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DC Films Leadership – James Gunn and Peter Safran now CEOS – how did this happen, and what could this mean?
James Gunn had a very great day yesterday, showing that getting FIRED from Disney 4 years ago, ironically, led to the best possible career jump he could have ever had.
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Studios Winners and Losers: Before and After COVID
With no new blockbuster releases planned for the next few weeks, I thought it would be fun to take a moment to breakdown how the box office is so far for 2022, and to compare the 4 major studios (Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros and Disney). So let’s compare their performances from 2019 (the last “normal” year), including money, reception, and expectations, to now.
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Weekend Box Office (7/31/22) ‘DC League Of Super-Pets’ Flies To $23M Opening, ‘Nope’ falls down to earth with -58% drop
DC’s League of Super Pets, the Dwayne Johnson/Kevin Hart animated action comedy, opened this weekend. The film essentially pitched itself as “The Secret Life of Pets, but co-starring the Justice League,” and earned surprisingly okay reviews (72% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and “fine” reactions from audiences (an A- from CinemaScore). The $23 million opening was […]
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Weekend Box Office (7/24/22) Nope flies to $44 million debut, nice for an original thriller
Universal and Monkeypaw’s Nope flew off to a promising start, as the well-reviewed (83% on Rotten Tomatoes) and *mostly* well-received by audiences (B from CinemaScore – okay for a Horror movie) Jordan Peele adventure earned $44 million over its opening weekend. It’s far less than Jordan Peele’s last film, Us (that opened to $71 […]
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Weekend Box Office (7/17/22) Thor has pretty terrible second weekend drop (for Marvel), are Disney+ and fan fatigue to blame? Meanwhile Crawdads sings to an excellent debut
This could simply be another well-received “It’s entertaining, whatever” Marvel sequel, that will only perform a little better financially than Thor 3. They can’t all be Spider-Man: No Way Home.
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ANALYSIS – with similar tonal comedy issues, is Marvel’s Thor 4 equivalent to 1997’s Batman and Robin? Hear me out…
I do enjoy hearing the notion of Thor 4 being compared to Batman 4: Batman & Robin. It’s not an exact comparison (Thor as a character is nowhere near as bad or annoying to sit through), but hear me out… With each franchise, a new director was brought in to “fix” the franchise (Taika Waititi […]
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Weekend Box Office (7/10/22) Thor opens with Solid opening weekend, but Lackluster Word of Mouth – Cause for Concern?
Most franchises would be thrilled to have a comedy-sequel earn mixed-positive reviews, and open 17% bigger than it’s predecessor. But with mixed critical and audience reactions, why did the film not earn the positivity that was expected? This new Thor movie was my most anticipated sequel of the summer, given how much the last film […]
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Intro
Nice to meet everyone on here! My name is Zander Levy, and for the last decade or so I’ve enjoyed writing and the box office, films and their financial success, and what it takes for a studio to succeed! This is my Film Blog, attempting to be thought-provoking. As I’m typing this it’s 2022, and […]
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