Nah, there’s a reason we do bother with inflation and it’s because it provides a more accurate picture of relative performances. That said there is some estimation error for admits, room to talk about nominal grosses too of course
Amusingly I just wound up seeing it. I didn’t find it “so bad it’s good” but I also didn’t find it “so bad” to begin with. Not good either, mind you. Just pretty replacement level sci-fantasy action comedy thing.
An important disclaimer here is that I have ZERO prior franchise knowledge (see posts from June where I was unaware the trailer was even for an adaptation). I would assume that if I liked the source material I would have hated the movie much more, as that is usually how it goes with adaptations
Final stalker challenge lightning round (in order of difficulty) — what is my:
Middle name
favorite magic card
Favorite US house representative
favorite modern horizons card
Social Security number
Oh, definitely would have been hurt if ds2 and L&T came out first. I guess I was imaging a scenario where MCU returns much slower — say BW Labor Day 21, SC xmas 21, eternals May 22, nwh Dec 22, something like that. Or if you prefer keep movies the same but shift vaccine/case timeline up 6 months. Main point is plenty of people were still avoiding theaters back then and there were even have serious mandated shutdowns in DOM midrun. Not really plausible to think that had no or somehow positive impact
NWH was definitely hurt by covid still, both DOM and WW. Helped by Xmas and low competition though. Probably something like 850/2.3B if it released a year later and with China
You don’t have to try to reason about why it doesn’t matter much. I don’t know why and I don’t care why. Important thing is simply whether it does or whether it does not looking at numbers. And there isn’t really anything in relative late legs of movies depending on release date to suggest that this is a factor worth thinking about. Maybe it affects like 1%, 2% something like that but reception and competition play a far larger role
I have about 5M less than that for TA DOM.
In any case, China does make things a bit tricky. Leaving China aside for now:
TA 3rd DOM, 4th os-c, 3rd WW-C
AoU 7th DOM, 10th OS-C, 6th WW-C
For DOM nowadays that’s 815-685, OS-C 1.1-850, WW-C 2.1-1.9ish. With Geomean of ranks ~5th (720), 6th (1B), 4th (~2.05B). Doomsday should probably be able to perform at least 700+ DOM 900+OS-C 150+China given where various markets are in moviegoing and 2026 atps.