Eric Quinn

Tired: "Man the Marvel formula sure is dumb and annoying" Wired: "Man the musician biopic formula is the absolute worst and needs to die"

Man...I'm gonna hate lying through my teeth when I take my mom to this and pretend that I loved this movie. She is an absolute sucker for these stupid music biopics

Curious to know what you mean? I believe you and expect this to be terrible (will still make a fortune though), but what exactly were their "lies" before?

No

lmao wut

Don't Worry Darling Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-8 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 36 816 6980 11.69% Comp 4.364x of The Lost City T-8 (14.18M) So I wanted to start this yesterday, but today was really bad for me personally, so I'm off a day. But we're still here. And to clarify, a good majority of these tickets come from the Monday IMAX Live showings. But even if you take that out, we're still at 279 tickets sold, which is still nearly 1.5 times Lost City at the same point in time. This right here is the real deal mah bois.

The Woman King Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-1 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 61 615 13065 4.71% Total Seats Sold Today: 197 Comp 3.379x of Respect T-1 (2.2M) 1.023x of Candyman T-1 (1.94M) 0.353x of Nope T-1 (2.26M) 3.060x of Beast T-1 (2.83M)

Pearl Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-1 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 24 98 2701 4.07% Total Seats Sold Today: 44 Comp 0.373x of Old T-1 (559K) 1.485x of The Night House T-1 (386K) 1.139x of Antlers T-1 (422K) 0.317x of Last Night in Soho T-1 (222K) 0.810x of X T-1 (356K) 1.307x of Firestarter T-1 (490K) 0.715x of Men T-1 (303K) 0.942x of The Invitation T-1 (730K) 0.371x of Barbarian T-1 (315K)

Nah we're getting a big drop here no matter what they do. These remakes all coast by on the novelty of "it's that cartoon you love in real life" and nothing else. It works once, and obviously works from film to film, but the novelty doesn't work a second time, especially when there's nothing else really substantive that would make people want a follow-up. That's why Alice and Maleficent saw substantial falls from their predecessors and I see zero reason why this would change for a remake that frankly wasn't even that well-liked by people to begin with. The only way you really can continue these iterations and find success would be what they were going to do with Beauty and the Beast and make a Disney+ streaming show.

I mean Disney's Americanized European fairy tales (and fairy tales in general of course) since the 1930s and the other remakes did just fine in Europe, even though they were made by those pesky culture vultures at Hollywood. Maybe Halle's casting really will make this a megabomb of epic proportions, which still seems unlikely to me, but that doesn't say anything about how "OMG DISNEY IS APPROPRIATING OUR CULTURE" and instead a much grosser side to some (not all) European viewers.

Quorum Updates Amsterdam T-23: 21.35% Awareness, 5.45 Interest Empire of Light T-86: 12.39%, 4.5 The Little Mermaid T-254: 51.2%, 5.86 Elemental T-275: 26.52%, 5.58 Indiana Jones 5 T-289: 36.01%, 6.22 Mission: Impossible 7 Part 1 T-303: 36.13%, 5.68 Pearl T-2: 16.59% Awareness, 4.42 Interest Comps (All Final): The Night House w/ 18.09% Awareness & 5.17 Interest, Antlers w/ 21.71% & 4.81, The Cursed w/ 25.12% & 5.12, X w/ 23.58% & 4.94, Men w/ 18.5% & 4.7, Barbarian w/ 20.52% & 4.98 *Note Pearl's Final Awareness/Interest is subject to change in the coming days Final General Awareness: 5% chance of double-digits opening General Interest: 28% chance of double digits Horror Awareness: 14% chance of double digits Horror Interest: 43% chance of double digits The Woman King T-2: 36.58% Awareness, 5.16 Interest Comps (All Final): Stillwater w/ 36.44% Awareness & 5.73 Interest, Dear Evan Hansen 31.52% & 4.92, Ambulance 38.27 & 5.7, Where the Crawdads Sing w/ 32.67% & 5.42, Beast 39.28% & 5.68 *Note The Woman King's Final Awareness/Interest is subject to change in the coming days Final General Awareness: 23% chance of double-digit opening, 3.5% chance over 20M General Interest: 67% chance of double digits, 51% over 20M Original - Low Awareness: 78% chance over 5M, 33% chance over 10M Original - Low Interest: 60% chance over 5M, 30% chance over 10M Black Adam T-37: 47.1% Awareness, 5.86 Interest Comps (All T-30): Shang-Chi w/ 33.23% Awareness & 5.11 Interest, Venom 2 w/ 46.79% & 5.72, Eternals w/ 33.3% & 5.61 T-30 General Awareness: 100% chance of 30M, 88% chance of 40M, 71% chance of 50M, 59% chance of 70M General Interest: 87% chance of 20M, 80% chance of 30M, 73% chance of 40M, 60% chance of 50M, 53% chance of 70M DC/MCU Awareness: 100% chance of 70M, 33% chance of 90M DC/MCU Interest: 100% chance of 70M, 33% chance of 90M

