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[bleachella]

I'm so excited for this weekend! It's been a long time since there's been this kind of cultural event energy with a movie. I came back from a mostly sold out showing a couple of hours ago and the audience's enthusiasm was through the roof (and amusingly lots of people didn't seem to know about T&A). It was just simply a really good film and a perfect crowd-pleaser. After seeing it i'm expecting this to get A+ cinemascore and really good legs

[Deep Wang]

26 minutes ago, Eric Osborn said:

 

As an aside, and I know this shows my age again, it was a genuine surprise to see both Aasif Mandvi and Emily Deschanel when I rewatched this. It's always fun to go back to movies you haven't seen since you were like 10 and notice all the celebrities you never heard of as a kid pop up.

 

Love the movie, but it's really funny thinking about the logic of someone being so mad about getting free pizza they go to another place.

[Eric Duncan]

 

[EmpireCity]

This movie is coming out this weekend?  I was told it was moving and theaters were dead, so this can't be true.....

 

Enjoy.  The movie is great as expected.  Long live theatrical.  

[Mango]

25 minutes ago, EmpireCity said:

This movie is coming out this weekend?  I was told it was moving and theaters were dead, so this can't be true.....

 

Enjoy.  The movie is great as expected.  Long live theatrical.  

 

Honestly I knew the hype was there for it. That being said, I was really worried anyone who wasn't a "super" Spider-Man fan was going to be turned away by all the would-be fanservice and this would end up with less warm reception.

 

But apparently people are absolutely loving it, which means everything is really lining up. This is the movie people have been waiting two years for, the one to finally get people back in theaters. Tenet, Wonder Woman, Godzilla, Widow/Shang-Chi... out of all the would-be "theater savers" this is the one it has all led up to. This is gonna be a hell of a weekend, lets hope it's the catalyst for something good for theaters.

 

I won't get to see it until 10:30pm tomorrow... waited too long and the 7pm screening was sold out, but I will absolutely be there. Hopefully this can make it to ticket-attendance heights for the character we haven't seen since the Raimi days.

[Daxtreme]

Fuck it, was planning to go with friends on the 23rd

 

I'm going on OW alone since nobody else can make it 

 

Let's contribute to this record

[grey ghost]

What's the December OW record?

 

257m?

[XXR vs XXR]

1 minute ago, grey ghost said:

What's the December OW record?

 

257m?

Just under $248M

[Torontofan]

The old spiderman films are very well known and popular even today so I think people get the references and such. 

[Valonqar]

WOM is going to be out of this world. Truly wonderful, rewatchable movie. Expect big opening and long legs. 

[RealLyre]

this should be doing Avengers Endgame numbers if it was released in the summer but I guess December openers gross tend to be more spread out, I can still see it coming closer to 300M by Sunday.

Edited December 15, 2021 by RealLyre

[Valonqar]

BP dom gross is going down, maybe even Avatar dom when it's all said and done. 

Edited December 15, 2021 by Valonqar

[Darth Lehnsherr]

9 hours to go

[Mango]

1 minute ago, Valonqar said:

BP dom gross is going down, maybe even Avatar dom when it's all said and done. 

 

Not sure if I'm on board with that quite yet. It would take quite a lot for that to happen, and we are still in a recovering climate. That being said, Black Panther is roughly around the same adjusted for inflation as Spider-Man 2002 and the first Avengers. To match that it's gonna need at least a little over $700M. 

 

I think I am fully on board for $600M though. At this point I just can't see how it misses unless the concept of "holiday season legs" have gone out the window. Even the most mixed-received Star Wars title managed nearly a 3x multi.

[Valonqar]

I don't know whether holidays fall on favorable days or not but WOM is going to be fantastic, and January is dead until Morbius. Scream should do well but don't expect some mega opening. 

[Krissykins]

10 minutes ago, Valonqar said:

I don't know whether holidays fall on favorable days or not but WOM is going to be fantastic, and January is dead until Morbius. Scream should do well but don't expect some mega opening. 

I’d imagine people who go on an opening day non-holiday Wednesday will have been guaranteed to enjoy it anyway lol. 
 

I’m hoping Scream will be #1. 

[Valonqar]

1 minute ago, Krissykins said:

I’d imagine people who go on an opening day non-holiday Wednesday will have been guaranteed to enjoy it anyway lol. 
 

I’m hoping Scream will be #1. 

 

I think it will be by that time. 20M+ at least should get it there. 

[Torontofan]

Ontario will be moving to 50% screen capacity on Saturday.

 

This will mean business will go more towards weekdays and next weekend.

 

[snarkmachine]

Just saw it. This thing is going to have legs out the wazoo

[excel1]

Considering the trailers looked truly awful, so happy to hear it rocks and hoping for a nuclear box office explosion this weekend.