Eric the Clown

https://www.the-numbers.com/box-office-records/domestic/all-movies/theatrical-distributors/a24 This is the current top 10 1 2022 Everything Everywhere All At Once $77,169,474 2 2019 Uncut Gems $50,023,780 3 2017 Lady Bird $48,958,273 4 2018 Hereditary $44,069,456 5 2016 Moonlight $27,854,931 6 2019 Midsommar $27,426,363 7 2015 Ex Machina $25,440,971 8 2016 The Witch $25,138,705 9 2017 The Disaster Artist $21,120,616 10 2023 Talk To Me $17,810,920 TTM should at least match Hereditary and is going to be in the top 5 by the end of next week. All that really depends left is just how far it can go if it can reach Lady Bird (didn't realize that was the #3 A24 movie and not Hereditary) or Uncut Gems. Those are tricky, but not totally impossible if the cards fall the right way.

One or two people said that, but again, as I explained last week, Quorum's metrics indicated a 20M opening. When a film has about a 55% awareness like Haunted Mansion, that represents about a 90% chance of reaching 20M and a 70% chance of 30M. So yeah, HM opened to what was expected, if not a touch lower. It's the same numbers Meg 2 hit in fact and it's set to open around the same as Haunted Mansion. There's a correlation and I've studied this long enough that I feel confident on this stuff. The data and numbers are there.

Saw it on Friday and I'm really glad this is looking to get some legs. Helps also this is one of A24's more conventional releases. 30M is locked and it's already going to be in the top 5 for A24, but I really hope this does some crazy stuff in August and gets into the top 3 somehow. Hereditary is #3 at the moment, so it's tricky, but I guess not completely impossible.

I will say re: Wonka and Color Purple moving that I don't think either will happen. Could be me not really grasping how long the strikes will go (although last I checked the actors are more likely to end their strike sooner? Could be wrong), but Wonka looks set to do massive numbers and while I know some people hate this site, Color Purple is doing a lot better on The Quorum than I expected. Plus unlike a lot of other awards contenders this year, WB has A-listers like Oprah, Quincy Jones, and Steven Spielberg to put onto the press tour that can help sell the movie. Could very well change, but I'm cautiously optimistic on those two. Frankly, Aquaman seems like the best candidate to dump in case one of their March movies has to be delayed.

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…yeah, nobody.

Nobody reads books.

@Blankments lmao how the hell did you get the trailer for Oppy 30 times?

I know, right? How could Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island not hit #1? What is this world coming to???????????????????????

#209 - Demolition Man (172 points, 4 lists) #208 - The Elephant Man (172 points, 2 lists) #207 - The Cranes Are Flying (178 points, 3 lists) #206 - Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (179 points, 3 lists) #205 - Angels with Dirty Faces (181 points, 3 lists) #204 - Gold Diggers of 1933 (182 points, 4 lists) #203 - Dead Poets Society (183 points, 4 lists) #202 - Local Hero (185 points, 2 lists) #201 - The Sea Hawk (186 points, 4 lists) #200 - The Candidate (189 points, 4 lists)

The picture you showed in the Telegram chat melted my heart. You're gonna be a great dad.

And because I know some will ask, yes Swordfish came in at #211. It isn't a joke. It isn't me being silly. It isn't me pulling your leg. That was its actual ranking. I know I should have done a rule of three with my Swordfish joke, but I didn't feel like doing the joke again. It is what it is. 🤷‍♂️

#219 - The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (157 points, 4 lists) #218 - To Have and Have Not (162 points, 3 lists) #217 - Gran Torino (165 points, 5 lists) #216 - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (166 points, 5 lists) #215 - New Jack City (168 points, 5 lists) #214 - The Wrong Man (170 points, 4 lists) #213 - Blood Diamond (171 points, 5 lists) #212 - Jezebel (171 points, 2 lists) #211 - Swordfish (172 points, 6 lists) #210 - Free Willy (172 points, 5 lists)

