Eric Quinn

I don't think they ever implied how they died. But given that this was in New Orleans and the clothes the ghost wore were pretty modern, Katrina sounds about right.

I actually remember watching that show when it premiered. The little black kid later on went to that Dan Schneider show about the kids that created their own video game company.

It's still something that irks me. That's like the most low-key racist thing Disney's ever done.

The only thing I ever saw of the show were the promos that played during Phineas and Ferb reruns. I remember thinking to myself, "How come the black kid is the only person in the show that doesn't have any superpowers?" That still irks me.

Here's the difference though: Split was marketed as a "scary fun" kinda movie, and had a touch of starpower to it. Get Out was a film tackling a difficult subject that almost never translates to big box office and zero starpower, and it ended up in the top 15. Also, Get Out's legs are practically impossible to achieve for any other horror flick.

I feel like American Sniper was the biggest surprise. With almost all of the other films, you can make some sort of argument as to why they did what they did. Frozen had the Disney Animation and Disney Princess brand to it. Jumanji had an all-star cast. Deadpool was a superhero flick in the X-Men universe. Hunger Games was a popular book, and being someone who grew up during the peak of the book's popularity, I knew how popular the brand was towards teens. Even Blind Side had Sandra Bullock, and inspirational dramas like these have done well in the past. With Sniper? It had little going for it, outside of Eastwood and Cooper. I remember looking at Box Office Mojo every day, and when I saw that weekend number, it made my jaw drop. It was an R-rated war drama about PTSD with decent but not phenomenal reviews, and here it was making superhero movie numbers, both in its opener and in its final total. The closest war movie as big as that film since its release is probably Dunkirk, and I don't think anything coming soon will come close to it.

OH MY LORD THAT GIF I'M CRYING RIGHT NOW

...what did you think of Andy Serkis?

Even The Ancient One can always have a fuck-up here and there

Probably double features with that and BP.

Ant-Man 2 will get Dr. Strange numbers. Maybe more, nothing less. I'll keep saying this until I'm blue in the face.

Shoulda roundhouse kicked those dudes

What's Every Day?

So about what I expected. Still think this should at least cross $100M, especially with how barren the family slate is (hell, the whole slate arguably feels barren until late April)

Alright, y'all want to know my issues with Serkis, well, here you go. Is Serkis entertaining? Yes. Does it look like he's having the time of his life? Yes. Is a hammy villain always a delight? Yes. But I feel that he was way too over-the-top, and it didn't work for a film that was far less comedic than a lot of the other MCU movies. If he was in Ragnarok, or one of the Guardians movies, I could forgive it. Hell, Klaw and Hela together would have been absolutely epic. But seeing him laugh every 10 seconds, bark and growl, and sing "What is Love" at random points just felt out-of-place, and clashed with all of the other characters. He still could have worked if some of his extreme psychoticness was played down just a bit, because ham is always a treat, but too much ham will give you a stomachache. Besides, @MovieMan89 is in here, trying to argue that everything about Michael B. Jordan wasn't perfect. Y'all should get on his ass, not mine. Anyway, moving away from Serkis, something that I absolutely loved about this movie that I don't think anyone mentioned was how good the chemistry between T'Challa and Shuri are. The way they played off one another, the way they joked with one another, the way they insulted one another, but out of love, was probably one of the few authentic moments of sibling relationships that I've seen in a long time. The "What are those" joke and the part where Shuri records T'Challa getting knocked out is totally something one of my sisters would do...if she was a scientific supergenius.

East coaster here, and that's pretty accurate. Although I'm more partial to screaming "moron" or "dumbass" until a vein bursts in my neck.

http://deadline.com/2018/02/black-panther-thursday-night-preview-box-office-1202291093/ Another holdover update (though again, who cares):

Theaters, Lady Bird. Overall, The Florida Project.

Nine trailers sounds like torture

Life of the Party and Tag.

Applebee's isn't that bad. Their ribs are pretty a'ight. #SorryNotSorry