Eric Prime

You’re a good number

Honey go to bed. It's just a movie.

To distract from the Charlie/RTH calls... Daily Domestic Chart for Thursday December 16, 2021 Movie Distr Gross %YD %LW Thr Per Thr Total Gross D - P Spider-Man: No Way Home Sony Pictures $50,000,000 3,767 $13,273 $50,000,000 1 (2) Encanto Walt Disney $734,586 -6% -9% 3,750 $196 $75,016,607 23 2 (1) West Side Story 20th Century… $705,047 -27% 2,820 $250 $14,566,021 7 3 (3) House of Gucci United Artists $391,840 -21% -43% 3,407 $115 $43,031,865 23 4 (4) Ghostbusters: Afterlife Sony Pictures $331,530 -30% -44% 3,815 $87 $113,849,884 28 5 (5) Eternals Walt Disney $195,053 -37% -44% 3,030 $64 $162,406,293 42 6 (7) Clifford the Big Red Dog Paramount Pi… $96,325 -24% -26% 2,840 $34 $48,186,025 37 7 (8) Dune Warner Bros. $56,753 -53% 948 $60 $106,628,486 56 8 (6) Resident Evil: Welcome to… Sony Pictures $52,176 -69% -76% 2,572 $20 $16,452,990 23 9 (11) Belfast Focus Features $35,785 -24% -53% 819 $44 $6,672,260 35 10 (9) No Time to Die United Artists $34,643 -50% -67% 777 $45 $160,772,007 70 11 (-) The French Dispatch Searchlight … $26,792 -26% -51% 310 $86 $15,693,160 56 12 (-) Licorice Pizza United Artists $23,166 -14% -33% 4 $5,792 $1,201,007 21 - (12) King Richard Warner Bros. $21,015 -55% 1,402 $15 $14,606,901 28 - (10) Venom: Let There be Carnage Sony Pictures $20,854 -68% -72% 1,003 $21 $212,193,049 77 - (-) National Champions STX Entertai… $12,648 -58% 1,197 $11 $420,674 7 - (-) Spencer Neon $7,408 -37% -59% 228 $32 $7,064,193 42 - (-) Benedetta IFC Films $6,809 -31% -61% 123 $55 $306,392 14 - (-) Ron’s Gone Wrong 20th Century… $3,431 -9% -53% 210 $16 $22,979,592 56 - (-) Tadap 20th Century… $1,353 -68% -75% 50 $27 $130,934 14 - (-) Wolf Focus Features $1,045 -65% -86% 206 $5 $147,595 14 - (-) Flee Neon $977 -16% -23% 4 $244 $42,887 14 - (-) Antlers Searchlight … $735 -59% -85% 145 $5 $10,619,670 49 - (-) For the Love of Money Freestyle Re… $660 -65% -83% 79 $8 $472,094 23 - (-) The Addams Family 2 United Artists $619 +1% -51% 46 $13 $56,489,153 77 - (-) Halloween Kills Universal $540 -31% -49% 120 $5 $92,002,155 63 26 $52,761,790 LOL at Encanto with the one great hold of the bunch. Good for that film I suppose.

Guys let Charlie live his life Jeez Louise

I'm slowly starting to come to the realization that Downey and Evans will probably get the Cushing Rogue One treatment in a few decades with these movies and I am utterly terrified of that idea.

This reminds me of when I was in grade school, whenever it was Halloween and the kids all dressed up in their costumes, there was always like three or four kids dressed up as Ghostface. And I still have no idea why we as kids latched onto the guy, nor why these kids' parents would allow them to dress as him.

...does it matter?

The-Numbers have them available. Kind of annoying that 20th Century is listed separately than Disney, but it is there. https://www.the-numbers.com/market/2021/distributors Disregarding the Omnicron stuff, I'm not sure why people are so down on Morbius. Even with it having Leto and a Z-List character, it's still a part of Marvel and delivers the corny 2000s blockbuster aesthetic that made Venom so popular. I would think 40M would be the minimum here (again, disregarding Omnicron)

GIVE THEM SPIELBERG YOU COWARDS

But I mean still, we need @The Panda to deliver the goods.

https://deadline.com/2021/12/spider-man-no-way-home-opening-weekend-international-box-office-1234891616/

@The Panda You need to give us the goods.

For the record, this is very grain of salt and based on my own weird extrapolations: Tron Legacy's 25th was a 36% jump from the 22nd. Using that would mean 10M to 13.6M. Matrix will have a huge fan rush and likely have mixed WOM/repeat viewing on Max, so I feel that sounds about right? Maybe a little higher near 14M? Could also just be that Matrix is just frontloaded due to reception and HBO Max and it has a poor Christmas Day number. Sing 2 though could probably go from 10M to 15-17M or something

I'm saying this as somebody who doesn't watch TV or sports, so my point is kind of meaningless, but Sing 2 is definitely the movie I've seen the most ads for out in the wild apart from Spidey. The Regal near me has it as their big tie-in with their holiday gift card promos and I've gotten the trailer for it several times over the past month or so (better than The 355/Jackass, getting those trailers constantly were the worst), and the promo spend on TV, albeit on NBC where there's an excuse, is pretty strong. I was even at New York last month, and the FAO Schwarz right next to Rockefeller was bombarded with Sing 2 posters and cutouts of the characters. Along with the really good sales for Philly, if it wasn't for kids and families not heading out to theaters this year, I would probably go for over SLOP 2, but it probably won't be that far behind it.

I know I'll get bombarded by some of our usual theatrical diehards for saying this, but this whole "theatrical is totes alive and streaming is evil and bad and nobody likes it" mantra that Deadline and other trades did this past year reeks of insecurity.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't see this huge market for people going out to the theaters to see a TV show specifically. If you want to watch Boba Fett or Hawkeye or Stranger Things or Game of Thrones, chances are you already own Disney+/Netflix/HBO. So outside of diehard fans, wouldn't most people just choose to watch it at home free with their subscription than leaving their homes and paying 15 bucks on the big screen?

Sing 2 Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-6 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 1 91 2135 15698 12.76% Total Seats Sold Today: 132 Total Seats WITHOUT EARLY ACCESS: 727 Comp (WITHOUT Early Access) 2.164x of Cruella Thu+Fri T-6 (16.68M) 6.322x of Jungle Cruise T-6 (17.07M) 6.794x of Encanto T-6 (10.19M)

The Matrix: Resurrections Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-6 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 69 1,485 11627 12.77% Total Seats Sold Today: 112 Comp 0.917x of Godzilla Vs. Kong T-6 (8.9M) 3.221x of The Suicide Squad T-6 (13.21M) 1.467x of Dune T-6 (7.48M)