Eric Quinn

I will also say that I do strongly disagree with Rachel Zegler being the problem. Most of the "backlash" against her still seems, hopefully seems, like Brie Larson-style alt-right nonsense that doesn't translate to the normies who don't even know she exists (not an invitation for debate, don't even think about opening that can of worms). I don't even fully buy the "Hunger Games isn't Hunger Games without J-Law" stuff, though I kind of get it. Really, I think the biggest problem is just that the concept and idea feels too dated. The whole YA dystopia trend crashed and burned hard once we got to 2016, and it makes sense. When our world actually became a hellish dystopia with climate change destroying everything and evil right-wingers like Trump and Bolsonaro rising into power, it ruined their escapist appeal instantly. It's really hard to really embrace these movies as fun, populist blockbusters when the evil dictators and settings where the 1% live high and mighty and the 99% are struggling to survive hit a little too close to home. These movies frankly feel too much like the evils of the real world and don't work as escapist adventures. At least something like Star Wars has fun sci-fi locales and aliens and space battles. Hunger Games really only worked in the Obama years and became instantly dated once those years were over.

If anybody here knows me, they know there are few people I hate more in this world than Elon Musk and right-wing scum in general. But I have a bad case of Twitter addiction and check it whenever I can. And I know that even with that capitalist asshole ruining things that are still tons of people, especially in fandom circles, who still actively use the platform, especially since it's still the easiest to talk about geek culture/Film Twitter stuff with mutuals and friends. As somebody here already said, geek stuff, especially stuff that is huge with millenials and older Gen Z, like Marvel or Star Wars or Percy Jackson, always at least hit the Top 30 Trending page. I definitely remember the Avatar trailers and marketing landed the movie on the Trending page rather consistently, and people say that it's totally not a social media-friendly franchise with no online fanbase (which is a stretch lmao but whatever). Doesn't necessarily mean it's 1:1 with how audiences work, and there's still a "Twitter bubble" problem, but social media is arguably the most important tool when it comes to advertising and hype for movies these days. It's the only reason Oppenheimer even got to 900M+. And if a movie based on an iconic property's not connecting, that's still a problem. Maybe I'm totally wrong here, because maybe it is huge on TikTok. I'm not on there, so I can't confirm. But nobody on here's confirming it, so...I dunno.

Baffling that this hasn't seemed to be trending at ALL on Twitter. That is unheard of for a big franchise movie, especially one that should be YA-driven like this. Lionsgate is cursed outside of John Wick at this point.

Quorum Updates Five Nights at Freddy's T-37: 36.51% Awareness Priscilla T-44: 25% The Bikeriders T-72: 12.54% Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom T-91: 52.25% Ferrari T-96: 18.89% Argylle T-135: 10.11% Dune: Part Two T-177: 35.39% Expend4bles T-2: 44.02% Awareness Final Awareness: 87% chance of 10M, 57% chance of 20M, 33% chance of 30M Medium Awareness: 82% chance of 10M, 64% chance of 20M, 54% chance of 30M It Lives Inside T-2: 24.82% Awareness Final Awareness: 15% chance of 10M Horror Awareness: 40% chance of 10M Freelance T-37: 30.35% Awareness T-30 Awareness: 87% chance of 10M Low Awareness: 100% chance of 10M

You could also maybe read a book instead.

Not bad! Don't feel like Branagh understand how to actually give these mysteries suspense, but the horror and dread-tinged atmosphere is legimitately effective, there's some gorgeous camerawork in here, and this is the first of these where I feel all the suspects are memorable (granted it helps the cast is a lot smaller). It's also nice to have one of these movies without terrible CGI and ugly digital backdrops behind them. The prior two look so artificial and ugly, which only made the movies feel even more lifeless and uninteresting.

The Trolls characters are now riding the Regal roller coaster policy ad that plays before the trailers start. Was a fair bit amusing seeing this before a screening of A Haunting in Venice. Talk about a real case of apples and oranges.

Moderation @Willowra @Megajohn01 Enough. Continue fighting and you will see a threadban.

Jessie lol. Don’t worry. We banned the IP address they made their last…5 accounts with? We are okay for now, at least until he uses a VPN yet again. This dude really needs a life lol

@Cap your time has come

Lol I’m going tomorrow too. If it’s not too late, you can fly over to PA and we can enjoy ourselves a 12:10 showing.

