Eric Quinn

Are they though? Almost all of Netflix's biggest movies are cheesy big-budget schlockfests like Red Notice or Bird Box plus corny teen romances like Purple Hearts (though there is still Irishman and to an extent Don't Look Up, so I guess exceptions to the rule?). And the biggest movies on Nielsen are either animated kids movies that exist to sell toys, blockbusters that were previously in theaters like Uncharted, or similar action cheese like Gray Man or Tomorrow War. It's not just a theatrical issue IMO.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-11 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 249 7505 44115 17.01% Total Seats Sold Today: 125 Comp 0.457x of Spider-Man: No Way Home T-11 (22.83M) 1.431x of The Batman T-11 (30.92M) 0.746x of Doctor Strange 2 T-11 (26.87M) 1.261x of Thor 4 T-11 (36.58M)

Reading through IMDb, doesn't seem much worse than Three Billboards. And Mom can handle violent and sexual content. Hopefully she'll be interested, though she said she wants to see Armageddon Time as well and that's probably going to leave theaters sooner. Maybe I should prioritize that? I dunno, I'm just rambling 🤷‍♂️

Was hoping to take my mom to this next week since she loved Three Billboards. I'm aware that this has little similarities with that film, but would she still like it? She can enjoy the occasional "weird" movie, but she really only likes middlebrow awards bait stuff.

For what it's worth, I do remember some Twitter discourse on Till and how it was another 12 Years a Slave-style "Black trauma" movie and that Emmett was being "exploited" by Hollywood. They even had to put out a whole behind the scenes video where the director said to the camera that Emmett's abuse wouldn't be shown on screen and that the Till family backed the whole thing. I definitely have a lot of disagreements on that whole discourse, but like...I guess that's an issue? Certainly not the main one of course. Still think the main issue hurting the moviegoing market, as I keep saying, is on audiences and their refusal to see anything that isn't a nostalgic toy commercial or a horror movie. Like even the few exceptions to this rule we all went gonzo over like Crawdads or Lost City, while obviously still strong and commendable hits that deserve praise, would have made way more money 10 years ago. It's a sad state of current moviegoing that's only going to get worse as time goes on.

I don't think Clay is asking nor expecting these movies to stay through until December or January. And I think it's fair to say Tar and Till should have at least waited a little bit longer before going into over 1,000 theaters just to drum up a little bit more hype. Like them being in the same TC as Triangle of Sadness' 610 theaters this weekend, then 1,000 for Tar and 2,000 for Till the following weekend, where there is nothing out apart from the fans-only One Piece movie, would make way more sense. It allows them to get more buzz and word of mouth for one more weekend and audiences who were busy with Halloween are more willing to come out. Banshees is set to go to about 500-600 theaters next weekend, and probably won't get to 1,000 until the 18th or Thanksgiving, with it probably going a little longer before the December holidays kick in. It's a good strategy capitalizing on word of mouth and the November holidays. But I guess at the end of the day, Focus and UA don't really care and are just waiting for these movies to hit PVOD, where the supposed real money is. So what do I know?

Moderation Yeah we're not doing this concern trolling garbage. The trailer's coming soon, this will make more money than any of us will ever make, Cameron will get another submarine from the movie's box office. Move along please.

Moderation We're done with this "25 vs 27" argument. It's clear this conversation is going nowhere and nobody's listening to each other, so there's no point in continuing it.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-12 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 249 7380 44115 16.73% Total Seats Sold Today: 125 Comp 0.483x of Spider-Man: No Way Home T-12 (24.13M) 1.448x of The Batman T-12 (31.28M) 0.746x of Doctor Strange 2 T-12 (26.85M) 1.274x of Thor 4 T-12 (36.96M)