Eric Prime

This has been up for two hours and nobody bothered to put up the new trailer here. Huh.

Moderation Not the Beer Run thread. Take it to its proper location

Tracking three movies for the long haul at once? We're truly back in business baby!

Smile Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-3 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 32 318 5428 5.86% Comp 4.818x of The Forever Purge T-3 (6.41M) 3.383x of Escape Room 2 T-3 (4.06M) 2.355x of Old T-3 (3.53M) 0.298x of Halloween Kills T-3 (1.44M) 0.398x of Scream T-3 (1.39M) 0.855x of The Black Phone T-3 (2.56M)

Bros Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-3 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 33 38 3897 0.98% Comp 0.245x of Free Guy T-3 (539K) 0.257x of Dear Evan Hansen T-3 (205K) 0.268x of West Side Story T-3 (214K) 0.594x of Marry Me T-3 (312K) 0.195x of Dog T-3 (245K) 0.073x of The Lost City T-3 (238K) 0.197x of Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent T-3 (164K) 0.070x of Elvis T-3 (246K) 0.196x of Crawdads T-3 (450K) 1.583x of Easter Sunday T-3 (792K) And I oop-- At least Ticket to Paradise will (hopefully) do better

Quorum Updates The Good House T-3: 19.13% Awareness, 4.52 Interest Tar T-25: 9.71%, 4.03 The Whale T-74: 23.03%, 5.05 Babylon T-102: 17.71%, 5.12 Knock at the Cabin T-130: 19.56%, 5.59 Bros T-3: 31.38% Awareness, 4.74 Interest Comps (All Final): Dear Evan Hansen w/ 31.52% Awareness & 4.92 Interest, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent w/ 33% & 5.04, Where the Crawdads Sing w/ 32.67% & 5.42, Easter Sunday w/ 26.34% & 4.64, Don't Worry Darling w/ 32.02% & 5.17 *Note the Final number for Bros is subject to change in the coming days* Final General Awareness: 28% chance of double-digit opening General Interest: 26% chance of double-digit opening Original - Low Awareness: 82% chance of over 5M, 45% over 10M Original - Low Interest: 28% chance of over 5M Smile T-3: 37.09% Awareness, 5.66 Interest Comps (All Final): Old w/ 34.26% Awareness & 5.62 Interest, Candyman 38.61% & 4.67, The Black Phone w/ 40% & 5.94, Nope w/ 44.26% & 6.08 *Note the Final number for Smile is subject to change in the coming days* Final General Awareness: 28% chance of double-digit opening General Interest: 88% chance of double-digit opening, 76% over 20M Horror Awareness: 78% chance of double-digit opening, 55% over 20M Horror Interest: 100% chance of double-digit opening, 75% over 20M

...I'm an exception right?

Because it's a good movie on its own. A good movie doesn't need 3D or IMAX or Dolby or whatever to be enjoyable. If it does need those bells and whistles, then the movie doesn't hold up as its own individual experience and won't be well-remembered or liked. I first saw Avatar in 2D and I still loved the movie because it's a really fun, exciting, and engaging action-adventure film. It is in fact possible to like Avatar without those 3D bells and whistles. Frankly, I would be concerned if that wasn't the case.

Kind of right. The bigger issue is less Avatar and more Avatar swallowing up all the PLFs, so any other big movie would get the scraps. IMAX and Dolby is more important than ever and it's tricky for another movie to get into that headway when there's another movie that's going to dominate in those areas. Matrix Resurrections had a million things going against it, but coming out days after Spider-Man meant it got the short end of the stick for the premium screens, only getting like one or two a day while Spider-Man gobbled up everything else. You can argue Bumblebee, which was still a great success, had that issue too because of Aquaman. Moving Shazam out of Christmas was the right call, since it would probably suffer big time from the lack of IMAX and Dolby and 4DX. Everything else out this season are movies that people don't search for premium screens. The only ones that will maybe get a Dolby or 4DX in the early morning are Puss in Boots and I Wanna Dance With Somebody, and those movies have an audience that usually doesn't go for the premium screens.

Well...sucks to be them.

Well, we're fucked. My deepest apologies to all our Italian members here.

Actually it might be Smile after all. Never mind

It's a line from the movie. You'll get it when you see it

What up, f***ot?

The whole structure of the movie didn’t do anything for me. Has the issue anthology films usually have where some stories are dull and go on too long, or are engaging but don’t go on long enough. Then the final third goes into a random story detour and it’s like…why did I watch this? Oh well.

That…makes tons of sense after seeing it

Not sure concept does anything. Beast and Moonfall and Northman opened to no1curr numbers, below most of the other ones you mentioned, and they had no big draws behind it, director or actor (for the record, I love all the stars in those movies, this is not a diss). That means something

Okay

Because there’s no big movie star in the center. The original movies/movies that don’t have a big IP attached to them that have opened huge all have big actors in the front and center. You could also make the argument for stuff like Woman King and even Crawdads (Reese Witherspoon got more promo as a producer than the actors in the movie), though those movies obviously didn’t have the openings of something like Bullet Train or Lost City. If Ryan Reynolds or Kevin Hart was the star or played Eichner’s co-lead, this would have cleared 15M+. Maybe even 20M. Sad but true

Some of the framerate stuff worked, other parts looked like the movie was on fast forward. Little annoying