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From what I can tell it looks the early access shows for Back to Back are only in Dolby Cinema, assume that was the only way it was ever getting those screens (since IF is likely getting those screens that weekend).

Looking at movie theater schedules near me for today showing Spider-Man 2 and Shrek 2 playing on movie screens is serving real "what year is it?!" energy.

FWIW the average runtime of a concert is 2.5 hours so if the movie were looking to capture the whole thing as if it were unfolding in real time a runtime in that area doesn't seem that crazy. We'll see though, I doubt it because I imagine they would make the "in real time" gimmick a major selling point if that were the case.

Possibly. The streaming era has certainly rendered the budget theater run that movies would enjoy as nonexistent.

lol Paramount's attempt at pushing Bob Marley past $100M with the 4/20 gimmick was just as ill-fated as Sony's bid at trying to get Sausage Party to hit the mark. Oh well.

June looks like it's going to be huge. Bad Boys, Inside Out, and A Quiet Place the obvious heavy-hitters, The Watchers could be a potential breakout, Horizon a major wild card. Kind of Kindness should be big on the specialty front. Not expecting much from The Bikeriders at this point though.

FWIW I think they tend to sell the overseas rights to a lot of their movies to local distributors, which is one way of making money off of titles that are bound to lose money. Ministry is a straight-to-streaming movie in a lot of countries.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare actually did better than the rock bottom expectations it had going into the weekend. Still the third nonstarter in a row from Guy Ritchie though.

It already lost the majority of its PLFs this weekend as far as I can tell (near me it's either Ministry, Abigail, or a split between both). Challengers is looking to take over those screens next weekend.

Ouch.

For their next wacky movie I hope Radio Silence decides to cast Allison Williams as their protagonist. The undisputed queen of crazy horror films right now would be perfect to lead a movie of theirs.

Both this and Furiosa missing Fandango's top 10 most anticipated movies of the summer (losing out on spots to, of all movies, The Watchers) seems alarming on first glance, but those polls are always hit and miss in predicting what will land. Mentioned it in that movie's thread but these two are arguably the big wild cards of the summer in that they could either do well or will end up shrugged off and I doubt anyone would be surprised by the outcome. Only time will tell and all that.

Honestly if Radio Silence no longer being involved with the Scream movies means a new bonkers supernatural horror movie in the same fashion as Ready or Not and now Abigail from them every 2-3 years...well, you sure as hell won't see me complaining!

A- Dune: Part Two B+ Civil War B Abigail B- Kung Fu Panda 4 Mean Girls C Bob Marley: One Love Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire C- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire D+ Argylle

Abigail is fun! Worth seeing with an audience.

Cavill should probably just shallow his pride and stick with TV (even after leaving his show for a DC/Superman return that ended up cancelled before it even began). He clearly doesn't have the acting chops to become a mainstay in prestige projects anyway.

Indie horror has done relatively well this year (Late Night with the Devil, Immaculate), it's just mainstream/studio horror that has been lacking (though there was only so much one could do with movies of garbage quality like Night Swim or Imaginary). The franchise extensions for both A Quiet Place and Smile + the movies from the Shyamalan family are likely going to end up being the bright spots for multiplex-friendly scary fare this year.

I mean, it is 4/20 today.

Let's be real: M3GAN became an instant camp icon the moment the trailer was released. The memes from that alone were relentless. Abigail was always going to have its work cut out for it to rival that.

The rumors going around that Target is also looking to exit the physical media game (not a shock: after Best Buy, it was inevitable) further reinforces just how much the rise of streaming this past decade ended up having across the entertainment industry. Kind of wild that the movie theater-DVD-Pay 1 TV window-broadcast TV release tradition is essentially a thing of the past now (today it's theaters-streaming with everything else being a nonfactor), yet here we are. COVID dramatically accelerated that though when the movement was happening more gradually pre-pandemic.

Depends on the type of horror movie though (although plenty of the starrier ones tend to also fall into the "old school thriller" gray area). Feel like the decision to make the vampire girl a ballerina made it look like a wannabe M3GAN to some heh.

I think Abigail looks like a blast, but honestly, I still think this was the kind of horror movie that needed an actual "name" actor to headline it in order to give it a profile boost because it didn't have much going for it from a marketing perspective beyond the "ballerina vampire child attacks kidnappers" concept. People like Barrera or Stevens (nobody is seeing Godzilla x Kong for him) were never going to move the needle much. As such it's looking like it's going to end up making similar numbers to what Radio Silence's previous non-Scream entry (2019's Ready or Not) did.

I do agree and think the overreliance on the Barbenheimer connection isn't doing much for this. Real "last year called, it wants its meme back" energy, especially now that the movie year of 2023 is well into the rearview mirror over a month after the Oscars ended.