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One involves just having cable or streaming. The other involves paying lots of money at cinemas. Detective Pikachu this year was a good example of how things that work elsewhere don't necessarily work at the box office.

I wouldn't hold your breath. You can't chalk up DP's performance 100% to Endgame. By the way, finally watched DP on blu ray the other night. Fun movie! I hope they march forward with the franchise.

Bingo. You summed it up much better than I did.

Of course it doesn't have to be, but in today's movie landscape audiences are looking for something they know, especially if it's a foreign film. You're asking if a non American movie can be a worldwide hit. I'm saying there's no way that there is anything China or India or whatever is making that could be a worldwide hit. Audiences just wouldn't be interested. You cited an example in one of your earlier posts of a film doing $600M in China, $100M in Japan and $50M in SK. I don't really count that as a worldwide hit. That's an Asian hit. What I thought you were getting at was is there a movie made by a foreign country that could be a hit almost everywhere and I just don't think that's possible because most audiences won't have the slightest interest. Conversely, worldwide audiences do have an interest in North American/British IP's and that's how those gigantic, worldwide hits happen.

The source material is British though. That's what I personally was getting at. British and North American IP's are the biggest in the world and it's no contest, at least as far as movies are concerned. Several Asian IP's are popular worldwide (ie. Pokemon) but we saw what happened with the movie. Even then it still saw its largest chunk of the worldwide gross come from NA.

That's why I said North American/English. What I should have said was 'British', not English.

Love, love, love it! I want that shirt too. Enjoy the movie!

No, because I think both the English language and North American/English IP's reign supreme.

BOM lists it as going wide right now. I could see it opening limited on the 20th and then going wide on the 27th but who knows? The show was huge so I could see this making bank. I mean, it was usually huge at the awards. I'm not sure how big the fan following is though and if it can drive a healthy box office gross. I hope it's big though. If IT 2 isn't going to be as big as we thought, we need the couple other September offerings to step up. Right now September is looking like July. Only 7 wide offerings but this time there isn't two big blockbusters. IT 2 won't be as big as either FFH or TLK.

With 9-10M previews and around a 9-10x multi, It Chapter Two is looking like it COULD reach $100M for OW but I'm not betting on it anymore. Definitely bummed. I know how horror sequels work but I figured this was different. This was more of an event than just a sequel to a successful horror movie.

Haha WOW! That's like the theatre in Alabama or wherever not showing Beauty and the Beast because of the barely suggestive gay La Fou scene.

Awesome post! Thanks!

Not that I'm an SJW by any means, but I will say to all you leftists pouncing on the Joker character and the film that he's not simply a disturbed white guy who feels rejected by society. Mental illness is obviously a huge part of the character. I'm not saying a psycho killer should suddenly be sympathetic, what I'm saying is don't turn this into another crusade against white men. It's tiresome. I would say that whatever the character of Arthur Fleck experiences at first (aka before he goes all homicidal) is VERY real and should be met with a degree of sympathy.

So much awesome stuff here. Best of luck to you and thank you for all your contributions to this awesome place!

An incel guy? What is this garbage?

Naomi Osaka is special. Gauff is too, for that matter. Was a great moment!

Looks like this didn't make it into the top 12 this weekend. The estimate is about $2.44M in 922 theatres, good for 14th on the chart. Not news I guess. Typical Labor Day weekend.

Just did this the other night. My girlfriend hadn't seen it and I was having trouble convincing her to join me for IT 2 so I threw in the blu-ray and let her decide. She wasn't enthralled but she will be coming to Chapter Two now so that's a bit of a victory.

Agreed. People are going to see this movie regardless. I think it looks great and I'll be there with some friends on the 13th. Don't think I'll check out one single review.

Awesome! Enjoy IT. Read it a couple years ago after having seen the movie and adored it.

Did anyone end up seeing this? Had no idea the movie existed until I saw it going wide on the release schedule on BOM.

Unfortunately I won't be seeing this in IMAX. UltraAVX will have to do. It's the best the nearest theatre to me has to offer. Still hyped like you are though! Just wish the presales were looking a little more promising. I'm honestly a little flummoxed by it at the moment.

Just picked up the book. I'm curious. Going to try to get it done before the movie releases and then I'll decide if I want to see it or not.

Pretty much all the ladies in my life (except my Mom, thankfully) are dying to see this. There's a pretty big audience out there for it. People are talking about it.

Thinking about all you folks in Florida. It may be a weird thing to say because you can't control something like a hurricane, but stay safe.