Eric Quinn

Recess did a whole 11-minute parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey and it turned out just fine. The kids will understand this, don't worry.

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I...wasn't doubting it would be a big hit? Just pretty sure it won't make Frozen numbers in Japan like you said.

TGM has that Best Picture win. It was basically bio-engineered in a lab to appeal to Academy boomer voters, it has huge industry support already, no real backlash has been brewing for it, the typical awards contenders have whiffed it at the box office (probably gonna whiff it forever tbh), even a "OMG this saved theaters forever" hook. Only other contender left is Everything Everywhere, which also has strong hooks behind it, but I think Top Gun's got just the ever-so-slightly stronger edge.

Don't American adaptations of Japanese properties never do well in Japan?

And that's why people are not using that excuse with other countries. The term "COVID hesitancy" is being used on China and nowhere else. This is what we are telling you again and again. Stop trying to say people are saying something they are clearly not saying. Because at this point, it seems you are intentionally doing this to get a reaction out of people.

Guys, the "COVID hesitanchy" line is clearly talking about what's going on in China specifically. Chillax.

You've learned well, young Padawan.

Okay.

M3GAN Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-20 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 33 25 5433 0.46% Total Seats Sold Today: 1 Comp 0.658x of The Conjuring 3 T-20 (6.45M) 0.105x of Scream T-20 (368K) 0.100x of Nope T-20 (643K)

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-5 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 113 562 16775 3.35% Total Seats Sold Today: 17 Comp 4.532x of Encanto T-5 (6.8M) 0.256x of Sing 2 T-5 (2.49M) 0.548x of Sonic 2 T-5 (3.43M) 1.351x of Lightyear T-5 (7.02M) 1.329x of Minions 2 T-5 (14.28M) 5.854x of Super Pets T-5 (12.88M)

This guy gets it.

https://deadline.com/2022/12/avatar-the-way-of-water-box-office-1235200714/ Also from Deadline... Ladies and gentlemen, we have another one on the board!

Okay.

Yeah I really didn't want to subtract the previews because I don't have infinite time on my hands and that's how Deadline reports it anyways, so I wanted it for consistency. Even so, it still shows that barring a possible Lightyear-style implosion, which even with a 3-hour runtime feels pretty unlikely, that Avatar will gain a couple million from potential early Deadline numbers. Will still indicate the general trajectory of course, but not anything raw. Really I just wanted to post this because I think it's very annoying the meltdowns that happen every single time people take Deadline's words to God, when like we should know better that Deadline's going to be imperfect and that we'll likely see a slight bump. (And no, I don't care if the meltdowns boost the page count or whatever we're going on about. Frankly I don't give a single darn what the final page count is)

I'm sorry for my harsh statement. I thought I was just making an observation, but I realized the way I worded it made it sound way more disrespectufl than I intended. But intentions don't equal actions, and my actions were wrong. I still don't agree with you going after me like this, especially as a staff member, but I am sorry.

The Batman Early Deadline: 55M Actual Friday: 56.6M Doctor Strange 2 Early Deadline: 85M Actual Friday: 90.7M Top Gun 2 Early Deadline: 50M Actual Friday: 52M Dominion Early Deadline: 55.5M Actual Friday: 59.6M Lightyear Early Deadline: 23M Actual Friday: 20.7M Minions 2 Early Deadline: 43M Actual Friday: 48.2M Thor 4 Early Deadline: 70M Actual Friday: 69.5M Nope Early Deadline: 20M Actual Friday: 19.5M Black Adam Early Deadline: 25M Actual Friday: 26.7M Black Panther Early Deadline: 80M Actual Friday: 84.3M So I mean...that's not really the case? Like some are closer than others, but it's charitable and easy to say from all this that Avatar 2's actual friday will increase from an early Deadline projection. And like as always, "lol Deadline" is still 100% valid.

Wow, had no idea he was alive the whole time.