Eric Prime

FOUR MINUTES? What kinda crap is that?

Fast X Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-98 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 71 62 16560 0.37% Just to clarify, we are going to do things a little differently here. There's way too many days to track, and I gotta deal with Ant-Man, Creed, Scream, Shazam, John Wick, Mario, and Guardians before this comes out. To say nothing of the stuff that will be in presales afterwards. So I will track the film's first week, if only because I'm curious to see the bumps this has when the trailer drops tomorrow and how the Super Bowl spot gives it a further boost. Then I'm just going to give an update every Thursday, since Thursday's basically when the slate gets reset anyways. And then when we get to T-42, April 6 to be exact, then I'll go back to tracking it daily. Both Jurassic World: Dominion and Nope started their presales on T-42, those are likely going to be some of the best comps I have (well, minus F9 of course), and that's the farthest long-range comps I have anyways. So I hope that's all clear and makes sense.

Scream VI Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-28 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 41 255 7068 3.61% Total Seats Sold Today: 84 Comp - First Two Days of Sales 1.889x of Scream (6.61M) Comp - T-28 1.441x of Nope (9.22M)

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-7 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 175 5024 32764 15.33% Total Seats Sold Today: 161 Comp - T-7 1.900x of Black Widow (25.08M) 3.262x of Shang-Chi (28.71M) 2.397x of Eternals (22.77M) 0.274x of Spider-Man: No Way Home (13.68M) 0.840x of The Batman (18.16M) 0.425x of Doctor Strange 2 (15.28M) 0.747x of Thor 4 (21.65M) 0.580x of Black Panther 2 (16.25M) 1.859x of Avatar 2 (31.61M) Yeah I think sub-20 previews are happening guys. Oh well.

This is why we call him DADDY Iger

Go read a book or something lmao

Just let the rights go, old man!

Magic Mike's Last Dance Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 31 268 5880 4.56% Total Seats Sold Today: 70 Comp - Final 0.700x of Death on the Nile (770K) 1.763x of Marry Me (926K) 0.971x of Dog (1.22M) 0.262x of The Lost City (852K) 0.399x of Downton Abbey 2 (758K) 0.249x of Elvis (873K) 0.466x of Where the Crawdads Sing (1.07M) 0.152x of Don't Worry Darling (473K) 1.258x of Ticket to Paradise (1.38M) Blech. Sub-10M ahoy

It's been 12 years.

That is not my experience at all lol. The one Na'Vi with shades has garnered a ton of "where was he on January 6th" memes

You know I did forget about that. Just updated that, and while it's not a perfect comp as a franchise vs. original thing (and yeah, I know Peele has a big fanbase and he's arguably a brand, blah blah blah), it's also ahead of that film with about 6.71M. I don't want to count chickens and stuff, but...this may really be a huge deal. If it gets previews that high, I'm sure the Scream producers plan to send Tim Burton some flowers and chocolates for allowing that Wednesday show of his to come out at the literal perfect time lmao

Bonnie's toys get lost, and then they bump into Woody, Bo Peep, Duke, and Ducky and Bunny while finding their way home, and they all go on a wacky adventure. Or maybe the toys get sold off because Bonnie's a preteen and is way too into her iPad. The toys get left behind from the donation truck, then Woody and Bo and the gang discover them, and they go on an adventure where Buzz and Jessie and friends decide what is best for them and whether they should be free agents too. Probably a little too contrived, but there's no way they won't have Woody and Buzz together and I think these are good basic plotlines to get them together.

Scream VI Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-29 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 41 171 7068 2.42% Comp - First Day of Sales 2.280x of Scream (7.98M) Comp - T-29 1.049x of Nope (6.71M) This is actually the farthest comp out for all my long-range horror films tracked, but I knew @Krissykins would pester me for some sort of comparison, so this is T-29 vs. T-27. But yeah...this new one got a much bigger start lol (and yeah I know a lot of it is because the last Scream started its sales during the Christmas season, but...still pretty far ahead).

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-8 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 175 4863 32764 14.84% Total Seats Sold Today: 157 Comp - T-8 1.937x of Black Widow (25.57M) 3.451x of Shang-Chi (30.37M) 2.439x of Eternals (23.17M) 0.272x of Spider-Man: No Way Home (13.63M) 0.843x of The Batman (18.21M) 0.435x of Doctor Strange 2 (15.66M) 0.752x of Thor 4 (21.82M) 0.586x of Black Panther 2 (16.41M) 1.955x of Avatar 2 (33.24M)

Magic Mike's Last Dance Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-1 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 31 198 5880 3.37% Total Seats Sold Today: 35 Comp - T-1 0.756x of Death on the Nile (831K) 1.886x of Marry Me (990K) 0.880x of Dog (1.11M) 0.256x of The Lost City (831K) 0.344x of Downton Abbey 2 (654K) 0.269x of Elvis (940K) 0.602x of Where the Crawdads Sing (1.38M) 0.138x of Don't Worry Darling (427K) 1.941x of Ticket to Paradise (2.13M)

