and Aladdin is having great reviews for Guy Ritchie movie.
The point is if critics dislike a movie, they dislike, it’s their opinion. If it pales to the original to them, that’s there opinion.
I swear this is like the exact same reactions the Pika fanatics where saying when the reviews first dropped.
If critics don’t like a movie, they don’t like a movie. Besides 60% is nothing to cry about, especially considering low expectations.
I am still uncertain of $100M OW, Pirates 5 may have been PG-13 and a fifth film but I doubt it has the same amount of walkups as Pirates.
Thinking $77M-$91M OW, $95M-$115M 4 Day.
To be honest I’m most excited for the potentially new franchise starters like Free Guy, Tenet, Dune, and Jungle Cruise.
2020 might be the year we get some strong originals.
Honestly don’t think The Mitchells vs The Machines will go over HT1 numbers.
I think that’ll do at least Trolls Numbers due to Lin especially if the music is good.
More North Shore comps for Aladdin:
84% ahead of Pikachu ($10.5M)
190% ahead of Dragon 3 ($8.7M)
195% ahead of Grinch ($6.5M)
The irony is all three are missing a showing.
I think Onward could pull a Zootopia and take the year:
• Chris Pratt + Tom Holland + Pixar screams a winner especially if it gets a 90%+ on RT.
• Lack of big movies since IX/2manji and lack of big family films since Frozen 2 as BOP is a wildcard and pretty sure PR2 and COTW kill each other family wise.
• Open path until Trolls 2 in mid April as Mulan in late March can help via double features.
• The subject matter may just be able to strike a chord and I suspect we’ll be bombarded with the teaser with hopefully both TS4 and TLK.
It’s a clusterfuck for the two I have so far:
North Shore is definitely overperforming and could double what Pikachu did in presales (never got the 4:00 PM numbers for Pika) but Menominee Falls, which is the second biggest theater in Wisconsin, is looking slightly above Pikachu.