Eric Loves Rey

Moderation Guys, nobody cares about this anymore. If you want to fight over the MCU and style and whatever it is you're complaining about, do it through PMs

Peter Rabbit 2's IM would give us like 14.7M for Boss Baby. With July 4th making things more frontloaded on Sunday, that's like...what, 12M or something?

https://deadline.com/2021/07/boss-baby-family-business-forever-purge-f9-box-office-weekend-july-4th-1234785567/

Space Jam: A New Legacy Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-15 and Counting (Fri) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 40 83 7554 1.10% Total Showings Added Today: 2 Total Seats Added Today: 377 Total Seats Sold Today: 25

Black Widow Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-7 and Counting (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 89 2644 17697 14.94% Total Showings Added Today: 3 Total Seats Added Today: 218 Total Seats Sold Today: 134 Comp 1.850x of Godzilla vs. Kong T-7 Before Release (17.95M) 2.506x of F9 T-7 Before Release (17.79M)

The Forever Purge Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 27 732 3588 20.40% Total Seats Sold Today: 583 Comp 0.372x of A Quiet Place Part II's Thu Previews (1.79M) 0.285x of Conjuring 3's Final Count (2.80M) 1.413x of Hitman's Bodyguard's Wife's Final Count (5.56M) Now this had previews starting at 7, so I tallied everything together. I mean I guess it could be walkups, but it still seems like a disturbingly high jump for both movies compared to what everybody else got. F9 had stupid huge walkups too, so maybe Philly's just...getting more presales driven? I dunno, it's very weird stuff.

The Boss Baby: Family Business Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 42 764 6280 12.17% Total Seats Sold Today: 495 Comp 1.278x of Raya's Thu+Fri (3.32M) 1.868x of Cruella's Thu Previews (2.61M) 0.600x of Cruella's Thu+Fri (4.62M) 1.764x of Spirit Untamed's Thu+Fri (4.34M) So I should preface here by saying I kind of cheated on this one. I try to stop counting previews when the first showings hit and try to tally up all the preview showings immediately afterwards. But sadly, I only got halfway through tallying before I had to go commute back home, so that sadly means I counted later showings, like 6 or 7, closer to when they would start, meaning later numbers are a touch inflated. This does partially explain why there was such an astronomical boost, but even the 4:00/5:00 showings did really well at the last minute. Maybe walkups are just really, really strong here, who knows? Doubt the preview numbers will be anywhere near as big as this though.

Because not everybody thinks exactly like you. If you think these movies are all the same, more power to you and I completely understand. But from what I can see, you're acting as if you are the one true all-knowing being when it comes to these movies and it's not the case. You may not see it, but it's obvious that a lot of people do see these MCU titles as distinct and fresh from one another in terms of genre or style and I sincerely doubt it's because people are trying to make these movies seem better than they are. Just let people like and feel whatever they want to like and feel, because it's obvious you won't change their minds and you're just fanning flames for no reason.

Serious question: has there been a Matrix joke that's ever been funny? Even in good movies like Shrek they're so awkward to watch.

Dude it's been ages since anybody talked about superhero fatigue.

https://deadline.com/2021/07/box-office-zola-opening-day-f9-wednesday-pandemic-record-1234784917/

The first Boss Baby only made the money it did because Alec Baldwin and Donald Trump were the two most-talked about figures by the time the movie came out. In a Biden timeline, the film's main joke has little meaning or relevance.

https://www.the-numbers.com/daily-box-office-chart Movie Distr Gross %YD %LW Thr Per Thr Total Gross D - N Zola A24 $504,992 1,468 $344 $504,992 1 Obviously there's not a lot of great comparisons here (something like Midsommar obviously had more hype going in), but this still seems pretty poor, no?

June Some Like it Hot - 10/10 The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It - 5/10 Thor - 6/10 Cabaret - 9/10 In the Heights - 9/10 Brokeback Mountain - 10/10 (When David Harbour popped up I screamed) Luca - 7/10 The Boys in the Band (1970) - 10/10 The Boys in the Band (2020) - 6/10 Casablanca - 10/10 Bruno - 7/10 Milk - 7/10 (this has the most cursed cast in history lmao) The Maltese Falcon - 8/10 Meet Me in St. Louis - 9/10 So I didn't end up watching any Fast and Furious content this month. Maybe I'll get to it in July I guess, but I also have to schedule it around my Shyamagod marathon (and also David Lowery I guess). Not really in a rush to see any F&F movie tho, so who knows if I ever get around to it?

Space Jam: A New Legacy Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-16 and Counting (Fri) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 38 58 7177 0.81% Don't have any comps, and the film's sales should be quiet, but it doesn't hurt to have this for any future animation/kids movie comps

Black Widow Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-8 and Counting (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 86 2510 17479 14.36% Total Seats Sold Today: 138 Comp 1.934x of Godzilla vs. Kong T-8 Before Release (18.76M) 2.505x of F9 T-8 Before Release (17.78M)

The Forever Purge Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-1 and Counting (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 27 149 3588 4.15% Total Seats Sold Today: 57 Comp 0.099x of Conjuring 3 1 Day Before Release (967K) 0.745x of Hitman's Bodyguard's Wife T-1 Before Release (2.93M)

The Boss Baby: Family Business Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-1 and Counting (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 42 269 6280 4.28% Total Seats Sold Today: 90 Comp 0.624x of Raya's Thu+Fri T-1 and Counting (1.62M) 0.337x of Cruella's Thu+Fri T-1 and Counting (2.60M) 0.915x of Spirit Untamed's Thu+Fri T-1 and Counting (2.25M)

Jeez Louise you guys sound like dorks

Honestly audiences today are way more complicit in terms of watching the same stuff over and over that I doubt that many long-running franchises will fall apart over the next few years. You look at that Disney Investor Day and people were drooling over a Buzz Lightyear spin-off and 30 Star Wars shows. People today only care about nostalgic IP and it'll be a long while before we get to anything like the New Hollywood era or whatever. I know people want to throw the blame at studios for not diversifying their platter. And like yeah that's a problem, but also whenever they do try this, with a big ad campaign and all, audiences today just don't flock towards it and I think it's fair to call out people on this. If Yesterday or Ford v Ferrari came out in like 2008, they would have probably hit like 145M. COVID probably helped expand the lifespans of a lot of franchises too. People are nostalgic for the good ol' days of 2017 when they could go outside and watch the latest leftovers and will cling further to stuff that's safe and familiar.