*cracks knuckles* No. If you are excited about Toy Story 5 or Frozen 3, that's awesome. Nobody has a problem with others being excited for a new sequel to something. And I understand it sucks to see something you love get dunked on by others. I've been in the same boat before. But just like those people have the right to be excited, the opposite side of the coin has just as much right to complain, criticize, be cynical, etc. These are just silly kids movies at the end of the day. It's not like a Disney sequel is above any criticism from a bunch of forum members. And frankly, this is rich coming from you. You're more than happy to dunk on pretty much every non-Disney studio out there. So what gives you the right to mock studios you don't care about, but when people do it to studios you like that it's now suddenly a problem? This kind of holier than thou attitude of yours is really something we don't need on this forum. So please quit with this. Just because it's "perfect business sense" doesn't mean we can't criticize these business decisions and how they damage art. I love movies and I find these endless franchise extensions exhausting and anti-creativity, anti-originality, and frankly anti-art. And me saying that isn't going to hurt your precious multi-billion dollar corporation. Is being negative about a sequel to a kids movie about toys that seemingly only exists to make a profit and nothing else going to cause a meteor to hit the Earth? Will Daddy Iger lose his job because some random weirdos on a box office forum site think a Frozen 3 is dumb? Is mocking a Zootopia 2 specifically going to cause the end of movie theaters forever? No, no, and no. So stop acting like it is and let people say mean things about these kids movies. Trust me, you'll live. And as for the whole "well the fans want it", so what? Most Pixar and WDAS fans have been more than happy watching movies that don't have a "2" slapped on them for decades. If anything, many fans were critical about the constant barrage of Pixar sequels in the 2010s. But I guess their opinions are invalid to you, because they dare to say something bad about a conglomerate full of executives that make more money than you will ever make. Oh, and can you not with this insane strawmanning? You know damn fucking well that's not what anybody is wanting here. Nobody is expecting or demanding esoteric Gaspar Noe style features from Disney. Even bombs like Strange World didn't just sell 14 tickets buddy boy. They just want some fun fantasy adventure comedies that don't just exist to make capitalist shareholders happy. Those movies have done well before. And perhaps post-COVID there is no market for something like encanto. But frankly...I don't care if there's no market or if audiences hate original movies. Frankly, the modern audience member's incuriosity and refusal to see anything that isn't just cheap thrills or a nostalgic toy commercial is one of the most depressing aspects of society and modern film discourse. And it's frustrating to see an art form like film continue to be exclusively just regurgitations of stuff I liked as a kid, even if that's "what people want". Why should we applaud a business decision that is anti-creative just because the normies like it? That's an awful way of viewing things and is a slap in the face to the medium of film. And honestly, if that's how things are gonna roll, then maybe movie theaters should die, as a symbol of how bleak and depressing and anti-creative and anti-curious society has become and how it has damaged an incredible art form. I hate to burst your bubble, but despite what it says at the top, this isn't just a box office forum. 95% of the users here are people who love the medium of film first and foremost. They love discussing film, arguing about which movies rock and which ones suck, looking at trends within filmmaking, and so on. Profits and tracking is important and very fun, but the box office is just a vessel for us to come together and talk about the main thing that we love. That being films and the art of film in general. If anything, the biggest problem this forum has had lately, and something that drove a ton of old veterans away over the past few years, are people who think too corporate and too much on the profit and bottom line. People who only want to talk about numbers and argue about how "popular" something is. People who only wish to brag about how good their favorite corporate franchise is compared to all the others and using box office just to spite the other side. You know, the stuff you do as you go all "yay Disney boo WB" every other post. Frankly, I prefer the BOT members who are in it to make jokes, talk about movies, and dunk on greedy studio execs who simply don't care about the medium of film than the members bootlicking to megacorporations that will happily lay off employees at a moment's notice. And I feel very confident in saying I'm not the only one who thinks that. And yeah, the idea of us applauding a studio for making a pointless kids movie sequel even if it's a symbol that goes against the thing we love as an art form doesn't sit well with me, and I don't think is what BOT is all about nor what it should ever be about. I apologize if this is what you want to see on this fourm, but I simply think you need to find another website that's more your speed. We're not the only place on the Internet where people talk about box office, and the way things roll here have been just fine for over a decade. There's no reason we should change things now. But if you want to stay, please stop getting angry at people who dare to say mean things about a silly movie company that has a $204 billion market cap. You're an adult, so I would hope you can handle people being negative over something you like. Especially when it comes to a corporation full of greedy suits and executives.

Um...okay Jason?