“Did not meet expectations” it “only” got 38 million, when 45 million was predicted - fortunately for Pixar, this has not got “BOX OFFICE BOMB!!!”Reaction, that other films not meeting opening weekend expectations in North America have had in recent years, because the reason why is plainly obvious.
Apparently Top Gun has been brought Forward by two days…!
Most of these movies are mainly interested in US box office, Bond has a heavy international weighting in its Box office income so it is hit harder by China and Europe being out of action than Pixar might be (ie: Onward isn’t even released in Australia til April anyway)
Seems smarter and smarter that they postponed NTTD as the days pass.
The NBA is on hiatus and you can kiss the NCAA tournament goodbye. The Olympics, if they are still on, will be sparsely attended. Strange times.
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March Madness announces fan less games for the tournament. Then they cancel the Jazz Thunder game just seconds before tip off because Utah’s center tested positive. League then had to cancel the Sacramento game as that ref had previously worked a Utah Jazz game. Within an hour they announce they are suspending the entire season.
Lebron’s comments about playing without fans and Barkley’s on Colbert last night (“People have to continue living their lives”) are looking seriously misinformed now. Utah center tested positive after touching everyone’s microphones at a previous post game press conference. This is not a joking matter nor an abstract news item anymore.
EON is looking very proactive. Be safe. Be smart. Follow recommended guidelines, folks. Only changing our behaviors will slow the spread of this pandemic.
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The longer this goes on it just shows how ahead of the curve the Bond team were. The seriousness of the situation means we have to make sacrifices, and the delay is a LOT easier to take when you see everything else shutting down too.
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Totally. There was absolutely no way to avoid this.
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Ouch yes! And the investment for that will be a whole lot more than the Bond film.
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Indeed. The Olympic Committee can say the Games are going ahead, but if the athletes aren’t comfortable attending, and don’t, that decides the matter. I wouldn’t go.
All other things being equal EON have always seemed to me , to be very responsible filmmakers.
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Tbh, it seemed plain Eon would need to postpone far sooner than they did (though in private they had probably made the decision long before it was announced).
But compared to the U.K. government Eon are the paragons of decisive leadership. These entertainment and sporting bodies as well as businesses shouldn’t be left to decide such high stakes matters; it reveals a government that’s either incompetent, or with priorities other than saving lives.
I keep hearing on the news that ‘experts’ tell them not to close schools, or cancel events, in order to spread out the peak, so the NHS isn’t overwhelmed. Is it me or does that make no sense. Surely preventing the public from mingling as much as possible will slow the spread. Keeping everything going as ‘normal’ will continue to facilitate the very steep rise in infection that we’re seeing. Yet journalists don’t seem to question this, as though they’ve been briefed not to for some reason.
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It is safe to say that things changed between Feb 13 and Mar 4. They certainly would have kept the theme song in their back pocket had they suspected the date was in jeopardy.
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For those of us suffering from NTTD Postponement Syndrome, there is help. 
A little levity for these trying times…
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They are on Stage 2
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Actually, there is a good reason not to close the entire school/nursery sector in one blanket move: if the kids are at home their parents will have to take care of them - meaning a vast number of nurses and doctors from across the board having to stay home, putting even more strain on an already struggling health service. There are currently projections for both cases, closing schools entirely and just closing those with confirmed cases. The latter option still seems to win, although that can vary on a daily basis. Ireland chose to act now, no doubt because they were given advice that now it makes the most sense to switch.
We have to keep in mind that now the aim is no longer to keep absolute numbers down but to slow growth in a way to keep health services from breaking down.
‘How can this be?’ some may ask, if the relative mortality rate is so small. Well, the number of fatal casualties may be small, but the number of complications calling for ICU treatment and artificial respiration is not. And people needing these treatments would not simply need to stay in the hospital for different reasons were it not for Covid-19. They come on top of everything else that’s going on, ordinary flu, traffic accidents, births, other diseases and infections - life doesn’t actually stop to throw these at us.
So in defence of sometimes mysterious machinations of the various governments, it’s absolutely possible that they act on sound and reasonable advice, even if it doesn’t look so from a distance.
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Genius…
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Any amount of paragraphs i could rant wouldn’t unpack the situation as well as that 
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Other mortality rates are constant–they’ve reached their logistic carrying capacity. Automobile, flu, smoking, etc. For example, in the U.S. about 102 people die per day in car accidents. That will be true tomorrow, in a month, and a year from now. Seatbelts, speed limits, DUI enforcement, finite number of cars and drivers, keep those rates down.
In the U.S. the fatality rate is doubling every 6-7 days. Right now it’s just over two per day.
By April 11th, math models predict the virus will kill over 100 people per day. This is what’s giving CDC and the WHO pause. They’ve seen these models become reality in China and Italy. They’ve also seen successful limitations of it in South Korea with testing.
In Italy, when schools closed kids still congregated in groups and didn’t take it seriously. That led to more spread. Now everyone is staying in. That’s why schools in the UK and US haven’t closed yet, but many with cases or caution have. UC Berkeley, Stanford, all of Seattle’s schools, moved to online and Harvard just sent all their students home.
Humans have only known of this virus 100 days. The flu we’ve known how to battle for centuries, learning from the past with things like Spanish influenza. This virus has no vaccines, or limitations on resources other than number of hosts (i.e. people and animals.) Only changing our social behavior can slow it down at this point, and we must do it before it overloads our institutional infrastructures, starting with hospitals and medical facilities. There won’t be enough beds, ventilators, masks, etc. otherwise. And that’s just the beginning.
Yes, right now several other things have higher mortality rates. But that won’t be true in a month. The virus mortality rate over time is variable and growing exponentially. One U.S. health official thinks 150M people will get it. Just 2% of that is 30 million fatalities. Italy lost 800 as of yesterday, or to put it another way, over a week’s worth of American car accidents.
Take professional health advice seriously and educate friends and co-workers who don’t yet understand.
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That math isn’t right.
I read about the rationale for keeping NHS staff at work by keeping their kids in school. But i think the logic is iffy…
I say this because, as everyone knows, those with the virus are A-symptomatic, yet infectious for a great deal of time before they feel ill. so, with the strategy to only close a school if someone’s diagnosed there, the horse would’ve already bolted every single time.
Keeping schools open is ultimately going to put a vast number of children, as well as everyone in their chain of contact, through this virus, not all of whom will survive. Doctors around the world are currently decrying this UK strategy.
There’s an expert for any opinion and, as usual the government choose the experts that express the opinions they want.
At the very least they should allow high risk children with asthma or other respiratory or immune issues to stay at home if the parents choose.
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