Eric the Clown

I believe Criterion's also going through money troubles, and they usually get recent releases into the collection because those sell better. Don't really think it matters too much if something isn't an automatic instant classic gets into the collection, especially when Ostlund's films have been in the collection before and his fans are typically Criterion buyers anyways. Like if you don't like it being there...don't buy it.

Quorum Updates Knock at the Cabin T-18: 30.51% Awareness, 5.86 Interest Creed III T-46: 48.04%, 6.04 Mafia Mamma T-88: 14.67%, 4.94 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret T-102: 14.67%, 4.82 Fast X T-123: 40.58%, 6.27 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny T-165: 35.34%, 6.1 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes T-305: 39.07%, 6.03 Missing T-4: 26.98% Awareness, 5.66 Interest Final Awareness: 13% chance of 10M Final Interest: 72% chance of 10M Champions T-53: 12.75% Awareness, 4.71 Interest T-60 Awareness: 26% chance of 10M T-60 Interest: 34% chance of 10M Original - Low Awareness: 0% chance of 5M Original - Low Interest: 54% chance of 5M, 18% chance of 10M

Don't worry, I gave them warning points. Next time they spam it, a threadban will come their way.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

You also coulda read a book instead.

Quorum's not really all that atypical. Simply put, Marvel nerds are so powerful and so dedicated that even with lower awareness, these movies still do better than most. By comparison, Shang-Chi and Eternals were both in the 30s in awareness a month before release, while No Time to Die and Ghostbusters: Afterlife were in the 40s a month before release. And look which movies opened higher. Even if we're going into interest, a month before release, NTTD was only a tenth below Eternals and four tenths above Shang-Chi. Ghostbusters was at a whopping 5.91! But Marvel nerds gonna be Marvel nerds. No joke, Disney could put out a movie that's nothing but a jar of mayonaisse in a fridge for two hours, and so long as they put the Marvel Studios logo on the poster, Marvel nerds will watch it like robots. It's almost kind of scary.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-31 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 162 1705 31384 5.43% Comp - First Day of Sales 2.092x of Black Widow (27.61M) 3.343x of Shang-Chi (29.42M) 2.240x of Eternals (21.28M) 0.151x of Spider-Man: No Way Home (7.57M) 0.473x of The Batman (10.21M) 0.277x of Doctor Strange 2 (9.96M) 0.462x of Thor: Love and Thunder (13.4M) 0.488x of Black Panther 2 (13.66M) 1.901x of Avatar 2 (32.31M) Comp - T-31 0.355x of Black Panther 2 (9.94M)

Missing Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-3 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 33 91 4712 1.93% Comp 0.968x of Escape Room 2 T-3 (1.16M) 0.674x of Old T-3 (1.01M) 0.752x of Don't Breathe 2 T-3 (726K) 0.385x of Candyman T-3 (733K) 0.450x of Last Night in Soho T-3 (315K) 1.230x of X T-3 (541K) 0.245x of The Black Phone T-3 (734K) 0.096x of Nope T-3 (616K) 0.842x of Beast T-3 (779K) 1.625x of The Invitation T-3 (1.26M) 0.299x of The Woman King T-3 (509K)

You coulda just read a book instead.

Lmao sure buddy 😂

Honestly, even if they put Encanto or Lightyear on the service like three months or even six months after its theatrical release, it wouldn't really change much for their box office. The convenience of Disney+ is just too tempting and people are willing to wait a bit to see something for free, especially when it's not a Marvel/Star Wars joint where you have to catch it before you're spoiled on Twitter. Don't know what that means for the future of WDAS and Pixar, but it doesn't seem like much has changed in terms of budgets or layoffs there.

Nickelodeon should sue at this point lmao

Dude, not today. We don't need this.

Moderation @Jeight has been threadbanned for 24 hours for derailing the thread and continuing the "Strange 2 and Thor 4 have good WOM actually" fights that I specifically told him to stop doing.

Yeah. Because it's their job. If I was in these movies, I would be saying "wow, Avatar 3's going to blow y'alls minds. Avatar 4's gonna blow y'alls minds even harder. Avatar 5's gonna be even better than all of them". And for the record, I'm sure Avatar 3 will be better. I'm confident in Daddy Cameron delivering something good here. But like it's not anything revelatory to hear all these puff pieces when it's part of the job to promote your new projects.

Because VFX workers are being streched to their absolute limits by the evils of capitalism. While CGI-heavy films were common in the mid-2000s, they didn't clog up the market as much as they are now. Now every movie is a CGI-heavy tentpole. There's whole-ass TV shows from Disney+ and Netflix that have as much, arguably more VFX gobbledygook than the movies coming out. So you have an entire industry stretched towards its limits. There's too few workers available to do it all, the hours are grueling and take forever, and the deadlines are the tightest they have ever been. So you have understaffed companies full of people who are overworked and underpaid, and are under the wrath of studio executives who don't give a shit about film as an art form and will force crappy-looking movies out to fill out a spreadsheet and probably get some memes out of it for free publicity. Helps also these movies are done by directors who go from an indie straight to a 100-200M+ production that have no clue how to work with that kind of big budget. So how would they know to make good VFX? So basically, capitalism is evil, hates the working class, is anti-art, and will kill us faster than the virus will. I hope I already cleared everything up for you, but here's a Vulture article that goes into even greater detail. https://www.vulture.com/2023/01/inside-the-vfx-union-brewing-in-hollywood.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_source=tw&utm_campaign=vulture

I mean...wouldn't it make sense somebody would try and push their next movie as better than the last one? Like do you really think Simon Franglen will say "lol Avatar 3 sucks my dudes. It ain't as good as Way of Water"

I mean with the exception of 1993, every time the franchise has "ended" has always sucked eggs. This is just par for the course.

Good for him.