Eric Prime

Will Packer kinda had a thing going when it came to making cheap comedy films. Pretty much all of his comedy films were around the 20M range outside of Ride Along 2. Even Night School, which had Kevin Hart as a more established star and Haddish likely getting a pay upgrade due to Girls Trip still did $29 million. I don't know if he'll ever go back to doing them, especially after his infamous Oscars show, but his work was basically the closest we have to the "Blumhouse for comedy" angle and nobody seems interested in following up on that outside of the occasional Easter Sunday bomb. It can't possibly be that hard to make a production company that makes comedies in the Blumhouse model.

How dare you forget the third one. The most iconic of them all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5muQK7CuFtY New trailer. For some reason this isn't embedding, so...

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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-24 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 73 481 11535 4.17% Total Seats Sold Today: 2 Comp 0.333x of Sing 2 T-24 (3.24M) 2.764x of Sonic 2 T-24 (17.28M) 12.658x of Minions 2 T-24 (136.07M)

Avatar: The Way of Water Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-18 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 152 1545 26516 5.83% Total Seats Sold Today: 76 Comp 2.619x of F9 T-18 (18.59M) 3.585x of No Time to Die T-18 (22.58M) 1.408x of Top Gun 2 T-18 (27.12M) 1.045x of Jurassic World 3 T-18 (18.82M)

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Not speaking for everybody, but my predictions for Indiana Jones doing 500M is not a case of "oh it has to save theaters" or that because TGM did it. It just has a lot of strong factors behind it. It's Harrison Ford back in his most iconic role, a strong creative team, a solid pre-Fourth of July release date, nostalgia towards a super iconic IP, the Disney machine behind it, and the whole "oh noes Crystal Skull was bad" argument doesn't hold any water because there's been a long gap between installments. It'll be 15 years since that last movie. That's certainly enough time for people to have the bad taste out of their mouth and for a new nostalgia cycle to start again. If Force Awakens can get to nearly a billion despite the prequel trilogy backlash, I think 500M isn't a tall order. And hey, even if it just does ~450M, I'll also be a super happy camper.

I know ERC sucks, but they had the perfect strategy when it came to making movies play longer. Keep films at their normal price, and then after like they drop down a certain threshold, move the price down to $3-5 a ticket. You keep the premium prices for people who will see a movie right away, it helps boost attendance for films, improves legs, and the longer a movie plays is when the theaters get a bigger share anyways, so it's not like the studios are missing much from the ticket price downgrade. It also helps incentivize buying concessions since the prices are lower. Seems like the perfect solution.

Okay.

Quorum Updates M3gan T-44: 34.36% Awareness, 5.9 Interest A Good Person T-121: 16.23%, 5.38 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret T-156: 12.85%, 4.61 Violent Night T-9: 39.75% Awareness, 5.93 Interest Final General Awareness: 42% chance of 10M, 4% chance of 20M General Interest: 100% chance of 10M, 80% chance of 20M Original - Low Awareness: 75% chance of 5M, 42% chance of 10M Original - Low Interest: 80% chance of 5M, 40% chance of 10M Babylon T-37: 25.59% Awareness, 5.15 Interest T-30 General Awareness: 58% chance of 10M, 25% chance of 20M General Interest: 61% chance of 10M, 35% chance of 20M Original - High Awareness: 67% chance of 10M, 50% chance of 20M Original - High Interest: 50% chance of 10M, 17% chance of 20M

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When I saw Dune, there was a whole group of 14-year-olds who were clearly only there to see Timothee and Zendaya, since that was all they ever talked about before the movie started. I don't know how they felt about the movie, but they were probably upset Zendaya was only in the film for 15 minutes lmao

Well I have tons of faith in Indy being good. There's way too many talented people behind and in front of the camera and way too much pressure for this not to be another Crystal Skull that it will at least be a fun time. Plus unlike the usual "it's a finale but not really because the franchise will come back again" (Guardians 3 and F9 will do the whole "end of an era" thing, which will be hilarious in about 8 years), they are dead set on this being the final movie and Ford's last rendition of the character. That's already an amazing hook that will get even skeptics willing to come out.

I think it's that main character change that will be the impetus for its success. Halle's casting is infinitely more interesting than if they got Sadie Sink or whoever. It's an exciting change that keeps this movie fresh, but not too different since we're getting the original songs and storyline, and it's exciting for a demographic that don't normally see themselves in this kind of role. Before Little Mermaid, the last Black princess story we got was Princess and the Frog and before that...that Cinderella TV movie with Brandy. This has been long overdue and will get people in seats. I am beyond tired of these stupid remakes and even I'm probably going to catch Little Mermaid just because I want to see Halle pull it off and support her work. And judging by some of The Quorum's metrics and reactions from some friends, that teaser trailer really started this movie on the right foot. Things are shaping up great for the movie IMO.