Eric Prime

Ah yes, the only opinion that matters.

A few theaters might have a movie on sale earlier than planned. Sometimes it's a communication error, other times it may be a test. Deadpool 2 and Crimes of Grindelwald did the same thing. We'll probably get a trailer or TV spot or something very soon though that promotes tickets being on sale now. Also of note, Bumblebee has showtimes posted, but are still grayed out, meaning you can't buy them yet. The earliest showtimes start at 5, like Aquaman, Beasts, and Venom before it. I guess this is the new normal now.

That's what Box Office Mojo has right now. It could change, especially considering Pixar's leadership changes, but I'm basing it off of that for now.

Also for funsies, my predictions for what the untitled Disney movies will probably be (I might do the other studios later): February 14: The One and Only Ivan March 6: The Suburban Fantasy Pixar Project May 1: Black Widow June 19: The Mark Andrews Pixar Project October 9: Cruella November 25: Dragon Empire December 23: Pinocchio

The reason why 2020 seems like an "off" year is because we still have a whole bunch of untitled features. By the time next year rolls around, the schedule will seem a lot more meaty, as more projects get announced and placed around the schedule.

There is nothing wrong with Goddess Icon Emily Blunt getting her first Oscar nom. Get your "oh god" BS outta here

I believe Disney recently hired someone who has had great success with awards contenders as an awards coordinator. It's also arguably helped by a lot of commercial releases like First Man and Widows underperforming, which will hurt them when it comes to awards. Stuff like Panther and Poppins can fit in as the populist hits.

Cooliostradmus ladies and gentlemen

Rob Marshall: a true visionary.

I did this in the Just the Numbers thread, but since this will generate more traffic and likes here: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: Current Gross: $62,200,000 A Star is Born (WB's #1 movie): $185,840,907 and counting ($123,640,907 remaining) Double Century Mark: $200,000,000 ($137,800,000 remaining) Fantastic Beasts: $234,037,575 ($171,837,575 remaining) The Grinch Current Gross: $126,544,280 Double Century Mark: $200,000,000 ($73,455,720 remaining) The Grinch (2000): $260,044,825 ($133,500,545 remaining) Despicable Me 3 (top 5 Illumination): $264,624,300 ($138,080,020 remaining) Home Alone (biggest Christmas movie): $285,761,243 ($159,216,963 remaining) Bohemian Rhapsody Current Gross: $127,885,859 Straight Outta Compton (biggest music biopic): $161,197,785 ($33,311,926 remaining) The Greatest Showman (Fox's last musical): $174,340,174 ($46,454,315 remaining) Double Century Mark: $200,000,000 ($72,114,141 remaining)

Stuff like Lady Bird and Three Billboards last year managed to have killer PTAs and good holds last year, so don't give me any of that "art house and adult movies are a dying breed." Obviously I don't expect stuff like Boy Erased, CYEFM, Beautiful Boy, and the like to do gangbusters and make $100M or whatever, but they're delivering average PTAs and poor holds when just last year, we've had several indie breakout. That's a problem to me.

Yikes at CYEFM dropping 40% despite a 100+ theater increase. It might not even reach $10M. Relating, it's depressing how mediocre the awards contenders/indies have done this season. Seems like everything art house-wise has done mediocre results at best from September to now. The Favourite better do a $100K PTA or something next weekend.

https://deadline.com/2018/11/fantastic-beasts-the-crimes-of-grindelwald-weekend-box-office-opening-widows-viola-davis-green-book-1202503142/

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I also like Grinch with nice animation, fun slapstick, decent heart and Pharell Williams as a narrator. Sorry you don't care about that stuff.

Bugs is better than Goofy, Donald or Mickey.

Grinch '18 was fine. Y'all are just mean.

I was gone for a few hours. What went down in the weekend thread? There's some rando complaining about male moderators or whatever, and I'm pretty sure a few posts got removed lol

At least in Philly, Thursday got hit hard by the snowstorms. However, weather was fine yesterday and today, although maybe some roads might still had to be closed on Friday.

