Cooper Legion

Not necessarily. In fact, probably not.

The summer kickoff slot always goes a week earlier OS to capitalize on International Workers Day/May Day/Labor Day holiday. Nothing moving up here.

I do think an MCU CNY would be pretty cool, but I don’t know if China would even allow that for 2022 and the MCU schedule for that year is already pretty packed. If Shang-Chi is well received maybe they can angle for CNY2024 or 2025 for sequel.

BW staying in May, as expected. Shang-Chi staying in July, as expected. Neither being “sent to die,” both will do well. Shang-Chi trailer pretty soon is just common sense.

Yeah I actually don’t think it will end up being a big deal either way because I expect Disney to go back to full theatrical for blockbusters quite fast. But, if you’re a theater chain trying to be open right now and you think Raya is going to be the only big movie that goes premiere, why not play it? Get some desperately needed business in the present and you aren’t really setting a precedent for non-pandemic hybrid releases. If you’re a chain and you think Disney is going to try to send a lot of movies hybrid, then I still don’t really understand the strategy here — if Disney does actually plan a bunch more hybrid (which, again, I personally doubt but just gaming out the possibilities) then is it really plausible for you to continue not showing them? Probably not. So this feels more like “we’re going to resist for emotional reasons” than really having worked out the game theory to me at least — especially when you haven’t even coordinated with other chains, making the boycott radically less effective.

If they decide not to play Disney movies in a tiff over Disney’s release plans, they just might find a way to snatch death from the jaws of salvation.

I think the regal strategy was pretty good too. But if you’re going to try to be open right now, should probably play the big movies instead of just sending that business to a rival chain 😛

Yeah, this is some really baffling stuff. Chains are struggling with covid and then they just turn down the biggest movie in a year?

To be honest I’m not sure how much impact to expect from that, and I’m not sure whether to expect they’ll work something out last minute or not,

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Very nice. Got another $20M from Japan itself, holding better than I expected SK, seems set to leg well in AUS/NZ. I think we will get over 800 (450M, iirc?) with just WW-C

Just throwing some numbers out there — 22M OW 14M 2nd Weekend (40M cume) 10M 3rd weekend (53M cume) 101M total

Prophetic 👀

Yeah, it felt short to me too at first, but most movie 3rd acts are only like 30-40 minutes. Now that everything has been set up, you can actually pack a lot of action and resolution into a pretty tight span of time.

The ep has actually been holding quite well with additional reviews anyway (which are coming in fast). I believe it may end up 9.2, tied with ep 5 for the highest, and with the highest number of reviews of these first 8.

I don’t think she’s breaking into my top 3, but maybe 4th. Though honestly she was competitive for that before the show, shocking as that may be given my name 😛

I think 4 was really boosted by some people who were like “will this show just all be sitcom shit” going “oh yay, plot, stakes, government agencies.” I just rewatched ep 8 with my mom (first time for here) and yeah I think it’s the best by a lot for me personally.

Looks like this episode is headed for 9-9.1 eventually, pretty strong. Seems like the show structure is basically 9 episodes of setup for a finale that’s hopefully like a mini movie. Not quite the structure I expected, but remains to be seen for another 7 days how well it works in the end.

From most to least likely imo: Val-zod Clark Kent Calvin Ellis but really wouldn't be surprised by any

A DC cinematic universe that their most prominent contemporary movie versions of Batman and Superman aren’t even a part of is living on borrowed time imo. Maybe they’ll try to reboot the whole cinematic universe with flashpoint or something, but DC seems to be phasing back towards the largely independent model of CBMs that they’ve had more success with.

Well this could be good. Really seems like the final nail in the coffin of a DCEU though. Unless this is in the Reevesverse 😆

Yeah, not advancing a “specifically disliked in China“ thesis. Seems to have poor reception everywhere afaics. You could say the same about WW84 though. I mean, I was remarking on the coincidence, but “2 MAX movies that have received a China release” is a super small sample size. I don’t think there’s anything here causally.

Lol, 8.2 for T&J, might finish below WW84. These Max releases have been cursed in China so far, let’s see if GvK turns it around.

2) is good. 1) is even better 😛