Eric Prime

They're really pushing for Aquaman in December? Not sure what is up with DC's awful scheduling next year, but good luck to ya I guess.

Pierce Brosnan has aged phenomenally Jeez Louise

Oh hell no.

I just tuned into this. Ethan Hawke's playing Batman in a preschool show about the Batmobile? Now I've seen everything.

Peacock is a US-only service. If you want to see Halloween Kills, you have to wait for it to be on VOD or see it in theaters.

Thelma & Louise, Hannibal, Black Hawk Down, and American Gangster

Links for people to watch in about two hours: https://www.dcfandome.com/ https://www.twitch.tv/dccomics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RADmFACrWWQ

Kinda confused by the negativity over Bond's number from a couple posters. It's looking to hold on par with Spectre despite bigger competition in its second weekend and losing a fair chunk of its PLFs to Halloween at a time when PLFs are the dominant form of moviegoing. That seems pretty good to me.

It's symbolic. Michael Myers represents everything that is evil. He's not a person, but an unstoppable force. Evil can never truly be killed.

Wasn't Chucky trying to kill a first grader tho?

Eternals Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-20 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 55 1229 11561 10.63% Total Seats Sold Today: 48 Comp 0.837x of Black Widow T-20 (11.04M)

Moderation Okay, this Marvel debate has gone on long enough. It's a new day tomorrow, so let's not reheat these arguments that aren't going anywhere.

Dune Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-6 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 36 1012 7031 14.39% Total Seats Sold Today: 87 Comp 0.887x of F9 T-6 (6.3M) 0.353x of Black Widow T-6 (4.66M) 2.195x of The Suicide Squad T-6 (9M) 0.605x of Shang-Chi T-6 (5.32M) 0.906x of Venom 2 T-6 (10.51M) 0.888x of No Time to Die T-6 (5.6M) Okay, now things are looking up. Now we're gold like Rapunzel's hair. Timmy stans are eating good!

So I just learned that French Dispatch is playing at the theater near where I work next week. This will really be the greatest weekend of my life :')

One of the very, very, very few good things from 2020 was the inauguration of DC Fandome. So long as you had an Internet connection, DC fans from all over the world got to join together in an epic 24-hour livestream convention event unlike anything else. It was like Star Wars Celebration or D23 or Comic-Con, but you didn’t have to pay a dime or wear any pants to enjoy the presentations. Truly a groundbreaking win for fanboys everywhere. It showcased everything you could ever want from DC. Splashy new video game reveals. Interviews with cast and crew members on the newest movies. Trailers for DC titles just on the way. Character announcements and more confirmations for upcoming movies. Teasers and concept art for movies that are still a while away. Fanart. Cosplay. A Chris Daughtry song! Even comic books, those things nobody actually reads, got some shout-outs. It was like Christmas for DC stans and AT&T shareholders alike. Fandome 2020 was a massive success, viewed by 22 million people around the world. This has kickstarted many more virtual fan events for 2021, including Star Trek Day and Tudum this past month, alongside Disney+ Day on November 12. And of course, Warner is back at it again. Tomorrow is DC Fandome 2021, which despite being only a four hour stream, promises to be bigger and better than anything the 2020 show could ever be. 2022 is just around the corner (weird to say that tbh), and the DC content set to arrive next year and beyond is insane! In theaters, we have five whole movies, featuring Battinson, some animated pets, The Rock, Michael Keaton, and the one and only Aquabrah, with Shazam! 2 also arriving in 2023. And fresh off Papa Feige’s massive success on Disney+, HBO Max, alongside Cartoon Network and The CW, looks to boast their already solid DC originals lineup with some real heavy hitters. There’s Batgirl, Peacemaker, Harley Quinn, Titans, Doom Patrol, and tons more I can’t even mention. Then you add in the video games, the fanart, and even comic books, and you have yourself a recipe for a day we will never forget. And who knows? We might even have a few surprises pop up that will shock everybody. Will Joker 2 finally be announced? Will we get more info on the Abrams-produced Superman movie? Will the Ayer Cut finally be released? Only time will tell. You guys know the usual spiel on the rules here. No fanboy wars, no spoilers, be nice, don’t be a dick, and so on. This is a big day for our DC fans here, and there’s no reason to spoil the party. So be mindful about what you say and show respect towards your fellow BOT members and their opinions. But as always remember one little thing: have fun!

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Well I mean it’s not a fair comparison. GvK came out during a time of social distancing in auditoriums, Regal completely out of the picture, and cases still at an alarming high. Dune is in a much better situation by all accounts.

Deadline's also reporting $7-7.5M Friday for NTTD for a $26-27M weekend, so a 51-53% drop.

I'm sure it's an issue of maintenance and cost. There's a lot of money in maintaining a streaming service, keeping it running, and making sure all the content on there is running at high video speeds constantly. Adding in, whether we like it or not, hundreds of older films that don't have appeal to the youths isn't always ideal if you don't have the infrastructure for them. Disney bought an experienced streaming service developer with BAMTech prior to Disney+, so they already had a strong infrastructure, and a good chunk of their older titles are already evergreen titles, so there was better financial justification to put their classic films on the service Day 1.

I forget who said it (I think it was AJG?), but I remember somebody on here basically saying Peacock was the equivalent of a Wal-Mart $5 bin. Just full of weird direct-to-video titles and good films that everybody already owns and air on cable TV every other Sunday afternoon, like Twins, Knocked Up, Apollo 13, etc. Their originals, from what little I've seen, also feel like NBC shows that would have aired in 2007. Paramount+ is a mess and like 75% of their content is available on competing services, but at least there are some nuggets of intrigue here. Peacock just feels like a gas station. I did enjoy watching the Universal Monsters movies on the service, but I think it's boneheaded they don't have all of them. If these studios want to compete in the streaming wars, they should really try and get all their movies and shows they own onto one service. Feel like that's the one way to really stand out and at least get cinephiles intrigued at seeing decades of film history under one low price.

This is anecdotal of course, but my family always goes to the movies every Christmas Day. But just a couple days ago, my mom said point blank she doesn't want to go this year because she had such a good time watching Soul at home. She said she prefers sitting on the couch with the family while wrapped up in a blanket rather than getting into the car and going out. She probably would enjoy something like this or find it interesting, but she would rather just enjoy it on TV. I know this is one story, but I do think for a lot of individuals, especially for older folks, COVID has really normalized watching movies at home, especially ones that don't get a PLF push behind them, as the prime destination for viewing. So stuff like this are movies they would be interested in, but only worth a "wait until it's home on digital/Netflix/cable". I know this sounds ridiculous and saddening for some here, but that's sadly how it is in my eyes.

King Richard is another one and I can't wait for that. It'll be really funny to see Venus and Serena inexplicably look a year older in certain shots and sequences.