Wkd Box Office - 4•12-14•19 - Remember Hellboy? He's back. In bomb form. Shazam repeats and America continues to hate stop motion animation.

[T'Chakku]

What if he got displaced in time and got back to WW2 without the serum. He gives up the Captain America title but can live in peace with Peggy. Happy ending and no more Captain America.

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Peggy had a life after Cap. She got married. It would be unfair to the character to fuck that up just so Steve can get what he wants. The way the character's been written, does that seem like a decision he would make?

The point in time, around phase 2 and beginning of phase 3 when people were whining about Marvel not having stakes cause they didnt kill off their characters was annoying and dumb. But now we've come full circle and, apparently, characters should never die in a story?

Character deaths is still a valuable tool of storytelling. I was against it happening in the middle of their decade-long storyline, but now we're at the end. It's as good a time as any.

 

[HeartlessNobody2134]

 

[Schlorgan]

PhoncipleBone I'll take the bet.

Name the terms.

 

[Buckle]

Give me a train ticket, boss.

 

[T'Chakku]

I, too, would like a ticket.

 

[Deleted member 2802]

Anyone else disappointed we haven't used the Korean train from Age of Ultron?

 

[shintoki]

Choo Choo

 

[FTF]

PhoncipleBone I'll take the bet.

Whatever it takes.

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[Christian]

Anyone else disappointed we haven't used the Korean train from Age of Ultron?

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Hah! Glorious. We can all be laying in the rubble around this train if it fails to hit $1b opening weekend.

 

[GSG]

$2.8 billy is such a stretch goal. Like $2 billion alone is a marathon, that extra $800 million really needs a movie to be a global phenomenon.

I think Endgame will definitely beat TFA and Titanic. I hope it beats Avatar but I need to get a handle of the audience reception to it before I can really say either way.

 

[igordennis]

$2.8 billy is such a stretch goal. Like $2 billion alone is a marathon, that extra $800 million really needs a movie to be a global phenomenon.

I think Endgame will definitely beat TFA and Titanic. I hope it beats Avatar but I need to get a handle of the audience reception to it before I can really say either way.

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Yeah it's crazy. You gotta do the already insane feat of $2b and then do a run that any (non superhero) movie these days would kill to get ($800b). If any movie anytime soon has a chance to do it, it's Endgame. Under 50% odds imo but it has the potential.

 

[kswiston]

Late thread again this week because of easter and everything, but the main event will be on time.

 

[ReiGun]

Everyone in china loves pikachu. Girls especially go nuts for him. I'd bet the movie will do pretty well here, as long as there isn't too much story. Chinese moviegoers want action.

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Hmm interesting. Well, the trailers have shown at least a few action scenes, so hopefully it delivers in that regard.

 

[HeartlessNobody2134]

https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/..._avengers_endgame_presales_in_mainland_china/

 

[hodayathink]

Harry Potter and The Cursed Child is nowhere near as big as Endgame

Ya'll are crazy

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Yea as an old Potter fan, I'm really soured on the franchise after the seventh book/movie. I don't care for the Cursed Child, I haven't even read it.

I guess there are people who still care, but I don't believe the hype is as big as it once was.

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Fantastic Beasts 2 by all accounts is a pretty bad movie, but still made nearly $500M overseas. The last actual Harry Potter movie made nearly a billion dollars overseas. WB nailing all aspects of a Cursed Child adaptation would bring back a large number of the old fans, and bring in a lot of new ones. It'd basically be the Wizarding World version of The Force Awakens.

Also, generally speaking, part of when I talk about nailing it means that it's a Cursed Child adaptation like Civil War is an adaptation of that comic book story. It would take the basic premise of the actual book (the children of the old gang get into their own shenanigans) and spin something interesting out of it.

 

[jett]

"When he doesn't do it" very much implies it's never happened. His stans* being called out for thinking he's infallible is correct, and we'll continue to correctly do so

*I don't usually engage with his stans because of the frequent reality denial, so don't expect me to belabor the point further with you in particular

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THE VOID has been civil with you, but here you acting like a pop-gaf reject. Grow up. Is this what the box office threads are becoming in this forum?

 

[Mcfrank]

Fantastic Beasts 2 by all accounts is a pretty bad movie, but still made nearly $500M overseas. The last actual Harry Potter movie made nearly a billion dollars overseas. WB nailing all aspects of a Cursed Child adaptation would bring back a large number of the old fans, and bring in a lot of new ones. It'd basically be the Wizarding World version of The Force Awakens.

Also, generally speaking, part of when I talk about nailing it means that it's a Cursed Child adaptation like Civil War is an adaptation of that comic book story. It would take the basic premise of the actual book (the children of the old gang get into their own shenanigans) and spin something interesting out of it.

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Most HP fans seem to hate the story of cursed child but love the stage production. Making a movie of it would ruin the best thing about it.

 

[TerminusFox]

No matter how well endgame does, nothing will surpass the holy shit quotient of Black Panthers run for me personally.

I still can't fathom it a year later