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But at the very least the target audience liked it. Make no mistake, I understand that component of streaming but the target audience genuinely liked the movies it seemed. Lightyear has still failed to gain any sort of traction on streaming with it's target audience and was able to coast to 115m domestic. Pets 2 tops the Netflix chart for a while and did around 150m domestic, I don't see why couldn't a Pixar or WDAS movie do about the same with the usual strong reviews and a good marketing campaign. Also Encanto was pretty big for a while even outside of streaming. It was trending on social media for a minute, you couldn't escape We Don’t Talk About Bruno on your TikTok feed back in like February to March.

Pre pandemic, I see no reason why any of the four would've done under 150m domestic. Encanto was also hit the hardest by streaming.

I think Turning Red, Soul and Luca would've done better than Encanto and Lightyear theatrically, at least. Hell, Luca and Turning Red were top ranked streaming titles with Luca being the most streamed film last year. In non pandemic times, I think they'd all have been in the 200m domestic range.

The quality difference between the two is enormous. One has a beloved director go on autopilot and make one of his worst film and maybe the laziest of the Disney remakes while the other also has a beloved director making one of his best films and likely my favorite animated movie this year.

Indiana Jones 5 - $175m/$550m Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 - $205m/$450m The Little Mermaid - $125m/$160m/$425m Aquaman 2 - $90m/$380m The Super Mario Bros Movie - $105m/$360m The Marvels - $125m/$300m Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania - $105m/$120m/$295m Blue Beetle - $80m/$235m Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - $90m/$235m Dune Part 2 - $75m/$225m Potential 200m+ hitters: - Fantastic Beasts numbers for Hunger Games - 200-225m for Wonka as it seems like a holiday favorite. - Out of all the animation, Illumination has become the biggest brand at the box office so Migration seems likely for 200m. - Trolls 3 could do 200m as Dreamworks seems to be rebounding. - Wish is Disney’s only tentpole this holiday and 100th year thing so I think they’ll push it. - Across the SpiderVerse is in a situation where it will get fucked over by all sides because the nostalgic toy commercials are too strong but we will see if the love of the first is strong enough. - Elemental could do well but whenever Disney does a six week sandwich of film release, the one in the middle gets fucked. - Flash depends on how much the Ezra stuff will hurt, it could do sub 200m or 300m+ and neither would surprise me. - Barbie reminds me of Detective Pikachu and WB is incompetent at selling family films (cause in point being Pikachu and all of the WAG movies). - Oppenheimer seems more of a 100m hitter and with The Marvels so close I imagine a Matrix 4 situation where Oppenheimer just gets IMAX and The Marvels takes all other PLFs and then IMAX after the week is over.

I got a good feeling about Puss in Boots doing 200m this year.

They paid for it, so they lost any credibility they had.

The animation arms are officially saved.

I was born three weeks early and came out perfect, so art can theoretically be rushed.

What’s Strange World tracking like?

While I’m glad you’re finishing the list, I do find it ridiculous to have unfavorable rankings just because a few people dislike a film. Like I dislike how a lot of films like for instance Endgame made the top 100 but it got their because people liked it. It kind of seems like a way for you to not have a film you disliked ranked high.

2 of them but BH6: The Series is so bad I think everyone forgets it’s exists.

You mean to tell me the director who did Big Hero 6 and Raya made another mid movie, shocking.

I am very hopeful their Animation arms will far better as Iger prided himself in building them into titans. Longer windows and better marketing campaigns seem very likely for Elemental and Wish where even if they underperform it sets up the old precedent again and retrains their audience.

Fire woman. She bad.

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Gingy cameo and All Star needle drop.

I’m uncertain on getting the ballot in today. I’m currently at home with my family instead of school due to a death of a family member. If I get this homework done, I’ll try to get it in but no promises.

It was inevitable quality would diminish if you do 9-11 projects a year, regardless of what others might say.

Wakanda Forever. When Coogler’s weakest film is still a 4/5, that’s damn impressive.

It was supposed to be 92k, sigh. Posted it late at night.

Thank you for 8 and 22.

The key difference is I expect Blue Beetle to look good and be a good movie.

I think that trend for the most part is gone mainly because the franchise is getting more frontloaded.