Eric Prime

Gift haul: -Clothes -Gum -The Gunslinger (paging @Lor San Tele) -Ready Player One (hush Battery) -1001 Movies to See Before You Die (goes up to 2016) -Obama Photo Book -Notebooks for school and personal writing -Subscription to Variety (My Mom cried when I told my brother "I had no idea I even wanted this") -MoviePass 1-Year gift (I got my Mom the 3-Month gift, making her cry yet again) Also, my aunt invited the whole extended family on a cruise to Bermuda in July. Pretty awesome Christmas all around.

Why would he submit into a contest to win it?

Why did the Old Man buy the leg lamp again?

Happy Life Day everybody.

Saw Mickey's Christmas Carol for the first time in like 12 years. Surprisingly, holds up really well. Jiminy Cricket as Christmas Past is kinda ingenious.

What's the first one? Beverly Hills Cop 3?

http://chinafilminsider.com/headlines-china-three-hollywood-movies-score-january-china-releases/

Quick thoughts: -Star Wars had a bad drop mainly due to it being Xmas Eve, and it's clear the film's WOM isn't the strongest, but it's still very impressive, and it's on track to being the third biggest movie domestically. Although it will be interesting to see what Disney will do going forward. -Jumanji did stellar work, which definitely surprised me. I guess starpower and a good concept really does work wonders during the holiday season. Good to see Sony has a new potential franchise under their belt, even though I can't see how a Jumanji sequel would work. -Pitch Perfect 3 did atrocious. But in hindsight, I guess it made sense. Looking at the previews, the film screamed "we ran out of ideas, and we're trying to see what sticks," at least to me. Even though it'll probably break even, it's definitely a sour note to end on for the series. -Greatest Showman did about what I expected. A nice $70-80M gross. -Downsizing and Father Figures were LOL-tastic. Not much else to add there. -'CMBYN, Darkest Hour, and Shape of Water had great expansions. The last two seem on track to gross above $50M, while Call Me seems poised for a solid $25M and secure all there Best Picture noms, so kudos to them. -Lady Bird outgrossed Moonlight to become A24's biggest movie. Wonderful to see. -The Post had a great OW and PTA. I can't wait to see what Molly's Game and Phantom Thread do tomorrow. -I, Tonya seems kinda weak, but it could pick up some steam during January and February and make around something like Room, or at the very least The Lobster.

Fun fact: the first movie's screenplay was written by none other than M. Night Shyamalan. I don't know why, but it's an interesting little tidbit.

Wait a second.,..... Taken has a TV show?

Good thing our states are home to the Northeastern elites.

But...it's only been out for three days.

THIS FITS SO WELL

EXCUSE ME

Was Hong Chau any good?

Eh, I never really considered Greatest Showman a family movie. I always thought it was going to be a Walter Mitty/Hidden Figures, where it's skewed and mainly marketed towards adult audiences, in spite of a PG rating and Fox arguably wanting to appeal towards the youth (The trailer was attached to a handful of animated movies, and it also had Zefron and Zendaya)

Good to know today's youth is on the right track.

http://deadline.com/2017/12/mila-kunis-kate-mckinnon-snl-the-spy-who-dumped-madea-family-funeral-release-date-changes-summer-2018-1202231975/ It's moving to an unspecified date to the fall.

http://deadline.com/2017/12/mila-kunis-kate-mckinnon-snl-the-spy-who-dumped-madea-family-funeral-release-date-changes-summer-2018-1202231975/ Moved to August 3rd.