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I was thinking for a while that No Time to Die was going to be the first film to hit 200M and topple Bad Boys 3 (something about that just seemed poetic considering this was the first movie to delay itself way back when), but I do kinda feel like Respect's awful hold makes me nervous about older moviegoers coming back. I know there's the argument that there hasn't been anything super appealing for that demographic, which is fair, but I think there's been studies and polls showing older demos are much more cautious about Delta and heading out in general IIRC, and even though I didn't care for the movie, there's nothing objectionable for its target audience that WOM is that bad. The specialty market also isn't doing all that great, which generally skews more adult (something like Green Knight skews towards the younger, A24 hipster crowd). I dunno, I just think movies skewing older are gonna have a rough time, which that spells bad news for something like Bond (and also Top Gun, Ghostbusters, Gucci, West Side Story, etc.). I'm sure I might just be overly cautious about that though and obviously headlines should be more positive by October

I am demonstrably sorry for defending Scott Mendelson all those months ago

Ummm...it did have streaiming OS. Premier Access was a global thing.

To be fair, nobody owns Paramount+.

OMG this might do less than Friend Request

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-12 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 54 978 10896 8.98% Total Seats Sold Today: 37 Comp 1.156x of F9 T-12 (8.21M) 0.483x of Black Widow T-12 (6.38M) 3.282x of The Suicide Squad T-12 (13.46M) 224 tickets from MTC3

Cocomelon might end up stealing Patrol's thunder tho. Don't know if that will translate to a movie as easily, but I would love to hear Wheels on the Bus on IMAX surround sound.

The thing that bothers me about The Protege is that Michael Keaton has top billing in the trailer despite the fact that Maggie Q is the main character. How much money did Keaton demand so that he would be the first name listed?

Stealing this from @Ezen Baklattan, but Reminiscence, if that 2.4M opening from Deadline holds, will topple Rhythm Section to become the worst opening ever for a movie in 3,000+ theaters. For all we know, it could go even lower, and then we're approaching Friend Request/Life Itself levels.

Well yeah both Shyamalan and Peele have fanbases, and both movies will do fine financially as low-budget titles, but it's not like Old opened that high. I've talked about this last week, but PAW Patrol is arguably the biggest non-Disney thing for little kids right now, at least in the States. They're all over retail shelves and my sister used to work at a daycare and she told me that those kids were crazy for those puppies and especially their toys. The battles of these four-year-olds over who gets to play with what were apparently quite intense, though she did get a few good opportunities to teach her kids the value of sharing.

She is in a movie called White as Snow...

So if Christopher is Papa Nolan, what does that make Jonathan? 🤔🤔🤔

Maybe I'm missing something here, but I didn't expect much from Candyman even back in 2019. Peele's name aside, Candyman was never that popular of a horror series to begin with (I never even heard of it prior to this new movie's announcement) and while I think the film looks good, nothing about the trailers make me think it was going to be some massive breakout. When the trailer dropped, more people were talking about Nia DaCosta's name not being credited on the trade's headlines than the movie itself IIRC (which I fully supported and was all for I might add), so I don't really think people were buzzing that much for the movie itself. Could very well be wrong though, and I'm rooting for it regardless

Genuinely amazed they went so hard on this for an M&Ms commercial

A pity. Tully and especially Young Adult are phenomenal. Young Adult in particular has quickly become one of my favorite movies of all time.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-13 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 54 941 10896 8.64% Total Seats Sold Today: 54 Comp 1.199x of F9 T-13 (8.51M) 0.492x of Black Widow T-13 (6.49M) 3.422x of The Suicide Squad T-13 (14.03M) I'll update w/ MTC3 count tomorrow monring 218 tickets from MTC3

Wish I liked this more than I did. Rebecca Hall is astounding and the sound design is incredible, barring one obnoxiously loud music cue that gave me a headache. But while the screenplay isn't bad, and there's some good scares here, I don't think it gels as well as it should have. The film ends with the main theme supposedly being about depression and it doesn't feel like it earned it? By the time we get to the climax, I was thinking to myself, "oh I guess that's what the movie is about?" It's also weird how the mirror world is implied to be metaphorical and as if it's really happening? If it was one or the other I would have been fine, but it felt like the movie was trying to have it both ways and it's just kinda weird.

What the heck was taking Disney (and also Lionsgate) so long?

I saw a bunch of Gen Zers dunk on Girl Meets World a couple months ago, and it led me to these clips How Disney Channel executives looked at these scripts and said to themselves, "yeah this is fine to air" will forever baffle me

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I mean, I'm sure somebody here will find themselves watching this for some reason

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