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v_charon posted...

There have been some disappointing films draw wise for sure, but what films that have come out in 2019 could really challenge Disney's defacto Top 6 right now? No film outside of Disney's was really expected to pull in anywhere near 300m domestic, so I guess I'm just confused. What's coming out this year isn't a big surprise or anything.

The surprise isn't that Disney's 2019 supremacy has been effectively unchallenged. That was pretty much expected from the get-go (and in fact, one could make the argument that Endgame has been the only Disney movie to definitively beat reasonable expectations). It's also true that nothing that was expected to hit $300M domestic failed to do so.

The real problem is that, practically without fail, one non-Disney intended tentpole after another has disappointed, and now Hobbs & Shaw looks like the latest victim. Lego 2, Alita, Detective Pikachu, Godzilla 2, Dark Phoenix, and Men in Black International have all wound up as clear disappointments, while the likes of Glass, How to Train Your Dragon 3, and Shazam have merely fared acceptably, though at least Us and John Wick 3 (as well as the Disney-associated Far From Home) have done well.

To me, 2019 is too far behind 2018 this late in the game to be able to make up for it, which I consider very disappointing for what was supposed to be a record-breaking year. With July's end, that includes four consecutive months that looked like potential record-breakers (and that practically needed to be given our shortfall against the last few years) falling quite a ways short, and none of the next four has a great shot at besting 2018's equivalent months.
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