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I knew movies based on toys have been historically pretty big failures, but I was not ready for that list to be 80% Transformers lmao.

Hunger Games has a downer ending and is much less of a crowd pleaser. Lower CS than a Dinsey Animated movie isn't very surprising.

I wonder if the B+ Cinemascore is entirely down to the movie being very, very serious with little levity. Because otherwise I've only heard positive word of mouth.

Of course this won't be as big as Swift. But I wouldn't underestimate it. Renaissance World Tour is the second highest grossing tour of all time behind Eras. It is absolutely massive in its own right. This is still obviously a very smart move. (And I think it will honestly be a much stronger product. The concert itself was just stunning).

I'm late to this discussion, but Shrek became a pop culture phenomenon by mocking Disney. So Shrek 5 should be a scathing satire of Disney's obsession with remakes. There's a very meta story they could tell there.

That would be a surprise, but good. I remain skeptical, though. It's worth noting that the Beast Wars brand really fell out of popularity in Japan, so not sure it will bring much of a boost.

Wouldn't think so. Bumblebee only made like $6m there

Awesome weekend. Haven't had time to read the thread, but I hope people aren't seeing Barbie as a "disappointment." $160m-ish with a smaller amount of PLF's is fantastic. And Oppenheimer doing incredible. Feels good to feel good about the box office again.

I don't see Barbie hitting 200 entirely based on the fact that ticket prices for it are much cheaper on the whole than other recent blockbusters. It's PLF skew is smaller than most since Mario.

I'm a '97 baby, too. I hate to break it to you, but we're definitely Gen Z. Maybe a bubble in the middle, but we've got a lot of Gen Z in us. Related: I have so. many. damn. friends. who haven't been to a movie in YEARS who are going for Barbie (and many for Oppenheimer, too, though that might be because I live in a 70mm city).

I know a lot of people here find the meme dumb or tiring, but at this point it's hard to deny that the Barbenheimer meme is the secret sauce this weekend. Of course these movies would have both been successful on their own, but Barbenhemier elevated them to a cultural event. Did anyone turn on their local news this morning and see HOW MANY 2-anchor shows had one person dress in all pink, and the other in all black? It's insane. Now we wait for studios to try and awkwardly and forceably recreate the magic.

Saw this a couple days ago. Absolutely loved it!

Almost definitely not, unless it weirdly blows up in Japan (which I do not expect at all). Domestic is definitely a better narrative for the movie than international.

Hopefully this is an okay discussion for this thread, but I'm glad to see another rock-solid hold for Transformers. It's another dent in the argument that people try to say putting a movie on PVOD "too early" kills its box office. Movie launched digitally (for purchase) on Tuesday. Obviously it's about balance. You don't want to do it after like 3 days. But I have a feeling it will play out nicely for Paramount here. New question is if TF can make a run to $160m. I feel dumb for saying it might not make it to $100m.

I 100% agree. The realities of the box office have changed.

https://twitter.com/BORReport/status/1679196129890811905?t=TcIygsUekBo6E48j89dKKA&s=19 Edit: apparently I can't figure out how to embed tweets lmao. Transformers $755k on Tuesday.

So what's going on with Tuesday numbers this week? We normally see a bump for everything. Is it just because of MI?

Hm, I expected a bit higher for MI. Still seems okay/fine. I really thought it'd have a late presales surge. I still don't understand why Transformers is the one that had the crazy surge. I keep expecting it to happen again and it never really does.

Gonna be funny when Transformers comes in just *over* $5m in actuals. Cool to see it continue to hold pretty well, btw. Starting next weekend I imagine it will get hit pretty hard, though. Should still hit $150m. And here I thought the numbers for it couldn't get any more depressing.

This has had pretty nice staying power. Isn't Sony usually one of the first with estimates? Curious to see where NHF and Spider-Verse landed. Holdovers all seem to be doing pretty well (Indy is questionable).

It's over RIP (probably just missing a couple zeros on the end or something)

Oof

It's holding better than expected for sure, but it's not going to beat Indy domestically.

I don't see any way it misses $150m at this point unless it loses a catastrophic number of theaters suddenly. But it looks like Flash has mostly been taking the brunt of that.

Listen, we can debate about the legacy of the Sequels and the future of the franchise until we're blue in the face. But Rey is undeniably a massive character and well-liked. Anyone who says otherwise is massively our of touch. Her merchandise is consistently the best-selling for modern Star Wars stuff, she is a massive draw at the theme parks, and Ridely's performance consistently earned top marks. Anyone who says Rey was the issue with the Sequel Trilogy is way too influenced by chronically-online internet nerds.