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Wkd Box Office - 5•24-26•19 - Disney uses first wish for Aladdin to beat Solo. GO SEE BOOKSMART. No, Endgame will not pass Avatar this week.
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Bought a ticket to Booksmart but ended up watching it at home thanks to a VPN. Still kept my ticket tho
How does it compare to eighth grade? I could relate to that film way more than I thought I could as a middle aged man. That film deserved better at the box office too, but it's budget was probably a fraction of Booksmart
You guys agree or disagree?
Yeah , should. Even Dumbo will have like close to 250m international when all is said and done .
I'd imagine around 250m domestic and 330 international. So like 580...very tame considering it's Aladdin but respectable I guess .
It'll come in at #5 in Disney live actions but then will be booted out real quick once Lion King comes out
Just saw Booksmart. It's excellent.
Skip Aladdin and see this. You can watch Aladdin next weekend, Booksmart needs the support at #6 and it's far more deserving of your time and money. Gotta support movies like this, they're really important for young people.
One of the things I really appreciate about Booksmart is that it is clearly influenced by Superbad but drops all the problematic bullshit in that movie and leans into progressive themes from a female perspective without losing any of the teeth
Oh, also, Dan the Automator's score is *chef kiss*
Skip Aladdin and see this. You can watch Aladdin next weekend, Booksmart needs the support at #6 and it's far more deserving of your time and money. Gotta support movies like this, they're really important for young people.
One of the things I really appreciate about Booksmart is that it is clearly influenced by Superbad but drops all the problematic bullshit in that movie and leans into progressive themes from a female perspective without losing any of the teeth
Oh, also, Dan the Automator's score is *chef kiss*
If it's that close I think Endgame will definitely get some kind of push from Disney/Marvel......a double feature with Infinity War, or some kind of re-expansion to help build hype for Spider-Man Far From Home.
It seems like those types of movies are increasingly less common, and generally more star-driven. Booksmart's actresses are not really a draw, and the film doesn't really have a big studio behind it.
While it's maybe questionable whether or not Booksmart would have performed well at any time of the year, trying to launch it against a Memorial Day onslaught of studio films was foolhardy and ill-advised.
Booksmart is about the awkward and reckless contempt of leaving a high school full of people you've never actually met, told from the perspective of two girls who never stop talking to each other. It's much more bombastic.
Eight Grade is more contemplative and isolating and is about a girl who has literally nobody to talk to and a phone.
Don't go see Aladdin, go see Booksmart instead. You can just watch the animated version of Aladdin to get the same story told much better.
Not everywhere. I think it's on Netflix in France, but it's releasing this week in the UK in cinemas and here in The Netherlands it's coming out next month.
Maybe I've been on the wrong threads, but where is this happening?
Yeah I really don't know what he means, unless he's talking about Twitter or something
Into The Spider-Verse beat IW out on the ResetEra Movie Awards last year for example
IMO it's one of the best comedies in years. Loved every second of it and it will take a lot for this to not end up in my top 5 of the year list.
just take fanboy comments like that from Cameron worshippers with a grain a salt
the irony of course is that their guy has literally publicly shitted on marvel movies multiple times
Booksmart wasn't playing at the theater near me. So don't get mad at me. Blame Society.
Aladdin was alright. Wasn't as bad as people were making it out to be, but I had some issues with it. The direction they took with Genie and Jasmine was interesting. I thought the only song that hit comparable levels of the animated movie was A Whole New World (although visually I wish they did more with the scene) Although the other songs were serviceable. Not bad but not versions I'll listen to again and again.
Jafar acting/direction was the weak link. Also the line at the end that tied back to the beginning of the movie made my entire theater audibly cringe (which is weird considering the other changes the movie added that they'd force that line in).
Overall, alright. No regrets seeing it.
I'll see Godzilla next week. Didn't see 2014 or Kong but I'll see this. Providing the focus is on the monsters and not human plots.
Aladdin was alright. Wasn't as bad as people were making it out to be, but I had some issues with it. The direction they took with Genie and Jasmine was interesting. I thought the only song that hit comparable levels of the animated movie was A Whole New World (although visually I wish they did more with the scene) Although the other songs were serviceable. Not bad but not versions I'll listen to again and again.
Jafar acting/direction was the weak link. Also the line at the end that tied back to the beginning of the movie made my entire theater audibly cringe (which is weird considering the other changes the movie added that they'd force that line in).
