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Gatsby77

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    Also, if the audience who *did* go to see it liked it, positive word-of-mouth would have helped prevent the steep attendance drop-off we've seen. By next weekend, Quantumania will be merely limping along (*maybe* $4 million) and nearing the end of its theatrical run.
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    No. A "B" CinemaScore indicates that the audience hated it - best spin that could be put on such a score is mediocrity. Puts it in the same category as: Elektra Green Lantern Justice League Catwoman Eternals
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    Yeah, but if you zoom out >$450 million worldwide is still solid for an Ant-Man film… And it’s Fk’in *ridiculous* that we’ve gotten three Ant-Man films before one g-d d-n Flash movie.
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    Yeah - but Champions just squeaked by - Quantumania will likely finish # 5 for the weekend. Still - tomorrow will be its last $1+ million day at the domestic box office and it will lose a *ton* of screens next weekend.
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    And it already fell to # 4 yesterday, behind: Creed III Cocaine Bear Jesus Revolution It might end up as # 6 for this weekend.
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    Zero chance Disney changes the X-Men name. Why? Because as poorly as X-Men 7 (ahem! Dark Phoenix) did, The New Mutants did nearly an order of magnitude worse.
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    To be fair, it's a tall order for more people to stop showing up than they did for Dark Phoenix. What with it's $68 million domestic / $252 million worldwide gross - and pre-Covid at that. For a flagship X-Men film featuring multiple Oscar winners to do that poorly is crazy.
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    But Marvel has already been bowing to political correctness since the first film. To my knowledge, they've never used the name "Marvel Girl" in the films - instead referring to her simply as "Jean Grey" from the jump.
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    So what are we thinking for this weekend? I think it drops to 4th, behind Scream, Creed, and either Cocaine Bear or 65. Yeah - 65 looks like it will bomb, but it only needs to do $8 mill. to surpass Quantumania.
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    Nah. Its last $5 million domestic day is behind it. It may not even see another $4 million domestic day (this Saturday). This won’t hit $500 million worldwide.
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    Sure. But like it or not - Chris Evans is now a bonafide action star - as are Gal Gadot, Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Hemsworth, etc. Both Evans and Gadot were paid at least $15 million each for their last non-superhero action films (The Gray Man and Red Notice, respectively). Which means they're effectively now priced out of the very ensemble superhero team films that made them A-list stars in the first place. So we comics fans can't have it both ways. Either we make do with newer, lesser-known characters from the last 25 years -- or we let both the MCU and DCEU recast the A-list characters - again with younger unknowns. Realistically, there's no third choice.
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    Yeah - but he wasn't a non-entity. It's sort of like arguing Ryan Reynolds wasn't a star until he played Deadpool. Which is true... If you ignore: Green Lantern Safe House Buried The Proposal Van Wilder Definitely, Maybe Just Friends Waiting The Amityville Horror Blade Trinity etc.
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    B-lister - maybe, but he had a solid dozen movies under his belt before Captain America dropped and several of these were serious (non-teen, non comic book) parts. He had two solid dramatic supporting roles drop in 2007-2008 alone - in Sunshine (when I first realized he could act) and in Street Kings.
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    Or Johnny Storm.
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    ? Not sure why you think there's zero competition in November. According to the current calendar, The Marvels is sandwiched in between two potential juggernauts, dropping the week after Dune 2 and the week before the Hunger Games prequel. Also - kids will be back in school, vastly limiting potential repeat viewings it may have had during the summer. As I've noted previously, there's *zero* way to spin the move from July to November positively.
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    I'd read some comics earlier, but my first as an official collector came during the summer of 1989. It was my first time away from home for 6 weeks of summer camp, during which I was introduced the X-Men (via passed along copies of the Classic X-men reprints of the Dark Phoenix saga and the X-Men roleplaying game) and had to read the Batman movie novelization to tide me over until camp ended and I could actually see the film. I went to my LCS - to see Marvel's Atlantis Attacks annuals dominating the new issues, and the recent Batman keys highlighted along the walls (Death in the Family, The Cult, Dark Knight Returns, The Killing Joke). My dad said I could choose any single issue from the stands, and I picked up...a Liefeld book.
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    Cocaine Bear did 96% of this amount yesterday. It might catch up this week.
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    But like...how was that different from the Scarlet Witch portrayed in the House of M storyline? WandaVision basically laid the groundwork for Scarlet Witch being the next MCU-wide big bad, a la House of M - and it did so masterfully. Leading to the pay-off of her evil and -psychosis in Dr. Strange 2. In terms of loose adaptations, it's equivalent to the nod to Planet Hulk in Thor: Ragnarok.
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    More good news! I just checked, and Quantumania's 69.9% 2nd weekend drop doesn't even make the top 5 among comic book films. Huzzah! Those would be: Steel (-78%) Morbius (-73.8%) The Crow: City of Angels (-72.1%) X-Men: Dark Phoenix (-71.5%) The Suicide Squad (-71.5%)
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    It will be hilarious if Creed III outperforms this next weekend.
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    Umm... You made my point. Even with all that, it *still* dropped harder than BvS. Means that Quantumania must *really* be dookie.
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    I mean, it's clear Quantumania is bombing (ahem!) underperforming, but it still deserves a solid shout-out for managing a higher percentage 2nd-weekend drop than BvS. *That* takes skill.
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    Good. This deserves Best Picture and more. Ditto - Really pulling for Colin Farrell for Best Actor for Inisherin - the film was brutal but his performance was amazing.
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    I'm not talking about awards - I'm talking about box office results. Top Gun: Maverick was overtly less successful than the original, given that the original wasn't surpassed at the box office until 1989.