Cooper Legion

That’s a you problem mate. Fine personal impression to have, but it doesn’t seem too relevant to the conversation we were having?

The winter soldier and GotG are way more different than two members of more serialized single genre franchises like Potter or Bond. I mean, I know it seems so simple you don’t even think about it, but having different lead characters (vs always being an English wizard chosen one boy, or always a suave and competent English spy, etc) goes a long way toward differentiating entries and preventing fatigue/oversaturation/interest burnout.

They’re all superhero movies, but they’re a spy thriller superhero movie, a martial arts superhero movie, etc. That variety is obviously part of what keeps them fresh.

Man, this has been pretty dead since CNY. Are there some expected big movies coming soon?

If there’s no fatigue, is it really oversaturation? Arguably just saturation.

Drop vs last week: F9 n/a AQP2 -33% PR2 +5% (!) Cruella -15% HWB -40%

It’s 24% down from Mon, H&S was 21%. Not great, not terrible. looks like Tu-Th will be ~16M, that is below what wrath, Jat, or I had when we were sketching some runs out.

I guess sometimes you really can judge a book by its cover

Even for fictional ideas, there are versions rooted in reasonable principles of science and logic, and those totally detached from such. Personally, I loathe all time travel stories that are obviously nonsensical.

It’s actually pretty easy not to do anything logic breaking (which is part of why it’s so depressing for me when creators just fail to do so anyway). All you need to do is go with a many worlds version where traveling through time creates a new timeline, or have a single universe/timeline where things are self-consistent. Endgame was using the former, though certain dialogue about the infinity stones muddied it more than I would have liked. Loki, so far, is just an absolute mess — but it’s not too late for the final two episodes to reconcile things with many worlds as long as some key TVA claims are revealed as self-serving misdirection.

This isn’t really true. Time travel can be done perfectly logically, in multiple ways, and the fact that most sci-fi properties fumble it (because the creators don’t care and correctly believe that the casual audience won’t really care either if it’s all a bunch of illogical BS) doesn’t negate that. Endgame was able to handle time travel without any continuity breaking issues, and it’s not too much to ask that future properties in the MCU maintain that.

This is going to become the highest rated MCU episode by a lot on IMDb. 9.6 still with a few thousand ratings.

Cruella just keeps on chugging, VOD who? Guess it’s got 7 more days before screenmageddon.

Guess I’ll throw my hat in the ring then. rest of weekdays: 17.2 (94M) Jul 2: 27M (17M weekdays, 138M) Jul 9: 12M (5M weekdays, 155M) going to about 170

Could be some review bump here, but nice to see anyway

If one doesn’t exist you can just make it, but in this case it looks like Felipe did so about half an hour ago

Obviously True Fri PSm will be lower, but so will Th PSm (that is to say, final preview sales divided by Th PS on beginning Th). If they’re lower by a similar %, the ratio is still useful. Now, if Fri PSm for MCU tend to fall short of FF FRI PSm by more than their Th PSm, we would get a lower true fri than that comparison suggests — which is what I expect, actually. 168/237 is 71%. F9 TFri was some 3.2x Th, 71% of that would be 2.25x Th. But still expecting more like 1.8x.

This looks like a pretty solid ratio given F9’s performance.

http://www.boxofficereport.com/previewgrosses.html the numbers also shows the previews in their daily gross chart for most movies now, which is a nice quality of life change but not exactly what you’re looking for.

Seems pretty much as expected. “Taskmaster sucks, Yelena is awesome” is worse than both being awesome, but leagues better than “Taskmaster awesome, Yelena sucks.”

Fri and Sat both adjusted down That is a pretty nice Sun hold

Wow, actually stayed above. Have to imagine Friday and/or Sat for revised up a little.

I mean, that’s probably not the main reason perceptions are different 😛

Man, this market has really had a brutal time in terms of number of serious covid waves.