Weekend Thread: Free Guy 28.4, Don't Breathe 10.6, Jungle Cruise 9, Respect 8.8, TSS 7.75

[Cmasterclay]

Jungle Cruise will get a sequel, right? Feels pretty easy for Disney to say that it would have done 175 without D+/COVID and 175/500 would have certainly justified a sequel in the old days.

[ThomasNicole]

2 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:

Jungle Cruise will get a sequel, right? Feels pretty easy for Disney to say that it would have done 175 without D+/COVID and 175/500 would have certainly justified a sequel in the old days.

I think they will but with a way smaller budget.

 

I still can't see how this movie cost 200M. If they manage to make a sequel costing $ 120-130M i think it's worthy, the movie is doing really fine considering the situation and people loved it.

[Krissykins]

4 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:

Jungle Cruise will get a sequel, right? Feels pretty easy for Disney to say that it would have done 175 without D+/COVID and 175/500 would have certainly justified a sequel in the old days.

Jungle Cruise isn’t performing internationally at the same level as domestic though. 

[Valonqar]

F9 is the boxoffice story. I had no idea it was still far from being done OS. Familia always wins. 

Very decent for the new openers. 

 

Old continues to hold well. MNS is back. Maybe New Spielberg is still possible? 

[The Wild Eric]

4 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:

Jungle Cruise will get a sequel, right? Feels pretty easy for Disney to say that it would have done 175 without D+/COVID and 175/500 would have certainly justified a sequel in the old days.

Dwayne mentioned he was having talks with Disney and his production company for a sequel a couple weeks back, though obviously this stuff is super early. The only real hurdles here are that reception generally seems to be "it's fine I guess", which is never a good sign for a startup franchise, and also that Dwayne keeps attaching himself to project after project after project that it could get pushed to the backburner. Dude is a Lin-Manuel Miranda/Greg Berlanti level of a workaholic and it's genuinely insane how he never stops.

[Dementeleus]

4 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:

Jungle Cruise will get a sequel, right? Feels pretty easy for Disney to say that it would have done 175 without D+/COVID and 175/500 would have certainly justified a sequel in the old days.

This is Disney — it’ll get 3 sequels and 2 D+ spinoff series, one a prequel for Jesse Plemons’ character, the other about a baboon. 

[ScareLol]

 

[Dragon]

1 hour ago, john2000 said:

 

 

 

 

Let's go. Hope it hits 700 Mil ww.

[filmlover]

20 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:

Jungle Cruise will get a sequel, right? Feels pretty easy for Disney to say that it would have done 175 without D+/COVID and 175/500 would have certainly justified a sequel in the old days.

Depends. Cruella is getting one even though it will finish with a smaller theatrical gross than Jungle Cruise will but it also cost about half of what the latter did (and has already made a profit between international and PA) so we'll see.

[lorddemaxus]

Any numbers for Coda? Wasn't a fan of the film (still a cute film I guess) but it'd be nice if a streaming company actually gave us boxoffice results for a small film like this for once.

 

[poncho]

1 hour ago, ThomasNicole said:

A queda no exterior não foi realmente ruim.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

esse vírus e muito hater da DC passo mal 

 

[Nova]

 

*A non negative tweet 👀

[John Marston]

Fast 9 looks like it will make over 700m. The success story of the year 

[poncho]

10 hours ago, BadOlCatSylvester said:

I can't help but feel like The Suicide Squad would have been far better of as an HBO Max original. Virus or no virus, it was never going to even come close to profitability in theaters. The stench of the first movie is still strong. Birds of Prey was just a preview in hindsight.

 

If it was a Max original, at least WB wouldn't have to deal with all the headlines about how poorly the movie is doing in theaters and how it has the biggest second weekend drop in the entire franchise. It would have found an audience there at least.

 

in a normal scenario before the pandemic, "TSS" would have been a commercial success, there is no reason to assume otherwise.

[Valonqar]

9 minutes ago, John Marston said:

Fast 9 looks like it will make over 700m. The success story of the year 

I hope it does! It would be great to have a 700M pandemic grosser. I know that big chunk comes from China, F's most loyal market, but credit where it's due. It's a great success. 

[TwoMisfits]

3 minutes ago, poncho said:

 

in a normal scenario before the pandemic, "TSS" would have been a commercial success, there is no reason to assume otherwise.

 

Well, the subpar box office combined with the subpar streaming numbers would seem to indicate that's not a total sure thing.  For the GA, it's not been evenly received by age or gender outside of the uber-fan base.  Even Deadline mentioned that OW, and it's uneven reception is not improving as more non-uber-fans saw this...

 

It would have better numbers...would it have gotten to "commercial success" with its budget?  There's a lot more doubt here...

 

[poncho]

20 hours ago, Napoleon said:

Joker made a billion just before the pandemic. I don't think there's a problem with the brand, it's just that WB isn't making the movies fans want to see.

 

DC doesn't have a strong fan base to support a movie box office during a pandemic, Marvel fans will watch their movies in any possible setting.
The last three DC films were released in a pandemic setting, and it's too surreal to assume that "TSS' and "WW84" wouldn't be big box office hits in a non-pandemic setting.

And even Marvel with a large fan base couldn't avoid the failure of "BW". 

[Nova]

8 minutes ago, poncho said:

 

in a normal scenario before the pandemic, "TSS" would have been a commercial success, there is no reason to assume otherwise.

audience reception, streaming numbers and box office numbers say otherwise. 

[Madhuvan]

17 minutes ago, poncho said:

 

in a normal scenario before the pandemic, "TSS" would have been a commercial success, there is no reason to assume otherwise.

No numbers so far suggest that and neither does audience reception.

[WrathOfHan]

1 hour ago, Free Eric said:

Dwayne mentioned he was having talks with Disney and his production company for a sequel a couple weeks back, though obviously this stuff is super early. The only real hurdles here are that reception generally seems to be "it's fine I guess", which is never a good sign for a startup franchise, and also that Dwayne keeps attaching himself to project after project after project that it could get pushed to the backburner. Dude is a Lin-Manuel Miranda/Greg Berlanti level of a workaholic and it's genuinely insane how he never stops.

and he has time to shower thrice daily!