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Dune 2 Opening Weekend Thread [3/01/24 -3/03/24] [82.5m DOM OW]
titanic2187 replied to Porthos's topic in Numbers and Data
I too, think his best film is still arrival. Followed by incendies and now Dune 2. Sicario and BR2049 next, and the last is first Dune. -
Dune 2 Opening Weekend Thread [3/01/24 -3/03/24] [82.5m DOM OW]
titanic2187 replied to Porthos's topic in Numbers and Data
Now he has controlled two major commodities of the world. Chocolate and spice. -
Dune 2 Opening Weekend Thread [3/01/24 -3/03/24] [82.5m DOM OW]
titanic2187 replied to Porthos's topic in Numbers and Data
The real and sole messiah! So dune will be the first 100m movie of the year, ahead of One love. The best cinemascore in Denis’s filmography means something. In fact, I haven’t felt such an intense and passionate online praise for a movie in a long while. Glad it begin to show some sign the passionate love is spreading to a wider public. -
Dune 2 Opening Weekend Thread [3/01/24 -3/03/24] [82.5m DOM OW]
titanic2187 replied to Porthos's topic in Numbers and Data
To get to Wonka’s 217m, dune 2 probably need some 2.8x legs, which is a staying power that dune 2 may actually miss it if it followed Batman, Logan or Jw4, or creed III. Speaking of wonka, I can’t imagine if people do double feature between Wonka and Dune 2 in the same week, only to find out Tim to transform from an inspirational, delightful, sweet and cute chocolate singer to a decisive, vengeful, semi-villainous cult warrior-leader. It is kind of crazy to have an actor to pull off those two polar opposite roles in such a short time. -
Dune 2 Opening Weekend Thread [3/01/24 -3/03/24] [82.5m DOM OW]
titanic2187 replied to Porthos's topic in Numbers and Data
Can anyone confirm is Saturday is indeed big? or just deadline’s typical exaggeration? “I hear that Dune: Part Two is going to have a great Saturday. Already as of this AM, Warners has $13.5M bagged for Saturday. I understand that they’re up 30% over the pure Friday (less previews).” -
Dune 2 Opening Weekend Thread [3/01/24 -3/03/24] [82.5m DOM OW]
titanic2187 replied to Porthos's topic in Numbers and Data
Deadline said male is 65% Dune: Part Two is dude leaning at 65%. -
Dune 2 Opening Weekend Thread [3/01/24 -3/03/24] [82.5m DOM OW]
titanic2187 replied to Porthos's topic in Numbers and Data
Totally missing the picture. Dune 2 reached this level of OW 75-80m thanks to passionate love, no doubt over that. But it is also the passionate love that may in the end limit the sky of how high dune 2 can go. Avatar 2 is too a sci-fi fantasy, and I believe everyone agree that the review isn’t rave and I don’t see the whole twitter going nuts praising that movie, yet avatar 2 has similar or slightly lower exit score like dune 2 (A Cinemascore, 5 stars posttrak and 92% RT). The difference clearly lies with just how appealing the movie to general public. A silent audience that generally don’t talk, don’t know and hardly give any reaction to a movie. If this segment of audience is unlocked, a movie can tap into a money that they would never imagine to get. I presume Dennis isn’t interested to wow this segment of audience but this is still a factor why dune 2 isn’t overperforming beyond PLF or male audience. -
Dune 2 Opening Weekend Thread [3/01/24 -3/03/24] [82.5m DOM OW]
titanic2187 replied to Porthos's topic in Numbers and Data
You can throw male percentage in also. JW4 has 69% male and look like Dune2 is somewhere there around 68% -
Dune 2 Opening Weekend Thread [3/01/24 -3/03/24] [82.5m DOM OW]
titanic2187 replied to Porthos's topic in Numbers and Data
Bur we have plenty of example that some movies even with great exit WOM, their legs just aren’t good. MI7, JW4, DnD and TCP all have A cinemascore and >90% exit but couldn’t leg out well. The correlation between WOM and legs just got tricky post-Covid. No doubt dune 2 is expertly crafted and WOM is guaranteed to be stellar but the movie has some unusual creative choice and character treatment for tentpole blockbusters. I myself love the movie but also have to acknowledge that this isn’t some “crowd-pleaser” that appeal to different demographics. The legs is gonna either “good” or “bad”. -
The Box Office Buzz, Tracking, and Pre-Sale Thread
titanic2187 replied to Shawn Robbins's topic in Box Office Discussion
