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Apparently, Saltburn (a movie that I have never heard of and have never heard anyone in reality mention) is the Taylor Swift of the movie industry because obsessives on Twitter have Tweeted about it until their fingers went numb

I really have no idea why anyone expected anything higher for Challengers. It is a homoerotic, R-rated tennis-drama that has one noticeable star and two homely costars. The environment in which it is coming out is also one that has a culture war brewing regarding pushback against homosexuality. Who exactly is supposed to be the audience for this? Her young fans are not going to be able to see it. Straight guys are not going to see it. Straight women are probably not going to be compelled to see it. Tennis fans are not going to have any inclination to see it. If you abstract those elements from the budget, the result is not worthy of derision to be honest.

Why bring up The Woman King if the conditions are as disparate as you say? That just appears to be daft on your part then

And if the same percentage stays consistent for The Color Purple as it did for The Woman King, then it still gets to $180,000,000+. So, what is so hard to get about that?

Then why bring up The Woman King in the first place? If it follows Dreamgirls, then it still gets to that number.

I am guessing that it is a wrap on Heat 2 since Ferrari is shaping up to be a monumental Christmas bomb

If it does follow the same path as The Woman King, then that is still $180,000,000+ in America

It is hilarious seeing the pivoting from the earlier pages to now. You had people stating that this is going to be huge because it is giving Hispanic patrons. Even when people stated that Cubans, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and Venezuelans are not the same and do not see each other as the same, you had people pushing against that. Now they are essentially agreeing with that same sentiment

I was waiting for someone to post a sensible comment in a sea full of dumb ass posts

Raunchy comedy sucked during its heyday, and they probably still suck now. People have finally matured and are resolutely rejecting it, so studios need to stop trying to have it happen again. They went from Coming to America, Plane, Trains & Automobiles, Clueless, Mean Girls and other comedy that relied on characterization, cleverness, pointedness and timing to Step Brothers like crassness. America Pie and Judd Apatow are the two worst things that have ever happened to studio comedy because none of that was timeless, and you are seeing the effects now of what happens when you rely on gimmicky humor

Uh, America is not the UK

Those are projects are more so hurt by people not caring about the Oscars anymore than they are because of a change in consumer habits. All of those projects got boosts from nominations and wins at awards ceremonies. None of them set the box office ablaze from the jump. Air and The Woman King both grossed a higher total than Michael Clayton and have pretty comparable grosses to Moneyball, so streaming is not the biggest problem affecting those problems. By all accounts, the Oscar projects are not performing great on streaming either

Some people consider Man of Steel to be a masterpiece

Superman has not set the box office on fire since the 80s, so I highly doubt that one. Batman is always going to be alright, though

DC is probably in a worse position than Star Wars. The Snyder cult is going to astroturf and asperse anything DC-Warner related for eternity

73% male? I know that those showings have to be the funkiest showings ever with all of those neckbeards congregating in one theater

I do not get all of the so-and-so-has-to-breakout-because-everything-else-is-faltering posts. Audiences have made clear that the days of going to theaters just because are not a thing anymore

Succession just has a bunch of Tweets. It is nowhere near a phenomenon or dominating Sunday nights. The Real Housewives of wherever gets higher ratings

The studio will certainly be able to override if The Flash is shaping up to be as cataclysmic as people are expecting

Isn't there a rumor that Warner Bros is relying on The Flash to give them enough cash to properly promote their new projects? Their 2024 only has The Joker as the one project with the potential to gross $200,000,000+

Why does he use the most random comparisons and never apply any context?

And people try to say that Ezra Miller has no impact on the box office It is a sausage fest. Shazam 2 got 34% women, and Black Adam opened with 51% women. The Flash has the worst male skew that I remember seeing

Yet, that simple fact has not stopped people from yelling about The Flash being a $1,000,000,000 grosser for a year now

The Flash is supposed to be the story, but the Jennifer Lawrence opening to $10,000,000 is astonishing. The trailers are absolutely insufferable, but isn't star power supposed to be a thing still?

They are going to ignore your post because it is way too true