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That they should’ve cast Miles Morales and live action? 👀

This is the spirit, folks. The silver lining. 🤪 My hot take? I also feel that Sony should test the theory that trailer views correlate with opening box office. I don’t think they need to hold the movie. The trailer views are huge. The excitement on Twitter and all of those social spears is massive. If anything the headlines that the movies being delayed, are going to be just as impactful as a second trailer giving you a release date. Awareness for the film is going to be high. Release it as soon as you can, and stop paying interest on the loans. So whether that’s like January 1 or February 8 or March 20, just released the damn movie as soon as you can. The audience will find it. (With obviously the exception of like don’t releasing on the Super Bowl weekend. There is some logic here. Lolol)

Moderation: Hey y’all. I know this might be disappointing for some, and I understand that we are literally and figuratively in the bargaining stage right now. But it is very very likely that there is going to be a strike on Monday, and it is very very likely this movie is getting pushed. Thus, That is not a discussion which has been exhausted. It’s going to be an ongoing discussion for a couple weeks. If you have no interest in that, then I suggest you talk about something else. If you want to talk specifics of the strike, we have a strike thread pinned at the top of the box office forum. In the meantime, I would leave here with two things. The first is that I forever and always will believe in the sacred words of Mel Brooks. “Hope for the best, expect the worst. Some drink champagne, some die of thirst. We have no way of knowing which way it’s going, hope for the best, expect the worst.” The second is that, I think a pretty interesting discussion right now is what will this movie look like when it premieres in February. Or do they hold off and push it all the way back to May? 3… 2… 1… go!

It's more about keeping the date locked than anything else at this point.

TBH, depending on how long the strike goes, I suspect Sony will just swap Morbius and NWH's release dates. 💁‍♀️

I would really prepare yourself for a ruined Christmas then. 🙃

Who isn’t?

Yes, it does:

You mean so scary! That was legit.

Maybe it’s just cause we did the 25th Anniversary Fathom Event screening, but this is oddly exciting. (And now it confirms I definitely need to rewatch 2, 3, and 4.) As for it being generic, I am cool with that. I personally never like trailers that give away the plot or frankly any plot details. Particularly with a movie like this that will have some twist. So like what else do you want? It’s a Ghostface and the OG cast. I think that sells the movie.

ETERNALS TICKETS ARE ON SALE AND MY THEATER DOESNT HAVE THEM YET 🔪🔪🔪🔪 I already went full Karen and messaged the managers 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Just got out of Venom. What a gay disaster. No wonder tumblr is obsessed. Now we are off to do Scream: 25th Anniversary! 🤩🤩

Hmm?

Argh, my phone ate my response, so tl;dr: @excel1 Unless Barbara has done a complete 180, Tom Hiddleston is never going to get the role. But it’s hilarious to watch him thirst after it @Cmasterclay Oh I would not get it twisted. Venom success has nothing to do with Tom Hardy, and everything to do with people wanting to fuck a tentacle monster. 😂😂😂 @Blankments Dev is actually the one “OMGG 👀👀👀👀” choice being tossed around. I don’t think Elba as the villain Would be a good luck though. He can play the villain, but he can’t play James Bond? You don’t really want to open up that discourse. @grey ghost That’s not exactly what Daniel Craig said. He basically said why would a woman want to play this role, he’s awful. They should write a better character for her. He didn’t say that a woman shouldn’t play James Bond or there shouldn’t be a female James Bond. @BoxOfficeFangrl OOOOH. I vote Rege-Jean. Make Dev the new Moneypenny 😉

For everyone saying that older folks aren’t going back to the movie theater, I just want to anecdotally say that my 60-year-old mother just called and said that she and my 90-year-old grandmother are going to watch James Bond In about 30 minutes.

When I saw worldwide, I just assumed he forgot a zero (so it was supposed to be like 450 not 45) and was asking how much close it was to all those. Lolololol

I don't know what's happening, but I just tossed some numbers at the board and posted my Preseason and Week One. Woo hoo! Excited to doing this again!

