Eric Prime

It's actually been averaging higher than that at around 70 tickets. And yeah, it's doing good in that regard. Been holding relatively steady with almost all the comps except Mario, and all the comps indicate 100M+, arguably even 110M+. Of course this is going to be a market that will overperform, but it's doing well with other movies that overperformed, so we're golden.

Because animation > live-action, at least when it comes to what makes the animated movies shine. The Disney cartoons are movies that rely on bright, poppy colors, exaggerated animation, and distinct expressions and visuals to be successful, and you can't replicate that in live-action. The limitless possibilities of animation, stuff you can only achieve effectively with animation, is completely lost when you have to deal with realistic-looking animals that can't emote the same way as the original Flounder or Baloo or Scar, since they have to be "real". And even for human characters, you lose the distinct designs and creative lighting and strong facial expressions with a live-action performance. Which yeah, every time you adapt something from one medium to another, you do lose something. But this time, you don't gain anything in return that makes the experience potentially better. Which hey, I think most audiences know they're getting the inferior product going into it. It's like a cover song, where you know it won't be as good as the song you like, but you still want to see it in a new way. But yeah, if you want something more out of these, you're never going to get it.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-24 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 117 987 22935 4.30% Comp - T-24 5.672x of Sonic 2 (35.45M) 0.124x of Doctor Strange 2 (4.47M) 0.743x of Jurassic World Dominion (13.37M) 0.267x of Thor 4 (7.76M) 0.176x of Black Panther 2 (4.94M) 1.100x of Avatar 2 (18.71M) 0.296x of Ant-Man 3 (5.18M) 1.000x of Mario (31.7M) 0.366x of Guardians 3 (6.4M) Yeah this is all over the place. Too big for the animated movies, too small for the Marvel movies, and it's up in the air for the GA movies with a nonwhite skew. But getting close to a thousand tickets in just one day...that's pretty sick bro.

The Little Mermaid Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-17 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 153 1132 28586 3.96% Total Seats Sold Today: 69 Comp - T-17 2.544x of Sonic 2 (15.9M) 0.746x of Jurassic World: Dominion (13.42M) 0.702x of Avatar 2 (11.94M) 0.779x of Mario (24.7M)

Fast X Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-10 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 95 845 20135 4.20% Total Seats Sold Today: 30 Comp - T-10 0.948x of F9 (6.73M) 0.434x of Jurassic World: Dominion (7.82M) 2.161x of Nope (13.83M)

Coulda sworn he was still a baby like last week lol

They should just delay it. Cancel the whole release so nobody has to see this hot garbage be given the light of day.

Gotta be honest that I'm still feeling Lion King Remake vibes where the initial reactions will be incredible because "OMG my childhood", only for The Real CriticsTM to come in and speak the truth on it being trash. And Grace Randolph being super enthusiastic about it doesn't help matters either. Still hope I'm proven wrong though! And honestly, even bad reviews won't matter. This has real "6 Year Old Unsure About Seeing Space Jam 2 After New York Times Review" vibes.

Because the cool kids with the best taste live on the East Coast.

Moderation I also wanted to say that I think the whole "Disney+ killed Pixar" stuff feels both very off-topic and very "been there, done that". I feel we've had this converstaion countless times, and I don't think it needs to be regurgitated again, especially in a thread it doesn't belong in. At the very least, if you want to continue the conversation, take it to the Disney and/or Elemental thread.

The Little Mermaid Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-18 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 153 1063 28586 3.72% Total Seats Sold Today: 23 Comp - T-18 2.612x of Sonic 2 (16.32M) 0.719x of Jurassic World: Dominion (12.95M) 0.688x of Avatar 2 (11.7M) 0.783x of Mario (24.81M)

Fast X Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-11 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 95 815 20135 4.05% Total Seats Sold Today: 18 Comp - T-11 0.942x of F9 (6.69M) 0.439x of Jurassic World: Dominion (7.91M) 2.270x of Nope (14.53M) Thought I posted this last night, but apparently not lol. Here you go y'all.

Moderation Just a reminder that you can put users on your Ignore list if you find them obnoxious. It's certainly far more productive than throwing out insults.

The reason why June is so crowded is pretty simple. Studios want to maximize summer weekdays for their movies and June is arguably the best month to do such a thing. 10 wide releases isn't all that different from pre-COVID Junes. 2019 had 9 movies, 2018 had 12, 2017 had 13. And honestly, for movies like Boogeyman, Blackening, No Hard Feelings, and Strays, their theatrical runs are basically just glorified advertisements for their PVOD/digital runs. So really we got 5 bigly movies competing. And a couple of them will probably bomb and legs will probably be weaksauce for most of them due to smaller audiences and emphasis on PLFs, but that's just how the cookie crumbles. It's really not as crazy as it seems IMO and it's not like putting them a month or two later would magically make things easier or make them gross significantly higher.

Gotta be honest that until today, I thought Richard Dreyfuss died like 10 or 15 years ago. Which to be fair, the only movie in the last 10 years I recognize on his Wikipedia page was Book Club.

To be fair, I don't think she's that good an actress. Maybe her Bollywood stuff is better, but I've seen her in stuff like White Tiger and Matrix Resurrections and Quantico and she's always been the weakest part. Would love to be proven wrong of course.

Fair enough. If a lot of people here think it's annoying when I say "okay", then I won't do it anymore.

I just like using "okay" because I think saying it is funny and/or I'm just not interested in continuing an argument or conversation. Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't think saying "okay" is a bad thing or something a mod shouldn't do. It's just a word.

I remember after the Oscars happened A24 was hyping up how they were going to make more midbudget titles like Beau in the future, and that always felt a little too premature for a company that's only had one movie make over $100 million worldwide. And while I don't think they had sky-high hopes for this movie to break out, I wouldn't be surprised if they reverse course and stick back to their microbudget roots.

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Okay.