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Oh man... BvS should have been way ahead of both of those.

When you fill out your review in RT, you have the option of clicking "Fresh" or "Rotten" and putting down the rating of whatever personal scoring system you use in a different field. He probably accidentally clicked "Fresh" instead of "Rotten." Whatever personal scoring system he puts down doesn't have any effect on the Fresh/Rotten designation.

Four tickets for Dunkirk last night! Hopefully Valerian this weekend!

A lot of films get DVDs and promotional materials sent out for Oscar consideration, yes. Fewer films get major pushes because they have a legitimate shot at one of the major awards. WB will push Dunkirk due to quality and performance. WB will push Wonder woman as well due to reception and historic purposes. Wonder Woman's unlikely to win Best Picture and Best Director. However with the expanded field it has a good shot at scoring nominations. Which would be big for raising the profile of the franchise and studio. WB and DC has also had good success with the Oscars and scored four of them already. It wouldn't surprise me if Wonder Woman grabbed a smaller Oscar like supporting actor or a technical category. I'm sure "two-time Oscar winning DC Films franchise" has a nice ring to them after all that they were put through earlier getting things off the ground.

For those who missed it, Variety put out an article yesterday on a possible Oscar push for Wonder Woman. Buried in the article was this particular line. The studio’s efforts will include reintroducing the film this fall, to scarce few who may not have seen it. http://variety.com/2017/film/news/wonder-woman-oscars-patty-jenkins-gal-gadot-comic-book-1202509132/ So it looks like Wonder Woman is indeed getting an expansion later. Likely not just for Oscar consideration but also for promotion for Justice League.

I brought this up before, but with Wonder Woman still experiencing ridiculously solid drops and Dunkirk looking really good as well we could be looking at a banner year for Warners domestically. Below are the remaining movies on their schedule: Annabelle: Creation Warner Bros. (New Line) 8/11/17 It Warner Bros. (New Line) 9/8/17 Ninjago Warner Bros. 9/22/17 Blade Runner 2049 Warner Bros. 10/6/17 Geostorm Warner Bros. 10/20/17 Justice League Warner Bros. 11/17/17 Bastards (2017) Warner Bros. 12/22/17 Warners just crossed $1 billion and their total stands at $1,017.7. They're already up 9.3% from last year, which was #3 unadjusted all-time for them. With that lineup, I could definitely see them crossing the $2 billion mark for #2 unadjusted all-time and a good shot at #1 all-time should they somehow push past $2,105.7.

Oh my God! Over CA:CW and IM3 is a LEGIT possibility!

"What did you do this weekend, Diana?" "Me? Nothing very interesting." "Just became Queen of the Summer."

On one hand I'm a big Besson fan and I hate to see him suffering like this. On the other hand I'm a big Nolan fan so I'm glad things are looking really good for him. But I also get two movies I'm highly interested in this weekend. So I guess everything's going to be alright.

Domestic. Rank Distributor MarketShare TotalGross* MoviesTracked 2017Movies** 1 Buena Vista 21.9% $1,383.5 9 5 2 Universal 18.2% $1,148.3 10 8 3 Warner Bros. 15.2% $957.8 23 10 4 20th Century Fox 14.2% $895.6 13 8 5 Lionsgate 7.9% $496.6 13 10 6 Sony / Columbia 7.7% $482.6 13 10 7 Paramount 6.1% $382.1 12 6 http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/

I was looking at the studio totals yesterday to see where everything stood. Last year WB had their third highest year ever at $1902.2mil and that was powered in large part by BvS and SS. I would have thought that WB should be lower at this point compared to last year since I Wonder Woman's the first of their real big releases. Surprisingly they're already up 7.2% from this point last year with a $957.8mil to $893.7mil total and they still have Dunkirk (already looking good), Annabelle: Creation, It, Blade Runner and Justice League coming up. I think we're looking at the easy possibility of them breaking $2bil this year to get their new second highest year and with that lineup quite possibly their highest year ever if they can top $2105.7mil.

