Men In Black: International

[samsnee]

MIB International is getting predicted for a $28 million opening weekend right now by BOM, which is even lower than Dark Phoenix.

And what was DP budget versus MIB?

 

[terry78]

For some reason, I feel like if Chris Pratt had been in this and did his usual goofy shtick for some reason it may have played better. I know all the Chrises are interchangeable but I don't know. They all do decent comedy.

 

[Schlosser85]

I think that'd be a little oversaturation of Chris Pratt across multiple franchises.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

For some reason, I feel like if Chris Pratt had been in this and did his usual goofy shtick for some reason it may have played better. I know all the Chrises are interchangeable but I don't know. They all do decent comedy.

I personally think the whole Chris Pratt schtick is getting stale.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Damn. Chris is about to go from being in the biggest movie of the year to the biggest flop of the year.

Bigger flop than Hellboy? Nope.

 

[Raiders]

I personally think the whole Chris Pratt schtick is getting stale.

He is struggling with his weight again. Did anyone notice how much weight he gain between Infinity Wars and Endgame

 

[BaelaTargaryen]

‘Men in Black: International’ Flops With $25M Opening As Sequelitis Prevails At Box Office – Deadline

2nd Update, Friday Mid-day: Men in Black: International will seriously have to rely on the last word in its title when it comes to box office cash this weekend because here in the states the Sony reboot/fourthquel is crashing with an estimated $25M off of an estimated $10M Friday (including last night’s $3.1M previews). Exits are not good at 3 stars for general audiences on ComScore/Screen Engine’s PostTrak, a low 44% definite recommend, however kids under 12 (14% of last night’s audience) enjoyed it better at 4 stars. Parents were at 3 stars.

Who came out last night? In general audiences (81% of the audience) it was Men over 25 (29%) and Females under/over 25 each at 25% — some Chris Hemsworth factor) with men under 25 at 20%. Each quad of the four quads gave it a meh 72% positive. Caucasian repped 50% of the audience, Hispanics 22%, African Americans 11% and Asians at 12%.

 

[HammerDown]

There's really no comparison between Dark Phoenix and MIB: International.
For the simple fact that DP cost more than the double of MIB:I.

So yeh they might open with similar results and might even have similar box office totals but in the end of the day DP is in a league of its own.

 

[B]

CH and TT have so much chemistry together.
A damn shame Sony messed it up. I mean how can you waste that duo.

Why what did Sony do?

 

[HammerDown]

Why what did Sony do?

They dropped the ball. I mostly blame the studio for how this turned up.

 

[B]

They dropped the ball. I mostly blame the studio for how this turned up.

Dropped the ball how?

 

[TMP98]

MiB's opening weekend might be under its RT score

 

[HammerDown]

Dropped the ball how?

They had a great franchise, a solid idea and a good cast but still managed to not produce something decent.

 

[Raiders]

Sony decision making has been horrible. MIB is a stale franchise, Sony was going to merge it with a hot Jump Street franchise, with Jones, Smith,Tatum and Hill, but Sony decided not to do that.
Unfortunately this is what Sony has decided:
1. Reboot MIB without Jones and Smith.
2. Reboot the hot JS franchise without Hill and Tatum.
Both of these decisions makes no freaking sense.

 

[terry78]

Sadly Disney is the only player in the game that's seems to know what to do with their franchises.

 

[TMP98]

One of the reasons I think this bombed so hard was because it looked really cringe-inducing, and I feel like that's the kiss of death for a movie nowadays

 

[TheVileOne]

Sony decision making has been horrible. MIB is a stale franchise, Sony was going to merge it with a hot Jump Street franchise, with Jones, Smith,Tatum and Hill, but Sony decided not to do that.
Unfortunately this is what Sony has decided:
1. Reboot MIB without Jones and Smith.
2. Reboot the hot JS franchise without Hill and Tatum.
Both of these decisions makes no freaking sense.

Would that really have saved it? Also, that movie still would've probably cost over $400 million and not made money.

 

[The Chris]

In the IMAX at NYC Lincoln Square right now. Wow it really is bombing. I haven't seen such a small Friday night turnout here in a long time. Even dark phoenix had more.

 

[HammerDown]

I didn't see any problem whatsoever with them rebooting MIB and of course it made sense to reboot it with different people. CH and TT where a solid pairing who had a great rapport in Ragnarok. I liked the MIB franchise very much and i loved Ragnarok and how great both CH and TT where in that, so for me this project had the right ingredients... I was ready to a fresh and new take.

Sony had the right idea it's just that the execution was not up to par. Again they had a great cast, a good general idea... but it feels like they didn't put much time and effort in really making a franchise restarter. Maybe with more time, dedication, a different director, screenwriter and overall team around the project... things would have been better.

I feel it's such a waste of potential hence the reason why i'm annoyed at Sony. They could have and should have done so much better. Feels like they had a decent idea, a half baked script, a good cast... and then just left the whole damn thing in auto pilot. Most of the complaints seem to be about the script, direction... Tessa has gotten the most praise, Kumail also seems to have been a fan favorite, Emma Thompson was a highlight and CH was apparently trying his best to keep things afloat too.

I saw people frustrated with the final result and they had the same reasoning which is a valid one.

 

[terry78]

lol somebody on twitter said ironically that "International" may be the only way this makes money.

 

[Shuri]

Bigger flop than Hellboy? Nope.

I forgot that one. . Well everyone knew Hellboy would flop.

 

[Shuri]

There's really no comparison between Dark Phoenix and MIB: International.
For the simple fact that DP cost more than the double of MIB:I.

So yeh they might open with similar results and might even have similar box office totals but in the end of the day DP is in a league of its own.

They are not even going to be close. MIB might not even make 230m ww. I think Chris should go on a break till we get Thor 4.

 

[Web-Head]

They are not even going to be close. MIB might not even make 230m ww. I think Chris should go on a break till we get Thor 4.

He is. He said he's taking the rest of this year and I think next year off from acting

 

[HammerDown]

They are not even going to be close. MIB might not even make 230m ww. I think Chris should go on a break till we get Thor 4.

We shall see how their WW results fair against each other. MIB budget was half of what DP cost.
I'm pretty sure that, when everything is said and done box office-wise, MIB will still look better than DP.

CH already is on a break. He took 2019... the whole year off to be with his family.
He has Dhaka, the Netflix movie produced by the Russos coming out this year i think. Then he has already 2 projects lined up for 2020 it seems... The Hulk Hogan biopic and the Paramount action/comedy "Down Under Cover" with Tiffany Haddish.

CH is probably going to show up in GOTG3 first before we get Thor 4 which would come out in a few more years time.

 

[TheVileOne]

He is struggling with his weight again. Did anyone notice how much weight he gain between Infinity Wars and Endgame

No.