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Only one of AMCs around me is showing this, the tickets are $5.50 all day. The half-dozen Regals in my area have it at more normal prices, but are only showing it once a day this weekend. I'm guessing it's the same around the country, limited showtimes and lower ticket prices.

$82 per theater average.

Everyone didn’t see TGM in PLF, or in New York or Los Angeles. Just looking around me locally, I can find evening tickets in standard format for under $7 (and under $6 for dine-in theaters), the closest multiplex has $9 evening tickets. There's also $19 for Dolby at the closest AMC so maybe it all balances out. But given that a lot of the top markets aren't in the biggest cities and there were probably a high concentration of military discounts, you'd think it would lower the average ticket price.

John Grisham novels were huge in the 90s, Hollywood really cranked out the adaptations and people were just over it after a few years. The Firm was the biggest of all though A Time to Kill and The Pelican Brief also adjust to totals impossible to imagine now. So TGM will have the weekend record anyway after all that fuss, lol.

I thought Paramount+ was doing well? They're not at Disney+ levels or anything but the subscriber numbers they release seem to show good increases IIRC. So far, movies dropping on Paramount+ have held well in theaters but I don't see how Paramount is going to go to Tom after this weekend with the upper hand. "Look at The Lost City's great holds?" Come on. Not that any movie needs a 120 day window any more, but what is their leverage now, exactly? I would hope this more Belloni Baloney but Hollywood seems full of not bright execs, it's probably true.

They're probably watching stuff at 1.5x speed? Or they are at home all day (working, or not working) and can just have streaming always on in the background. And some of the people with takes on a show, haven't actually seen it yet, just the online discourse. The great year for Paramount continues...

I mean, he has a point... By now, doesn't everyone besides stans of the actor roll their eyes with these "I SUFFERED and almost died for my art!" proclamations during a movie PR tour? Besides, that route just resulted in one of the bigger Oscar snubs in recent years. It just makes me think the person has no confidence in their talent and feels that exhausting themselves means the performance is more "authentic". Try acting, as Orson Welles (apocryphally) said... The movie's approach sounds typically Baz; I'm not sure how that will mesh with the older audience. Bohemian Rhapsody made so much money because it was so cookie cutter and showcased the biggest hits without messing with them. Rocketman was more imaginative aa a biopic, which critics like, but it alienates the more basic fans out there.

I thought that I saw some ads for Men on TV...maybe I'm mixing it up with watching YouTube on television? I've definitely seen that trailer dozens of times online. It's also played in front of Everything Everywhere All At Once for weeks by now. Cinemascore can only poll the people who come to theaters... I think the trailers did a good job of showing that Men was more "elevated horror" from A24, and everyone who wasn't interested in that just stayed home. So, Men gets a low opening weekend but a (slightly) better than expected Cinemascore, because the bulk of the audience that would have given it an F simply wasn't there last night. Not that a D+ is great, but it doesn't even get you the same notoriety/headlines as an F. This will have to find its audience on VOD/streaming.

I also play Actorle daily, but don't want to get bogged down with too many of these Wordle offshoots. The Box Office Game is my favorite, it's like I've been "studying" for it since my teens.

Any other Box Office Game players here? Wild Top 5 today... https://boxofficega.me/

Romance is a genre, and genre fans are often...a lot. I've always seen book fans claiming that Julia Quinn's rights deal says the show can't change any of the novels' main couples. I don't even know if that’s true but as long as Benedict's love interest is someone called Sophie... I wonder if the writers are still deciding on what to do with Benedict and that's one reason for the switch to Polin for now. They know some fans want LGBTQ representation on the show but they are also (somewhat) following a template laid out two decades ago. Maybe they're still deciding on which sibling it's going to be, if they ever even go there...

Some book fans are wondering if the groundwork will be laid for Benedict's eventual love interest to be introduced in S3, even if their romance won't be the focus next year. I'm not counting on Benedict being anything other than straight, since S2 seemed to back away from any hint that he might not be. The show is its own thing but Benedict's book is apparently very popular among the fans. They are already pretty pissed about this story delay, despite Shonda and others from the show outright warning that it could happen during the S2 press tour. Give Benedict a different love interest altogether and people will riot (and I will happily read the comments on social, lol). I would love to see an AU take on sexuality in the Regency era.

Poor Benedict, guess this means another season of cavorting with libertines... Not totally surprising given Season 2, but totally sure to annoy the book fans. They also recast Francesca.

