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Black Panther and the Box Office (New Substandard!)
Black Panther and the Box Office (New Substandard!)

In the latest episode of the Substandard (Subscribe! Leave a review!), we discuss Black Panther (which is good, a film that’s firmly in the second quartile of MCU movies) and JVL explain why he gets a bit crotchety at forced enthusiasm for pop cultural objects that don’t really need any extra hype. Send him your complaints, people.

Anyway, we didn’t spend too much time on this, but I think it’s worth discussing just how big a hit this movie has been so far. After the embed, a few thoughts on Black Panther‘s monster opening.

In the latest episode of the Substandard (Subscribe! Leave a review!), we discuss Black Panther (which is good, a film thats firmly in the second quartile of MCU movies), and JVL explains why he gets a bit crotchety at forced enthusiasm for pop cultural objects that dont really need any extra hype. Send him your complaints, people. Anyway, we didnt spend too much time on this, but I think its worth discussing just how big a hit this movie has been so far. After the embed, a few thoughts on Black Panther‘s monster opening. If you want to understand just how big a hit Black Panther might be, this Box Office Mojo chart is instructive: Theres an apples/oranges thing going on here because Black Panther‘s first Monday was a holiday, but still. Look at the Saturday and Sunday numbers! Black Panther totally crushed The Last Jedi. Now, look: Im on record as saying that The Last Jedi has to be a bit of a disappointment, financially, for Disney. (Im not the only one saying this.) Black Panther, meanwhile, could gross exactly the same amount of money—$618 million domestically, so far—and be an enormous, rousing, unexpected smash hit. Both of these things can be true simultaneously. Its all about expectations: The Last Jedi‘s box office haul represents a 30 percent drop off from The Force Awakens and word of mouth was obviously quite weak on the picture, given its enormous weekend-to-weekend drops in comparison with similar pictures. Black Panther, meanwhile, has already, in four days, outgrossed its peers (which I would define as Ant-Man, Thor, and Dr. Strange, the first movies about second-tier Marvel heroes). Well have a better idea of Black Panther‘s ceiling after this weekend—I honestly have no idea what to expect and wouldnt be surprised by a weekend-to-weekend drop of 40 percent (which would be an amazing hold) or 60 percent (which would be extremely disappointing for the studio and suggest that the movies grosses were heavily front loaded). Somewhere in between is most likely; lord knows it doesnt have any real competition this weekend. But I feel pretty confident that its going to crush The Last Jedi‘s second weekend and may beat The Avengers‘ second weekend too. In short: If I were a betting man, Id wager that Black Panther ends up outgrossing not only The Last Jedi but also The Avengers, and could end up making a run at Avatar for the second spot on the all-time domestic box office list.
    2018-02-22 18:13:45


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Katie Price: The ups and downs of her life
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RuPaul’s Drag Race coming to BBC Three in 2019
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BBC drops plans for Brexit TV debate between May and Corbyn
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The broadcaster offered to air a debate, but Labour had criticised the proposed format.
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Cromer Pier a star of BBC One this Christmas
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Turner Prize 2018: Film-using art activists in the running
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    2018-12-04 13:36:16


YouTube top earners: The seven-year-old making $22m
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    2018-12-03 22:05:34


2018 WAFCA Winners
2018 WAFCA Winners

As a film critic of medium-low importance, one of my most sacred duties is participating in the Washington Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) year-end awards extravaganza. During this hallowed time of year, I watch dozens of movies and mine my own recollection of the good, the bad, and the ugly to determine what, precisely, the best films of the year were. At the end of this grueling process—this death march through endless stacks of DVDs, searching for the rarest pearl in an ever-increasing sea of muck—we WAFCA members nominate up to five films/people in each category. The five films/people who earn the most votes in every category are then voted upon by the whole of the membership, the winners are chosen, the press release is sent out, and blessed, blessed relief descends upon us as we put the exercise to rest for 11 months.

    2018-12-03 18:07:03


PewDiePie in battle with T-Series to keep top YouTube spot
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PewDiePie is battling Indian channel T-Series in a bid to remain the YouTuber with the most subscribers.
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Take That have fastest-selling album of 2018 so far
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Howard Donald, Gary Barlow and Mark Owens greatest hits tops the UK chart on its first week of release.
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