ShaqFu:
first off, is your friend male? If he is then, you should have been holding something else, to ease the tension, trust me.

abduleez1:


Mehn, the speed at which the film hit $1bn is really shocking for me even tho I was very optimistic. A Billie in just over two weeks is bonkers.

It's also actually funny how 2023's highest grossing film would be a WOKE movie.

Mac0:


👀

Kaycee7:
"Go woke go broke" in da poteaux poteaux

Nickshrapnel:
Dune 2 should outgross Barbie

Xavier5:
So I'mma tryna tell me that Oppenheimer would have been a WB film if not for WB going south with their business partnership with Christopher Nolan. Aswear, Zaslav will be praying die by fire prayer against Killar 😂😂😂.

Talking about Christopher Nolan and WB, imagine Christopher Nolan or Zack Snyder directing an Injustice trilogy, an animated HBO MAX DCeased series and/ or an animated HBO MAX Doomsday Clock series.

What about the completion of the 300 trilogy but as an HBO MAX series, or rebooted clash/ wrath of the Titans HBO MAX series --- to fix the disappointment of the movie series, justice should be done.

HBO MAX will literally go up in flames 🙃.


#Xavier

pu7pl3:
Any update on the Jonathan Majors case?

Cc abdul

majesticguy:


Top tier stuff indeed. The goat for me was Ryan Gosling. I never knew Armstrong, but I'm 100% sure Gosling portrayed him to perfection. The emotions, expressions damn! Method acting at it's finest.

The cinematography was on another level, the music score, the symphony to be precise was rhythmic and euphonious. The story, the sequence with which it was told was perfect......The movie is what i call perfection, it's up there with Gravity & The Martian.

abduleez1:


Dune 2 sure looks like another Billion dollar film this year.
Guarded optimism, then that film looks above $600-800mn. If it wants to overperform and I have a feeling it would cos it also has IMAX exclusive for 6 weeks!! Then a billion surely is in sight.

I ALWAYS told people WB comeback later this year...them think say na joke.
WB has a history of always bringing one mad hit when it's almost left for dead.
They did same in 2019, 2021 as well.

oyaskii:
The HBO max simul theatrical same day release really did hurt the part 1 numbers in 2021, I don't think it even grossed up to $500m. I just hope WB don't make the same mistake again.

abduleez1:


It made around $400mn in 2021. That was bonkers if you ask me despite day and date release. Imagine if no HBOMax, the movie would have done $600mn.

That's the main reason I'm pegging the film from $600mn+ upwards. The added exposure, more big wig casts and Dennis Villeneuve brilliance with that beautiful visuals all the more strengthens the movie's position as a billion dollar contender.
It could also challenge for Best Picture too, so WB would have a better second half.

abduleez1:


That Jason Kilar na very stupid executive honestly.
He messed up The Batman's gross. Sabotaged Dune. Lost Nolan as well as Legendary —the owners of the Godzilla franchise. After next year's Godzilla and Kong movies Legendary is moving most probably to Universal.


Oppenheimer also had the benefit of being comarketed with BARBIE, vice versa.
Those numerous internet memes did a whole lot of marketing and exposure for both films.

oyaskii:
Yeah $400M in "crazy post covid lockdown" times in retrospect was decent.

Part 2 should do decent numbers too, it's one of the most anticipated flicks out this year, other titles out around that time too might contribute if they are big as well. But barring a mad movie goers apathy, it should fare decently.

lol A fantasy winning best picture might be a pipe dream, as you rightly said, it might be a contender, but the academy will rather give it to an artsy flick that panders to one of the numerous woke agendas.

abduleez1:


Yep, it's the most anticipated movie for the last half of the year.

Lord of The Rings won Best Picture in 2003.
Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water won Best Picture and Best Director as well as leading 13 nominations in 2018.

I finished watching it this evening and I can't really see anything that smells Best Picture in it.
It's a good movie but Best Picture ain't it.

Anyways, Oppenheimer is in the lead to win it, before Martin Scorsese's Killers of The Flower Moon comes for it.

folake4u:


Haaahaa nah. It's female actually.

oyaskii:
@ bolded, are you talking about Shape of Water? The best picture win had a silly "back story agenda" to it lol. It was mesh in "Pan's Labyrinth" snob in 2006. I thought "Three billboards outside ebbing Missouri" deserved it that year. Funny enough Sally Hawkins performance was the best thing about the movie and she didn't scope best actress.


