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Hoping this is leggy and manages to stretch to a $35m OW. I have no idea what to expect overseas. Domestically I'm predicting $34m OW, and overall $115m domestic. $250m worldwide would be okay, for a movie that was supposed to be released direct to streaming and had no marketing.

*shrug* Don't see anything controversial about saying that having actors dissing the movies they're in is bad for the movies and bad for their careers. The girl has been bullied off of social media. This movie faced an unfair uphill battle over race (the same TLM did), but now it has scored two very big own goals in the form its main star bashing the source material (the fans of which they want to see this one) and taking roles away from a very underrepresented minority in Hollywood. Disagree with this. I think she gets nervous and says stupid things. See my Shazam example above. She lacks polish in these moments and searches for things to say, and says the wrong thing. The studios should be helping her more.

I feel bad for her, but would be lying if I said what she has said didn't grate on me and ruin any prospect of me being excited for the movie. Despite the views of some here, I see this sticking for a while and I think Rachel has done a fair bit of harm to her career in the short term and to this movie. While I expect this all to die down in a month or so, it will ramp up again when the film releases. It's kind of unsellable. According to Rachel: - the movie her movie is copying is no good; - the film, a remake of a romance, considers romance ancillary; and - her male lead could have all of his scenes cut from the film and it wouldn't matter. How does she or the studio sell this movie now? Add to that the dwarf controversy. She needs PR coaching and stat. She also had a huge clanger for Shazam 2 when asked why she wanted to be in it on the red carpet she replied with "I needed a job". Honest, but very hard to save and insulting to everyone else who worked on the film even if she tried to sell it as a joke.

This movie was a solid 7/10 until the third act which was a jumbled CGI mess. Also we don’t need to worry about the box office, it’s safe to assume the good people at Skittles, Gatorade and Uber have ensured this movie has already made a profit with what can only be described as the most shameless and embarrassing product placement I have ever seen in a film. ”Taste the rainbow”…twice.

At my local there are two identical premium screens. One is showing Scream VI, the other Shazam! (already a bad sign) at the same time. Worse than that though, is that Shazam has only sold TWO more tickets than Scream VI. Ouch.

There's really no comparison to be made between The Authority and Swamp Thing and Shazam. The most analogous thing to The Authority would be The Boys. Swamp Thing is horror.

I love dinosaurs and I have no interest in seeing this. This is DOA.

The order that 2, 4, 5 and 6 go in in terms of a ranking is, IMO, just based on preferences and small details. They're all a very consistent quality.

I hope this is good and I hope it performs. I liked the first, and Sandberg deserves a hit. Although there is a part of me that has mixed feelings - a flop would make it easier to fully close the DCEU.

BIG spoiler below...

I'm also concerned...

I saw it. I think overall it will have good word of mouth. As a fan of the franchise I ejoyed it, but this is probably my ranking... Scream (1996) Scream 2 Scream 4 Scream (2022) Scream VI Scream 3 For a movie that relies so heavily on FIVE previous instalments in terms of plot, it's arguably more accessible to GAs than its predecessor. I think because its far less meta and *wink, wink*. Think this will exceed BO expectations.

I don't think "Marvel Fatigue" is a thing. I don't even think a decline in quality is to blame. Captain Marvel made over a billion. The problem is two-fold, but with each issue having the same impact. Phase 4 lacks an overarching narrative to make each movie "must-see". There's also too much content. I never missed a single MCU movie in theatres EVER until Phase 4. I did not see Black Widow, Eternals or Thor 4 in theatres. It's not essential viewing anymore. I think Ant-Man's final WW total starts with a 5, tbh.

I’m I right that even BA’s Tuesday wasn’t great?

A few of the video reactions I’ve watched seem…muted. Hard to tell if it’s because the movie was sad or if it’s because their reaction isn’t actually as positive as their tweets? Kristina Harloff for example sounds over the moon in his tweet and in his video looks bored and says “oh well that’s just initial thoughts, I’ll review it later”. Curious…

Seems to me that he could do the right thing by his friend James Gunn and tweet his congratulations to him and pass the torch so his fans stop their crusade. Snyder has never made any effort to stop it, only inflame it.

No. Word was always that it had the same scores as Batgirl.

I think the fact that The Rock has said nothing about this today probably indicates he was blindsided and feels a bit put out. If he were keen on it he'd be saying "I TOLD YOU THE HEIRARCHY WOULD CHANGE, SEE BLACK ADAM".

A lot of people focusing on Gunn and forgetting Safran. Gunn is the creative head, and Safran is the executive head. Gunn will approve the scripts and hire the creative teams, and Safran will run the business side of the studio. Safran can run a business and James Gunn knows a decent script. Gunn is filling the role that Snyder did at the start of the DCEU. If Snyder can give us Wonder Woman and Aquaman, I wouldn't be too worried about every Gunn movie being Peacemaker and The Suicide Squad. Gunn has more respect for the comics than that.

This film is apparently testing really well, so I can't see much changing with it?

I'd say very unlikely. I can see an argument for The Batman Universe having to run it by Gunn as it could intersect with whats happening in the mainline DC Universe (similar, conventional stories - what if two different Mr Freeze's are the villains in two movies coming out close to eachother, etc.). The Joker movies are so far removed from everything they're unlikely to cause any creative issues.

This seems be performing quite well, save for a few markets?

I mean it's a bit chalk and cheese. I can't remember who said it, but it was a WB executive who said there are two types of hits - critical and financial. Black Adam needs to be a financial success, Shang Chi didn't necessarily.

Just saw it. Ya’ll are nuts if you don’t think the Rock knew what he was doing with it. Audience cheered the mid credits scene, laughed the whole way through and everyone was buzzing afterwards. Peak theatre experience here. (Movie itself is nothing but dumb fluff, but a fun, numb two hours!)