Eric Quinn

The benefit Creed has compared to something like Fantastic Beasts or Star Wars, which will always be reliant on nostalgia legacy characters, is that the Creed movies and Rocky movies have very different audience demos. I love Stallone and I'm not trying to discredit his popularity and draw power for the first two Creed movies. Rocky's one of my favorite film franchises of all time. But Donnie is a character who has really stood out on his own and strongly connected to people my generation, especially to POC communities, that we don't need Rocky to be there to get us excited. MBJ is enough. If anything, I feel like Creed II kinda limited its appeal towards people my age demographic by focusing too much on Rocky fanfiction silliness. So having something more in line with the original in terms of story and character, in line with something that the most active moviegoing demos would lap up (18-34, Black, Latino), and having awesome IMAX tech and a new actor who is making the rounds...yeah, we don't need Stallone, at least us youths. Again, it's legit cool to see a franchise like Rocky now go on long enough where its main character isn't needed anymore to sell tickets. I think this is the only franchise that is able to do that.

John Wick: Chapter 4 Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-20 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 69 466 13153 3.54% Total Seats Sold Today: 76 Comp - T-20 2.453x of The Suicide Squad (10.06M) 1.331x of Venom 2 (15.44M) 1.438x of No Time to Die (9.06M) 0.513x of Top Gun 2 (9.88M) 0.329x of Jurassic World: Dominion (5.92M) 0.336x of Avatar 2 (5.71M)

Shazam! Fury of the Gods Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-13 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 84 311 17155 1.81% Total Seats Sold Today: 19 Comp - T-13 1.131x of The Suicide Squad (4.64M) 0.330x of Shang-Chi (2.91M) 0.199x of Eternals (1.89M) 0.675x of Ghostbusters: Afterlife (3.04M) 0.506x of Morbius (2.88M) 0.575x of Sonic 2 (3.59M) 0.628x of Fantastic Beasts 3 (3.77M) 0.178x of Jurassic World: Dominion (3.2M) 0.444x of Black Adam (3.37M)

Scream VI Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-6 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 52 1034 8450 12.24% Total Seats Sold Today: 84 Comp - T-6 1.521x of Halloween Kills (7.37M) 1.890x of Scream (6.62M) 1.901x of Nope (12.16M) 1.087x of Halloween Ends (5.87M)

That doesn't make any sense. Jesus can walk on water.

This is such a stupid way to frame things. Creed/MGM is clearly a different beast from Amazon Studios and their usual output. You don't have to do this kind of wacky spin stuff for this movie.

My issue here is that these remakes just don't have much longevity when it comes to franchise continuations. The typical life of these remakes is that they come out, people talk about them for nine months, and then never talk about them again. They all coast on the novelty of seeing the scenes and songs and aesthetics you remember from the movie you watched as a kid and nothing else. That works for one movie, and obviously works from different movie to different movie. But it doesn't really get audiences invested in the characters enough to see them in a follow-up adventure. Both Alice 2 and Maleficent 2 suffered this fate. People liked the remakes okay, but it wasn't enough to get you excited to see them again. Why would a prequel to what many consider one of the worst remakes hold any better than those films? Really the only financially viable way if you want a franchise continuation is to do what they were going to do with Beauty and the Beast and do a Disney+ show. You still get big headlines and people are more willing to have it on as something in the background rather than pay money to see it in theaters.

I still feel bad for all those people who were in the Smile campaign tour and were forced to smile for an eternity while at baseball games. That must have been painful.

Rotten Tomatoes Verified Audience Scores: Creed III: 96% Operation Fortune: 100% Note that Operation Fortune has less than 50 ratings. It should drop the farther we get into the day.

