Weekend Thread (11/17-19) | Early Deadline #s - Songbirds 5.75-6M Previews, Trolls 2M

[Grebacio]

2 minutes ago, Kon said:

 

However, consider the audience didn't make Marvel pay with Guardians 3. So, the situation is "we will make Marvel pay as long as the movie doesn't have characters we care about".

Guardians 3 underperformed on Opening Weekend. It Got good legs beacuse of its WoM.

[Issac Newton]

 

 

[grim22]

2 minutes ago, Kon said:

Yeah. The Marvels is partially suffering for the sins of prevous movies.

 

However, consider the audience didn't make Marvel pay with Guardians 3. So, the situation is "we will make Marvel pay as long as the movie doesn't have characters we care about".

 

Guardians 3 did look like it would be paying for it, and it did not gross more than part 2 in the end. Guardians 3 was trending low in box office before they started the early screenings and reviews and word of mouth and fans remembered that they loved the characters and wanted to say goodbye.

[Barnack]

1 hour ago, Dale Cooper said:

Every genre has its ups on downs, and YA peaked somewhere around Potter and Twilight ending and Hunger Games starting.

 

Youth Book reading in generals I would imagine

 

Big drop in reading has social media start to pick-up among them around 2013, would have probably been sooner without the Lords of Rings and specially Potter phenomenon.

 

1 hour ago, Dale Cooper said:

It feels like a long stretch to argue that it would have outgrossed Catching Fire if it would have been one movie.

 

Hunger Games without a Hunger Games is a harder sale (and you cannot do the games 3 movies in a row either) and those high concept affair are almost always better in a barely explain world that are just a metaphor for a real one, would it be the cube or something else. Do again the director change to have one that have time to do the movie, a single one, etc... if it is really good maybe it match Catching Fire but that already exceptional.

 

1 hour ago, Dale Cooper said:

Harry Potter (where every successive movie opened bigger than the one before) 

The first Potter was probably the biggest one of the whole franchise, but even without taking inflation into account not every Potter movie opened bigger than the one before, maybe you meant the first Lords of the Rings ?

[ringedmortality]

4 hours ago, Cap said:

also find it insulting that comics is “less reading”

 

Well they are. Something with less words is easier to read. Reading a graphic novel like Watchmen takes a short amount of time than reading something like The Grapes of Wrath. I took a comics class once, which was an English course but using comics as the text, and the reading in that class was much easier than in all my other literature classes.

Edited November 18, 2023 by ringedmortality

[Issac Newton]

 

 

[Zakiyyah6]

2 minutes ago, Kon said:

Yeah. The Marvels is partially suffering for the sins of prevous movies.

 

However, consider the audience didn't make Marvel pay with Guardians 3. So, the situation is "we will make Marvel pay as long as the movie doesn't have characters we care about".

Captain Marvel 1.1 billion dollar gross obfuscated what I have been saying for years. Carol Danvers, as she is portrayed in her first movie, is a dull over powered character who is hard to care about. She's the Henry Cavill Superman of the MCU. People thought the film was fine and fun but never attached to the lead character. So that killed her too late nearly 5 years later sequel. 

[interiorgatordecorator]

30 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

 

 

 

"peacock day-and-date release"-ass drop

[Grand Cine]

16 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:

 

 

Good estimation for all the trackers especially @keysersoze123 and @charlie Jatinder. Congratulations.

 

I think with a good jump today and good sunday hold , i think the movie could make 30M OW

[TomThomas]

19 minutes ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

The Marvels has horrible word of mouth. The only people who like it are people online.

Ghostbusters 2016 all over again.

[interiorgatordecorator]

2 minutes ago, Barnack said:

 

Youth Book reading in generals I would imagine

 

Big drop in reading has social media start to pick-up among them around 2013, would have probably been sooner without the Lords of Rings and specially Potter phenomenon.

 

 

Hunger Games without a Hunger Games is a harder sale (and you cannot do the games 3 movies in a row either) and those high concept affair are almost always better in a barely explain world that are just a metaphor for a real one, would it be the cube or something else. Do again the director change to have one that have time to do the movie, a single one, etc... if it is really good maybe it match Catching Fire but that already exceptional.

 

The first Potter was probably the biggest one of the whole franchise, but even without taking inflation into account not every Potter movie opened bigger than the one before, maybe you meant the first Lords of the Rings ?

 

what are today's 13-year-olds reading?

[titanic2187]

It is bloodbath for old movies although all three main new releases can’t even cross 100m combined.

 

That dream scenario expansion isn’t exactly great. Should still be able to hit 10k PTA but I am no longer sure if this can do decently during wide expansion. Priscilla is still on track for 20m finish, a strong mid week grosses definitely help. 
 

Holdovers is basically following bottoms BO route, a meh numbers after expansion. Shouldn’t have drop week-to-week if you are doubling your theater count. 
 

that is it for KOTFM…..

[John Marston]

Just realized that’s a worse second weekend hold than Morbius. Won’t outgross Black Adam’s opening weekend in its first ten days 

[Issac Newton]

I bet "Thanksgiving" will finish ahead of "The Marvels"

 

 

[WorkingonaName]

3 minutes ago, interiorgatordecorator said:

 

what are today's 13-year-olds reading?

"Letter to America"

[interiorgatordecorator]

1 minute ago, Issac Newton said:

I bet "Thanksgiving" will finish ahead of "The Marvels"

 

 

 

what a troll

Edited November 18, 2023 by interiorgatordecorator

[Krissykins]

Deadline went too high on almost everything, including unfortunately Thanksgiving. 

[KeepItU25071906]

24 minutes ago, Zakiyyah6 said:

The Marvels has horrible word of mouth. The only people who like it are people online.

"But it's so fun!"

[Zakiyyah6]

The Marvels could make under 10M this weekend. 

[Barnack]

3 minutes ago, interiorgatordecorator said:

 

what are today's 13-year-olds reading?

Still Hunger games-Potters-Percy Jackson I guess....

 

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