Sorry if this was already posted https://pro.boxoffice.com/weekend-estimates-fantastic-beasts-crimes-grindelwald-instant-family-widows-green-book-bohemian-rhapsody/ Early Weekend Estimates (Domestic) FRI, NOV. 16 – SUN, NOV. 18 WIDE (1000+) # TITLE WEEKEND LOCATIONS AVG. TOTAL WKS. DIST. 1 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald $63,000,000 — 4,163 — $15,133 $63,000,000 1 Warner Bros. 2 Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch $37,500,000 -45% 4,141 0 $9,056 $125,876,280 2 Universal 3 Bohemian Rhapsody $15,700,000 -50% 3,810 -190 $4,121 $127,885,859 3 20th Century Fox 4 Instant Family $14,000,000 — 3,286 — $4,260 $14,000,000 1 Paramount Pictures 5 Widows $12,000,000 — 2,803 — $4,281 $12,000,000 1 20th Century Fox 6 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms $4,800,000 -52% 2,635 -1131 $1,822 $43,992,690 3 Walt Disney Pictures 7 A Star is Born $4,200,000 -48% 2,010 -838 $2,090 $185,690,907 7 Warner Bros. 8 Overlord $3,600,000 -65% 2,859 0 $1,259 $17,492,889 2 Paramount Pictures 9 The Girl in the Spider’s Web $2,500,000 -68% 2,929 0 $854 $13,290,523 2 Sony / Columbia 10 Nobody’s Fool $2,200,000 -67% 1,301 -1167 $1,691 $28,827,618 3 Paramount 11 Venom $1,900,000 -61% 1,307 -1044 $1,454 $210,001,043 7 Sony / Columbia LIMITED (100 — 999) # TITLE WEEKEND LOCATIONS AVG. TOTAL WKS. DIST. 1 Boy Erased $1,300,000 71% 409 332 $3,178 $2,651,950 3 Focus Features 2 Can You Ever Forgive Me? $875,000 -39% 555 164 $1,577 $5,053,185 5 Fox Searchlight 3 The Hate U Give $800,000 -61% 593 -515 $1,349 $28,243,193 7 20th Century Fox 4 A Private War $700,000 256% 865 827 $809 $700,000 3 Aviron Pictures 5 Halloween (2018) $620,000 -84% 922 -1795 $672 $158,716,140 5 Universal Pictures 6 Smallfoot $525,000 -65% 493 -825 $1,065 $81,458,168 8 Warner Bros. 7 Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween $150,000 -83% 307 -1212 $489 $46,379,127 6 Sony 8 The Old Man & The Gun $150,000 -67% 171 -224 $877 $10,600,793 8 Fox Searchlight 9 Incredibles 2 $80,000 -35% 130 -10 $615 $608,400,195 23 Disney 10 Hunter Killer $78,000 -89% 194 -763 $402 $15,642,791 4 Lionsgate / Summit 11 A Simple Favor $30,000 -57% 101 -26 $297 $53,526,171 10 Lionsgate PLATFORM (1 — 99) # TITLE WEEKEND LOCATIONS AVG. TOTAL WKS. DIST. 1 Green Book $285,000 — 25 — $11,400 $285,000 1 Universal Pictures 2 At Eternity’s Gate $92,000 — 4 — $23,000 $92,000 1 CBS Films 3 The Front Runner $75,000 46% 22 18 $3,409 $166,169 2 Sony / Columbia 4 Disney’s Christopher Robin $30,000 -54% 92 -30 $326 $99,168,899 16 Disney

I'm not the best at extrapolating numbers, but 2012 had the same calendar configuration, and its drops are nowhere near as bad-looking as what it seems like these will be at. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2012&wknd=46&p=.htm Although to be fair, there was only one wide opener that weekend, while we have three 2,800+ openers this weekend.

See McCarthy instead of Depp fool.