Eric Prime

Top Gun had huge Tuesday and Wednesday shows to add on to the Thursday preview. Deadline claims Dominion had the same thing, but none of us trackers noticed them, so their impact is probably super minimal. Huge difference

https://deadline.com/2022/06/jurassic-world-dominion-box-office-1235042811/ Anybody know what they're talking about with stunt previews. I don't remember anything about previews from before Thursday.

https://deadline.com/2022/06/jurassic-world-dominion-box-office-1235042811/ Wait...what stunt previews?

Nope Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-42 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 50 79 11053 0.71% Don't have comps out this early, and even the usual horror comps I would use don't work with Philly's demographics. But might as well keep these up for posterity's sake.

Minions: The Rise of Gru Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-21 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 120 47 26275 0.18% Total Seats Sold Today: 0 Comp 0.149x of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 T-21 (929K)

Lightyear Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-7 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 102 299 19172 1.56% Total Seats Sold Today: 38 Comp 3.322x of Jungle Cruise T-7 (8.97M) 3.602x of Encanto T-7 (5.4M) 0.373x of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 T-7 (2.33M)

F9 skews way more towards nonwhite viewers, while Top Gun skews way more to white viewers. Only 45% of Philly citizens are white. Boom.

Jurassic World: Dominion Greater Philadelphia Area Final Seat Report Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 156 6289 26260 23.95% Total Seats Sold Today: 2,126 Comp 1.387x of F9 (9.85M) 1.201x of Venom 2 (13.93M) 2.161x of No Time to Die (13.61M) 1.223x of Top Gun 2 (23.56M) I feel like it's underindexing here compared to other regions (though I only just scanned other people's data), so I won't go 13M here. Probably boost it up about 2-3M at about 16M? Let's just say it's that.

Moderation Not the Star Wars thread

https://deadline.com/2022/06/marvels-thunderbolts-jake-schreier-1235041619/

I thought I was the most beautiful man in existence 😢

Gotta do it for the Vine.

This it?

"Disney100 kicks off at D23 Expo on Friday, September 9, at 10:30 a.m. with an epic presentation that includes the Disney Legends Awards Ceremony, featuring Disney CEO Bob Chapek." This fool's gonna be booed to death and it'll be hilarious lmao. Can't wait to see him surrounded by like 10 bodyguards when he steps up to the podium.

Probably not, no. We do have the Review That Movie thread up though.

Speaking of Top Gun, it's likely to finally topple Titanic for the biggest Paramount movie ever with a 25-year streak behind it. It made me want to look at all the other studios and their biggest movies and see what coming down the pipeline has a shot. Disney: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (936.6M) WB: The Dark Knight (533.7M) Universal: Jurassic World (652.3M) Sony: Spider-Man: No Way Home (804.6M) Paramount: Titanic (659.4M) Lionsgate: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (424.7M) Paramount’s gonna get it through Top Gun, unless I suddenly jinx it, so we’re good there. We’re probably not getting anything from Sony that will be on this level for a long time. Probably not until they reboot Spider-Man yet again and fortysomething Tom Holland is forced back into the role next to some new whippersnapper. Universal’s also probably going to have Jurassic World as their biggest for a long while. Maybe Shrek 5 if it’s really, really good, but that’s a real “everything has to go right” situation. I guess the next Jurassic movie could do it if they get a really strong hook or concept, but I don't know what else they can use. Weirdly Disney feels like the strongest candidate with all those Avatar sequels, even though they’re way above everybody else. I think at least one could get to 1B domestically. Maybe even Way of Water, who knows? For Warner, the inevitable Harry Potter 9 should cross this, but that’s probably not happening for a while. I feel like people will shout for The Batman 2, but that seems more like a 400M range grosser IMO. And for Lionsgate...umm...a Twilight legacyquel? The Twilight renaissance has died down a ton, but Pats and Stewart are bigger than ever, so you never know...I guess.

I gave you a "haha" so now things are an even 3 with all three reactions

This is the funniest thing I've ever seen. They need to turn this into a movie lmao

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Wanna play this game? Fine. Legends of the Fall made $161 million off a $30 million budget, despite mixed reception. Seven did $327 million off a $33 million. The Mexican earned $148 million off a $57 million budget, despite mixed reception. Troy made nearly $500 million, ranking in the top 10 of that year, all off a $175-185 million budget, 2.7 times the high-end budget. Babel did $135 million off a $25 million budget, and earned tons of Oscar noms and a Golden Globe win, meaning it probably did very well in the ancillary market after the fact. Inglorious Basterds made $321 million worldwide and was far and away Tarantino's biggest movie ever on its release. Benjamin Button did $336 million off a $167 million budget and earned tons of Oscar love. Moneyball did $110.2 million. While barely double its $50 million budget, it still had tons of Oscar love, and judging by how it's always on cable and streaming on Netflix, I'm sure it made a pretty penny in the ancillary market. World War Z's probably up in the air because of how huge the budget was, but $540 million is a lot of money and Paramount was willing to make a sequel until it didn't happen. Fury did $212 million off a high-end $80 million budget. Can you argue that some of these movies weren't huge success stories? Sure. Can you argue some of these movies got help from Oscar buzz or for its genre or for its source material? You can make that argument. Is he as consistent as his contemporaries like Bullock or Will Smith or DiCaprio or The Rock? No. But these movies were all successes at the end of the day, likely still rake in plenty of money in the ancillary market, and all emphasized Pitt's presence and starpower in some considerable way. And even ensemble pieces or movies where he was opposite a major star, like the Ocean's series or Mr. & Mrs. Smith or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood or The Big Short all emphasized Pitt in the advertising and publicity. Saying he isn't a movie star or a draw at all and that he can't sell a movie on his own just doesn't hold much water. And if you want to say something like "Basterds had Tarantino! Troy was aping Gladiator! Fury didn't make as much as Dunkirk!", I can do the exact same thing with Jolie and her hits. The Bone Collector had Denzel. Gone in 60 Seconds was helped by Nicolas Cage. The Tomb Raider movies were based on an iconic video game series at its absolute all-time peak of popularity. The Kung Fu Panda movies are Jack Black vehicles and helped by the Dreamworks name. The Tourist had Johnny Depp. Maleficent is based off an iconic Disney movie. Eternals is a Marvel joint. She does have Wanted and Salt however, which were both giant names solely sold off her personality, so good on her there. (Aside, I'm not dissing Jolie nor her starpower. It's clear she was an important part of many of these movies and their hype. I'm just showing how ridiculous this all is) If you don't like Brad Pitt, that's more than fine. I don't really care for him as a person either. But rewriting history like this and doing this incessant concern trolling over this movie isn't going to make things better. If anything, it makes your disliking of him look unfounded and petty. And I suggest you quit this act, and perhaps avoid the Bullet Train thread altogether, because the next time you screw up, you're seeing a threadban. Your choice bucko.