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I’m personally gonna wait and see how this performs before jumping to any conclusions about the current state of comic book movies. I’m not expecting it to outgross the first one, but oh well.
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The Box Office Buzz and Tracking Thread (December 2021 - July 2023)
WittyUsername replied to Cap's topic in Numbers and Data
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Sounds like this movie wasn’t worth the stigma of associating with David O. Russell.
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The Vanity Fair article basically just shed details on stuff we’ve already heard about. I don’t see why anyone would think it’s gonna be the straw to break the camel’s back.
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I don’t want any studio or entertainment company to buy out WB. If things don’t improve in the near future, I’d rather they just sell off DC and whatever other worthwhile IP’s they have. An entire media company getting absorbed by Comcast or Apple or Amazon would be disastrous.
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Shouldn’t there some antitrust laws that would prevent Comcast from buying out Warner Bros Discovery? Or do antitrust laws just not exist anymore?
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I don’t think it’s a lie to call this movie “bold.” It’s a film that basically gives the middle finger to the very company that financed it. Lana Wachowski made a firm statement with this movie, without any concern for how general audiences would respond to it. I’d say that’s pretty bold, regardless of what one thinks about the quality of the film.
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This Constantine sequel announcement is so lame. Everything about Zaslav’s regime feels so desperate and pathetic so far.
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What is with all these corporate mergers?
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Makes sense. Attach exclusive scenes from the movie to the re-release, and attach the main trailer to Black Panther.
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At least if Henry Cavill comes back, they can finally stop with all these faceless cameos, and we wouldn’t have to deal with the backlash of Supergirl replacing him, but would we actually get a new Superman movie out of it? Because I’m still not sure how that’s supposed to work, if they’re stuck using the version Snyder created.
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They might as well just drop HBO Max altogether then.
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Warner Bros. Discovery CFO calls company’s HBO Max and Discovery+ ‘underpriced,’ suggesting price hikes may be coming How much money do these corporate executives think the average consumer has?
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I’m struggling to think of what Pixar films would make for feasible live action adaptations. Toy Story in live action sounds like it’d be an uncanny nightmare. I suppose they could do The Incredibles, but that would just be another superhero movie.
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I don’t see how a live action Hunchback for kids would work, unless they make it PG-13 like the Mulan remake.
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The third BvS trailer (the one that showed Doomsday) was pretty controversial, so the final trailer might have been an attempt to regain some goodwill.
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I would’ve guessed the February date was for Deadpool 3, but now that you mention it, I don’t think there’s been any real indication of that being the case. If Disney really does have a Marvel movie planned for that date, you’d think they would’ve announced it by now.
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🙄 If you chose to read into my initial post the way you did, that’s on you. I don’t have any strong emotions about this. I don’t even particularly care about Marvel or Disney. I was simply pointing out how empty this D23 presentation came across as. That’s all.
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Why are you asking me this? Ask all those Twitter “scoopers” who made this year’s D23 sound like a bigger deal than it ultimately was. I’m not upset about any of this. I just think it’s funny that these supposed scoopers seem to keep getting things wrong this year when it comes to Marvel.
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I’m not upset, though? I just think it’s funny how this event was being hyped up as a big deal, yet hardly anything of note came out of it.
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As far as movies from Universal are concerned, I imagine there will be a far greater push for this at the Academy Awards compared to She Said.
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In the case of Top Gun, the original film has always been seen as a fairly iconic piece of 80s pop culture history, so right off the bat, the sequel had 80s nostalgia going for it. TGM basically managed to be Black Panther for Boomers. It’s the ultimate feel-good movie for people who long for “the good old days,” which is especially poignant in a post-COVID world. I don’t think an Avatar sequel will be able to rely on nostalgia, so its best bet will be to replicate what made the original film so successful; the immersive alien world. That was ultimately the big strength of the first one, which was why the 3D was such a big selling point.
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Is there concrete evidence to support the idea that Avatar is owned by James Cameron, and that if he wanted to, he could take the franchise elsewhere?
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For one, most of the “Middle Eastern” people in the first movie are actually white people in brownface. Then you have the depiction of Indian culture in Temple of Doom, which has been talked about ad nauseum. On another note, Indy canonically first got involved with Marion when she was a teenager (15 to be exact), which the first movie actually alludes to. To be clear, I’m aware that the Indiana Jones movies are meant to be silly throwbacks to the pulp movies that Steven Spielberg and George Lucas grew up on, which may help explain some of these things. I’m just saying that they don’t fit particularly well with the squeaky clean image that Disney always tries so hard to project.
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I don’t see any problem with attaching the full trailer to the re-release of the first movie, assuming that’s the plan.
