charlie Jatinder

IDK man, you were getting over-excited just last few weeks when it wasn't really a big deal. and now you are way too depressed when again, it isn't really a big deal. Personally to me, I think it was E06 I realised this isn't going to be a "great" show, so I was pretty grounded after that. Now it ended, felt nothing bad, it felt like just filler/set up before next big thing's coming.

I can for sake of argument try to prove Cynosure wrong and may be I will succeed with some spin, but the ugly truth is, "yes the world is racist". Often Black Panther is shared as an example, well for one it was MCU that did those numbers. 2 it overperformed so much at black population places, that overall number came out big. Don't go far Canada which has lower Black population, BP did less than Infinity War. Majority Indians are racists, despite we being brown. In fact this "pro-white" thing is so inherent, majority don't even realise that, with fairness creams being a real thing. In fact, just a few years ago I don't think I even watched a film with Black lead. I have read Chinese posters saying same during BP release about China. And may be one can say that, well people want to watch their own films, that's why BP did so well with Black demo. So are Black people racists? But thing is, as Cynosure pointed, they are watching and raving the white lead films and stories without any problem. May be blame colonialism for that, making people inherent slave to white supremacy mentality or whatever, but that is truth. That said, I will just repeat my white friend 😛 Wandalegion here "Yeah any kind of “Disney deliberately tried to make Raya less successful because XYZ” is just frankly insane conspiracy nonsense. I don’t think there’s any need to mince words with such stupidity. "

The film is good, it could have been better if it wasn't so formulaic. One thing though, is also case of most "representation" movies, just like most of them this was just "American" characters in foreign faces and clothes. For starters I would have loved to watch it local language with subs, hopefully one day we reach there. 6/10. That's a B I suppose.

It was pretty good, in fact there are times in it, it felt pretty great but then it get formulaic and cheesy. 6/10. One thing though, I get it Disney doing representations, but that representation is basically the looks of characters and overall setting. In the end they are basically American characters in "foreign faces" and "foreign clothes". Felt same for Mulan. I would have preferred watching that in Chinese with English subs. Here may be some SEA language.

$3M-ish Friday I assume. Weekend probably $13-15M.

9M OD for Raya. PSm more than usual. PS for tomorrow 4M. Donno if will be usual PSm growth. Maoyan predicting 30M Sat, I will go with 23-25.

Russia may be $350K OD. Relatively okayish performance so far I have seen anywhere. Roughly par Tom and Jerry OD but less than Friday. Soul was $305k OD and $425K Friday.

I was thinking of getting something specific 😌

Actually this GIF inverted will be much better.

Not about remembering. Yeah ofc audience remember Iron Man too. About how the whole experience would have been so much better for setting something coming soon. Like Ragnarok setting Thor's ship being attacked by Thanos to Infinity War directly opening there.

@WandaLegion pointed that this would have been just weeks away from DS2 if not for COVID. I don't know exact day, but might as well released a trailer of DS2 in post credits originally. Wonder why Disney chose to release it and not start with something like Falcon & WS or What If. This is so far away from DS2.

Overall good show.

I simply think T&J is relatively bigger IP and has much more buzz. T&J opening isn't just better in USA, almost everywhere it's ahead of Raya.

Yeah as I said in that thread, personally I would assume that T&J movie will open bigger than a Disney animation original but BoT and Google Trends were saying Raya has a bigger buzz, so not that surprising that people were expecting it to open $14M+.

don't think people are that invested in it and hype is nearly as high as TLJ to have that big a fall or reaction. If this turn out bad, which I doubt (will be watchable good at least), people will just move on to next thing i.e. TFWS. Probably scale of Ant-Man and the Wasp this is. Personally I will just move on, and will hope that Feige take notes and fix the things if needed be in DS2. Edit: adding this, yeah about par Ant-Man movie <script type="text/javascript" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/trends_nrtr/2431_RC04/embed_loader.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> trends.embed.renderExploreWidget("TIMESERIES", {"comparisonItem":[{"keyword":"/g/11bw82pznj","geo":"","time":"2017-11-01 2021-03-05"},{"keyword":"/g/11h4v6h9f5","geo":"","time":"2017-11-01 2021-03-05"},{"keyword":"/m/0126b7rc","geo":"","time":"2017-11-01 2021-03-05"},{"keyword":"/m/0126b88c","geo":"","time":"2017-11-01 2021-03-05"},{"keyword":"/g/11d_7x5tjx","geo":"","time":"2017-11-01 2021-03-05"}],"category":0,"property":""}, {"exploreQuery":"date=2017-11-01%202021-03-05&q=%2Fg%2F11bw82pznj,%2Fg%2F11h4v6h9f5,%2Fm%2F0126b7rc,%2Fm%2F0126b88c,%2Fg%2F11d_7x5tjx","guestPath":"https://trends.google.com:443/trends/embed/"}); </script>

Last 3 episodes have lowered my expectations a lot, so I am no longer expecting anything great again. I just hope whatever they do they do it convincingly.

In general too, we have mobile devices with almost every target audience. You Tube is much much bigger platform than Oscars or any big TV events imo. I hope studios realise that and stop wasting money on those.

Currently #9 in Japan. Number too small to project anything , but may be $25k OD.

Its #3 today in Vietnam behind two locals despite being biggest release

Ohh missed that, if that wasn't the case would have taken chances of predicting but the above factor changes everything.

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Few OD numbers Vietnam $10K (opened #2 behind Tom & Jerry ) Korea $115K China final PS $230K. OD may be $700-1000K. WOM in Korea is just about good. Nothing too crazy, so in all probability it has no chance at $100M.