Eric Prime

You know I've been advocating for years that Kenan Thompson finally gets some industry recognition...

How is this even real?

Oh I thought they were hyping up like a Rogue One/Dunkirk kind of deal. Now I know what they're talking about. And as for whether it's near me...well I already put up my "Denzel slams on table" gif a couple pages back.

I've never gone to an IMAX showing before. Does this mean I have to watch Snake Eyes in IMAX this weekend to see the Dune opening?

The Suicide Squad Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-17 and Counting (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 35 222 8111 2.74% Total Seats Sold Today: 9 Comp 0.353x of F9 T-17 (2.51M) 0.136x of Black Widow (1.8M)

Jungle Cruise Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-10 and Counting (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 35 59 7427 0.67% Total Seats Sold Today: 9 Comp 0.484x of Cruella's Thu+Fri T-10 (3.72M)

I'll get to the other two movies in a bit. I'm running late for work.

Snake Eyes Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-3 and Counting (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 27 150 5202 2.02% Total Seats Sold Today: 45 Comp 0.099x of Mortal Kombat's Fri 3 Days Before Release (901K) 0.088x of A Quiet Place Part II's Thu+Fri T-3 (1.71M) 0.297x of Cruella's Thu+Fri T-3 (2.29M)

Old Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-3 and Counting (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 20 135 3269 4.13% Comp 0.192x of Conjuring 3 3 Days Before Release (1.88M) 2.045x of Forever Purge T-3 (2.72M) 1.436x of Escape Room 2 (1.72M)

I'm just letting all these bomb accusations happen, because when egg falls on people's face, that's when I bombard them with Timothee fancams. The greatest weapon known to man.

Hunger Games could never

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So...you're kind of right on the first one. I'm only looking at Jungle Cruise's Thursday sales but I'm also comparing it to Cruella's Thursday and Friday sales because by that point, I was looking at both days at a time when Thursday previews weren't regularly reported like they are now. And yes, I know that using two days as a basis for just one day isn't ideal, but this is the hand I was given and I have to use it.

Yeah summer 1989 was just a bonkers time for movies and box office. You've got all those record openers, with Batman pretty much redefining blockbuster grosses. This was basically right when sequels and franchises started to become more and more common, which...well whether that's a good thing is up to you. Then you got Lethal Weapon 2 having a Rush Hour/Austin Powers style box office explosion from the first movie, Honey I Shrunk the Kids becoming the biggest live-action Disney project in history, Star Trek V seeing a franchise record opening before imploding, classics like Dead Poets Society and When Harry Met Sally hitting the scene, Uncle Buck serving as a precursor to Home Alone, indie hits like Do the Right Thing and Sex Lies and Videotape kickstarting Spike Lee and Soderbergh's careers, The Abyss having Cameron dazzle people with effects just before T2 changed everything, UHF giving us a glimmer at a world where Weird Al controlled Hollywood movies (God I wish we were in that timeline). You add in Nirvana and Public Enemy and summer 1989 was legitimately insane stuff.