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It's gonna be tough for Bond tho since Dune's opening day Thursday came in just 6% below NTTD on the same day in the market.
Dune is getting good word of mouth recommendations in the US, at least on the sites I frequent. Should be pretty strong opening. Still think Bond holds steady in the 12-13 million range for the weekend. Halloween is, uhh, dying.
That's the spirit. I saw SF five times and SP twice and it looks like NTTD will only get two theatrical viewings from me, despite it being my clear and undeniable favorite of the three.
I would say at it's 50:50 Bond 26 will be a theatrical release. Coronavirus has not gone, and vaccine rollout accepted, not enough people are going back to the cinemas. It's impossible to say when or if things will get better. My guess is 2021 is the beginning of the end of cinema. Streaming will win against cinema just like cd beat tape and records, and streaming beat cd. History is in the making.
Bond will continue in a respectable box office draw for some time in countries other than the U.S. I am really pleased with how well NTTD is doing during a pandemic.
There is no equivalent experience to seeing a film you love on the big screen, whether IMAX or just a huge cinema screen. Going to movies in a theater is not at all dead. Bond 26 will be fine; we have a lot to look forward to.
Dune $40MM, Halloween $16MM, NTTD $13MM seems to be the consensus. That feels a little high for all three for me. 35/13/12 for the weekend is my guess. Dune is scoring really well with IMAX. If that holds through the weekend, that 40 number might actually be a little low. Halloween may be stronger than I think, but I'm predicting a faster fade than others. I give NTTD a fair chance to be number 2 this weekend and hope I am right.
Direct movie tie in video games like that are pretty much a thing of the past now too. When a franchise is licenced out now, it tends to be a completely original take (like the Batman Arkham games, or the upcoming original Bond game). A Bond game with Craig’s face on it now would just look cheap to most people. Even Bloodstone (a decent game that did a pretty good job of capturing the early Craig era) didn’t do very well, because movie tie ins were dying out by that point.
Nah. That's nonsense. TV couldn't keep us from going to the theatre. Neither could home video, the Internet, 3D goggles,... Just look at how quickly many have gone back despite COVID. There's something about cinema that you can't experience at home. That's why football fans still pay for a ticket to a football match when they could just watch the game at home. That's why art lovers actually visit a museum instead of looking up pictures on the Internet. Cinema will not be so quickly dismissed. No need to write its obituary just yet.
HBO Max won’t be streaming premiere films in 2022. Why? Because WB realized online revenue has not come close to the box office. Look how Disney abandoned its $30 premiere access after experimenting with it from MULAN to BLACK WIDOW.
Studios are gonna be working very hard for the next several years to get cinemas back into the shape they were prior 2020. Until online revenue reaches the profitability of what the box office was at its height, cinema is far from dead.
THE BATMAN is reported to have a budget of $100m. Sure that’s still a lot of money, but that’s considerably lower than past DC films. BATMAN BEGINS was $150m in 2005. BATMAN & ROBIN was $160m in 1997. You have to go back to 1995’s BATMAN FOREVER to match the dollar amount and that is no doubt much more expensive if you adjust for inflation.
It’ll be interesting to actually see this more stripped down version of Batman. We may see it with Bond 26.
Yeah, I’m expecting this.
Yup. I’m expecting The Batman to be a massive critical/commercial success and I think EON will take their cues from that and set a similar course (not quite so grim, obviously, Batman lends itself more to the relentless darkness than Bond), but the Craig era certainly laid down the groundwork for a more stripped back iteration that maintains the strong artistic vision. Barbara’s mantra has been “When in doubt, go back to Fleming.” and I think this type of approach would be suited to that way of thinking.
I do like the idea of stripping it down again. They could even go as far as setting the film in one location, that’s something we haven’t seen for a long time.
You could even skip London too, as someone on here once suggested. Set the film in one location. Start with a Bondless PTS kicking the plot into gear, then after the titles the first scene could be him getting off a plane and driving somewhere from the airport, already on his mission. Strips things down, makes him more of an enigma again, saves money, and gives us some cool sequel hooks (what’s the new MI6 crew like? What’s this enigmatic Bond like back in London?).
Exactly