Yea there is no way on Earth they were actually expecting $160 mil.
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Wkd Box Office - 12•13-15•19 - Jumanji Exceeds Expectations, Frozen 2 Passes 1B, No Jewels or Happy Holidays For Other New Releases
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Personally, I thought the marketing for TRoS was quite weak. None of the trailers or commercials really had anything particularly interesting in them compared to the ones for TFA or TLJ to me.
With TROS underperforming critically and commercially along with Knives Out doing the opposite I think Johnson's stock is only going up at the moment. And before someone blames TROS performance on TLJ reaction- WOM indicators on TROS aren't looking good either and that can't be blamed on TLJ.
I don't think Johnson will be 2022 though.
I think it's Favreau but not Feige for 2022. Feige will be the one after that.
Lin would be good but after Beyond's failure to reignite interest in Star Trek I'm not sure LFL would view him as the go-to-guy for a new approach.
Aside from the Rey backflip, much of it was "star wars style action". The more intriguing clips came almost the night before opening.
Still, with the holidays the way they are on the calendar, there may be a higher-than-anticipated successful 2nd week, we'll see.
Prediction: over the next year or so, we'll start to see a rancid, toxic "Release the Abrams Cut" style movement built around the assumption that Abrams originally wrote or directed something else and it got butchered by studio-mandated reshoots. Completely illegitimate and blatantly obviously false rumors of this are already appearing on Reddit and elsewhere among the small enclaves of people who actually enjoyed this fetid turd of a film and are angry it's underperforming.
"Where can they go next?" isn't exactly a thrilling hook for general audiences. Usually a "How will they get Han back?" "Is Luke really Darth Vader's son?" "What did Yoda mean when he said 'There is another'?"
Whereas TLJ left really no story hooks to make people anticipate the next movie. Instead of people wondering what would happen to our heroes, we got muted responses to what people were looking forward to. That's a hard position to put the follow-up movie in.
Palpatine was the only remotely interesting thing in the trailers and advertising. Absolutely nothing about the marketing was attention grabbing.
Well there it is. oof
Heads are going to roll at either Disney or LFL.
TLJ marketing I thought was great, they were going hard on trying to answer all those questions TFA set up. Will Rey turn bad? Who the hell is Snoke? What does Luke mean all the Jedi have to end? They played off that hard and it was so good.
Here it was more so they really gave it all in terms of sheer volume of content. I couldn't turn on Univision without getting a tv spot every 30 minutes lol
This, esp since TLJ still made <$1B despite the fan response. This movie could've been salvaged with good reviews and good WoM, but there's a possibility that - along with mixed reviews - it has mixed WoM as well.
Given that her contract was renewed until 2022, can she be removed right now?
Galaxy's Edge struggled financially too, but that was a Disney Parks project, not Lucasfilm/Kennedy.
Fandom Menace was real the whole time
It's like poetry. In their love of the prequels, they've manifested it in real life
A FAN BOYCOTT?!
It's like poetry. In their love of the prequels, they've manifested it in real life
A FAN BOYCOTT?!
You mean enough goodwill from the past 35 years? lol at anyone that brings Kennedy up because TROS when she's been a big part of movies that have grossed over $10b ww.
If we're lucky maybe we'll get a reduction in Star Wars threads in general until at least Celebration next year
Yeah cause executives totally weigh your 35 year track record (across multiple studios) with your record for their company. 🙄
And only two MCU movies.
I still haven't seen Skywalker and while I'll see it in theaters, everything I've heard and everything I've seen just hasn't been enough to bring me to a place of "I have to see this opening weekend". Heck, if I wasn't worried about having it spoiled, I'd probably just wait until the home video release honestly.
Ok, then she's built up enough good will from the ST and Mando, they just renewed her until 2022.
Nope.
I watched TLJ and thought, "Man, Adam Driver as the main villain in episode 9 with his phenomenal acting is going to be amazing."
I watched the ROS trailer and saw that they sidelined him to bring back Palpatine.
That killed most of my interest in the movie.
Naw. We will get several self important "LTTP" and "RTTP" threads about TROS/TLJ where these films will be relitigated into oblivion.
It's gonna suuuuuuuuuuuuck.
Hey, I like her. I don't want to see her go. How many failures at the BO do you think she's immune to before she faces scrutiny?
And the new movie releases that same year. I guess we will see if there is another extension beyond that. 🤷🏾♂️
But she's only had one failure at the box office, Solo. TROS will be a big disappointment though. Maybe they will can her now, who knows, but they just renewed her to 2022 so I assume they give her one more shot with the 2022 SW movie they just slated.
Please direct further box office conversation here: https://www.resetera.com/threads/wk...ing-in-the-story-of-skywalker-175m-ow.160772/
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