Eric Prime

https://deadline.com/2021/07/boss-baby-family-business-forever-purge-f9-box-office-weekend-july-4th-1234785567/

Well in 2017 they reworked the Animated Feature category so more people outside of the animation branch could determine the nominations as a way to put in more mainstream animated fare. Though honestly the lineups over the past three years aren't all bad. Whether the winner was deserved is up to you, but the variety is pretty solid across the board.

Since there's not much else to talk about, some nice box office history: The trades mentioned the last time the top three were from the studio was in February 2005, with Hitch, Boogeyman, and Are We There Yet? all from Sony. But I wanted to look at the last time that happened and it was all the way back in September 1989, all from Universal oddly enough. Sea of Love, Uncle Buck, and Parenthood all landed in the top three respectively. I'm sure I'll get mocked for this, but I never heard of Sea of Love up until now.

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Moderation Guys, nobody cares about this anymore. If you want to fight over the MCU and style and whatever it is you're complaining about, do it through PMs

Peter Rabbit 2's IM would give us like 14.7M for Boss Baby. With July 4th making things more frontloaded on Sunday, that's like...what, 12M or something?

https://deadline.com/2021/07/boss-baby-family-business-forever-purge-f9-box-office-weekend-july-4th-1234785567/

Space Jam: A New Legacy Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-15 and Counting (Fri) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 40 83 7554 1.10% Total Showings Added Today: 2 Total Seats Added Today: 377 Total Seats Sold Today: 25

Black Widow Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-7 and Counting (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 89 2644 17697 14.94% Total Showings Added Today: 3 Total Seats Added Today: 218 Total Seats Sold Today: 134 Comp 1.850x of Godzilla vs. Kong T-7 Before Release (17.95M) 2.506x of F9 T-7 Before Release (17.79M)

The Forever Purge Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 27 732 3588 20.40% Total Seats Sold Today: 583 Comp 0.372x of A Quiet Place Part II's Thu Previews (1.79M) 0.285x of Conjuring 3's Final Count (2.80M) 1.413x of Hitman's Bodyguard's Wife's Final Count (5.56M) Now this had previews starting at 7, so I tallied everything together. I mean I guess it could be walkups, but it still seems like a disturbingly high jump for both movies compared to what everybody else got. F9 had stupid huge walkups too, so maybe Philly's just...getting more presales driven? I dunno, it's very weird stuff.

The Boss Baby: Family Business Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 42 764 6280 12.17% Total Seats Sold Today: 495 Comp 1.278x of Raya's Thu+Fri (3.32M) 1.868x of Cruella's Thu Previews (2.61M) 0.600x of Cruella's Thu+Fri (4.62M) 1.764x of Spirit Untamed's Thu+Fri (4.34M) So I should preface here by saying I kind of cheated on this one. I try to stop counting previews when the first showings hit and try to tally up all the preview showings immediately afterwards. But sadly, I only got halfway through tallying before I had to go commute back home, so that sadly means I counted later showings, like 6 or 7, closer to when they would start, meaning later numbers are a touch inflated. This does partially explain why there was such an astronomical boost, but even the 4:00/5:00 showings did really well at the last minute. Maybe walkups are just really, really strong here, who knows? Doubt the preview numbers will be anywhere near as big as this though.

Because not everybody thinks exactly like you. If you think these movies are all the same, more power to you and I completely understand. But from what I can see, you're acting as if you are the one true all-knowing being when it comes to these movies and it's not the case. You may not see it, but it's obvious that a lot of people do see these MCU titles as distinct and fresh from one another in terms of genre or style and I sincerely doubt it's because people are trying to make these movies seem better than they are. Just let people like and feel whatever they want to like and feel, because it's obvious you won't change their minds and you're just fanning flames for no reason.

Serious question: has there been a Matrix joke that's ever been funny? Even in good movies like Shrek they're so awkward to watch.

Dude it's been ages since anybody talked about superhero fatigue.

https://deadline.com/2021/07/box-office-zola-opening-day-f9-wednesday-pandemic-record-1234784917/

The first Boss Baby only made the money it did because Alec Baldwin and Donald Trump were the two most-talked about figures by the time the movie came out. In a Biden timeline, the film's main joke has little meaning or relevance.

https://www.the-numbers.com/daily-box-office-chart Movie Distr Gross %YD %LW Thr Per Thr Total Gross D - N Zola A24 $504,992 1,468 $344 $504,992 1 Obviously there's not a lot of great comparisons here (something like Midsommar obviously had more hype going in), but this still seems pretty poor, no?

June Some Like it Hot - 10/10 The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It - 5/10 Thor - 6/10 Cabaret - 9/10 In the Heights - 9/10 Brokeback Mountain - 10/10 (When David Harbour popped up I screamed) Luca - 7/10 The Boys in the Band (1970) - 10/10 The Boys in the Band (2020) - 6/10 Casablanca - 10/10 Bruno - 7/10 Milk - 7/10 (this has the most cursed cast in history lmao) The Maltese Falcon - 8/10 Meet Me in St. Louis - 9/10 So I didn't end up watching any Fast and Furious content this month. Maybe I'll get to it in July I guess, but I also have to schedule it around my Shyamagod marathon (and also David Lowery I guess). Not really in a rush to see any F&F movie tho, so who knows if I ever get around to it?