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The Marvels has horrible word of mouth. The only people who like it are people online.

I toldja that 3.5M number Deadline had made no sense to me.

I don't get why they had to make Wakanda Forever when they did as well. What was the rush outside of quick profits for the studio? They could have waited and mourned and then decided whether it was smart to kill off the most important black character in the MCU. I still don't agree with the decision. Chadwick death was a horrible tragedy, I even cried but T'Challa is bigger than any actor. All of these characters are. I hate when people say retire characters that have existed for decades because an actor died. I remember people saying that the Joker should be retired from live action movies after Heath Ledger died. The Joker had been around for like 65-70 or so years when Ledger died and his death had nothing to do with the role and yet the character should cease to exist, why? Anyway, why was Thunderbolt Ross recast? Did William Hurt's death mean nothing? Marvel are really inconsistent on who they recast.

I thought any prediction under 550M was silly.

Katniss Everdeen has more successful films than both Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel. Just sayin.

COVID has shrunk movie going, so Marvel movies wouldn't have continued to sell as many tickets as they used to but Quantumania's big opening weekend showed that there was still a big audience. Unfortunately Quantumania got a Batman v Superman level reception and severely harmed the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The trust is gone. People are not going to automatically show up for any Marvel character now. Marvel has to sell the characters again. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 opening post Quantumania shows you how well-liked the Guardians were. The Marvels opening weekend shows you how unpopular the Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel character is.

I don't believe that 3.5M number for The Marvels but I acknowledge that I could be wrong and Deadline could be dead on.

Because 99.99% of people forget that Mars Needs Moms exists.

"The Marvels will be another Elemental and have great legs." "Talk show appearances add 100M to a film's opening weekend." "Ms Marvel is a beloved character and a draw despite her Television show and movie bombing." This is all 100% cope. Words cannot describe how sad it is to me that Ms Marvel isn't popular because I think that she is a great character and has been perfectly cast. I still won't live in a fantasy world about her popularity though. I guess being the fan girl of an unpopular hero kind of limits your appeal.

Yep, summer weekdays are always stronger. Also I think the final number is going to be around 1.3M. Which is still awful of course. I don't get why people are acting surprised by the numbers? It has a B Cinemascore. Why would it suddenly have decent legs?

I'm inclined to believe that it will be about a 25% drop.

I swear ERC does not know how to round up.

I think it's too early to say that the MCU is finished but Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania did a lot of damage. Somehow that fact seems like it vindicates my extreme dislike of 2018's Ant-Man and the Wasp.

Nobody remembers Fantastic Four 2015. That being said, I do believe that MCU Fantastic Four will not be an easy slamdunk. The film is going to have to be good and look interesting. If it looks like another Disney Plus series like The Marvels looked like in the marketing materials, it is screwed.

Almost no actor is a draw but people know who he is. The MCU has never cared about going young. If they like an actor they go after them.

We'll see if the final number is slightly higher at 1.8M. Overall I don't see anything special happening. I'm just waiting for the 60+% second weekend drop so that MCU fans can let go of this Elemental legs fantasy. Elemental isn't even a good comp for The Marvels even if it did have legs. It's a PG-13 rated MCU movie while Elemental is a Pixar movie. I just despise that comparison.

Seeing people on Twitter who don't know anything about box office act like the film is saved because it has a normal Tuesday increase is bizarre.

Oh okay. I did try to phrase my post to acknowledge that the female version exists. I failed on that front as well as my reading comprehension being off. I'm okay with a lot of changes in comic book adaptations but some I am meh on.

You are arguing against things that I never said. You do you though.

Sue was an afterthought or dumb eye candy in the previous film iterations. I don't mind her being the lead. That sounds like a good idea in my opinion. Using a female version of The Silver Suffer instead of the more popular male version seems a bit pointless to me. I'm meh on the idea. If they want another prominent female role then just use a female character from the Marvel comics.

Very cheap. It looks like a streaming series and not the ones with the 200M budgets.

He struggled for years to break out, I think he loves working as much as possible now.

I've liked Dakota Johnson in films before but yeah, I'm not buying her in this trailer either.

Thank God it's not John Krasinski. I have always hated that casting. The most boring and unimaginative casting on the planet. And he didn't prove to be a special choice in The Multiverse Madness either. Pedro doing a paycheck role in a big comic book movie should be fun.

I predicted they were going to cancel Wonder Man. Shows you that I'm no Madame Web. Marvel is smartly still working with DDC but also smartly will have him working on Shang-Chi post Wonder Man.