Legion Again

Absolutely there were some good weekend and there will be some good weekends, but theaters don’t need “some” they need “enough” and they definitely haven’t been getting that recently. Also agree that people will go when there are movies they want to see — the entire problem is that people don’t have enough movies they want to see anymore

For most of history you had low/mid budget success, nonfranchise blockbuster success, and other mega franchise success ensuring financial viability. If one of those replaced MCU then of course you could be continue to be fine (or at least, continue scraping by better — would really like at least 2-3/4 to actually be doing well), but if you’ve got 0/4…

You might be the only one around here with a higher opinion of my opinions than myself Definitely not around enough anymore to be the best user and I meme/snark too much to be best value/post either, that’d probably be someone like Barnack.

No one is saying the industry has big problems because of this weekend’s release numbers. It’s a conversation because of the last 65 weekend’s numbers and the what we’re looking at for the next 65 weekends

Theaters could survive on big event films. They can’t survive on mid budget. Both are in a grim place now though so kind of a moot point 😛

Normie reasoning: MCU is dead, Hollywood doomed

This may well be the biggest r rated movie of all time and marvel will still be dead. The strength of the brand is determined by how much it can bolster movies people otherwise wouldn’t see heavily, not by how 3rd entries of pre-existing strong trilogies perform.

No, it was Ant-man 3 which ended it.

I agree that it’s trying to give a message beyond 2024 partisan stuff, but I think that message rings kind of hollow in light of… 2024 partisan stuff

Getting lots of NTCs is good for the people who enjoy watching NTCs though

Hadn’t really been paying attention to either but this was a rough quarter for both huh. KFP Dune GxK blew up relative to expectations and rest face planted.

@Brainbug

You must look inside your heart to find the truth

I would not like to see the number begin with a 7

Yeah, basically. Somewhat inflated Mon-th