The Woman King Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-2 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 59 418 12903 3.24% Total Seats Sold Today: 114 Comp 3.870x of Respect T-2 (2.51M) 1.088x of Candyman T-2 (2.07M) 0.333x of Nope T-2 (2.13M) 2.903x of Beast T-2 (2.68M)

Pearl Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-2 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 24 85 2701 2.24% Total Seats Sold Today: 31 Comp 0.447x of Old T-2 (671K) 2.125x of The Night Hosue T-2 (552K) 1.197x of Antlers T-2 (443K) 0.347x of Last Night in Soho T-2 (243K) 0.914x of X T-2 (402K) 1.465x of Firestarter T-2 (550K) 0.858x of Men T-2 (363K) 1.250x of The Invitation T-2 (969K) 0.644x of Barbarian T-2 (547K)

Like everything else wrong with this world, I blame Jimmy Kimmel.

The trailer being age-restricted means that you know it'll be a fun time

That's a great one too. I keep telling myself to get around to reading Bechdel's graphic novel about it.

I mean "lucky to do half" won't happen, but I think sub-300 could still happen here, because this has little going for it IMO. The first movie was coming out right at the MCU's peak, and while people like Carol, it's not really the same level as other characters. And the inclusion of characters from their TV shows won't really mean much, because Monica was barely used in WandaVision and even Marvel fans skipped Ms. Marvel. Even if you don't think these shows aren't impacting people's interest in the movies, they certainly are not helping either. I also have my doubts quality-wise, since everything reads to me as another "we're giving our directors freedom, but not too much freedom, so it'll be another half-baked mess". Would love to be wron though!

The Woman King Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-3 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 52 304 11907 2.55% Comp 10.483x of Respect T-3 (6.81M) 1.288x of Candyman T-3 (2.45M) 0.322x of Nope T-3 (2.06M) 2.815x of Beast T-3 (2.60M) So yeah, this movie was destined to overindex here no matter what. And maybe this is an overperformance, but still even moving down a couple pegs allows for a potential 20M+, which would still be really good for the film. I'm hopeful at the moment.

Pearl Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-3 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 22 54 2410 2.24% Comp 0.400x of Old T-3 (600K) 1.929x of The Night House T-3 (501K) 0.947x of Antlers T-3 (350K) 0.267x of Last Night in Soho T-3 (187K) 0.730x of X T-3 (321K) 1.317x of Firestarter T-3 (495K) 0.857x of Men T-3 (363K) 0.964x of The Invitation T-3 (747K) 0.651x of Barbarian T-3 (553K)

I love that show. Jesse Tyler Ferguson was in a production of that and he's amazing

Lady Gaga deserves it more

Indiewire (C+): https://www.indiewire.com/2022/09/devotion-review-jonathan-majors-1234761617/