Shawn expected to beat Taylor on the box office

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“Lyle Lyle Crocodile” starring Shawn Mendes narrowly beat “Amsterdam” featuring an ensemble cast that includes Taylor Swift on the Thursday box office previews.

Lyle Lyle is expected to rake in anywhere between $12M to $18M this weekend while Amsterdam is estimated to pull less than $10M. Budget for the former is $50M while the latter was made with $80M.

[CyanDante 5,895]

Crocs over Snakes I guess. 

[Chic 20,830]

We been knew, his acting abilities were highlighted during his time with Camila

[Meat 18,962]

Just now, CyanDante said:

Crocs over Snakes I guess. 

[Kimmo 79,641]

Shawn on her way to celebrate ha Box Office win:

[Future Lovers 6,587]

Can we stop attributing whole movies to people who are barely in the film and/or not involved in acting? 

Shawn provides the singing voice for Lyle, a character who is otherwise mute when he is not singing therefore Shawn is only actually in less than 1/3 of the film. The fact the he is given a lead credit is purely for marketing purposes/a reward for his involvement with the music. Taylor is barely in Amsterdam, it is essentially an extended cameo. The only reason she’s been featured in trailers and posters is, similar to Shawn, because her name is marketable. 

It just feels like weird attempts at dragging when the celebrity in question is hardly consequential enough to a film for it to be called theirs. 

[Anderson123 36,266]

You had the chance to name this "Shawn tops Taylor Swift".  But we all know Taylor is 100% dom top.

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18 minutes ago, Mr Mendes said:

Can we stop attributing whole movies to people who are barely in the film and/or not involved in acting? 

Shawn provides the singing voice for Lyle, a character who is otherwise mute when he is not singing therefore Shawn is only actually in less than 1/3 of the film. The fact the he is given a lead credit is purely for marketing purposes/a reward for his involvement with the music. Taylor is barely in Amsterdam, it is essentially an extended cameo. The only reason she’s been featured in trailers and posters is, similar to Shawn, because her name is marketable. 

It just feels like weird attempts at dragging when the celebrity in question is hardly consequential enough to a film for it to be called theirs. 

Tell this to their respective fans who are crediting the success to Shawn and saying Taylor will win best supporting actress for this movie.

[Kimmo 79,641]

13 minutes ago, Anderson123 said:

You had the chance to name this "Shawn tops Taylor Swift".  But we all know Taylor is 100% dom top.

And the first comment to be 

“I thought he was a bottom”

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1 hour ago, Chic said:

We been knew, his acting abilities were highlighted during his time with Camila

[Future Lovers 6,587]

12 hours ago, Meat said:

Tell this to their respective fans who are crediting the success to Shawn and saying Taylor will win best supporting actress for this movie.

I have been telling this to any I come across on Twitter for ages. It's really a stupid sentiment on both respects. It was stupid when people called TGM a Gaga film. The only thing this works for is calling Don't Worry Darling Harry's film because he's a lead in it. For all these other glorified cameos, it just doesn't work. 

[Railing 2,406]

I guess people find the soft/high-pitched voice of Shawn Mendes coming from a crocodile to be more goofy & entertaining than Taylor Swift getting run over by a car  You never know these days

[thisguyN 616]

I read as “Shawn expected to beat Taylor on the box”…ring or smth 

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2 hours ago, Mr Mendes said:

I have been telling this to any I come across on Twitter for ages. It's really a stupid sentiment on both respects. It was stupid when people called TGM a Gaga film. The only thing this works for is calling Don't Worry Darling Harry's film because he's a lead in it. For all these other glorified cameos, it just doesn't work. 

I get your point but TGM is Gaga’s film. It shows up on her box office page, with the gross accounting for her lifetime gross.

[Future Lovers 6,587]

16 hours ago, Meat said:

I get your point but TGM is Gaga’s film. It shows up on her box office page, with the gross accounting for her lifetime gross.

That's only because of how she's credited, in this case on the production side. She is credited a composer, which all things considered demonstrates no ownership of the film, especially when she isn't the primary composer. The same thing will be true for Shawn with LLC, it will go on his lifetime grosses and on his box office page. But unless someone is directing, producing, or starring in a substantial way then it truly is not their film. Gaga and Shawn and Taylor for Amsterdam fit none of those roles. 

Someone having a credited cameo in a film will also make it appear on their box office page and in their lifetime gross. As an example, Hugh Jackman's 10 second, one line cameo in X-Men: First Class--I don't believe Hugh Jackman is actually credited but say for example and discussion purposes he is--would go onto his box office page and into his lifetime gross despite him being in the film for only 10 seconds. But because he would have a credit, they would include it. 

That doesn't make XM:FC his film however.