Eric Prime

Honestly I can't wait for Shang-Chi to come out only because this is the one film I've got the trailer for with almost every movie I've watched over the past month and I'm sick of seeing it. Made even worse because I've already seen the movie, so they're trying to hype me on something I've already seen. It sucks!

I remember somebody saying that A24 stans are the indie equivalent of Disney adults and like...yeah.

My mom, who loves all middlebrow Oscar bait, broke down crying by the end and couldn't stop talking about how powerful and beautiful this movie was when we got out the theater. Had to lie through my teeth and pretend this movie was amazing because I'm a good son.

https://deadline.com/2021/08/candyman-posts-sweet-thursday-night-with-1-9m-1234823246/

Ehh, it makes sense to me. I wasn't in love with it, but it's got a good, solid pace and some solid and creative slasher/gory moments to keep less discerning folks invested.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-6 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 60 1673 11464 14.59% Total Seats Sold Today: 133 Comp 1.466x of F9 T-6 (10.41M) 0.583x of Black Widow (7.70M) 3.629x of The Suicide Squad (14.88M)

Saw it this past Wednesday and can cosign to that. The atmosphere and subtext is just... 👌😘

Moderation I had to put some things down into spoiler tags. I understand this is still early and what Twitter scoopers are saying may not be true. However, these kinds of potential leaks should still be hidden away, because some people want to be surprised or want to know little about the project. Please be careful and use the spoiler tag wisely.

I mean maybe, but it always felt like Deadline delivered mid-day updates every weekend until the pandemic. I guess 30M+ openers were also more common back then, so maybe that’s the big issue

Brandon Katz is an entertainment reporter for Observer and is a pretty active one online at that. Because of his position, he probably has good sources for these early box office results and since Deadline isn't doing their mid-day Friday updates anymore (it's really frustrating Deadline just stopped doing them after Jungle Cruise weekend IIRC), might as well get something for the industry/box office nerds to chew on.

Likely including previews. Typically the trades and reporters like Brandon always lump in previews with Friday #s. Charlie is the only guy I can think of that reports previews and True Friday separately...or at least he used to (Comscore, please come back 😥)

https://deadline.com/2021/08/candyman-posts-sweet-thursday-night-with-1-9m-1234823246/

Really appreciate how this newest episode is just everybody talking about how sexy Thor and Hemsworth are. Good stuff.

Subjective analysis isn't a scam.

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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-7 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 60 1540 11464 13.43% Total Seats Sold Today: 131 Comp 1.460x of F9 T-7 (10.36M) 0.582x of Black Widow T-7 (7.69M) 3.711x of The Suicide Squad T-7 (15.21M)

https://www.boxofficepro.com/weekend-box-office-forecast-candyman-is-trending-for-a-late-summer-surprise-likely-to-dethrone-free-guy/ Opener Forecast Ranges Candyman Opening Weekend Range: $16 – 26 million Domestic Total Range: $40 – $75 million Weekend Forecast Boxoffice projects this weekend’s top ten films will decrease between 1 and 15 percent from last weekend’s $59.1 million top ten aggregate. Film Distributor 3-Day Weekend Forecast Projected Domestic Total through Sunday, August 29 Location Count % Change from Last Wknd Candyman Universal Pictures $20,000,000 $20,000,000 3,569 NEW Free Guy 20th Century Studios $10,900,000 $76,700,000 3,940 -41% PAW Patrol: The Movie Paramount Pictures $6,900,000 $24,800,000 3,189 -48% Jungle Cruise Walt Disney Studios $4,400,000 $99,700,000 3,370 -31% Respect United Artists Releasing / MGM $2,500,000 $19,900,000 2,607 -34% Don’t Breathe 2 Sony Pictures / Columbia $2,200,000 $24,000,000 2,703 -57% The Suicide Squad Warner Bros. Pictures $1,700,000 $52,300,000 ~2,500 -50% The Protégé Lionsgate $1,400,000 $5,400,000 ~2,577 -52% Reminiscence Warner Bros. Pictures $1,100,000 $3,900,000 ~3,265 -44% The Night House Searchlight Pictures $1,000,000 $5,100,000 2,240 -65%

Candyman Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 36 1415 6871 20.59% Total Seats Sold Today: 814 Comp 0.719x of A Quiet Place Part II (3.45M) 1.099x of Spiral Thu+Fri (4.1M) 1.933x of Forever Purge (2.57M) 2.448x of Escape Room 2 (2.94M) 0.320x of Space Jam 2 Fri (4.19M) 1.657x of Old (2.48M) 1.380x of Don't Breathe 2 (1.33M) I know I said before to focus on Black-led movies, but I did it this time to put into some perspective. The big one being that I see no reason to follow the Spiral and Space Jam comps because 4M+ previews sounds way too optimistic and unrealistic. But looking at just about everything else, it's still a given that 2M previews are the floor and 2.5M+ is more and more likely. Crazy to think over The Suicide Squad's OW could happen, but these are strange times we live in.

For the record, I gave him warning points twice in the past couple weeks and have told him numerous times that his schtick is old and tiring. Please do not think we're letting anybody off the hook here.