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DL: A Cinemascore for MISS7. Rivals think MISS7 is now only going to do 47 million for 3 day and 70.5 million 5 day. notfabio Jul 13, 10:25

Maverick was the first movie in Cruise’s career to open over $100m o.w. Isn’t this in line with most MIs? {nm} my mate paul Jul 13, 10:38

Yep, and Cruise isn't willing to bring in other A-listers like FAST series {nm} Antibody Jul 13, 11:28

Industry was hoping for a Top Gun Maverick Halo effect aka Dr. Strange 2 after SPID8, looks like Barbie stole it. {nm} Poor UK Theatre Usher Jul 13, 11:29

FWIW the last two MI's were 61M and 55M three-day...but they were normal Friday openings {nm} tealfan Jul 13, 10:59

DL: The Trump Train has officially boarded the Sound of Freedom bandwagon with a screening at his..Golf Club next week. notfabio Jul 13, 10:09

Belloni: [BARBI] tracking has now hit $100M for the 3-day domestic opening, per NRG. OPHMR still at $45 Antibody Jul 13, 10:09

It's nice to have a film that is significantly building tracking each week, lately they have been stagnating or cooling. {nm} notfabio Jul 13, 10:12

G: You can see women of all ages and demos as well as men at the BARBI London premiere Antibody Jul 13, 10:14

Jatinder says MISS7 specifically made 400k Sunday. 2 million Monday so that is their fudging pool for this weekend notfabio Jul 13, 09:16

presales for this weekend are surprisingly not great. Very PLF heavy. Looks overbooked Moviesnob Jul 13, 09:21

Definitely will be thrown out there that they may have been better served pushing it to Thanksgiving or Christmas and forcing others to flee notfabio Jul 13, 09:43

PAR is paying for "96% Certified Fresh" to trend for MISS7 today on Twitter notfabio Jul 13, 09:49

flipside being that even if #'s are a little disappointing, this allows MISS7 on P+/hv for Christmas even with TCRUI's extended windows {nm} notfabio Jul 13, 10:00

CNBC Iger blamed a mix of flooding the market, short windows and "creative disappointments" as to why Disney films are underperforming. notfabio Jul 13, 08:19

First link is the full interview text, here's Variety's recap if TLDR notfabio Jul 13, 08:21

not being hyperbolic but strike twitter is prolly angrier about this than that anonymous Deadline scare piece on making us go broke my mate paul Jul 13, 09:22

short windows, you dont say {nm} Moviesnob Jul 13, 08:32

not alienating half the country, especially the half with most of the parents and children? Their content is for Disney adults now {nm} Fitch3k Jul 13, 08:38

Disney has the most market share with significantly less movies than Warner or Comcast Moviesnob Jul 13, 08:44

errr Sony not Warner {nm} Moviesnob Jul 13, 08:45

when Disney moved SVOD ahead of TVOD, it literally crated that market by 40% and it hasnt recovered Moviesnob Jul 13, 08:47

I'd imagine Iger is not going to touch that debate if he can help it while the lawsuits with DeSantis are ongoing. {nm} notfabio Jul 13, 08:44

same interview: Bob Iger rejected Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ campaign rhetoric against the company as “preposterous and inaccurate.” Antibody Jul 13, 08:50

The bigoted slack-jaws are not half the country. Maybe a quarter, concentrated in the downscale, can't-keep-up backwaters. {nm} SenJohnBlutarsky Jul 13, 13:44

We live in a bigoted patriarchal white supremacist country! No there is not a lot of people who disagree with me and will take their dollars {nm} Fitch3k Jul 13, 20:53

Variety: FX's Alien series is in pre-production in Thailand with multiple facilities in Bangkok booked notfabio Jul 13, 08:06

GFR: Steven Yeun will be starring in Peele’s next film UJPE4 Antibody Jul 13, 07:44

DCEUL: Ebon Moss-Bachrach is set to play the Thing in Fantastic Four Antibody Jul 13, 07:41

yes chef! {nm} tealfan Jul 13, 09:45

V: MISS7 $15.5 million on opening day. Antibody Jul 13, 07:24

Barbenheimer is definitely stealing the buzz this should have right now. Should be extremely leggy after next week no matter what, but... notfabio Jul 13, 08:01

THR: Eduardo Acuna from Cinepolis is the new CEO of "newco" aka post bankruptcy Cineworld(Regal) notfabio Jul 13, 06:20

Variety: Now who will save us from about Bob Iger? Gives a fairly inflammatory interview about the strike on CNBC this morning notfabio Jul 13, 06:01

Netflix (deservedly) gets the worst press about paying talent peanuts but Disney has been right there with them in eliminating the backend {nm} my mate paul Jul 13, 06:03

especially rich given how much non-union work Disney gets from being so animation-heavy {nm} my mate paul Jul 13, 08:58

The Bob Iger news is REALLY badly timed with the dual strike. {nm} TheWeekendWarrior Jul 13, 06:18

Hasn't given share price much of a rise vs when the changing of the Bobs news happened {nm} notfabio Jul 13, 06:28

Looks like there was a large scale issue with older legacy Dolby servers with MISS7 yesterday they are getting fixed DCPs today notfabio Jul 13, 05:55

The technical issue explained inside it is an issue with specific older servers in the UK and US notfabio Jul 13, 05:57

SAG announces it's deal has expired without reaching a new agreement with the studios my mate paul Jul 13, 00:58

Jatinder: MISS7 $9M tonight for $18M opening day including previews. Antibody Jul 12, 23:36

He has been including Sunday and Monday as previews so taking those out it is probably around DL's 16 {nm} notfabio Jul 13, 05:16

JGUNN: That is not true. re: DCRAI as Lex Luthor Antibody Jul 12, 20:32

Lionsgate filed Form 10 on the exchanges today for the spinoff of Starz business Tallwonder Jul 12, 19:13

WOR: MISS7 will only be available digitally on October 10th. Antibody Jul 12, 18:47

Trailer for Aporia Antibody Jul 12, 18:19

Trailer for War Pony Antibody Jul 12, 18:15

DL Too Early Update: 16 million (Tue-Wed) MISS7 notfabio Jul 12, 18:04

Just for fun, MARIO $31,702,735 Wednesday. Superman Returns 21 million (Tue-Wed, 84.6 million 6 day) {nm} notfabio Jul 12, 18:09

Batman Begins, 15 million Wednesday (I think 12:01am's only) - 72.9 Wed-Sun. {nm} notfabio Jul 12, 18:13

None are super fantastic comps but a crazy 100+ million through Sunday doesn't look like it's happening. {nm} notfabio Jul 12, 18:15

Yeah, Batman Begins/Superman Returns are too long ago. Their Wednesdays probably started at midnight not on Monday :) {nm} TheWeekendWarrior Jul 13, 03:41

I'm gonna ballpark 88 to 90 through Sunday TheWeekendWarrior Jul 13, 03:42

This is before I saw Jatinder's update above.... Probably closer to 99-100m through Sunday TheWeekendWarrior Jul 13, 03:44