Eric the Clown

I feel like Meg might be the biggest surprise of the summer. There was literally no indication this movie would open to ~45M

Sneak in? There was an entire episode of Pokemon that had Misty, a 14-year old girl, entering a bikini contest.

AW HERE IT GOES

I believe there were some slight updates and changes made on Deadline. If it's just a repost, my apologies. Below are your top 10 pics per industry estimates for the weekend of Aug. 10-12: THUMB RANK FILM DIS. SCREENS (CHG) FRI 3-DAY (-%) TOTAL WK 1 The Meg WB 4,118 $16.5M $40M $40M 1 2 M:I – Fallout Par/Sky 3,888 (-507) $5.3M (-46%) $18.9M (-46%) $160.8M 3 3 Christopher Robin Dis 3,602 $3.6M (-62%) $12.3M (-50%) $49.9M 2 4 Slender Man Sony 2,358 $4.8M $11.8M $11.8M 1 5 BlacKkKlansman Focus 1,512 $3.6M $9.4M $9.4M 1 6 The Spy Who Dumped Me LG 3,111 $1.86M (-63%) $5.8M (-48%) $23.7M 2 7 Mamma Mia 2 Uni 2,812 (-547) $1.7M (-40%) $5.4M (-40%) $103.4M 4 8 Equalizer 2 Sony 2,373 (-352) $1.4M (-40%) $5.1M (-41%) $89.2M 4 9 Hotel Transylvania 3 Sony 2,589 (-573) $1.4M (-40%) $4.8M (-40%) $146.5M 5 10 Ant-Man And The Wasp Dis 1,863 (-370) $1.1M (-35%) $3.9M (-38%) $203.3M 6

I've accepted my fate a week ago.

Wow. I'm a fucking idiot.

@CoolioD1

I know about this and Asians, but what’s the third one?

Have an early shift today, and am thinking about seeing a movie. Only options that fit my schedule are Christopher Robin and Mamma Mia. Which should I choose?

BKB was right all along...don't know if that's a good thing or not.

https://deadline.com/2018/08/crazy-rich-asians-box-office-sneak-previews-1202443100/

Was Spy's action better than Fallout tho?

BlacKkKlansman 123 1925 6.39% The Meg 258 2032 12.70% Klansman Comps: 946% of Marshall (28.4M) 47% of Orient Express (13.4M) 410% of Roman Israel (18.2M) 154% of The Commuter (21.1M) 79% of Den of Thieves (12.1M) 332% of Hotel Artemis (10.7M) 118% of Superfly (8.1M) Of note, my theater's giving half of Klansman's showtimes to the second-largest auditorium. Doesn't seem to be working out too well for them, since only two showtimes have gone above 10 tickets. In fact, Thursday and Friday are taking up about 80% of Klansman's tickets sold, so don't be surprised if this film's frontloaded due to Lee's fanbase, at least for OW Meg Comps: 142% of Blade Runner (46.4M) 28% of Thor: Ragna-Rok the Dragon (34.7M) 18% of Justice League (17.2M) 230% of Tomb Raider (54.4M) 119% of Ready Player Juan (49.9M) 15% of Deadpool 2 (19.2M) 24% of Solo (20.2M) 19% of Jurassic World (28M) 39% of Ant-Man 2 (29.4M) 62% of Equalizer 2 (22.4M) 62% of Fallout (37.7M) This seems very, very good. I'm not fully confident in it crossing 30M just yet, but I feel like 25M is the minimum for this.

I like that Snow's shirt has the poison apple on it.

Also of note, this will now premiere at TIFF: https://variety.com/2018/film/news/toronto-film-festival-premiere-predator-halloween-fahrenheit-1202900541/

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A sign from the Lord?

Tickets now available.

Sigh...I can't believe I'm getting hyped for this.

Variety (meh): https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/the-meg-review-jason-statham-1202896831/ Hollywood Reporter (negative): https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/meg-review-1131154 Indiewire (C): https://www.indiewire.com/2018/08/the-meg-review-jason-statham-shark-1201990210/

Don't know how trustworthy this is, especially since I can't find any other news source, but here you go.

Sadly, something popped up last minute so I won't see it tonight. Maybe somebody here's going out to see it.

Also interesting is that the TIFF announcement mentions it as an "international premiere" which leans into the idea the film will first premiere at Telluride. That's really, really good.