WHY WOULD YOU PUT DREAMS IN MY HEAD THAT CAN NEVER COME TRUE?
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Wkd Box Office - 12•12-16•18 - Spider-verse buries Mortal Engines domestically. Clint does fine. Aquaman rules the world with $262M overseas.
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WHY WOULD YOU PUT DREAMS IN MY HEAD THAT CAN NEVER COME TRUE?
Damn Aquaman is going to do better than Justice League isn't it?
Perhaps this is indeed DC getting their ship on course finally. Better late than never. With Marvel wrapping up their Phase 3 (and on to Phase 4) and DC correcting their hero movies comic movies are looking better than they ever have imo.
Perhaps this is indeed DC getting their ship on course finally. Better late than never. With Marvel wrapping up their Phase 3 (and on to Phase 4) and DC correcting their hero movies comic movies are looking better than they ever have imo.
Nah. Han's twin brother and Gisele (never shown the body!) need to be the villains of the sequel, to get revenge for Han.
That seems like a bit of a downgrade
Wonder what drove the earlier enthusiasm
It was a mistake to do team-up movies before solo flicks.
BvS did well enough, but they should have put Justice League on hold until after Aquaman, Flash and Cyborg. That's why Avengers did so well, they firmly established the main four in the public consciousness.
On the one hand, holidays are notoriously difficult to predict.
On the other, Deadline are garbage at maths.
I'm really surprised by the lack of enthusiasm for Mary Poppins. Aside from Beauty and the Beast, tts probably the best known classic Disney story and they even got LMM to help with the score. Lion King will obviously do huge numbers but people may be getting tired of this series of remakes.
Well it looks like there isn't but Disney wouldn't have moved Star Wars off the Christmas release window if they didn't expect a huge result.
I mean I"m sure it'll do well for itself, but I'm not seeing anyone really talk about it.
I still think Poppins will be a slow burn, but yeah it doesn't seem to have that air about it yet with the general audience. Like only one of my co-workers has mentioned it recently, and that was more in the light of... why. But if it is as magical as some are saying word of mouth shall increase.
Though I am curious because it isn't the only show in town for family. Like almost all of the major releases can be viewed by families pretty easily this season.
Though I am curious because it isn't the only show in town for family. Like almost all of the major releases can be viewed by families pretty easily this season.
I grew up with her, grew up watching my brother watch the movie, and my kid's watching it now. I just.. don't care about this movie. I don't know why they made it. It's an unnecessary sequel.
Mary Poppins is a much older film than Beauty and the Beast so it's not gonna appeal to people the same way as something more modern.
The Jungle Book cartoon also released in the 60s and the remake made a billion dollars
You shouldn't be. Poppins has the same problem the Speed Racer remake did. Its simply too late to the party.
There is a "nostalgia window" you need to hit where those who saw it when they were young are your primary audience and will take their kids to share the experience.
Beauty and the Beast and Lion King were both early 90s. If you saw those in the theatre when you were 8, you are 32, probably with young kids. Thats the sweet spot.
Mary Poppins on the other hand was 1964. You saw that in the theatre when you were 8, youre now 62. Your kids are grown. You're not going to be running to the theatre for anything- you can wait until it hits on demand in 4 months.
Im 40 this year and don't really have a fondness for live action Disney movies from the 1960s.
These were things like "son of flubber" "polyanna" "parent trap" "absent minded professor" and similar. Cheeseball garbage with low production values. Poppins was the best of these but they weren't exciting anyone in 1985. Back to the Future just came out! Deloreans! Time Travel! Watch THAT instead.
They were "around" on cable but were basically Saturday afternoon filler or something teachers put on to kill time on substitute day, not actual event films to get excited over.
I never understood why there was such buzz for Mary Poppins or why anyone would be excited for it.
This is the kind of disconnect you find when STUDIO EXECUTIVES remember the property as a hit but the audience is 30 years younger and doesn't.
This happens more often than you'd think.
You guys thought I was nuts when I said I forgot about Mary Poppins and thought it wouldn't do as big numbers as people kept predicting.
I thought Mary Poppins was going to dominate the holiday season tbh.
And I still haven't seen the original.
And I still haven't seen the original.
Could be that most people thought Poppins would come out Friday and not yesterday. I'm in that boat. We'll see how the weekend goes.
got tickets to mortal engines this weekend..........hope its entertaining enough. if i could sit through fantastic beasts 2 and be bored. I'm pretty sure mortal engines will at least fair better on a spectacle scale being peter jackson.
I liked venom and that movie was smashed even worse by critics.
I liked venom and that movie was smashed even worse by critics.
It still might
We can't use one data point to draw any conclusions yet
It's currently projected to do around 2.8m yesterday, this would be the best day 7 against any of the movies I've compared it against.
Spider-verse: 2.80m -35% 45.23m
Grinch: 2.66m -46% 85.85m
LEGO Movie: 2.186m -30% 77.6m
LEGO Batman: 1.8m -64% 62.58m
Ferdinand: 1.38m -23% 17.79m
Maybe some of those families that didn't go to Poppins are going to Spider-verse instead. Honestly at that moment in the trailer when her silhouette appeared from the storm, I thought it was a spoof or something. Who actually cares about Mary Poppins in 2018?
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Looking forward to catch it on Netflix. This is not me being snarky, it's going straight to Netflix outside of North America.
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None of these comparisons really matter other than Ferdinand, because films are already starting to get holiday bumps as schools let out. The Grinch's 6th Wednesday as better than its third through fifth for instance. So comparing Spider-verse weekday grosses to Nov/Feb periods when schools were in session is of course going to look favorable.
I am mainly curious to see what happens with Spider-verse when Aquaman and Bumblebee launch, since both of those will have more overlap with spider-verse's mostly male audience.
Spiderverse really should have released in the summer. Especially with how crap this year's summer movie season was. Shit, probably Bumblebee as well. At least Aquaman is actually good, so if it clobbers both at the box office, it won't sting as much.
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Other than the 1.8B domestic and 4.6B worldwide made by the 4 superhero films that were already in the summer slate.
I don't think that releasing within a month of Incredibles 2 would have improved things. Spider-verse gets what is basically two weeks of weekend days coming up, so any increase in OW from a summer release will be compensated by crazy Dec holiday weekdays
I was about to say "That's a stupid branding", but then I remembered it's the series with the most nonsensical and inconsistent naming conventions in history so more power to em.
Not the Usher kid...I've seen blocks of wood with better performances than this nigga yo...
Having him and Liam Hemsworth starring in Independence Day 2 was tragic b
Excuse me sir, Kingdom Hearts would like to have a word with you.
How is Spider-verse a success if its budget is 90 million and according to Box Office Mojo, its only made about 60 million?
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