#229 - Shazam! (146 points, 6 lists) #228 - Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (146 points, 3 lists) #227 - Ocean's Thirteen (149 points, 5 lists) #226 - Purple Rain (149 points, 4 lists) #225 - The Bodyguard (150 points, 4 lists, avg. ranking #63) #224 - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (150 points, 4 lists, avg. ranking #56) #223 - Them! (153 points, 3 lists) #222 - Happy Feet (154 points, 8 lists) #221 - Days of Wine and Roses (156 points, 4 lists) #220 - Just Mercy (157 points, 4 lists)

#54 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 685 points, 12 lists "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges." Box Office: 4.1M Rotten Tomatoes: 100% Metacritic: 98 Awards: 3 Academy Awards and 1 nomination, 1 BAFTA Award nomination, 3 Golden Globe Awards, 3 National Board of Review Awards, 1 WGA Award and 1 nomination Its Legacy: Considered one of the greatest movies ever made. One of the first Hollywood movies to be shot on location in Mexico. Stanley Kubrick's fourth favorite film ever. Influenced the series Breaking Bad. Ranked #30 on AFI's Top 100 Movies and #38 in the 2007 edition. #67 on AFI's Most Thrilling Movies and #36 for Best Quotes. Referenced in Looney Tunes, UHF, and Blazing Saddles. Inspired the Dead Money expansion pack in Fallout: New Vegas. Gave Walter Huston a paycheck. Commentary: It’s the classic tale as old as time. People get greedy and they become bad. At this point, Saturday morning cartoons feature those kinds of stories and archetypes. But one of the earliest depictions, at least in cinema, is also one of the best to do it. John Huston’s all-time classic follows a trio of men trying to find gold in the Mexico desert. And what follows is one of the most engrossing and emotional films ever made. Not only is the film visually gorgeous and perfectly paced, its insights on corruption and greed are incredible. In particular, how greed can cause members of the working class to go against one another and how finding success and riches can create a scary hoarder mentality. The fear of going back into poverty is just too strong and it hurts everybody. Then of course you have the always amazing Humphrey Bogart, whose character slowly devloves more and more into paranoia as the film progresses. All of this not only made this a huge hit for a country that still had trauma from the Great Depression, but is frankly even more powerful 75 years later. More things change, the more they stay the same.

#55 Beetlejuice 682 points, 16 lists "It's showtime!" Box Office: 74.7M Rotten Tomatoes: 85% Metacritic: 70 Awards: 1 Academy Award, 2 BAFTA Award nominations, 3 Saturn Awards and 5 nominations, 1 Hugo Award nomination Its Legacy: Led to Tim Burton directing Batman. One of Burton's most iconic works and major reason his directing career is a long one. Spawned an animated series, video games, a stage musical and an upcoming sequel. The breakout role for Winona Ryder. Made Harry Belafonte's music iconic to 80s kids. Gave Catherine O'Hara a paycheck. Commentary: It’s easy to take him for granted these days, but there was a time when Tim Burton ruled the world. Every film he made was iconic. Every film he directed had so many offbeat and bizarre vibes that were memorable and entertaining and hilarious. He was an amazing and accessible gateway drug for so many of us into horror, surrealism, and gothics that influenced and inspired many of us. And one of his best, some would say his absolute best, came from a kooky comedy about a bunch of dead people. Beetlejuice, crafted as a test from WB to see if Burton will get the Batman gig or not, has one of Burton’s weirdest plots out there. It’s a movie that follows a happy couple who gets killed, there’s tons of creepy and weird-looking monsters, there’s a bunch of musical sequences crafted around Harry Belafonte tunes, the titular character of the movie isn’t in the movie until the very end, said character’s name is spelled differently from the movie versus the movie title, and also Beetlegeuse marries a teenage Winona Ryder? That’s...not aged the best. But honestly, it all doesn’t matter. This has some incredible production values, capturing a B movie flair while still clearly having tons of money put behind it, so many iconic and memorable characters, hilarious sequences one after the other, and an incredible balance of laughs, drama, and terror that only Tim Burton at his prime could achieve. It’s honestly a miracle a film this eccentric was made by a major studio and given to a director who only had one hit to his name. It’s even crazier that this became a box office sensation, created a hit stage musical, is still watched every Halloween by millions, and is even getting a likely terrible sequel set to launch next year. You can say a lot about Tim Burton these days, but it’s impossible not to love and respect him. Especially with a classic like this.

