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Also @Telemachos, how the fuck are you trying to stand up here and put Us in the "unappealing product" category? Get the fuck out of here with that BS brah

Tele, you know you gotta see Captain Marvel in solidarity. #BeWoke

That Shazam number seems pretty low tbh Other two are accurate tho

https://pro.boxoffice.com/long-range-tracking-shazam-pet-sematary-best-enemies/ Long Range Tracking is now up Shazam: 40-60M range. 45/144 Pet Sematary: 20-30M range. 28/65 Best of Enemies: 7-12M range. 10/30 Alita: 17/48 (+6%)

Except it's not? Lego made 1.5M on Thursday. It's only $100K behind Grinch when you add in the Early Access showings that occurred in January. Besides, Lego's also a sequel, so it will likely be more frontloaded. Maybe I'm wrong, but with all the evidence, this ain't hitting Grinch numbers.

That was 5 years ago with 10 PM previews at at a time when Thursday previews are nowhere near as prominent as they are now.

Runtimes w/out credits and attachments for next week: Alita: 1:56. Attachments unknown (likely Dark Phoenix) Isn't It Romantic: 1:24. Attachments unknown (likely Sun is Also a Star and maybe La Llorona) Happy Death Day 2U: 1:34. Attachments are Us, Greta, and Ma (latter two new trailers)

Now it's gone over a complete overhaul, and it's even more strange. It's now back to only having Wednesday previews, but now, almost all of the showtimes for this weekend are 3D, apart from one 2D show at 7. I don't know if that was a demand by Fox or Cameron, but...don't think that's a good strategy.

Also from Deadline

As a comparison, Night School did about $1.35M. This should probably lead to about $25M

https://deadline.com/2019/02/lego-movie-2-chris-pratt-what-men-want-cold-pursuit-liam-neeson-box-office-weekend-1202552562/ Ehh, I guess it's alright

Anyway, also wanna give a birthday shout-out to our god @Rthanos. Thanks to all that you've done for us for the years, and I hope your day's a special one!

If it follows Lego Batman (excluding the early screenings) 9.9M 15.7M 10.6M 36.2M This probably won't reach those lows, since Batman had the DC brand, but...yeah, this seems like an O/U 50M scenario right now.

So about 1.5M in previews, huh? That doesn't really sound all that great, although maybe the early previews limited demand

@Slambros

Here's the thing. Arguing if we'll ever have a new "generational classic" is really hard, because we won't know until at least a decade from now what is a "generational classic". It's like arguing whether Post Malone has changed the music industry or not, when he's only just started out. Though I guess if you had to choose one now in terms of recent releases, I do feel like Wonder Woman and Black Panther fit the bill. Even if you don't like the films, they've certainly started to build a strong legacy and universal appeal. Giant box office, movies everybody here has probably seen, broad appeal to kids and adults, representation that few generational classics have achieved. I definitely feel like 30 years from now, those movies will be the Star Wars of today's kids. Frozen also arguably fits the bill, especially with the Disney machine behind it.

Cold Pursuit 28 1032 2.13% Lego Movie 2 387 3183 12.16% The Prodigy 24 1695 1.42% What Men Want 436 1583 27.54% I should mention first and foremost that I forgot to check Lego's 4PM previews (I'm only used to 7PM studios. STOP DOING PREVIEWS EARLY). Maybe it sold a lot in that timeframe, maybe it didn't, I dunno. Also, neither Cold Pursuit and Prodigy have previews tonight at my theater (they're probably trying to squeeze as much money out of the many holdovers as they can before they disappear), hence the more deflated numbers. Then again, they probably weren't making much anyways Pursuit: 35% of The Commuter (4.8M) 58% of 15:17 to Paris (7.3M) 47% of Death Wish (6.2M) 117% of Sicario 2 (22.2M) 47% of Skyscraper (11.6M) 65% of Mile 22 (8.9M) 61% of The Mule (10.7M) Again, I don't have previews to help the movie out, but...yeah. Anyway, Lego: 114% of Peter Rabbit (28.5M) 102% of Hotel Transylvania 3 (44.9M) 170% of House w/ Clock (45.2M) 213% of Smallfoot (49M) 86% of Grinch (58M) 149% of Spider-Verse (52.8M) The comps in the mid-40s do give me pause, but let's be optimistic and still gun for ~55M Prodigy: 73% of Winchester (6.8M) 37% of Strangers 2 (3.8M) 13% of Quiet Place (6.5M) 171% of Hell Fest (8.8M) 23% of Escape Room (4.1M) Eh? Maybe it reaches the Hell Fest comp? Men: 92% of Acrimony (15.8M) 283% of Uncle Drew (43.1M) 101% of Night School (27.5M) 119% of Nobody's Fool (16.4M) Around the ballpark of Night School's my guess

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My theater's acting weird with Alita too. For whatever reason, it currently has showtimes starting at Wednesday morning and through the day. I don't know if that was a mistake, but it is kinda weird, especially when every other theater's just doing previews.