Menor the Destroyer

Some of the art styles look really cool but some just look strange. We'll see how it is in the show.

But less hype for the character, it's a new character and those tend to be a bit lower. Plus we have Delta which will affect BO to an extent.

Anyways @charlie Jatinder Shang-Chi MTC2 (first 25-26 hours) Thursday: Showtimes: 2054 Seats Sold: 8794/325949 Friday: Showtimes: 4282 Seats Sold: 5494/685029 Pace since last night was better than I thought. I guess the premiere may have given it a bump.

I think they're making the bet that this will have really great WOM with fans. So they want that out there to build hype.

How much demand would realistically be burned? Like in just 25 screenings it can't have a material effect on the OW. If the movie is indeed really good then maybe those who watched will be hyping it up. There is the spoiler worry, I guess, hopefully people who watch it early will be considerate.

Yeah it will be in a couple of hours, although I'm wondering if it might be better to post my update at the same time as BW (early afternoon today). Also just letting you all know in advance I will be on vacation from this Friday to the next week's Sunday (8/28), won't be using my laptop much so updates will be irregular if at all. But I will be back for the real action in SC's final week.

I think/hope that this third act is more like BP than BW, where the third act fight is meh but the plot threads are still paid off well.

Ok. Scott Mendelson is another one who isn't afraid to give negative reactions so him giving a quite positive reaction is a good sign.

Well Scott Menzel liked it a lot and he posted a very negative reaction for BW so that is I guess one data point.

Yeah they're coming in now. Same stuff as usual. Does not really change my hype for this (but I was already pretty hyped so).

Shang-Chi MTC2 Thursday: Showtimes: 2054 Seats Sold: 6838/325949 Friday: Showtimes: 4282 Seats Sold: 4558/684904 This is as of a couple of hours ago so probably heading for a bit over 8k for Thursday 24 hours and ~5300 for Friday 24 hours. Thursday would be a bit under half of BW 24-hr pace and Friday will be higher. No comps for now. As I said earlier it's well below BW but way above any other start I have tracked other than F9 so I will have to wait until T-10 (when I can use the F9 comp and hopefully the BW comp would be stable by then as well). Anyway from the Friday start I think the Th/Fri ratio will be better than BW, let's see how it is after a few days. Paw Patrol MTC2 Friday: Showtimes: 1358 Seats Sold: 9421/183554 Not sure how to interpret this given the Regal situation but in isolation it's a high number and an extremely high occupancy ratio.

I think more like 6-7 for previews but your reasoning on the IM seems right (I would go a bit lower on the Sat bump as Labor Day weekend is still sort of summerish). Being a bit conservative as you would expect Day 1 to be fairly large given an only 17-day PS run.

It's hard to read the PS right now, well behind BW but far ahead of most other recent comps. F9 may be the most natural comp, though have to factor in the Fast franchise walkup advantage vs MCU. Going from the MTC2 pace it seems like its heading for 8-9k 24 hours so around half of what BW got after DBOX adjustment, but MTC1 seems like it will have a higher ratio. Still, it has completely outstripped TSS so I think we can rule out the disaster under 30 million predictions for now.

Bit under two hours ago.

That clip looks good. The scale of the scene is shown well.

FYI I don't see anything unusual about the show count at MTC2. It has 2035 Thursday showings and 4268 Friday showings. BW started off with around 2600 and 4700 respectively. Since this will probably open a bit below BW it makes sense.

I just woke up, will check in a bit.

They care about Marvel Studios logo and the marketing giving it a sense of importance to the series.

Being fair to Venom 2, the likes are split across multiple channels, so in reality it would be higher. That said Venom seems to overindex big time on YT for whatever reason. The first one should have had a higher OS-C total than it did going off the trailer views and likes which were higher than CM for example.

They are way higher than BOP in likes (comparing teaser to teaser which is the only fair comparison as official trailer likes receive a bump during and post release week). Plus these are new characters while WW84, BW, Venom, and Batman are established.

Yeah, that's not what I meant with my post and I don't believe that fanboy wars nonsense.

Yeah 77 million in 24 hrs is a very very solid number. I don't see any issue with the buzz around Eternals. I think if the Covid situation is like June/July, it can do 100 million OW.

Yeah possibly, although the wording of the post made it seem like all superhero films. In that case it is true although Shazam had pretty comparable reviews.

Black Panther had far better reviews and Endgame also had better reviews (and both also had better reviews than WW so that is a strange example to use). Edit: If you mean only DC movies then it is true.