Legion Again

Well, 44+ But yeah, it’s not a strict “this is too many weeks of content to fit in a year” issue. It’s just a matter of movie scheduling, as I said. If you have one movie, then start a new show right after, the 2nd movie has to come out right when the show ends, and then the next show right after, and etc, because you have 8 (or fewer) “gap” weeks to play with. So you wouldn’t necessarily be able to accommodate normal marvel dates like first week of May+ wknd after July 4+first of Nov, since they don’t cleanly fit a certain integer multiple of shows in between. Now, personally I think those traditional dates are overrated anyway, but it’s a consideration.

If it was important to avoid “collisions,” then cutting back on eps/year would certainly be one option to do that, but this entire idea seems very flimsy to me to begin with. Was TROS hurt by the Mando ep that week? … waitaminute 🤔 🤔🤔

They’re gunning for like 40+ eps and 4+ movies a year. Avoiding a week with both isn’t just silly — it’s basically impossible without seriously contorting the movie dates.

It made a lot more money than I thought it would, but then again I know basically nothing about it. Movies are indeed dead though, a Black Widow movie missing 30M 2nd weekend is a sure sign.

Narrowly missing 200 imo. Below what I’d hoped but not too bad with delta and PA. Shang probably also getting thrown to PA and maybe like 65-> 160 or something. Human race still being where we are with covid like 18 months after we designed the vaccines is just massively, almost unbelievably, embarrassing.

Is this including Ontario, or not? I would imagine a 20% MTC increase vs Th ~> 7M in holdover markets ~> high 7s overall. Or are we talking a ~30% MTC increase vs Th for ~8M in holdover markets maybe mid-high 8s overall?

Similar drop as AM&tW and SMH. Not as hurt by previews though, I expect a lower Fri bump, maybe 50%.

Yeah, really awful stuff. BW will be back on top soon.

Anyway, mostly unsatisfied by the time resolution here. Provisional 1/10 unless some future property can salvage it. Even if that does happen, didn’t really stick the landing imo, will probably go middle of the pack MCU.

“Nothing important to the wider MCU will happen on D+ shows”

Considering that this will require more than doubling the amount of MCU movies, it should be possible in … 2027

Pretty funny sentence. This is only even possible with MCU and bond. Can’t wait for “above average, but just outside my top 25.”

The Cruella double features actually ruined my pricing over at Fantasy Movie League Though it was close with Purge, that held great. Keep in mind though, a lot of the % holds are inflated by last Sat+Sun being massively deflated.

This was already true in June

Wow, must have been really bullish on Demon Slayer 👀

Studios seem to really overspend on marketing for some movies.

Well, vs an unnecessary fifthquel 😛

Of course the actuals could come in over the estimates for Fri and Sat, but that’s not really Disney increasing them. That’s just “they ended up making a little more than we roughed in.”

I mean, they can’t just “increase” Friday and Saturday. They made what they made.

I mean, I agree, but this would also be my expectation for Space Jam, Jungle Cruise, Snake Eyes, and Free Guy if BW had done 110M. Even without covid Hollywood has had a lot of misses in terms of luring the GA to threaters.

I do wonder if SC will go to PA tbh, but that’s more to do with delta and rather woeful vaccine distribution globally than with the results of this weekend.

Beating deliberate lowballs isn’t very meaningful. If Disney had said “we expected 40M DOM and 30M OS” and then it did 45M DOM and 35M OS, that would have been in actuality awful.

CM was pre D+, even with a May 2020 theatrical exclusive release BW’s home revenue wouldn’t be coming close.