Eric Prime

I mean...feel like this summer has been no different than any of the more recent summers? Feel like there's also a good amount more success stories than you are making out here.

https://deadline.com/2022/08/box-office-bullet-train-1235085890/

That's gonna open to like 15M bro. Beast will open higher than that. Yeah you made the right call. It felt like the movie went on for an eternity with random characters and subplots popping up every other second. Doesn't help that Brad Pitt is basically trying to do Ryan Reynolds schtick and he's really bad at doing Ryan Reynolds schtick. At 90 minutes, it still wouldn't have been great, but it would have been way better as a brainless action movie.

Screw it, full top 10: 1. Indiana Jones 5: 455M 2. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3: 430M 3. Little Mermaid: 340M 4. Ant-Man 3: 325M 5. The Marvels: 305M 6. Dune Part Two: 300M (fuck y'all) 7. Barbie: 300M 8. Mario: 280M 9. Blade: 275M 10. Across the Spider-Verse: 250M

Guardians 3 will be a major challenge, but I think Indiana Jones will win the year. Could even hit 500M if everything goes right, but I'll be more conservative around the 450M range.

Praying the film gets a good PTA this weekend and buzz to follow. I really wanted Marcel the Shell to be another breakout for A24, but that sadly didn't happen. Plus Amandla Stenberg deserves a win after all the flop projects she was given.

Throughout this whole movie, I was saying to myself, "Brad Pitt is so miscast. He can't do this obvious Ryan Reynolds schtick. Why didn't they get Ryan Reynolds in this? They're copying his schtick, so just let him do the schtick he does so well." Then he popped up in a random 3-second cameo. Took me by surprise...but also made me even more confused why they just didn't have Ryan Reynolds in this movie. Anyways, the whole film should have been about Tangerine and Lemon. They carried this whole movie on their backs.

Bullet Train was alright. Its biggest flaw really is that 2-hour runtime. There are still many other problems that would hold it back from greatness, but a 90-minute runtime would have made the film way easier to follow, and way less overbearing. It was right there to make it an easier crowdpleaser but Leitch just didn't do it. It's weird.

Dude, you know this is the equivalent of Deadline's early Friday #s, right?

also thomas and the magic railroad

Obviously I love Shawn's numbers, but these are no different from the usual Deadline midday results. He shared these during Minions 2's weekend and projected a 42M OD, which then resulted in a 48M OD. Same thing with the holdovers apart from Elvis. Don't take these numbers as gospel just yet.

Holdover Projections Super Pets: 12.5M (-43%) Nope: 7.5M (-60%) Thor: 6.9M (haha) (-48%) Minions: 6.8M (-40%)

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Should get to about 10.8M second weekend (-53%) with that Thursday. Meh!

mid-80s for an Audience RT score usually indicates a B Cinemascore. Which isn't great optics, especially for what was probably designed as a big crowdpleaser. But again, a dead August will probably help it and it's not so bad that it's end of the world stuff.

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