Eric Prime

I mean it has in limited release. But nobody showed up.

May 26 The Little Mermaid: Racist trolls found dead in a ditch. When that first teaser trailer dropped, both Stan Twitter and Black Twitter went crazy solely on Halle’s pipes. Tiktok was full of viral vids of little Black girls in awe of that teaser, excited to see somebody who looks like them play a top 5 favorite Disney Princess. Regardless of quality, this movie will mean a lot to certain demographics and Disney knows that. Add on cool underwater visuals and the other fun aspects people love about these remakes, and this will be a big, big deal. Honestly the only problem the movie faces is the dreaded Disney+ factor and Spider-Verse competition, but I think the hype is strong enough that it won’t matter. Could obviously be wrong, and it should still be a huge hit either way, but I think this will be competitive for the top three of the summer and the year in general. I even think its 3-Day for the Memorial Day weekend will even outpace TGM. That's how confident (and I guess controversial 👀) I am being. 128/150/435 (3.40x)

May 19 Fast X: The new cast members are cool, but like...there’s no new hook for this franchise anymore. They already did the space thing in the last movie (badly I might add), the last couple movies have been critical duds, the franchise has been on the decline for a while anyways (doubt F9 would have done that much better with less COVID in the world), the new cast members probably won’t do much. What else is there to get people excited? And with all the Justin Lin drama, I doubt the film’s going to be all that good anyways. Sorry Vin, but your micromanaging has killed your golden goose. Good thing Avatar will save your ass. 65/150 (2.31x)

May 12 Book Club 2: The Next Chapter What did Downton Abbey 2 do? *checks* Uh...yeah, let’s go with half of that. 6/24 (4x) Love Again: Reading the plot for this sounds pretty corny and for the olds, who don't go to movies anymore. So...yeah. 5/15

May 5 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: Weird to think it’s been six whole years since the last Guardians sequel. Thankfully, Marvel’s been keeping the characters alive and in the conversation through the Avengers movies, the Disney rides, Thor 4, the Groot shorts, and the Holiday Special. Still, not too oversaturated, where people still kinda miss them. A legit nice happy medium. Quorum metrics are already very strong and the trailer promises a lot of emotional thrills and tearful goodbyes, although legs could be hurt by both Disney+ and the sad vibes expected. But of all the superhero movies this year, this is the one that will actually land with people. Probably on par with what it would have done in a non-COVID, non-Disney+ world if I’m being honest. So good on you James Gunn. Good luck to fixing that messed-up DC ship. 167/423 (2.53x)

M3GAN Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-8 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 36 81 6237 1.30% Total Seats Sold Today: 0 Comp 0.255x of The Conjuring 3 T-8 (2.5M) 0.145x of Halloween Kills T-8 (705K) 0.168x of Scream T-8 (588K) 0.103x of Halloween Ends T-8 (559K)

Quorum Updates A Man Called Otto T-16: 30.36% Awareness, 5.39 Interest House Party T-16: 32.06%, 5.74 Alice, Darling T-23: 17.39%, 5.16 Golda T-72: 6.82%, 4.33 Inside T-72: 10.86%, 5.34 Scream 6 T-72: 48.05%, 6.24 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse T-156: 48.48%, 6.46 Transformers: Rise of the Beasts T-163: 40.58%, 6.19 The Blackening T-170: 13.7%, 5.43 Cocaine Bear T-58: 28.79% Awareness, 5.65 Interest T-60 Awareness: 59% chance of 10M, 31% chance of 20M, 16% chance of 30M T-60 Interest: 72% chance of 10M, 67% chance of 20M, 55% chance of 30M Original - Low Awareness: 78% chance of 5M, 33% chance of 10M Original - Low Interest: 60% chance of 5M, 40% chance of 10M

I mean...I don't think it's all that bold (superhero fatigue is real), but I'm sure some Marvel fan will throw a fit over that prediction, so go with that.

April 28 Are You There, God? It’s Me Margaret: Like I said with Chevalier, the olds this is aiming itself towards (yes I know this is a YA book) don't show up to these things anymore. But this could go just a bit farther, as it'll be an okay counterprogram choice going into May and should be a solid crowdpleaser picture. Edge of Seventeen numbers, which, funny enough, would now be considered a good thing for a movie like this. 5/15 (3x) George Foreman Biopic: Probably the same as Father Stu, if not a wee bit higher if they put in some fun sports stuff in there. I dunno. Some of these entries I just don't feel like I have much of a reason to go into why a film will gross what they do, especially when there's no trailers or marketing to fall back on. 6/20 (3.33x)

April 21 Evil Dead Rise: The 2013 film adjusts to 61M, which...yeah, that sounds good here. Evil Dead's not the biggest horror franchise in the world, but still iconic and recognizable. And while Zaslav still sucks, he seems confident in this film's performance to move it away from HBO Max. So let's just go with this. 30/60 (2x)

April 14 Renfield: It’s kind of hard to gauge this one without a trailer to know what it's all about and what to expect. I’m assuming it’s a comedy with the Lego Batman guy directing this, which automatically hurts it. But will it also lean into fun horror stuff that could sell it to the horror crowd? Tough call, but I am leaning towards the low side either way. There will be one or two memes about Nic Cage in the trailer, but Unbearable Weight shows that this is basically meaningless. 10/30 (3x)

Do you know when House Party and Plane will be on sale? Feels like they've been stuck on placeholder times forever at the Regals I track.

April 7 Chevalier: Woulda been a decent-sized counterprogrammer in 2016 for the olds. But the olds don't go to the movies anymore and only nostalgic toy commercials make any money, so this will barely reach the single digits. Sad! 3/11 (3.67x) The Pope's Exorcist: With a solid name in Russell Crowe and being the first horror movie since Scream 6, I can see this performing to modest numbers. Just kinda hard to judge without a trailer to use as a reference. 16/35 (2.19x) The Super Mario Bros. Movie: Detective Pikachu walked so Mario could run. The Mario series is the cream of the crop for gaming and this looks exactly in line with what fans would want from a film adaptation, Chris Pratt’s voice aside. I’d argue it looks better than anybody expected from the idea of “Minions guys make a Mario movie”. There hasn’t been a single major animated release since Puss in Boots, Illumination and Nintendo are masters of marketing, and this already has tons of discussion online and offline that it’s impossible not to be aware of this film’s existence. This will be the biggest animated movie of the year bar none. 110/355 (3.23x)

https://deadline.com/2022/12/box-office-2023-prediction-1235205995/

THOSE PECS

That's why I love him.

Also if we're talking TV (and I guess movie?) dads, I'm very much approving of Gomez Addams. Look at this man and don't tell me he's not the most supportive, most loving father in history.

Oh contraire... Since yesterday, I have fallen down a rabbit hole on both Twitter and TikTok of people thirsting over Jake Sully, which is both scary and incredible and I love every second of it. And I think they have made my brain realize he really is hot actually?????????

Because it's from a DiscussingFilm parody account and for a split second people thought it was a legit announcement. Maybe it's a for sure done deal, but until we get actual word from a valid source, we don't want false information on here to spread.

No and no. Didn't realize they would be big deals until it was too late.

M3GAN Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-9 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 36 81 6237 1.30% Total Seats Sold Today: 9 Comp 0.299x of The Conjuring 3 T-9 (2.93M) 0.159x of Halloween Kills T-9 (770K) 0.186x of Scream T-9 (650K) 0.111x of Halloween Ends T-9 (598K)

Please don't channel BKB.