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I don't think you're understanding what others are trying to say. And I too find the crIteria of the $1B/90 on RT ridiculous for any franchise.

Jesus, never thought Thor would be the divisive one lol. Seeing it Tuesday with family and friends, hopefully I have fun with it.

The First Water War Studio: Infinite Studios Release Date: 8/31/Y9 Genre: Family Comedy Director: David Bowers Rating: PG for rude humor Budget: $20M Theater Count: 3,201 Runtime: 88 minutes Cast: Unknowns Plot: A drought has hit Los Angles hard on the last week of August. Just as kids are about to back to school in just a week, incoming 5th graders twins; the brave and bold Kimmy and the intelligent but nervous Kenny are taking a bike ride with their friends attempting to find a place to cool down. To their surprise, they find a secret lake, perfect to cool down in. With their newfound discovery, the kids claim the terrority. Unfortunately, the good times get complicated when more children discover and want the territory including; the brutish and sporty 7th graders, their bratty 10th grade older sister Karen and her teenage friends and crushes and a militant and resourceful group of kindergarteners. Kimmy decides to settle this once and for all as she declares a Water War where they settle the score with water balloons and water guns; last one dry wins the lake for their group. Rules are added such as no human shielding, no cars for the teens, and that they can add as many recruitments as they went. The leaders agree as Kenny feels frustrated that his friends don’t takes him seriously and would rather listen to Kimmy, and is hurt when his sister notes he’s her second in command instead of equals. The next day, the Water War begins as brutal water fight breaks out as balloons burst and guns spray. Each group has a strategy: the kindergartners act as mini-ninjas in the trees with balloons to have with element of surprise, 7th graders using skateboards as the teens do divide and conquer tactics as the fifth graders stay as a group. Many are eliminated including friends, enemies and Karen until it’s just five kids; Kimmy, Kenny, a teen and two 7th graders. Kenny has a good plan but Kimmy would rather use brute force, the two argue as Kenny accidentally throws a balloon at Kimmy, eliminating her as he then gets spotted and eliminated. The teen wins as Kenny is chewed out by his friends and Kimmy is hurt by her brother/best friend’s betrayal. The next day, the kids learn that a snooty rich frat bro has secluded the spot, as Kenny rouses up all the groups for one last stand as they all know what it’s like to be pushed around by someone older and at the end of the day, it’s there time. The children and teens unite and bombard the frat brothers into leaving with their water weapons. A treaty is made to share the lake, as Kimmy and Kenny make up. The group relaxes in their new place, as they celebrate the last day of summer.

Think more likely that they were stuck in the Quantum Realm since the 1960s.

Matilda I’ll drop during the weekend. The thing is good to go, grammar edited but I want to mediate on it a bit. Hollow I’m having a draft done by Friday as progress as going good but Joyride really depends on how much I get done Sunday. Working on a few smaller fillers to hold in some spots today. Priority wise for filler films that could drop Monday night: Off-Road 2 Crunch Time HOOOOOPs Romance Road 2 Frog and Toad Fire and Ice

If the meat hammer was viewed in full glory, we’d have no talks about a disappointing OW. $300m OW would’ve been locked.

You flicked too hard dammit.

Not that hard, have the kid be 8-10, by the time Panther 3 comes, have the story take 8-10 years later and he’s sporting the mantle.

I think what they’ll do is have either a descendant of TChalla holding the mantle or one of Nakia, Okoye, M’Baku or Shuri take the title.

And I thought the inability to read the lines between flopping and slight but still powerful diminishing returns was one thing but apparently Marvel movies are dour now. (That said, the ending of Guardians 2 does still make me tear up.)

To be honest it’s part of the downside of doing 9-10 media a year mainly because you can’t do normal campaigns in fear of outshining other projects.

Matilda and the Night Children will come sometime tonight Sleepy Hollow and Joyride I want out by Saturday. A handful of filler sequels and things from my disposable will be rushed to make the deadline: Fire and Ice, my VFX horror movie Crunch Time, Frog and Toad if Thanksgiving animation is needed, Off Road 2, and/or Romance Road 2.

I do think them announcing the next Avengers movie be it 2024 or 2025, might help things get back to somewhat in order. Won’t be the cure all but I think it’ll help investment a bit.

Also Spider-Man is like the biggest superhero now. It’s in a different league.

