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Gatsby77

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    Beat me to it. Warner Bros. stock hit a 365-day low of $8.29 this morning following their quarterly earnings release. I dumped 20% of my Paramount stock earlier this week on news that Warren Buffett had cut his stake, but I kept all of my WBD stock.
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    Toy revenue?
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    Are we thinking Henry Cavill's off-the-table for Dr. Doom? Supposedly he was cast in an undisclosed Marvel role within the past week - I'm *really* hoping it's not Sentry. And I think he'd work well as Doom.
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    So...19 years after The Crow 5? Have we learned nothing?
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    I can understand The Meg 2's outperformance, but who would have predicted that Ryan Reynolds' Free Guy would outperform Aquaman 2 in China by nearly 50%?
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    I like Magnus 0.
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    "Lowest average Rotten Tomatoes score (13%) of any major superhero film in nearly a decade." Had to look it up - Fantastic Four (2015) - with just 9% positive. Worse than even Jonah Hex - which I paid to see in the theater opening weekend.
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    It made more on Day # 4 than it did on Day # 1. ZOMG - its legs are *amazing*!
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    Wait - So we're allowed to mock this film? I'm confused - trying to keep up...
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    This. I've only seen a few episodes of For All Mankind but they were excellent - and if they can do the 60's for a TV show, they can certainly do it for an FF movie. And as someone noted above, given the history of FF movies we've seen, this seems really risky for the cast at the current point in their careers - which actually gives me more faith in the script than usual. Pascal and Kirby, at least, don't need this film.
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    Rotten Tomatoes currently has this tied with Morbius at 15% positive. So...props to Sony for consistency, I guess?
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    Absolutely - but I see no such credits on New Mutants 87 or 91.
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    Likewise! This looks amazing.
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    Jennifer Garner's Elektra is in this? Whoa...
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    I never understood the Gambit love - I mean, I was reading during his run (I bought Uncanny 251-308 off-the rack) and it was cool to see him in the X-Men cartoon, but I always preferred Longshot and Bishop - even Forge.
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    Late to this thread but I'm a Liefeld fan - shamelessly and unapologetically. Because he was a major artist during my childhood collecting days. One of the first books I bought off the stands in 1989 was What If # 7 (What If Wolverine were an Agent of Shield) with art by Liefeld - I was sold by the cover and the premise. New Mutants # 87 was my first *grail* - I mowed lawns for a summer to afford it - and eventually paid $50 for my first copy. And there was palpable excitement those last 6 months of New Mutants, when Cable and Wolverine first met in New Mutants # 93-94, then the Xtinction Agenda storyline, and the X-Force lead-in of 98-100. It was an *amazing* time to be a teenage comic book fan - heck, I'll still pay $3 for Youngblood 1 when I see it at cons and I already have 5 of them. Also - someone above noted that eventually his art devolved into blatant swipes. Umm...I'd argue he was doing blatant swipes from the beginning. I mean, the covers of New Mutants 86, 87 and 91 are all blatant swipes. I even bought a few of his later original art covers from his New 52 DC days. Would love to get some decent 1990-1992-era Cable pages by Liefeld someday - but that's what childhood nostalgia does for you.
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    oH my gOoDnESs! LOoK at iTs LEGZ!
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    "Warner Bros.' # 5 top-grossing film post-Covid?" What's next? 6th highest-grossing film released on the 51st Friday of a non-leap year? This might be significant, if it meant it were: a) close to profitable; or b) this were actually a thing. For reference, Aquaman 2 is currently running ~$50 million behind the the # 4 Warner Bros. film (Godzilla v. Kong) ~$150 million behind the # 3 Warner Bros. film (Wonka) ~$1.0 billion behind the # 1 Warner Bros. film (Barbie)
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    This stings - a legend from his roles in Rocky, Predator and The Mandalorian alone. I'm not ready for the actors of my childhood to begin passing on.
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    No. The debt load has been public knowledge for more than a year and was already priced in. The largest recent share price drop happened in November after the last earnings call, when the company disclosed drops in both advertising and a loss of streaming subscribers. The question is what material events have happened to move the share price over the last 5 weeks (i.e., since Aquaman 2's release - a period, incidentally, during which interest rates have dropped). There's an argument that the share price had an artificial bump close to Aquaman 2's release on rumors of a potential Paramount / WBD merger that now seems unlikely. I'd buy that. But other major events include: Barbie Oscar nominations Tom Cruise announcing his non-exclusive deal w/ the studio Aquaman (ahem!) underperforming Wells Fargo downgrading it yesterday, citing negative trends in TV & streaming
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    ? Weird flex given that A2 is on-track to lose Warner Bros. $60 million - $100 million. All of the films I mentioned failed commercially - even the one that yes, technically made the studio money. Because in its wake, the studio drastically changed direction on Justice League Part 1, and subsequently cancelled 3 announced projects. And I know A2's not, you know, *solely* responsible, but Warner Bros. stock is down nearly 13% YTD. Which (because context matters) is significantly worse than the U.S. stock market as a whole - up nearly 4% YTD.
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    Great books, Sharon!
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    Exactly. Right back at you, good sir!
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    ? My subjective views of the film don't matter. That's simply my opinion. But the film's box office failure is an objective fact. Your repeatedly posting nearly daily updates praising this film's supposed "legs" and "surprising success" when it bombed out of the gate doesn't change that it is, in fact, a box office bomb. Fact vs. opinion. And that I continue to post additional context around my facts - because context matters - doesn't change what is objectively true (its commercial failure) vs. what is an irrelevant subjective judgment (how I personally feel about the film).
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    BS. Context matters. Benchmarks matter. For instance, it looks catastrophic that Aquaman 2's China box office is running 80% below that of Aquaman's. Until you realize that Aquaman 2's U.S. box office is running 62%+ below that of Aquaman's. Rinse and repeat for the bulk of the other films listed, and the data likely show it's not just a China problem. That's like saying "Leonardo DiCaprio should have won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for What's Eating Gilbert Grape." - A perfectly fine sentiment on its own, but it lacks context. That he was up that year against: Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List John Malkovich in In the Line of Fire