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Loved all the movies I’ve watched this week. But I think Always Be My Maybe was my favorite. It’s great!

And most people are being reasonable and think it’ll do between those 2. I don’t think the $2b crowd are that many.

This was pretty great. I wasn’t sure in the beginning as it seemed kind of slow and unfunny, but it really improves in the second half. I get the comparisons to Superbad and I thought it’d be pretty similar based on the trailers, but it’s more poignant than Superbad. I think Superbad had more comedy, but I really liked this movie more. Great relatable characters and pretty heartwarming story. I hope it becomes a sleeper hit or gets rediscovered on streaming/home video.

I agree. We had multiple people hope Aladdin would bomb last weekend so Godzilla would do well and felt justified in saying so. And in this thread, posts hoping Dark Phoenix bombs next weekend. It’s unnecessary all around. Just hope the movie you like finds an audience and does well. Stop hoping for other movies to underperform or bomb.

Lol why does Disney get brought up every time another studio’s movie underperforms? It’s not like Disney is immune to underperforming movies. We’ve had multiple in the past 2 years. Disney gets blame when Disney movies underperform. Disney gets blame when non-Disney movies underperform.

If RTH’s number includes previews then it’s right in your range @Menor. Actually on the low end with a $12.7m true Friday. Deadline’s $24m OD would’ve been $17.7m true Friday. While the numbers aren’t great, it’s nice to see how accurate the Fandango presales tracker is. Worked last weekend and this weekend with two pretty different movies.

Finally watched this today. I loved it! It was really funny and I cried a couple of times, but it’s relatively easy for a movie to make me emotional. Anyway, loved the songs and the acting, and while it starts kind of rough, it’s really good overall. Watching it, I realized I’ve never watched the animated movie in full, only clips of the songs. So I had no expectations of how the characters would behave. Yeah, no surprise it’s doing well. The kids and families in my showing laughed a lot and a couple of kids were dancing at the end credits song. I’d put it above BatB ‘17 and I really liked that movie.

Looks like @sfran43 edged you out by seconds...

Finally getting to see this today. Plus Booksmart. Might add in a 3rd movie too.

I absolutely love these little things Pixar does in their movies. Like the newspaper headline saying ‘Centaur Gallup Poll Results!’ and a centaur is shown galloping. And the toll worker being a troll inside an ‘Under Bridge’ booth.

The Lion King Star Wars: Episode IX Spider-Man: Far From Home Frozen II Knifes Out Jojo Rabbit The Farewell It: Chapter 2 Dark Phoenix Stuber

Yeah it’s great! Has extra parts that weren’t in the earlier uploads. I really like the music.

Why did it take Pixar so long to upload the teaser? It’s been on random channels.

That looked really cute! Lol at Chris Pratt’s accent. Sounds Australian...like Chris Hemsworth. Reminds me of Zootopia

Godzilla has multiple ticket types including IMAX 2D and 3D.

First time playing. I’ll take this. It’s for the 3-day correct?

That’s great for Aladdin! 54% drop. If that holds, it’ll be the best drop among the top 10 Memorial Day openers.

Agreed. People will be willing to spend $5-10 (depending on where you live) on any random movie. Especially if it’s a group/family. But paying $16+ for a 2D movie every weekend isn’t feasible for most moviegoers. That’s more than I pay for Netflix each month. That’s why the blockbusters get significantly more attendees and many low budget films make less than $15m on OW. Most people want to feel like they’re getting their money’s worth by taking the time to drive to a theater/hire a babysitter/etc. with spectacle that won’t look as impressive on their TV. One of the theaters I go to has higher prices for recliner seats compared to regular ones, despite them all being in one auditorium. I know most theaters don’t have this option, and it’s only a $1 difference, but still. Lower prices for smaller films makes sense. Either that or go for the subscription thing. Maybe Regal can do something similar to A-List as some areas have no AMC theaters. And I thought Atom was attempting something similar too.

Why do you keep posting some random tweet on multiple threads like it means anything?

I love how upset *some* people are getting over the fact that audiences like this movie and it’s beating expectations. Deal with it.

Plus I think IW got an extension.

Aladdin is playing really well with audiences in other countries too. Had 98% on one of the audience metrics in South Korea and that grew from ~96% iirc. Apparently musicals do well there and in some other Asian countries. It’ll face Paradise coming up though.

I agree overall, but at least no one is attacking critics. Just discussing the reasons for the wide discrepancy between critics and audience scores. Perhaps no one would complain if BatB, which I loved, had 50% to Aladdin’s 58%.

In a time when certain critics are known for being intentionally contrarian like those who want to be the first to give a rotten to a perfect score, it’s easy to be cynical about RT and critics’ reviews. For Aladdin, the reviews don’t seem to have hurt it much. So some critics didn’t want or like Aladdin. It happens. The critics stated their own opinions about the movie. A large portion of the audience felt differently. I actually think it might motivate some people to see the movie to check if they’ll agree with the critics or audience. Not the first time it’s happened. It is amusing though that a Disney movie has people thinking that critics are biased against it when for a while now, *some* people believed the opposite.

Let’s see how it’s second week goes before locking things in. But yeah, it should be able to get to $250m.