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Everything Everywhere All At Once - best movie of the year so far.

Impressive. What about the hedgehog and EEAAO?

If a nostalgia fest Ghostbusters can do 100m a few months ago, I have no reason why Top Gun Maverick won’t.

Amy Rose or Rogue The Bat. Anyways at the theater for Everything Everywhere All At Once and these posters for League of Super Pets have taglines like “He Doesn’t Take Sit From Anyone” and “They Call Him Bark Kent” and I feel such an intense illness in my stomach for it. So that means a 40m/135m run.

2/3s are great films so that bodes well for Barbie.

Also glad EEAAO is doing well, at least there’s something doing great this month lol.

Granted this past few months have been good for non supers I guess, Uncharted probably did the best out of the releases in terms of run, despite frontloading a $70m OW with 58% families for Sonic 2 is lovely and The Lost City doing 90m is good and I do think that consistency will return. I’m just disappointing by the lack of consistency and I just really have been hoping for better. I fancy myself a leg guy and to be honest while I do think it’s plausible given that the only consistent demographic during the pandemic probably rushes OW I do find the leg game disappointing for the non-tentpoles as they tend to rely on stronger legs. Yes both The Lost City and Sonic 2 are wins but both missed the milestones they probably would’ve made five odd years ago. But it’ll naturally take some time to adjust and fix, and both results are good, just not as great as hoped.

Tbh I’d rather the OW have been flat with the same gross Sonic 2 has had lol cause at least it’s good legs. It’s moreso disappointing (albeit not unsurprising due to the high male skew) since this skew more towards families than the first one did. A 70m/170m-185m run is disappointing regardless of genre.

I think The Bad Guys could open to around 17m+.

That’s even worse.

Pretty meh/bad weekends for both Dumbledore and Sonic though the former did better than I thought it would. The two should combine for $70m+ unlike what was previously feared. I am curious about Dumbledore’s legs. Will it go sub 100m? The B+ CinemaScore is the exact same as Grindelswald but there’s not much in terms of competition.

It behaved like a family film over the weekdays a bit too much was the problem, with those weekdays, this is what the best case scenario was. Still see problems with any sort of strong recovery with The Bad Guys and to a much larger but later extent Strange 2. Probably closer to 26m than 28m for the weekend though. Dumbledore is decent, probably around 41-44m

Did we have no numbers last night?

Yikes, doesn’t bode well for legs.

I don’t believe I said that. My statement was moreso based on the weekend being disappointing. It’s become obvious that recovery may not be 100%, theaters are still going strong and 2022 is looking very fruitful especially with a busy summer and a promising holiday slate.

Oh I suspected a sort of Dark Phoenix like drop like sub 100m for Dumbledore the past few months. Grindelswald was awful enough to kill any good will the franchise had. That’s the problem. Not the pandemic.

What?! There’s clearly no difference than pointing out while yes theaters are alive and kicking this recent slate of numbers could (as we don’t have any numbers but are rather going on history) be disappointing and hypothetically could be concerning in the future and proclaiming the death of theaters. Shame on you CJohn.

I mean yes Lucas selling Disney allowed easily the best Star Wars movie, The Last Jedi to be made.

I think if it and The Lost City swapped dates, both would have stronger legs and might’ve reached their anticipated milestones of 200m and 100m respectively. However tentpole stacking moreso, especially with shorter theatrical windows is a massive problem. Films need breathing room to thrive, which is kind of why a lot of things Q1 while gross was depressed, legs were great.

Second that. I started following box office at 11 though, with my first IMAX movie….

The score are from verified people actually see the movies and have proof of it. The WOM isn’t good.

Sonic had its legs clipped by COVID-19, without the pandemic it’s total would be around where Sonic 2 ends. The thing is this skewed more towards families than the first one did, that’s more so the befuddling part of the legs.

I mean I understand the sentiment but also I’m looking moreso at past box office performances of family films in April. A 170m-190m total is nice but given a $70m+ OW is disappointing for a family film. That’s just my opinion, pandemic or not. The hold can be unexpectedly great today and Sonic does like idk 11-12m+ but judging past performances I doubt it. I’ll eat crow if I’m wrong though.

Yeah honestly just give Joanne the treatment of she getting a say at the end of development but it doesn’t go further than that, I think a new flavor would help whatever is next.

Agreed, it’d become clear screenwriting isn’t her strong suit.