M:I 7 had a fairly quiet Wednesday / Thursday but picked up business into the weekend, looking like it will perform well with good reviews and word of mouth. Sound of Freedom with the very rare second weekend increase at the box office.
Ouch, but I guess that's what they get for going with a very niche superhero that almost no one has heard of to begin with, and then going with the newest version of him, too.
Yeah, unfortunately its a neat idea with a fresh character, but right on the heels of an A-Lister in The Flash completely cratering? Its destined to fail.
__________________ The Beatings Shall Continue Until Morale Improves!
This Post Has Been Distilled for the Eradication of Seemingly Incurable Sadness.
The World Ends when you're dead. Until then, you've got more punishment in store. - Flames Fans
Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something. - The Dread Pirate Roberts
Barbie just put up the biggest non-Christmas , non-endgame weekdays leading into this weekend and has an outside shot at being the first non-200 million opener to have a 100 million second weekend. It’s tracking about 92-95 right now.
If it can get to 96 it will pass where Mario was despite Mario opening on the Wednesday. It will have made up about 45 million on Mario since Sunday.
The Barbinheimer combo out earned end game all week and has a 50/50 shot of having a better 2nd weekend then endgame
Barbie just put up the biggest non-Christmas , non-endgame weekdays leading into this weekend and has an outside shot at being the first non-200 million opener to have a 100 million second weekend. It’s tracking about 92-95 right now.
If it can get to 96 it will pass where Mario was despite Mario opening on the Wednesday. It will have made up about 45 million on Mario since Sunday.
The Barbinheimer combo out earned end game all week and has a 50/50 shot of having a better 2nd weekend then endgame
I wonder if we're going to be seeing more non-content related double feature releases like this, after the success that this was. If so. I'm all for it.
I wonder if we're going to be seeing more non-content related double feature releases like this, after the success that this was. If so. I'm all for it.
Doom/Animal Crossing is still the best fan endorsed mashup
The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true. Go Flames Go!
'The Marvels' looking like it might be the first true MCU flop. Only $6.6M from Thursday previews (The Flash pulled $9.7M from Thursday previews, for comparison). Budget was well north of $200M with substantial marketing too.
'The Marvels' looking like it might be the first true MCU flop. Only $6.6M from Thursday previews (The Flash pulled $9.7M from Thursday previews, for comparison). Budget was well north of $200M with substantial marketing too.
Oversaturation of the superhero movies is clearly taking its toll. The movie itself is one of the better ones of late.
Horrendous weekend two numbers for the Marvels. It's trending much worse than Flash right now.
I think its a combination of numerous different factors at the moment.
Obviously starting with 'Hero Fatigue' but I also think there other elements, like people not really liking Captain Marvel to begin with, Brie Larson becoming a self-important polarizing figure in the interim, the GIGANTIC TIME GAP between films, some people feeling like suckers for seeing Flash and deciding to wait this time....etc and so on and so forth.
Who knows.
There is a part of me that just cant GAF about Disney not making heinous amounts of money but then there is another part of me that realizes that without that sickening profit they're going to generate less content of lower quality and that will also suck.
Its part of separating the existence of Evil Disney Executives and massively wealthy and overly self-important and self-indulgent stars and actors and the actual humans who do most of the work on movies and TV shows trying to make a living.
__________________ The Beatings Shall Continue Until Morale Improves!
This Post Has Been Distilled for the Eradication of Seemingly Incurable Sadness.
The World Ends when you're dead. Until then, you've got more punishment in store. - Flames Fans
Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something. - The Dread Pirate Roberts
I think its a combination of numerous different factors at the moment.
Obviously starting with 'Hero Fatigue' but I also think there other elements, like people not really liking Captain Marvel to begin with, Brie Larson becoming a self-important polarizing figure in the interim, the GIGANTIC TIME GAP between films, some people feeling like suckers for seeing Flash and deciding to wait this time....etc and so on and so forth.
Who knows.
There is a part of me that just cant GAF about Disney not making heinous amounts of money but then there is another part of me that realizes that without that sickening profit they're going to generate less content of lower quality and that will also suck.
Its part of separating the existence of Evil Disney Executives and massively wealthy and overly self-important and self-indulgent stars and actors and the actual humans who do most of the work on movies and TV shows trying to make a living.
There recent MCU movies just seen too bland for me to see in the theatres. It also seems like the movies aren't comic book-ey enough for me. They seem to much like generic action movies now.
That being said, I'm paying for Disney Plus, and might not do that if they stopped making these movies. Disney walks away with more money, with me paying for the subscription vs seeing 3-4 Disney movies in theaters a year.
The public overall does have an appetite for some superhero movies. Batman and Spiderverse. That helped those movies succeed wasn't just that they were good but also that they seemed to have a more directed audience. Batman is a darker adult oriented film. Spiderverse was more child friendly. The MCU is going too generic and too wide in their intended appeal. I'm not taking about the marvels specifically. For example, Ant-Man was just too safe to be any good.
Last MCU movie we went to the theater for was Spider-Man 3, every one since then has gotten progressively worse and not worth paying theater prices for (save GOTG3, that was surprisingly good). Maybe Kevin Feige has just run his course, everything post Endgame is just so bland and way too safe. Marvel is terrified of taking risks anymore
