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Searching performing very well on a day-to-day basis despite any unknown frontloading. It is a movie shot from labtops and phones, it is hard to tell which direction the daily numbers will go with a film like this. Reviews and "A" cinemascore are solid, but that doesn't mean much for the legs on a tech spinoff film. The IMDB score is 7.9, Metacritic has it at 7.1 / 7.4 and Rotten Tomatoes is 91 / 86 avg. score from those 5 scores above is 8.02 accompanied w/ 'A' cinemascore and approx. 504 increments purchases per venue minus preview showings. If the numbers hold for a few months, Searching might make top 20 end of the year lists, and might finish with over a 3.0 OW multiplier from here on out.

Searching up 0.36 over 5.70 estimate yesterday. Likely increased 10% Sunday. Kin probably won't see much more than 0.10 boost.

Another increase for Incredibles, Ant-Man 2 will a very strong per theater average still. Wondering if some $ on the Marvel IMAX showings over the weekend went to those films (given the strong numbers for AM2 and I2 amidst new films like Kin). I doubt it though. I'd think IMAX gathers the extra franchise re-release $ separately.

Adventureland Action Point+ horror? This looks to be the slickest/most colorful horror movie since Krampus. Ghosts of Mars is worth checking out too.

tough to interpret without the dailies. Operation Finale was already projected to jump 7.2% on Sunday which matched what was re-estimated today. The Debt dropped 1.1% then 18.7% on Monday. A Walk in the Woods increased 0.4% Sunday and dropped 12.1% Monday. and Constant Gardener dropped 7.6% and an additional 25.9% Monday. With Sunday looking at 2.2, Monday should drop under 25% making over 1.5 followed with another 1.0 on Tuesday, 10.53 7-day total.

Glad to hear Guy Ritchie is directing it. I'm visualizing the visual effects will line up with the final fight in King Arthur. Hope they delay it and shoot past schedule for creative reassurances. Should make it past 200M domestic on demand alone.

Kin looking to increase today. The estimates are already bad enough as it is . These are the numbers I rounded out showing tickets per venue. They are exactly from the estimates, nothing changed there. Just guessed around avg. ticket price. 621 - Crazy 471 - Searching 356 - Operation Finale 311 - Meg 295 - Mission 6 260 - Black Klansman 191 - Pooh 179 - Ant-Man 172 - Alpha 160 - Hotel Tran 3 150 - Happy 140 - Kin 138 - Mamma Mia 135 - Mile 22 133 - Slender Man 122 - Incredibles 110 - Equalizer 105 - Jurassic World 88 - A.X.L.

you can! You should submit a minimum of 15 movies, although try to submit 25 if you can. Each film will be scored as such: 1st place - 25 points 2nd place - 24 points 3rd place - 23 points etc If you would like to submit more than 25 films, 26-50 will be worth a half point, and 51-100 will be worth a quarter point. You may not submit more than 100 (I highly doubt anyone will try to do this, but just in case)

movietickets.com top 5 sellers 1 - Crazy Rich Asians - 26.7% 2 - Operation Finale - 8.3% 3 - Mission Impossible - 7.4% 4 - The Meg - 7.3% 5 - Christopher Robin - 5.2% the top 5 % shown adds to 54.9% The Meg/Mi6 is closing on Operation Finale, but Operation Finale will probably still be in the top 5 next weekend. It is obviously a high destination seller on MT. I don't see The Nun moving back on the list until Tuesday. Peppermint should show up Wednesday and confuse the hell out of forecasters. God Bless the Broken Road didn't have a Wikipedia page the last time I checked, and it has a very small about of YouTube trailer views so I don't see that one selling much. Nothing should/could increase today, however War Room had a 0.6% jump Monday September 7, 2015.

just revisited Changeling (2008) and cleansed my soul from the memories of sitting through it before. Still have yet to watch Synecdoche, N.Y. but I've been forced to sit through the first half at least 3 times. I will likely never watch it. I noticed on the Wikipedia page how much detail went into the making. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeling_(film) Eastwood puts a lot of passion into these movies and he even did the scoring on this one + w/ Gran Torino too. 15:17 to Paris flopped with bad reviews and cinemascore this year, but I'm thinking if I read the book first it should put me at an advantage to like the movie and possibly technically differentiate with the critics.

If someone submits a list of more than 25 movies, will the extra ones receive partial points?

Jake Sully and Neytiri made the bottom half of this list, (I didn't vote for them, but I voted for Quaritch) Quaritch would need a lot of vote power to make it this high. I don't think he got as many votes as the two former PLUS additional votes. I'm thinking Beatrice Prior for the upset with the Divergent trilogy. Harry Potter split the vote with too many characters. Beatrice could soar to #1. Competition could be with Peter (Miles Teller), Four, Christina, and Tori Wu (Maggie Q).

13 days until the 1 year anniversary of Mother's release!

Voldemort.

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interesting read for Kin on Deadline Crashing to earth this weekend is Lionsgate’s sci-fi Dennis Quaid-James Franco-Zoe Kravitz family pic Kin, which is being turned to moon dust with a $3.1M three-day and $3.9M four-day. A lot of this feels like Labor Day deja vu all over again. Remember when Fox released the Ridley Scott-produced sci-fi horror Morgan over the holiday two years ago? Like Kin, which has a 35% Rotten Tomatoes score, Morgan was pummeled by critics and went belly-up over four days, with a $2.5M opening and final domestic of $3.9M. The only difference is that CinemaScore crowds enjoyed Kin a bit better than Morgan, B+ to C+. Lionsgate acquired Kin pre-packaged. We hear it’s a slow film and word is Lionsgate kept their P&A spend low here and focused ~$15M, knowing the tepid response. They’re bound to lose dollars. Some cast members like Kravitz (not Franco, who has a small role) actually promoted the film. The pic had to go wide so as to trigger its output deals, and given how a genre of any size (big or small) has a presence over Labor Day, it’s the best weekend for this film to catch any flies, even if it’s tanking, especially before New Line’s The Nun takes over next weekend with a now $40M-plus start.