Quorum Updates Inside T-15: 17.71% Awareness, 5.38 Interest Moving On T-15: 20.36%, 5.43 Shazam! Fury of the Gods T-15: 50.8%, 5.63 A Good Person T-29: 19.06%, 5.26 The Super Mario Bros. Movie T-34: 51.95%, 6.01 The Boogeyman T-92: 31.28%, 6.04 Creed III T-1: 59.06% Awareness, 6.17 Interest Final Awareness: 75% chance of 30M, 50% chance of 40M, 33% chance of 50M, 25% chance of 60M Final Interest: 89% chance of 30M, 74% chance of 40M, 58% chance of 50M, 53% chance of 60M Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret T-57: 17.8% Awareness, 4.67 Interest T-60 Awareness: 29% chance of 10M T-60 Interest: 37% chance of 10M Known IP Awareness: 0% chance of 10M Known IP Interest: 0% chance of 10M Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 T-64: 54.57% Awareness, 6.5 Interest T-60 Awareness: 89% chance of 100M T-60 Interest: 87% chance of 100M DC/MCU Awareness: 100% chance of 100M DC/MCU Interest: 100% chance of 100M

Yes. Both Inside Out 2 and that Lion King prequel look like they'll be financial duds, especially the latter.

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Fast X Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-77 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 83 286 17734 1.61% Total Seats Sold Today: 12

John Wick: Chapter 4 Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-21 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 69 390 13153 2.97% Total Seats Sold Today: 83 Comp - T-21 2.378x of The Suicide Squad (9.75M) 1.296x of Venom 2 (15.03M) 0.521x of Top Gun 2 (10.03M) 0.280x of Jurassic World: Dominion (5.03M) 0.299x of Avatar 2 (5.08M)

Shazam! Fury of the Gods Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-14 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 84 292 17155 1.70% Total Seats Sold Today: 1 Comp - T-14 0.158x of Black Widow (2.08M) 1.110x of The Suicide Squad (4.55M) 0.329x of Shang-Chi (2.9M) 0.196x of Eternals (1.86M) 0.695x of Ghostbusters: Afterlife (3.13M) 0.508x of Morbius (2.89M) 0.582x of Sonic 2 (3.63M) 0.664x of Fantastic Beasts 3 (3.98M) 0.174x of Jurassic World: Dominion (3.14M) 0.444x of Black Adam (3.38M) 0.070x of Ant-Man 3 (1.22M)

Scream VI Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-7 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 52 950 8450 11.24% Total Seats Sold Today: 65 Comp - T-7 1.547x of Halloween Kills (7.5M) 1.889x of Scream (6.61M) 1.927x of Nope (12.33M) 1.110x of Halloween Ends (5.99M)

Did...did they just throw shade at Creed?

Operation Fortune: Ruse de Gurre Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 23 114 2353 4.84% Total Seats Sold Today: 58 Comp 0.175x of Snake Eyes (245K) 0.261x of The King's Man (209K) 0.745x of The 355 (261K) 0.318x of Moonfall (223K) 0.375x of Ambulance (262K) 0.065x of Bullet Train (299K) 0.279x of Violent Night (307K) 0.280x of Plane (175K) Yeah...it exists.

Creed III Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 87 4479 16340 27.41% Total Seats Sold Today: 1,654 Comp 0.988x of F9 (7.01M) 1.539x of No Time to Die (9.7M) 2.019x of Ghostbusters: Afterlife (9.09M) 1.901x of Fantastic Beasts 3 (11.41M) 1.419x of Nope (9.08M) 1.268x of Black Adam (9.64M) 0.245x of Black Panther 2 (6.87M) 0.738x of Avatar 2 (12.55M) So as I've said countless times, this is overindexing like crazy. In Philly, it's a law to see a Rocky/Creed movie. But like...yeah, this is gonna do well.

I mean I guess it doesn't really matter in the end, and spooky horror stuff has always been a summer staple, but they still could have put this in the same late September date as stuff like Hotel Transylvania or Hocus Pocus 2 and probably get way more interest from kids who want to get into the Halloween spirit rather than be awkwardly jammed in a packed summer season. But I guess it's still different enough from a lot of the other movies surrounding it outside of Ninja Turtles that it will probably be fine.