Overall, alright. No regrets seeing it.
I'll see Godzilla next week. Didn't see 2014 or Kong but I'll see this. Providing the focus is on the monsters and not human plots.
Very select countries. I know France definitely has it, Canada maybe, but it seems that in most EU countries it'll come out in the cinema. It's coming out in The Netherlands in a month.
It seems we are back into the "Avatar's highest grossing film of all time record is safe" mode again. Today Box Office Mojo updated The Avengers: Endgame's estimated numbers for both the domestic and foreign numbers. We won't have the actuals to either before this Tuesday, I believe, but currently the estimates have Endgame at estimated $1,879,300,000 overseas and $798,172,736 domestic. I think it's far from the hour to throw the towel just yet.
Total Lifetime Grosses:
Domestic: $798,172,736 29.8% (Weekend Estimate)
Foreign: $1,879,300,000 70.2% (Weekend Estimate)
Daily countdown:
The Avengers: Endgame box office cume is estimated at $2,677,472,736.
This means that it needs estimated $110.492.351 to top Avatar.
Source: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=marvel2019.htm
Total Lifetime Grosses:
Domestic: $798,172,736 29.8% (Weekend Estimate)
Foreign: $1,879,300,000 70.2% (Weekend Estimate)
Daily countdown:
The Avengers: Endgame box office cume is estimated at $2,677,472,736.
This means that it needs estimated $110.492.351 to top Avatar.
Source: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=marvel2019.htm
Weekdays are significantly more busy outside of the US. I'd say that a $16 million overseas weekend is good enough predictor of Endgame passing Avatar.
Not like in matters a lot. .BoxOffice is an inaccurate way of measuring factual interest in a product (unlike videogames, tv and music in their per unit basis). I would say even disingenuous.
Not like in matters a lot. .BoxOffice is an inaccurate way of measuring factual interest in a product (unlike videogames, tv and music in their per unit basis). I would say even disingenuous.
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Based on just these descriptions, eighth grade sounds like a much better film
I'll likely check out Booksmart for free when it releases on Netflix
This is the second time in this very thread you posted something like this. The first time no one responded to you. You're just a troll now, repeating the same dumb fuck message.
Yeeeep fuck that movie. Imagine " the last 30 minutes were good!" being a defense of anything. Can't wait for KOTM in Dolby this weekend
Why the fuck do you know down to the exact dollar amount
He really maximized his screentime for what it's worth
They really should've let him live but instead we had to follow his punk son
Saying one is strictly better than the other is a very apples to oranges comparison. Eighth Grade elicits a much different emotional reaction than Booksmart, which finds an alternate route to build pathos for the main and supporting cast. In fact if you laugh as hard or harder at Eighth Grade as I did at Booksmart, I'd worry about you. They're pretty different and good in their own ways.
I really don't need your permission or something to post.
Plus people were discussing Avatar vs EG that moment. I didn't comment this out of nowhere.
And i'm not wrong, everywhere i go i see things like "We take the crown from that smurf shit movie" or things like this, it's really annoying (Even in this thread we had multiple posts like these).
Just a heads up, most of the time the person who's wrong says this
Even with Spider-Man helping EGs tailend the unforeseen event of China cutting endgame early (thanks trade war) puts it in serious jeopardy given how tight the margins will be.
Shitting on Avatar is a pretty common thing on the internet, so I don't know why you're picking on MCU fans.
Listen to BronsonLee. He's never wrong. 70% of the time, he's always right.
People have been complaining about Avatar since about 2010. It definitely did not start recently.
I honestly thought Booksmart was a Netflix release worldwide :p
I will see it today! On Netflix, as it didn't released anywhere here
I will see it today! On Netflix, as it didn't released anywhere here
I shoudn't have skipped Aladdin. I canceled my Dolby Cinema seat on opening night because of its mediocre critic reviews, though I heard it's fun to audiences.
I used up my 3 A-List reservations for this week...
I used up my 3 A-List reservations for this week...
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I do too, but in line with what we are seeing which would net 1.6-1.7 billion global.
To reiterate - Jurassic Park and lion king released a single year apart, made almost the exact same amount of money both domestically and internationally, and both have huge nostalgia bonuses. Thus, my expectations are for lion king to do Jurassic world numbers with some wiggle room in either direction.
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