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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
Blackberry is excellent and everything about it is far better than it should be. It's a shame that there isn't a Blackberry keyboard for current phones --- like a case where I can slide the thing out. Anyway, definitely worth a watch.
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FAST X is unbelievable... and by 'unbelievable' I mean 'this current iteration makes the other movies appear absolutely believable.'
I like when I a franchise is self-aware, but they abused it with this one.
Alright, from what we've seen so far this year and what current tracking is suggesting, here's where I think the box office is gonna land this year:
Domestic (U.S/Canada):
This would be kind of disappointing considering Vol 3 decreased from Vol 2 and The Little Mermaid is probably not gonna turn a profit theatrically. The Flash is looking like a big time disappointment for Warner Bros, Aquaman is apparently terrible so I doubt that enters the top 5 or hits 300DOM. I have serious doubts that The Marvels will do much better than Ant-Man Quantumania.
The only other possibility I can think of is Dune. But I think that's probably gonna be close to Mission Impossible domestically.
But nothing is getting to Mario's 500 domestic range, and I don't think anything else will reach 400 domestic outside of Spider-Verse.
World Wide:
Mario is probably going to be the only billion dollar movie this year. With how Mission Impossible has been increasing throughout the franchise (and is widely expected to have a big bump domestically because of Top Gun) I think it'll land somewhere in the 900 range worldwide.
Guardians 3 is heading towards an 850-900 range (probably not hitting 900 at this point) but that's gonna be good enough for the third spot this year.
I'm banking on Dune growing by twice as much from it's predecessor. The first one came out when restrictions were still in place, and at least domestically it came out day and date with HBOMAX. So I think that's gonna see a healthy increase to about 800 million WW.
Spider-Verse is doing great domestically but is kind of lacking overseas so that will also end up in the 700 range world wide.
I am hyped about these films! Every holiday I take the time to indulge in film, since I'm usually more of a music person. The theme of this Summer's 2023 list of 20 films is the films I've not seen by directors I admire.
So, there are Scorsese, Hitchcock, Wilder, Spielberg, Wes Anderson, Kurosawa, Kubrick, Bergman, Fincher, Nolan, Coppola, and Fellini films here. Thoughts on any of these films or directors? Who are your favorite directors?