Disney (and others) at the Box Office - Current State of Affairs

[DisneyWarrior27]

I said below.

Oh

 

[brideck]

Aaand, Mufasa’s CinemaScore just came out and it’s… an A-.

And this is what I meant when I said that the CinemaScore is a broken scale. If the only worthwhile result is an A, why have the rest of the scale at all?

It's as if the public is saying, "What? People aren't saying it's the greatest movie of all-time? Then I won't see it." Which given box office trends is perhaps, disappointingly, a true interpretation of how the zeitgeist works.

 

[brideck]

Current prediction for the domestic weekend is $70 million for Sonic, $35 million for Mufasa

Which source you going with here?

The fine folks at BoxOfficeReport have it at $79m for Sonic and $41.5m for Mufasa, (The Wonka comp is $39m for an opening, and it didn't have any competition at all its opening weekend.) and we've seen a lot of predictions this year come in under reality when movies have good word of mouth, so it'll be interesting to see what comes of this one.