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I respect baumer's opinions and knowledge, but I don't buy it. Like I said, Wednesday or not, that multi is new territory. We've never had to defend a Wednesday opener like this before? Why now? When I have some time I want to compile a list of Wednesday openers and their previews-to-opening day multis and see if any of them are comparable.

Yeah...and? I'm not talking about the number as a whole, I'm talking about the internal multiplier.

Ohhh man. Well, gotta give them credit for facing the music.

This statement ONLY makes sense coming from you haha.

Gotta say I like that title.

I know. I really don't get it at all. Have you seen it?

In fairness, a full opening day only doubling the preview number is fairly unprecedented so I think there's grounds for the complete change in tone. Horror movies - especially a horror FRANCHISE movie - are expected to be frontloaded but this is something else altogether. Hopefully the fact it's a Wednesday number is skewing things and it ends up having a solid opening weekend.

I don't know how interested I am in this film but I'm a huge Beatles film, so why not?

$7.1M is the estimate for opening day. Yikes! That means the previews accounted for almost HALF the opening day. Not looking good at all.

I know, that's why I said that to him. I think you were genuinely curious about Charlie's updates but to those fluent in English it came off different. Good that you clarified it though.

I feel like there's a language barrier thing here. You may want to clarify with the poster. Just sayin'.

Right.... Make a club then. Put your money where your mouth is. You won't though. All you Cameron fans do is gab.

I think this is the best way to look at it. Both had huge, and very different, box office runs. Simple.

Yeah, I never really got the release date change. I think it would have done just fine in August.

Not as scary is disappointing to hear, though this is the 3rd Annabelle spin-off alone so I guess there aren't that many genuine scares left to be had. They've got to start doing some fresh Conjuring universe entries.

Don't know where else to put this, but I just noticed The Boy 2 has been removed from the July schedule on BOM. Man, is July ever barren as hell. Obviously Spider-Man: Far From Home and The Lion King will be massive but I'm talking in terms of number of releases. JULY 2 (Tuesday) Spider-Man: Far From Home July 3 (Wednesday) Midsommar JULY 5 no other wide releases JULY 12 Crawl Stuber JULY 19 The Lion King (2019) JULY 26 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood That's insanely slim pickins for a prime summer month. I guess studios just had to stack May instead, or August for that matter.

Re: Big Little Lies, it's a very good show but damn, do I hate all but one of the Monterrey Five. Well, Celeste is alright. I only like Jane. I hate it because I LOVE Reese Witherspoon. It kills me to see her play a character I absolutely despise. Laura Dern's character? I literally feel myself getting heated just seeing her on screen. The depiction of that section of society makes me want to throw up. I know it's written and acted that way exactly for that effect though, which is a credit to all involved.

Florence Pugh is a goddess. That is all. I hope she doesn't get mangled or something in this movie.

Oo, good point. On a side note I'm really, really looking forward to more news on that movie! Back to Bond, it's all about the image I think. Certain characters are just so steeped in culture that the image matters. It's like how we all laugh at Nicholas Cage getting considered for Superman. It would be ridiculous! Why? We want to believe that's Superman, or that's Bond, we're seeing on screen. Certain characters have that image you need to uphold, and that's a testament to their popularity and timelessness.

Touche. We'll see what happens with the Bond casting. I'm just not a fan of RPat, despite how much I respect him as an actor. I do like Richard Madden. Henry Cavill I know almost seems cliche, but I also like him for the role.

Coming from someone who agrees that dollars and cents are what matters, I would say re-releases matter when comparing box office runs. I mean, it's pretty damn simple. You can't fairly compare a film with a normal theatrical run to that of one that had extra opportunities to add to its gross. Pretty straightforward. Avatar still gets credit for every single dollar it made obviously but if you're judging it against other films that had one theatrical run, use the original run of Avatar, which up to this point has vastly surpassed every other film's original run anyway. It seems normal that it would enter the discussion only now that a film (Endgame) is coming so close. Nobody is moving goal posts here.

The problem is, in today's political climate there's no room for the classic Bond image and persona. In other words, no suave manly man. Unless Eon holds their ground they're going to pretty much re-invent the character because past Bond's are basically nowadays deemed to be pigs. No offense to RPat, he's a fantastic actor, but I look at him and go "Yup, that's 2019 James Bond right there".

I find myself if kids are liking movies less and less these days in general. These days I wouldn't be surprised if barely any of them can sit through one, having been born in the iPad and smartphone age.

Oof, that's not good for one of those 4-theatre releases. That won't be expanding wide, needless to say.

Yup, this. This isn't become I'm some Disney stan either. It's just an objective truth. Where would the box office be this year without Disney?