MovieMan89

Pretty sad when expectations for Tarzan/BFG were so rock bottom that OWs in the 25-30 range are now considered great.

Holy fuck, that is a massive Friday bump for Dory. 50m+ 3 day might happen.

BOM headline for the weekend: "Audiences Pass on Warm-Hearted Family Fun Dory/BFG in Favor of Murdering Their Enemies"

You know, I don't even need to know how good Pets is or isn't, it honestly deserves the original animated OW record. Illumination started marketing it a full year ago, and they were brilliant in the campaign from start to finish. And that's one long campaign to maintain. They deserve to be rewarded for their advanced marketing prowess.

At this point I think 60m would be great for Star Trek. Expecting closer to 50 though. Pets is taking the original animated OW record.

Yes, poor Spielberg and the hundreds of millions Indy 5 and Ready Player One will make.

I don't think live action Tarzan is a big movie draw period though. The last attempts with the 80's films weren't all that big. Like 100 adjusted is all.

Will be overjoyed if it actually happens, but too early to get excited. If it does do that for the 3 day though, I'd say TDK DOM is going down.

Yeah, Incredibles was one of Pixar's least attended films at the time of release, when many expected it to be massive thanks to coming off of Nemo. Still a big hti and hopefully the years of sequel demands from fans will help I2, but I wouldn't expect much more than IO numbers.

Didn't Deadline give us a 62m weekend for Dory this time last week? Yeah, they pull these early Friday projections straight from thin air these days.

How fast does it take to get from Dorne to Mereen? It Varys.

I'm not really sure what the point of making them animals was either honestly? It doesn't even look like it's acknowledged.

This has to be the only horror trilogy in history to get more critical acclaim with each installment. Hell, one of the only trilogies period.

Clearly there will be a montage set to Lana Del Rey's Video Games.

I'm sure Tangled is more profitable with merchandise added in, but in terms of box office WiR was actually the bigger success. Remember Tangled had a gargantuan $260m budget, thanks to its tumultuous production, and didn't quite hit 600m WW. WiR on the other hand did close to 500 on a 165m budget. The profit from box office for WiR was probably twice as much or more than Tangled's.

It's movies like this that make me terrified an IDR sequel will actually happen.

Much like the superhero theme made Incredibles ripe for a sequel, so does the gaming theme for WiR. I see nothing about Zootopia that says the story should continue. It is completely and perfectly contained in one film. I can think of at least 20 WDAS films that seem more sequel ready, including Tangled and BH6 from this era.

I am highly against Zootopia 2. WiR is one of the few WDAS movies ever that actually felt like it should have a sequel all along, and Frozen 2 was simply unavoidable. But Zootopia 2 seems highly unnecessary. The first doesn't lend well to a sequel and I'm not even convinced it's the kind of hit where a sequel would also be successful. It feels very much like a one and done and I hope WDAS cools it with the sequels. They will lose their regained seating on the throne if they focus on them over originals.

Holy cow, I'm so excited and it's so soon!!! This must have been greenlit not too long after the first came out. Sneaky sneaky. This and Incredibles 2 are the only sequels I really wanted to see in the animation world.

I can see kids going for it tbh, especially if they went for the far more appalling looking Home. Could do 150+ DOM.

Not a bad way to define it, but for me it's a little more exclusive. I don't think it should average to one film a year, we don't get a box office phenomenon every year on average.

This will make you a little more thankful for this summer's slate:

Whatev, all I'm saying is that interview was blatantly riddled with subtle digs towards TFA.

Looks visually....interesting I guess? Actually showing the celebrity voice over cast side by side their character felt like a new level of desperation from DWA though.

This summer is essentially a repeat of 2003. Finding Nemo movies on top, followed by a huge live action Disney movie (Pirates 1/CW). Both had profitable Singer helmed X-Men films, and then a slew of commercial and critical failures, many of which were unwanted sequels: Terminator 3 / Alice 2 Bad Boys 2 / IDR Spy Kids 3D / TMNT2 Legally Blonde 2 / NYSM2 Charlie's Angels 2 / Neighbors 2 Tomb Raider 2 / Warfcraft League of Extraordinary Gentlemen / Tarzan Daddy Day Care / Ice Age?? Now we just need a big comedy hit like Bruce Almighty (Ghostbusters?), a grittier action hit like The Matrix Reloaded (Suicide Squad?), and an older skewing hit like Seabiscuit (Bourne?) and the parallel will be complete.