Eric Prime

NBC's playing it smart. As of now, their service is free (w/ ads), which is a pretty good selling point considering all the competition. As long as they have some killer apps on there Day 1, and the originals are solid, this could see okay success. Maybe not Netflix level, but maybe CBS All Access level

Week 7: No

Highest Worldwide Box Office Total No Highest G-Rated domestic Total (currently Lion King at $422.8M) Yes Highest PG (not PG-13)-Total (currently Incredibles 2 at $608.5M) No Highest R-Rated OW (currently Deadpool at $132.4M) No Highest Independence Day OW (currently TF3 at $97.8M) Yes Highest Summer OW (currently Jurassic World at $208.8M) No Highest September OW (currently It at $123.4M) Yes Highest non-Friday OW (currently TF2 at $108.9M) Yes Highest Worldwide Box office total for an Animated film (currently Frozen at $1.27B) Yes Highest Opening Tuesday Gross (currently ASM at $35.0M) Yes Highest Tuesday Gross (currently SW:TFA at $37.3M) Yes Widest ever R Rated Release (currently Deadpool at 4349 theatres) No

Part A: 1. Will Slop make more than $62.5M? 1000 No 2. Will Slop make more than $72.5M? 2000 No 3. Will Slop make more than $67.5M? 3000 No 4. Will Slop 2 make more over Friday and Saturday, than Phoenix's full 3 day weekend? 4000 No 5. Will the two main new entries combine to more than $120M? 5000 No 6. Will Dark Phoneix make more $45M? 1000 No 7. Will Dark Phoneix make more $55M? 2000 No 8. Will Dark Phoneix make more $50M? 3000 No 9. Will Godzilla stay above Aladdin? 3000 4000 No 10. Will Ma have a bigger percentage drop than Rocketman? 5000 Yes 11. Will Pikachu drop more than 50%? 1000 No 12. Will John Wick Overtake PIkachu's DOmestic total by the end of the weekend? 2000 Yes 13. Will Endgame increase more than 85% on Friday? 3000 No 14. Will Booksmart increase more than 37% on Saturday? 4000 No 15. Will SLOP2 finally see justice for Reggie? 5000 Who the hell is Reggie? Bonus: 9/15 5000 10/15 8000 11/15 12,000 12/15 16,000 13/15 20,000 14/15 24,000 15/15 30,000 Part B: 1.What will SLOP 2's OW be? 48.3M 2. What will Brightburn's percentage drop be? -68% 3. What will Shazam's PTA be? $700 Part 😄 There will be 6 films to place and points are expanded because traditionally people haven't scored well here: 1. The Secret Life of Pets 2 4. Godzilla: King of the Monsters 6. Ma 9. Avengers: Endgame 11. Brightburn 13. A Doggo's Journey

That's all HBO's fault. HBO Now is about 15 bucks a month. Technically, you're only getting $1 or $2 extra to get Cinemax and WB movies and shows in there. Sounds like a bargain, but it's already at such a high price point. But hey, that just makes it better for Disney and Universal

Paying respect for @TMP

He's still got finals dude

Fandango App Monday Tues Wed Thursday Deadpool 2 23,134 28,896 41,212 SW: Solo 13,688 15,855 28,533 Jurassic World 2 9,310 12,761 23,266 Antman & The Wasp 6,613 5,990 11,108 Hotel Transylvania 3 1,753 2,674 6,605 14,754 MI6 *3,328 13,575 27,261 Christopher Robin 1,560 2,442 5,355 11,509 Venom 13,602 13,818 20,867 31,569 The Grinch 3,580 4,860 10,092 17,046 Fantastic Beasts 8,956 14,238 21,861 31,880 Spider-Verse 3,715 5,208 9,858 19,972 Aquaman 8,502 9,671 15,063 Glass 3,106 3,978 6,478 17,810 Lego Movie 2 2,552 4,130 8,601 13,320 How to Train Your Dragon 3 3,724 6,674 12,935 21,313 Dumbo 3,069 4,624 9,218 16,140 Pokemon Detective Pikachu 5,061 7,653 13,177 23,309 Aladdin 9,948 12,038 21,152 31,549 The Secret Life of Pets 2 2,967 3,245 7,355 Dark Phoenix 3,925 6,059 9,348 *4pm-12am Pets 2 Wednesday 56% of Pikachu (30.3M) 35% of Aladdin (31.8M 3-Day, 40.6M 4-Day) 57% of Dragon 3 (31.3M) 85% of Lego 2 (29.2M) 80% of Dumbo (36.7M) 137% of Christopher Robin (33.8M) 111% of Hotel 3 (49M) 73% of Grinch (49.2M) Day 11-2 73% of Grinch (49.7M) 135% of Hotel 3 (59.4M) Day 18-2 73% of Grinch (49.4M) 136% of Hotel 3 (59.9M) So the good news is almost everything from the first set rose from yesterday. The bad news is the other sets saw a decline, and...yeah, none of these numbers are pretty. Dark Phoenix Wednesday 43% of Fantastic Beasts 2 (26.6M) 33% of Solo (27.6M 3-Day, 33.7M 4-Day) 23% of Deadpool 2 (28.5M) 95% of Spider-Verse (33.5M) 45% of Venom (35.9M) 62% of Aquaman (42.1M) 69% of Fallout (42.2M) 144% of Glass (58.2M 3-Day, 67.1M 4-Day) 40% of Fallen Kingdom (59.5M) 84% of Ant-Man 2 (63.8M) Day 11-2 36% of Venom (29.2M) Yeah, this is worthy of the Jay-Z gif

source on this, because what the h*ck????????????????

