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On 6/17/2022 at 10:43 AM, Jonwo said:
Say you want about Illumination but they know their audience and the decision to hold Minions back will pay off.
It'll make lots of money for sure. Question now is how much pull the Minions still have years later.
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17 hours ago, Mojoguy said:
Saw the Gru trailer last night with JWD. Lots of laughs and great reactions from the audience.
This thing is going to be be HUGE. Way bigger than Pixar's The Martian for kids, Lightyear just looks looks way too serious and too action focused. Its unfair but comedy animation will always be bigger than action animation.
People forgot the last two movies with the yellow talking twinkies made 1 billion each. This is the film that is going to really bring families back.
That was 5 years ago. Make no mistake, this movie is going to be HUGE, but will probably fall short of making what M1 and DM3 made. Not to mention Thor stealing some of its thunder next weekend.
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3 minutes ago, Porthos said:
More whispering:
LOOOOOOOOOL
I get that Rice came along from Fox, but this is just hilarious. Not "the right cultural fit" is just lol-worthy. Given its insular nature this really isn't a surprise, but in the context of the FL debacle, what a tone deaf statement.
Still, Disney looooooves to promote from within with lifers/long termers (from what I understand at least - see the lingering fallout from the Eisner years).
Also a sign that Chapek ain't going anywhere, at least in the short term.
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Curious to get @EmpireCity's thoughts on this stunning move and how it's playing outside of the House of Mouse.
Chapek should be fine provided there isn't another major snafu like in March and April.
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Granted, Ms. Walden seems to have a decent resume of her own.
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This could bite Chapek in the ass in the future.
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My final predictions for this:
$50-60M OW
$200-250M DOM
$600-750M WW
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Thor is going to eat into Minions' audience a bit. To say nothing of the fact that Minions 2 is going to have a noticeable (but not bad) drop from previous DM movies.
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This looks insane in the best way possible.
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I'm excited for a Pixar movie every time it's announced.
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On 5/10/2022 at 11:55 AM, Macleod said:
This will have better legs than Strange II...and possibly open even bigger.
I think so too, especially after the reception of Ragnarok.
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29 minutes ago, SupermanLego said:
Man the reviews on youtube seem mixed as well. We will see how bad the WOM will affect its OW.
More like mixed to positive.
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Seeing it in a couple of hours. Most of what I've heard is positive.
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1 hour ago, Brainbug the Dinosaur said:
Woudnt it be great if this film and Dominion could recreate the same co-existing run like with the first JW and Inside Out in 2015? I could totally see this also opening in the 90M range and then chugging along with the dinosaurs.
That still shocks me to this day. Inside Out was competing with Jurassic World AND Minions yet it outgrossed the latter domestically while making $858M Worldwide.
So, if an original Pixar film can pull those numbers, this could be huge.
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18 hours ago, Walt Disney said:
This is the very definition of a self-inflicted wound. It all could have been avoided if Disney did not over-react from calls to get involved from people who did not have Disney’s best interests in mind. I am sure the people at Universal feel the same way as Disney does about the law. yet no one put any pressure on Universal to say a word, and they sure have not volunteered to join Disney either.
If Disney had just remained quiet for an extra week, this whole thing would have blown over, and people would have moved on.
This. All of this is on Chapek and the more it spirals out of control, the worse it looks for his chances at getting renewed. Hell, I bet even Chapek himself is beginning to regret taking this job.
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Well.... that happened.
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Ascribing social mores to a company is a ridiculous idea in the first place. They're motivated by money not homophobia, even if it lines up with that it's not the determining factor. You can see that by how corporations champion Pride on one hand and censor it on the other depending on the country. I always find the moral handwringing over what corporations do to be really weird.
Corporations are not your friend. They only care about money, and if their values happen to align with yours, all that means is that it's profitable for them. Not to say Disney funding the don't say gay bill isn't reprehensible, but I wasn't expecting any better from them.
The only thing shocking about this saga is how poorly Chapek has navigated through it by saying the quiet part out loud.
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43 minutes ago, CloneWars said:
The 1st Amendment is a thing. If Florida takes action, this probably goes to SCOTUS. Government can't punish corporations or people for Free Speech
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11 hours ago, Wormow said:
I just had a look... yeah nevermind, I take back my "not a flop" comments lol
Morbius is going to lose Sony at least a little bit of money when this is over. And unlike Morbius, Kraven has no gimmick going for it.
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On 4/15/2022 at 1:02 AM, Wormow said:
These movies are cheap, Morbius was a very cheap movie by today's blockbuster standards and so will this movie. They're fine.
Eh, after Morbius dropped 74% in its second weekend, I'm not sure there's gonna be much more enthusiasm for this.
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15 hours ago, dudalb said:
I agree, though I don't fear for Chapek. Mess up like he had done, you deserve to go.
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12 hours ago, dudalb said:
I think it might be too late, the damage is done and he has made too many enemies.
I fear the same.
Minions: The Rise of Gru | July 1, 2022 | Illumination
in Box Office Discussion
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In their prime, yes.