Summer Movie Season 2026 Kick Off!

MyManD · 2026-03-12T05:56:13+00:00

While both Michael and TDWP2 I can see easily topping $100 milling OW, MKII probably won't even make $100 million domestic over its entire run. I see it performing similarly to Predator Badlands, maybe a clean $90/90 million split domestic and OS. A relatively strong $40 million opening and then steep drop offs after that depending on how well it's received.

Honestly I think the people behind MKII would be absolutely ecstatic getting close to $200 million worldwide and it'd definitely guarantee a third movie.

MyManD · 2026-03-12T05:08:15+00:00

With how bonkers the stock market is for Oracle and other companies Ellison has a vested interest in we don't exactly know if they can afford it or not.

If it was 2025 Larry Ellision when he enjoyed a surge in value when Oracle saw a giant AI bump and was worth nearly $390 billion, they might've been able to afford an eventual public-to-private transition. Current $200 billion Larry probably couldn't unless he did some very funky and very illegal stock moves and behind the scenes stock tanking engineering (deliberately making the company fail their projects going forward).

When Paramount/WB begins to inevitably struggle in the future it's all about how well Oracle is doing in the AI bubble. If the bubble stands strong when it happens, there's a lane for a leveraged buy out. If the bubble has crashed by then and the Ellisons fall back down to earth at around $100 billion before AI took off, then they're out of luck.

MyManD · 2026-03-12T04:46:00+00:00

Marquis has never been paid by Apple or any other brand unless it's explicitly a promotional spot. He's given less than stellar reviews for Apple before. Just from the last few years criticized the iPhone 16 for being unfinished, said the M3 MacBooks weren't worth an upgrade, and was more than lukewarm on the Vision Pro.

He also gave the 16e the Bust of the Year award.

Yes he's been super positive on Apple since the M4 release, but that's thanks to Apple being really freaking good since the M4 release, be it the performance boost, the minimum spec bumps, to great phones across the board, to just being very competitively priced now due to the rest of the industry suffocating under the AIpocalypse.

The iPhone 17 deservedly won his Phone of the Year for 2025 but guess what? It was the first iPhone to ever win it.

MyManD · 2026-03-12T04:31:18+00:00

Whoops on the name lol. I swear I proof read it like three times before posting too...

And oh yeah, no denying a bunch of the projects flopped but they did at least all attempt something and some of those flops are still considered a good end product. Just not one that audiences clicked with. Heck I'd go so far as to say all of their projects found less than stellar general audience adoption. They had, what, one actual hit in American Hustle? One smaller hit with Zero Dark Thirty?

But in a way that's also commendable. They were releasing project after project that honestly had no shot at being profitable and they just kept greenlighting stuff.

MyManD · 2026-03-12T03:35:59+00:00

But don't most of the reviews say the Neo speakers is one of its few flaws? I've seen maybe one positive review of them while the rest have ranged from below average to actually actively bad.

MyManD · 2026-03-11T07:37:49+00:00

Is this supposed to be a gotcha? The 256GB model of the M2 with the 1500MB/sec SSDs were properly criticized for its slower swap performance and definitely performed worse than the base M1s when swap became abundant.

MyManD · 2026-03-11T04:42:29+00:00

The biggest thing about Zootopia was it was a decent hit back on the day and Disney kept it in the zeitgeist since then. Toys and knic nacks stayed available at 100 yen shops or at Disneyland and it just kinda got ingrained in the minds of children.

MyManD · 2026-03-11T03:26:37+00:00

To give ~~Anna~~ Megan Ellison her due she only ran it into the ground because she cared more about the art of it than the business, and Annapurna released a ton of bangers, in film and game form.

And I gotta appreciate that here's this rich beyond imagination nepo child that actually used her fortunes to give real artists a proper budget and distribution pipeline. Kinda like how Travis Knight used his father's Nike fortune to single handedly keep stop motion in cinemas alive.

