Eric Quinn

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I've been updating their tracking changes in the Tracking Thread for months now. I also made a whole thread about it that, while kind of outdated, since it was published in late August, is still interesting and still shows that it's largely accurate to the general box office. Even today, Ant-Man's mid-50s awareness is around what Venom 2 had. And what do you know? It's opening on par with Venom 2.

I don't know about OS box office or anything, but I don't see a reason why a 100M opening for Mario wouldn't be in consideration. Trailers consistently do well with a crowd, it trends all the time, advertising has been everywhere, the games have a strong fanbase across every age group, Illumination's the biggest animation brand in town, it's tracking like crazy on The Quorum. Maybe it's all hot air or gamers trying to oversell the thing, but the hype seems pretty legit where I stand.

It was going to be a 2-month suspension. But the literal day he was allowed to return to the forum, he used that time to PM Shawn, the guy who pays for this entire website, threats, insults, and attacks because we dared to hold him accountable for his actions. So my overlord Shawn decided to permanently ban him, since he didn't learn his lesson and decided to use his newfound freedom to go after the main guy in charge instead of just trying to be respectful and courteous. It's very funny. For a guy who prides himself on being the smartest person in the room and for always being right all the time on everything...he acted pretty stupid there. It's very stupid to go into my PMs or Cap's or Zee's or XXR's and insult and berate us. But to go after the guy who is in charge of this whole website? The guy who made this website happen? The guy who actually works in the industry and is often quoted in big articles from CNN and CNBC and other business sites...what did he think was gonna happen?

Am I gonna get fucked by the biggest baseball bat known to man now? I'M SCARED GUYS 😱

Yes. And those shitty movies are happening because of those Disney+ shows. I've explained to you why the abundance of them is hurting the quality control and the storytelling of this saga over and over and over and over again. I'm not sure why you refuse to listen and don't like it when people complain about these shows being a problem when you yourself hate them, but go off I guess.

Shazam! Fury of the Gods Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-27 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 81 153 16243 0.94% Total Seats Sold Today: 15 Comp - T-27 0.188x of Black Widow (2.48M) 0.125x of Jurassic World: Dominion (2.24M) 0.051x of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (886K)

Scream VI Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-20 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 50 554 8200 6.76% Total Seats Sold Today: 25 Comp - T-20 2.328x of Scream (8.15M) 2.225x of Nope (14.24M)

Creed III Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-13 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 59 300 12178 2.46% Comp - T-13 0.382x of F9 (2.71M) 0.513x of No Time to Die (3.23M) 0.651x of Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2.93M) 0.606x of Fantastic Beasts 3 (3.64M) 0.901x of Nope (5.77M) 0.428x of Black Adam (3.25M) 0.153x of Avatar 2 (2.61M) Didn't really know what to throw in here for comps, so it's kind of a hodgepodge of older franchise/nostalgia plays, and some movies that skewed more towards Black audiences like F9 and Black Adam and Nope (wanted to do Wakanda Forever, and it said like 1.15M and like...nah, that ain't it lol). I will say it's interesting to see 7PM previews like in the good ol' days. Nice for me in terms of tracking it, and I'm assuming this leads to a bigger weekend IM than what we usually get. (BTW, I know there's some Early Access shows, but I don't think they're super widespread or anything)

Feels nice to be vindicated when I said wayyyyy back in 2021 that these TV shows were going to cause Marvel more harm than good.

Well if you pay for a premium account, you get more likes

One of my favorite (and by favorite I mean...not, because it's very sad) is when the guy who created Powerpuff Girls and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends admitted on Twitter he pitched a ton of original ideas to different animation studios, but none of them got picked up despite him being on tons of hit cartoon shows. So he basically gave up and signed on to yet another Powerpuff Girls reboot (and a Foster's reboot!), so he can pay the bills. I'm not saying anything, but I'm also not NOT saying anything.

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/my-big-fat-greek-wedding-3-release-date-september-nia-vardalos-1235526154/ Drops September 8

It's still weird to me this isn't a September or October release. This is a film that is perfectly designed to be a Halloween movie in every possible way.

Also saw this with the first Indiana Jones trailer. I think that's supposed to be a racist dogwhistle from racists and alt-righters...but I don't know what the dogwhistle is supposed to represent here.

I feel like it's not that hard. Just take certain seasons or story arcs from an anime and just adapt those. Then if the movie's a hit, then you adapt those later arcs in a sequel. Basically do what they did with the Dune movies and have a Part One that ends on a cliffhanger that's followed up with in Part Two. And I know there's the risk of ending on a cliffhanger when your first movie could bomb, but that has never stopped Hollywood from doing that before. Including with already existing anime movies!

I'm far from an anime expert (last one I watched were Sonic X/Pokemon back when I was like 12), and it doesn't help that any attempts of Hollywood anime adaptations have almost all sucked, but I feel anime is in a very tricky spot that makes it hard to succeed. From what I've seen, most anime fans are "purists" who will stick to the original Japanese versions and would be instantly wary of any Americanization (there's already those dumb "sub vs. dub" fights). If a live-action Demon Slayer movie comes out, even if it looks really, really good, I feel like most Demon Slayer fans would just stick to watching the anime or one of their movies. It's different from comic books, where you're seeeing images and illustrations "come to life". There's also the minefield of casting. Do you go with casting white actors for roles that are more ambiguous? Or do you stick with Asian actors because this is a Japanese-based property? That would be a huge headache from a PR perspective. Video game movies are for sure going to be a big trend though, especially since many of them can be worked into crowdpleasing animated family films. It wouldn't surprise me after the Mario movie's opening weekend that they announce a Legend of Zelda movie from Illumination or Dreamworks or whoever.

Well that's because Dune already has that first weekend. With that and Hunger Games on the 17th, that's basically your competition.

Does size matter????????????????????????

Quorum Updates Champions T-22: 17.63% Awareness, 5.23 Interest Moving On T-29: 23.04%, 5.24 Shazam! Fury of the Gods T-29: 48.11%, 5.66 A Good Person T-43: 18.53%, 5.29 The Super Mario Bros. Movie T-50: 54.13%, 6.34 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 T-78: 53.69%, 6.45 Kandahar T-99: 12.39%, 5.0 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania T-1: 54.66% Awareness, 6.21 Interest Final Awareness: 18% chance of 60M, 9% chance of 90M Final Interest: 50% chance of 60M, 44% chance of 70M, 39% chance of 100M DC/MCU Awareness: 100% chance of 60M, 50% chance of 90M DC/MCU Interest: 100% chance of 60M John Wick: Chapter 4 T-36: 56.95% Awareness, 6.69 Interest T-30 Awareness: 100% chance of 50M, 91% chance of 70M, 73% chance of 100M T-30 Interest: 100% chance of 50M, 89% chance of 70M, 78% chance of 100M Chevalier T-64: 14.08% Awareness, 4.65 Interest T-60 Awareness: 26% chance of 10M T-60 Interest: 35% chance of 10M Original - Low Awareness: 43% chance of 5M, 28% chance of 10M Original - Low Interest: 58% chance of 5M, 25% chance of 10M

People always say there's no replacing. But we just had two movies last year, neither of them Marvel, making over 650M+. And Jurassic World and The Batman and Minions also did well above 350M+. And even if Marvel loses a hole in there, it's not like another popular franchise or genre can take its place. Maybe even DC for all we know, with how good The Flash is looking. It's true that audiences are far less demanding than they were even a few years ago, but I think other movies can pick up the slack and there won't be this utter collapse like people predict.

Dude, we get it.