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People who are light-sensitive or epileptic began warning other film-goers on social media. There is a strobe-light sequence in the picture that apparently caused some people to become nauseous. Disney/Pixar believe the problem was serious enough to ask theaters to start posting signs warning about the sequence People tweeted that the strobe effects the villain uses left them nauseous or worse — gave them a seizure “So as a result, I walked out of the theater with a migraine,” said blogger Veronica Lewis. That’s why Lewis took to twitter in a thread that’s now gone viral asking Disney & Pixar...

4th Update, Saturday AM after midnight post: Refresh for updates Incredibles 2 isn’t just a sequel to an animated film, it’s a sequel to an A+ four-quad movie and it’s acting like the latter pulling in everyone, largely adults with general audiences accounting for 57% of the audience. Note that parents are only repping 12% of the crowd per PostTrak with 31% kids. In the middle of the night we were spotting that Incredibles 2 was clicking to $175.3M and there’s a very good shot this all-audience pic is flying to $180M+. That figure alone is close to 70% of...

Disney and Pixar's The Incredibles 2 is tracking for a huge box-office debut of $140 million-plus in North America. If so, that would make the best domestic start ever for an animated movie, exceeding the $135 million launch of fellow Pixar film Finding Dory. The film opens in theaters on June 15, nearly 14 years after The Incredibles hit the big screen and turned into an instant classic. Incredibles 2 was directed by Brad Bird, who also wrote and helmed the first film. Along with Bird, Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Samuel L. Jackson and John Ratzenberger reprise...