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[Disney Irish]

"Disney’s Marvel is trying to track down the identity of the person (or people) who allegedly released a 63-page transcript of dialogue from “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” online — one month before the film’s theatrical premiere.

A request filed Friday (March 10) on behalf of Marvel in federal district court in California asked the court to issue a subpoena to compel Reddit to identify the person or group responsible for sharing dialogue from “Quantumania” to the r/MarvelStudiosSpoilers subreddit “on or about” Jan. 20, 2023. The film, starring Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly and Jonathan Majors, opened wide in the U.S. on Feb. 17.

Marvel requested “all Identifying Information for the user ‘u/MSSmods'” as well as that of “any other user(s) responsible for posting, editing, and/or maintaining the content” that was available on the subreddit (but is no longer) for the period from Jan. 15-Feb. 15. The Marvel subpoena request was filed pursuant to the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Asked for comment, a Reddit spokesperson declined to say if the company intended to comply with the information requested by Marvel. “Reddit is committed to protecting our users’ privacy. We have rigorous processes in place to assess legal requests and object when appropriate,” the rep said.

Marvel also filed a DMCA subpoena requesting similar info from Google, after someone allegedly shared the document to Google Docs. Reps for Marvel and Google did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Marvel had previously issued DMCA takedown requests to Reddit and Google seeking to remove the copyright-infringing material."

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Marvel Wants Details About Who Posted ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ Leaked Dialogue to Reddit, Google Docs

Marvel is trying to find out who allegedly shared a 63-page transcript of dialogue from "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" on Reddit.

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Good, leak culture has gotten too rampant anyways.

 

[ABQ]

After the 3-day weekend (in the U.S.), Quantumania is 53% of the way to theatrical profitability.

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Not sure it's going to break even

 

[Phroobar]

My money is in there. It wasn't amazing. It didn't have the humor of the other two movies and the writing was serviceable. Nothing really objectionable. The bad guy died a little easy. It was just kind of mediocre. Bill Murray did his usual "calling it in" performance.

 

[Disney Irish]

My money is in there. It wasn't amazing. It didn't have the humor of the other two movies and the writing was serviceable. Nothing really objectionable. The bad guy died a little easy. It was just kind of mediocre. Bill Murray did his usual "calling it in" performance.

You're assuming he died. What's the old saying for movies/tv, if you don't see a body they aren't actually dead....

 

[Phroobar]

You're assuming he died. What's the old saying for movies/tv, if you don't see a body they aren't actually dead....

There is still a huge multiverse of him running around. It is going to be hard to get rid of all of them. What is interesting is Victor Timely and the Loki season 2 teaser at the end of the movie.

 

[Disney Irish]

There is still a huge multiverse of him running around. It is going to be hard to get rid of all of them. What is interesting is Victor Timely and the Loki season 2 teaser at the end of the movie.

Remember that each Kang are different variants, Kang the Conqueror is a specific variant who possibly isn't dead.

The question with Victor Timely will be if him and Kang the Conqueror are the same variant or not.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

"Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania appears destined for the red as well, as it fell to $2.4 million this week and a total that is set to finish between $210-215 million and potentially below half-a-billion worldwide."

- Rotten Tomatoes

As a comparison, Ant Man 2 made over $600 million worldwide.

 

[ABQ]

"Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania appears destined for the red as well, as it fell to $2.4 million this week and a total that is set to finish between $210-215 million and potentially below half-a-billion worldwide."

- Rotten Tomatoes

As a comparison, Ant Man 2 made over $600 million worldwide.

Ouch. Serious underperforming by Marvel lately. Going to be quite a earnings call later this year if Lucasfilm doesn't exceed expectations with Indy 5. (doubtful, imho)

 

[MisterPenguin]

Ouch. Serious underperforming by Marvel lately. Going to be quite a earnings call later this year if Lucasfilm doesn't exceed expectations with Indy 5. (doubtful, imho)

Of the past 5 MCU movies, only this current one didn't make a profit in the theatrical window. And only this one got poor ratings.

 

[Phroobar]

Of the past 5 MCU movies, only this current one didn't make a profit in the theatrical window. And only this one got poor ratings.

That movie had over 15 CG companies working on it. Maybe they could have fired three or four of them to spend on a better script.

 

[ABQ]

Of the past 5 MCU movies, only this current one didn't make a profit in the theatrical window. And only this one got poor ratings.

That's accurate, however, even if this movie were removed from the Marvel P&L entirely, the brand on the whole has underperformed. Going into Phase 5, even knowing they were losing Downey Jr and Evans, there's no way they expected such low ROI as they got on the other movies. As was mentioned earlier in the thread, Sony proved with Spiderman that a very good profit was possible during the pandemic and had it not been for riding on their coat tails throwing an assist to Dr Strange, they would be looking even more weak on the bottom line. I expect Guardians will do well though.

