Eric Quinn

Matt Zoller Seitz made a gigantic Twitter thread about this months ago, and he mentioned the biggest issue comes down to ticket prices. This can also apply to what's selling at the moment. People are way more choosy, and want something that will give them their money's worth, both in quality and in the theatrical experience. So remakes and franchises reign supreme in that regard. It's familiar, so for many, it's not worth the risk. And that also applies to the non-franchise films that are currently hitting. Looking at last year, Bohemian Rhapsody and A Star is Born benefit from surround sound playing awesome music full blast. Bohemian also benefits from songs people are familiar with. The Grinch is an iconic IP that's loved by all ages. A Quiet Place's concept basically forces people to stay quiet as a mouse throughout the movie ("I get to see a movie without annoying patrons? Ticket for me!"). Crazy Rich Asians not only was the first major representation for Asian-Americans in decades, but it also had gorgeous scenic shots of Singapore plastered on the big screen. The Meg and Rampage had giant monsters, whose impact can't be recreated on a TV or laptop. Ready Player One had spectacle for days (I know some people think that movie's ugly, but it certainly appealed to some people). And even A Wrinkle in Time had spectacle and minority representation that is still not that common. The only two movies from last year that didn't fall into any categories that make something "worthy of seeing in a theater' were Peter Rabbit and The Mule. And even then, those movies got help from the time they released (Peter Rabbit was literally the only thing that appealed to little kids, while The Mule was out on Christmas, when people didn't have work or school, and had literally nothing else to do).

The Lion King Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-14 Days and Counting  Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 100 1,355 18,477 7.33% Total Seats Sold Today: 56

I'm only okay with this if they bring back the true Rodrick #NotMyRodrick

So for the last scene with the Skrulls, was that supposed to set up the next Spider-Man movie would have Captain Marvel or something?

I looked back to 2013, and interestingly, Monsters University had a 38% jump from Thursday. That's obviously good, but stuff like World War Z and This Is The End held way better compared to their Thursday. Of course, Despicable Me 2 was on its first Friday, so that probably led to a more muted jump.

https://www.boxofficepro.com/long-range-forecast-playmobil-the-movie/ Playmobil: 3-9 range (4-Day). 4/10 Crawl: 15/39 (-17%) Stuber: 17/63 (-3%)

Runtimes w/out credits and attachments for next week's releases: Stuber: 1:27. Attachments unknown (Ad Astra and Ford v Ferrari?) Crawl: 1:23. Attachments are Gemini Man and Terminator: Dark Fate.

Can you say delicioso?

Conversely, I think 8.5x would be the high end for TLK, especially if it does reach 20M. Even if it's a family film, 20M+ is still a lot of demand taken care of. We're also still in the heat of no-school season.

Between this and his attempt at a music career, Renner's post-Endgame career is on a really bad foot

lmao OF COURSE

@richtmancharles can you please actually contribute to the conversation instead of just hitting "Not Cool" on every post?

Is it bad I actually do kind of see it?

@MovieMan89 I thought movies always dropped hard on 4th of July? What happened???

@a2k you're good at extrapolating these kinds of numbers. What we looking at for FFH now?

The Lion King Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-14 Days and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 100 1,299 18,477 7.03% Total Seats Sold Today: 65 Bit surprised honestly that this jumped quite a bit (about 25% actually) from yesterday. I kind of assumed that with the holiday and everything people wouldn't be into buying tickets for movies, or at least for one out two weeks from now. Guess not. Really good stuff. Interested to see what Porthos has to say with his data.

So I'm doing my nightly ticket checks, and out of curiosity, I decided to look at OUATIH and see if presales were up. But what's interesting is that there are no Thursday preview showtimes up yet. It starts at Friday. Granted there's only two theaters up so far, so it'll probably be updated, but if there's really no Thursday previews, that's gotta be one of the strangest decisions for a movie, especially for a movie that would probably benefit from Tarantino fans rushing out to see it on Thursday.

Literally how?

It's a pretty interesting film in the sense that it basically killed off Roberto Benigini's, the actor playing Pinocchio, career. It was his first big project after Life is Beautiful was a smash box office hit and nabbed him two Oscars, including Best Actor, but Pinocchio bombed in both Italy and America so hard that his career basically stalled, minus one or two more directing jobs, and a cameo in a Woody Allen movie. Shame too really. Life is Beautiful is still one of my favorite movies ever.