I had to go to small claims court in that area once before, and I found the experience to be incredibly... subjective. Like, I knew I had a good case, but the judge basically looked at me and my wife, pointed at us while he addressed the person suing us, and said “do they look like the kind of people who would do…

Hopefully there is an email trail for the small claims case

Would not be entirely surprised to find out that Musk learned that someone was spending company money on a “woke” BHM gesture and personally ordered that it be cancelled.

and that’s why you always as for a prepayment, or a % down. Being your best customer or the most valuable company in the world.

50% down now, 50% due at delivery.

Still sucks for her though. Hopefully someone at Tesla will correct the situation. Or Musk will blast her on Twitter to try and convince people she’s the…

I’m not sure why anyone would do business with Tesla at this point. The potential downsides seems way higher than the upsides.

The FTC that rubber-stamped the Fox acquisition was a very different beast than the current FTC, which has been much more adversarial to mega-mergers like this. (See: Microsoft buying Activision, which the FTC fought tooth and nail. And even more recently Adobe’s attempted acquisition of Figma).

And there it is. I saw a number of people earlier this year predict that Zaslav’s goal was to make WBD more appealing for a merger of some kind.

“At $275 million, The Marvels’ budget was over double Wonka’s ($125 million), which obviously makes a huge difference in what should have been its overall earning potential.”

Seems like this could have been a much shorter article. 

Is this “the marvels” or the “wonka” of blog posts? Guess it depends on whether you think this much internet ink needed to be spilled on a question that is self evident.

One reason this is an article is because a significant group is very invested in the idea that The Marvels has been treated unfairly.

Still, despite the odds stacked against it, The Marvels didn’t deserve what it got. As many have pointed out, a lot of the criticism leveled against the Iman Vellani, Brie Larson, and Teyonah Parris-led superhero film feels particularly pointed against Nia DaCosta, a Black, female director. Even though the film likely…

The big issue with The Marvels is the worldwide box office performance, not just Domestic. In addition to only making $84 Million YTD domestically, it also has only made $119.3 Million internationally. Meanwhile, Wonka has already almost made that amount ($112.4 Million) in the two weeks that it has been out in…

This article answers the question it asked —why is Wonka considered a box office success compared to The Marvels — really easily. Wonka is considered a box office success because it’s likely to make a lot of money, whereas The Marvels costs a lot more, so it will lose a lot of money.

Another factor to consider for comparison’s sake is that Wakanda Forever had premiered on essentially the exact same weekend one year before The Marvels. Both are sequels to films that opened around comparable times (Black Panther in February; Captain Marvel in March) and grossed over $150 million in their opening…

While the reasons The Marvels underperformed are worth digging into, the constant dragging the conversation out, even when discussing the success of unrelated projects, feels like a part of the phenomenon, not some impartial outsider’s observation. Like, you’re not examining the hole; you’re digging it deeper.

They seem to be super unpopular; there are a LOT of musicals (Mean Girls, Color Purple, Wonka) where the trailer almost completely elides the inclusion of musical numbers. Pretty grim if you can’t sell a musical on…being a musical.

Seriously, why didn’t the person also ask why was Flash a bomb at 50+ Million!?

Why is this even an article?

Like you said, it’s the budget. Wonka will be a success in theaters alone if they make it to $250 million world-wide - and it’s nearly two-thirds of the way there.

Yikes, does something this self-evident really need to be explained to people? If so, let me add that Wonka has already made $150 mil globally, and is on pace to make more globally than The Marvels by, likely, a hefty amount. It will be more successful irrespective of budgets.