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Might be interesting if they can somehow pull off a mute Link. I've really enjoyed having other characters' responses to him explain his thoughts. It could be fun & fresh.

O/U on weeks until A:WoW weekends are higher than AMQ weekends?

The schadenfreude in here is palpable.

Titanic is far from my favorite film, though I do think it’s fantastic. That said, I don’t think there’s any denying that it’s, to this point, the zenith of its medium globally. Comes close to equaling Star Wars in the West, but blows it away everywhere else.

Imagine if this December 15-ish a movie opened domestically to a 60M weekend & didn't have a weekend below: 60M until mid-January 50M until mid-February 30M until the beginning of April For those few of us who tracked this stuff back in '97, it was absolutely unfathomable.

Nah. It’s not about the longevity, of which Jordan had plenty, it was the total dominance over contemporaries.

That run was the Michael Jordan of box office runs. So far beyond its contemporaries in so many ways as to beggar belief. If you inflation-adjust that thing it's just ludicrous. As a grade school aged Star Wars fan in 97/98, I absolutely despised Titanic because of how categorically superior its BO was.

Good post, though I'll make the following comment: I live & travel all over COVID hypochondriac USA (the USA West Coast) & I doubt it's even 10 to 15 percent at this point. If it is, it seems very possible to me it's comprised of people who probably were homebodies before COVID anyway. I doubt COVID *itself* is affecting moviegoing habits. That said, this doesn't mean habits didn't change during the pandemic for many. Along those lines, I do think that the rest of your post makes a lot of sense. I think there's a good chance that a strata of films (romcoms, character driven dramas) that people are less likely to go see in the movies now due to the reasoning you illustrate. But for other films (tentpole spectacles, kid's films), that reasoning seems considerably less relevant, & I doubt there is a significant effect on moviegoing habits.

It may have, but it's unclear to me that this has had an effect on the ceiling for tentpole films.

You don't understand, it would have made 1.1B in China if not for COVID. Ahem.

The A2 run gets a ton of attention, deservedly, but I rejoice that PiB & M3GAN are having very sexy little runs of their own.

Many of us said several weeks ago that the runtime would create this dynamic. I, like you, am not at all surprised. Just look at the runs of previous films with similar runtimes.

As a San Diegan, I am in the enviable position of being content (though not elated) that they won when they win, & equally content that Dean Spanos lost when they lose. I hope he’s crying into his coffee today.

And be at the theater for 8 hours plus! 😬

I have doubts the NFL playoff games really do have a marginal effect vs the regular season until the Super Bowl, but I honestly haven’t researched it too deeply. Yes, they get insane viewership numbers, but there’s also very few of them & zero college games, so I wonder how much of that is just moving the same eyeballs from a vast array of games to a handful of games instead.