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That is a wild way to stage a big musical number in the theater -- singing to a random thousand people out on the street.

That's gotta be an effort to not frighten kids out of their minds, right? That's the sequence that had my mom pulling me out of the theater screaming my head off when I was 4. That part of the ride was scary for years as a result. I'm over it now. I think.

I had said $400m a week or so ago, but I think Irish countered with $350m. It's definitely somewhere in that zone for a "normal" (non-event) MCU release.

Lilo & Stitch is certainly still on more screens around me than Ballerina, so it looks like the theaters are thinking that'll be the case at least.

I mean, I'm the one who initially commented, so clearly I do at least a little. On a computer, an image that takes up more than half of the screen's width feels like someone's yelling at me. [But I also understand that I'm in the minority who tries really hard not to do things with the general...

Glad you agree with me. I'm mostly just wanting to get a specific time-stamped projection down in writing, so I can see how close I come and make changes to how I think about these things in the future as needed.

I'm sure that's true. Even on a real computer, I'm often surprised by what size images default to here when I first paste them into a post. It's more of a prod to go back and edit things that look ridiculous after you've pushed post. Unless the in-your-face-ness of the size is part of the...

Splitting hairs, but I have T-Bolts as still getting to around $395m WW, but it's entirely possible that it will lose theaters faster than I think due to summer competition and slip into the range listed in that tweet. $400m definitely seems out now, as its lower theater count has forced it to...

I'm still holding out for Donald Glover's Lando. I just hope it doesn't lean into the '80s book trilogy particularly much for inspiration, as that stuff is... well... not great.

re: comic book movies -- fatigue, etc. Even though I don't often share mainstream tastes, I think the movie-going public is pretty aware of the overarching meta of these various franchises. The halcyon days of the MCU are mostly due to the belief that it was all leading to something as a...

I hope someone brings a set of checkers and runs a tournament out on the island on its last day. I was sad to see that all of the pieces were gone when I was there in May.

I think this is overstating things a bit. Using the agreed upon formula (which I know doesn't necessarily hold up for smaller budgeted films), only 14 movies have made it to profitability at the box office so far in 2025, and 8 of them are horror or horror-adjacent. Sinners, Final Destination...

Isn't it The Force Awakens that really set this up as an impossibility, though? The Luke in hiding thing is the central MacGuffin of that whole movie, and is pretty at odds with a Jedi Master proudly training a new generation. After all, there aren't any new, younger Jedi seen in that movie at...

Or it's just possible that TP is comparing this to the wrong thing. Shocker, I know. Lilo & Stitch (in general) appears to be more popular domestically than in the rest of the world. Disney would know this ahead of time, and have no reason to panic the way that it's being implied that they...

Would you take realistic estimation of legs? [Note: There is no argument being made that anything that follows designates a success.] Cap 4 made a touch over $20m domestically (and presumably about the same internationally) from the comparable point in its release (going into its 5th weekend)...

It means you haven't lost faith in humanity's ability to learn... even when you maybe should have.

I'm sure this will be disagreed with, but I don't remember this being posted previously. Deadline (using the same formulations they use to determine the end-of-year successes and failures each Spring) has Snow White as losing less than one would think, primarily because of its post-theatrical...

I wouldn't say he doesn't care. This (well-trod) article pretty clearly lays out the strategy and where he thinks the profit centers are. I'll note that he doesn't mention Elio, Freakier Friday, Tron, etc. in the article. That doesn't mean those movies were bad ideas, just that that's not where...

Looks... Oh, it's another article from 2023. Of course he cared that there were 4 bombs in the same year without any sort of hit to offset them. We don't seem to really be getting the same sort of angsty stories at present, though I'd be happy to read them if they exist. It's almost as if he...

I'm not confusing anything, other than assuming that you were one of the people who didn't understand that movies make a lot of money outside of the box office these days. [There are many of them around these parts.] I would guess that many people are guilty of reading you to be saying share of...