stuart360

I'll admit i only came back 5 or 6 months ago after a long break from the site, but i havent really seen any of us Avatar fans be 'hostile' to anyone. I mean i have defended the film numerous times but i wouldnt say i have been hostile. I mean i have had so much shit for my A2 predictions and hopes since i came back to the site,. The amount of crap i got for my 750mil US/2,5bil WW prediciton was crazy, and in the end the film is going to make 680-690mil US, and around 2.35bil WW. And i made that 2.5bil prediction before the covid situation in China. Me and Ironjimbo even bet our accounts when the OW estimates came in, on the film hitting 2bil WW due to the amount of celebrating on here lol.

It was done out of respect, dont worry Brainbug.

Eh?, where was my big rant about feeling persecuted?. I was just showing that it happens for all movies. I never felt persecuted because i always knew i'd have the last laugh.

Imagine being a Marvel fan and feeling persecuted. There were people on here almost celebrating after A2's 134mil ow. Although some of us knew those celebrations would be short lived.

For me yes, maybe under 500mil even. Depends how the wom effects the film.

So its official now, no.3 of all time, in this post pandemic world. Crazy.

Well people are probably just using the 'sequels tend to drop in gross over each film', which is true a lot of the time but not always. Its not taking into account though that A2 probably lost anywhere from 400mil to IMO 700mil, because of the outbreak in China, something A3 shouldnt have. And i know not everyone on here believes this but i believe that the further we get past the pandemic, the more and more poeple will come back to cinema's. Attendancies are not a lost cause imo, we just need time for people to realize that nothing beats the cinema going experience.

Yes i'm sure Marlowe would opened to 20mil on a different weekend.

I'm just trying to be diplomatic. There is little doubt in my mind that with a proper China gross, and without post pandemic atendancies, A2 would of made 3bil. Hell it would of been at Endgame level just with a proper China gross AND post pandemic attendancies. A3 will be a further 2 years past the pandemic, where hopefully more and more people are going back to cinema's. And obviously China probably wont be in a covid outbreak in 2 years. A3 will gross more than A2, at least WW imo.

Assuming its a good film and another visual spectacle, i could see something like 165mil OW, and 4x legs, and get very close to A2 domestic. International i actually expect a gross bigger than A2, simply because although some markets will probably drop a bit, a proper China gross may well make up for that, and then some.

Doesnt bad reviews and bad wom have little effect on OW, especially for a fanboy film like this, unless the reviews and wom are absolutely terrible?. I mean next weekend will give a better picture of where this is going, hell even the weekdays next week will.

Well i mean over the last few weeks i have seen multiple poeple on here mention 100+mil OW, and 800+mil WW totals. I'm honestly thinking more like 50mil OW, and 400-500mil WW. I dont know if tickets are already on sale, and some early tracking has been done or something, so i'm talking just my unbiased opinion here.

Dont really get why so many poeple on here are super confident in the Mario movie. I think its going to underpeform a lot. Anyone else think its not going to do as good as some think?

Yeah, i actually think it can snail its way to 690mil over the next couple of months.

What the hell, i knew 5x legs was going to be good for a film opening that big but i didnt realize it was going to be the third best legs of all time.

Over $6mil

The best thing about the new Ant Man film is that the forum is alive again for the next 3 or 4 weeks lol. Whens the next potentially huge blockbuster after Ant Man?

I remember when i said i could see Megan reaching 100mil, so many people on here 'corrected' me on how i was wrong. And yeah, its not going to hit 100mil, but its going to hit 97-98mil by the end of its run.

As a none comic reader, and not really a Marvel fan, i actually liked the first Black Panther film the best (literally watched all the Marvel films over 3 weeks from Iron Man to Endgame). But yeah i agree about the sillyness. And dont get me started on the 'banter' between the characters (awful). I think its the reason why i have always preferred the DC films, even though they are usually reviewed worse on the whole. The DC films just feel more adult, more darker in tone, more grounded.

A2 at that low point in its run where its probably going to have very small drops every week until it finishes its run. I'd say 690mil is very possible, maybe even 700mil, although that will still be very hard. Puss in Boots is just crazy, it seems to be not effected by anyhting. The weekend it launches on DVD and BR, that weekend will probably go up too lol.

I think some oif the posts in this thread are getting a bit hyperbolic with the death of Marvel. I mean pandemic or not, you cant keep churning out multiple films every year off the factory production line for 15 years or whatevrer it is, and not expect audiences to eventually start getting a bit tired of it all. In fact i'm surprised it didnt happen already. You could argue thre signs were already there withe The Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy videogames flopping hard, especialy The Avengers which came at the hight of Marvel movie popularity, or so it seemed. Having said that, Marvel is still HUGE, and grosses may start being effected going forward but Marvel films, on the whole, are still going to pull big grosses, probably for years to come still.

Oh go away with the agism crap. You cant comment on anything these days without someone trying to turn it into something bad. Indiana Jones is an action icon, and Ford is 80. Being put off by that has nothing to do with hating old people. Honestly lol.

I assume you mean worldwide lol?. I still think there is a chance this comes under Crystal Skull. You need to ask how many of the masses want to watch a bumbling and mumbling 80yo Indiana Jones. The film also looks more sound stagey than even Crystal Skull did.

I think it will actually be close this weekend, with Titanic possible taking it. Overall though A2 will gross more in its remaining run imo to take the 3rd spot on the all time chart.