Cooper Legion

Bob’s scheduling and resignation timing vis-a-vis 2019-2020 was godly.

Except captain marvel was always headed for mid 100s to the well informed, whereas AQP is going to do like 40M total if it doesn’t move because official cases will have exploded into the dozens of thousands.

Very difficult to prove deception when one can instead claim optimism/obliviousness. Anyway to be clear I don’t think they’re lying to shareholders. I just hope it 😛

As I understand it, yes.

Jesus. Maybe they’re truly committed to losing hundreds of millions on Mulan before waking. More optimistically, maybe they’re just lying to shareholders.

You are being naive. China is not the problem. US and Europe will be. Also, WTF at the EW cover. Compare that to every other MCU special cover and I think the sexism is pretty clear.

If you think guardians is coming before 2023 you're just setting yourself up for disappointment. I agree that there's no need to keep them apart from Thor, but that doesn't mean they'll be close

2022 looking AM3, BP2, CM2, Blade. GotG3 will probably have 15-20 or so months of separation from Thor.

Yeeeeup. External events have not been kind to this production. Iirc Wandavision is basically done with shooting, I wonder if there’s a scenario where we get that as the first D+ show.

Damn, that’s huge for Onward. Tells us 2 things: Spring Break in effect US public still oblivious to the unfolding disaster. Unfortunately

I actually went and checked the LRF afterward to see what the biggest movies were, and they have Lovebirds doing more. So maybe that should move 🤣

Mulan, Trolls, Mutants, BW at minimum, unless studios are just asleep behind the wheel

There’s no way for the movie industry to escape what is, at this point, obviously coming. Several-hour-long, open-to-the-public, have-to-stay-the-whole-time-to-be-worth-it social gatherings of purely recreational value aren’t exactly the sort of things that will be resilient to public panic.

It’s actually not that mysterious at this point. We’ve seen the same story play out in several countries now.

There’s plenty of space to move BW without needing to move Eternals. Eternals should go to December anyway. Would have been a good move to capitalize on the holiday season even without NTTD+whatever other moves happen.

Predictable consequence of scheduling combined with uncontrollable external factors. They’ll be back with a vengeance in 2021, probably win 2nd half of 2020, may win 2020 overall despite Q1.

I doubt this has the biggest major-MCU-characters cast this year.

... 2.55 needed for 100M

From reddit: Ranking Movie Gross (Reais) Total Gross (Reais) Total Ticket Sales 1 Onward R$ 4.6M R$ 4.6M 255.956 2 Sonic the Hedgehog R$ 3.7M R$ 42.3M 2.801.927 3 The Invisible Man R$ 3.0M R$ 7.8M 452.626 4 Gretel & Hansel R$ 1.7M R$ 10.7M 705.172 5 Dolittle R$ 1.6M R$ 12.9M 797.503 6 Birds of Prey R$ 0.842M R$ 30.3M 1.960.619 7 Parasite R$ 0.731M R$ 18.2M 949.376 8 My Mom is a Character 3 R$ 0.49M R$ 181.7M 11.550.050 9 Countdown R$ 0.46M R$ 1.6M 104.456 10 Just Mercy R$ 0.342M R$ 2.3M 101.665

I mean, it could be below F9 and it won’t be cause for alarm. I am MCU presale nut, but won’t be bothering this time if they’re still pretending May 1 date.

Rumor is a trailer in 6 hours. If tickets go on sale then I think first 24 hours will be near meaningless.

WW previews: June 4 (?) My birthday: June 3 Sooooo close

Yeah my personal theater going is over until at least June. If BW holds its date (hah!) it would be the first MCU movie I didn’t see on preview night since... Doctor Strange?

My rough sense is that there was a covid impact this weekend, but very minor. Maybe 2-6% range (numbers notional). In particular I would be very surprised if Washington State had totally normal box office this weekend. In Monday and Tuesday’s grosses I think it will be very obvious for the first time. And I hope so as well. Box office is an (imperfect) proxy variable for how seriously the American public is taking individual scale voluntary social distancing. At this point the earlier we see it coming down, the better it will be for national health in the long-run.

Wonder how many days over 1M we’re looking at here. I’ll guess 5