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In January Captain Marvel was projected to have a $160 million opening. Then it was downgraded to $100 million just before opening. Now its at $80 million.

Maybe marketing a movie by being hostile to the fans isn't a good idea?

1 posted on 02/16/2019 3:44:42 PM PST by Widget Jr
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To: Widget Jr

Perhaps they can go straight to streaming video.


2 posted on 02/16/2019 3:46:38 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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Stupid crappy idea. A movie for nitwits.


3 posted on 02/16/2019 3:47:26 PM PST by dforest (Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up!)
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Wonder Woman clone and Wonder Woman was just BLAH


4 posted on 02/16/2019 3:47:39 PM PST by butlerweave
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Get Woke, Go Broke.


5 posted on 02/16/2019 3:49:59 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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Brie Larson said it was a feminist movie and said she didn’t want white males to review the movie.
If you go see it, it would be a mistake. It’s probably worse than the Ghostbusters women’s movie.


6 posted on 02/16/2019 3:53:36 PM PST by King_Corey (OpenCarry.org -- http://defcad.org/)
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Watch Brie Larson’s Speech Calling for More Critics of Color


7 posted on 02/16/2019 3:53:58 PM PST by Bratch (IF YOU HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT CITIZENS, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT LEADERS-George Carlin)
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I still think Marvel blew it by not having a couple of Cold War style spy movies with Black Widow, instead of “saving” her for Civil War. They would’ve beaten Wonder Woman to the screen as well.

But they have their storyline.


8 posted on 02/16/2019 3:55:59 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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Why are not all the strong independent women not supporting another mary sue themed movie.


10 posted on 02/16/2019 4:12:39 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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I think the marketing for the film has been very cool. The film is set in the mid 1990s and they came up a very clever idea of designing the website for the film to look like a cheesy geocities type webpage from the dial-up era, which looked hilarious and really plays up the nostalgia for people who were teens in the 90s like myself. The trailers for the film have been fun too, and the photo stills from the movie also show they did a great job of de-aging Samuel L. Jackson and Clark Gregg to look like did in the 90s, since the film takes place well before Iron Man.

Check it out:

https://www.marvel.com/captainmarvel/

And how the heck can they tell the opening weekend is “in trouble” when the film won’t open for another MONTH? Did they jump in a time machine and check ahead to March and realize the future audience’s response was lukewarm and word of mouth will be bad in the future? Geesh.


11 posted on 02/16/2019 4:13:00 PM PST by BillyBoy (States rights is NOT a suicide pact.)
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Guess White males will be as repulsed by the "feminist film" as they are by the character in this shot...


14 posted on 02/16/2019 4:27:08 PM PST by montag813 ("This is Montag, Block 813...")
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Solo broke the mold by showing viewers they don’t need to settle for lame, PC movies.
Hollywood is in for a real slap in the face very soon


15 posted on 02/16/2019 4:29:19 PM PST by Zathras
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"Get 'WOKE', go BROKE!"

Disney/Marvel decided they wanted to go full blown "SJW" and promote WAMMEN, over evil, white men. So they cast a raving feminazi who says that she hates men to play the role of a "Mary Jane" "Swabbi Marvelous", thus alienating at least HALF, if not more, of their potential customers and now they are reaping what they have sown.

Disney Rat literally hates us! So why in the world would we waste our money to pay them to denigrate us and spit in our faces?

Disney Rat can ROT!

18 posted on 02/16/2019 4:42:15 PM PST by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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Honestly, I couldn’t care less about Captain Marvel.
I just want to see Avengers:End Game


21 posted on 02/16/2019 5:04:59 PM PST by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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Hopefully people are getting tired of the comic book movies, enough is enough, move on to something else.


22 posted on 02/16/2019 5:20:28 PM PST by TexasM1A
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$100 million opening weekend is the amount I read and that was on its first day of tracking, so it is not possible that it fell 60 or 80 million.

Just to let you know, $100 million opening weekend is something only a handful of movies have achieved, so it would be incredibly successful.

Also, to let you know, the stateside box office (which includes Canada), is only about 25% to 50% of its total box office. As the world has grown more affluent over the past few decades, the US box office is no longer the sole decider of success.

For example, Aquaman, through Friday, Feb 15 has made $330 million in the US, just 29% of its total world wide box office of $1 billion 122 million.

Have no fear, DC fan, Capt Marvel will do just fine.

23 posted on 02/16/2019 5:56:50 PM PST by Dave W
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Brie Larson: I will use both my super powers to rescue the movie!

Blnk
24 posted on 02/16/2019 6:01:10 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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not even if it was free... feh
26 posted on 02/16/2019 6:17:29 PM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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Larson looks miscast. Can think of at least 10 actresses who would have been a better fit.


28 posted on 02/16/2019 6:47:47 PM PST by EdnaMode
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I'm still partial to the original "Mighty ISIS"


29 posted on 02/16/2019 6:52:15 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I recommend Alita: Battle Angel instead. Saw it today and thought it was very good. No SJW crap. Genuinely emotional, with CGI that really required excellent acting to work well. It was nicely done.


30 posted on 02/16/2019 6:52:39 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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