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Post by lenlenlen1 on Jul 3, 2018 19:08:19 GMT
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Post by No Morpho, Only Bánh mì on Jul 3, 2018 19:29:27 GMT
Different expectations.
The common thought is that anything Star Wars should open big and make a certain amount just for being in the franchise. Solo underperformed compared to its predecessors. A lot of people weren’t feeling it before, during, or after production and felt it didn’t add anything to the SW canon, so repeat viewings were limited.
Ant-Man is a solid, but lower scale part of the MCU’s heroes. This is the lighthearted follow up to IW just 2 months ago. Smaller scale, less of an overall impact outside of Ant-Man’s personal world.There have been several huge films within that period since IW opened. I think that’s a fine opening weekend and AM&TW was never meant to be an IW or CW. Seems like the quality is there, though, and hopefully word of mouth picks it up along the way.
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on Jul 3, 2018 19:42:02 GMT
We'll see. If it makes less than it's predecessor than it'll be a flop.
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Post by Skaathar on Jul 3, 2018 19:45:22 GMT
Ant-man was never expected to he a money machine, unlike Solo. Thus the double standard.
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Post by Lord Death Man on Jul 3, 2018 20:07:47 GMT
Ant-Man is the MCU's loss leader. We can take the hit. Believe that.
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Post by scabab on Jul 3, 2018 21:51:10 GMT
It'd be surprisingly good I think because I was half expecting this would actually open lower than the first one.
But yeah you can't compare this to Solo because the last Ant-man opened to around $50 million whereas the last Star Wars movie opened to a staggering $220 million.
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Post by NormanClature on Jul 3, 2018 22:04:28 GMT
Solo's production budget was double Ant-Man & The Wasp's.  |
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Post by Vassaggo on Jul 4, 2018 8:42:51 GMT
It'd be surprisingly good I think because I was half expecting this would actually open lower than the first one. But yeah you can't compare this to Solo because the last Ant-man opened to around $50 million whereas the last Star Wars movie opened to a staggering $220 million. Other than Avengers Age of Ultron (sequel to Avengers) is there a direct sequel in the MCU that has made less than the one before it? I don't think there is. That's kind of impressive. |
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Post by James Bond on Jul 4, 2018 22:41:24 GMT
We'll see. If it makes less than it's predecessor than it'll be a flop. It'll only be a flop if it actually loses money. |
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Post by darkpast on Jul 5, 2018 0:12:00 GMT
You can't label it a flop when they have a female superhero character in the title, are you are sexist? Or even worse a white male?
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Post by Vassaggo on Jul 5, 2018 0:24:15 GMT
I don't know who is more sensitive the people calling for more diversity or the people complaining about people wanting more diversity.
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Post by Nicko's Nose on Jul 5, 2018 0:25:43 GMT
No, but you probably are. |
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Jul 6, 2018 18:05:58 GMT
Solo's production budget was double Ant-Man & The Wasp's. Of course. But that doesn't matter to the movie going public. All they care about it whether they liked the movie or not. Most movie goers don't know or even care what the budget of something aside from its "a lot". |
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Post by ThatGuy on Jul 6, 2018 20:52:01 GMT
Solo's production budget was double Ant-Man & The Wasp's. Of course. But that doesn't matter to the movie going public. All they care about it whether they liked the movie or not. Most movie goers don't know or even care what the budget of something aside from its "a lot". That same movie going public doesn't care if a movie is a flop, either. |
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Post by raiderjedi on Jul 6, 2018 21:05:44 GMT
I bet it is closer to $100 million than 75
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Post by thisguy4000 on Jul 6, 2018 21:17:34 GMT
It’s definitely going to make more than $75 million on OW. The Thursday night numbers were pretty strong.
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Post by Vassaggo on Jul 6, 2018 21:20:05 GMT
I bet it is closer to $100 million than 75 Person after my own heart nerdy Star Wars fan and Oakland Raider fan??? If so I have to tell you I am wearing a very expensive Khalil Mack Jersey. Raider Pj bottoms, and Raider Slippers as I type this. Edit: And being born and raised in the Carolinas for 40 years. Not that fun being a Raiders Fan Especially in 2002-2004. Well basically any time past 1984 but especially after 2002 |
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Post by NormanClature on Jul 7, 2018 1:40:31 GMT
Solo's production budget was double Ant-Man & The Wasp's. Of course. But that doesn't matter to the movie going public. All they care about it whether they liked the movie or not. Most movie goers don't know or even care what the budget of something aside from its "a lot". By that definition, movies like "The Conjuring" and "Paranormal Activity" were also "flops." 
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Post by merh on Jul 8, 2018 16:32:53 GMT
Avengers: Infinity War $674,794,474 Marvel's The Avengers $623,357,910 Avengers: Age of Ultron $459,005,868 So Ultron failed? Cost $250 mill. Iron Man 3 $409,013,994 Iron Man $318,412,101 Iron Man 2 $312,433,331 Again, the 2nd installment came in below Captain America: Civil War $408,084,349 Captain America: The Winter Soldier $259,766,572 Captain America: The First Avenger $176,654,505 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 $389,813,101 Guardians of the Galaxy $333,176,600 Thor: Ragnarok $315,058,289 Thor: The Dark World $206,362,140 Thor $181,030,624 The entire franchise is $6,724,728,701 AVERAGE: $336,236,435 They seem to be looking at the entire franchise. |
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Post by DC-Fan on Jul 8, 2018 20:05:12 GMT
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