Weekly Questions will have 13 questions, except for the weeks that don't: Part A: 1. Will No Time To Die to more than $75M? 1000 NO 2. Will No Time To Die to more than $100M? 2000 NO 3. Will No Time To Die to more than $87.5M? 3000 NO 4. Will No Time To Die's best day be enough to take number 1 for the weekend on its own? 4000 YES 5. Will Venom drop more than 54%? 1000 YES 6. Will Addam's Family stay above $10M? 2000 YES 7. Will South of Heaven open above Lamb? 3000 NO 8. Will Chal Mera Putt 3 stay above Titane? 4000 NO 9 Will Free Guy drop more than 50%? 1000 YES 10. Will Candyman increase more than 65% on Saturday? 2000 NO 11. Will Evan Hanson have a PTA above $375? 3000 NO 12. Will Shang Chi have a smaller percentage drop than Jungle Cruise? 4000 YES 13. Will No Time To Die's Domestic Total after Sunday be closer to the domestic total of Venom or Evan Hanson? 6000 Venom Bonus: 6/13 2000 7/13 4000 8/13 6000 9/13 9000 10/13 12000 11/13 16000 12/13 20,000 13/13 24,000 Part B: The top 3 predictions will score points as follows: Closest: Within 1% - 15,000, Within 2,5% - 12000, Within 5% 9,000, Within 10% - 6000 Outside 10% - 3000 points 2nd Closest: Within 1% - 12,000, Within 2,5% - 10000, Within 5% 7,000, Within 10% - 4000 Outside 10% - 2000 points 3rd Closest: Within 1% - 10,000, Within 2,5% - 8000, Within 5% 5,000, Within 10% - 2000 Outside 10% - 1000 points 1. What will No Day To Die make for its 3 day OW? 69M 2. What will Venom's percentage drop be? -69% 3. What will Lamb's PTA be for the 3 day weekend? 696k Part 😄 There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 1. No Time To Die 2. Venom 4. Shang Chi 6. Free Guy 8. Candyman 10. Jungle Cruise Because I realised bonuses are stupid... 1/6 4,000 2/6 10,000 3/6 18,000 4/6 25,000 5/6 36,000 6/6 - 50,000 Deadline is Thursday 11:59pm forum time.

TOP 10 ETC PREDICTION TEMPLATE Below is a helpful template to use for making predictions. All Players who use this template for their predictions will receive 20,000 bonus points for making my life easier when I have to score everything at the end of the game. A: Domestic top 10: 1) Spider-Man: No Way Home 269,666,000 2) Eternals 247,420,000 3) Encanto 222,555,000 4) Bond 169,693,396 5) Sing 2 125,567,800 6) Matrix 101,010,101 7) West Side Story 96,525,600 😎 Dune 74,900,000 9) House of Gucci 72,900,123 10) Halloween Kills 66,666,666 Backup 11*) Ghostbusters 66,666,665 *Only used if a film above exits the game B: Top 5 Domestic OW: 1) Spider-Man: NWH 121M 2) Eternals 95M 3) Spider-Man NWH Wk2 52M 4) Matrix 50M 5) Encanto 47M Backup 6*) Dune 45M *Only used if a film above exits the game 😄 RANDOM FREE QUESTIONS RFQ1: Predict which film will finish closest to each of the following milestones domestically by the end of the game: A: 50M Death on The Nile B: 100M Matrix C 150M Bond D 200M Encanto RFQ2: Predict which film will finish closest to each of the following milestones Worldwide by the end of the game: A: $30 Encanto B: $45 Eternals C $60 Bond D $75 Spider Man RFQ3: Predict the highest grossing film released in each month by the end of the game: A: October No Time To Die B: November Eternals 😄 December Encanto 😧 January Spider-Man: No Way Home 😧 RANDOM QUESTIONS OF DANGER 1. How many films in the OW Top 5 will release Day and Date on a streaming service? b) 1 2. If Venom had been eligible for the game, where would its final total gross finish? b) Top 6 3. Which of the following Studios will have the highest grossing film? a) Sony 4. How many films will gross more than $100M? b) 7-8 5. Which studio will have the most films in the top 5? a) Disney 6. Which studio will have the most films in places 6-10? c) Warner Bros 7. Which studio will have the most films in places 10-15? c) Warner Bros 8. How many different films will finish 1st Domestic, 1st Top Weekend, and 1st WW? a) 1 9. Which of the following will have the highest combined Domestic gross? a) Eternals + Encanto 10. Which of the following will have the closest combined best weekends? a) Spider-Man + Halloween 11. How much will the Domestic Top 10’s combined gross be? b) $1.25B-1.6B 12. How much will the top 5 best Weekends’ combined gross be? b) $300M-$400M DO NOT ALTER THE TEMPLATE! JUST ADD IN YOUR ANSWERS AS REQUIRED. FOLLOWING THIS ONE SIMPLE INSTRUCTION WILL LAND YOU 20,000 BONUS POINTS

