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BR and ASIB are rare adult fares that are huge without starring Leo. So far, he's the most reliable one to turn an adult tough sell into a huge global hit. We'll see how The Mule (Cooper who obviously has drawing power) and Vice (ditto Bale) will do.

Fingers crossed. it's a global phenomenon, the polar opposite of Girl in Spider Web that was rejected in every market anywhere.

The movie truly makes people feel. I hope it legs it up to over 500M.

New openers - FB2, IF and Widows - have absolutely abysmal PTA. I'm not sure they'll hold that well during the holiday week especially if new movies (well, some of them) are what people actually want to see. BR OS numbers are wonder to behold. truly stunning and well-deserved. Would be monster numbers for a SH/other blockbuster, let alone a musical biopic. Perhaps if Solo was set to Queen tunes like GOTG was to awesome mixed tapes, it would have been a hit? Never trust festival bubble hype. Those people are not normies. They are clueless about what GA wants to see.

Come through, Amy! While I'd prefer a lead Oscar, I'll settle for Supporting for now. So Cooper or Bale?

Note to studios - if your new franchise has bland characters and story, loading the sequel with known faces and forced connections is not gonna help the boxoffice.

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Likely over RH. That movie's boxoffice gonna make Spider Web's boxoffice look like Venom.

Isn't Pikachu going to to be voiced by a Japanese actor anyway? They won't hear Deadpool's voice. They don't even have to use the actor who voices Deadpool in Japan. That said, I agree that Japan likely won't care for yet another Hollywood version of Japanese IP.

People are simply not interested in movies released this week so I expect Ralph and Creed 2 to blow up. I think they'll benefit from indifference towards this week's releases. I especially want Creed 2 to break out cause of Mike and Tessa.

PTA for all new movies is abysmal.

Aren't Ralph, Creed 2 and war-hardened crusader flooding the theaters on Wednesday? So this weekend's new movies won't have even a full week to themselves.

@filmlover In immortal words of Pretty Woman "big mistake. Huge" considering that all newbies are underperforming. @Premium George I can accept that reason.

WTF is with drops????? BR's 200M goal evaporated with this ridiculous nose dive. What's happening? @Slambros Widows and GB were never in contention for wins, only noms. There was a brief moment of "Viggo might upset BCoop" but Viggo's N Bomb demolished that. Not that he would upset Coop anyway. So no matter the boxoffice, nothing would have changed since they are vying only for also-run spots not for wins.

Exactly. Just another day on BOT where flop and bomb are attached to everything. Movie drops 0.01% = crumbling.

Once again, we don't even have the second Friday estimate and people are already burying movies because the super early one wasn't 50M. Wait for new estimate to see if something is flopping or not. It could go up.

It makes sense because juggling so many characters at the same time would be tough. That's why stories and movies prefer duos and trios. Also, fuck HP where Ginny is even more prominent than she already was. awful, awful character, horrid romance, just ugh.

Absolutely. Right actor in the right role worth gold. Tom + Venom = perfect. RDJ + Stark/IM = perfect. RR + Deadpool = perfect. Etc. Oft recast characters such as Batman and Spiderman have different levels of popularity depending on who plays them. Some soar, some plummet.

Preach. He really has the cross appeal that eludes many other stars who are mostly one genre driven. Big Willy had that power in his hayday (Pursuit of Happiness, Hitch were huge hits and not action/sci fi where Willy was consistently reliable) and Sandra has it too outside of romcom and comedy (Blind Side = drama, Gravity = action/sci fi, Ocean's 8 = heist).

Widows is a WOM movie so it's really too early to judge. Give it time. It may hold well during holidays when everything will have decent to good holds. I think that market is too full of adult-skewing movies and people prioritize those that they already have interest in (BR for Queen, FB for Potter, ASIB for Gaga). Big test is going to be Creed 2 cause it's yet another adult skewing movie with built-in fandom. If Widows pulls an ASIB against that, like how ASIB held in the wake of BR, it'll be fine.

those weekend numberas cannot stick for 5M and 5.5M Friday cause they would indicate collapse on Saturday. And that ain't gonna happen for movies that aren't frontloaded. Variety and THR are blindly reporting Deadline crap. No way either makes under 15M let alone 12-13M lol give me a break.

Deadline could never do the math. They had various people write for boxoffice column and each and every of them couldn't do the math. I guess that's requirement for the position.

IKR? IF should jump considerably on Saturday.

yeah, Deadline always lowballs. Still I got scared.