How many billboards have you seen for Minecraft and Sinners?Hi gang. While driving yesterday from San Diego to Utah across the great Southwest desert, I lost track of all the billboards for Stitch I saw along I-15. A dozen? My famously accurate TP2000 Popdar (Pop Culture Radar) feels really good about that one.
I didn't see a single Thunderbolts billboard though. And per Variety, Thunderbolts is tracking to a $75 Million opening weekend. Is that good? Probably not if the budget was anything north of $150 Million.
Box Office: ‘Thunderbolts’ Targets $75 Million Opening Weekend
Will "Thunderbolts" bring the thunder to the box office?variety.com
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Disney (and others) at the Box Office - Current State of Affairs
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Sirwalterraleigh
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So you’re going on record that this will rake?
And not this lame “it will make OODLES on D+!” Lying nonsense?
BrianLo
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‘Lilo & Stitch’ & ‘Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning’ Combined Will Gross $200M+ In What Could Be Biggest Memorial Day Weekend Ever At Box Office
It’s going to be a big Memorial Day weekend. Three-weekend tracking just hit, and Disney‘s live-action take on its 2002 toon Lilo & Stitch is heading to $120M over four days while Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is eyeing $80M over the Friday-Monday frame. The two movies...
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I do know we’re all in seeming alignment on stitch predictions.
Sirwalterraleigh
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My very adamant predictions about it since I first heard they were making it have zero to do with the movie itself‘Lilo & Stitch’ & ‘Mission: Impossible – Final Reckoning’ Combined Will Gross $200M+ In What Could Be Biggest Memorial Day Weekend Ever At Box Office
It’s going to be a big Memorial Day weekend. Three-weekend tracking just hit, and Disney‘s live-action take on its 2002 toon Lilo & Stitch is heading to $120M over four days while Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is eyeing $80M over the Friday-Monday frame. The two movies...
I do know we’re all in seeming alignment on stitch predictions.
I did not say anything about Thunderbolts ….heck I don’t even know If I will enjoy it or not…. I have not seen it yet…. The reviews sound promising though
Just surprised our resident box office guru has not mentioned anything about the historic non holiday less then 5% drop Sinners had
Sirwalterraleigh
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Nubs70
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Yup, popular in some circles and not so popular in others. Everyone has their niche.
Tony the Tigger
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He is now.
But they had a talking raccoon voiced by Bradley Cooper - and a tree guy - plus Chris Pratt, and a retro soundtrack. That was enough for me!
Nope. My life is not engrossed in movies. I’ve seen the trailers at the theaters a few times.
Same. As a kid in the 70’s and 80’s, you knew of them even if you didn’t follow them.
That’s how the trailer comes across to me, including one character I actively disliked through most of Captain America 4. Bucky is ok but was never a fave.
I’m not trashing anything; but unlike the Guardians example above, this is less compelling to me from the trailers alone. I’m sure I’ll see it, I always have low to mid expectations of popcorn superhero movies. Their novelty has long worn off, unlike when the original Superman and Batman films came out. But I’ll likely enjoy it. Then again, I was bored to death with Cap 1, and do not understand why Andor is so hyped. It’s the least Star Wars of any Star Wars I’ve ever seen. And what a coincidence: they invented things like martini glasses and club music
in space.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
Actually interesting, non-bickering stuff here today…good job 
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
That’s really not how these things tend to break…but it’s possible.
It is a well written movie with a mixture of genres which has excellent word of mouth….the best reviewed movie of the year so far…also think some that don’t have an interest in horror figured it was not for them…. Went the 2nd weekend as it is not just a schlocky horror movie and could not resistt the great buzz…. I firmly believe Sinners will be remembered in award season despite the April release
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
So the fact that Jordan and steinfeld are pretty high on the eye candy list doesn’t help?
TP2000
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None for Sinners; with a name like that I'd remember. I don't remember any for Minecraft. At least along I-15 yesterday.
Guru?!? Flattery like that will convince me to buy the second round!
You scared me for a few moments, because I thought I had forgotten a movie from the Disney family of studios. But then I went to Google and found out Sinners is from Warner Bros., so I'm not sure why I'd be expected to comment on a non-Disney movie?
TP2000
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I heard a review for Thunderbolts on NPR this afternoon. I had no idea that Julia Louis Dreyfus was in it!?
She's a favorite of mine for decades, and Veep is some of the funniest stuff on TV in the past 20 years.
That was about the highlight of the NPR review for Thunderbolts. They did that typical NPR thing where they sort of faintly praised it in coded language while subtly alluding to the fact that Marvel really needs a big hit after the past few years of box office troubles. So for those who speak NPR, it seemed to get about a B+ rating.
Thunderbolts opens this weekend with a huge theater count; 4,330! Snow White and The Amateur give up about 1,200 theaters at the same time.
She's a favorite of mine for decades, and Veep is some of the funniest stuff on TV in the past 20 years.
That was about the highlight of the NPR review for Thunderbolts. They did that typical NPR thing where they sort of faintly praised it in coded language while subtly alluding to the fact that Marvel really needs a big hit after the past few years of box office troubles. So for those who speak NPR, it seemed to get about a B+ rating.
Thunderbolts opens this weekend with a huge theater count; 4,330! Snow White and The Amateur give up about 1,200 theaters at the same time.
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Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
This is the comparison fallacy…
Comparing sinners to Disney is not valid.
Sinners is not a tent pole…which 90% of Disney movies are made to be.
It’s funny how one day all “cinema” is unique and it’s about the art
…and when that doesn’t wash…every move is on equal footing…
The posts are on roller skates with grease
Comparing sinners to Disney is not valid.
Sinners is not a tent pole…which 90% of Disney movies are made to be.
It’s funny how one day all “cinema” is unique and it’s about the art
…and when that doesn’t wash…every move is on equal footing…
The posts are on roller skates with grease
Disney Irish
Premium Member
Did you see the movie? I think you're overplaying the "eye candy" here, while both are attractive off-screen they aren't specifically played up as such in the movie as its set in the 1930s.
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
It’s a horror movie…so definitely not my jam in the theaters.
But I wasn’t talking about the movie appearances
I’ve heard Jordan and the phrase “hall pass” mentioned together like a 100 times…all over the place. Like a few times in sports media…
Try not to think about it too much.
And steinfeld has matured quite nicely since the early days…
Just saying…pretty people draw…whether it’s conscious or subconscious
Sirwalterraleigh
Premium Member
If that’s the takeaway…I’d say it’s fairI heard a review for Thunderbolts on NPR this afternoon. I had no idea that Julia Louis Dreyfus was in it!?
She's a favorite of mine for decades, and Veep is some of the funniest stuff on TV in the past 20 years.
That was about the highlight of the NPR review for Thunderbolts. They did that typical NPR thing where they sort of faintly praised it in coded language while subtly alluding to the fact that Marvel really needs a big hit after the past few years of box office troubles. So for those who speak NPR, it seemed to get about a B+ rating.
Thunderbolts opens this weekend with a huge theater count; 4,330! Snow White and The Amateur give up about 1,200 theaters at the same time.
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MCU hasn’t had a film really exceed expectations since like G3? Not quite sure even that one did
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