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I'd imagine the easiest way is to take the HP8 gross, divide it by HP8 tickets, and multiply it by HP1 tickets. For the US that would make it a hair under $600M. BOM puts the UK gross for HP8 at 117M while the numbers puts it at 97M. That'd be roughly $170-190M. UK+US made roughly 36% of the WW gross of HP8. Apply that to $600+180ish, and we get roughly $2.2 Billion worldwide.

That's the vibe I got from it, too.

I didn't really see anything mentioned in the HBO max thread, unless I went to the wrong place. Looking elsewhere online, it seems all people have to say about this show is one of the following; * something about China inventing gunpowder * drinking kids urine * he got good grades and went to business school in canada * HBO money Haven't seen anything but a couple clips from Nathan For You. Watched the preview for this new show and don't really know what it's about. Looks like a reality show? Like Punk'd or those guys who prank people.

That's more expensive than a Happy Meal, the meal of elitists.

PAWS OF FURY: THE LEGEND OF HAWK (2022) Wasn't expecting that. They misspell it, or is that a different movie? lol

Here's the scene; They were making billions from merchandise, and that tap was turned off overnight. It was almost like intentional sabotage. I can't imagine how any studio could ever trust D&D with their IP.

War of the Worlds is one of the few movies that put a knot in my throat, in some scene with Tom and Famous Child Actress. I think Titanic (frozen woman in water holding baby) and Dear John (relationship with his father) are the only others I remember getting such an emotion. How big is your baseball bat? Best be careful, that sounds like 'advocating violence' lol.

What flavour of hot pockets? That's where it started. Then mods locked the thread and went to bed. Else it would have reached 100, maybe even 200.. lol

The bros trailer gave me 90s gay vibes. Like if you did an R-rated prequel to Will & Grace, focusing on Will's sex life.

Those diversity demos are probably the closest to the racial demographics of the US as a whole, compared to every other movie on that list. So instead of 'white people love Top Gun', it's more "everyone loves Top Gun".

1991 to 2011 doubled. 2002 to 2022 doubled.

I wonder if we'll get an 'auto-tune' era of CGI. Auto-tune was widely used for years with most people being unaware of whether it was used. But some artists (like Cher) used it in a unique way. Then a bunch of crap artists started doing the same thing. Will we see a case of CGI being done in a 'rough' or 'incomplete' way, which enhances a particular movie, also happens to be cheap, and then see dozens of films using the same technique? Kind of like 3D. You have Avatar that did it well, and dozens (hundreds?) of movies that tossed it in as a gimmick. It's like the uncanny valley; if your CGI is 95% good, it looks worse than CGI that is only 50%. And to go from 95% to 100% takes more effort than going from 0% to 95%.

This is a good thing. As workers opt out, companies have to raise wages and benefits, and offer more attractive work/life balance to tempt workers back. The thing working against VFX artists is that people will go see a big blockbuster that has crappy CGI. That would suggest that 'great' CGI doesn't have as much value as VFX artists believe. Which means VFX artists have less value than they believe.

Worst journalist: reads film twitter and regurgitates it as their own work Bad journalist: reads r/boxoffice and regurgitates it as their own work Good journalist: reads BOT and regurgitates it as their own work Great journalist: creates sockpuppets on twitter to push their opinion, then writes an article with their sockpuppet tweets embedded throughout lol

Using the time stone to find a show is both a blessing and a curse. Like VFX artists, journalists just 'press a button' (copy & paste) to do their work. Probably came on this forum (or more likely Reddit) and made an article using other people's opinions. (Gonna point out this is just a joke in case some underpaid VFX artists are reading this).

So basically white people aren't seeing the movie (same problem MoM had). That explains the higher walkups (white ppl more likely to buy tickets ahead).

