Eric Prime

BOT's China thread getting mentioned by Forbes in an article about the new Mulan movie will always crack me up

@That One Guy If it follows A Quiet Place and generates an 86.5M OW, it would only need about 3.39x legs to pass Sixth Sense. That's in the realm of possibility, but not a certainty. It really depends on its second weekend drop and how much impact Pet Sematary has on its third weekend.

nvm TOG stole my thunder

Also, some demographics Deadline just posted

To reference a D**ney hit

WB really screwed the pooch with La Llorona tbh. It was going to fall off a cliff no matter what, but they should have announced much earlier this took place in The Conjuring Universe instead of randomly announcing it with little fanfare (also premiering it at SXSW to a lukewarm response). With the branding, it could have at least came close to the Annabelle movies in terms of OW.

Guess I'm the odd one out and predicting $35M for Pet Sematary

Runtimes w/out credits and attachments for next week: Dumbo: 1:43. Attachments are Toy Story 4 and Aladdin Unplanned: 1:44. Attachments unknown (probably none? I dunno) Beach Bum isn't available yet

You coastal elites ain't got nothing that'll impress me. In all seriousness, my family never buys chain pizza. We always purchase from local businesses or just buy frozen pizza. I have a strong guilty pleasure for frozen pizza, even if it's technically trash

All the fast food pizza joints are the same. Even store-bought frozen pizza's better than Domino's, Pizza Hut, and Papa John's combined

Ledmonkey's right. https://deadline.com/2019/03/us-jordan-peele-weekend-box-office-1202580617/

The OG Halloween adjusts to $181.4M. Yeah, nothing amazing, but the first movie had a limited advertising campaign, and managed to gain more popularity through word-of-mouth, TV airings, VHS, etc. Again, just about everyone has seen the movie at least once And when it comes to H20, it was a totally different market. Not just because of horror not being as big as it is now, but also because of the hunger for nostalgia. Look at the top 10 for 1998, and the closest example to a movie that got help from "nostalgia" is Doctor Dolittle, and even that's a stretch, and I guess Godzilla? Now look at the top 10 for 2018. Even stuff like Black Panther and Ant-Man and the Wasp kinda fit the bill since the MCU's over 10 years old. Even Aquaman got a boost from being a legacy character whose been in a bunch of cartoons. Deadpool's the only one that was definitely not nostalgia-driven. It's a very different market from 20 years ago. And yeah, I think a new Friday the 13th movie can open to 60M easily . The '09 remake opened to over $40M at a time when horror wasn't as big as it is now. With Halloween approaching $75M, why not a character just as popular?

I feel like you're underestimating the Halloween brand and overestimating Peele. The one thing Halloween has going for it is it being a legacy franchise that spans multiple movies across 4 decades. Its fans span generations and everyone has at least seen the first movie. Peele has only had two movies in the span of two years. Not trying to discredit Get Out's popularity, but it's a young fanbase that doesn't have as strong of a pull when it comes to all four quads. Also important is that when it comes to Halloween, those movies have a sustantial # of older people in its fanbase that is less likely to buy tickets in advance, while Peele likely skews younger, with a stronger interest in buying tickets early. For the record, I thought 70M was the floor for Us, so I'm not trying to be some truther who thought it wouldn't be a smash. I'm just using some hindsight here.

Using that preview #... If it follows A Quiet Place: 6.75M 29.6M inc. previews 30M 19.2M 78.8M

The Nun had early Deadline previews with an initial 4M+, then went to $5.4M. Not perfect, due to the quality difference, but I guess it works fine for now.

https://www.imdb.com/search/title?companies=co0017497&sort=year,asc

If it follows A Quiet Place 4M 17.5M Fri inc. previews 17.7M Sat 11.4M Sun 46.6M 5M 21.9M inc. previews 22.2M 14.2M 58.3M

Nah. Fox 2000 focused on mid-budget and literary adaptations (Devil Wears Prada, Marley & Me, Love Simon, The Hate U Give), while Fox was more big-budget stuff.

https://deadline.com/2019/03/us-jordan-peele-weekend-box-office-1202580617/

Their pizza tastes like actual cardboard

That last statement's got me hyped, considering my theater's demographics. Watching Black Panther in my majority-black theater was one of the wildest experiences ever.

Better or worse than Get Out? (Just about to start a rewatch on the latter)