Wow! Oppenheimer! That is front in queue for best picture but i am waiting on Oscar to do the silliest thing yet and give best picture to Barbie 😂😂

abduleez1:
Cc Oyaskii

This thing na premium scam
See list of movies and Na finding water wey no get shape na in Academy see give.

Chai, Darkest Hour and Dunkirk come dey this list. There's also Lady Bird. There's also Call Me By Your Name and Get Out. 😂😂😂

This scam no gel at all.
Make I go map out plan as I go watch the remainders from this list.

Oscars dey fagbo that year. I hear say the previous year na by mistake Moonlight win am.
Dem say dem give the hosts wrong winner name. 👀👀

Why dem no recall am back. I think similar thing happened recently and they had to reconfirm abi I don dey old ni. 🤔

abduleez1:
Just remembered how I nearly shed tears this afternoon....
Spent a huge chunk of my morning time doing premium curation and ideation for over 2hrs just in the middle of writing my Darkest Hour review.

I made the mistake of writing all those ideas, curation and researching on EverNote without syncing it with data simultaneously when my data finished. I continued using it.
I nearly cried after all that time and dedication spent when all what I wrote disappeared. 😭😭

Omo see premium tears when I saw Oyaskii and Majesticguy discussing Space themed movies. Part of what I was even curating earlier in the morning.

I was so depressed I vex go sleep.
Wake up this evening... Started rewriting majority of the stuffs I remembered I had scribbled in the morning in another note app. I say make I try my luck with the yeye EverNote and tried to sync with data. Virtually almost everything I wrote that morning came back!!! Come see joy. E be like when you cum into Valhalla...
Still I dey feel the headache of cracking brain and nearly crying to sleep for the time wasted.
What a day.

ShaqFu:
then, you should have cuddled something, something soft and yielding... 😁

oyaskii:
😂😂😂....I dey tell you say agendas dey always follow Oscar and the way dem they hand out win. The fact is, they don't follow a set rules, each year they just pander to the "agenda" that is loudest and call it a day. The 2016 best actor win for Leonardo DiCaprio was basically a pity award for previous years of neglect whilst overlooking Matt Damon for "The Martian" and Micheal Fassbender for "Steve Jobs". "Green Book" winning best picture over "Roma" is still a mystery, because the "race agenda" was in play, If EEAAO was done by an all black cast, i seriously doubt if it could have gotten best picture because Jordan Peele made a similar socially conscious movie in "Get out" and it was overlooked, and who could forget!, My fave none sense that Oscar has done, is given Roman Polanski best director in absentia for the "The Pianist", I mean, the man admitted to some serious crimes and fled the country before he could be indicted, he couldn't even enter the country let alone , attend the ceremony 😭😭.


Oscar get some right but they have been on some performative BS for some time that i basically stopped taking them seriously.😌

oyaskii:
😂😂😂....I dey tell you say agendas dey always follow Oscar and the way dem they hand out win. The fact is, they don't follow a set rules, each year they just pander to the "agenda" that is loudest and call it a day. The 2016 best actor win for Leonardo DiCaprio was basically a pity award for previous years of neglect whilst overlooking Matt Damon for "The Martian" and Micheal Fassbender for "Steve Jobs". "Green Book" winning best picture over "Roma" is still a mystery, because the "race agenda" was in play, If EEAAO was done by an all black cast, i seriously doubt if it could have gotten best picture because Jordan Peele made a similar socially conscious movie in "Get out" and it was overlooked, and who could forget!, My fave none sense that Oscar has done, is given Roman Polanski best director in absentia for the "The Pianist", I mean, the man admitted to some serious crimes and fled the country before he could be indicted, he couldn't even enter the country let alone , attend the ceremony 😭😭.


Oscar get some right but they have been on some performative BS for some time that i basically stopped taking them seriously.😌

oyaskii:
see premium list ...Glad you were able to recall the list, but now the real work begins, to find the time and will to see them all .

BTW, Seems Evernote and MIUI doesn't agree 😭😭. I have never had a stable running of the app that i just end up uninstalling it and just sticking with the native notes app. It used to run smoothly on my prior devices, i need to actually leave MIUI soonest and go back to pure Android experience