https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dc-studios-james-gunn-peter-safran-david-ellison-skydance-1236733532/

Doomsday just doesn't make sense, because presales at this massive scale should have seen a major decrease in daily pace by now. But at MTC3, it is selling ~10k tix per a week for previews.

I checked yesterday: MTC3 Doomsday T-63 is matching BND T-10 preview. Doomsday Friday is now ahead of BND T-12. Saturday is nearing BND T-10. Sunday around T-9 of BND. Entire weekend at T-63 for Doomsday is around BND T-10 entire weekend for MTC3.

It's pretty much a self-sustaining tsunami at this point.

https://forums.boxofficetheory.com/topic/31569-the-box-office-buzz-tracking-and-pre-sale-thread/page/2801/#comments

yeah, so Doomsday is already over 2.5x of BND first EOD preview presales at T-63. 3x BND first EOD seems like a done deal to me. Speaks to how strong pace has been for Doomsday.

I will continue to update this post as the score changes.

Rotten Tomatoes Popcornmeter: Hot

Audience Says: N/A

Verified Audience Score History:

• 99% (4.9/5) at 100+

Rotten Tomatoes: Certified Fresh

Critics Consensus: Nathan Fielder's ironclad commitment to the bit is pushed to its limit in You Can See Everything, an inscrutable Rorschach Test of Elizabeth Holmes' psyche that's as absorbing as it is haunting.

Metacritic: 98 (31 Reviews)

SYNOPSIS:

Thirty-four days before she’s sent to prison, notorious Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss. From boundary-pushing directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim comes You Can See Everything.

CAST:

• Elizabeth Holmes as Herself
• Nathan Fielder as Himself
• Billy Evans as Himself
• Amanda Seyfried as Herself

DIRECTED BY: Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim

PRODUCED BY: Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim, Tatiana Bears, Maggie Ambrose, Jack Davis

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Emily Osborne

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: David Bolen

PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Alex DiGerlando

EDITED BY: Adam Locke-Norton

MUSIC BY: Ari Balouzian

RUNTIME: 174 Minutes

RELEASE DATE: October 16, 2026

The pre-sales for Doomsday have been on for a while in Brazil and I noticed that there will be a lot of midnight screenings and that those are almost all sold out, at least where I live. Funny thing is that the last movie I remember having midnight screenings was Endgame and, since the pandemic, I don't recall any other movie having it.

Maybe No Way Home had it and I don't recall but it's great to see the hype for the movie

A throwaway gag initially rejected by Disney became an unexpected viral PR asset for Pixar’s Hoppers, teaching the studio a possible new, although largely unpredictable, way to market original animated films in a franchise-dominated industry.

Speaking at View Conference, Hoppers director Daniel Chong and producer Nicole Paradis Grindle reflected on the film’s production. After wrapping up a standard PowerPoint-style presentation but before opening the talk up to audience questions, the duo teased something different before launching into the charming, unlikely story behind Hoppers’ now-famous reptile side character, Tom the Lizard.

“Months before Hoppers came out, one of our characters from the movie, Tom the Lizard, went viral with a little clip and it became a meme,” Chong recalled. “And it all started with this little stupid video that we produced.”

The clip, featuring Tom repeatedly smashing the “lizard” emoji button on a mobile phone and a robotic voice saying the word, was originally pitched for the film’s announcement at Disney’s D23 fan convention last year. Disney politely passed.

“I kind of don’t blame them because if you’re trying to sell this movie, I mean, I don’t want to use a lizard to promote it,” Chong admitted. “There are no beavers in this. And Tom is not really in this movie a whole lot.”

Nevertheless, the filmmakers found the gag too funny to abandon. Grindle arranged for the team to produce it on the side, between work on the feature. When Disney later saw the finished clip, it decided to attach it to the end credits of Pixar’s Elio. The filmmakers assumed almost no one would see it.

But someone did stay until the end, recorded the clip on their phone, and uploaded it to YouTube. Another user then reposted it on TikTok, where it exploded.

What followed was an avalanche of memes, dances, remixes, tattoos, bootleg merchandise, cosplay, and even an official Fortnite skin. One fan even created a website that mimicked Tom’s mobile phone lizard-button spamming experience.

“This is a marketing dream, guys,” Grindle told the audience with a chuckle.

Disney eventually incorporated Tom’s popularity into its promotional campaign, giving Hoppers a major online awareness boost ahead of its release.

“In a world of known IP and franchises, we found a little hack to help Hoppers, our original film, boost its profile with audiences before it came out,” Grindle explained.

She cautioned that a marketing department couldn’t manufacture the phenomenon.

“Creating a meme can’t really be planned,” she said, but added that the experience “definitely opened up Disney and Pixar’s marketing eyes to a new possibility on how to build awareness for original films.”

First Steps did a little over half a billion and we know that Avengers headwinds and tailwinds can lift up movies. See Iron Man 3, Captain Marvel, Wintersoldier etc. So if Doomsday and Secret Wars are both as successful as it looks like they will be, what does that do for the next FF movie (if there is one). They will be really important in Doomsday so I can see them actually getting more interest and love. Maybe in the $800 Million to $1 Billion range. What does everyone else think?