#56 The Young Girls of Rochefort 658 points, 10 lists "We are a pair of twins born in the sign of Gemini, Mi fa so la mi re, Re mifa so so so re do" Box Office: 8M Rotten Tomatoes: 98% Metacritic: N/A Awards: 1 Academy Award nomination Its Legacy: Considered one of the greatest movie musicals of all time. The finale to director Jacque Demy's "romantic trilogy". Saw a stage adaptation in France in 2003. Ranked #185 in Sight & Sound's 2022 poll. Gave Gene Kelly a paycheck. Commentary: I gotta be honest, I didn’t expect this to hit the top 100. Especially since, frankly, WB is only a tiny footnote to this film’s legacy. When the Jacques Demy classic first came to US waters, there was excitement after it performed so well in its native country France. However, an English-language version was shot simultaneously with the French iteration, and Warner Bros. was the studio who distributed that English cut. Ultimately, the English cut didn’t do well financially and has since been lost to time, I’m assuming because of poor reception. And honestly, I think most fans here have no idea there even was an English version of Rochefort. But that doesn’t really matter. Even if it’s tangential, what matters is that we have what is considered one of the greatest musicals of all time. One that is joyous, poppy, full of hummable and catchy tunes, and a fine example of French New Wave cinema and its positive attributes. A film that takes the conventions and tropes we know and love from classic Hollywood, but revamp them into a more contemporary feature that plays into and subverts the archetypes and tropes, creating something wholly original. It also has Gene Kelly and, really, every movie needs Gene Kelly in it. It’s an effective musical feature, one that sits well with Demy’s other classic The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. And even if it wasn’t a huge part of WB history, this was an influence with Greta Gerwig for her Barbie movie, which is now on track to be one of, if not the biggest WB film of all time. So in a weird way, this is a film that will always be integral and iconic to the Warner family.

Avi Arad produced this.

lmao this movie is screwed

What even is a Demeter? Sounds like a math equation

https://deadline.com/2023/08/box-office-barbie-oppenheimer-meg-2-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-1235454860/

Quorum Updates Bottoms T-29: 12.91% Awareness Thanksgiving T-106: 8.41% Awareness Trolls Band Together T-106: 42.52% Awareness Napoleon T-111: 20.15% Awareness Elio T-211: 19.79% Awareness A Quiet Place: Day One T-218: 29.77% Awareness Ghostbusters: Afterlife 2 T-239: 35.55% Awareness Deadpool 3 T-274: 56.02% Awareness Meg 2: The Trench T-2: 56.89% Awareness Final Awareness: 100% chance of 10M, 89% chance of 20M, 68% chance of 30M, 42% chance of 40M, 32% chance of 50M Tentpole Awareness: 100% chance of 40M, 50% chance of 50M The Last Voyage of the Demeter T-8: 26.4% Awareness Final Awareness: 16% chance of 10M Horror Awareness: 40% chance of 10M

#238 - The Wicker Man (1973) (137 points, 2 lists) #237 - The Disaster Artist (139 points, 3 lists, avg. ranking #37) #236 - Something's Gotta Give (139 points, 3 lists, avg. ranking #30) #235 - Rush Hour 2 (140 points, 3 lists, avg. ranking #31) #234 - A Perfect World (140 points, 3 lists, avg. ranking #18) #233 - National Lampoon's European Vacation (140 points, 2 lists) #232 - Jeremiah Johnson (143 points, 4 lists) #231 - Key Largo (145 points, 4 lists) #230 - Godzilla: King of the Monsters (145 points, 3 lists)