Again I honestly don’t get how that’s disappointing either. It’s a solid jump. I just think peoples’ expectations got way out of hand. (Thought I think if it was better reviewed, it might have done 5-10% more tops but even then some viewed it as disappointing). When I say diminishing returns I mean more so the jumps not being as much as hoped for or maybe some falling or doing roughly the same as their Phase 3 installments.

Shang Chi is in my top 10, with Strange 2 just in the top 15, NWH I think is 16. So suggesting the possibility of diminishing returns is equivalent to calling them bombs despite no one here is thinking it’d bomb or underperform. I think you got it the other way around. People aren’t saying the MCU is doomed forever or every film is an underperformer lol.

Dude most movies start out with a lot of runtime and are edited down of what works best thanks to the editors. That’s filmmaking 101.

Most of Raimi’s movies are under 2 hours or just about 2 hours like Strange was lol.

Tbh I think they’ll do that and the girls as adults.

Are people complaining about too much Waititi in here?

I stand by my thoughts from a few weeks ago: This decade, the MCU will be like Pixar 2010s but on a bigger scale, still huge hits with the ones that blow up blow up, but some being viewed as disappointing because of not reaching the past standards of reviews and box office.

Okay. I thought it was lower tier MCU but about the same as a number of origin movies like Homecoming and Black Widow. A 3/5, see it once and I’m good. I just don’t think the proof is there for such a large drop, even though I think a drop is happening due to how much it made. It’s really rare for a tentpole to drop that much, even if it is really disliked and I’m not really seeing much of an indication that Captain Marvel is going to fall by about 50% from the past entries unless it was consecutively bad repeated installments over time. It would be on the scale of TLK from AoE and that had a plethora of problems from bad reviews to the last one being far more disliked than almost any MCU movie.

That’s the thing how was it controversial, it was basically a standard MCU flick lol.

Honestly, The Marvels sub 700m just seems like unrealistic hope for those who really hated the movie or were oddly mad at Larson for her opinion and just can’t let it go. I mean Thor: The Dark World is easily the worst MCU but it jumped with Ragnarok, compared to Captain Marvel which if we look outside of a loud Internet vocal minority, WOM was in line with other MCU flicks. No Marvel movie has dropped that much and with the rumor and true additions, I doubt it goes below $800m at the bare minimum as it seems to be the movie that they’re shaping up to be the event MCU movie. I think a fall will happen due to China and it hitting a zeitgeist but I think 300m+ and 850m+ is pretty much locked provided Feige and DeCosta deliver the goods.

It’s Revise Time January Kraven - $35m/$80m Megan - $17m/$45m Harold - $25m/$90m February Cabin - $22m/$70m Me - $13m/$40m Quantumania - $105m/$125m/$300m Cocaine - $17m/$60m March Dungeons - $70m/$225m Mansion - $45m/$150m Aquaman - $125m/$325m Wick - $40m/$125m Scream - $50m/$120m April Mario - $115m/$340m Lion - $20m/$70m Reinfeld - $30m/$85m 65 - $12m/$30m Last Train - $25m/$65m May GOTGV3 - $205m/$620m Fast X - $80m/$185m TLM - $125m/$165m/$400m June SpiderVerse - $65m/$185m Beasts - $35m/$90m Strays - $30m/$100m Elemental - $60m/$200m Flash - $90m/$240m Indy 5 - $170m five day/$435m July Web - $30m/$60m MI7 - $95m/$280m Oppenheimer - $30m/$130m Barbie - $55m/$215m Marvels - $160m/$385m August TMNT - $25m/$90m Meg 2 - $30m/$90m Blue Beetle - $95m/$345m Dementer - $14m/40m September 3qualizer - $40m/$100m Quiet Place - $50m/$140m October Exorcist - $65m/$160m Paw 2 - $17m/$60m November Blade - $90m/$250m If - $45m/$160m 2une - $75m/$225m Songbirds - $55m/$170m (if this stays in the same spot which I doubt, more like $85m/$245m) Trolls - $35m/$150m (either this or IF should open against Blade as counterprogramming) Foster - $65m five day/$180m December Wonka - $55m/$235m Ghostbusters - $35m/$160m Migration - $75m five day/$220m Purple - $25m/$115m Star Trek - $25m/$115m Tiger - $13m/$65m Top 10 Guardians - $620m/$1.35b Indy - $435m/$1.25b TLM - $400m/$1b Aquaman - $325m/$1.25b Marvels - $385m/$1b MI7 - $280m/$835m Quantumania - $300m/$800m 2une - $225m/$775m Fast X - $180m/$750m Flash - $230m/$700m