See, I get what you're saying, but everything will still hurt.
Also I decree Bronson is a failure.
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Wkd Box Office - 12•7-9•18 - China loves Aquaman with $94M OW. Domestic box office is hibernating.
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See, I get what you're saying, but everything will still hurt.
Also I decree Bronson is a failure.
I just want point out that I've only had a gut feeling that Spider-Verse wouldn't do as hot as people want, I'm not a monster like Bronson.
I think, depending on reaction, Aquaman will also suck up the air from Spider-verse
More so that if given a choice in superhero movies, people tend to prefer live-action... even though animation is far superior for the genre!
More so that if given a choice in superhero movies, people tend to prefer live-action... even though animation is far superior for the genre!
Agreed. I think the animation style might be a little too 'esoteric' for mainstream audiences to really get onboard with.
We'll find out soon enough.
I'll gladly eat my crow if I'm wrong, but I've been worried about that movie for months.
Wait what?
Which shitty spider-man animated movies are we talking?
Also just looked at local screenings and yeah, can show up at the door for Spider-verse (And Aquaman just don't expect good seats at imax)
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Ronan, she's a very special talent. Not that Robbie isn't either, their meeting was excellent.
Pretty standard for big Disney releases. They don't operate like Illumination and do "good enough" with the visual quality on things.
Got a real bad feeling about The Mule. Movie came out of nowhere, hasn't been screened for press, and apparently isn't even doing Thursday night showings?
Could be WB is playing it coy and trying for a Million Dollar Baby came out of nowhere hype situation. Theaters around me are still sorting out what will play this weekend. Most don't even have Thursday's showtimes up yet.
Maybe they are trying to smuggle it into theaters.
To add to what others have said, while Ralph seems to be one of the more expensive WDAS films (though not by much , they usually cost around $150 mil, and I'm not counting that legendary Tangled budget which includes years of development hell and discarded ideas), the last Pixar film to cost less than 175 was Ratatouille, over 10 years ago.
I've never read about the Pixar/Disney productions costs. What on earth costs so much? I know they have a long production time, but still.
Computer animation is not cheap. It takes a lot of artists and a lot of tech people.
Coco needed China and Mexico to achieve that though, I highly doubt if Spider-verse has any giganic overseas market to bank on. Domestically Coco did only mediocre, though if Into the Spider-verse can reach Coco's domestic number, that's pretty good I suppose.
Domestically or worldwide?
Domestically 1.5 Solos is actually really amazing and would be considered a huge break out.
It does feel like this is the last shot WB is going to give him after American Sniper made a kajillion dollars.
Yes.
(ok so more serious answer, they will probably just end up getting rolled into the opening night numbers, but there might be reporting on how they did. When Jumanji did the early screening stunt last year , we got early reporting on how it did, it got rolled up in opening day at first, and now it's not rolled into opening day on BOM)
It actually felt like a Saturday morning cartoon on the big screen. Kind of like the Teen Titans film.
Showing at the theater I work at was sold out - though it only had 152 seats.
I'm sure both it and Spider-Verse (also sold out for screening) did quite well those days
Well still have to see it's secind weekend and 2nd Monday but the symbiotic May yet fend off Aquaman.
Total in whatever shape that takes. 1.5 Solo is about 600m, so that's my ceiling. Anything else would be
Anybody know the number of screens Spiderverse is opening in this weekend? Looking at buying tickets in a major metro and it looks like there are only like 4-5 showing a day.
I guess some people need conservative porn at the box office
I never got this
From the last trailer, especially, it looks visually stunning. The action set pieces look great. And the trailer theme, which I hope will carry over to the movie, is phenomenal.
Never mind it has a sizeable budget behind it.
The underwater action looks way off
When it's not moving, sure it looks good
I thought it looked great in motion too!
Wan is a top tier director, it's harsh calling his work a "b-movie".
Though, underwater action is always difficult to pull off.
I enjoyed the movie quite a bit but it was an obvious flop the minute I saw the trailer (maybe even the minute it was announced)
I dunno why some people were predicting it would be a sleeper hit. Its gonna be lost in the glut of December releases
Being animated and the animation style I think could turn some of the casual public off. Nerd circles are going nuts over the film, but not sure if the general public is going to bite on this one.
Look at your profile picture in the mirror and say that again with a straight face
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