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I wonder if the media begging for a shooting deflated the OW, I know WOM is good but is it that good for that kind of hold? Especially because it isn't a "feel good" movie. Then again, it did even better OS.

Honestly this is why I loved the movie. It wasn't scared of going there. The homophobic attack was gruesome and visceral (I saw some warnings on Twitter and still was a bit triggered by it), it didn't try to soften it for audiences. That plus the violent husband, the rape references and the kids being killed felt brutal but they also didn't look like just shock value. - As someone that didn't read the book, I thought this was way better than "Chapter I" and my only complaint is that the scares are indeed a bit repetitive.

I thougth that was 0.5 EG

This makes me wonder if Ant Man could've done better if it wasn't under Avengers shadow all the time. This is completely anecdotal but I saw CM 3 times but SM just once even though I liked it way more. It was just exhausting after all the EG hype. Let's hope Marvel stops scheduling movies right after Avengers. (Though they might even go 4 movies a year so they will)

It's almost as if people from different parts of the world have different beauty standards. That'd be crazy.

I'm hoping that if Nightmare is the villain (which is basically confirmed), they also use him as WandaVision's villain. If it's all happening in the dream dimension then that would explain Vision being in it (hoping they also get ATJ back) with a Freddy-like scary feeling. Not sure if Disney wants to go there, though.

Oh shit. I didn't even notice it at first. After visiting earlier this year I thought "why don't they shoot movies here? Everything is so beautiful". Now I'll have to watch it.

So Spider-Man became the MCU billion grosser sub-franchise. Avengers Iron Man Captain America Black Panther Captain Marvel Spider-Man And the 8th CBM after Batman and Aquaman. Not bad. I wonder which one will be next considering Phase 4 is low on sequels (Thor seems like he biggest chance, Strange could break out)

Endgame wouldn't have passed WE anyway. It could've added 15-20m at most (probably like 10m)

I heard it'll collapse this week.

Marvel can certainly make it standalone now and have a big connection to Thanos by the end of the trilogy (like having him as a supporting character on the sequel and main villain in the third). I'd also guess that if this one's a big hit they'll try to fast-track the 2 sequels since they are inmortal beings and aging it's a big factor (especially since some of the cast are already +40)

Oh, was it a gay character too? Anyway I still think Richard can still come out by then and Marvel is just waiting for him to be ready for it. He's basically out already. At least they seem to be more open with Valkyrie in the next Thor, baby steps.

I liked DS more than most but with SW now I'm hyped. Hope they go batshit crazy.

A lot of things can happen with Richard Madden by then.

I wanna see Old King Thor, which would be more similar to Logan, but I guess that's not happening soon.

It's not a competition lol. Everyone trying to out-woke eachother. Halle Bailley is really talented. There's no reason for Ariel not to be black. Disney tries to appeal to the widest demographic, hence why they're putting diversity in the front. That's it. - This kinda turned into a meme in Latin America (mostly semi-controversial but not really rejecting it) so there's huge awareness already.

Since half of the population are Marvel fanboys, it actually underperformed. $15b confirmed for A5.

If you've seen 60-70% of these movies (13 to 15!!!) you're also more likely to spend money on merchandising or other Marvel-related stuff. So it's really outstanding how Marvel has become such a big brand. I'm sure it'll keep making money on Disney princesses / Star Wars level for generations. (This has nothing to do with the other movie)

It will make at least $70m more from Japan. So doing $45m off a $33m OS-Japan weekend is way too little. More like $65-80m for a $970-985m being really conservative. $1b is more likely than not at this point.

It wouldn't be a mockery if this was the actual outcome. The whole "Scarlett playing a trans character" controversy didn't mean more opportunities for trans. Since Scarlett was the only reason the movie was in development, her dropping out means no one gets the role. It means less exposure for LGBT characters in a positive way and it means less jobs (some of which might or might not have been minorities too). The whole "Scarlett playing an asian robot" (?) controversy did not mean more opportunities for Asians, It means Hollywood staying away from Anime adaptations after a long string of flops, which means less revenue for the Japanese studios and less funding for potential new projects and less people getting paid (not that the Japanese industry needs any american help, but more money for an industry is always better) So yes, trying to be "woke" fishing for likes online ends up being a mockery and counterproductive. You want to help the minorities? Support them. Give the few projects that star LGBT/Asian characters a chance, there's also plenty of people trying to make it locally, doing a play at a theater near you, singing at a bar, etc. If there's something Hollywood executives love more than discriminating minorities is making money. Tweeting about how privileged is Scarlett (the same actress that made way less money than her costars on the biggest film franchise of all time just because she is a woman) is not really helping anyone.

I think all that Minions 2 underperforming talk is more wishful thinking. At worst I see just a slightly bigger decrease than DM3 WW-China from DM2 WW-China For some reason people love Minions and BOT is clearly not the target audience.

So really good for TS4? It's getting a nice increase in admissions, stable in lc (TS3 being inflated by 3D) and a decrease in $ (thanks to ER) Unless it collapses it'll have a decent drop overall, which was the best-case scenario. 1B WW is still in play.

Going from 7 $400m grossers to just 1 in a year sounds unlikely. The last "weak" year was 2014, which went from 3 $400m grossers to 0. But it went from 4 $300m grossers to 3 and stayed flat on $200m grossers (13 each year) We know that Disney and especially the MCU has a huge shot to breakout in a big way (I'd also add Mulan here, you never know). So while WW84 is the clear frontrunner DOM, I wouldn't be surprised by some of the other 3 winning. Mulan is the frontrunner WW unless it gets banned in China.

It's gonna be interesting seeing a MCU movie avoid the "big drops in 2nd and 3rd weekends with strong late legs" pattern that has been going on for a few years. The usual +55-60% drop would be terrible for a deflated OW. If it follows TASM with ~45% that'd be O/U $50m second weekend which sounds like a nice target.