Eric Prime

Very hard to find other reactions, because this title is not easy to search for on Twitter.

Deadline top 10 I know Woman King is doing objectively good and fine, but it feels like its holds are just kinda standard for a well-reviewed awards contender and not really as exciting as the A+ Cinemascore once indicated. Am I expecting too much maybe?

My submission and FYC

https://deadline.com/2022/10/box-office-smile-dont-worry-darling-harry-styles-1235131625/ lmao Black Panther's gonna open to 19M at this rate

BROS (2022)

Black Adam Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-20 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 87 443 18174 2.44% Total Seats Sold Today: 107 Comp 0.831x of F9 T-20 (5.9M) 0.302x of Black Widow T-20 (3.98M) 2.332x of The Suicide Squad T-20 (9.56M) 1.266x of Venom 2 T-20 (14.68M) 1.367x of No Time to Die T-20 (8.61M) 0.388x of Eternals T-20 (3.68M) 0.111x of The Batman T-20 (2.39M) 0.488x of Top Gun 2 T-20 (9.4M) 0.312x of Jurassic World 3 T-20 (5.63M)

Halloween Ends Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-13 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 65 522 13263 3.94% Total Seats Sold Today: 51 Comp 1.298x of A Quiet Place Part II Thu+Fri T-13 (25.15M) 6.214x of The Conjuring 3 T-13 (60.93M) 1.844x of Halloween Kills T-13 (8.94M) 1.757x of Scream T-13 (6.15M)

SMILE (2022)

Honestly the film felt pretty overshadowed by everything else at TIFF that it was hard to take advantage of the festival hype. Stuff like Glass Onion and Fabelmans had their big premieres that distracted Film/Awards Twitter, and it also premiered the same time as The Woman King, which had way more hype and excitement at this point in time. Was honestly kinda worthless in hindsight

I will say that while I am very interested in Bros and think it looks very funny, I do think that the whole "groundbreaking" thing Eichner's touting in the press for this movie rings pretty hollow IMO. The movie's pushing itself as "the first major gay romcom ever", but that just reeks of "Disney's first gay character" syndrome to this bi boy. Maybe if we haven't gotten any major gay comedies since The Birdcage, I could understand the "groundbreaking" hype. But Love, Simon came out only a few years ago. Blockers featured a girl coming to terms with her sexuality as a major plot point. Netflix and Hulu have stuff like The Prom and Single All the Way and Happiest Season and Fire Island. And yeah I know that the kid playing Simon was straight and those other movies are "streaming movies", and that what Bros did was legit unique and special in terms of casting out actors and having a theatrical release...but I don't think this kind of stuff really matters to even the demographic it's representing. This just looks and feels no different to stuff that's already on streaming at first glance and what seems unique and special in terms of representation isn't even all that enticing to the demo being represented. It's like they are moving the goalposts to make this feel more "one of a kind" instead of simply letting the movie speak for itself. A pity it's hurting a good-looking movie like Bros nevertheless.

Me. I was interested in it.

Y'all don't listen to Coldplay?

I think your Twitter is cool.

lmao

These services need big premiere movies too to get people to sign up too (I don't care if "everybody forgets they exist". Tell them that, not me). And that exclusivity, not getting it anywhere else, sounds very attractive. Simple as that. Put them at a loss and assume these movies will either gain subscribers or at least retain them. And in Hocus Pocus 2's case at least, they can still make money off merchandise and even a potential home video/cable release down the road, which Disney has done before with some of their Disney+ content. Plus these services don't have to worry about backend deals with a streaming release, since there's no box office. Not paying for box office milestones or any other kinds of residuals is a very nice bonus.

I'd argue HP2 would have easily passed the century mark. Maybe even to like 130M. The Quorum's Awareness and Interest was sky high and both Disney+ and Disney's own marketing push (they have Minnie, Daisy and Clarabelle dressed up like the Sanderson sisters this year at the Parks, Hocus Pocus merch has been all over the place since like 2020) has helped elevate the first movie from a cult hit to a legit franchise a la Nightmare Before Christmas. It's a real missed opportunity, but I guess Disney didn't realize what could have been when they greenlit the film way back when.

What the mother father cocker spaniel are you talking about????

https://deadline.com/2022/09/box-office-smile-dont-worry-darling-harry-styles-1235131625/

https://deadline.com/2022/09/box-office-smile-dont-worry-darling-harry-styles-1235131625/ Bros got 500K in previews. Oh well.