Eric Prime

Oh, you take Parrot Analytics seriously? That's cute.

Well yeah it's fifth because it's alphabetical. And do you have a source for AoT getting more views than WandaVision?

These doughnuts are great! Jelly filled are my favorite! Nothing beats a jelly filled doughnut!

Eh fair enough. FWIW anime has always been my one blind spot when it comes to geek/pop culture. I think the last anime show I watched was...Pokemon like...13 years ago, and the only other anime show I can think of that has me even remotely interested is Beastars. And even then, I'm just interested in Beastars for the furry stuff. Haven't even seen Ghibli movies before. It still seems weird this did so well compared to everything else, but I guess this is just a fan culture I have no real idea about.

Even then, during the run-up to its release here, I never saw any discussion about Demon Slayer online, apart from the Tracking Thread of course. Maybe I'm not following the right people, but it's still strange to me this is overperforming like crazy over any other anime movie here in the States

This Demon Slayer movie is still so weird to me. I'll admit I don't watch anime but I think I have enough of an idea on geek culture that I know what's big and I'm aware of the big names today like Attack on Titan and My Hero Academia. But I never even heard of Demon Slayer until the box office reports for this started to come out and I don't see anybody on Twitter or whatever hype up or talk about this show or movie. So how is this movie doing so much better than that Dragon Ball Broly movie or all the other anime movies that come out here every year? Is the show really that popular? Is it just that there's nothing out in theaters? Am I talking to the wrong people? I don't get it!

Talks about the trailer around the 5 minute mark

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So...it is not time?

"It is time!" - Rafiki

Sorry for not getting this up sooner, but here's the RTM thread if you want to go into spoilers

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https://www.polygon.com/movies/22399615/fast-and-furious-free-movie-theater-screenings?utm_campaign=polygon&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter MAH BOIS

Papa Nolan was right. This is the worst streaming service

I genuinely appreciate between all the essays, nitpicks, and flame wars every week how simple and sweet each of your reactions are lol

We'll likely have a weekend thread this weekend, seeing as how there is stuff to talk about. But in instances where there isn't one, due to lack of interest, we use the Theater Reopening Thread

Mortal Kombat Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count (Fri) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 36 125 3300 10968 30.09% Total Showings Added Today: 7 Total Seats Added Today: 650 Total Sellouts Added Today: 11 Total Seats Sold Today: 952 Comp 0.851x of Godzilla vs. Kong's Final Count (8.3M) Bah gawd! I feel like this might be an overperformance tho

Outside of the stuff Maxus mentioned, the biggest problem is preservation for older, more obscure titles. Over the past year, I've been working on a Top 100 Warner Bros. Movies countdown for 2023, in honor of their 100th anniversary (Disney's getting the same treatment too in 2023! But they've largely done a better job at making their movies readily available, even with the whole Disney Vault nonsense). And I've been going through the list of Warner Bros. releases, so many of their older titles from the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, etc. go through so many hurdles to get to and aren't available on any digital stores or streaming sites. In those cases, at best, you can find a Warner Archive DVD-R on Amazon. But in other cases, you have to find an old, pricey DVD or VHS tape, have to import something from another region, need to watch it on Dailymotion, Internet Archive, or other torrent sites, or you just can't watch the movie at all. Now granted, the movies that are given the cold shoulder in this way are largely forgotten because they are considered low quality or left little to no impact on its initial release. And in my case, even if all these movies that are hard to find were streaming on HBO Max or were available to rent on iTunes for $2, they probably wouldn't be on a lot of lists anyway. But that's still not a valid excuse. People deserve to have access to this kind of stuff legally, but Warner just doesn't care enough to restore their older movies or put them out on HBO Max or iTunes. So Warner Archive is the only thing that can drive that niche. And with them gone simply because of phasing to a new format, despite the fact that Blu/DVD collectors are still a solid demographic of people, that means a lot of history is lost, at least in legally viable terms. Honestly the past couple years I've really found myself more favorable towards piracy and torrents. I'd still personally wouldn't do it if I had a legal option, but piracy is really the only area where art and media history and preservation is valued and taken care of.

That's...really the name of the production company?

So...is it possible for Rudin to be removed from a project that was finished and already made? Is there precedence for this?