People who have seen Clayface had words to share that I can't quote, because this sub forbids posting early reactions.

I was taken aback a bit. It seems that they went full Horror and full gore, not just the flavour of genre Comic Book films usually have (with people calling Captain America: Winter Soldier a political thriller when it culminates with superhumans punching each other abord a flying battleship, something that's not really what happens in All the President's Men).

I had not realised that it's actually disturbing and hard to watch.

Do you think that this will hurt the film, being too intense for the regular Comic Book audience? Or will it propel it, with the fans of hard Horror flocking to it?

I personally cancelled my ticket. I was curious about it, but I was afraid it could make me physically ill. But I am not a horror person and not a good sample or example. Terrifier thrived on extremes.

My take is that this will create controversy and a lot of people might be curious. On the other hand, Body Horror doesn't perform that well, and even a film like The Substance can't crack over 100M worldwide. I feel a bit better than The Substance is where it lands.

Saw Street Fighter today and was wondering what a Japanese adaptation would look like.

Which game, if produced by a Japanese studio, would do well at the box office world wide?

Japan adapts pretty much every manga into live action but it seems to be only US studios that adapt Western and Japanese video games.

With Dune 3 dropping in two months and Avengers Doomsday arriving around the same time, how do you think things will play out at the box office?

Personally, I think both will do really well.
Doomsday has the potential to hit $2.5–3 billion if it’s good, and I can see Dune 3 comfortably clearing $1 billion.

A lot of people on this sub seem to downplay Dune’s potential by talking about earlier films: “Part One only made $400 million” or “Part Two only made $700 million.” But I think that overlooks how much the fanbase has grown. It feels like it’s doubled, even tripled, which is why I expect Part Three to comfortably outperform Part Two.

We’ve already seen films this year break records and blow past expectations. How many people genuinely predicted The Odyssey would be sitting at $1.8 billion right now a lot of people months ago were saying the odyssey wouldnt even break 500M now look🤣

This is the last day to submit, so are you good at predicting the box office? Everyone here probably thinks they are. Let’s put it to the test. The winner last week was 90% accurate with over 40 other predictors with varying success. New releases tend to be difficult to get accurate, so having potentially 4 which will place in the top 5 makes things interesting. Do you know how well a movie will hold based off its first weekends box office results and reception? Come play this casual box office prediction game to try and get the top 5 movies this weekend ranked correctly.

See if you can top the leaderboard with your prediction. Submissions end tonight.!

https://www.boxofficeexpert.com/submit

Check out the results from last weekend. The top predictor was 90% accurate! Can you do better?

https://www.boxofficeexpert.com/results

​

Source:

https://www.insidekino.de/BO/E2026.htm

Both came out the same year, Wizard of Oz was something people had never seen before, and people don’t have as many choices or entertainment options, yet Wizard of Oz apparently flopped? Why would that be?

Whalefall is releasing in this Friday. It has a little to high budget. it looks like it may not do that good. I really want this movie to do well. My final prediction is $110M ww. I think overseas will do great. It’s tracking to reach $13M-$15M domestic, I hope it beats it and reaches $25M domestic opening weekend. I hope it has a massive or decent opening and makes profit. Let’s see what happens. What are your final predictions for Whalefall?

Source

"You could not live with your own (box office) failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me." - Dunesday to german audiences (probably)

Avengers: Doomsday OD (T-63)

Comps:

- No comps this far out

Surpassed:

- Verity T-0

- Black Panther 2 T-0

- Thor Love & Thunder T-0

- Doctor Strange 2 T-5 (6th best OD since Corona)

- Avatar 2 T-5 (5th best OD since Corona)

Great growth for Doomsday, behaves like a movie which comes out next week. Eclipsed the final pre sale number of Thor L&T and even added a sold out theatre. I thought there would be slowed down interest in Doomsday, marvel fans get tickets first and the general audience follows later, but I'm not so sure these numbers are all from marvel fans, which is interesting. Superhero movies aren't that big in Germany. Doomsday sold 4,5 times as much as Dune 3 in the same time frame. Nonetheless I expect the sales numbers to go down a bit.

Cont. MTC3 comp T-8:
70% behind Supergirl OW
67% behind Resident Evil OW
96% ahead of Evil dead Burn OW

As for Street Fighter, pace continues to be excellent at TC3. It is now 19% behind Mortal Kombat preview, and thanks to robust sunday presales, it is overall 13% ahead of Mortal Kombat OW. $35M+ OW I am thinking

I’ve been a regular for this sub since 2024 and every now and then movies generate a lot of discourse and debate. However, Superman (2025) was the one that I saw the most discourse around it and the most intense with people calling it to make a billion, to flop and to underpeform.

There were other movies with heavy discourse like The Odyssey, Avatar 3, Michael… but I’m sure that there were a lot of movies that had a similar thing going on before I joined the sub

One of the most anticipated movies of 2027 after Secret Wars is Frozen III. It's practically a lock at this point to absolutely zoom past the billion dollar club as every other Disney sequel has done before, but how far past that mark can it go?

Well first things first its release schedule is looking extremely positive for it to dominate. Almost zero major competition in its November slot. Secret Wars looks to be the biggest hurdle coming in December, but as we saw last year with Zootopia 2 and Avatar Fire and Ash, Frozen can easily have the advantage of being the big high profile release outside of Secret Wars, especially for families.

Also this movie has the advantage of the time it's coming out. Disney sequels have never been more hot at this moment, and it feels like we get record breakers with each passing year.

Overall here are my early predictions for a guaranteed mega hit.

OPENING WEEKEND:

• Domestic: 145m (3 day) - 245m (5 day) Thanksgiving Record Broken
• International: 265m
  
• Global: 510m (2nd Biggest Animated Opening Behind Zootopia 2)

TOTAL NUMBERS

• Domestic: 585m
• International: 1.15b
• Worldwide: 1.735b (3rd Biggest Animated Movie Of All Time Behind Zootopia 2 and NeZha 2)

I believe this film is undervalued at the moment and am predicting $80M worldwide. At an estimated budget of $10M, that would be a success. There are excited audiences and as long as reviews track it should have good numbers by wide release.

I’m actually really excited for this, even with how much Believer sucked, because Mike Flanagan is at the helm and it looks like it’ll be taking a lot of cues from the under-appreciated Exorcist III. However, I’m not entirely sure if it’ll end up making more than Believer did considering Flanagan’s last horror IP film, Doctor Sleep, underperformed financially. I also think even if Martyrs does end up performing really well, Universal’s still gonna have a long way to go before they make back that $400M acquisition bid for the rights to The Exorcist (which is still insane to me, like what?). For now, I’m predicting $25-$30M OW and a $65-$70M DOM total.