Avatar: The Way of Water | 16 DEC 2022 | Don't worry guys, critics like it

[Sheldon Cr]

22 minutes ago, Danhjpn said:

155M OW + 5.5x legs

Cameron can get us 6x+ legs. 😎🥊

[XXR & Friends]

Looks like China may be more problematic than we hoped. According to some users in China, there’s a lot of pushback about the re-opening and a general COVID hesitancy. I’m hopeful it still goes over $450M but it sucks to think what it could miss. 
 

COVID and ER issues will probably cost this film $650-850M worldwide. 

[TRISTAN]

1 hour ago, Sheldon Cr said:

Come on now one of the biggest Snows Storms on the east side and folks come through the storms and help it to 77M OW when it was expected to make 40 or less lol. Then it has a 9.7x Multiplier.

XXR thats one of the most impressive runs of all time. Even the OW is crazy as it means folks came for Camerons Avatar through SNow that could kill them in some cases on the domestic End. I rem seeing folks posting as long as the Theater is open Im getting there and showing the weather lol.

Then it holds for  71-73m THE 2nd Weekend. 

The same kind of run may happen. 190-200M OW with 5x-6X + Legs

75 million 2nd weekend 

[Borobudur]

Yes, the Covid-19 fear in China is genuinely intense with millions of millions are imposing self-lockdown and isolation. Everyone have to keep in this mind in regard to A2's China BO potential. 

[Lucas]

24 hours left for me.

[TRISTAN]

 

[Old Spice]

57 minutes ago, XXR Tulkun Rider said:

Looks like China may be more problematic than we hoped. According to some users in China, there’s a lot of pushback about the re-opening and a general COVID hesitancy. I’m hopeful it still goes over $450M but it sucks to think what it could miss. 
 

COVID and ER issues will probably cost this film $650-850M worldwide. 

Article in NYT this morning about how Bejing is basically in a self imposed lockdown. The govt. has lifted the most stringent restrictions, but Covid hesitancy has led to people sheltering in place. Businesses have no customers and their employees aren't reporting to work anyway, so it's a vicious cycle. It would be hard to imagine a worse environment to release a movie in.

[interiorgatordecorator]

7 hours ago, omark said:

 

 

whats the last fella ("problematic" complaining about?

[Flamengo81]

When the embargo goes down?

[Borobudur]

Since everyone is mourning over slowdown in presale and non-universal positive review, give all some good news.

 

For whatever reason, US dollar is weakening significantly across the board in today trading. 

[robotkiller]

2 minutes ago, Borobudur said:

Since everyone is mourning over slowdown in presale and non-universal positive review, give all some good news.

 

For whatever reason, US dollar is weakening significantly across the board in today trading. 

People are expecting the Fed to do a smaller rate hike after today’s cpi numbers.

[Juby]

12 minutes ago, Flamengo81 said:

When the embargo goes down?

 

In 2 hours and 23 minutes.

 

[dignam]

7 minutes ago, Borobudur said:

Since everyone is mourning over slowdown in presale and non-universal positive review, give all some good news.

 

For whatever reason, US dollar is weakening significantly across the board in today trading. 

 

 

What do you mean? Its getting great reviews, that not everyone is gonna like it was clear, but the majority says its much better than the first one, better story, better visuals und the last act is beyond epic.

[BadOlCatSylvester]

Without China at full capacity, this likely won't be able to replicate the first film's gargantuan $2.8B gross. Still, No Way Home managed to nearly crack the $2B threshold without them, so this movie should still be able to reach that.

[IronJimbo]

9 minutes ago, BadOlCatSylvester said:

Without China at full capacity, this likely won't be able to replicate the first film's gargantuan $2.8B gross. Still, No Way Home managed to nearly crack the $2B threshold without them, so this movie should still be able to reach that.

Without China

 

No Way Home managed to nearly crack the $2B threshold

 

so this movie should still be able to

 

replicate the first film's gargantuan $2.8B gross

 

Edited December 13, 2022 by IronJimbo

[Dragoncaine]

7 hours ago, Verrows said:

The point Joshua Axelrod made in his first tweet about nothing feeling tactile, like it's all a video game cut scene, is exactly how I felt after watching the 2nd trailer. Obviously this takes place on an alien world with non human characters but I feel like you still need some real live action stuff to ground it a bit, or suspend your disbelief.

 

This is just an opinion though and not a critique.

To be fair, wasn't he talking exclusively about HFR, and instead said the VFX and 3D are phenomenal? Not every showtime will be in HFR.

 

Sadly, the amount of open theaters in China actually decreased by nearly 200 in the past day. I'm "bracing" for like a $2.1-2.3b run, which would of course still be amazing.

Edited December 13, 2022 by Dragoncaine

[Torontofan]

50 minutes ago, A Star is Delayed said:

Article in NYT this morning about how Bejing is basically in a self imposed lockdown. The govt. has lifted the most stringent restrictions, but Covid hesitancy has led to people sheltering in place. Businesses have no customers and their employees aren't reporting to work anyway, so it's a vicious cycle. It would be hard to imagine a worse environment to release a movie in.

 

whats the end goal here though....

[BadOlCatSylvester]

5 minutes ago, IronJimbo said:

Without China at full capacity

 

No Way Home managed to nearly crack the $2B threshold

 

so this movie should still be able to

 

replicate the first film's gargantuan $2.8B gross

 

 

Believe me, that's the outcome I'm actually hoping for.

[Borobudur]

3 minutes ago, Dragoncaine said:

To be fair, wasn't he talking exclusively about HFR, and instead said the VFX and 3D are phenomenal? Not every showtime will be in HFR.

 

Sadly, the amount of open theaters in China actually decreased by nearly 200 in the past day. I'm "bracing" for like a $2.1-2.3b run, which would of course still be amazing.

Theater count normally drop during weekdays in China due to lack of movies in release. They will come back near weekend. 

[stuart360]

Ther is one upside to all these things going against A2 (a tiny upside), none of these factors should be in play for A3 in 2 years.

 

A3 for 5bil WW!😃