Legion Weekend Forecast
Sonic 2 18.75M
Bad Guys 17.5M
FB3 16M
Northman 12.8M
Talent 10.8M
EEAAO 4.95M
Lost City 4.3M
Father Stu 2.7M
Ambulance 2M
Morbius 1.8M
Batman 1.6M
Crackpot biased conspiracy theory: Morbiflop+ ongoing post-NWH negotiations impacted SSU plans for 2023 and beyond and they felt they needed the two surefire hits of spiderverse to fill the gaps
I think you can only resolve the end of ep stuff with satisfying pacing by largely ditching the first 3.5 ep plot and I hope that’s what happens tbh. It was fine but not as interesting.
The truth may be that people don’t care about the wizarding world, they only cared about Harry potter. But if so, it is a truth that WB will learn slowly and at great cost.
I honestly don’t know how they’re gonna play it in the remaining two eps. Ambiguity about reality is a key part of the comics but can be tough to sustain if building toward e.g. Midnight Suns
The 200M opener 600M total thing is basically at the level of a coincidence — it used to be the case that a 200M opening meant truly striking the zeitgeist, which also led to great legs. But nowadays 200M is a lot easier — plenty of movies have a modern equivalent OW over 200M but worse than 2.5x legs.
If nope can do like 60% of Signs admits that could be good for 230M, not that I think that will actually happen.
Easily shaping up to be the deepest wknd since 2019, with a decent chance of an all 10M+ top 5 with 4 well reviewed and received. And rounding out 6th will be EEAAO with maybe ~5M.
I know I like to joke about trailer likes:OW relation, but there is not much of actual value to be gleaned here imo. We have NWH (Marvel Sony channel split) vs DS1 first (deflated by NWH attachment) vs DS2 2nd (is a 2nd) vs Thor4 (was low wattage (or, if you prefer, was a true “teaser” rather than a “trailer”)). We can say that interest is pretty high and it should clear 150 at least, but that was evident 24 hrs ago as well.
SC2 had better see a marked increase because the SC1 numbers are kind of pathetic. It’s excused as it was peak delta.
Will depend a lot on whether he can show up in an Avengers first.