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[superduperm]

10 minutes ago, Minnale101 said:

This gonna huge. Everyone raving about it in my twitter timeline. 

 

Lion king will own next 7 weeks 

So much for poor RT and MC scores lol

[stealthyfrog]

Verified audience score is 90% with 977 reviews. Looking like a solid A Cinemascore and great WOM.

[ThomasNicole]

Audience Scores:

 

Verified: 90% with 977 reviews, 4.53/5 average;

Total: 83% with 1853 reviews, 4.26/5 average.

 

Starting to get normal, probably will end up with 85-87%, pretty good. Not on Aladdin level, but really good. Should get an A on cinemascore.

[The Panda]

I thought about getting threadbanned by giving Lion King spoilers for the lulz, but I realized after seeing it that it just might be near impossible to spoil.

 

It’s a beautiful tech demo, I’m excited to see them use the tech to make a movie.

[MikeQ]

If The Lion King hits at least the low end of Deadline's range, with 22M in previews, it will be in the top 20 preview grosses of all time.

 

Assuming the low end of 22M is around where the preview gross falls, if this follows the same share-of-opening-day-from-previews as Incredibles 2 (18.5M in previews) or Beauty and the Beast (16.3M in previews), it will be looking at an ~85M opening day in total with previews. I wouldn't be surprised if The Lion King is a bit more preview frontloaded, as it is opening in July, during "peak summer" in terms of all schools being out, etc.

 

Estimated Top Midnight/Preview Grosses of All-Time

 

Rank / Title / Gross / Share of Opening Day

1. Avengers: Endgame — 60.0 million (38.1%)
2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens — 57.0 million (47.9%)
3. Star Wars: The Last Jedi — 45.0 million (43.0%)
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 — 43.5 million (47.7%)
5. Avengers: Infinity War — 39.0 million (36.7%)
6. The Dark Knight Rises — 30.6 million (40.4%)
7. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 — 30.4 million (42.7%)
8. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 — 30.25 million (42.2%)
9. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse — 30.1 million (43.9%)
10. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — 29.0 million (40.8%)
11. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice — 27.7 million (34.0%)
12. Avengers: Age of Ultron — 27.6 million (32.7%)
13. The Twilight Saga: New Moon — 26.27 million (36.1%)
14. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — 25.26 million (35.6%)
15. Black Panther — 25.2 million (33.2%)
16. Captain America: Civil War — 25 million (33.1%)
17. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 — 24 million (38.9%)
18. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — 22.8 million (39.2%)
19. The Lion King (2019)  — 22 million? (TBD)
20. Captain Marvel  — 20.7 million (33.5%)
21. Suicide Squad — 20.5 million (31.6%)
22. The Hunger Games — 19.735 million (29.3%)
23. Marvel's The Avengers — 18.7 million (23.1%)
24. Deadpool 2 — 18.6 million (35.1%)
25. Incredibles 2 — 18.5 million (25.9%)
26. The Dark Knight — 18.5 million (27.5%)
27. Jurassic World — 18.5 million (22.6%)
28. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 — 17 million (30.2%)
29. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 — 17 million (30.8%)
30. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith — 16.9 million (33.8%)
31. Transformers : Revenge of the Fallen — 16.8 million (27.1%)
32. Beauty and the Beast — 16.3 million (25.5%)

Peace,

Mike

[KP1025]

Wow. I forgot how huge Twilight previews were. 

[Ocho]

Did anyone else miss not hearing Elton John.....😒? That duet was horrible on "Can you feel the love tonight".

 

Overall 7.5/10

 

Playing every 15 mins at my 16 Cineplex.

[Legion Again]

Those would be excellent previews, though I’m not the most trusting of 8PM Deadline.

[ban1o]

1 minute ago, Ocho said:

Did anyone else miss not hearing Elton John.....😒? That duet was horrible on "Can you feel the love tonight".

 

Overall 7.5/10

 

Playing every 15 mins at my 16 Cineplex.

I enjoyed Donald Glover's voice acting for Simba but his singing in Can you feel the love tonight left a lot to be desired 

[excel1]

5 minutes ago, KP1025 said:

Wow. I forgot how huge Twilight previews were. 

2021's THE BATMAN = batman + twilight fanbase rush 😎

Edited July 19, 2019 by excel1

[MovieMan89]

Deadline early numbers are pulled from nothing substantial whatsoever, but I will say 25 would be huge for it. Don't buy it will go that high though. 

[cannastop]

10 minutes ago, The Panda said:

I thought about getting threadbanned by giving Lion King spoilers for the lulz, but I realized after seeing it that it just might be near impossible to spoil.

 

It’s a beautiful tech demo, I’m excited to see them use the tech to make a movie.

Eh I hope they never use this tech again.

[VanillaSkies]

6 minutes ago, Ocho said:

Did anyone else miss not hearing Elton John.....😒? That duet was horrible on "Can you feel the love tonight".

 

Overall 7.5/10

 

Playing every 15 mins at my 16 Cineplex.

Elton doesn't sing "Can you feel the love tonight" in the original animated film either. 

Elton's version was on the soundtrack and released to radio, but it actually has different lyrics even then the movie version.... 

[Ocho]

2 minutes ago, VanillaSkies said:

Elton doesn't sing "Can you feel the love tonight" in the original animated film either. 

Elton's version was on the soundtrack and released to radio, but it actually has different lyrics even then the movie version.... 

Didn't Elton sing it during the credits?

[MattW]

I'd put the baseline for 2021's Batman at about Suicide Squad's level, $130-ish million OW.  From there if the trailers are great add 10-20m, if the reviews are great add another 10-20m, 180 tops, but more likely 140-150.

[The Panda]

All the reviews saying this is Beautiful VFX tech yet does absolutely nothing to expand on the original (in actuality it does a lot to detract from it) are absolutely right.

 

I don’t think I’d consider it a bad movie except for the fact it’s impossible to watch it and not just want to turn it off and watch the classic one instead.

[stealthyfrog]

3 minutes ago, MattW said:

I'd put the baseline for 2021's Batman at about Suicide Squad's level, $130-ish million OW.  From there if the trailers are great add 10-20m, if the reviews are great add another 10-20m, 180 tops, but more likely 140-150.

Yep. Would be a great opening for a post-BvS DCEU film.

[cannastop]

11 minutes ago, VanillaSkies said:

Elton doesn't sing "Can you feel the love tonight" in the original animated film either. 

Elton's version was on the soundtrack and released to radio, but it actually has different lyrics even then the movie version.... 

Elton John's version plays in the credits.

[ban1o]

I really liked the just can't wait to be kind sequence.  Also there were a few scenes where the hyper realism looked really beautiful. 

[cdsacken]

It's so weird I used to never care if others watching a film liked it. Now if my kid loves it, it means everything. I legitimately enjoyed My Little Pony the movie because of her. Plus Sia was in it so that helped a ton.