Eric Prime

Moderation Look, I know the Roe v Wade stuff is super important and we all have strong emotional thoughts about it. But it's veering away into severe off-topic territory and nothing to do with box office. So unless you want to talk about the Supreme Court ruling in the context of the box office (and even then, do you have to? Will the universe explode if you don't?), take it over to the Politics subforum. We're done here.

Not gonna speak for others, but my argument for this movie wasn't that Elvis was unknown or irrelevant, nor that he doesn't have fans, but that young people don't really care about him in the same way. This is obviously anecdotal, but I'm 24 and I don't see people my age talk about or treat Elvis in this revered light compared to Queen or even The Beatles. If anything, my main exposure to Elvis growing up were parodies and goofy jokes about him on kids shows. I think every Disney sitcom I watched growing up had a joke about Elvis or a character dressing up like Elvis. Not really something to be proud of. It's different from the NWA or Queen movies, which brought in a lot of young people, because people like Ice Cube and Dr. Dre are still active in the business, Queen still tours with Adam Lambert, and Freddie Mercury is still a legend to my LGBT friends. Queen and NWA are still big with younger viewers, which allowed those movies to open so much higher compared to most music biopics. That's why Rocketman opened so much lower, because Elton, who is one of my favorite people ever, doesn't really matter to your average 20something, unless you're really into music. And honestly, while its ~35M opening is an objectively strong result, way better than Rocketman's, and shows Elvis' reach and power, it's still not near the Bohemian/Compton level opening that showed those movies as 4-quad hits.

Nah, protests don't impact moviegoing at all. Even if it does disrupt it for a few people, they'll just go the next day.

Honestly I wish more franchises do what James Bond does and just have unrelated titles from movie to movie. Where if you just heard the titles on their own, you would have no clue it was based on a popular movie series. I get that Bond's been around a lot longer and it's tradition for them, but it would be dope if another series did the same thing.

This, Lightyear, and the Fantastic Beasts series will be absolutely fascinating to dissect 15 years from now. All of these movies are weird spin-offs to established and iconic franchises, have little to do with the style, tone, and characters people know and love from the original source material, and even the fans don't care about these movies, while the original source material will still be ludicrously successful and profitable long after we are dead. In the end, they would have done just as well, if not better, if they were just original stories that had nothing to do with any established IP, but they had to be loosely connected to a popular IP, because IP is the only reason a movie can get made in our risk-averse capitalist hellscape we now call Hollywood. It's late-stage capitalism killing art personified in the worst possible way.

Okay. Moderation @CJohn your "theaters are dead" schtick is annoying others. Please do not do it again.

Moderation @CJohn @EmpireCity We have Ignore functionalities, where you no longer have to see posts from certain users if you prefer not seeing it. Please use them on each other if you are so bothered or offended by each other's posts, because getting into these fights every week isn't productive and is extremely tiring. EDIT: @Cmasterclay Dang, maybe your "Actually a Mod" title is accurate after all

I can't believe Avatar 3 will be banned in America for its pro-environmental message. How will it make 5B worldwide now????

I don't usually go to movies on Friday night, but I'm now contemplating catching a movie tonight just so I can have an excuse to turn off my phone for three hours and not doomscroll over the world ending. Don't know what to watch exactly though. I already have plans for Elvis tomorrow with my mom, I don't like evening horror shows, so I'm waiting until Sunday afternoon for Black Phone, and Top Gun, while super super good, is way too propaganda-ish for my tastes to watch tonight. I guess I'll go with...*checks notes*...Phantom of the Open? I would die for Sally Hawkins, so I guess that'll work?

FWIW, Candyman had the same 17-day window, and it dropped 26% on the weekend it was available to watch at home. The following weekend it fell 27%, and while it dropped 50% after that, that can be attributed more to Venom's opening and a 30% slash in theaters. I don't think Black Phone will have holds this good, especially since Candyman also benefited from zero movies out, but I feel confident in attributing the "bigger" drops more to heavier competition than PVOD

From Universal. Movies that open below 50M get onto PVOD in 17 days. But I think CJohn has nothing to worry about, since PVOD doesn't really impact legs at all

There a reason why Elvis doesn't have an Audience Score on RT yet? It's more than clear that there are enough rating submitted that we would have had something by now, but it's still not there. As an aside, holy cow Black Phone with the 92% Verified score. An A- Cinemascore like Get Out probably won't happen, but fingers crossed!

Maybe Elvis wasn't actually the King after all 🤔

https://www.boxofficepro.com/long-range-box-office-forecast-jordan-peeles-nope/ Long Range Box Office Forecast & 2022’s Upcoming Calendar (as of 6/23/22) Release Date Title 3-Day (FSS) Opening Low/High Range Pinpoint % Chg from Last Week Domestic Total Low/High Range Pinpoint % Chg from Last Week Distributor 7/1/2022 Minions: The Rise of Gru $65,000,000 – $77,000,000 $195,000,000 – $260,000,000 Universal Pictures 7/8/2022 Thor: Love and Thunder $145,000,000 – $190,000,000 -4% $327,000,000 – $459,000,000 -4% Disney / Marvel Studios 7/15/2022 Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris Focus Features 7/15/2022 Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank $9,000,000 – $14,000,000 $28,000,000 – $45,000,000 Paramount Pictures 7/15/2022 Where the Crawdads Sing $17,000,000 – $26,000,000 $48,000,000 – $85,000,000 Sony / 3000 Pictures 7/22/2022 Nope $45,000,000 – $65,000,000 $110,000,000 – $190,000,000 Universal Pictures

One day these "lol X director doesn't actually exist" posts will die and I will finally find peace in my life.

Nope Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-28 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 60 177 12440 1.42% Total Seats Sold Today: 14

Thor: Love and Thunder Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-14 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 185 5359 34527 15.52% Total Seats Sold Today: 175 Comp 0.377x of Spider-Man: No Way Home T-14 (18.87M) 1.101x of The Batman T-14 (23.79M) 0.558x of Doctor Strange 2 T-14 (20.08M)

Minions: The Rise of Gru Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-7 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 125 316 27571 1.15% Total Seats Sold Today: 63 Comp 3.511x of Jungle Cruise T-7 (9.48M) 0.394x of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 T-7 (2.46M) 1.057x of Lightyear T-7 (5.5M)

We're truly living in a simulation