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Wkd Box Office - 2•15-17•19 - Alita fights off bomb of the year status. Audiences pass on second Death Day. Everything not Awesome for Lego 2.
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And I thank God everyday that we didn't. Same with Speed Racer and all those other terrible movies the internet loves for some reason.
Once you see a big decline in your sequel, it's time to call it quits for horror. We are likely not going to see a third movie even though they likely will still make a little profit on this one, it's too steep of a drop to really push another when typically horror films just keep dropping with each installment.
I think Cameron and LS transferred all rights from Avatar to 21CF. LS may have some co ownership rights or something, but the IP belongs to 21CF, I think. Unless you mean Cameron bribing them to direct it?
I'm gonna watch Alita next weekend if I have time and see what the hubbub is about.
I just got out of Happy Death Day 2U and I've got to say, I can see why it's not doing well.
I loved the first one. I was excited to see this one. I nearly walked out halfway through. The story is garbage. The motives of the "villains" are nonsensical at best. And the entire tone and plot of the movie are so radically different from the first that it's barely in the same genre.
Most of the movie's second half is taken up by the heroes trying to defeat a crusty old dean so they can get their magic machine back to close time loops. "Hilarity" ensues. At some point, the lead then remembers there's a killer she has to stop. This is taken care of ridiculously fast. Then more "hilarity."
Would've worked better in a Hot Tub Time Machine sequel.
Stay away. Stay far away.
I loved the first one. I was excited to see this one. I nearly walked out halfway through. The story is garbage. The motives of the "villains" are nonsensical at best. And the entire tone and plot of the movie are so radically different from the first that it's barely in the same genre.
Most of the movie's second half is taken up by the heroes trying to defeat a crusty old dean so they can get their magic machine back to close time loops. "Hilarity" ensues. At some point, the lead then remembers there's a killer she has to stop. This is taken care of ridiculously fast. Then more "hilarity."
Would've worked better in a Hot Tub Time Machine sequel.
Stay away. Stay far away.
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Anyone who has seen the movie knows this.Alita won't go down without a fight.
The sequel already did that by shifting sideways and making the slasher stuff just one facet of a sci-fi comedy. Another movie would have way more leeway to experiment now that the sequel freed itself from the slasher horror shackles of the first movie
Alita sequel ain't happening. Bob Iger cancelled Tron 3 despite a moderately succesful box office haul for the second and the soundtrack and tv show being popular. At least the Tron ride is still being built at Disney World though!
Disney has zero tolerance for failure they will only focus on the most profitable of franchises
Disney has zero tolerance for failure they will only focus on the most profitable of franchises
So I guess Beauty and the Beast Re-Remake is coming then. Disney is going to out Capcom Capcom.
The ownership for the IP is probably with the creator.
They copyright and ownership for the movie is with 21CF. You can see the Copyright Twentieth Century Fox after the trailer.
It hasn't opened in China yet. I'm going to believe this film will have the kind of drop dead legs that David Lee Roth would sing about.Everyone that's loving Alita right now.
Begging and pleading for it to do well while the world looks down on you.
Checking the numbers every week praying for a miracle.
Knowing that while your heart believes you will live to see it continue, your head knows better.
Hang on to that feeling.
Understand it.
Just like us.
On that note, people that are in tune with China's box office market, how is it looking for Alita there?
I saw Atilla with my kids and it just seemed like it was missing something for me...needed more heart to the story. It was very nice to look at though.
More like Alita's eyes were bigger than her stomach at devouring the box office
They had to have spent a ton in marketing that thing. It's fucked
It used "In Da Club" by 50 Cent, I don't know how much that costs.
OP
OP
Didn't know that Aquaman crossed the 1,1B mark... that's a lot lol
Here's hoping that Alita has good legs.
Here's hoping that Alita has good legs.
Yep. It could go higher if it's getting more showings closer to release. This may be because of Wandering Earth constructing things a bit but you'd expect more showings by this point.
By the time Cameron is done with the Avatar films Alita is gonna be long forgotten.
Is wandering earth gonna hit 700MM in China? 800MM?
I long to see a movie that can have TFA number in the US and China + blow up in other territories like IW.
I long to see a movie that can have TFA number in the US and China + blow up in other territories like IW.
I just saw Lego. I enjoyed it.
I will say since the Lego Movie franchise is probably on ice after this, the franchise ended on the right note. I'm satisfied with it ending the way it did.
PS: Spiderverse, don't you dare suffer the same fate as the Lego Movie franchise. Make that sequel and spin-off, and KEEP GOING. DO NOT DIE.
I will say since the Lego Movie franchise is probably on ice after this, the franchise ended on the right note. I'm satisfied with it ending the way it did.
PS: Spiderverse, don't you dare suffer the same fate as the Lego Movie franchise. Make that sequel and spin-off, and KEEP GOING. DO NOT DIE.
Kinda think people should just be happy that Alita isn't an embarrassment at the box office because it almost certainly isn't gonna get a sequel with those numbers. You don't spend a hundred million+ just to maybe break even or eke out a small profit. And nothing about it's performance so far really suggests any possible sequel will grow that much box office wise. Doubt it's legs will be anything special either.
Quick Swiss, tell us what the WW gross of a movie that tied every individual market's record would be.
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