Pretty surprising, but I guess it makes sense, especially after Shazam and KOTM underperformed. But really, unless one of the other studios does have a presence, now Comic-Con seems meaningless to me without new film info (I don't watch TV anymore, so I don't really care about any new TV trailers or whatever)

Wait...WB's not doing Comic-Con this year? Are any of the other studios doing Comic-Con (I'm assuming Disney's not gonna do anything because of D23)

How can you forget about this? https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fantastic_four_2015

You're too slow

So I didn't know Dark Phoenix reviews dropped until after the fact. And um...yikes.

Fandango App Monday Tues Wed Thursday A Wrinkle In Time 3,698 4,864 15,601 Deadpool 2 23,134 28,896 41,212 SW: Solo 13,688 15,855 28,533 Jurassic World 2 9,310 12,761 23,266 Antman & The Wasp 6,613 5,990 11,108 Hotel Transylvania 3 1,753 2,674 6,605 14,754 Christopher Robin 1,560 2,442 5,355 11,509 Venom 13,602 13,818 20,867 31,569 The Grinch 3,580 4,860 10,092 17,046 Fantastic Beasts 8,956 14,238 21,861 31,880 Spider-Verse 3,715 5,208 9,858 19,972 Aquaman 8,502 9,671 15,063 Glass 3,106 3,978 6,478 17,810 Lego Movie 2 2,552 4,130 8,601 13,320 How to Train Your Dragon 3 3,724 6,674 12,935 21,313 Dumbo 3,069 4,624 9,218 16,140 Pokemon Detective Pikachu 5,061 7,653 13,177 23,309 Aladdin 9,948 12,038 21,152 31,549 The Secret Life of Pets 2 2,967 3,245 Dark Phoenix 3,925 6,059 Pets 2 Tuesday 67% of Wrinkle in Time (22.1M) 42% of Pikachu (23M) 27% of Aladdin (24.7M 3-Day, 31.5M 4-Day) 49% of Dragon 3 (26.7M) 78% of Lego 2 (26.8M) 70% of Dumbo (32.3M) 133% of Christopher Robin (32.7M) 67% of Grinch (45.1M) 121% of Hotel 3 (53.5M) Day 11-3 74% of Grinch (50M) 161% of Hotel 3 (70.9M) Day 18-3 73% of Grinch (49.6M) 161% of Hotel 3 (71M) I have no words. Dark Phoenix Tuesday 21% of Deadpool 2 (26.3M) 41% of Fantastic Beasts 2 (26.4M) 38% of Solo (32.3M 3-Day, 39.4M 4-Day) 44% of Venom (35.2M) 116% of Spider-Verse (41.4M) 62% of Aquaman (42.5M) 152% of Glass (61.4M 3-Day, 70.8M 4-Day) 47% of Fallen Kingdom (70.3M) 101% of Ant-Man 2 (76.7M) Day 11-3 33% of Venom (26.5M) This is good...kinda. It's still at very low numbers, but almost every comp did rise from yesterday's results. Unless Wednesday bombs hard, or reviews are awful, this won't be as big of a disaster as one would expect (y'know, if you consider above Fant4stic a good benchmark)

That's another big issue too. Most people, especially parents, don't have that much disposable income to spend on entertainment. Parents play a big decision in moviegoing (they're the one who buy the tickets after all), and unless their kid is dying to go, I feel like most parents would rather pay to see Toy Story or Aladdin. Those are brands most adults probably have a stronger connection to for a multitude of reasons, and they want to be entertained too. Helps those are also brands that their kids likely already know and likely love. Despicable Me 3 dropped a pretty sizable amount from Minions and DM2. Obviously there were a lot of factors in play there, but the studio's not infallible.

I mentioned this in the Toy Story thread, but I feel like the first Pets movie has lost any sort of cultural relevance with the general public. Even just a few months after the movie came out, I've never seen anyone talk about it, watch it, buy merch of it, or anything. It feels like other movies like Moana and Trolls, which grossed way less, are way more popular nowadays. Like once 2017 rolled around, everybody stopped thinking about that movie. By comparison, although admittedly I did grow up with sisters who were in the prime target demo for the movies, it felt like there was way more discussion about Despicable Me with people between 1 and 2. I'll eat crow if this surprises, but it just seems like a franchise people just don't care about anymore.

Why wouldn't they release it "properly"?

It definitely feels like one of the fastest big hits to leave the pop culture zeitgeist. At least Alice in Wonderland has the other live-action remakes to fall back on. Trolls feels like it has more relevance to kids and the public than SLOP, and that made like two thirds less money.

Feels weird to see a movie licensed game again. I know there's a whole bunch of mobile games based on movies, but ones on home consoles are super rare. The last one I can recall was Ghostbusters about 3 years ago, and then...Wreck-It Ralph about 7 years ago?

@Menor Think you can look up the dailies for Pets? I obviously don't want a comp with Aladdin, but if you're able to find stuff for Grinch or Hotel Transylvania 3, that'd be awesome.