This isn't really true, though since blockbusters are in large part immune to critical reception and it's basically based on if the audience wants to see it badly enough. Would it have taken in more money? Sure, but to say it's guaranteed X DOM and X WW is something we can't say. SM:H is proof of that. Great reviews, has Marvel's most popular character in general in Spider-Man and has Marvel's most popular movie character in Iron Man. Surefire $400mil DOM $1bil WW since RDJ hasn't gone below that yet, right? And yet here we are and it's not going to touch either of those numbers. It's also much easier for a film with a smaller opening to have a larger multiplier because at some point you just run out of audience interested in the movie. If you go to The Numbers and look at the DOM performance of the biggest performing CBM - The Avengers, Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3, Civil War - you'll see that the final take all come in well below the shaded region of possible box office gross that the site gives based on the opening weekend. Avengers was considered a phenomenon and it's the only one of those four to stay in the shaded section. It doesn't matter that all those are well reviewed and had a good fanbase, at some point you just run out of audience. If you look at the range for BvS, it falls well in line with those movies considering its massive opening and trends but just a little lower. If it was better received, would it have taken higher? Again yes, but I don't thin, the range wouldn't have really been much too different. I'm guessing $40mil DOM $80mil WW give or take $10mil on each. Additionally SM:H should have reminded people at the very least that it's not the character itself that's a draw but whatever situational circumstances surrounding the character that make the box office. People were saying that BvS was going to break a billion easily because they saw that the Nolan movies broke a billion and that was wrong. The combination of Nolan, Bale and Ledger helped break that Batman trilogy wide open, not the character of Batman and Affleck was a new Batman. Similarly people were expecting big things from Holland Spider-Man because he was so well received, but it was the lightning in a bottle Raimi and Mcguire combination that really set the initial Spider-Man movies on the map.

Some of us have been saying it before it opened...

SHAZAM! The project is looking to go before cameras in January or February 2018 with a likely release in 2019, sources say. Shazam!, the story about a crippled boy-turned-Earth's mightiest mortal, looks to be the next DC Cinematic Universe movie that will go before cameras, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. David Sandberg, the filmmaker behind upcoming Annabelle: Creation, is directing the feature project that hails from Warner Bros.’s sister division, New Line. The project is looking to go before cameras in January or February 2018 with a likely release in 2019, according to sources. Peter Safran, who worked with Sandberg on the Annabelle sequel and is also producing Aquaman, is in negotiations to board Shazam! as producer. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/heat-vision/shazam-is-next-dc-movie-shoot-1022821

Justice League trailer and Aquaman footage from Comic Con. Wonder Woman taking the summer crown. Saturday is guranteed party time.

It's going to be swimming in mad cash.

Reminder that Aquaman is going to hit it big because it's avoiding the summer superhero crush, is a novel movie and shark/water-based movies (The Shallows, 47 Meters Down) are getting big. SUPERHERO+WATER+SHARKS+SEXY = $$$$$$$$$$$$$ BE READY!

It's fitting that the Queen of Summer would finally make way now that winter is here.

OMG that SM:H drop! I was just joking about it ending really, really close to MoS DOM. I don't know whether to continue joking to try and make it reality since it would be amazing or just stop out of sadness.

I'm not exactly sure what your definition of a "regular MCU movie" is. MCU movies have an OW anywhere between a range of $55mil to $207mil and have a DOM range of anywhere between $134mil to $623mil. Compared to the DCEU numbers which has a roughly 25% variance on a standard opening of $130mil and a really small 8% variance on a seemingly standard $310mil DOM range (with WW as the massive outlier) regardless of the character or actor, their numbers are really all over the place depending on the characters and actors present in the movie. Additionally I don't understand the mentality of adding Thor, Hulk and Strange together being an instant box office boost when they're all on the low tier of audience drawing power and a movie with Spider-Man and RDJ/IM is currently underperforming according to expectations.

Since we're talking future movies while waiting for the actuals, I just had a sudden realization. With the success of movies like The Shallows and 47 Meters Down, we're currently in the midst of a growing shark and water based fad. That leads me to deduce one thing. AQUAMAN'S BOX OFFICE IS GOING TO BE AMAZING! Think about it. Aquaman's water based. Aquaman controls sharks. By the time it comes out it's going to be riding high on the crest of this trend. BE PREPARED! IT'S GONNA BE LIT!

Geez, I leave the forums to enjoy my weekend and there's people complaining about not constantly talking about numbers. Let's have some fun then. I believe Spider-Man: Homecoming will end it's domestic run within 5% of Man of Steel's.

Wonder Woman debuted in a well received guest role of a poorly reviewed ensemble movie. That movie and the one after that preceded Wonder Woman were both poorly reviewed. Wonder Woman is the story of the summer. MCU Spider-Man debuted in a well received guest role of a well reviewed ensemble movie. Both ASM movies that preceded Homecoming were much better reviewed than either BvS and SS. Homecoming, while doing well overall, is underperforming considering all the factors that have been lined to to ensure it's success. The idea that SM3 and the ASM movies from a review standpoint have negatively impacted Homecoming simply has no basis in fact. The good will is there, the large-scale interest in the character and his connection with the franchise isn't.