3/08-3/10 Weekend Estimates : KFP 4 : 58,3M , Dune 2 : 46,3M , Imaginary : 10M , Caprini : 7,6M

[leoh]

10 minutes ago, babz06 said:

Monkey Man could do Beekeeper numbers. 
Cival War seems like a harder sell so I’m not sure about that. 
I was originally predicting Challengers might do 20-30m but it has potential to be bigger if it can draw female audiences.

Will challengers have a conventional wide release (3k+ locations)?

 

It seems Civil War will take a wide release I guess cuz it’ll take over IMAX screens.

Edited March 10 by leoh

[WorkingonaName]

Green Book rocks and I'm tired of pretending it doesn't, any movie featuring men bonding over fried chicken is a win in my book. 

[DAJK]

I don’t know where the “there’s no negative discourse around Oppenheimer” came from, but if you go to some corners of tiktok it is the most evil movie ever put forth by Hollywood.

[emoviefan]

2 minutes ago, DAJK said:

I don’t know where the “there’s no negative discourse around Oppenheimer” came from, but if you go to some corners of tiktok it is the most evil movie ever put forth by Hollywood.

Some corners of Tik Tok. That about says it. 

[ThomasNicole]

15 minutes ago, DAJK said:

I don’t know where the “there’s no negative discourse around Oppenheimer” came from, but if you go to some corners of tiktok it is the most evil movie ever put forth by Hollywood.

Well it’s TikTok everything there is the most evil thing ever if you search hard enough

 

Obviously i’m talking generally and in the media

Edited March 10 by ThomasNicole

[vale9001]

The negative impact of social networks and with their think pieces and culture wars stuff was a kinda of 2015-2020 thing. Everything is a trend for Hollywood (and well for the media too).

 

 

Now people in general and people in the movie industry are tired of it. In 2024 la la Land would win with any problem. 

 

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[redfirebird2008]

Just found out Regal is playing TDK on April 11, Interstellar on April 18, Inception on April 25, and Dunkirk on May 9 in Regal’s PLF format (RPX). Bought tickets for all of them and looking forward to it! 

Edited March 10 by redfirebird2008

[Dominic Draper]

7 hours ago, leoh said:

 

Sony didn’t care much about Madame Web quality (it was OUTSOURCED to Bonaventura Pictures, the proof is that actresses said they filmed it Boston, home of Bonaventura studios). It turned out to be not good and this the only reason why Madame Web is having a bad box office (although it won’t be as much of a disaster like The Marvels, the Flash or Shazam 2 since it cost only 80M after tax credits/incentives).

 

Dakota Johnson (promoting Madame Web) had one of the most iconic tours ever. There’s no person on internet who hadn’t heard of it. So if the movie was good it’d have make tons of money, it’d be like “an underdog turned out to be a giant”. So IF this rumour was true, Sony would be wrong, Dakota and her funny sarcasm put movie in everyone’s mouth. She made her job. Sony didn’t.

Gonna strongly disagree here.

 

The movie was awful there is no doubt. Dakota was also awful in it.

 

But trashing your in theatre film has always been a no no in Hollywood, especially if you aren't a huge name. Her "iconic tour" was her trashing the film.

 

You need to wait a while before you start doing that.

[Dominic Draper]

7 hours ago, leoh said:

In fact it’s a pretty common thing nowadays movies getting smaller budgets due to tax credits. The Marvels and The Flash without tax credits would have cost 270 freaking million…

 

Plus watching Madame Web (as I did) you get even surprised it could really have cost more than 80M before tax credit lol

Watching the film felt like the budget was half of that. It felt like an extended CW Pilot for a DC show.

[eeetooki]

4 hours ago, DAJK said:

I don’t know where the “there’s no negative discourse around Oppenheimer” came from, but if you go to some corners of tiktok it is the most evil movie ever put forth by Hollywood.

 

For a movie about the father of the atomic bomb that takes place during WWII, the negative discourse is pretty minimal. It managed to not offend most of the countries involved. 

[DAJK]

Rewatched 17 Again tonight. Really underrated 00’s comedy, and it certainly didn’t age nearly as poorly as other 00’s comedies.

[eeetooki]

6 hours ago, leoh said:

Don’t get me wrong, your second paragraph says exactly what I think. About this we don’t disagree (except for “It is never about campaign”, for most of categories it’s all about marketing campaigns, especially in the most technical categories, where you have to make private sessions with voters to explain the development/process etc). This is why I added. ”The best movie with the best award campaign”. Movies like Oppenheimer, Dune Part Two and Killer of the Flower Moon (the best one IMO) are cinematic achievements. You can’t describe any one of them as far better or clearly better than the other ones. You of course will always have your best one though. So when you achieve cinema highest level, what makes the difference is how good your your award campaign is. It’s way less romantic than people think, not all voters even watch all movies, (yeah you read it right) before the short lists come out there are thousands of movies from all around the world to be watched.

 

About your first paragraph we disagree because there are some facts, which movie had the most Screening debates? Oppenheimer.  Which movie had the most score live concerts? Oppenheimer. (In some case the second is not even Barbie but instead Maestro (this may sound weird ikr). Regarding Netflix, everyone knows the voters still have prejudice against Netflix movies, plus they don’t have the box office numbers to back their award campaigns.

 

By the way, what The Academy did with The Irish Man was just atrocious, prejudice was clearer than ever. And yeah they really did a really big award campaign, but prejudice speaks louder sometimes.

 

I mean it's not like Oppenheimer did way more campaigning than other movies. It's also making up for the release press tour which was cut short because of the SAG strike. Oppenheimer does get more publicity because of the big names and also because of the mainstream popularity. Bradley Cooper did a shit ton of interviews which kind of backfired. Paul Giamatti was everywhere, including that In & Out semi-viral moment. Scorsese and Lily did a lot of campaigning too. She's always in the news. Apple also have all the money and resources at their disposal. KOTFM just wasn't that popular of a movie. 

[MightyDargon]

Dakota comes across as a vapid churlish idiot and I hope her career tanks. 

[charlie Jatinder]

23 & 19.75

[Minnale101]

New super Mario bros sequel announced 

 

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2024/240310.html

 

April 3rd 2026

 

2 years to go!!

Edited March 10 by Minnale101

[toutvabien]

50 minutes ago, MightyDargon said:

Dakota comes across as a vapid churlish idiot and I hope her career tanks. 

I root for her just because of her performance in Suspiria

[MightyDargon]

She does provide a good example of why Hollywood press tours are counterproductive about 70 percent of the time, though.

[eeetooki]

55 minutes ago, MightyDargon said:

Dakota comes across as a vapid churlish idiot and I hope her career tanks. 

She sounds like an entitled brat. She only has her blunt and straightforward personality because she's a nepo baby and won't worry about risking her career when she says things like that. It's not like she's getting abused on set or anything. She chose this project because of the money lol 

[BoxOfficeZ]

Dune 2 with 19.75 is a 60% increase from Friday. If we do Batman comps it'll probably do near 46m. I think we might see a slightly better Sunday drop than Batman though. 

 

 

[MightyDargon]

She IS risking her career though. Most people are not going to pay to see a movie simply because Dakota Johnson is in it. Her roles will start to dry up sooner rather than later.