On the other hand Iger made China a critical part of his strategy to offset continuing decline in Western box office receipts. He even point-blank said that if the Mulan live-action remake didn't do gangbusters in China, they'd have a problem.
It didn't "flop hard" in China. It was released at the peak of the worst pandemic in a century.
At this point, I feel pretty confident that Avatar: The Way of Water will beat Top Gun Maverick as the highest-grossing movie of the year worldwide. It may not beat it domestically, but I'm fairly sure it will surpass it worldwide.
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I assume he meant "highest-grossing movie that debuted in 2022," not "highest gross within calendar year 2022."
Really?! What genre are you?!
I think it's more likely to surpass Top Gun near the end of next week.
This seems to be a trend with James Cameron movies. Both Titanic and the first Avatar were considered flops after their opening weekends, but then they had unusually long legs.
There’s still a lot of time to see how it plays out, but it seemed really odd to me for people to be labeling this underperforming when it was obviously going to be something that had its value tied to legs as opposed to a robust opening weekend. Particularly with the long running time which limits the total number of shows in a day/weekend (especially the availability in premium formats).
Par for the course on these boards: Everything is terrible and the sky is falling and why can't they just go back to the good old days?
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