Rageofthegods

That Peloton instructor... never safe from the haters

NRG Tracking just went up for this movie. $33m OW per Matt Belloni.

*banging table* TWO. 10M+. PREVIEWS. TWO. 10M+. PREVIEWS.

https://deadline.com/2023/06/box-office-the-flash-no-hard-feelings-jennifer-lawrence-1235422274/ 1.1m for Asteroid City. Seems really solid for both openers.

Asteroid City hit a million over the 4 day!

Zaslav has had some good ideas in his run (he's basically left HBO alone, I don't think he's diluted the brand, plus he's a fan of theatrical) but overall I agree with @Cmasterclay that he's just not been a very good CEO. Unsettling the creative community with the Batgirl cuts without giving anyone a phone call, foisting an albatross on De Luca with the De Niro mobster movie to impress his Hamptons friends, hyping up the Flash to unrealistic levels so that "pretty good" reviews ended up disappointing, riding CNN down to historic lows in ratings and relevance through an ill-conceived pivot-to-the-middle, these were all completely unforced errors that ended up damaging some key part of their business, to say nothing of the times when him or his team just embarrasses the company (e.g. Max "creator" credits). And while I didn't love the name HBO Max, I'm really not convinced of the logic of making another confusing rebrand just a few years after launch. It's not great that after a week, only 70% of people signed up. He's a financial wizard but he's not a content or branding or vision guy. His brightest idea is, what, a ten year reboot of Harry Potter? And when WBD is finally sold for scraps to another company, the best we can hope for is that he'll take his big sack of cash and ride off into the sunset.

They're doing an insane $50 experience thing this weekend in NY and LA. They're selling really well too. Dunno about 1m but it's gonna have a high PTA for sure.

https://deadline.com/2023/06/bambi-live-action-movie-disney-sarah-polley-director-1235415991/

7% sold already!

The person he's playing only becomes a major player after the bomb gets built, and most of the trailers thus far have emphasized the race to build the bomb (more obvious stakes). He's fourth-billed, so while he's probably not in it a ton, he'll probably be a fairly major character.

You're thinking too small. 100m for both!

Thank you, someone said it. Like for a long time, you'd basically accept that a bunch of the top grossing movies of any given year would be rotten. That is not anomalous, that is basically normal.

The three hour biopic opening on-par or above Dunkirk would be pretty fantastic.

Yup, it's from the Louisiana tax credit certification website. Since it's set in New Orleans, net budget is around 26m, around what Evil Dead Rise cost.

Idk if that's really the case. Not expecting Inception numbers but Imitation Game made 233m WW! This movie only needs to make marginally more to be profitable, which given Nolan, RDJ, Blunt, Damon, etc it has a solid chance of doing. World War 2 is big IP!