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Well it's official now. Mexico City has allowed theaters to open starting on Wednesday August 12th at only 30% of their capacity. Museums are also opening. A lot of people are still afraid of going out but I have seen malls and restaurants and they already have a lot of people so... we will have to see what happens with movies. Canacine is fiercely pushing for theather to return to some "normalcy" Disney+ being a part of Prime Channels would indeed be good. I already have HBO and it works very well having eveything in the same App. I remember the contract for Disney properties was for a year (wow, time flies) but as you say now they have a lot of adult content that is great (I'm rewatching Will & Grace entirely). I really hope Disney+ does arrive in November... I really want to see The Mandalorian

Yesterday the App for Cinepolis changed from "Schedule not available" to: "Next Releases" (from August 7th and onwards) when looking at the movie times in CDMX South... Not sure if that means it will open really as I think there are a lot of discrepancies between the local and federal goverments but it change the status indeed. What do you think about Disney's announcement regarding Mulan? Do you think it will happen with other big titles? Or will it only be a one time thing? I think they are testing the waters and if it works probably more tites will follow that road which will be sad for theater and distribution. Besides apparently Disney+ was officialy announced for Mexico and Latin America for November... not sure how will that work as right now Amazon Prime works as a partial Disney+ here in Mexico.

When will you go back to theaters. I know Cinepolis is doing a whole safety protocol but what will it take for you to return to theaters considering the situation hasn't ended and will still take some time? A lot of people are afraid still to go outside to work let alone to restaurants and entertainment. Do you really think Mulan and Tenet will stay put in July? If everything goes as planned for what I understand cinemas in Mexico City will open only until June 24 or 25th and that's with only 40% attendance right? So... will things really improve in one month for cinemas to allow 100% of attendance and will people really go in droves to the movie theaters?

I guess this Friday a lot of businesses will close along with schools already out for a month. With tonight’s announcement of the first death authorities will have to increase measures to contain the virus from spreading as much as possible. Everything has moved out of the April-May corridor and not sure June is really safe. But the important thing is to stay safe and indoors... let’s do as much as we can to stop this.

Mulan, Antlers and New Mutants (again!!!) have been delayed in USA, I guess the same will happen here (not sure if Antlers had a release date already here). Some are saying if things improve quickly Mulan will take the May 1st slot and Black Widow will move to the slot emptied by F9... too soon to tell really.

And so... it is here. A Quiet Place Part II out of the calendar worldwide. Fast and Furious 9 moves to 2021¡ Mulan and Black Widow should be in the horizon soon as USA prepares to avoid gatherings and concentrations specially in California and NY

Well... what a terrible result for Onward. Not sure if it was lack of buzz, the Coronavirus or the 8/9M... but this was not good at all. Will A Quiet Place Part II and Mulan suffer the same fate? Considering some movies are moving out of April not sure the March ones will deliver the big bucks if this situation continues spreading. Do you think the May ones will move or not? Considering some countries are locking down and America is basically only starting I think we will have the greater impact during the month of April. Let's hope is not so complicated but damn this is not a good year at all.

Didn't see this post before posting mine¡ Hehehe. By the way welcome back @Carlangonz we missed you¡

As per Canacine's numbers Sonic got to 230M and will pass Bad Boys Life over the week to become the number one movie of the year. Birds of Prey continues stumbling but will at least get to 200M, a bad number when all things are considered. Wonder Woman will have to really devilered in June Parasite falls against the Post-Oscar surge but is still on track for 150M. I already have it pre-ordered in iTunes With good WOM The Call of the Wild can probably get to 100M... but it will be hit hard in two weeks by the Pixar movie.

Well. Sonic at least saves some face. Will it have kiddie legs and get to 300M? Weekdays will be hit hard due to the lack of holidays but the weekend should be interesting without competition for the next two weeks. Parasite increases a great 300% from last weekend and in it's 8th week has it's biggest weekend yet with 118M total. 150M is not out of the question which is really outstanding for a movie that opened with 6M (¡¡¡¡). I don't remember a movie with such a great performance (in recent years at least). Next week we have only small films and Harrison Ford trying to be relevant for a few more years with The Call of the Wild, can it get to 20M? How do you think The Invisible Man will fare? Can it open at 30 or 40M? It looks really intense.

Actually no, I asked the same thing not only for Asian films but also for foreign ones (of course outside USA). I think someone said Parasite will be the top one without considering Dragon Ball franchise of course. Not sure how much Crouching Tigger, Hidden Dragon gross. Even Train to Busan (one of the latest Asian hits) only grossed about 20M

Didn't Dragon Ball Z opened to 123M over 3 days? And HTTYD3 opened to 118M?

Thank God for the Oscars... without Jojo, 1917, Little Women and Parasite the first month would have been really pathetic. Last year we already had 2 movies that opened to 100M by the 6th week now we have none, can Sonic save the first bimester??? Does anyone know how pre-sales have been? So we will have to wait until Onward in March and it will not compare to the level that Captain Marvel achieved last year so Mulan will have to save the first trimester by her own... haha Great win for Parasite really. Was very happy that happened on Sunday

Dolittle somehow made 66M and with the help of the holiday will most surely get to 150M-170M Bad Boys continues holding well and will cross the 200M by the end of the week. Cindy drops more than 50% and 100M is not entirely sure although I do think will cross the mark but will not get much further. Jojo holds incredibly well (I saw it on Friday and the theater was full... loved the movie and the kid actors are great). Salma gets the finger with Like a Boss opening to just 5.8M (as in pesos¡¡¡). Will not even get to 1M (USD) when all is said and done. Parasite is out of the top 10, does anybody knows what is the total... unless it wins Best Picture on Sunday the 100M mark is out of reach.

And with 6 Oscar nominations under it's belt and incredible WOM... will surely double that amount. Can it sustain and get to 100M? Speaking about that do you know which is the most succesful non-mexican/latin/spanish/gringa movie? I can't recall any movie from Poland or China or any other country getting that high. Competition will get fierce with the crowded January that we have but I think it will still be a factor specially if the distributor expands it this weekend.