Eric Prime

Wendy's always was my favorite fast food joint.

A Simple Favor 134 1366 9.81% The Predator 243 1764 13.78% White Boy Rick 88 2147 4.10% A Simple Favor comps: 51% of Orient Express (14.6M) 80% of Pitch Perfect 3 (16M) 86% of Life of the Party (15.4M) 149% of Book Club (20.2M) 59% of Ocean's 8 (24.4M) 36% of Mamma Mia 2 (12.7M) 122% of Crazy Rich Asians (32.3M) Feels like the teens are where it's going. The Predator Comps: 133% of Blade Runner (43.7M) 112% of Ready Player One (47M) 14% of Deadpool 2 (18.1M) 18% of Jurassic World 2 (26.4M) 58% of Mission: Impossible (35.5M) 94% of The Meg (42.8M) 102% of The Nun (54.7M) Juding by Pulse action, Predator's severely overperforming at my theater. Maybe it's due to the black cast? White Boy Rick comps: 110% of The Commuter (15.1M) 183% of 15:17 to Paris (23M) 149% of Death Wish (19.4M) Also seems like an overperformer. Also, for whatever reason WBR is getting the majority of showtimes this weekend. Four Thursday showtimes, then 8 on both Friday and Saturday, 5 on Sunday. By comparison, ASF and Preadtor are only getting 4. Kinda odd.

https://deadline.com/2018/09/robert-pattinson-high-life-juliette-binoche-a24-high-life-toronto-film-festival-deal-1202463623/ Currently has an 82 on Metacritic and 94% on RT https://www.metacritic.com/movie/high-life https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/high_life_2018

Ew.

B from Indiewire https://www.indiewire.com/2018/09/green-book-review-viggo-mortensen-mahershala-ali-tiff-2018-1202002888/ Positive from TheWrap https://www.thewrap.com/green-book-film-review-viggo-mortensen-mahershala-ali-deep-south/ Praises from Deadline https://deadline.com/2018/09/first-man-oscar-contender-green-book-toronto-film-festival-1202462025/ I can't believe the man who made Shallow Hal might win an Oscar.

From what I've heard, Portman's only in it for the second half of the movie, as the first half has a child actress play the younger version of her character, so Neon's doing what Weinstein did with Dev Patel in Lion and play off category fraud, arguing "Hey, Natalie Portman's only in half of the movie, so she's a supporting player! The kid's in the other half, so it counts...I guess." Also doesn't help that Best Actress is super stacked this year, and Neon wants to get awards recognition somehow.

Morgan Freeman says "Merry Christmas" in the trailer. Crisis averted.

Good to know the follow-up to Hill's animated classic Allen Gregory is a rousing success.

Haven't paid much attention to the Screenplay category this year, but maybe Eighth Grade could sneak its way in. TBQH, I feel like that movie could have really gone somewhere awards-wise if it was placed in the fall.

But it's fun to make fun of him.

😐 Honestly, I feel bad about trashing this movie, because the crowd I was with seemed to be into it. One of the child actors in the movie was even there...but I'm gonna trash it anyways. People go on about how this film is a feature-length This Is Us. Honestly, I wish this was a feature-length TIU, because then the product would actually be good. It's a mess, it's unsure what it wants to be, it's acting is decent at best and poor at worst (the fact Dan Fogelman managed to make Oscar Isaac's performance weak is unforgivable), its writing is ridiculous, it's ungodly manipulative, it's pretty much a trainwreck. On the upside, this is very, very fun to riff on and laugh at. I honestly want to recommend this to y'all, just so you can see all of the weird, dumb shit this movie pulls, and for us all to have a big laugh over how stupid this is.

In the theater now. Will report in about 2.5 hours.

Makes me think of the time back earlier in the year when somebody went on about how WB was in shambles and was in danger of being in a slump after Tomb Raider or some shit didn't do that well. Hilarious.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_sisters_brothers/ 95% off of 22 reviews, with a 7.8 avg. rating. Good start.

The Front Runner? Also to a lesser extent Destroyer, since it seems like a love it/hate it kind of film.

I'd love to see THUG earn a BP nom, but I feel like being based on a YA novel could give it some baggage. I can see a scenario where some Academy voters may find that they're above a film with that kind of label. Also doesn't help that it seems like a film that will get lost in the shuffle when it comes to the box office.

B+ from Indiewire https://www.indiewire.com/2018/09/widows-review-viola-davis-steve-mcqueen-tiff-2018-1202000529/