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Screenings for this will apparently start on Thursday at 6:00PM, so it will have an extra day for its opening weekend number compared to TET.

Beyoncé's core demographic isn't as active online as Swift's tho, which gives the latter a lot of online hype. Beyoncé's ticket sales could easily surprise everyone imo.

I predict this will have more expensive ticket prices than Swift's film, to offset potentially lower ticket sales (which might also be just as strong, if not even stronger than Swift's).

Mainland China has a much higher barrier of entry for Hollywood movies. If she wants to screen this there, China will need to approve it first.

From a recent DEADLINE article: It would fit with the IMAX CEO's $65M number.

$65M in overall pre-sales according to the IMAX CEO.

Overall pre-sales for The Eras Tour concert film are at "over $65M" apparently.

The Puck newsletter didn't say that the studios passed on this concert film, it only said that Team Swift was not content with their offers. The studios probably all offered her a streaming-only release (as is typical with concert films these days), with perhaps a limited theatrical release at best, but evidently Swift aimed for something bigger. The biggest theatrical concert films are all from 10+ years ago, so the studios were likely hesitant to give her a full theatrical push.

Another movie moves away, and this one might've actually had some overlap with Swift's demo, so it's just another plus for her concert film.

I don’t really see the correlation between Joker and police brutality against POC, especially the black community.

One thing that I have noticed: Aren't Frozen and Frozen II now technically the highest grossing movies with no male lead characters / only female leads? Because all movies that have grossed more than Frozen/Frozen II have either both male and female leads or only male leads. I guess Kristoff could be counted as a lead character in Frozen, but he definitely played second fiddle to Elsa and Anna in the sequel, so it would still apply to Frozen II

Also interesting thing to note: Frozen II is now the highest grossing movie with female-only leads (if I'm not mistaken)

I hope it manages to reach $500M domestic & $1,500M WW

A pity that it's gonna get so close to $1.5bn worldwide and $500M domestically, but will likely not reach it 😕

Skimbleshanks solo movie is coming!!!

A pity that he wasn’t able to star in 1917. It would’ve enriched his filmography significantly.

Man, $500M for Frozen 2 would be amazing. I hope it pulls through

So I guess this settles Frozen’s crown as the biggest animated franchise internationally. Although an argument for Despicable Me /Minions could also be made.

Gavin Feng also said something like this a few days ago: The whole futuristic aesthetic of the Prequel Trilogy was much more appealing to the Chinese market than the Sequel Trilogy, which has pretty much only focused on barren and empty planets. But ofc Disney/Lucasfilm for some reason tries to avoid acknowledging the prequels as much as possible, so they doubled down on the original trilogy nostalgia, which evidently didn’t really work outside of TFA in not only China, but in many other emerging markets. Which is also why I don’t think The Mandalorian is really building back goodwill for the Star Wars brand on a global scale. TM is pretty much a sci-fi Western, so it’s very appealing to Star Wars’ core fans in North America, where also most of the buzz and hype is coming from. But I personally doubt that it would be as appealing to international audiences as it is to Star Wars’ core market, so I hope Lucasfilm doesn’t just think that the next right thing to do is to make movies like The Mandalorian, because that’s getting lots of hype right now, cause I really can’t see movies like that exciting audiences worldwide.

Agreed, It’s gonna be very tricky. Continuing to please older fans will most likely lead to further decline and diminishing box office returns, but would be the “safer” option, at least initially, while trying something new and fresh could capture the attention of new audiences, especially in emerging market, but it could also completely backfire in that everyone, new and old, rejects that approach. LF/Disney has some crucial decisions to make.

I would argue that we didn’t even get spectacles as epic as the Battle of Bastards with the Sequel Trilogy. Honestly, even the final battle in TROS with all those thousands of ships and Star Destroyers felt very underwhelming. So I don’t really trust Lucasfilm to deliver something like what you describe with the new Star Wars movies, especially not with the first movie, where they would first need to establish the timeline and the new characters & setting. General audiences have no clue what The Old Republic is about. Also based on how Lucasfilm is developing Star Wars right now (Sequel Trilogy, The Mandalorian, Jedi: Fallen Order), everything is pointing towards another “small-scale” or Western-ish Star Wars story and not to the Galaxy-spanning true sci-fi epic that you seem to want.

So does Frozen II have a chance at topping Finding Dory’s domestic gross or will it end up somewhere lower?

So TROS is not even gonna make into the top 10 overseas grossers of this year... Disney/Lucasfilm really needs to work on Star Wars´ international appeal with their future projects. Because this is really not promising for future Star Wars movies.