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Well chances are they have a plan B if they delay this movie, hence why the ticket selling was withheld. Of course no one is gonna bring the doom and gloom at a shareholders' meeting. But I noticed USA gov't as a whole has yet to press the panic button. Events are still pushing through in most States, so why would the Disney board not placate its shareholders? Mulan was unlucky with its schedule, but companies already are anticipating big losses this year, tourism the most. If they choose to stagger their releases, then they might at least not bomb the movie. Guess we'll just see how it plays out. Edit. Closing of the Disney parks in Asia were done when the governments ordered everything to close. We'll see how USA handles this thing.

The #BlackWidow hashtag is still trending worldwide with 120k tweets with 2.7M views on Twitter 4 hours+ after its release. So it's definitely nothing to sniff at for the 2nd trailer. Heck I'm even surprised that it still got this much attention despite all the dreadful COVID-19 news. I didn't really expect this schedule of trailer release to move since it's usually around this week when they release 2nd trailers for their May releases in past years. But it's good that they withheld the ticket release just in case.

It's been a few hours since the release and it's still trending in top 5. Yelena is trending, too. Peeked a bit on Marvel's Weibo page and the Chinese fans are still excited despite the virus, waiting for it to end so they could watch the movie 😂

Lunar New Year poster from Weibo Marvel.

It was part of Black Widow's history in the comics since the girls trained in the Red Room were given a special serum. But who knows if they are gonna incorporate that in the MCU. Nat knew the Winter Soldier in the comics because of a shared past, but barely knows him in the MCU except that one mission she talked about in CA2 🤷

Betting it's the botched version of Supersoldier Serum for the Black Widow program, and not the Pym Particle many has guessed, considering this was set post-CA:CW.

I just found this. Technically this is the actual Special Look heh. Better quality than the Twitter one I posted earlier.

Already at almost 1.4M views on Weibo. It's expected to do gangbusters in China. The first teaser blew up over there. I believe Gavin tweeted about that back then. China is gonna get a lot of Scarlett content this first half of 2020 with Jojo Rabbit and Marriage Story having February limited and wide release schedules respectfully, and then with Black Widow a few months afterward. Marvel just has to ride the wave. It certainly doesn't hurt that the actresses who plays Natasha and Yelena are freshly nominated at the Oscars. Edit. It was actually already at 1.4M when I was typing this.

I don't think this has been posted yet. A little BTS of BW plus short interviews with Scarlett, Kevin and Cate Shortland. Not the best audio though.

As a fan of Black Widow, cheers to this "filler movie" having the chance to hit 1B 🎉

I think that's just Gwyneth being Gwyneth. The rest of the cast sure knows about the MCU and each other, but not like hardcore fans' knowledge.

BW trailer already with 1.3M likes 🎉 Marvel needs to release the 24-hour view count to appease my curiosity. Sidenote, Scarlett did not know the trailer was released until bff Cevans texted her at 5am. Really weird time to release the trailer but stan Twitter has figured it out, it was 9am in Russia.

No idea at this moment since there are no further announcements. It was trending when it was first announced. But seems many don't like the main actor's looks (? 🤷) and they didn't like that The Mandarin is the chosen villain.

10.4M views on weibo marvel studios with 189k upvotes and 89k shares from what I saw. Lots of support from China. Had the 2nd highest upvotes during SDCC announcements (I mean Shang Chi being the bomb of course)

I am quite partial to Yoona 😍 So I'm gonna try to follow EXIT's performance. Looks to be a break out. Already scheduled to be released in other countries per Korean fans on Twitter. EXIT is already at 2M admissions https://twitter.com/CJENMMOVIE/status/1157592805679648769?s=19 P.S. Early predictions had this as a 10M hitter based from Korean reactions. It's performing almost the same with the top heavy hitters as noted by Korean media.

Though I am indifferent really to TLK's OW, since I had a feeling it was gonna do well anyway, I can understand some of the BOT users' feeling of disappointment for missing $200M. I mean prior to the release of Endgame, I remember some folks here were predicting TLK would take the 2019 domestic crown or would battle it out with Endgame. Who knows, TLK might leg it out to get near Endgame. It's not exactly a movie one had to watch immediately for fear of some big spoilers. Disney likes to lowball Sundays so TLK could be higher than estimates. We'll see in a few hours.

Angelina Jolie is not just known for her movies but also for the notoriety. Gazillion of magazines have been sold covering her personal life, worldwide. No matter how many she has had hits or lack thereof the past few years during and after her marriage to Pitt, no one can dispute her being a household name. Generations of GA know her, from millennials and going backwards. She has been amongst the most media covered actors in the history of Hollywood. So yes, she is indeed a star. Doesn't exclusively have to be all about movies and such.

Yes. I brought this up in the EG OW thread. Asian countries, particularly East Asia, have the collectivist culture (similar to herd mentality). Whenever that one gets combined with consumerism, everyone's gonna scramble for a particular product, be it food, movie, clothing, etc. And since I live in that culture as well, I have been swept away by hype several times 😂 Avatar 2 has that potential. Like "everyone has to see it" potential. (Sidenote: one of the funniest example of this was the Honey Butter Chips craze a few years ago in South Korea.) I know this is a BO forum and movies are also tied with consumerism/consumption and there can be cases studied as to why some movies overperform or underperform in different territories aside from just usual causes like culture or nostalgia.

I remember there were several articles up about how bleak box office 2019 was up until March. And now we got even higher than what most people thought were the OW ceiling. GA really broke their piggy banks for Endgame 😂

I'm still looking for the weekend breakdown but Endgame earned P937,521,966 (lc) and is already the 2nd highest grossing movie in the Philippines behind only Infinity War's P1.217B+ (lc) 💀 Edit. Infinity War had 5 weeks to get to that final gross 💀 Link

Depends if the gov't itself wouldn't be swept away with the potential mania. Collectivism when tied with consumerism is a common phenomena in Asia. But the nationalistic nature may kick in and prevent it from getting ahead of WW2. Unless a potential WW3 (if one is even getting made) gets to $1B+ first before Avatar 2.