Eric the Clown

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-8 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 175 4863 32764 14.84% Total Seats Sold Today: 157 Comp - T-8 1.937x of Black Widow (25.57M) 3.451x of Shang-Chi (30.37M) 2.439x of Eternals (23.17M) 0.272x of Spider-Man: No Way Home (13.63M) 0.843x of The Batman (18.21M) 0.435x of Doctor Strange 2 (15.66M) 0.752x of Thor 4 (21.82M) 0.586x of Black Panther 2 (16.41M) 1.955x of Avatar 2 (33.24M)

Magic Mike's Last Dance Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-1 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 31 198 5880 3.37% Total Seats Sold Today: 35 Comp - T-1 0.756x of Death on the Nile (831K) 1.886x of Marry Me (990K) 0.880x of Dog (1.11M) 0.256x of The Lost City (831K) 0.344x of Downton Abbey 2 (654K) 0.269x of Elvis (940K) 0.602x of Where the Crawdads Sing (1.38M) 0.138x of Don't Worry Darling (427K) 1.941x of Ticket to Paradise (2.13M)

*cracks knuckles* No. If you are excited about Toy Story 5 or Frozen 3, that's awesome. Nobody has a problem with others being excited for a new sequel to something. And I understand it sucks to see something you love get dunked on by others. I've been in the same boat before. But just like those people have the right to be excited, the opposite side of the coin has just as much right to complain, criticize, be cynical, etc. These are just silly kids movies at the end of the day. It's not like a Disney sequel is above any criticism from a bunch of forum members. And frankly, this is rich coming from you. You're more than happy to dunk on pretty much every non-Disney studio out there. So what gives you the right to mock studios you don't care about, but when people do it to studios you like that it's now suddenly a problem? This kind of holier than thou attitude of yours is really something we don't need on this forum. So please quit with this. Just because it's "perfect business sense" doesn't mean we can't criticize these business decisions and how they damage art. I love movies and I find these endless franchise extensions exhausting and anti-creativity, anti-originality, and frankly anti-art. And me saying that isn't going to hurt your precious multi-billion dollar corporation. Is being negative about a sequel to a kids movie about toys that seemingly only exists to make a profit and nothing else going to cause a meteor to hit the Earth? Will Daddy Iger lose his job because some random weirdos on a box office forum site think a Frozen 3 is dumb? Is mocking a Zootopia 2 specifically going to cause the end of movie theaters forever? No, no, and no. So stop acting like it is and let people say mean things about these kids movies. Trust me, you'll live. And as for the whole "well the fans want it", so what? Most Pixar and WDAS fans have been more than happy watching movies that don't have a "2" slapped on them for decades. If anything, many fans were critical about the constant barrage of Pixar sequels in the 2010s. But I guess their opinions are invalid to you, because they dare to say something bad about a conglomerate full of executives that make more money than you will ever make. Oh, and can you not with this insane strawmanning? You know damn fucking well that's not what anybody is wanting here. Nobody is expecting or demanding esoteric Gaspar Noe style features from Disney. Even bombs like Strange World didn't just sell 14 tickets buddy boy. They just want some fun fantasy adventure comedies that don't just exist to make capitalist shareholders happy. Those movies have done well before. And perhaps post-COVID there is no market for something like encanto. But frankly...I don't care if there's no market or if audiences hate original movies. Frankly, the modern audience member's incuriosity and refusal to see anything that isn't just cheap thrills or a nostalgic toy commercial is one of the most depressing aspects of society and modern film discourse. And it's frustrating to see an art form like film continue to be exclusively just regurgitations of stuff I liked as a kid, even if that's "what people want". Why should we applaud a business decision that is anti-creative just because the normies like it? That's an awful way of viewing things and is a slap in the face to the medium of film. And honestly, if that's how things are gonna roll, then maybe movie theaters should die, as a symbol of how bleak and depressing and anti-creative and anti-curious society has become and how it has damaged an incredible art form. I hate to burst your bubble, but despite what it says at the top, this isn't just a box office forum. 95% of the users here are people who love the medium of film first and foremost. They love discussing film, arguing about which movies rock and which ones suck, looking at trends within filmmaking, and so on. Profits and tracking is important and very fun, but the box office is just a vessel for us to come together and talk about the main thing that we love. That being films and the art of film in general. If anything, the biggest problem this forum has had lately, and something that drove a ton of old veterans away over the past few years, are people who think too corporate and too much on the profit and bottom line. People who only want to talk about numbers and argue about how "popular" something is. People who only wish to brag about how good their favorite corporate franchise is compared to all the others and using box office just to spite the other side. You know, the stuff you do as you go all "yay Disney boo WB" every other post. Frankly, I prefer the BOT members who are in it to make jokes, talk about movies, and dunk on greedy studio execs who simply don't care about the medium of film than the members bootlicking to megacorporations that will happily lay off employees at a moment's notice. And I feel very confident in saying I'm not the only one who thinks that. And yeah, the idea of us applauding a studio for making a pointless kids movie sequel even if it's a symbol that goes against the thing we love as an art form doesn't sit well with me, and I don't think is what BOT is all about nor what it should ever be about. I apologize if this is what you want to see on this fourm, but I simply think you need to find another website that's more your speed. We're not the only place on the Internet where people talk about box office, and the way things roll here have been just fine for over a decade. There's no reason we should change things now. But if you want to stay, please stop getting angry at people who dare to say mean things about a silly movie company that has a $204 billion market cap. You're an adult, so I would hope you can handle people being negative over something you like. Especially when it comes to a corporation full of greedy suits and executives.

