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    Sonic the Hedgehog | Paramount | Feb 14 2020 | Visionary Auteur Tim Miller to produce | See Sonic's new plastic surgery on page 58

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    1 minute ago, TigerPaw said:

    Anyway, the scene in the warehouse looks almost identical to the Detective Pikachu trailer scene. Lol.

     

    One of the worst trailers I have seen for a big budget movie. Huge fan of Jim Carrey, but that scene with the army major looks really awkward... Director trying too hard to make it funny.

     

    PSSH YOUR JUST BEING A DISNEY STAN / HATER TROLL

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    Avengers: Endgame Monday Thread (4/29): 36.87M (3rd best Monday ever)

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    13 minutes ago, TServo2049 said:

    This Cameron stans vs. everyone else feuding is just dumb IMO. I get it. They don’t want an original work from a singular visionary mad genius filmmaker that nobody thought could ever succeed to get taken down by a studio-manufactured franchise sequel engineered to get the maximum amount of money out of the masses. Well, you know how I see it, as someone who enjoys the MCU, hasn’t seen Avatar but ranks several prior Cameron movies among his all-time favorites? Even if Avatar goes down WW, it will have taken 11 years, 21 prior films and a few BILLION dollars spent up to this point just to get ONE movie that even stands a chance of taking down JAMES FUCKING CAMERON. The man who shattered the worldwide box office record on a scale hitherto undreamt of when Marvel Comics was in the throes of bankruptcy, then turned around did it again when people were still asking each other if Disney was insane for dropping 4 billion dollars on a comic book company.

     

    After Cameron took the crown the first time, Star Wars with its creator at the helm, triumphantly returning after a 16-year wait and with hopes still in the stratosphere, couldn’t unseat him. 9 years later, Cameron was still on top, and the apex of the cinematic success of the most popular hero of the rival comic book company - a character who was this close to being a cinematic laughingstock at the same time Cameron defied odds and turned a seemingly guaranteed disaster into a triumph - couldn’t take Jim out.

     

    After Cameron asserted his claim to the box-office throne by obliterating his own record when everyone else had failed, nobody could even knock him out of the #2 spot. It took another return of Star Wars, now with the might of the same entertainment empire who had bought Marvel behind it (and with people again questioning the wisdom of dropping so much money on an acquisition), and with 32 years of anticipation behind it, to make more than Cameron’s previous record breaker did, 18 years earlier, and even then it only made more than Titanic did before a 15th anniversary re-release that made the kind of money that theatrical re-releases just didn’t make in the age of Blu-Ray, and that no theatrical reissue would ever touch again. And even the revived Star Wars at the height of its success, with a fanbase not yet divided by controversy and doubt, still could not dethrone the King of the World. Just as recently as last year, what seemed itself to be the apex of a 10-year-running, 21-film comic book movie franchise still could only topple the initial worldwide gross that Cameron’s first record-breaker accumulated 20 years earlier.

     

    This is it. This is the one movie that could have a chance, and despite its franchise now being under the same entertainment juggernaut so powerful it just absorbed the rival studio that helped bring Cameron to the top twice, said franchise still took its own 11-year-long underdog story, which began before their acquisition with a $500 million loan they weren’t even guaranteed to be able to pay back, from a bank that had already gone down in flames before Cameron broke his own record, with a stable of B and C- list heroes, and with a seemingly washed-up, has-been, unemployable former drug addict and ex-convict as the lead actor, to get this far. If this is the end, then let it be a glorious end.

    Agreed, best not to spill another four paragraphs worth of ink over- OH.

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    AVENGERS: ENDGAME WEEKEND THREAD l Actuals: $357.115M | $866.526M OS, $1.223B WW l Russos true box office kings l *** NO SPOILERS - Even Tagged ***| SALE NOW LIVE: 50% Off Gold Montly, 25% Off Gold Annually

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    45 minutes ago, Charlie Jatinder said:

    India ₹65cr ($9.5mn) GROSS Day One is what I am getting. Waiting for actuals. +60% Infinity War +300% the number 3 Furious 7. Avengers Engame .

     

    India pure OD (excluding Midnight) is 4th highest after

    USA

    China

    UK (could top that even)

    India

    Mexico

     

    In term of admissions

    China (10.5mn)

    USA (~9mn)

    India (3.4mn admits Approx)

     

    These are the kind of posts that :ohmygod:is acceptable for. Not "I made a peanut butter sandwich" or "The new Star Wars movie is rumored to be set in space"

    AVENGERS: ENDGAME WEEKEND THREAD l Actuals: $357.115M | $866.526M OS, $1.223B WW l Russos true box office kings l *** NO SPOILERS - Even Tagged ***| SALE NOW LIVE: 50% Off Gold Montly, 25% Off Gold Annually

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    57 minutes ago, wildphantom said:

    This opening bodes really well for Spidey: FFH.  The first MCU film set after Endgame’s events - has to give it a bump. I know there’s a ton of major competition around it when it opens, but man that July 4th weekend slot is looking like some big $$$ for Sony

    Yeah true. I originally thought it increase similarly to something like AMATW or TDW, there just didn't seem to be much to suggest it would have a crazy increase, but now with this and Captain Marvel going $400M+ I can definitely see Spiderman doing the same. In fact I'd almost be surprised if it didn't.

     

    They really are on fire right now. I thought after Age of Ultron and Civil War they'd hit their peak in 2012 and nothing would ever top Avengers. Like when they started promoting Infinity War I seriously thought "Yeah more characters, so what?" I maybe even posted to that effect here, idk. Then 2018 comes around and I'm proven completely wrong. And now here we are. What a ride. I have no idea where they go from here but I know they're not slowing down any time soon.

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