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Well I don’t watch wrestling and haven’t seen Mindhunter and I liked it too. But I may also be biased, because movies with hot people are my kryptonite. And Zac and Lily and Jeremy are all cuties.

Can’t wait for people to pretend that this number is bad actually. Totally not gonna be obnoxious and irritating no siree

Believe me. I know. You're gonna see 10 more of these kinds of posts lmao

Who would win in a fight with nothing but their bare fists? Those boys in the boat, or the boy and his heron?

Wow. What a lineup. And people wonder why I’m all Eeyore and doom and gloom these days.

February 23 Drive Away Dolls: Not a nostalgic toy commercial. 5/20 (4x) Ordinary Angels: Not a nostalgic toy commercial, and it’s not Angel Studios. 3/8 (2.67x)

February 16 Bob Marley: One Love: The minimal advertising and the lack of a platform release in 2022 to get Oscar noms tells you everything you need to know about this film’s quality. And I don’t think Bob Marley is all that popular these days to help bring in a lot of people just on brand value. This is going low, even for music biopics. 10/14/30 Madame Web: Superhero movies are dead, so Sony superhero movies are like...dead dead. And like...y'all saw the trailer. The only question is how low this could go. Let’s say.....30M? Sure, slightly less than half of Morbius. 15/18/30

February 9 It Ends With Us: There's no trailer, so I'm assuming it's a delay. But it's not an NTC, so... Lisa Frankenstein: Wow, a new Diablo Cody screenplay! Too bad it's not an NTC, so nobody will watch this. Oh well. 4/12 (3x)

February 2 Argylle: Even with the trailer playing before every movie, Quorum awareness is still nonexistent. And frankly, these kinds of action comedy movies need a Ryan Reynolds or Sandra Bullock or Brad Pitt-style movie star to help sell it. I like Sam Rockwell, but he just ain’t it. People may predict this as a wild card, but I know this is yet another dud for the year. Maybe this does better on Apple TV+. 7/20 (2.86x)

Boy, this month sucks...now onto the next month that will also suck.

January 19 I.S.S.: No clue what this is, but it’s not a nostalgic toy commercial, so nobody will show up. 2/4 (2x)

January 12 The Beekeeper: Plane numbers I guess? Sure, why not? These cheesy action movies usually make these kinds of numbers. 10/30 (3x) The Book of Clarence: Quorum metrics are in the toilet, and this seems like a movie ripe for controversy. Controversy that’s against a lot of the major audience sectors that still go to the movies. Don’t expect much from this. 6/18 (3x) Mean Girls: I’m not sure why they are hiding the musical aspects of this. Because without that hook to bring people in, this just looks like a cheap direct-to-video remake of the original classic. However, I guess that doesn’t matter anymore. If anything, audiences would rather just have something that’s exactly the same as what they saw 20 years ago. With both Quorum and traditional tracking being strong, this has breakout potential, though maybe dinged a bit from false advertising. 35/115 (3.29x)

January 5 Night Swim: While Quorum awareness isn’t the greatest, only 36% chance of 10M when using horror comparables, I think it could comfortably reach double digits like most first weekend of January horror movies. Not much more than that however. It’s just not as fun a concept or as TikTok friendly as M3GAN, and the concept isn’t the greatest hook. But again, could be worse. And trust me, things will get worse. 13/35 (2.69x)

That GIF? Couldn't have said it better myself. 2022 was already pretty rough for the industry and signaled the death of the box office as we used to know it. But there was at least the caveat, the benefit of the doubt that things were at least good enough for the tentpoles. That Hollywood could build on top of that momentum, and that the big movies would still make the numbers they always made. And I mean...they kind of did, since 2023 is still ahead of 2022 at the box office. But that doesn’t really mean much of anything. Because once again, 2023 was a disaster for Hollywood and shows once again that the peaks we saw only a couple years ago? The $11B+ numbers we consistently saw? They are never coming back. Ever. Disney completely bellyflopped last year with one bomb after the other, audiences are still piss-scared to watch anything that isn’t a nostalgic toy commercial or a schlocky horror movie, and capitalist greed resulted in two of the biggest strikes in Hollywood history. And even then, people are sick of the current crop of nostalgic toy commercials, but can’t bring themselves to watch anything that isn’t in that group. So really, nothing appeals to anybody. Right-wing garbage like Sound of Freedom is potentially our future, as our world continues to fall into the evils of both nationalism and conservatism. Audiences who were always reliable have now deserted movie theaters forever. Kids only want to watch stuff on streaming now. Everything is priced to the max, so you’re paying an arm and a leg to see a movie that's probably going to suck. Movie theaters...are done. They’ll still exist, don't you worry, but their heyday? It's over. And things will only get worse as time goes on. 2024? It’s gonna be another rough one. The strikes delayed tons of potentially strong projects, audiences don't care for these modern prices, and, as I mentioned years ago, it turns out being reliant on the enduring success and popularity of one single genre/movie franchise wasn't a smart idea after all. Everything sucks, nothing will ever get better, it's all a mess. But I mean...Han and I do this every year, so I guess we’ll have to do this again. But, spoiler alert, this is going to be pretty doom and gloom. So if you don’t like BOT users for daring to say the truth, you may have to leave. Let's do this.

