Eric Prime

I mean we basically have that already? We had Voyage of the Demeter in mid-August, followed by Nun 2 a couple weeks later. Haunting in Venice is definitely a horror movie IMO, having seen it myself, and that dropped a week after Nun 2. We have a lull this weekend, but now we have the new Saw movie next week. Then Exorcist the week after, two weeks of no horror (but I mean with Tay Tay coming in the picture, can you blame them?), and then FNAF to round everything up. Like that's a typical August-October period for horror, just slightly more spaced out.

Ah yes. The very devoted Paw Patrol fanbase. Those 3 year olds have to see the movie right away, or else they'll avoid getting spoiled on whether Chase dies or not.

https://deadline.com/2023/09/saltburn-release-date-emerald-fennell-carey-mulligan-jacob-elordi-1235448195/

It's been like...5 pages of "Captain Marvel was only popular because Endgame" arguments over and over and over and over ad nauseum? Aren't you guys even a little bit tired? Do you really have nothing else interesting whatsoever to talk about in here?

https://deadline.com/2023/09/box-office-expendables-4-1235553682/

Nah we don't need this. Thanks anyways.

Plan is for tomorrow. Only listened to an occasional Talking Heads song, so I have no idea what to expect. But I guess that's what makes it fun!

Very sad the boys were beefing in their heyday. A Stallone-Schwarzenegger action comedy would have been an absolute bop. Iconic. An easy contender for the biggest hit of 1987. It would have also likely been the gayest and straightest movie of all time.

Haunting in Venice. Didn't like the other two Poirot movies, but it's genuinely a blast to watch. And very spooky if you want to get into the beginning of spooky season (the former Bed Bath and Beyond near my house got turned into a Spirit Halloween and I died laughing lol)

Quorum Updates Dumb Money T-8: 23.47% Awareness Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour T-22: 40.58% Killers of the Flower Moon T-29: 30.27% The Holdovers T-50: 12.92% Snow White T-183: 41.58% Expend4bles T-1: 44.79% Awareness Final Awareness: 87% chance of 10M, 57% chance of 20M, 33% chance of 30M Medium Awareness: 82% chance of 10M, 64% chance of 20M, 54% chance of 30M It Lives Inside T-1: 24.66% Awareness Final Awareness: 15% chance of 10M Horror Awareness: 40% chance of 10M The Creator T-8: 28.26% Awareness Final Awareness: 15% chance of 10M Medium Awareness: 0% chance of 10M Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie T-8: 37.26% Awareness Final Awareness: 35% chance of 10M Animation/Family Awareness: 0% chance of 10M Saw X T-8: 41.96% Awareness Final Awareness: 87% chance of 10M, 57% chance of 20M, 33% chance of 30M, 20% chance of 40M Horror Awareness: 100% chance of 10M, 83% chance of 20M, 33% chance of 40M

Saw the first movie and was dumbfounded by how awful it was. One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, especially on a technical level, in quite a long while. How they got to make three more of these movies is beyond me. It’s just Deadline reporting what they said yesterday. They said their tracking services projected 15-17M, and they will continue to say so until Friday’s estimates come in. Infinity War could have had just 3M in previews and Deadline would have still parroted, “It’s tracking for at least 200M, don’t you worry. Yuck yuck”

https://www.boxofficepro.com/long-range-box-office-forecast-killers-of-the-flower-moon/

lmao what a description 😆

Because men are trash.

I thought for a split second this was Grace Randolph you were talking about and was quite confused.

Moderation @Bob Train You can disagree with others on social media’s impacts on movies without condescending to them with some “lol people just love to argue even if they know they are wrong”. Please treat your fellow BOT members with respect or you will see more warning points heading your way.

I will also say that I do strongly disagree with Rachel Zegler being the problem. Most of the "backlash" against her still seems, hopefully seems, like Brie Larson-style alt-right nonsense that doesn't translate to the normies who don't even know she exists (not an invitation for debate, don't even think about opening that can of worms). I don't even fully buy the "Hunger Games isn't Hunger Games without J-Law" stuff, though I kind of get it. Really, I think the biggest problem is just that the concept and idea feels too dated. The whole YA dystopia trend crashed and burned hard once we got to 2016, and it makes sense. When our world actually became a hellish dystopia with climate change destroying everything and evil right-wingers like Trump and Bolsonaro rising into power, it ruined their escapist appeal instantly. It's really hard to really embrace these movies as fun, populist blockbusters when the evil dictators and settings where the 1% live high and mighty and the 99% are struggling to survive hit a little too close to home. These movies frankly feel too much like the evils of the real world and don't work as escapist adventures. At least something like Star Wars has fun sci-fi locales and aliens and space battles. Hunger Games really only worked in the Obama years and became instantly dated once those years were over.

If anybody here knows me, they know there are few people I hate more in this world than Elon Musk and right-wing scum in general. But I have a bad case of Twitter addiction and check it whenever I can. And I know that even with that capitalist asshole ruining things that are still tons of people, especially in fandom circles, who still actively use the platform, especially since it's still the easiest to talk about geek culture/Film Twitter stuff with mutuals and friends. As somebody here already said, geek stuff, especially stuff that is huge with millenials and older Gen Z, like Marvel or Star Wars or Percy Jackson, always at least hit the Top 30 Trending page. I definitely remember the Avatar trailers and marketing landed the movie on the Trending page rather consistently, and people say that it's totally not a social media-friendly franchise with no online fanbase (which is a stretch lmao but whatever). Doesn't necessarily mean it's 1:1 with how audiences work, and there's still a "Twitter bubble" problem, but social media is arguably the most important tool when it comes to advertising and hype for movies these days. It's the only reason Oppenheimer even got to 900M+. And if a movie based on an iconic property's not connecting, that's still a problem. Maybe I'm totally wrong here, because maybe it is huge on TikTok. I'm not on there, so I can't confirm. But nobody on here's confirming it, so...I dunno.

Baffling that this hasn't seemed to be trending at ALL on Twitter. That is unheard of for a big franchise movie, especially one that should be YA-driven like this. Lionsgate is cursed outside of John Wick at this point.