MightyDargon

RT audience scores aren't terribly reliable anyway. And by that I mean people seem to be arguing this movie isn't generally considered "good" using the same sort of very anecdotal evidence that Shazam 2 was "good" by a very small slice of noninfluential reviews on a metric of dubious value. Similar to the endless fights over Dominion's RT score rather than IMDB/Metacritic/Letterboxd whatever.

Wick 4

Does this look like 65 mil plus material yet?

Shazam 2 is gonna do less than half of 1. "Aquabro" is gonna horribly underperform stuff like Rise of Skywalker and Avatar 2. Might as well punt for Wonka, esp. if Blue Beetle also gets squished.

At the risk of sounding stupid, how do previews get counted into the gross? And also, is there a way to track the impact on regular ticket sales from this?

I honestly don't know why people keep casting her. Ecks vs. Sever was pretty damning.

It's a waste of its slot vs. movies that have actual potential and a future. If it has crap reviews/buzz people simply won't go. Nobody HAS to see any tentpole. WB should consider punting it and slotting in something else where there's still time. And no, this is not about Heard. Levi's antivax stuff wasn't the reason Shazam bombed either.

Is 800-900k a good figure for the D&D previews?

I guess you can say this movie got Shankzam'd

Then they should consider moving up Wonka to Christmas weekend. Aquaman is very likely screwed and a waste of its IMAX slots.

Dr. Strange 2 didn't flop at all. Quantumania, on the other hand....

It is over for about 5-10 years IMO. Certainly Neill's last one, sadly. Won't get that boost again.

I'm skeptical that Blue Beetle does figure into their larger plans. It doesn't really seem "big solo movie on Christmas" event level either.

Is there a way we can calculate EEAO's Amazon sales of DVD and Blu-Ray? I think that would be the real windfall for that film at this point.

Once it's clear Shazam 2 ain't going over 100 mil US, Aquaman is getting chunked to a carp slot next year. WB will try to bury the news at some point when people are talking about a different movie (Mario?). Keeping the "big Christmas movie" as something from a dead universe that the fanbase is apathetic to is a terrible strategy. WB will then move a different movie up (Dune?) to take advantage of the IMAX. BTW the better screens were something like a third of Shazam 2's gross. It would have been even deader this Christmas.

Yeah, but Mario killed Shazam's chances of a kid audience specifically. John Wick killed Shazam's chances of an adult audience specifically. If we're going there we should probably argue about 12 year olds sneaking into John Wick or whatever.

No Way Home made such a shitload of money that there was no way they would have stopped. And yes I know it's a Sony co-production.

This would have to have a sucky launch to go under 30.5 mil.

I think Shazam suffered because adults were saving money for John Wick and parents were saving money for Mario.

Transformers is the bigger threat than Elemental IMO. Indy looks horrendous but that's a bit later in the run to do max damage.

I'm skeptical that Panther movies are inherently higher than Guardians movies, especially after Chadwick passed. I've heard more positive buzz about this than I did about Panther 2 so far. Of course, some of that is probably because this is the last movie with the Guardians cast and Panther 2 already didn't have Chadwick.

I mean sure, he probably was quite aware the movie was screwed with no Superbowl trailer and release right next to Wick 4. I'm not blaming him for any of this (or Rachel). It is valid to want a paycheck when you're clearly not making award bait though.

At this point I actually think WB is gonna be tempted to chunk Aquaman into a garbage chute next year (MLK Day slot?) to free up Christmas for something more viable (Dune? the Costner movie?) Aquaman is a waste of IMAX Christmas slots if its as crummy as the advance word seems to indicate. Dune in particular would likely benefit from a longer IMAX run.

Who bloody cares. Sandberg wasn't hired to direct "Academy Award nominated Shazam". Everyone knows this. Trying to pretend otherwise is an insult to the audience's intelligence. I'm glad he got paid and I hope his future projects aren't screwed over by a convoluted cinematic universe beyond his control.

I guess you could say Shazam....died suddenly. YYYYYYEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHH WON'T GET FOOOLEEDDD AGGGAAAAAIIINNNN