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Movie Content Scoreboard: Episode 4 (Jan 21, 2020)
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Movie Content Scoreboard: Episode 4 (Jan 21, 2020)

David Poland
Jan 21, 2021
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Seven months ago, I offered a list of planned theatrical releases that were "untouchable." There were eighteen 2020 titles. I didn't project into 2021.

Tenet and Mulan were theatrical release experiments back in September.

WarnerMedia released Wonder Woman 1984 day-n-date domestically and internationally in theaters... and after a month, they've done $143 million worldwide. Their other film on the list, Dune, doesn't seem to want the day-n-date deal, even though the same company, Legendary, sold off 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong to the concept.

Disney pushed Soul to Disney+ and will release a 2021 animated film, Raya, on that platform with some kind of charge (for now), in the reflection of Mulan.

Universal pushed out The Croods: A New Age under their 17-day window deal with AMC. $136 million worldwide in theatrical, $40m of that total being domestic.

And sold off to streaming were Coming 2 America (Paramount 2 Amazon) and the animated Lord/Miller production, Connected (Sony to Netflix), retitl…

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