Even with rounding up, I seriously can’t see the round up to be anything more than 300k. There just isn’t much incentive or benefit for them to round up this much and there is plenty of record that WB is ok to report a preview with decimal without having them to round up to the next round number. -
Dune 2 Opening Weekend Thread [3/01/24 -3/03/24] [82.5m DOM OW]
titanic2187 replied to Porthos's topic in Numbers and Data
The pure Thursday preview number is 10m then, isn’t it better than what tracking generally suggest yesterday? -
Dune 2 Opening Weekend Thread [3/01/24 -3/03/24] [82.5m DOM OW]
titanic2187 replied to Porthos's topic in Numbers and Data
So is it 11 or 12m? That 1m could translate to 7-8m difference in OW due to carry over effect. -
Dune 2 Opening Weekend Thread [3/01/24 -3/03/24] [82.5m DOM OW]
titanic2187 replied to Porthos's topic in Numbers and Data
As long as this coming above JW4 I am good. I know the hype has been building in the past few weeks but that seem quite confined within a section of the online community and real life buzz has been lacking. Combine this with some mixed feeling over part 1 especially among general audience, that certainly cap a limit to how high this can go. That is why I never got my hope high over OW. The WOM will be great no doubt. -
I agree the movie is action-packed and well-paced. But some of the character development and creative choices are quite rare in tentpole blockbuster, which got me very curious about just how GA would react to this rarity. On one hand GA could gave great exit score like JW4 or Logan but the movie still legs out meh because of that "uneasy" feeling. Or, this could leave some impactful impression even among those who doesn't like the movie, and allow Dune to leg out unusually well for being memorable.
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Faith-based movie getting A+ is quite "common". Also, neither the chosen nor Jesus Revolution show crazy Tuesday surge. While I agree this could be some mini sleeper hit, but Cabrini is also coming this week to steal some Christian-moviegoers.
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Dune: Part Two (2024) Spoiler Thread
titanic2187 replied to Eric Atreides's topic in Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)
Correct me if I am wrong, I don’t think they finish the whole dune book in this part 2 movie. Looks like they “transfer” some plot to part 3 and combine it with messiah plot. -
Dune: Part Two (2024) Spoiler Thread
titanic2187 replied to Eric Atreides's topic in Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)
This is one of the rare moment I seen a protagonist in a major studio tentpole was written and portrayed with such “villainous” energy. Most of tentpole prefer their protagonist to be heroic and role model-ish. -
CODA, green book and Argo are definitely part of the old-fashioned movie that will not just get Oscar attention but bigger mainstream success. The only movie I would say it would have little chance to actually wining had they released in 80s or 90s, are Moonlight, parasite and EEAO. The rest of the winner look pretty standard and “normal” Oscar winner including spotlight and birdman. Nothing unusual or revolutionary in their victory.
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Visual first, words second. Like the opening battle scene of Saving Private Ryan, the sinking sequences in Titanic, The trinity test scene in Oppenheimer, the chasing sequences in Mad Max. Not just in action tentpoles, 2001 space odyssey, Moonlight , Roma would be totally a different things without its unique aesthetic style. Just you thought Parasite has a tight script, that movie has ton of whole lot of visual language (see that Montage scene alone) that many still didn't realise until today. Dennis' remark probably push the doctrine to the extreme but his idea was not without merit. People just want lazy exposition and have every info feed to them in words, slowly losing capability to appreciate art.
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And the movie has a scary disturbing music to close it off. A score that outscared me more than any other soundtrack in actual horror films. Too bad the score is left behind by the Oscar nomination, probably it played too late or too early in the movie (although this was an intentional and right creative choice)