 

[erasure fan1]

Of the past 5 MCU movies, only this current one didn't make a profit in the theatrical window. And only this one got poor ratings.

To be fair, the 6th movie, if you're counting antman 3, was eternals. And that was at least a 200mil loss. And the critics weren't all that enamored with it either. Shang chi missed the mark as well. It came close to breaking even but missed by 20 or so mil at least. Thor 2 was a big disappointment as it just broke even. I think we can all agree that phase 4 was lacking. When the ceo says we need to focus on quality over quantity, something went wrong. Hopefully it's lessons learned and we can get back to just telling great stories.

 

[Phicinfan]

To be fair, the 6th movie, if you're counting antman 3, was eternals. And that was at least a 200mil loss. And the critics weren't all that enamored with it either. Shang chi missed the mark as well. It came close to breaking even but missed by 20 or so mil at least. Thor 2 was a big disappointment as it just broke even. I think we can all agree that phase 4 was lacking. When the ceo says we need to focus on quality over quantity, something went wrong. Hopefully it's lessons learned and we can get back to just telling great stories.

I believe Marvel is feeling frustration from fans for no Fantastic 4 or real push for X-men. They weren't thrilled with Phase 4, and want a new direction sooner... just my opinion

 

[ABQ]

A little more from Variety on the box office numbers. Seems they are admitting the losses of Black Widow and Eternals, but just giving them a pass due to the pandemic.

With a production budget of $200 million and a marketing spend of at least $100 million, “Ant-Man 3” is expected to fall short of the roughly $600 million needed to break even in its theatrical run. Recent Marvel movies, including “Black Widow” and “Eternals,” were granted amnesty for losing money on the big screen because they were either released simultaneously on Disney+ or were put in theaters at a time when people were more reluctant to go to the movies due to COVID concerns.

I guess Sony should give Spiderman such amnesty as well, releasing just 6 weeks after Eternals. Covid should not be an excuse for a bad movie performing poorly.

 

[LSLS]

A little more from Variety on the box office numbers. Seems they are admitting the losses of Black Widow and Eternals, but just giving them a pass due to the pandemic.

With a production budget of $200 million and a marketing spend of at least $100 million, “Ant-Man 3” is expected to fall short of the roughly $600 million needed to break even in its theatrical run. Recent Marvel movies, including “Black Widow” and “Eternals,” were granted amnesty for losing money on the big screen because they were either released simultaneously on Disney+ or were put in theaters at a time when people were more reluctant to go to the movies due to COVID concerns.

I guess Sony should give Spiderman such amnesty as well, releasing just 6 weeks after Eternals. Covid should not be an excuse for a bad movie performing poorly.

I honestly didn't even remember Black Widow released in theaters. I do think that one should get a pass. Eternals much less so.

 

[ABQ]

I honestly didn't even remember Black Widow released in theaters. I do think that one should get a pass. Eternals much less so.

Well that was the whole basis for Scarlett Johansson's lawsuit. Was released simultaneously on D+ and in theatres, so not very many went to the theatre to see it.

 

[MisterPenguin]

I honestly didn't even remember Black Widow released in theaters. I do think that one should get a pass. Eternals much less so.

Eternals got the bad reviews and ratings to mach its box office. (I disagree with those bad reviews.)

The other 'pandemic movies' all got good to very-good reviews and ratings. And in the case of Black Widow, it received premium fees toward D+, which is an unknown (except I think Disney said it got $60 million in its first week).

 

[Phroobar]

Eternals got the bad reviews and ratings to mach its box office. (I disagree with those bad reviews.)

The other 'pandemic movies' all got good to very-good reviews and ratings. And in the case of Black Widow, it received premium fees toward D+, which is an unknown (except I think Disney said it got $60 million in its first week).

But Eternals was directed by a Oscar winning woman who made a indie film with Frances McDormand. How could Eternals get bad reviews?

 

[MisterPenguin]

But Eternals was directed by a Oscar winning woman who made a indie film with Frances McDormand. How could Eternals get bad reviews?

It can happen.

Coppola:

Speilberg:

Wilder:

Ford:

Scorsese:

 

[LSLS]

Well that was the whole basis for Scarlett Johansson's lawsuit. Was released simultaneously on D+ and in theatres, so not very many went to the theatre to see it.

I remember the lawsuit, I was just thinking it went to premium on D+, but obviously I was wrong (and as I think back now, I do remember it coming out on both). I know we paid for it at home, but it had nothing to do with not wanting to see it, it was my daughter's favorite character, it would have been 100% because of Covid for us.