The Marvels Box Office, Coyote Vs. ACME May Not Be Dead After All, and More
/Film Weekly
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🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On the November 14, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writer Ryan Scott to talk about the latest film and TV news.
Opening Banter: Let’s spend the first half of the show talking about box office stuff, and then transition into some film news after that.
In The News:
- The Marvels Heads For $47-52 Million Opening Weekend, A Historic Low For The MCU
- Don't Feed The Trolls, And Don't Blame The Marvels Director Nia DaCosta For The Film's Box Office
- The Marvels Box Office Was Even Worse Than Expected – What The Heck Happened?
- The Marvels Box Office Points To A Major Problem In Hollywood, Not Just Marvel
- Can The Hunger Games Prequel Recapture The YA Box Office Magic For Lionsgate?
Take a break
- Strike Updates!
- SAG-AFTRA board has approved the agreement and sent it off to the members to be ratified.
- Deadline interview with Fran Drescher and Duncan Crabtree-Ireland
- AI stuff from Justine Bateman
- James Cameron Is (Finally) Releasing The Abyss: Special Edition Remastered In 4K In Theaters This December
- Email: Is there any way that the Coyote v ACME can be saved? you guys made some good points. Even a bomb can get $30m. Honestly, if the internet fans could get Snyder some cash to make Justice League (not a fan of either version), surely fans could get this over the line. - Ronnie from Australia
- Warner Bros. Changes Course, Will Allow Coyote Vs. Acme To Be Shopped To Other Distributors
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily. |
| 0:01.8 | Today is Tuesday, November 14th, 2023. |
| 0:04.5 | On today's episode of the show, we're going to be talking about the latest film and |
| 0:07.2 | TV news. My name is Ben Pearson. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm an editor at slash film.com and I'm joined on today's episode |
| 0:11.5 | by slash film staff writer and Box Office analyst Ryan Scott. |
| 0:14.6 | Hey everyone, how's it going? |
| 0:16.6 | All right, Ryan, let's spend the first half of the show talking about some box office stuff |
| 0:19.7 | and then we will transition into some film news after that. |
| 0:22.4 | So the big story, obviously, is the Marvels. |
| 0:25.2 | The new Marvel Studios movie, which unfortunately did not perform very well |
| 0:29.5 | at the box office, is in fact a historic low for the MCU in terms of opening weekends. |
| 0:34.4 | Tell me a little bit about that. |
| 0:35.8 | Yeah, so, you know, we talked a bit about this a couple weeks ago. |
| 0:40.6 | I think we were talking about potential predictions and stuff. So short of it is, the |
| 0:46.5 | marvels fell way short of expectations. It opened to 46.1 million dollars domestically and even, like that's even lower than the weekend estimates had it at like |
| 0:56.0 | 47 million so it dropped even a bit more where the actuals came in. Just for some historical context |
| 1:02.1 | the previous record holder for the lowest debut in the |
| 1:05.2 | MCU was The Incredible Hulk, which was way back in 2008, that opened a 55 million, which was |
| 1:11.5 | significantly more, and that's unadjusted for inflation we should also mention and then you |
| 1:16.3 | above that was an ant man at 57 million then you have a pretty big jump to Captain America the first |
| 1:20.7 | Avenger at 6565 million. |
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