Gavin Feng

So there are still some 2D screenings while 3D have a major proportion for D&W?

Hollywood already basically stop spending money on their projects. They deserve those box office results. And I would say these numbers are too kind.

when you said "at home", you meant they stated they owned the franchise or the teaser looked as awful as TV dramas Denis dislike?

justice for BR2049 BLADE RUNNER 2049 (2017)

Is this gonna hit $200M WW?

Furiosa might not be able to make it though WB wanted to secure a release plan. I'm gonna go HK to see the movie.

I wonder if this really happened in many theaters?

forgive me if I caused any misunderstanding. Disney showed the movie to local exhibitors and critics today. Two people from separated screenings said they didn’t think it is a good movie. I couldn’t tell why considering they didn’t say much details. But the pacing problem was mentioned. It was also something that some social media reactions pointed out if I’m not wrong.

I heard the pacing is really slow in a bad way

It's about how it could affect enthusiasm. Not just in positive or negative way, but something more complicated. For example, Flash never ever has truly great reviews, but Warner Bros insisted to lift the embargo so early. Was that because they thought reviews did not matter? I don't think so. It was because they need a big push for its poor ticket sales. Even though the RT number didn't look well, but at least they could use some words from great reviews to bring more hypes. If studios really believe reviews are totally meaningless, then every movie, no matter good or bad, should hold their embargo until the day they open. For this moment, the new Apes movie just look average in pre-sale. I don't think Disney won't take advantage of great reviews if they could. It is exactly the studio who knows how to use those numbers. I'm not gonna say the movie would be mediocre or bad, but Disney probably think there is a risk that critics reviews would not be great and hurt the box office.

According to the tracking, the advance ticket sale is just so so. From the point of view of studio, they might need a push by critics unless they think it won't give any help. That's why I personally think RT will be more like 70s level at best.

suddenly I can’t read English

this one will be success mostly because it works well in its own instead of being part of the multiverse saga. Just like nobody think Wonder Woman have big thing to do with Snyder's universe.

In terms of the box office revenue outside homeland, Boy and the Heron is now topping Dangal to become the highest grossing asian movie.

I believe it's not a misstep, but this is why I think Alex Garland has a big room for improvement as a director. The core idea is whether journalists can always step out of the conflicts and just record things. But when the Jesse Plemons scene came out, we know these journalists has already been part of the wars. All four main characters have undergone changes: Stephen Henderson, who had a direct confrontation with those soldiers (straying from the guideline Kirsten Dunst said), died at the end of the 2nd act. Wagner Moura had been suffering from the psychological shock of Henderson's death (there was a shot that he roared), especially the fact he mentioned that Henderson probably died for nothing as western force is ready to storm DC. He was then somehow in the "what if" mode that Kirsten Dunst said no to Cailee Spaeny at the very beginning of the journey. So he didn't give a shit about anything except catching the president at the 3rd act. Kirsten Dunst, who always said they should just press the shutter and go, got killed cuz she also broke the guideline for saving Cailee Spaeny. Just like her colleagues, she was unable to go back to the past after the Jesse Plemons scene and became more emotional and vulnerable. Cailee Spaeny, who was like a baby or kid in terms of the press industry at most time, finished her journey as she captured the death of Kirsten Dunst. I think this scene might also reveal how Dunst established her own career -- based on a lie or something she couldn't really ask herself. That would also explain why she followed that guideline (couldn't face the ugly past). So through Dunst's death, Spaeny finally understood her icon, a real person beyond the wiki page, and also became her icon.

I know Garland’s intentions but also understand lots of people would feel pretty disappointed cuz some creative designs are not so smarts like his writing work 28 Days Later

no way people would forget the original cast. Just like Amazon dreamed they can make a great LOTR TV series.

just made this. hope you enjoy it.

yes Boy & Heron make that number in just 6 hours. So it's actually more like previews (though local industry still call things like this OD). It's the first import movie hitting ¥100M OD since FX... third best OD for import animated movies behind Despicable Me 3, Kong Fu Panda 3. THU-FRI-SAT are national holidays (SUN this time is a workday). It can try the daily record for a import animated movie held by Frozen 2 with ¥167.55M. Then: - ¥337M lifetime gross to beat North America - ¥433M lifetime gross to beat Japan I hope it can challenge US+CANADA+JAPAN (China finally beat The US Japan Alliance somehow)

a reminder, today's showtimes start from 6pm for Boy and the Heron.

will Civil War be a hit in Russia?

wrong with SUN number

I literally disagree people only care about monsters / creatures and could ignore anything else. Remember that one of the best creature movie Jurassic Park only have 9 mins CGI dinosaurs scenes and 6 mins electron model scenes. It’s never about more and more VFX. It’s always about emotional experience.