Legion Again

You mean Apr 28, right? Something weird with the Th TC

BOR: Rank Film (Distributor) Weekend Gross Total Gross % Change Week # 1 Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train (Funimation / Aniplex) $9.70 M $37.7 M -54% 2 2 Mortal Kombat (Warner Bros.) $9.50 M $38.2 M -59% 2 BOP: Film Distributor 3-Day Weekend Forecast Projected Domestic Total through Sunday, May 2 Location Count % Change from Last Wknd Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – the Movie: Mugen Train Funimation $9,600,000 $36,700,000 ~2,000 -55% Mortal Kombat (2021) Warner Bros. Studios $9,000,000 $37,300,000 ~3,070 -61% 👀

Yeah, the official gross is 450.4M. I’ve posted this is a couple places since we learned it but I know that mojo/the-numbers being too high means most people didn’t realize.

Thought 2021 had another extended May Day holiday, like 2019 and unlike 2018. @Gavin Feng, is that the case or am I just imagining it?

Yeah. What’s not common is for the non Hollywood film to be winning the weekdays, so an exception would have been neat. Though I wasn’t exactly expecting one.

Yeah seems funimation, like WB, isn’t reporting dailies. Unfortunate but exactly what we’ve seen for most of the year’s biggest movies so far 🤷‍♂️

Nobody knows, but also it doesn’t matter. Probably not much. Yes.

Yeah they look pretty pathetic honestly. Shame Disney moved BW.

We haven’t had a movie underperform on OW since March 5. MDW weekend is gonna be national we-beat-covid-and-everyone’s-got-their-final-shot party time.

60M 3-day baybee

The domestic OW of Demon Slayer is hugely impressive for what it is, but as frog correctly points out it’s not even close to the success of G and PG rated animation. There isn’t much being proved here except the already well-learned (to the chagrin of many) lesson — franchise IP is king. So, no, DS’s DOM performance hasn’t proved that a lucrative market for R action animation exists and I don’t think we’ll see an appreciable increase in them from Hollywood. DS’s Japan performance does guarantee a large new wave of canon (rather than non canon side story) anime movies, however. Some will likely do well, Broly/MHA level numbers. There’s no second Demon slayer though, it’s franchise strength is a league of its own.

DS>Raya>50>MK

Yeah DS is hugely popular but being 5th alphabetically doesn’t prove it AoT>WV probably based on Parrot I suspect, don’t think Nielsen does anime unfortunately.

Baccano is better dubbed 👀

Canon anime movie and the most impressive single market performance of the century 😎

Doean’t really tell you anything besides “industry expectations” being unbelievably idiotic 😛

Not by him 😛 Overall reception seems like mid-upper quartile for WV and mid-lower quartile for FWS. Pretty avg. Will need to see the next couple shows and films before it really makes sense to talk about the phase a whole imo, since just 2021-2022 is like 20 projects or whatever.

Random thought, are they offering both dub and sub? If some capacity is dubbed but most prefer subbed, could make effective capacity lower than it appears — possibly accounting for how the later days look better than affected via spillover.

I know some people were taking the GvK result as indicating that it would have been really huge more than market really recovering overall. And I think it would have done pretty well, but what we’re seeing here with like a 20M combined OD from lower profile movies shows that the market is coming along quite nicely imo. And we still have more regals and increased capacity over the next couple weeks - between this weekend and MDW will be held back more by lack of attractive product than by consumer hesitancy.

I’ll go for 10.5 but there are a lot more MTC3 now than 3 weeks ago, right?

On the other hand, most of the known films for 2021,2022,2023 don’t seem to present much opportunity to follow up on a lot of what the finale set up — and neither do the 2021 or 2022 shows. It wouldn’t be surprising to see some of this stuff take 2 to 3 years to get any movement on — Mordo will take 6 years to followup on, ditto Ayesha/Adam Warlock stuff.

They could easily go F&WS-followup show-Cap 4. Or F&WS-Cap 4-followup show.

Honestly I don’t think it’s reasonable to draw any connection there, this was probably planned well before F&WS debuted. It’s a pretty logical choice with Endgame’s ending, which they knew the broad strokes of in like, 2016, so...

There are weekend threads again. Didn’t you post in the GvK one a bunch?

Cap trilogy is insanely good. Hopefully this continues that legacy.