Oh crap. I am gonna be so late but let me get on this

I thought you were joking because is Spiderman coming out this year? 👀

Anyway, big mood:

No I was going to watch it.

I pulled this over here to not clog up the tracking thread, but I just got out of no time to die and I’m ask. The two trailers that we got were Top Gun Maverick and Dune. GGGGGGUUUUUUUUUUH. The fight Ariel stunts in maverick are insane. God damn. And dune finally looks like a giant space opera. Yeah. I literally have no idea how you kill theatrical distribution. I went from 0 to 180 real quick watching the trailers on IMAX. They’re both gonna get my money. And I didn’t think they were before.

TBH, I feel like the movie goes off the rails after Felix dies. It was cruising and then just... stalls out. My mind spent a lot of time wandering elsewhere. I always want to talk to that critic who was like "This is a Live Action Archer Movie" and ask them what Archer show they watched. The Pros: Daniel Craig is fucking fantastic. Nostalgia wins out and Pierce Bronson will always be My Bond, but DAMN is Craig just GREAT in this role. Production looks stunning. Great locations, great cars, great looking women, great lighting and set design. Everything in the film was just SOOO pretty. The Cons: Oh My God, it's so effing long I needed a pee break. The Choices: Lynch is WAAASTED Like to the point that I was kind of like this is terrible. She’s playing the new 007, and her gimmick is that she’s just upset that James is there to like take Her spot back, and they spend a lot of the movie kind of antagonistic to each other. It just kind of is weird vibes. It's like she's just there to be a party pooper. It's that type of feminism where we need to treat Women like they are super serious and take their job super seriously and because of that they’re super competent. Which is normally great. But this is James Bond. C'mon. Let her drink some martinis and seduce some laaaadies while she's being super competent. Billy M was WAAAAASTED. You could have totally cut Rami, who was AWFUL, and let Billy ham it up more. It probably could've saved you like 15 minutes too. I would politely request anyone who was upset that Marvel hacked up the Flag Smasher storyline in TFATWS because it was too like COVID, to maaaybe rethink that position after watching this. Because it was super weird to watch a movie about a virus that was manufactured by some government lab as a weapon to eradicate like half of the fucking planet. I was like I am sure I would’ve really liked this movie before COVID, but right now I’m just kind of uncomfortable!! I don't think I really bought into the whole "finds the true love and DIIIIIES" angle. I was like, Okay, sure. Craig murdered that scene tho. I was getting all the FEELS even though I was thinking "why am I getting the feels?" [Insert Patrick Stewart ACTING.gif] I think killing him was Choice, and I was like is this necessary? You're just recasting him? So is this universe gone and you're gonna do a new James Bond universe and none of this is gonna matter? I guess. These are neither pros or cons, really, just more Observations and "Well, That Was A Choice" vibes. Just stuff that didn't quite click me with in the moment I was watching it. Ultimately, I thought the movie was good. Not great, not bad. Just good. (And sometimes good is good enough.)