Eric the Clown

Moderation @IronJimbo This "Disney doesn't actually own Avatar" nonsense isn't funny anymore. I don't care what "evidence" you have. It always derails threads and starts pointless flame wars and we don't need this energy. Please stop with this.

Speaking of personal life, I recently got a job at my local Target, but it's an overnight position. This means my usual time of tracking will be disrupted from working. So I will have some days where I will track in the afternoon and not at night. I don't think it will matter too much, especially near the end, but it will lead to some weird disruptions probably. But that's because getting paid is more important than tracking Philly sales. Just want to make sure people are aware.

Sorry to say this, but I'm skipping Demon Slayer because it's not having any Thursday previews. I used to do movies that started on Friday, but this kind of tracking takes a good amount of work to do and it's not always easy to balance this out with my personal life. I hope you understand.

I'd say so personally. In Philly, a new Rocky movie is basically Christmas, so this is overindexing like crazy. But 4M+ or 5M+ feels like it could happen, and is super impressive considering the lack of Stallone.

Shazam! Fury of the Gods Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-18 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 84 247 17155 1.44% Total Seats Sold Today: 22 Comp - T-18 0.157x of Black Widow (2.07M) 1.160x of The Suicide Squad (4.75M) 0.203x of Eternals (1.92M) 0.607x of Sonic 2 (3.79M) 0.167x of Jurassic World: Dominion (3.01M) 0.064x of Ant-Man 3 (1.12M)

Scream VI Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-11 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 50 748 8200 9.12% Total Seats Sold Today: 27 Comp - T-11 1.989x of Halloween Kills (9.65M) 2.239x of Scream (7.84M) 2.083x of Nope (13.33M) 1.105x of Halloween Ends (5.97M)

Creed III Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-4 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 68 1270 14223 8.93% Total Seats Sold Today: 278 Comp - T-4 0.906x of F9 (6.44M) 0.961x of No Time to Die (6.06M) 1.422x of Ghostbusters: Afterlife (6.4M) 1.084x of Fantastic Beasts 3 (6.5M) 1.716x of Nope (10.98M) 0.912x of Black Adam (6.93M) 0.127x of Black Panther 2 (3.57M) 0.383x of Avatar 2 (6.52M)

Because nobody cares about this movie.

I mean...these movies have always been aimed at kids. Not their fault.

What's really fun about this March is that all the big heavy hitters, the films that seem set to open to 40M or higher, are all midbudget, sub-100M featues (I'm assuming Wick 4 will be that, though I guess it could get above 100M. Having those be hits, along with Shazam and D&D likely sinking, it's just a nice reaffirmation to execs about the importance of small-ish movies like these and how they can develop big franchises.

Okay.

All told, aside from Ant-Man (and some would argue its bad hold is a good one from a certain POV), not a bad weekend. Two openers that overperformed expectations, and one of them will probably be in the top 10 for a while, Avatar and Puss still doing their thing, a very funny fudge from Violent Night. Good stuff, especially as we head to a very fun and exciting March.

- (-) Violent Night Universal $156,000 +2,011% 61 +13 $2,557 $49,960,245 13 @Krissykins It's legit. Oh what a happy, glorious day.

I mean I think the bigger issue is less MCU getting more frontloaded and more that Ant-Man 3 stinks to high heaven. It's kind of hard to not be frontloaded when you have a terrible film.

It's very weird how bad 80 for Brady's legs are. Reviews were fine, WOM seems fine, but it'll barely get to a 3x IM. Did Tom Brady fans inflate the opening?

What kind of fudge is that?

You know the Snakes on a Plane producers are probably bitter they made their movie 15 years too late. Today it would have for sure opened in the 20s off of TikTok memes and Twitter brand jokes and be seen as this great success story. (Yes I know that Snakes had higher attendance lol)

Shazam! Fury of the Gods Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-19 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 84 225 17155 1.31% Total Seats Sold Today: 5 Comp - T-19 0.149x of Black Widow (1.97M) 1.103x of The Suicide Squad (4.52M) 0.187x of Eternals (1.78M) 0.561x of Sonic 2 (3.51M) 0.156x of Jurassic World: Dominion (2.81M) 0.060x of Ant-Man 3 (1.05M)

...where the heck do you play poker lmao

Scream VI Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-12 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 50 721 8200 8.79% Total Seats Sold Today: 25 Comp - T-12 2.225x of Halloween Kills (10.79M) 2.274x of Scream (7.96M) 2.072x of Nope (13.26M) 1.196x of Halloween Ends (6.46M)

Creed III Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-5 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 68 992 14223 6.97% Total Seats Sold Today: 120 Comp - T-5 0.767x of F9 (5.44M) 0.816x of No Time to Die (5.14M) 1.237x of Ghostbusters: Afterlife (5.57M) 0.955x of Fantastic Beasts 3 (5.73M) 1.656x of Nope (10.6M) 0.797x of Black Adam (6.06M) 0.328x of Avatar 2 (5.58M)

Moderation @SpiderByte Enough. I know you're gonna cry again that everybody's out to get you, but it's not funny anymore. Please put people on your Ignore list you don't like and call it a day. Your incessant defenses against Marvel anytime anybody dares to say anything mildly negative or pessimistic has to stop. It's derailed threads constantly, and everybody here is sick of it. And if you continue with this, you will get heavy repercussions. Trust me, I am not joing. I know you hate the mods for doing this stuff, but this is how we roll. Deal with it. Likewise, everybody else just ignore SpiderByte and their posts. You know they won't listen. There's no point in arguing with somebody who will put their head in the sand every single moment of the day.

Frankly, they told a crazy, wacky story in the blandest way possible. If it was a traditional horror movie, it could have been fine. If it was a madcap exploitation throwback, it could have been fine. Even if it just had some characters that were interesting and worth caring about, it could have been fine. But it's so lifeless and dull in its direction and all the characters are forgettable that you don't care what happens whenever the bear is not on screen. And the bear's screentime is pretty darn limited. It's annoying to think about what could have been.