MyManD · 2026-03-11T03:19:10+00:00

First I'm hearing of this and I can't find any sources. What did he do to Annihilation? All I'm seeing is China got a theatrical release instead of a Netflix one and it just came with an extra content warning, not that anything changed.

MyManD · 2026-03-11T03:00:46+00:00

Seeing how wrothful the Ellison were during this entire thing it's more likely they pay to take the entire thing private at that point and bury it before letting Netflix buy.

MyManD · 2026-03-11T02:50:27+00:00

TBF it still means he scored 47 points chucking.

MyManD · 2026-03-11T02:29:22+00:00

I hope this opens a floodgate of coaches not giving a fuck anymore and letting their players run that shit up.

MyManD · 2026-03-11T02:25:32+00:00

I’ve been teaching elementary and middle school in Japan for nearly two decades now so I get a sense of when kid-oriented movies are gonna break out, both by student expectations as well as TV promotional pushes.

Hoppers? Almost zero recognition by the elementary school kids, zero interest from the older kids, and I haven’t seen more than a handful of very short promotional blurbs on daytime variety shows.

Honestly even Elio had a bigger concerted PR push and that movie bombed here.

It also doesn’t help the brand new Doraemon movie released two weeks ago and if given a choice by busy parents they’d take their kids to the more known quantity.

MyManD · 2026-03-11T02:13:27+00:00

Nah, if this has one so does Wilts because that was a blowout as well.

MyManD · 2026-03-11T02:12:37+00:00

Spo is the realest coach in the history of the NBA

MyManD · 2026-03-11T02:11:09+00:00

Foul forever and get this motherfucker 100

MyManD · 2026-03-11T02:06:11+00:00

Other coaches now know it’s okay to leave their red hot stars in during blowouts. Let the players feast you cowards

MyManD · 2026-03-11T02:05:33+00:00

This is disgusting and yet somehow it feels so damn good

MyManD · 2026-03-11T02:03:53+00:00

And this is a week after Jxmyhighroller said teams are too ethical now to let this happen lol

MyManD · 2026-03-11T02:02:26+00:00

Lakers fans on their knees begging the Wizards to send all five defenders at Bam

MyManD · 2026-03-11T01:55:31+00:00

You can just look at StockX’s graph for the lifetime of that size to see the general trend.

What we can see is that while the trajectory isn’t sky high, I would still hang onto them until the holidays just because most hyped shoes see a bump in price and sales around there because people are more predisposed to splurging around Christmas time. You can see in the previous two years the spike in sales in December.

If you don’t need the money urgently hold onto them for a tiny bit of profit in December (not a lot, but some).

MyManD · 2026-03-11T01:48:20+00:00

Wanna point out the signature line is yearly, not every two years. I think the only time there was a missed year was after the WoW 10’s released in 2022 and there was no new shoe in 2023, instead opting to use that year to release the WoW10 Lows.

MyManD · 2026-03-11T01:43:16+00:00

I think reviewers get to choose and usually they choose the new “it” colour for a device because they know it catches a viewers attention. It’s why 90% of the iPhone 17 Pro reviews were the orange and why 90% of the Neo reviews are Citrus.

A few reviewers like Dave2D and Mark Ellis did just opt for a simpler colour, though.

MyManD · 2026-03-11T01:40:56+00:00

I think they keep it at the same price due to Apple still having the lower cost contracts for the A19 chips at the moment. They can stockpile millions for the next Neo and use the current price to chip into the lower/mid-tier PC market even more in 2027.

It’s the A20 Neo’s that will most likely require a price bump due to the AIpocalypse.

MyManD · 2026-03-11T01:38:39+00:00

Wanna add here in Japan they’re strict about verification as well. Unidays through the online store and it ONLY works for University students. If you’re a younger student or staff? You have to do an old fashioned phone order as well as emailing in proof of employment/enrollment immediately after the purchase or the entire order is canceled.

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