FYC - Mirrors was interesting. (Unrated Cut) I tried to focus as much as possible at studying the mirrors and the interactions they were having with characters. It did a good job at hinting towards things like addiction and schizophrenia when people were seeing things from the reflection and yelling at the mirrors. The thing that was mystifying to me though was whatever part of the consciousness that was exchanging itself through the mirrors all those years. What exactly got trapped in there? I watched this one with two breaks, seeing it as three 30-minute episodes. It helped with the addition of Kiefer Sutherland's familiar face when zoning into each episode. The third act was a little disappointing. Seems they had a lot going on that was condensed and unexplained, but I think if I read the book, book-to-film, or both, it should be easier to read what was going on with the paranormal moment by moment. - Blindness is the one I'm fronting with a high vote on the list and as a strong FYC recommendation. It is a miserable film with a surprising rape scene, but I got into it by grasping every frame from the first hour and taking note of it. I assumed it to be a perfect movie and deduced points for imperfections. By the time the rape part happened at 1:07:, my note taking of the film went on hiatus. The sci-fi elements were what kept me on a high horse of thinking 100/100 trying to battle through and excuse any contradiction or flaw the first hour.

Alita might be up for the Oscar for most popular movie of the year. it comes out in December, and this award has never been done before so there is no precursor. Therefore, Aquaman could make it but I doubt it. 1. Black Panther 2. Alita 3. 4. 5. out: Solo, Infinity War, Mission 6, Crazy Rich Asians

watched fandango reserved seating from 7-8pm and took note of these #s 130 - Crazy 119 - Crazy 105 - Crazy 91 - Crazy 87 - Meg 86 - Crazy 84 - Crazy 82 - Crazy 80 - Meg 79 - Searching 75 - Searching 74 - Operation 71 - Searching 67 - Operation 70 - Meg 53 - Meg 51 - Mission 6 47 - Searching 45 - Black 45 - Kin 42 - Pooh 41 - Alpha 41 - Kin 41 - Mile 22 40 - Black 39 - Happy 38 - Happy 37 - Mile 22 37 - Searching 36 - Alpha 36 - Happy 35 - Black 35 - Kin 34 - Pooh 33 - EQ2 30 - Kin 23 - Jurassic 21 - A.X.L. 19 - Happy 18 - Happy 16 - Mile 22 10 - Kin

This is what I have so far this year... ( I know I am missing a lot since the all on assault of independent horror films to media) C Unfriended 2 C Unsane C+ Winchester B- Truth or Dare B- Strangers 2 B+ Hereditary B+ A Quiet Place Slender Man, The Little Stranger, Bad Samaritan, and Insidious 4 are next.

if this is about a WW2 Destroyer then it might have promise. I do not know if they can remake Battleship though and make it about a Battleship. I'm pretty sure they can.

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9/7 - 9/9 39.00 - The Nun - 39.00 14.75 - Crazy Rich Asians - 140.20 11.00 - Peppermint - 11.00 4.50 - The Meg - 130.10 3.30 - Operation Finale - 15.72 3.30 - Mission Impossible - 210.67 3.00 - Searching - 11.65 2.90 - Christopher Robin - 92.03 2.50 - God Bless the Broken Road - 2.50 2.45 - Black Klansman - 43.29 2.25 - Happytime Murders - 21.73 2.00 - Alpha - 31.85 1.75 - Mile 22 - 35.81 1.60 - Incredibles 2 - 604.41 1.40 - Kin - 6.33 0.90 - Ya Veremos - 3.65 0.75 - Hotel Tran 3 - 163.75 0.60 - Mamma Mia 2 - 119.02 0.50 - Ant-Man 2 - 214.72 0.50 - A.X.L. - 6.44 0.45 - Equalizer 2 - 101.47 0.45 - Jurassic World 2 - 415.90 0.45 - Slender Man - 29.32 0.15 - The Little Stranger - 0.79

9/7 - 9/9 39.00 - The Nun - 39.00 14.75 - Crazy Rich Asians - 140.20 11.00 - Peppermint - 11.00 4.50 - The Meg - 130.10 3.30 - Operation Finale - 15.72 3.30 - Mission Impossible - 210.67 3.00 - Searching - 11.65 2.90 - Christopher Robin - 92.03 2.50 - God Bless the Broken Road - 2.50 2.45 - Black Klansman - 43.29 2.25 - Happytime Murders - 21.73 2.00 - Alpha - 31.85 1.75 - Mile 22 - 35.81 1.60 - Incredibles 2 - 604.41 1.40 - Kin - 6.33 0.90 - Ya Veremos - 3.65 0.75 - Hotel Tran 3 - 163.75 0.60 - Mamma Mia 2 - 119.02 0.50 - Ant-Man 2 - 214.72 0.50 - A.X.L. - 6.44 0.45 - Equalizer 2 - 101.47 0.45 - Jurassic World 2 - 415.90 0.45 - Slender Man - 29.32 0.15 - The Little Stranger - 0.79

Operation Finale down another point on RT audience score... now at 77% still #2 on MT... 26.6% - Crazy Rich Asians 9.7% - Operation Finale 6.7% - Mission 6 6.6% - The Meg 6.5% - Pooh Searching out of the top 5, might hinder chances of increasing over 20% from true Friday. Operation Finale should be good for +40% today and an even hold Sunday for 6.72 3-day, 8.49 4-day