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'Doctor Strange' is expected to draw a massive audience for Disney's Marvel Studios
Los Angeles Times ^ | November 1, 2016 | Ryan Faughnder

Posted on 11/01/2016 3:42:15 PM PDT by EveningStar

Marvel Studios' "Doctor Strange" is expected to draw a massive audience this weekend, providing some much needed medicine for Hollywood during a bruising fall box office season.

Analysts expect the visually stylish Benedict Cumberbatch comic book movie to collect $65 million to $75 million in ticket sales from the United States and Canada through Sunday. Some more optimistic industry observers predict the film, about a former neurosurgeon who harnesses mystical powers, may reach $80 million in domestic grosses...

"Doctor Strange is a C-level Marvel character, and the fact that you can pull an $80-million debut is ludicrous when you think about it." ...

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: benedictcumberbatch; cinema; comics; cumberbatch; disney; doctorstrange; drstrange; fantasy; film; marvel; marvelcomics; marvelstudios; movies; sciencefiction; scifi; superhero; superheroes
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To: EveningStar

Stupid to cast an Asian man character with a white woman. I didn’t like a black man cast as a Nordic in Thor either but that was racist.


41 posted on 11/02/2016 11:32:19 AM PDT by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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To: LS
Tom looking old.

And short!

42 posted on 11/02/2016 11:34:44 AM PDT by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Too bad I got sick of the superhero movies.


43 posted on 11/08/2016 5:23:05 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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