Cooper Legion

Yup, the in universe knowledge of the events of Infinity War before people actually started getting dusted was quite minimal. Basically they knew some aliens showed up in New York and then Iron Man went missing. Strange missing isn’t news, Peter Parker missing isn’t real news, nobody had any idea about Thanos existing, his plans, Vision’s importance to them, etc. The only thing large scale thing that even happened on Earth after New York 2 Electric Boogaloo was a pretty fast battle in a remote section of Africa. There’s really no reason why anybody would know that something catastrophic was looming until it actually started happening — and the second post credits scene is pretty clear about this with Fury, one of the most well informed people on the planet vis-a-vis aliens and Avengers, not even knowing what was happening in Wakanda until Thanos achieved his goals.

Very interesting to me how AM&tW went down on its Fandango count Tuesday despite the huge increase, whereas I2 and JW went slightly up. Maybe opening discount Tuesday is particularly walkup friendly relative to opening week Monday.

I would happily pay 1000% more for IMAX than I’m going to for standard

A great drop would give 38, and HT3 seems favored to come in above that.

Nevermind me, reading is hard

Don’t worry, I’ve been consistent is calling both failures

Ant-Man needed those BP double features to boost its OW

Wow, so much AM&tW discussion these last few pages 😛 I don’t care much about the Oscars, and neither does most of the country, as ratings are making clear. They, frankly, need CBMs more than CBMs need the Oscars. The degree of attention that goes to a pretty niche group selecting which members of their favored subgenre they prefer each year is pretty bizarre.

How does that compare to AM1?

#2 debut, YOUCH

TDK is pretty close to BP adjusted and critically -- but it would have gotten a nom if it was 10 instead of 5 back then, so that might be more a point in favor than against.

Now we're going to have to wait like 4 years until we get an Ant-Man movie over Solo and that other one. Very frustrating :p

Oh you sweet summer child

#1 Studio 😛 I mean, clearly it’s mathematically impossible for Marvel Studios>Disney, because it’s a subset. So you could either look at Marvel Studios>every other studio, or the slightly harder requirement of being above non-Marvel Disney as well. In either case it’s been true since February and should last until at least November.

Going to need a lot of underperformance in the second half of the year for Marvel Studios to stay at #1 for the year. Still, how close it will likely end up is hilarious.

Actually this could be a super close finish with BP’s 75.9 OD

Well, if you use BP’s full weekend...

Did this land in the tracking range, under, or over is not the only variable for whether an OW is good. If your tracking range was spectacular, and you hit it, that’s spectacular. If your tracking range was pretty meh, and you hit it, that’s pretty meh. That is exactly what we have here. It’s not actually doing bad, it’s just not doing good either.

This is a legitimately very useful post, and that itself is dissapointing.

Bad OW, awful preview multi. Can’t win em all I guess, but it’s pretty unfortunate that such a great movie will underperform like this. Oh well, at least Ant-Man 3 will get the character 100+/300+

Thank you, exactly. 80 looks a lot worse off of 11.5 than before we had that figure. If it does happen, I think basically the issue is exactly what you're identified: sequels have a preview multi hit, summer has a preview multi hit, this is the first movie in both categories.

Still haven't read or watched those

I actually read the first few Twilight books before they became a thing, mostly since I'd exhausted every other book in the school library. They weren't so bad as long as you were willing to liberally skip dozen page sections of boring stuff

Much as I might be "disappointed" about 82, it's definitely more than enough for a sequel. All the movies that had part 1s near AM1 and 2s near AM&tW easily got sequels (which did 120+/300+).