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Tbh Disney as a whole is having this problem for animation even as TLM looks to dominate. Trolls 3 is opening five days before Wicked, Elio is in a competitive March, and Wicked opens the same day as the 2024 WDAS movie. Yes if you move from the spots, it's hard to get them back but if rather have the animation films do good and run away to moree healthy spots.

I mean was Elemental ever going to thrive in PLFs. Original animation doesn’t really need PLFs, Sing 2 (though a sequel probably skews as young with a similar ATP) did fine without them. It’s not an animated sequel, what matters most is the amount of screens it gets. With Transformers destined to die and some of the May holdovers being gone (like I don’t expect Fast X or Book Club 2 to stay long in theaters), it’s plausible Elemental can get some of its showings if marketing racks up. Thinking 25-45m seems like the OW range and will need to rely on legs to survive.

It’s still pretty early. From what I’m seeing in theaters near me, it’s getting two screens and ten showings for the day. Also it’s an all original family film, of course the showtimes aren’t going to be as numerous as say Mario, TLM or Across, they’ll likely build up as weeks go by.

Yeah, this is like viral marketing.

I’d swap the reception for Widow and MoM around, and add a super for both Quantumania and maybe Thor, and it’s right on the money.

@AJG PM me too lol.

No Elrodi Supes is always a win. I don’t want to associate Superman with the asshat he plays from Euphoria. Nothing against the guy, he’s a great actor and probably a decent guy, I just kind of have him typecasted like Tom Holland doing roles as an action lead outside of Spider-Man in that I can’t take it seriously.

There’s one this year mainly for the 100th anniversary.

@cayommagazine Endless Animation reels up two big projects for the upcoming years: Acclaimed director, Guillermo del Toro returns to realm of animation to direct an adaptation of Moby Dick. The film will join the line up of Endless Animation’s adult oriented feature films alongside Sleepy Hollow last year, and this year’s Rust and Twenty-One. Moby Dick is estimated to have an 100m budget and is said to be done entirely in stop motion. Moby Dick is set to sail sometime Y11. Fresh off her Oscar win as first black director to win an Academy Award in animation and box office success for Matilda and the Night Children, Aphton Corbin has gotten the greenlight for her second project: The Storyteller. The Storyteller will use Worldmeander techniques and tells the story of a peculiar young girl who has the uncanny ability to bring stories to life, and is said to analyze the impact stories and myths have on the community. Storyteller is slated for a Y12 release. Brian Larsen’s Framework is still alive and is heading for a Summer Y11 release date. King of the Elves based on the Phillip K. Dick story and cancelled Disney adaptation is slated to be in development too with Everett Downing Jr (Hair Love, director of Matilda and the Night Children) taking the reigns.

And on top of that I find it hard to imagine any of them who do have kids having the fiber to follow through other than bitching on social media.

200m potential: Allegra Seraph Project HPK Needles of Haystack His Majesty’s Service A Scholar and a Gentleman 100m potential Rust His Fall All Red Kloana MBW2 Money Heist Penpal Tailypo Anya’s Ghost Cloud Cuckoo Land Hellsent Providence Jesus Juice

Preliminary Wayyyyyy Too Early Top 10: Scavvies 4 - $185m/$555m GLC: Evolution - $145m/$500m Hilda 2 - $145m five day/$490m Gateways 2 - $160m five day/$425m Pillars 4 - $145m/$400m Hard Way Forward - $135m/$385m DC’s Siege of Savage - $150m four day/$365m Mummy - $125m four day/$330m Titania’s Journey - $100m/$300m Berserk - $95m/$280m

Enough time has passed: Guardians trilogy > Nolan Batman trilogy, though both openly fighting for best CBM trilogy.

The Other Black Girl (novel)

Not more than the OG Pokémon games. Besides with S/S at ~26m in about 3.25 years and S/V at 22m pre DLC in like 5 months, it’s plausible S/V could catch up to BOTW.

Not me, I didn’t even put it on my list lol. I agree but I think the best way for a complete reboot to be effective would be to wait another five or so years. Some franchises after exhausting themselves need a 10 year rest, Transformers was one of them. I think Transformers One will do relatively okay as they’re just doing Cybertron Wars which is different enough but it’s also close to Rise of the Beasts, but somewhere in between Bumblebee and Rise of the Beasts domestically and O/U 250m WW which isn’t good but well enough due to a lower budget.

Yes. Though 3.4+3.5 would be better. It’s the best Grande song.

@cayommagazine Fresh off the heels of the success of Romance Road and Revenge Ex, Infinite Studios greenlight another romantic comedy from Will Gluck, this time getting in on the anime craze with popular anime series, Don’t Mess With Me, Miss Nagatoro. Details are scarce if it is an animated movie or a live action adaptation but rumbling of the latter said it would take on a style that pays homage to the anime. Nagatoro is scheduled for sometime in the Fall for Y11.

Don’t Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro

@cayommagazine Endless Entertainment has officially carved out release dates for the re-releases of Gateways and the first two Green Lantern Corps movies. Gateways - The 3D Experience will be re-released and remastered on February 27th, Y10 for a two week engagement in about 1000 theaters in 3D. A sneak peek of Gateways: The Children of Zenith will be attached. Green Lantern Corps: Rise of The Manhunters and Green Lantern Corps: Home will see re-released on October 2nd for the former and December 4th for the latter. Both are expected to have exclusive looks at Green Lantern Corps: Evolution. In addition to the following, Endless’ DC Universe will be having a movie marathon for the hardcore fans starting 7:00 PM on May 19th, at select AMC theaters, playing Blue and Gold, Static Shock, Green Arrow, Plastic-Man, Static Shock: Frozen Summer, Green Arrow: The Ninth Circle, Martian Manhunter, and an early screening of The Siege of Savage Thursday at midnight. Customers will get exclusive posters and commemorative cups featuring various DC characters.

Transformers is the one surefire underperformer of the main blockbusters (I’d count Gillman but that wasn’t making as much waves as the big five).

I mean so of terms of OW. There’s only so much family dollars to go around especially with inflation and ticket prices. Considering both are very likely based on tracking tickets and solid media, a 100m+ OW. If families decide to see Across and Mermaid, they may not have much to see Elemental especially with the assurance of it being on the Plus three months later. Elemental will benefit from being small kid friendly and the summer camp movie but to get to hit numbers like 150m-200m+, it needs a 45-50m OW.

Tbh with presales so far outpacing Guardians 3 and Mario and our trackers indicating 100m is the floor, I’m getting much more optimistic. It seems more and more likely it’s pulling a Shrek 2/Matrix 2.

That said it depends on demographics. If it’s more like Guardians or Ant-Man, no big deal but if it’s like Mario, a live action remake or Pixar/WDAS sequel then it’s a problem.

It’s very very very very very hard to open to 50m as an original family film when you’ve had two back to back 100m+ openers, both with potential to do 150m because of how much tickets are and how many families take it up. Not saying it’ll bomb outright but I’m thinking the OW will be anywhere from 25-45 versus the 30-60 I was feeling a few weeks ago. Think it’ll depend on legs mostly now.