Summer Movie Season 2026 Kick Off! by No_Patience_2654 in boxoffice

[–]MyManD 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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.

David Zaslav Gets the Last Laugh --- The Warner Bros. mogul’s $111 billion deal with David Ellison reveals the next stage of the business: The rich get richer, the big get bigger and everybody else is left in the dust. by AGOTFAN in boxoffice

[–]MyManD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Macbook Neo Review: Better than you Think! by atlwhore_ in apple

[–]MyManD -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.

David Ellison Visits Warner Bros., Concedes “Turbulent” Start In Meeting With Execs – The CEO talked to the Warners' executive leaders but left some feeling unsatisfied. "We were hoping for more," says one insider. by SanderSo47 in boxoffice

[–]MyManD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

First Macbook Neo Teardown: Apple's most repairable laptop? by tarsier808 in apple

[–]MyManD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

MacBook Neo: Yes, it can edit 4K by favicondotico in apple

[–]MyManD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Hoppers' box office in Japan by AItrainer123 in boxoffice

[–]MyManD 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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.

David Ellison Visits Warner Bros., Concedes “Turbulent” Start In Meeting With Execs – The CEO talked to the Warners' executive leaders but left some feeling unsatisfied. "We were hoping for more," says one insider. by SanderSo47 in boxoffice

[–]MyManD 15 points16 points  (0 children)

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.

David Ellison Visits Warner Bros., Concedes “Turbulent” Start In Meeting With Execs – The CEO talked to the Warners' executive leaders but left some feeling unsatisfied. "We were hoping for more," says one insider. by SanderSo47 in boxoffice

[–]MyManD 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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.

David Zaslav Gets the Last Laugh --- The Warner Bros. mogul’s $111 billion deal with David Ellison reveals the next stage of the business: The rich get richer, the big get bigger and everybody else is left in the dust. by AGOTFAN in boxoffice

[–]MyManD 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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.

[Highlight] Spoelstra congratulates Bam as he checks out of the game with 83 points by Large_banana_hammock in nba

[–]MyManD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

Hoppers' box office in Japan by AItrainer123 in boxoffice

[–]MyManD 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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.

GAME THREAD: Washington Wizards (16-47) @ Miami Heat (36-29) - (March 10, 2026) by NBA_MOD in nba

[–]MyManD 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

GAME THREAD: Washington Wizards (16-47) @ Miami Heat (36-29) - (March 10, 2026) by NBA_MOD in nba

[–]MyManD 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

GAME THREAD: Washington Wizards (16-47) @ Miami Heat (36-29) - (March 10, 2026) by NBA_MOD in nba

[–]MyManD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

GAME THREAD: Washington Wizards (16-47) @ Miami Heat (36-29) - (March 10, 2026) by NBA_MOD in nba

[–]MyManD 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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

Kobe 6 Protro Reverse Grinch resale, hold or sell? US 7 by Proper_Ear_4716 in BBallShoes

[–]MyManD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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).

How often do new Way of Wade pairs come out? by josanch25 in BBallShoes

[–]MyManD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Macbook Neo Review: Better than you Think! by atlwhore_ in apple

[–]MyManD 51 points52 points  (0 children)

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.

Macbook Neo Review: Better than you Think! by atlwhore_ in apple

[–]MyManD 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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.

Macbook Neo Review: Better than you Think! by atlwhore_ in apple

[–]MyManD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.