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Netflix has conditioned people that mid-budget movies can easily be seen at home. Why put the effort and the $ to go out and see stuff like Knock at the Cabin, Air, Book Club 2, etc. when movies of similar caliber (though not necessarily the same quality) are a few clicks away on your telly? The same decline hasn't happened to big tentpoles because the studios have the big brands and Netflix doesn't, nor has Netflix/Amazon/Apple's attempts at producing Hollywood-level blockbusters yielded many memorable original products. Horror has been mostly immune to the decline but that genre seems to get away on similar grounds that big VFX blockbusters do.

Chapek was just a downright idiot. One of his last acts was bragging about a minor event at DisneyWorld as some big success story. It's like he lived on a completely different planet from what the rest of the board was thinking at that moment.

I don't think people see attending live events and going to movie theaters as the same thing, though. Edit: @Cmasterclay just made my point better than I could...

Nimona also has the underdog narrative of being saved from cancellation which I think could help sway a few votes. Right now my top nine candidates would be: Spider-Verse How Do You Live? (if it's screened in the U.S this year) Suzume Nimona Wish Chicken Run 2 Ernest & Celestine 2 TMNT (with good enough reviews, it could sneak in there) Robot Dreams (got strong reception at Cannes and just won top honors at Annecy)

If you start the clock at NWH there's been five $1b films in 1 1/2 years. 2022 has three billion-grossers and would've had 4 if Doctor Strange 2 got a China release. Same timespan between July 2018 and December 2019 produced 10 $1b films. Obviously nowhere near it still, but going the full 3 1/2 year timespan is going to be misleading since nothing was making $1b when large parts of the world were under lockdown.

It was supposed to go to streaming in the first place. That's what probably made it easy for them to can it since they had no theatrical obligations.

Deadline's last update had TF dropping sharp, up to 66%.

Flash WW OW O/U Spiderverse DOM OW?

Juneteenth, which was recently turned into a federal holiday, lands on Monday.

Bale and Pattinson weren’t major BO draws either before they became Batmen. I think it just comes down to if you buy them in the part (and the movie around them is good).

I figured after seeing the movie weeks ago that there were things in the third act that were probably going to turn off some people. Now my A- predict is looking optimistic, lol

Only stupid people think it’s offensive. 🙃

I mean, even the tweet mentions the ”reboot” part is itself clickbait… 🙃

Would be a pretty poor drop for Transformers, but fantastic for Little Mermaid and GotG3. TLM would even be running ahead of Aladdin at that rate.

Sub-$60m for Flash alone would be disastrous, let alone $50m. Even below Black Adam would be pretty bad given what's gone into it.

Unless it craters against Flash this weekend it should get there. Only needs another $18.7m after Monday.

Flash sales for today here are… not great. Unless walkups are really strong, OD is looking weak. Spider-verse is actually not that far behind it RN.

Pretty sure that’s just Mojo shuffling around a placeholder they had. Waititi’s film wasn’t brought up at Celebration and the trades have been saying for a while that the Rey movie is supposed to be the first one out.

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Continuing to track just a hair behind Aladdin. $300m+ still very much on schedule bar a disaster in the coming weeks.

Romantic comedies do get greenlit! ...On Netflix.

Still fewer than 50 ratings. I wouldn't put too much stock in it just yet.

Sub-$5m OW at this rate wouldn't be surprising.

Sc4vs I’m gunning to have the meat of it be finished by July 8th. I’m going away for two weeks after that so I won’t have much time to write during that period. Hilda 2’s being worked on whenever I need a break from Scavs, but that’s going to take a lot longer still since there’s story issues I need to work out still. Third priority will be His Face All Red/Anya’s Ghost and then Mummy last.

Highly doubt they're going to want to rush DP3 to an even earlier date than the one it was already delayed from. It's more likely Cap 4 gets pushed to Thunderbolts date.