Eric Prime

https://deadline.com/2023/09/box-office-equalizer-3-denzel-washington-1235533871/

Moderation Nobody's in trouble, but a lot of the "Swift vs. Adele" stuff and "will Taylor be cast in this movie" stuff feels off topic and fits in the Eras Tour thread. Just wanted to stop it before things got worse.

I keep getting it because I'm going to all the Disney 100 re-releases, so I'm always getting the same three trailers of Wish, The Marvels, and Elio/Haunted Mansion. I always go on the weekdays in the smallest auditoriums, so there's few people anyways, but The Marvels trailer always lands like a thud, because the rest of the crowd are 5 year olds whose likely only exposure to Marvel is the Disney Junior Spider-Man cartoon.

@WrathOfHan *cracks fingers* 9x: The Marvels: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Toy Story, Theater Camp, Frozen, Haunted Mansion, American Graffitti, Beauty and the Beast, Bottoms 7x: Gran Turismo: Blackberry, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Elemental, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Barbie, Oppenheimer, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: Lightyear, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Asteroid City, Joy Ride, Haunted Mansion, Blue Beetle 6x: Strays: Cocaine Bear, Evil Dead Rise, Fast X, No Hard Feelings, Joy Ride, Theater Camp Wish: Elemental, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Toy Story, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Frozen, Beauty and the Beast 5x: Blue Beetle: The Super Mario Bros. Movie, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Evil Dead Rise, Barbie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem Dune: Part Two: Fast X, Oppenheimer, Oppenheimer Round 2, Haunted Mansion, Blue Beetle 4x: Expend4bles: The Blackening, Joy Ride, American Graffitti, Bottoms The Exorcist: Believer: Oppenheimer, Oppenheimer Round 2, Talk to Me, The Last Voyage of the Demeter The Color Purple: The Little Mermaid, Barbie, Theater Camp, Bottoms 3x: 2x: 1x:

I'm going with Wick and McCall.

Quorum Updates What Happens Later T-43: 13.86% Awareness The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes T-78: 23.61% Awareness The Iron Claw T-113: 13.18% Awareness Migration T-113: 19.18% Awareness Boys in the Boat T-116: 9.77% Awareness The Color Purple T-116: 31.95% Awareness Madame Web T-167: 21.48% Awareness The Equalizer 3 T-2: 54.97% Awareness Final Awareness: 100% chance of 10M, 90% chance of 20M, 70% chance of 30M Medium Awareness: 100% chance of 20M, 60% chance of 30M My Big Fat Greek Wedding T-8: 39.52% Awareness Final Awareness: 34% chance of 10M, 2% chance of 20M Low Awareness: 33% chance of 10M The Nun II T-8: 52.08% Awareness Final Awareness: 100% chance of 10M, 90% chance of 20M, 70% chance of 30M, 40% chance of 40M, 30% chance of 50M Horror Awareness: 100% chance of 30M

I think a lot of that is just that the bar is so low for TV live ratings that anything can get renewed, despite even the highest-rated shows premiereing to "instant pull" numbers. And frankly, making a new show to replace another one is a greater and greater risk every single season, even if it is arguably the cheaper option. Just as an example, Raven's Home, the revival series to Disney Channel's That's So Raven, has produced more seasons and more episodes than its parent show. But it doesn't sound or feel right when you consider that Raven's Home now barely even pulls in 100,000 viewers a new episode and That's So Raven could reliably bring in 4M+ every week back in 2005. Just weird times for live TV, lemme tell ya.

I watch Abbott Elementary live and it’s always funny to see this different world of TV and saying to myself, “The Conners is still making new episodes? They still have Grey’s Anatomy airing? What the hell is an Alaska Daily?”

Following Shang-Chi’s IM gets you 32.5M. If that happens, this is kind of a miracle, considering that old people don’t go to the theaters anymore and said old folks have the Queen Latifah show to watch at home. Good for Denzel. Always nice to see him winning.

Just watched this earlier today and it's easily one of the funniest movies I've seen in ages. So absurdist and hysterical, with its odd little world and characters that are all hilarious and memorable. It's the kind of movie where you need to see it 2 or 3 times just so you can notice all the jokes you missed, and it's nice to have a movie like this again. I wish we had more comedies like this.

A sequel feels kind of premature for a film that still just broke even, and I feel the movie works well with the conclusion it has IMO. But I guess I can't stop them and it seems likely to get an increase I suppose.

Everything is gay if you squint at it long enough.

LMFAO eat shit studios. You got what you fucking deserve lol

Mama Knight sounds kinda hot ngl

I thought AMPTP productions couldn't get interim agreements. @Plain Old Tele how does this work? Because that seems odd that shows like these are getting a pass when they are from major TV studios.

NOVA Welcome back mah boi. Feels like it’s been ages since you posted here

Moderation We're not doing this "short runtime means bad movie" stuff anymore. It's leading to nothing but toxic fights that aren't going anywhere and we have zero reason to believe that this will result in a bad movie. And no, I don't care what "evidence" you have. Please talk about something else, or threadbans will occur.

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Pretty sure this series will just be shorts like all the other Disney/Pixar "series" have been. These shows really just exist as replacements for the bonus feature shorts you would get in the DVD. But I guess they could be cute and shows Disney wants to keep the franchise popular and in the limelight.

Another interesting detail I'm surprised you didn't mention was how the film sadly destroyed finances and grants given to films by the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) because of bigotry and Republicans being Republicans. A lesbian sex scene was in this, some Washington Times writer threw a fit because lesbians and Black women and sex, then Republican rep Peter Hoekstra used this as a vessel that led to the NEA using their funding on a "case-by-case basis", rather than giving funds to art groups in general, which only hurt the diversity of all the projects for everybody. It's a very sad part of this film's legacy, but a necessary one to show how evil conservatism can be in terms of censoring art and the long-lasting damages they have given towards tons of queer artists and queer people in general.