I am watching this now... Looked up Tom Cruise's age, and he was 23 when this hit theaters?! He was born in July 1962 and Top Gun was a May 1986 release. That's wild, today Hollywood guys that age are still playing high school kids in big budget movies, maybe early college students, but not so much grown men. Goose's kid here seems to be like 3 or 4 already, I guess Miles Teller is playing a younger brother? Not that Top Gun: Maverick will be all that concerned about the timelines matching up, that's not the point of movies like this.

WB must feel extremely confident...

Double nomination confirmed...

Universal says none of Lin's issues were with the cast or producers. Sure...

They're not just any two men, but Dick Van Dyke's grandsons who have penned screenplays for The Asylum mockbuster factory. No where to go but up, I guess...

Read a script review sometime in 2020 and wasn't impressed with the story direction at all, but maybe it's changed since then. But it is entirely possible that a couple of Brits might be living in a 1950s American suburb, especially some shiny and new place out West. I didn't notice that as anything unusual but maybe that's a clue. Wonder how much time Harry spent in the makeup chair covering up his tattoos, or if they just got digitally erased later on.

That was made to be the Scary Movie of music biopics, except Scary Movie kind of ruined it for the ironic horror movie for a while, and they kept making clichéd musician biopics like Walk Hard never happened. Jerry Lee Lewis actually did get canceled back in the 1950s when hardly any hetero white guy got canceled for anything. I guess Elvis got a pass for Priscilla a few years later because at least they weren't cousins and he didn't actually marry a 13 year old?

I wasn't arguing in favor of a grown Elvis "dating" 14 year old Priscilla, just saying that she doesn't frame herself as a victim of him even now, so that might affect how the average moviegoer views all that. I mean, even when there is a #MeToo narrative about some celebrity with on-the-record victims, you have people dismissing them as liars and supporting the guy anyway. Maybe the script will not really get into how old she was when they first met, or play it like he didn't really mess with her until she was 18. If the movie is the story of music in the 50s, 60s and 70s or whatever it was that Luhrmann said, he doesn't really have to focus on their relationship at all. Acknowledge it existed, but maybe this is more about Colonel Parker and Elvis than Priscilla and Elvis. It "helps" the producers, I guess you can say, that Elvis didn't marry Priscilla until she was 21, so the movie just has to dance around the creepy part where she was in high school and he was 10 years older.

It was a long time before I learned that Priscilla and Elvis had divorced before his death. They were married and he died, I thought she was his widow. They want to make money and get awards, so probably not... When you have Priscilla herself singing the movie's praises and the man himself, that makes it much harder for the "Elvis was a predator, his legacy should be canceled!" narrative to take hold. Especially since Priscilla became a celebrity in her own right (solid 80s/90s acting career), her perspective doesn't just get dismissed like some other women who were preyed upon by older male artistic geniuses.

Insert Marie Kondo *ilovemess.gif* Sudeikis says it was up to the processor about the timing and Wilde being served the papers onstage was inappropriate. Every case is different but usually they start at home before following you to work/big public events. The Harry Styles fans who hate her (because she's older, "problematic" and/or not Louis Tomlinson) are having a field day. Real great security from Cinemacon! /s It could have been some crazy stalker, luckily it was just embarrassing and not violent.

Doja apparently has some sort of interpolation of Hound Dog on the Elvis soundtrack, I don't know if that will count as an original song or not for Oscar purposes. Love the extra declarations from the songwriter or filmmakers about what ends up being a random credits song. Remember Nolan saying Travis Scott unlocked the key to Tenet? I'm sure this Gaga song will be more memorable than that, but it's going to get compared to Take My Breath Away, a very high bar.

I haven't read the books but apparently Lady Whistledown is milder there, some gossipy snark but not the Jane Austen TMZ that she is on the show. Penelope has revealed some really personal, potentially ruinous stuff. Penelope has her fans but other viewers think she's gone too far and don't feel she deserves a happily ever after with a Bridgerton. I'm also not sure if TV viewers are looking forward to Penelope and Colin as a steamy Bridgerton couple, but maybe the show will do a different sort of romance with them. In real life I wouldn't think anything of eight siblings from the same family all being hetero, but in a 2020s TV series, that's playing it awful safe. After the first season, you had a segment of viewers hoping Benedict and/or Eloise were gay but Season 2 didn’t really build on that, if anything the writers went in the opposite direction. So, I won't get my hopes up...