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martymcfly

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  1. Everyone saying “this cannot be beat” for years or decades is forgetting that the MCU is 11 years old. There’s lots of time and lots of smart people in Hollywood. No one has matched up to Disney yet, but to think they won’t, or can’t.... that’s a mistake. Candidates: - If Avatar builds an amazing world and serial story, I could see Avatar 5 doing this. We don’t have any evidence today that it will, but we had no evidence that Endgame would do anything like this even two years ago. - Lets say Chris Nolan took on another franchise, elevating a serialized trilogy of a re-made or new IP to superstar heights. (Bond? Side story in the lord of the rings universe?) - Revenge of Star Wars. Star Wars 8 was awful and very poorly received. If SW8 had gotten the same reception as SW7, our collective mouths would be watering as we’d be wondering right now if SW9 could top Endgame. That’s not the world we’re in, but I could see Star Wars making a comeback with a built-up, amazingly excited, highly-anticipated movie sometime in the 2020s.
  2. This is amazing. IW was fun because there was some surprise and suspense versus TFA. This started out enormously likely to smash IW... and is still turning in an even more shocking number than I can remember.
  3. Could be as soon as 2024 or 2025 in my mind. Avatar 2 will not do it. But if let’s say Avatar 2 and 3 deliver the goods, I don’t think it’s off the table for Avatar 4 or 5. Especially if the narrative arc builds and culminates (versus being four standalone stories in the Avatar world). Unlikely? Definitely. Impossible? I don’t think so.
  4. Okay I’ll go with you on Frozen 2. But SW9 is 1) going to get a much different marketing push than Solo 2) has JJ directing who is not a risk-taker but is instead a crowd-pleaser 3) culmination of the story and the last Star Wars on the calendar for probably a few years. I would be stunned if it didn’t go over $1bn WW.
  5. 2019- Virtual Locks: Avengers 4, Star Wars IX, Lion King, Frozen 2. Possibilities: - Maybe F&F spin-off depending on how strongly it’s marketed. - Maybe SLOP2, wouldn’t require too big a lift off SLOP. - Spider-Man 2 and/or Captain Marvel could pull it off
  6. It was the technology, not Avatar itself, because 2011 is virtually a match to 2010. And 3D is basically gone now, less than a decade later. So the novelty of 3D was interesting for a handful of years longer than Smell-O-Vision was.
  7. It does say something about its cultural impact. Something like Superbad has had immeasurably larger cultural impact than Avatar, at least in the US.
  8. Bro, a half dozen comments every day beating this drum for five or six months in a row is getting so tiresome.
  9. Not sure who is allowed to start clubs, but my new favorite idea is “Chris Pratt’s Billion Dollar Summer” which is A:IW + JW:FK over $1bn domestic.
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