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Wkd Box Office - 12•28-30•18 - Jan 4th update: Aquaman now the highest grossing DCEU film ever with $888M worldwide.
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Pretty big by Blumhouse standards but they will MORE than make their money back
Glass seems to have a surprisingly high amount of buzz around it. It helps though that it's a sequel to one of the GOAT super hero movies
Damn. Opening weekend pays for the film and marketing, and then it's just taking a ride on that gravy train.
He's self-financing it just like Visit and Spilt. Dude's a gambler.
Blumhouse isnt helping at all?
Still not too much of a gamble imo. Split was a massive success and while Unbreakable was a long time ago it has a lot of good will towards it.
Glass if it reviews even decently should blow up imo. Happy for M Night hes really found his footing the last few years
I know it's an old article, and how it reads but it's funny how gush over the potential performance of Captain Marvel but has to downplay Aquamn's success.... "but it still should fare decently, which, paired with the (supposed) success of Aquaman, could finally put the DCEU back on the right track "
WOW
That's crazy hes going that all in. I honestly respect that a TON having so much faith in your work. Hope it goes well for him.
Still hes on a good enough run again that no matter what he will still be able to get work even if it doesnt have a huge run. Still considering Split did $278 million WW I'd be surprised if this grosses less than that. It seems to have far more hype leading into it than Split ever did
Y'all need to stop using Captain Marvel and Shazam interchangeably lol.
Article link for those interested. Pretty good read:
https://m.ign.com/articles/2018/12/...tive-pikachu-captain-marvel-spider-man-shazam
https://m.ign.com/articles/2018/12/...tive-pikachu-captain-marvel-spider-man-shazam
I can't fathom a situation where he doesn't make money on this movie. Even The Visit wasn't loved and make 100M WW.
I'm sure the stars are getting points on this and worked for minimal fee. Just my guess.
Y'all need to stop using Captain Marvel and Shazam interchangeably lol.
But I didn't?
Yeah I think this is a movie everyone involved really wanted to make. Sam, Bruce, and McAvoy all seem to really like playing these characters.
Wonder if M Night has more films in this Universe in his mind or if hes planning on this just being the end of the trilogy and no more
Pretty sure he always said it's a trilogy and the last one. He has a production deal with Apple that he's working on a series as we speak.
I think Hyderabad is located in Southern Asia. So I guess I am south Asian too. Southern Indian/Pakistani.
Yeah I think its going to do really well judging from the buzz it has. Only way it doesnt is if it reviews terribly which the trailers have been really good imo
Honestly the riskiest thing about this whole thing is calling it Glass imo. You have to essentially hope that general audiences will be made aware this is connected to Split and Unbreakable by going out and actively seeing the trailer. The title doesnt connect them at all
For sure but that was riding on the idea that it was a Thriller about a murderer with multiple personality. It was essentially just sold as a typical Blumhouse horror flick
The whole draw of Glass is it being essentially a super hero film. M Night is putting his faith in that audiences are smart enough to make the connection on their own without having to plaster something like Split 2 or Unbrekable 2 all over social media / marketing
Regardless I see Glass being a hit so I don't think it will be an issue in the end
That person sure is bullish about Captain Marvel.
Most of that list sure is something.
But you're blurb is from the Shazam prediction lol. Ok I got confused because the actual Captian Marvel blurb has no digs against Aquaman, so I figured you were talking about Shazam.
Oh no I meant reading their Captain Marvel blurb (and their super generous prediction) vs reading their Shazam blurb and downplaying Aquaman's success was jarring.
They think Detective Pikachu will make only $184 million domestic.
Suuuuuuuuure.
Maybe they meant that for a 2 week total because otherwise I don't understand their thinking.
Aren't these projections also sometimes just marketing in disguise, to try to show how big the movie is going to be, false hype building?
But everyone, everywhere on Era says these companies and newspapers aren't paid shills.
Going to see Mermaidman tomorrow, a friend didnt want to go citing "Nobody wants to see this movie, its a bomb", LOL. Never thought i would be thrilled to see this movie.
I am 100% confident Ep. IX takes the domestic crown. IW was only, what, $50m above TLJ domestically? I think Endgame won't go much higher than IW, but IX will be up fairly significantly over VIII.
Worldwide? It's Endgame.
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IGN just threw out fantasy numbers. Just the films that they predicted were over 10B combined. 2019 would be 13-14B if that was the case.
Idk I guess we will have to see
The brand doesn't feel like it has all that much momentum to me anymore especially in comparison to the follow up to IW.
I'm sure it will be huge and I do think it will recover a bit from TLJ but I dont see IX out grossing Endgame
Aquaman is a far, far better movie than Venom or Justice League.
Solo's underperformance still surprises me.
Why? No one gives a fuck about how Solo became "famous". No one will care about Kenobi / Boba Fett spin off movies as well.
Solo was a bad movie with a premise the general audience wasn't interested in and a leading man that couldn't lead.
The problem was it was just an ok movie with no strong hook.
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