I think I found your review. So I had wine and I am very tired and so I am a bit tipsy but I saw the Thor movie so I thought I’d give my honest review.Excuse typos because you know, wines.Ok so I don’t know what the plot is or who is in it other than Chris Hemsworth and Chris Hemsworth’s magnificent holy abs. I don’t know what the dialogue or acting is like or whatever.But like 1/3 of the way in Chris Hemsworth is going to fight a gorilla for some reason and he takes off his shirt and OMG LIKE I ACTUALLY GROANED LOUDLY.He does not put his shirt back on for the whole movie.And like The V. sweet mother Mary the V I am telling you. The v is worth $15. The V is worth so much I wanted to see the movie again straight afterward.Did I say that he doesn’t put his shirt back on?This is why I can’t tell you what the movie is about. Samuel l Jackson at one point is talking about something really important and it’s just white noise because Chris Hemsworth has the best body that ever existed.I am basically exhausted from being in a constant state of arousal for the rest of the 2/3 of the film.When he swings on stuff it’s slow mo and there are like all these long shorts of his muscles.And like at one point he is wet. Like so wet. And I was like to my friend OMG and we were both like HE IS SO WET. And glistening with his chest and his abs and his arms and he’s all dirty and the V. THe V I am telling you.Some stuff happens I don’t know. But the important thing to know is that he doesn’t put his shirt back on and he’s really wearing those pants.And his eyes. He has such puppy dog eyes. If I was with Chris Hemsworth I would be like what’s wrong Chris Hemsworth because he always looks so sad. And then he would say – nothing because you’re my wife. And then we would bang.There are many close ups of his sad eyes.There is one sex scene that stops before anything properly happens which made me so angry I intend to write to the director to give him a pieces of my mind.I mean why the fuck is this movie pg13. What mum is going to watch this movie with her kid. Nobody wants to sit with their teenage son while they’re imagining Chris Hemsworth diving into their lady parts.I am furious.But also very grateful. For this wonderful movie. That gave us Chris Hemsworth. He is a gift to the world. And I bet he is so nice.And he is SO TALL.Like this movie really shows his tallness.Like so tall. That at one point he comes up behind whoever the actress was and I let out this like guttural noise like I was dying and the guy next to me gave me a filth look and I was like fuck you what are you even doing here.Chris Hemsworth is Thor and he belongs to the women of the world.I am an atheist but there is the point where he swings onto this other thing and catches his like “wife” (this is not a spoiler you’re not watching the movie for the plot ok) and like his muscles and his v and he’s so strong and tall and I actually like think I saw God?So in short, definite Oscar worthy movie with just like amazing arms and imagine if your job was to put the dirt and blood on his arms? Imagine if that was your job. To just touch Chris Hemsworth all day. And he would flirt with you but not be gross. He would just be a total gentlemen and maybe you’d drop your make up brush and you’d both reach down and get it and he’d look at you with his sad eyes and you would be dead.That would be it.You would actually die.But it would be worth it.

It's a dig at Disney over the allegations they shrink/hide black characters in marketing material in China.

I haven't seen MoM yet (I watch all MCU films with my best friend, but he's been working), and I don't watch animated shows much, Are you suggesting I'm talking out of my ass? lol...

I feel like Strange (and to a degree Thor) are hollow characters. With RDJ you got this larger than life character, but throughout the series he deals with very real, down-to-earth problems. Strange basically left his old life and struggles with nothing but the mission at hand. It would have been nice to have a smaller scale film, where he struggles with wanting to go back to being a doctor, missing his old life, friends, colleagues, etc. With Thor, dude can lose his home planet and he's quipping jokes in the next scene. Loki had far more depth than Thor ever will. Disney turned all their marketing material into a game of "Where's Waldo" for black characters. And apparently that means people can't criticize crappy writing. Disney is the company that loudly and proudly stood behind the 'Free Tibet' movement, then realized money is actually way better than Tibet, so the brought in Henry Kissinger to negotiate their return to China, lol. To think the hardcore 'TLJ haters' are more bigoted than Disney is laughable.

You thinking about this, around 9:40 where he says theaters are being taken over by "animated" films?

It looks hilarious. The writing gives me 90s comedy vibes. But that group bj scene was too much. Definitely not a theater movie for me.

That's basically what Lightyear's audience was. 67% general audience, 16% parents, and 17% kids. When the demos came out, it was pretty white, especially for a kids movie (as white kids are a minority, and many white people no longer identify as such). It was probably mostly white liberal families who went, and they tend to be small, which would explain the 1:1 ratio for LY. With Minions, yeah.. lots of teens going in groups. But I imagine we'll see families make up a larger portion throughout the week. Or maybe not. Maybe the average family is still shell shocked from the pandemic, or young kids are broken and don't want to go to movies. I know there's been some studies coming out about the cognitive decline in young children during the pandemic, and it's pretty heartbreaking. Most issues like this are impossible to be fixed at a certain point in a child's development, and there's such a backlog in diagnosing and treating childhood issues right now. There aren't resources to deal with millions of kids needing the intensive therapy required. And what's likely going to happen is that the youngest kids will be 'ignored' while resources are focused on the 'hardest' cases. But we need to ration these things so young kids still have a chance.

I was surprised to learn that Hook was considered a financial disappointment, and that it was so poorly received by critics. I fucking love that film.