Eric Prime

...why?

When it has J*red L*to

I think it was supposed to, but maybe A24 changed plans at the last minute, which is understandable. Eighth Grade had a near identical rollout to Farewell the first couple weeks, went wide on the first weekend of August, and pretty much bombed on that weekend. Why repeat the same mistake twice, especially with a film that's locked to at least double Christopher Robin's opening?

She didn't start the thread, I did.

(she's a theme park insider with connections btw)

Daily Domestic Chart for Wednesday July 31, 2019 Movie Gross % Change Theaters Total Gross Days - (-) Anna $235,000 +3,834% 44 $7,928,321 41 The only movie that matters.

Honestly, I shielded myself from inappropriate stuff more than my parents ever did. I was a very strict rules follower, so if it said "R" or TV-14 or TV-MA or whatever, I stayed far away from it. I still remember one time my brother was watching 300 on HBO, and I just bolted when he started playing it. I didn't even know about 97% of swear words until I was about 10 years old, when I discovered YouTube...yeah, I was a weird kid.

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-1 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 56 857 9,326 9.19% Total Showings Added Today: 2 Total Seats Added Today: 226 Total Seats Sold Today: 230 Comps 0.15x of The Lion King 1 day before release (3.5M) Adjusted Comps 0.81x of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 1 day before release (4.7M) 7.18x of Crawl 1 day before release (7.2M) 8.22x of Stuber 1 day before release (6.2M) Well, it...could be worse? It's still not indicating great results here, but maybe tomorrow's results will really turn things around...maybe.

My friend used to work at a video game store, and the amount of times parents would come in and give their elementary-aged child whatever M-rated game they want were too many for him to count. It's probably the same thing here.

I think it got taken down. What did it originally say?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/james-wan-set-direct-original-horror-movie-1228232

lmao hold up I need those reciepts

Even Nutcracker?

It Chapter Two Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-37 Days and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 32 26 6,143 0.42% Total Showings Added Today: 6 Total Seats Added Today: 1,030 Total Seats Sold Today: 4 Wow, only 4 seats got sold? This is about to flop. Mickey's Law has killed another one. I kid, I kid. Really, nobody even knows that tickets are on sale in a couple theaters. I'm probably gonna stop publicly showing these results until we get an official announcement, because it is going to be very very slow and very very uninteresting for the time being.

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-2 Days and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 54 627 9,100 6.89% Total Showings Added Today: 15 Total Seats Added Today: 2,721 Total Seats Sold Today: 158 Comps 0.13x of The Lion King 3 days before release (3M) T-2 The Lion King: 731 tickets sold that day (4,783 total tickets sold) Adjusted Comps 0.88x of Once Upon 3 days before release (5.1M) 9.83x of Crawl 3 days before release (9.8M) 8.83x of Stuber 3 days before release (6.6M) So good news is almost all of the comps increased from yesterday. The bad news is that the Once Upon comp, arguably the best fit, although not perfect, went down, albeit slightly. My comps are still all over the place, but I'm still not confident in anything huge right now, especially compared to what other people here are seeing.

It's not until another month dude

Sure opinions can change if you garner new outside information from other sources, and that doesn't invalidate something as your own. That's how research and developing predictions happen in the first place, and is why ideas morph and change through the years. Obviously it's not the exact same thing, but scientists look at other people's work and data all the time to develop hypotheses and experiments, but I don't see you complaining about that. And in the case of box office, yes having new information, whether it be tracking, presales, trailer views, movie reviews, and so on, can change people's minds, and can help people form new ideas or opinions about a movie's prospects, and we shouldn't shun people for that, nor go all "it's not your gut instinct. You can't change your mind like that." Just out of curiosity, there were plenty of people who were hesitant on Infinity War even topping 500M, let alone 670M, a year or so before the film opened, and only started changing their tunes once trailer view records were broken, ticket sales were strong, and hype seemed extreme across the board. Does that make those people now predicting 600M+ suddenly invalid because it wasn't "gut instincts" or whatever? Are they suddenly deserving to be made fun of or called out because they thought the film was going to be frontloaded back in 2016 or 2017? And hell, data can be interpreted in many different ways, positive and negative, and can be interpreted based on personal feeling. So, you know, a personal opinion based on other people's data or predictions? It doesn't even matter anyway. I started this stuff because JB's specific statement "everyone thought this was going to be #1 until IT 2" was only ever being said by one person, at least in the past couple weeks (mahnahmahnah in the weekend prediction thread, who is always overly optimistic), but if people got more receipts, I'm glad to hear them. The only reason we started talking about people predicting 600+ back in 2017 and 2018 was because MovieMan's been throwing a hissy fit for the last couple weeks because people are daring to commend a movie for making 1.5B, and he's all antsy because "YOU ALL SAID IT WAS A LOCK FOR 2B WHY ARE YOU ALL CHANGING THINGS WHY ARE YOU ALL STUCK IN THE PAST"

Is the movie supposed to be super esoteric like Suspiria? It looks creepy and stuff sure, but is there some super non-GA/arthouse-audience-friendly stuff in there?

I'm sorry, how is having other data no longer mean "true feelings"? Sure with tracking and presales you could do more of an educated guess, but your own interpretation on new information is still how you truly feel about something. We are human, so we can look at data and information we are given, and have different conclusions to something. Besides, are we not allowed to change our thoughts or opinions on something? And quite honestly, I usually consider year-ago predictions to be more on the optimistic side in the first place, and not fully indicative on what a forum thinks about something before release. If you think that people's predictions from 2017 or 2018 is what we should follow and listen to all the time, then fine by me. But that's just how we differ

Ah yes, because posts made over a year ago when we had little to nothing to work off of is much more indicative of how people felt a couple weeks before release.