MightyDargon

GOTG3 had a fine release slot and got over 350 mil. Putting it against Mario and hoping Mario would blink given the massive presales is "Napoleon invades Russia during winter" level strategy.

Yes. Fucking MARIO, one of the biggest gaming franchises beloved for GENERATIONS would run from GOTG3. I really wish I had what you were smoking right now.

WAT. Why the hell would Disney counterprogram Mario with Vol. 3, there's substantial overlap.

MI7 will most likely do considerably more than Fast X did. Beasts did more than Fast X did in the US, it's not that big an accomplishment. I think we're extrapolating too much from Deadline advance numbers on a Tuesday.

How the hell do you know how much MI7 will make based on a TUESDAY release?!? How is that supposed to track to Fast X's opening in anyway?

Zatt, to be honest, watching you lose your shit regularly is the main reason I come here. It's far more entertaining than the wretched "Barbenheimer" or whatever discourse or people too dumb to know what Mario is, but I gotta say... You need to learn about "economy of resources" and not try to do these insanely long posts. It's a pain to read.

I think you guys may be getting just slightly bent out of shape over a Deadline advance predict on a Tuesday night.

I already now hate this movie (and Barbie) because of the marketing. Oh well. At least I got to deep six THE GREATEST SUPERHERO MOVIE SINCE THE DARK KNIGHT.

SMB didn't get what it got because of "lack of competition". What actually happened was a substantial teen/adult audience got cannibalized from other movies by it.

Stop trusting this guy. There's a reason you removed him.

Why do people take ChimpireShitty's words at face value, he went on and on about how great Flash was

WB buying Pixar? With their current debt load, WB's more likely to be selling than buying soon enough.

typo/bad data. Still clearly playing in my local theatre.

Getting the kind of attention Indy and Flash got isn't a good thing...

So it does go to 150 mil?

American Pie is a pretty good example in that it was where a lot of bad habits got started, although the problems were less evident then because early 2000s was when gross out stuff had just taken over. Better examples of the excesses once they were in place include Freddy Got Fingered, Step Brothers, and the Hangover movies. You also had the godawful Seltzerberg comedies which used a fair amount of gross stuff.

Comedy died because gross out comedy stopped being funny once Hollywood did it once too often but ALSO because they forgot how to write comedy that wasn't shit/vomit/drug jokes. There were plenty of non gross out comedies in the 70s, 80s, and even most of the 90s. By the 2000s, gross out had become the preferred thing because it was lazy and stupid to write and screenwriters knew they'd get a bunch of idiots to clap like seals and make URRR URRRR noises for the opening weekend at least. But gross out alone couldn't sustain comedy and it basically died in the mid 2010s.

My favorite comedy film is Hobgoblins.... oh wait, you meant INTENTIONALLY funny, didn't you?!

Why exactly do people take Jeffrey Wells seriously in 2023?

Different marketing people most likely.

Barbie doing a massive opening would not be a surprise at this point. Maybe Oppenheimer would?

The Flash was NOT going to save DCEU. The Gunn reboot was already set. Maybe if Black Adam hadn't bombed but did mid THEN Flash could have been in a legit position to save DCEU but it was ALREADY DEAD, and audiences knew it despite the "best superhero movie since The Dark Knight" screeching.

Spidey wouldn't get PLF back yet because Dial still has 1 week to go.

Again, Cinemascore doesn't actually measure a movie's quality/legs that well. Joker was a B+. What it DOES measure is whether OW audiences "got what they thought they'd get". Of course Cinemascore is prone to bad sampling too, like any other kind of polling. There are more reliable methods out there.

I don't think they know what Gen Z's age range actually is then.