Johnny Tran

There's a such thing as "goodwill" for some critics. It's not really fair necessarily but people are human. We've seen it with certain franchises. When MCU was hitting some home runs there were critics who were judging the MCU more as a collective than each individual movie. When they hit their stride everything, even movies that you look back at now and think wow that was mid or even bad were getting high grades or passing grades etc. Same thing with Star Wars. There's no question The Last Jedi was a very mixed and divisive movie but you wouldn't think that looking at the RT score with critics. Same thing with the Fast series. There were a lot of Fast movies that got the benefit of the doubt because they were "supposed" to be wild and crazy. Then people got tired of it.

'The Batman' is right at 85% on RT

so are we looking at $35M over the 5-day for TMNT?

Ninja Turtles was really good. We laughed, we got emotional at parts. I really liked the animation style. I hope it does well.

Shareholders... don't like anything about Disney right now lol.

I don't care if The Marvels bombs. The whole MCU needs a reset of some kind. This is the point in the discussion where a lot of people still say "but the numbers are fine! they are still good!" Not really.. GOTG Vol. 3 made a lot of money. Why? Because it was the MCU of old. It was a more personal movie with smaller stakes (for the world, not the team) and that resonated with people. They've had way more misses than hits recently including the TV series. Secret Invasion was an embarrassment.

The parks are doing terribly. There's articles everywhere citing why they are so empty.

It's both. They might not know the name of the director, but they've heard the movie is good.

Local theater was packed tonight. Again just one theater but I saw tons of older skewing people looked to be going for Oppenheimer and of course lots of ladies in pink

Fascinating stuff. Warner Bros. is still the best when they want to be. Selling ‘Barbie’: Inside the Marketing Phenomenon - The Ringer Edit: I should note here that Warner Bros. Studio absolutely took on the bulk of the marketing campaign. They explain it here. Mattel added some things of course but it was nearly all the studio's marketing division.

Whole Summer pretty much sucked until this past weekend. Let's hope for $24M for Barbie and $11M for Oppenheimer

A bomb that Nolan would be proud of, Kidding but it's not looking great.

Disney, right now, is making atrocious movies. Let the windmills and tomahawks fly. They need to be better.

I'm pretty sure if Zaslav had the Wednesday numbers already he'd hand deliver them to us. He wants this positive press. He's probably got on pink boxer briefs.

A little news from my local. Tonight's Barbie large format is sold out. Tonight's Oppenheimer IMAX is sold out. The late showings still have some seating available. Tomorrow: Barbie large format is sold out. Oppenheimer IMAX early evening is sold out. Still some seats available for the late night. So what does this mean? It's only one theater but again I have never really seen tickets sell like this outside of 'Endgame' or 'The Force Awakens'

Not sure why Gitesh expected a bump on Tuesday after a soft drop on Sunday and massive Monday. I'm confused.

That's not how comic book arcs work really, though. When you introduce a big bad and a shiny toy (in this case the infinity gauntlet) people are waiting to see that come to fruition. Feige built this like a comic book story with a beginning, middle and end and the accompanying movies acted as little side stories like you'd see in any comic book crossover event. It was a one of kind idea for sure and credit to them for pulling it off but that's why the interest was maintained because the elements that were introduced early on weren't yet on the playing field. Avatar came in as a brand new IP. It didn't have decades of lore behind it like Iron Man, Cap, The Avengers and Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet which was a highly successful crossover event when comic books were still a thing. Avatar didn't have all of the cartoons and video games and posters and trading cards and everything else behind it. It was just a new IP. Adjusted for inflation it has to be well over $3 billion at the box office. Insanity.

What would Titanic worldwide box office be adjusted for inflation? Obviously that would take quite a bit of work to figure out with each country and their exchange rates I suppose..

Avatar is the most impressive run. 'Endgame' had 11 films of buildup or whatever it was. 20 films. I don't know. Avatar was a brand new IP and it didn't have a crazy opening weekend either. It just got bigger and bigger..

I think the Monday numbers just blew my mind more than the weekend numbers Lol

Great numbers for both. You want to talk about something that's front loaded, let's talk about this thread. A steep decline from Thursday/Friday.

Is this where people are acting like $150M is a bad number for 'Barbie'? Have a found the right place?

Both Barbie and Oppenheimer will have mighty legs

Local theater report: The website has setup a waiting line for tickets. That has NEVER happened before Lol.

Yeah, I don't remember if they confirmed it or not but it was definitely heavily rumored. That could be live action or animated but sounds like they are going animated.