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https://deadline.com/2022/03/rrr-the-batman-lost-city-moonfall-india-china-global-international-box-office-1234987698/amp/ The India total is still murky, but looks to be about $46M which would put the worldwide start near $60M — if the India numbers hold, they would make RRR the No. 1 movie globally this weekend. These figures come with a big asterisk as it is notoriously difficult to get solid numbers out of India, but this is what our sources indicate. Here’s the thing: there is no centralized reporting system in India and it gets even more ornery when a movie is released in four different language versions as is the case with RRR. Some areas also report net figures while others rely on gross versus share of ultimate takings I cannot agree with deadline anymore. It is always confusing looking at Indian box office, especially for non-Hollywood titles. Reporting a net figure is already a thing in the past but still exist in India today.

I got the feeling that whichever film has the most voters seen it will win the race for best actress. That is why Kidman and Colman has the edge initially since they are in the most nominated film. If parallel mother is nominated for best international feature like pain and glory did, Cruz will have higher profile. But yes, I guess Latin voters or euro voters can give Cruz some boost here. The eye of Tammy Faye as the front runner for best makeup really solidify chastain’s chance here. History is now in her favour as Marion cortillard and Meryl Streep achieved the same and to a certain extend, zellweger. chastain is my best second choice. I prefer Cruz performance simply because I am so bored seeing make up performance being hailed as standard of excellence in acting.

Did I sense some sudden surge in support for Penelope Cruz in best leading actress? I thought her performance is easily the best and not boring in comparison to other makeup/imitation performances like chastain , Kidman and stewart.

Overall is solid weekend but not big enough to bring the weekend total to above 100m. I don’t really think the next few weeks will be overcrowded field since there are at least another 50m to 60m gross will be up for grab, judging from the total box office.

My personal choice in every category: best picture: 1. licorice pizza 2. Coda 3. Dune 4. The power of the dog 5. Don’t look up 6. King richard 7. Drive my car 8. Nightmare alley 9. West side story 10. Belfast best director: Jane campion, the power of the dog best actor: Andrew Garfield in tick tick boom best actress: Penelope Cruz in parallel mother Best supporting actor: Troy kotsur, coda Best supporting actress: Kirsten dunst, the power of the dog best original screenplay: licorice pizza best adapted screenplay: drive my car best international feature: the worst person in the world Best animation: raya and the last dragon best editing: tick tick boom best cinematography: the power of the dog Best production design: dune Best sound: dune best vfx: dune best score: don’t look up best song: be alive, king richard best costume: dune best makeup: the eye of Tammy Faye This year group of nominees is even weaker than last year. Normally I can find a few (two to three) movies to passionately root for the win from the best picture line up but honestly this year, except for licorice pizza, I don’t really care about the rest of the nominees. They are either in the standard good range or outrightly forgettable. I have no issue with coda taking the ultimate prize. The movie contain not only one but few powerful scenes. It is amazing how the movie is able to pull off this feat without being heavily decorated or in the exaggerated term, properly crafted. I don’t like drive my car, I find it meaningfully boring. Similar to tree of life, it is a very meaningful theme and brilliantly crafted but it was just too boring to endure. Nevertheless, I find it to be one of the most interesting nominees in years. I am happy DMC find its passionate love so that we can have diversity in the way of storytelling and different approach in filmmaking.

Any update for the subsequent day? It is wonderful to see India find its NWH or NTTD for UK

They still picking a fight with avatar 2, only different is they pick a different movie Shazam 2

if there must be something they telecast during the commercial, I will rather to have all those be best picture or whatever montage they want or even in memoriam section since those segment are pre-recorded anyway.

Combining romance and adventure is a right aim to two of the most underserved demo in the marketplace now, female and family. Let see how this aim can lead us to another success like uncharted. I believe 70%+ RT will do the trick.

Let face it. Unlike in 2018, Oscar rating was still in high 20m range when they first propose category cut. This round was different, last year rating was merely 10m. This has severely diminish AMPAS leverage against ABC and allow ABC to have harsher stance on what it want. Whoever think that movie theatre is just a platform can go and fuck themselves. Last year rating clearly show that without major cinema going , Oscar was totally eventless. Last year Oscar was also the least talked about batch that I ever remember despite many saying streaming can easily replace all drama fare

Yeah, don’t get why people rushing to leave a place after 45 days to somewhere where he got to stay 45000 days there.

Even more backloaded after they revise downward Friday number. The Sunday number is only less than 3% from Friday, proving that early fan screening move ran away from Friday and 3 hours run time move more causal into weekend

So with that 34m Sunday, it is safe to deduce that whilst batman and joker look quite audience unfriendly and gritty, but clearly there is a huge appetite and interest for dark and serious stuff.

Blackkklansman in my eyes, is certainly one of the worst best picture nominees. A movie exists only to criticise trump’s America without a proper plot to dissect black dilemma in the country. It is like a don’t look up but talk about racial tension.

People refuse to acknowledge that outside from some triggered crowd, GB is actually a very smooth crowd pleaser drama.

The streaming impact won’t kick in as straightforward as many think las if we will only suddenly see the impact on the week when a movie hit streaming. The impact may very well kick in right in the 2nd week or so. Not to mention hbo max here is a free access, not a PVOD

Good number around except some meh numbers mostly from Asia region . Huge from Mexico and Brazil. They really love superhero movie, gritty or cheerful, they love hero.

Not to mention that Monday is the start of spring break at few places which may soften Sunday drop. Similar to holdovers, if their Saturday jump is already weaker than last week, no way they still drop as intense as last week Sunday.

Not sure if they will update gender split but Saturday Sunday may likely see woman audience goes up.

This week is also the first weekend where all movies gross more than 100m. I doubt the remaining march will have that aggregate number again. The April will be the real test to see if we can a weekend where all movies can gross 100m or more consistently, just like pre-pandemic time. That will be a tenable sign of thing coming back to normal after 2 years. Lately one of my friend commented that titanic being overdramatic, “who will have a gun fight on a sinking ship?”. I was like “just look at how Russia launch a war against Ukrainian in the middle of pandemic!”

2.8x is quite a big ask for an opening at this level. Most importantly, the second weekend hold have been awful for a lot of tentpoles out there as we constantly see 60% harsh drop. Something we did not see during pre-pandemic. But scream 59% and uncharted 47% , and dog 32% second post holiday weekend drop have kind of signal the return to a more closer to pre-pandemic second weekend norm. Something that I am very curious and follow closely for batman if we are indeed moving back to normality

Nwh phenomenal hold, to a certain extent ghostbusters too, and uncharted surprise signal the genuine lack of family friendly action flick in the marketplace and that is why they are not really impacted by batman is that movie was less family friendly

67% male? where is all the chick and lads where you need them?! Let’s put up this sign to the sky now.

The 125m to 130m opening is generally in line with MoS opening of 128m and homecoming 117m and most importantly an instant mockery to hbo max day to date strategy as it passes dune’s total with just opening weeks. It is a number I can’t say I am exhilarated but neither I feel sad.

So about 120m to 125m overall