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Fallen Kingdom's performance is hardly noteworthy either in a positive or negative light relative to expectations. Definitely not overperforming but also not really underperforming that much at least not enough to make Universal concerned at all. I do think Jurassic World 3 will decrease once again. By how much? Yeah no clue.

Eh Snyder being producer or not won't be the deciding factor of how good the Flash film will be. Who cares if he's producing or not. I imagine since he laid much of the groundwork of establishing Barry Allen (now how much of that ended up in the actual Justice League film we'll never know) much like he did with Wonder Woman in BvS that they recognised that hence a producer credit.

Decision totally makes sense but I will miss them purely because I have so much nostalgia over the Winnie the Pooh films they produced in the early 2000s. I still have great memories rewatching The Tigger Movie and Piglet's Big Movie all the time as a little kid. Oddly enough I think I watched those films as much as the Pixar films (which were easily the biggest part of my childhood) and even more than most actual Disney Animation Films.

Jon Kasdan has little to do with Solo's bombing. I liked Solo the best out of the new Star Wars films so I'm actually ok with this.

I can see GOTG Vol 3 getting $170M but yeah no way it gets close to $200M.

I guess Episode IX could miss $600M if it opened right at $200M and had legs similar to TLJ.

Confession: Yesterday was the first time I watched Titanic from start to finish. I'd seen the last third of the film on tv before but never the entire film. Yeah I can understand why and how it was so successful at the box office. Never felt the length of the running time one bit.

I don't think Brad Bird regrets turning down TFA for Tomorrowland despite the way Tomorrowland ended up being received. Though I will blame him for unleashing Colin Trevorrow into the blockbuster realm lol

Technically it's Brad Bird's fault Trevorrow got involved with Jurassic Park and Star Wars in the first place.

Nah I think Black Panther 2 will open at least $170M. Numbers just keep getting better for Fallen Kingdom!

I got a legitimate headache watching Transformers: The Last Knight. Like who thought it was a good idea to have fight sequences constantly change aspect ratio??

So Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom's Opening Weekend will be below what the majority of posters thought its Weekend would be a month ago but also higher than what people were saying via presales just days ago. A perfect glass half full half empty scenario. Glad it happened to this film at least as opposed to a Marvel/DC/Star Wars film where the thread might really have gotten toxic. As for the film itself found it very dumb and silly but I did get some decent enjoyment from it. I feel like I've seen the ending of the film before though.....

Seeing Fallen Kingdom in a couple of hours. If it's bad it better be bad in an entertaining way. Can't have a boring dinosaur film.

Michael Giacchino starting with The Incredibles had scored 7 of Pixar's last 15 Films.

Oh and if we're doing a Planet of the Dinosaurs which dinosaur should Andy Serkis play?

EmpireCity died for Ralph Breaks the Internet. Tree died for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. What weird films to die for.

#boycottJurassicWorld3

For sure which is why I specified OS grosses where it's been much more predictable which Superhero Films do better than others.

I'm still very curious how the inevitable Avengers 5 does if it doesn't have the original team. Marvel is in a healthy place with its solo films but we're yet to have a team up film that hasn't partially relied on RDJ. Does the Avengers films still do insane OS grosses even without RDJ?

Yeah some franchises are just more inherently limited than others with what they can do for multiple installments and still maintain the same level of interest. That being said I do think Universal will be disappointed if Fallen Kingdom doesn't reach the $150M Opening Weekend mark. The franchise might not have a huge shelf life post Jurassic World 3 which is fine not everything has to last forever (more franchises should just end IMO).

Yep Jurassic World is as dumb as I remember Still entertaining though

Oh for sure I'm just saying that whether he writes or doesn't have credit for the script the results of his films are....interesting.

He didn't write Book of Henry though

I wonder what his Episode IX would have looked liked. Since according to some "fans" he would have supposedly saved the trilogy lol

$120M would be disappointing for Fallen Kingdom. Early days of course.