Um...okay Jason?

Being popular does not absolve you of criticism or complaints. Pretty sure making fun of Toy Story 5 won't cause movie theaters to die forever.

Where the heck was Mario Baseball?!

Dude, we get it.

So frustrating bro. I wanna make a snarky joke about Toy Story 5, but Elon won't let me. I hate it.

You know damn well that "we only make sequels if we have a good story" statement was never true lmao

There's going to be like 10 Toy Story sequels by the time I'm like 65. They'll probably use Tom Hanks and Tim Allen's voices through AI mumbo-jumbo shit. I don't think I can handle it my dudes.

It just got officially announced at the Disney earnings call. I'll add in an article when it comes.

This and Daddy Iger's first earnings call today have gotten me soooooo hyped. Crazy stuff's going down and I can't wait.

Quorum Updates Marlowe T-6: 17.88% Awareness, 4.9 Interest Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves T-51: 31.37%, 5.29 Evil Dead Rise T-72: 31.03%, 5.61 Magic Mike's Last Dance T-2: 45.11% Awareness, 5.34 Interest Final Awareness: 90% chance of 10M, 57% chance of 20M Final Interest: 43% chance of 10M, 13% chance of 20M Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania T-9: 50.25% Awareness, 6.15 Interest Final Awareness: 18% chance of 60M, 9% chance of 90M Final Interest: 50% chance of 60M, 44% chance of 70M, 39% chance of 100M DC/MCU Awareness: 100% chance of 60M, 86% chance of 90M DC/MCU Interest: 100% chance of 60M Champions T-30: 14.15% Awareness, 5.03 Interest T-30 Awareness: 13% chance of 10M T-30 Interest: 55% chance of 10M Original - Low Awareness: 36% chance of 5M, 14% chance of 10M Original - Low Interest: 70% chance of 5M, 40% chance of 10M Scream VI T-30: 56.33% Awareness, 6.2 Interest T-30 Awareness: 100% chance of 50M, 86% chance of 70M, 57% chance of 100M T-30 Interest: 100% chance of 50M, 89% chance of 70M, 78% chance of 100M Shazam! Fury of the Gods T-37: 48.55% Awareness, 5.62 Interest T-30 Awareness: 100% chance of 30M, 78% chance of 40M, 44% chance of 50M T-30 Interest: 59% chance of 30M, 41% chance of 40M, 27% chance of 50M DC/MCU Awareness: 100% chance of 60M, 50% chance of 90M DC/MCU Interest: 100% chance of 60M, 67% chance of 70M, 33% chance of 90M

Moderation Okay, we are back in business. And frankly, I think we're done with this whole "Is Marvel dying/dead" discourse here in this thread. It is very obvious that whatever side of the coin you're on, none of you guys will agree with each other. It's very frustrating having to see people ready to pounce on Marvel, desperate to see it bomb, while also seeing people refuse to hear any criticism over their favorite franchise fight back and forth when you know nobody's minds will be changed. It's not prodcutive and everybody here is sick of it. So please talk about Ant-Man 3 and nothing else. And if you feel that you have to dog on or champion the MCU as a whole and its "missteps" (you really don't need to), we have this thread right here in the Marvel Media Club for you to argue in. Although I do suggest you guys should just ignore each other and move on. It's really not that hard.

For people who feel they absolutely need to argue if MCU is dying or not, like the world will explode if they don't, just do it over here. We're done with this clogging up the Ant-Man thread.

Feel like things are getting a little too tense in terms of the whole "is Marvel in danger" discourse, so I'm just locking things for a few minutes before it gets worse and people can take some deep breaths. I know some are likely upset about this, but it's for everybody's good.

Classic Zas at work once again. But like...if you don't want to pay extra...why even bother putting it in theaters? His mind is just so bizarre.

I mean their ads really have been on point