Can he fix it?

This is hilarious. The only way such a hilariously stupid odyssey could ever end.

Quorum Updates Dumb Money T-11: 21% Awareness The Exorcist: Believer T-18: 42.96% Anyone But You T-88: 14.06% Awareness Inside Out 2 T-270: 36.2% Awareness Expend4bles T-4: 42.38% Awareness Final Awareness: 87% chance of 10M, 57% chance of 20M, 33% chance of 30M Medium Awareness: 82% chance of 10M, 64% chance of 20M, 54% chance of 30M It Lives Inside T-4: 23.89% Awareness Final Awareness: 15% chance of 10M Horror Awareness: 40% chance of 10M The Creator T-11: 24.56% Awareness Final Awareness: 15% chance of 10M Medium Awareness: 0% chance of 10M Saw X T-11: 40.73% Awareness Final Awareness: 87% chance of 10M, 57% chance of 20M, 33% chance of 30M, 20% chance of 40M Horror Awareness: 100% chance of 10M, 83% chance of 20M, 33% chance of 40M Journey to Bethlehem T-53: 13.61% Awareness T-60 Awareness: 24% chance of 10M Low Awareness: 0% chance of 10M Thanksgiving T-60: 14.89% Awareness T-60 Awareness: 24% chance of 10M Horror Awareness: 44% chance of 10M

This trailer has been out for 4 days and nobody here even knew it happened. It's also got a whopping 29K views in 4 days. That is...almost astonishing in terms of how little traction this has lmao

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Expend4bles will be a fun little megabomb next week. That's a case where even surpassing the first film's 35M opening weekend seems like a tall order. You don't see stuff like that every day.

Brainbug, go to bed.

Certainly not. I'm grateful a film like Haunting in Venice exists actually. And I would want more than anything for it to do well. Just confused by the business sense, since, sadly, tragically, its audience doesn't care about going to theaters anymore. Though if Nile and later this is super big on PVOD and it really will go into the black in the end, then I guess what do I know?

1.) A Haunting in Venice (Dis) 3,305 Fri $5.5M, 3-day $14M-$15M/Wk 1 2) The Nun 2 (NL) 3,743 theaters (+15), Fri $4.4M (-66%) 3-day $14.6M (-55%) Total $56.3M/Wk 1 3.) Equalizer 3 (Sony) 3,528 (-437) theaters Fri $2.1M (-38%) 3-day $7.3M (-39%), Total: $73.8M /Wk 3 4.) My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (Uni) 3,678 (+28) theaters Fri $1.39M (-62%) 3-day $4.6M (-54%) Total $18.4M/Wk 2 5.) Barbie (WB) 3,012 (-269) theaters, Fri $1M (-30%) 3-day $3.6M (-37%) Total $625.7M/Wk 9 6.) Blue Beetle 2,386 (-400) theaters, Fri $575K (-32%) 3-day $2.5M (-34%), Total $67.3M/Wk 5 7.) Jawan (Yash Raj) 800 theaters, Fri $710K (-61%) 3-day $2.45M (-60%), Total $12.1M/Wk 2 8.) Gran Turismo (Sony) 2,202 (-563) theaters, Fri $620K (-32%) 3-day $2.35M (-33%) total $39.4M/Total Wk 4 9.) Oppenheimer (Uni) 1,799 (-292) theaters Fri $570K (-30%) 3-day $2.2M (-29%)/Total $318.7M/Wk 9 10.) Teenage Mutanta Ninja Turtles…(Par) 2,066 (-434) theaters Fri $440K (-23%) 3-day $2.15M (-23%) Total $114.2M/Wk 7 https://deadline.com/2023/09/box-office-a-haunting-in-venice-1235547819/

https://deadline.com/2023/09/box-office-a-haunting-in-venice-1235547819/ This is hysterical. A film that is literally designed for stodgy grandmas and grandpas and nobody else, yet the youths are still the biggest audience. Old people are just never coming back to theaters ever again lmao Again, I ask, why was this made?

I actually kind of like these weekends. Everything is chill, films get to do a wee bit better than they could have otherwise. Life is good.