Anyways, I'm going to bed @WrathOfHan get ready to be #CONTROVERSIAL when I wake up. It's time for us to have our annual fun 😈

Honestly feel like most of the "Greatest Showman legs vibes" feel like they're coming from one person. Might be missing some other posts, but everybody else has been pushing for around the same numbers that every other non-Disney musical has gotten, if not slightly more than that (I think the biggest in that camp is still Grease at 180M?) and people seem happy and excited over that.

Thought it would have been fun, for old times sake, to look at how every movie is selling at my local 22-screen Regal on Christmas Day. I'm not looking to actually extrapolate anything or determine what the numbers will actually be, just a fun thing to chew on while we all wait around, twiddling our thumbs. The Color Purple - 535 tickets (10 shows) Aquaman 2 - 129 tickets (18 shows) Wonka - 125 tickets (7 shows) The Boys in the Boat - 117 tickets (4 shows) Migration - 62 tickets (10 shows) Ferrari - 50 tickets (4 shows) Hunger Games: BOSS - 30 tickets (4 shows) Anyone But You - 24 tickets (5 shows) Trolls 3 - 21 tickets (2 shows) Napoleon - 17 tickets (1 show) Wish - 14 tickets (3 shows) The Iron Claw - 13 tickets (4 shows) Dunki - 11 tickets (3 shows) Poor Things - 9 tickets (4 shows) The Boy and the Heron - 5 tickets (2 shows) Godzilla Minus One - 2 tickets (2 shows) Salaar: Part 1 - 3 tickets (1 show)

K.

I remember pre-COVID, when the world was sane, a lot of us, including myself, felt Soul was going to be this huge breakout for Pixar, but it honestly feels more and more with time that it would have done like Ratatouille numbers (still obviously really good and successful ofc!). I liked the movie, but a lot of the ideas are a little too adult even for Pixar. Hard to make a story about a guy wondering if he should have a job that gives him benefits or not be interesting to kids, especially when even something like Up has a cute kid sidekick and a talking dog to get all those 8 year olds interested. You can also see that in some of the Disney+ Nielsen ratings that TV Grim Reaper shares on Twitter, where Soul almost never reaches the top 10 originals. And it's not even that high a barrier of entry.

I work at Target and uh...yeah, that ain't right lol

95% of every PG-13 movie that comes out, especially these days, are kids movies.

Another year, another time for me to wish you all a Merry Christmas.

Well...I’ve been doing this for three years now. I guess I have to go back to it again. Many may remember that last year’s message was kind of a downer. I was going through some of the worst few months of my life. I was laid off from a job I loved and promised great opportunities in my future, scrambled to find a job that hired me in the worst possible time to get a new job, was given what seemed like a golden opportunity that blew up in my face, and was afraid over what my future is. I wish I could say that 2023 was an improvement, and...I suppose it was. Because instead of anguish, much of the year I felt...nothing. I was thrust back into the world of retail, a place I hate, specifically in the world of Target. My position is one that, frankly, either won’t take me anywhere or take me into positions I never want to be in. I hate my boss, while my team, understaffed with limited resources, is as miserable as I am. I found some comfort in my job, enjoying the exercise it gives me and the massive amount of weight I’ve lost. But now, I’m stuck in overnights until the new year, miserable and isolated from my family and most of the world. And with an endless supply of new products brought from my Target overlords, an inability to find the time to take care of all my tasks, and being breathed down my neck while doing it...it’s been rough. Especially when I’m too tired to do anything else. I still haven’t recovered from the trauma I felt when I got laid off and I don’t know if I ever will. Doesn’t help that my attempts at finding other jobs have led me nowhere. I don’t have enough experience in communications to advance my career, and I’m too experienced to go back to entry-level positions. I’m trapped in an awkward position, and I’m terrified that I may be stuck in a job where I’m severely overworked and severely underpaid forever. Even the box office, something that keeps me off my mind, wasn’t helping. I don’t like failures or movies bombing. I hate how the movies I love are on a slow death. I hate how the evils of capitalism causes talented people to strike just for the right to be paid a living wage. I hate how the evils of capitalism cause movies to disappear forever. I hate that things are looking worse and worse for an industry I love and I can’t do anything to change that. But of course I got through it like I do every year. And a lot of this was, as always, the company I made from BOT. People I could talk to, vent out my frustrations with, and really find some sort of closure from my pain. Whether it be my D&D group, who I love playing with every week, my stronger mutuals I’ve met here, many of whom I met in person for the first time, or just random posters I like to debate and chat with. And I’m hoping, as we get into the new year, I can get out of retail and return to what I love. Being in communications, getting a chance to be a content writer, enjoying the comfort of an office job once again. But there’s no way I can know my future. But it’s always important to recognize there are people I love and who love me. And I will always cherish and love that feeling. Hope you all enjoy your Christmas, and I can’t wait to share another message with you guys a year later.