• EarMaster@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      No you didn’t. We have now entered the realm of precognition. The box office success of a movie is predicted weeks before opening and movies that will not perform well won’t even start at the theatres in the future.

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        5 days ago

        Also known as the stock market.

        Although they at least have advanced ticket sales to get a rough estimate, although they’re also extrapolating way beyond that, so still precognition.

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          Sure, but is this news worthy? Are we getting “The next Avatar movie’s first weekend estimations that are coming out next week are to be expected to be bonkers” next year?