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Last year was a pretty rough year for Blumhouse, with none of their films hitting $100 million worldwide, one of their films bombing in the box office (“AfrAId”), and three of the four films getting poor reception from critics and audience alike (“Night Swim,” “Imaginary,” and “AfrAId”). Only “Speak No Evil” did reasonably well in terms of reception and box office gross.

Their woes will continue to this year, as “Wolf Man” is projected to make less than “Night Swim”‘s opening weekend gross ($11.8 million) and may come out on 3rd place during the weekend. Blumhouse will have two original movies coming on March and April–“The Woman in the Yard” and “Drop,” respectively, and three sequels of their previous films: “M3GAN 2.0,” “The Black Phone 2,” and “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2.” Here’s hoping the rest of their films will do better this year.

Edit: Wow. Looks like Universal will be distributing all six of Blumhouse’s films this year. In fact, the first and last film Universal is or will be distributing this year are all made by Blumhouse.

While nobody was looking Oversimplified dropped part 3 to his Second Punic War video.

Finally I can find out how it ended.

@Dustcan
Good on him, I was just watching his video about the Three Kingdoms period.

Been a while since I mentioned hype comic moments. And yeah, War of the Realms had one I keep thinking back to.

I love comics.

The more I see of this movie the more dated this becomes

Notable box office achievements this weekend:

-“Moana 2” reaches the $1 billion mark today, becoming the 56th film to do so. It is also the 3rd film of the year 2024 and the 4th Walt Disney Animation Studios film to reach that mark.
-“Sonic 3” has passed “Sonic 2”‘s worldwide gross ($405 million). Its current estimated worldwide total is $420 million after MLK Jr. Day. The film’s next goal is to pass “Warcraft (2016)”’s worldwide gross ($439 million) to become the 2nd highest grossing video game movie of all time.
-“Wicked” has passed the $700 million worldwide mark.

Stronger than you Chara’s version animation remake,

I lost it when the third contender came in. Fight done.

I just found out that Delaware has a river called Murderkill, and it branches off into a Whorekill and Broadkill streams, and they all flow from Slaughter Beach.

Can, can we just allow Delaware to choose the names for everything ever?

Is Delaware okay?

Delaware is both okay and an example we all should strive for.

In honor of David Lynch, any movies or tv shows I should get into from him?

Watching Dune 1984 was so fascinating I dont care what people say. It looked awesome. (Though I forgot the story)

@Cosmas-the-Explorer
Haven’t watched them myself, but Twin Peaks and it’s 2017 revival are Lynch at his peak so i think watch them

“Sonic 4”’s release date is March 19th, 2027. I’m not sure if that’s a good idea since that is one week before the “Godzilla x Kong” sequel comes out. There’s going to be an audience overlap between these two films.

The Toxic Avenger reboot staring Peter Dinklage will finally be releasing later this year, after years stuck on the shelf.

It will also be the unrated version too.

@Icicle Niceicle 1517

Box office numbers this weekend + MLK Jr. Day:

-“Mufasa” took the crown this weekend by outgrossing the newly released movies. It only dropped by 15% from last weekend, which is the 2nd fewest drop among the movies that are currently playing in theaters. It also made an additional $52 million worldwide from last week; $49 million if you don’t count MLK Jr. Day. The movie’s box office performance is quite impressive.
-Keke Palmer and SZA led their way to the #2 spot this weekend with “One of Them Days.” Against a budget of $15 million, it should make a decent amount of money and would turn into a decent profit for Sony.
-All howl and no bite. “Wolf Man” came into 3rd place by making a disappointing $12.3 million domestic and $17.1 million worldwide on its opening weekend. Against a budget of $25 million, I think this film has a candidate of being the first flop of the year due to bad reception and weak opening weekend numbers. The film was originally projected to make around $17-20 million domestic on its opening 4-day weekend before the reviews came out.
-“Sonic 3” continues to impress during weekends by making $8.6 million domestic on its 5th weekend, which was a 24% drop from the previous weekend. It has made more than “Sonic 2”’s worldwide gross of $405 million. Its next goal is to surpass “Warcraft (2016)”’s worldwide gross of $439 million this weekend.
-“Den of Thieves 2” took a hit this weekend thanks to “Mufasa,” “Sonic 3,” and the two newly released films. Its predecessor only dropped 43% from the opening weekend, though that film dropped from the #3 to the #7 spot, losing to “The Post” and “The Greatest Showman.” I think it should still do fine against a budget of $40 million.
-“Moana 2” had the fewest drop among the movies that are currently playing in theaters. It also reached the $1 billion worldwide overall mark and is the 56th film to do so.
-“Nosferatu” took a hit this weekend thanks to “Wolf Man,” but I think it should bounce back next weekend thanks to the film getting a much stronger reception than “Wolf Man.”
-“A Complete Unknown” is still doing pretty good.

the official logo for sonic 4 dropped.

@Angrybrony
We also got concept art for Sonic 4 too