Eric Prime

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%)

Early Access. Like preview shows a couple days before Thursday

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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.

@WrathOfHan @Blankments Guess it's my turn for the trailer stuff 10x: Nope: The Batman, X, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Men, Top Gun: Maverick, Crimes of the Future, The Black Phone, Thor: Love and Thunder 8x: DC League of Super Pets: King Richard, The Batman, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, The Bad Guys, Lightyear, Mr. Malcolm's List, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On 5x: Bullet Train: The Batman, Ambulance, The Northman, Men, The Bob's Burgers Movie Black Adam: Uncharted, The Batman, The Phantom of the Open, Elvis, Thor: Love and Thunder 4x: Don't Worry Darling: Elvis, The Black Phone, Nope, Where the Crawdads Sing Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: Dog, Uncharted, The Guide, RRR 3x: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris: Phantom of the Open, Elvis, Lost Illusions Bodies Bodies Bodies: Men, The Black Phone, Nope E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Thor: Love and Thunder, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Vengeance The Invitation: The Black Phone, Vengeance, Where the Crawdads Sing Moonage Daydream: Top Gun: Maverick, Crimes of the Future, The Black Phone Strange World: Lightyear, Thor: Love and Thunder, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: The Bad Guys, Lightyear, Marcel the Shell 2x: Fire of Love: Crimes of the Future, Mr. Malcolm's List Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank: Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Top Gun: Maverick Where the Crawdads Sing: Elvis, Lost Illusions Marcel the Shell with Shoes On: Everything Everywhere All at Once, Men Mack and Rita: Elvis, Where the Crawdads Sing Beast: The Black Phone, Nope The Woman King: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, Where the Crawdads Sing Ticket to Paradise: Mr. Malcolm's List, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris Avatar: The Way of Water: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Thor: Love and Thunder Aquaman: The Lost Kingdom: Uncharted, The Batman The Flash: Uncharted, The Batman The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: Lightyear, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris 1x:

RT Verified Aud Scores as of now: Bullet Train: 83% Easter Sunday: 72% Bodies Bodies Bodies: 86% BT's not looking good, but things are so dead that it's not end of the world stuff in terms of legs I guess. LMFAO @ Easter Sunday though

I mean most of the big CEOs and studio heads are center-right, and it doesn't really impact their film slate which is largely aimed center-left. I doubt he'll cancel any "woke content", since center-left media is where the money is.

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Easter Sunday Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 48 89 5951 1.50% Total Seats Sold Today: 45 Comp 0.127x of Free Guy (280K) 0.128x of Jackass Forever (211K) 0.585x of Marry Me (307K) 0.087x of The Lost City (283K) 0.214x of Unbearable Weight (179K) 0.154x of The Bob's Burgers Movie (232K) Who cares lol

Bullet Train Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 100 1752 19475 9.00% Total Seats Sold Today: 620 Comp 2.687x of Snake Eyes (3.76M) 0.862x of The Suicide Squad (3.53M) 2.503x of Free Guy (5.51M) 0.602x of No Time to Die (3.79M) 0.750x of Dune (3.82M) 1.269x of Uncharted (4.69M) 1.714x of The Lost City (5.57M) 0.744x of Fantastic Beasts 3 (4.46M) 0.341x of Top Gun 2 (6.56M) 0.278x of Jurassic World 3 (5.01M) 1.631x of Elvis (5.71M) So...we should hopefully get something in the high 3s? That would still make 30M+ possible in that scenario.

Honestly I think copying Marvel, even if it stumbled previously, makes a good amount of sense. The way the MCU is run is far from perfect, but fans are still "forced" (yes I know some people don’t watch every movie) to see movies and characters they may not care about to follow what’s going on and there’s all these fun and exciting teases for the big crossover event that gets you invested in the whole piece, even when there is a crummy film here and there. People love crossovers and characters popping up in cameos and stuff (Smash Bros. and Multiversus show that). It can be annoying and cynical for sure, especially with the Disney+ shows now part of the homework and the MCU’s recent hiccups with their movies, but it clearly works. Now, each DC character/franchise basically has their own little universe, which in turn means their own fanbase. Which is kind of true of the MCU granted, but the broad DCEU fandom that watches everything isn’t really that potent and I don’t really see much of an intersection from fanbase to fanbase. I’m not saying they have to restore the Snyderverse or whatever, and standalone stuff like Joker obviously works, but there’s also demand and interest in seeing shared universes that feel like a universe and have characters crossover and pop up during certain adventures. So DC going stand-alone with their characters, putting them in their own little sandboxes, and not having something exciting to build up towards feels like a huge missed opportunity they are wasting on. It says a lot that during the Black Adam Comic-Con panel, there was way more excitement over the idea of Henry Cavill appearing as Superman in the Black Adam movie than anything that was revealed in the Black Adam movie itself. And I don’t think this is just a “Twitter bubble” or “Snyder cult” thing.