tone shifts make the movie weird (as opposed to how slick and grounded the previous two were), and the ending is not satisfying as it doesn't resolve the plot - but at least they were honest with the "Part One" in the title.