Eric Prime

No, more that because it's not a Disney movie or looks like a Disney movie, it is punished to underperform. And while ticket sales were promising, the film is simply doomed to fail, because it doesn't have the Disney castle behind it. It was all just a ruse to make us think Mickey's Law isn't actually real. But Mickey's Law knows how to play some cruel tricks. -------------------------------- Okay, I'm just messing with ya. I don't actually think Mickey's Law is a real thing. Just something funny I made up when a bunch of non-Disney tentpoles two summers ago were bombing left and right. I still think it's worth a good chuckle that some outside force is hurting all the other studios, so I'm just being silly. If you want my real answer, it could very well be that Ghostbusters got upfront demand from the fans and isn't really getting anybody else in. That's the issue that hurt NTTD last month. But a couple of bad days, even a week before release, can be just that. And yeah, every movie has a slowdown in sales or just gets bad days where few sales happen. I'm sure once we get into the ramp-up for release that Afterlife starts picking up in sales and that the last two days were just a fluke, and from a raw previews perspective, it's still gunning for an opening on par with the Feig film, which would still be really good for this, especially because it'll likely be a cheaper film than the Feig title.

For Non-Disney titles, anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Disney films can do poorly, but those aren't because of impacts by Mickey's Law. Likewise, the Sony Marvel movies are oftentimes exempt, because the masses are too stupid to realize they aren't from Disney. DC movies also arguably fit into that camp (I have to explain to my Dad like once a month that Batman or Aquaman or Wonder Woman aren't Marvel characters) I coined the phrase back in 2019, but you can argue that Mickey's Law's impacts go as far back as 2016. I'm assuming Bob Iger was bitter Universal won the studio share in 2015 despite all the hits they had and created this law to spite all the other studios.

Sing 2 Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-41 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 49 200 9354 2.14% Total Seats Sold Today: 39

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-7 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 68 717 15113 4.74% Total Seats Sold Today: 42 Comp 0.680x of F9 T-7 (4.82M) 1.728x of The Suicide Squad T-7 (7.08M) 0.466x of Shang-Chi T-7 (4.1M) 0.691x of Venom 2 T-7 (8.01M) 0.679x of No Time to Die T-7 (4.28M) Two bad days in a row here. Nothing too scary I suppose, but I am starting to hear some warning bells that Mickey's Law will continue its unstoppable reign.

I don't get the Best Picture hype, but I thought this was a sweet, pleasant little film. A very solid "take your grandparents to it" kind of film.

Wait they're using this virtual production technology on sitcoms now? Wouldn't it just be cheaper to make a generic bar and apartment set?

@Cap this is acceptable, no?

So I tracked two days' worth of a movie, under the assumption it would all be rolled into one, for nothing

https://deadline.com/2021/11/clifford-the-big-red-dog-opening-day-wednesday-1234872144/

Oh no

Ghostbusters is on the 19th. It would probably be an attachment if this new trailer supposedly hits on the 15th.

Sing 2 Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-42 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 49 161 9354 1.72% Total Seats Sold Today: 11

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-8 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 66 675 14545 4.64% Total Seats Sold Today: 42 Comp 0.674x of F9 T-8 (4.78M) 1.758x of The Suicide Squad T-8 (7.21M) 0.479x of Shang-Chi T-8 (4.22M) 0.702x of Venom 2 T-8 (8.14M) 0.717x of No Time to Die T-8 (4.52M)

And those CBM fans are dinguses.

...please don't go to 4Chan, okay?

The backlash towards Golden Circle is something I will never understand. It has all the same elements that worked in the first movie, with some hilarious Elton John sequences thrown in. Outside of some janky pacing, how can people not love something like that?