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[cannastop]

11 minutes ago, PKMLover said:

Endgame seems to become the 2nd highest grossing movie in a single territory after this weekend.

Top 10 consists of:

1: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (NA) - $936.7M

2: Avengers: Endgame (NA) - $854.2M+

3: Wolf Warrior 2 (China) - $854.2M

4: Avatar (NA) - $760.5M

5: Black Panther (NA) - $700.1M

6: The Wandering Earth (China) - $691M

7: Avengers: Infinity War (NA) - $678.8M

8: Titanic (NA) - $659.4M

9: Jurassic World (NA) - $652.3M

10: Avengers: Endgame (China) - $629.1M

Oh yeah this. I forgot how much Wolf Warriors 2 made.

[Legion Again]

Disney could conceivably end the year with only one 600M+ grosser. Dark days for them, truly.

[john2000]

1 minute ago, Thanos Legion said:

Disney could conceivably end the year with only one 600M+ grosser. Dark days for them, truly.

i hope that this wont happen, but yeah i dont think that it will be a big problem

[titanic2187]

I don't think this will be a disappointment considering rotten RT score, TS4 is a bit disappointing relative to expectation and with near perfect RT score 

[BadAtGender]

I realized earlier that the critical reception for TLK is worse than Man of Steel.

[a2k]

10 minutes ago, Thanos Legion said:

Disney could conceivably end the year with only one 600M+ grosser. Dark days for them, truly.

Let's wait for the final trailer of Maleficent before jumping the gun. 

[cannastop]

Just now, ElsaRoc said:

I realized earlier that the critical reception for TLK is worse than Man of Steel.

releasethesnydercut

[a2k]

Just now, cannastop said:

releasethesnydercut

Battle with Scar (who has his neck snapped) leaves Simba bitter and gloomy. He mopes around hopelessly till the 'dark panther' Bagheera from neighbouring jungle gets weary of Simba's destructive potential and battles him. He is about to kill Simba but realising that their mother's names are the same (after Simba mumbles "Save Sarabi") Bagheera feels all of sudden warm things towards his once biggest nemesis. They join hands with a Gazelle with wondrous powers to start The League of Jungle Justice.

[Mekanos]

9 minutes ago, cannastop said:

releasethesnydercut

Wrong director that started a comic book cinematic universe.

[Elessar]

1 hour ago, MovieMan89 said:

Avatar 2 is a huge wildcard for OW and will be until we're well into marketing, but a 100+ OW is in no way locked. 

Ridiculous.

[Mekanos]

Think Avatar 2 can do a 200 opening but really no way to know at the moment.

[cannastop]

12 minutes ago, a2k said:

They join hands with a Gazelle with wondrous powers

[Zakiyyah6]

27 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

I don't think this will be a disappointment considering rotten RT score, TS4 is a bit disappointing relative to expectation and with near perfect RT score 

TS4 isn't remotely a disappointment. I'd say it's over performing. It is very lucky that it is doing as great as it is. 

[a2k]

3 minutes ago, cannastop said:

TJB + TLK + Zootopia, Disney's animated animals shared uni.

Edited July 20, 2019 by a2k

[BadAtGender]

8 minutes ago, Mekanos said:

Wrong director that started a comic book cinematic universe.

 

It's entirely possible that Snyder didn't intend to start a CU. IIRC, his hiring for MoS was largely because he was likely to hit deadlines. (And budgets?) Since WB wanted it released by a specific time, that was a point in his favor.

 

There's nothing in MoS that indicates a forthcoming CU. It doesn't have a teaser for any other superheroes or future plotlines. And arguably, there's a pretty dang good Superman film in BvS, but WB panicked and thumbtacked Batman into it. And though it's even more removed, you could even see something about Justice League that would have been a Superman only film.

 

Basically, if not for the WB desire to get a cinematic universe going, Snyder probably would have done a trilogy of standalone Superman films that covered the Death and Rebirth story. Some of the details in BvS would have changed, but the broad strokes (Lex working to undermine public trust in Superman, the creation of Doomsday, and Superman's ultimate sacrifice) would have played into a Rise of the Supermen story for the third film. Maybe not the exact versions from the comics, but the germ of it.

 

It probably would have been better for those films. Even though the general dourness of them probably wouldn't have gotten either audiences or critics to wholeheartedly love them, but they likely wouldn't have gotten the critical lambasting that BvS and JL did get. On the other hand, if there hadn't been such a huge stumble in using Batman and Superman together to get a CU running, we probably wouldn't have gotten the more creative and desperate ideas. So no Wonder Woman or Aquaman as they are. No Shazam. No Harley Quinn.

 

We probably would have gotten some form of those characters eventually, but they would have been safer and less risky. 

 

(Arguably, we wouldn't have gotten Captain Marvel, either, since Wonder Woman probably pushed Marvel to get on that sooner rather than never.)

 

(If Green Lantern had been a bigger success, say something north of $200m, it's entirely possible that it would have been used to jumpstart the CU rather than MoS.)

[charlie Jatinder]

1 hour ago, That One Guy said:

 

Plot of the new book:

 

Oh my god. Are those tweets real? What did Ron do to deserve that

[cannastop]

2 minutes ago, Charlie Jatinder said:

Oh my god. Are those tweets real? What did Ron do to deserve that

not real lol.

[john2000]

43 minutes ago, a2k said:

Let's wait for the final trailer of Maleficent before jumping the gun. 

Lets wait for the final total of tlk first, 😉

[charlie Jatinder]

1 hour ago, PKMLover said:

Endgame seems to become the 2nd highest grossing movie in a single territory after this weekend.

Top 10 consists of:

1: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (NA) - $936.7M

2: Avengers: Endgame (NA) - $854.2M+

3: Wolf Warrior 2 (China) - $854.2M

4: Avatar (NA) - $760.5M

5: Black Panther (NA) - $700.1M

6: The Wandering Earth (China) - $691M

7: Avengers: Infinity War (NA) - $678.8M

8: Titanic (NA) - $659.4M

9: Jurassic World (NA) - $652.3M

10: Avengers: Endgame (China) - $629.1M

FWIW, Wolf Warrior 2 is ~$799mn Approx. That $854mn figure includes online ticket booking charges. However since we are talking about territory, its fine, but if its only about a country, WW 2 will be 2nd as Endgame has made $83mn in Canada.

[Legion Again]

16 minutes ago, ElsaRoc said:

Arguably, we wouldn't have gotten Captain Marvel, either, since Wonder Woman probably pushed Marvel to get on that sooner rather than never.)

Announced, dated, and cast well before Wonder Woman’s success. Directors hired as well.

Edited July 20, 2019 by Thanos Legion