MightyDargon
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Nah, October 2024 looks more open. Ghosts work better in October anyway.
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As I have said until my heart exploded, Frozen Empire got a cursed release slot. RIGHT BETWEEN Dune and Godzilla x Kong was about as bad as "week before/after Barbenheimer" in terms of awful timing. Should've just gone for October this year.
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I'm not willing to write off the movie based on some braindead chattering skull claiming its noncommercial. Joker was supposedly doomed before theatrical too.
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Why?
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How much does Legendary have to shill out to Kadokawa to put Gamera in the third one?
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Also people basically know what Godzilla looks like at this point and other movies (Minus One) have used the "less is more" Godzilla approach in superior ways to 2014. It was not exactly unique in terms of what it was doing.
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Bad slot is a very real phenomenon. Honor Among Thieves is an even better example because that movie was better received but flat out bombed because of being released too near Mario/Wick 4.
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KOTM had a bad slot, similar to what happened to Frozen Empire in this month.
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They need to put Gamera in the next movie somehow.
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Whatever it was it was pre COVID gimped theatres, so therefore less impressive.
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It lost a lot (not all) of its PDFs last week so some of the damage was already done.
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I don't see why most media companies would want to buy ALL of WB and absorb its huge debt load. Maybe Apple could do it? I think both it and Paramount will most likely get stripped for parts. Does Legendary actually own its Monsterverse films/media?
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I was a teen when the original Scream released which means I'm well out of "the demo" by now. This is why they needed to shift to younger leads.
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Scream 7 absolutely will bomb because the Rule 0 circumstances of Melissa's firing will most likely still be going on by then and people Neve Campbell's age don't pay money for theatrical horror.
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The Box Office Buzz, Tracking, and Pre-Sale Thread
MightyDargon replied to Shawn Robbins's topic in Box Office Discussion
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No no no, you're supposed to have Ben Affleck show up and say I'M THE GODDAMNED BATMAN while a 5 minute shot of Superman's head on a bloody pike is show WHILE the children's choir is singing Sweet Dreams. Why can't you bloody people get trailers right?!?
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I don't get the "can't qualify for Oscars" thing. Haven't spring/summer movies done relatively well at least in the 2020s as long as they were commercial? Yeah it COULD be a bomb but so could anything.
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I can buy that Kong is cheaper than Dune. No revenue share with A list actors and Villeneuve.
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Tron is still pretty influential in computer/design terms even if people generally can't quote the movie.
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It's worth noting the Sony probably WILL make another Ghostbusters, even with Grace/Coon in the cast, because it's vastly outperforming the shlock like Madame Web and Kraven they're releasing otherwise this year. Venom 3 will do okay but Sony's other movies are thin gruel.
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After all the whining about "superhero fatigue" or whatever it's worth noting that crap hero films actually do fail regularly. People acting like Madame Web means the genre is doomed are forgetting turds like The Spirit, Catwoman, Bloodshot, Green Lantern...there's a LONG list.
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Very, very few horror films are actually scary once you're past a certain age. The last scary one I actually remember was The Lighthouse. Eli Roth's Thanksgiving had some imaginative gross out work but was about as scary as a He-Man episode.
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You're pro YA dog crap Hunger Games knockoffs?
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Concerts are a sucky analogy whenever Taylor Swift tours. "Real" concerts are people in some dump in Iowa refusing to show up for Night Ranger.
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Panda's actual reviews among adults were rather mediocre so it's a somewhat obvious poaching target. Even if Frozen Kingdom isn't exactly world beating material.
