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Looking like $14m-$15m on Friday for JWD.

Again, nobody is getting yelled at or called hysterical for pointing out something like that. You will get called hysterical if you extrapolate from that number that Disney will abandon theatrical, inflation has now devastated the box office, we have to look at the rest of the year different, budgets will be completely slashed and streaming is once again king. I hope that clears that up for the people with the terrible reading comprehension.

Current range for TG2 on Friday looks like $10.9m - $11.2m

Also, I'm waiting for a single person to explain how this makes long term logical sense that because LY opens to $50m+ that suddenly Disney sees that and decides to abandon theatrical and send animation straight to Disney+. "Hey, we get 60% of this theatrical money to the tune of maybe $400m or $500m grosses, but we are just going to abandon that money forever going forward to...... spite ourselves?" The reason they sent animation to Disney+ is a combo of covid and hoping it would boost the stock price and get them subscribers, and neither of those things panned out for them. Chapek is a guy, he isn't Disney, and he is a guy that is 8 months from the potential end of his career at Disney and doesn't have an extension. THAT is the bigger story here.

How are theatrical audiences among families shrinking because LY might underperform? Sonic 2 opened to $70m+ just weeks ago and The Bad Guys is legging it out to nearly $100m on a $23m opening weekend. This is exactly what I am talking about. People are connecting the dots that they WANT to connect based on their personal bias in a situation. Disney isn't going to abandon theatrical for animation. I can promise you that. Not only is it incredibliy stupid, but it also would lead to an exodous of the talented creatives they rely on.

No, the point is that you and certain others are somehow allowed to overreact and if others do it or say inflamitory and ridiculous things it is instant MODERATION warnings and ban threats. I like BOT and have been here for a long time. I'll tolerate and somewhat accept that one rogue moderator who plays by his own set of rules isn't going to ruin it for everyone. Again, I'm not the only one that thinks you are quick to pull the trigger on others but very very slow to police yourself.

Yeah, I'm going to guess it hits between $40m - $44m

Noticing a movie is doing poorly is fine. To start making wide sweeping declarations based on a Thursday preview number is classic BOT overreaction.

All that is somewhat valid, but you and others are delcaring the end of animation from Disney/Pixar going theatrical, that suddenly this number could mean the entire year of box office analysis needs to change, and about a half dozen complete overreactions. BOT does this all the time, so it's pretty normal at this point. Embarassing, but normal. Sort of the same way that you thought because Delta and Omicron that everything was moving en masse and theatrical was fucked and streaming was going to be the king going forward. How did all that work out?

You mean what?

Let the complete overreactions on BOT begin!! Right on schedule.

Uh.... the lol, wut was for your last part of not being in the Top 2 films this weekend.

No. I'm talking about something more specific than that. As of right now, it's looking like it might increase in the 70%+ range from Thursday's $6.25m number.

Honestly, this won't be popular or socially correct, but what Ezra seems really to need is a good old fashioned ass whooping.

Super duper early early, but if it follows last week's numbers on Friday, would mean $10.8m for TG2

Great moderation here. I can't mention the previous topic or even clarify without being given warning points or banned, yet multiple others can carry it on and meme it. Incredible.

A temp order like that is basically auto-approved until they can sort out any details. I'm not defending him, just giving the facts as they stand in relation to releasing this movie. There is a lot of time to figure this out.

There is nothing to argue and I was clear. Anyways, Eric said enough and I would like to avoid the Mods giving me another warning they are itching to find any reason to give me. I'm done talking about it.

$6.25m Thursday for TG2 $8.8m for JWD

We will see how the weekend shakes out, but I think Charlie is being way too pessimistic.

Can't wait to bump some posts in 6 weeks or so.

What are you talking about with clarification. It's 100% certain. Locked. Write it in stone. How can I be any clearer?

What do you think "locked" means? It means it is hitting $600m domestic. Write it down, send a carrier pigeon, tweet it, carve it in granite. It's a stone cold fucking lock. Hope this helps.

No, it's locked. Stone cold fucking locked.

What's the price of tea in China?