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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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Just in terms of Hollywood movies I'd say:
1 - Glass
2 - Detective pikachu
3 - Us
Honestly though I'm just excited about 2019 I'm general. So many good movies coming and the BO is going to be crazy. I might be more excited for the BO numbers than the movies lol.
1 - Glass
2 - Detective pikachu
3 - Us
Honestly though I'm just excited about 2019 I'm general. So many good movies coming and the BO is going to be crazy. I might be more excited for the BO numbers than the movies lol.
Having "plans" for Ms. Marvel can mean literally anything. A side character in Captain Marvel, a side character in a Young Avengers movie, and yeah, maybe her own solo film.
But having a sidekick set up for a Captain Marvel sequel is significantly different from "we are going to have a muslim girl headline a tentpole film." And America's relationship with muslims right now (let's be real, the world's relationship with muslims) is far from a point where Hollywood is going to give them a major chance. Disney couldn't even bother to get a Middle-Eastern actress to play Jasmine. They picked a half-Indian actress, as if that is "close enough."
Probably:
1. Avengers: Endgame
2. Shazam
3. John Wick 3
I watched Aquaman and Spider-Verse almost back-to-back today and really enjoyed them both for very different reasons. Spider-Verse is amazing, easily the best Spider-Man movie and my favourite superhero movie since maybe The Dark Knight. And I can understand why some people were saying Aquaman's a better Star Wars than the sequel trilogy, it's such a fun, fantastical ride. Hopefully James Wan sticks around for at least another sequel or two.
The day that first Sonic trailer drops is going to be an amazing time on the internet. The posters already fed us in terms of memes and general fuckery. Cannot wait to see it in motion.
1) Avengers: Endgame
2) Us
3) Captain Marvel
I'm interested in why so many people are placing Detective Pikachu up on their lists. It looks very interesting, but I thought I'd be in the minority there.
I'd go:
1) Godzilla
2) Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (I'm a bit worried about how Tarantino is going to deal with the subject matter but I can't deny that I'm curious)
3) Pikachu (and I've never even played the games)
Regarding the topic of the Ms. Marvel film, a good way to introduce the character could be a Champions movie. I haven't liked what I read of the comic but the concept could work. In a post End Game world, that could be a good way to introduce a new generation of heroes. Kamala, Nova, Miles, etc.
1) Godzilla
2) Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (I'm a bit worried about how Tarantino is going to deal with the subject matter but I can't deny that I'm curious)
3) Pikachu (and I've never even played the games)
Regarding the topic of the Ms. Marvel film, a good way to introduce the character could be a Champions movie. I haven't liked what I read of the comic but the concept could work. In a post End Game world, that could be a good way to introduce a new generation of heroes. Kamala, Nova, Miles, etc.
I am really not sure, but probably:
1. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
2. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
3. Us
Also looking forward to Jojo Rabbit, Knives Out, John Wick 3: Parabellum, Detective Pikachu and Avengers: Endgame.
First live action movie in the largest franchise of all time! Plus it looks better than it has any right to, I can't wait for it.
Forgot John Wick is also out this year. 2019 is stacked.
Episode IX
Avengers: Endgame
The Lego Movie 2
Runners-up:
Toy Story 4
Godzilla: King of The Monsters
Avengers: Endgame
The Lego Movie 2
Runners-up:
Toy Story 4
Godzilla: King of The Monsters
More I think about it, yeah, that'd probably be my list.
Looking at what's out next year...this year, Us, Glass, Ford v Ferrari, and Ad Astra are all up there.
Not too excited about any of the superhero movies compared to this year... last year... fuck. It's 2019. It is 2019.
The movie's months away. No one's going to know the answer to that.
Well, there was a thread about the future bombs of 2019 so it was worth a try since a lot of people are looking forward to the movie.
I believe there is also a consensus about several movies coming next year (Lion King, Avengers ...) but they are sequels/remake so it is easier to predict.
I think this actually pretty much proves (if there was a need) there has been no such thing, and DC just needed to release a decent (as in not shitty) film to surf on the Comic movie wave.
So.... Yeah.
Yeah.
The trailer has 53m views and 1.3m likes so, just based off that, I'd expect it to do really well.
I think a trailer getting to over 1m likes is one of the surest signs it'll do really well. A lot of big trailers don't get that kind of engagement.
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Godzilla
Shazam
Endgame
Though oddly, not necessarily my 3 most anticipated but the ones wanna at least see.
It is odd to feel so ambivalent about Star Wars and Avengers. For the former, as much as I liked TLJ, it kinda set a clean slate for Star Wars 9. That's not a bad thing but there's nothing there to get me excited yet.
Really good Thursday night number for Escape Room ($2.3M). Seems like it has a good chance to finish second ahead of Mary Poppins for the weekend.
https://deadline.com/2019/01/aquaman-escape-room-weekend-box-office-first-weekend-2019-1202529013/
https://deadline.com/2019/01/aquaman-escape-room-weekend-box-office-first-weekend-2019-1202529013/
It's gonna make its money, but Det. Pikachu showing up moments after just overshadowed it.
Then they Key and Peele trailer thing they released the following day...
OP
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Bumblebee is beating those 40M opening projections for China. It might hit 55M if Saturday is strong.
Bumblebee murdered Spider-verse in the process though. Down 82% from last Friday, and the full weekend will be even worse, since Sunday was hugely inflated last week. This weekend will be a bit over 1M. Last weekend was over 8M I believe.
Even though it's based on a (very, very popular) existing property, there's nothing quite like Detective Pikachu coming out. The trailer completely floored just about everyone in both how weird it looks (even for Pokemon) and how good it looks. It went from most people not even knowing what it was to one of the most anticipated movies of the year.
That's interesting. I didn't know profits for movies in general are mainly in the single digits. I always thought that anything after 2x the budget was mostly profit. I guess that's untrue.
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