Eric Prime

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.

About to see Iron Claw in a few minutes, brother and I are seeing Boy and the Heron tomorrow, family's going to the Eagles game on Chirstmas Day. Gonna be a fun weekend, before I get through the catchup rush of seeing everything else. Exciting time for the movies. Hooray!

Why don't you want to root for me?

You're about half of 29m

Don't worry, I can fill in for CJohn. I'll pencil in a rant on NTCs on...let's say tomorrow? Think that's about right? We'll see what the exact time is.

It's because their tracking firms don't look at presales. It's been established for a while that the traditional industry tracking firms, which is where these publications get their stuff from, use models that look at surveys, social media, reviews, etc. and not presales. I don't know why they do it still, but that's how it works, and that can lead to underindexing, especially for minority-led projects like these. But it's not like the studios care. If anything, they probably like this stuff for PR purposes. "Wow, this movie doubled from what projections said. Who could have seen that coming?" And only nerds like us care about box office, so it's not like it really matters.

Can't wait to get my steamboat fanfictions published. Gonna make allllllllll the money.

Even Migration is impressive to me. I saw it before a few movies, often in packed houses, and none of the jokes ever landed, even when kids were in the building. And even if it's still looking to gross way less than most Illumination movies...I mean, we're in a new box office world where original animation is dying. I'll take what I can get.

I don't know if this has been brought up yet, but the 1.2M for Anyone But You might be the most impressive preview of the bunch, since this might have the worst ad campaign I've ever seen for any movie ever for a genre that is deader than dead. Don't know how this isn't opening to 2M or something like that with such awful, weird trailers. I guess the Euphoria connections really do go a long way with getting the kids interested

Quorum Updates Poor Things T-2: 25.82% Awareness The Boys in the Boat T-4: 25.26% The Color Purple T-4: 49.33% Ferrari T-4: 30.56% Inside Out 2 T-176: 44.77% Despicable Me 4 T-195: 40.23% Anyone But You T-1: 33.06% Awareness Final Awareness: 37% chance of 10M, 6% chance of 20M Low Awareness: 24% chance of 10M, 5% chance of 20M Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom T-1: 61.09% Awareness Final Awareness: 100% chance of 30M, 94% chance of 40M, 83% chance of 50M, 72% chance of 60M, 55% chance of 70M, 39% chance of 100M DC/MCU Awareness: 100% chance of 40M, 80% chance of 50M, 60% chance of 100M The Iron Claw T-1: 29.04% Awareness Final Awareness: 17% chance of 10M Low Awareness: 15% chance of 10M Migration T-1: 44.08% Awareness Final Awareness: 86% chance of 10M, 54% chance of 20M, 31% chance of 30M Animation/Family Awareness: 80% chance of 10M, 20% chance of 20M

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Moderation Next time somebody complains about cancel culture or mocks these allegations will see a threadban. I'm not letting this stuff slide.

That reads as somebody who knows from experience. 🤔

Still relevant!

This is so facts. Like after Empire, she should have been in everything, but her team was like "no" because?????????????????????

Kill me.