Eric the Clown

You're a Tuesday and Weekend film.

Your controversial predix? Found dead in a ditch. One of many for this year I'm sure

Very excited for tomorrow. I'll always be excited for a Universal Monsters movie

Cancel culture isn't real. This is especially true when it comes to a Hollywood that is a lot more conservative than people like to admit. Even the two most arguable "canceled by Twitter" examples people like to use were extreme, indefensible garbage and were already given to people known for being very problematic and very tough to work with. And honestly, if you're going to defend Roseanne's racism or Gina Carano equating being a Republican to a Jew in Nazi Germany...just shut up. Even James Gunn's firing was more just because Disney was trying to buy Rupert Murdoch's movie studio at that time and the Gunn stuff was started by one of Murdoch's garbage alt-right Pizzagate buddies. If Disney wasn't focused on the Fox deal, those tweets would have blown over and we would have gotten Guardians 3 a couple years earlier. As for the topic at hand, Ezra staying is awful and terrible, but this is sadly Hollywood, they're always about the money, and the average audience member, whether we like it or not, doesn't care about any scandals or people who are #problematic. Again, whether that's a good thing is up to you. And frankly, I'm not optimistic The Flash will be a hit anyways, so this "why are they keeping them on?" drama really won't mean much in the end.

Creed 3, Mario, Little Mermaid, Indy, Oppenheimer, Barbie, Dune 2, Songbirds, Wonka. Two of them are for "my bae" reasons, others just seem like they have something really special going for them, and a couple others because they could do anything from flop to explode and not surprise me (Barbie, Songbirds)

No to Whitney, likely for Babylon. Of the 17 places I track in Philly, Babylon's leaving 6 theaters, while Whitney's only leaving 1. And even then, some of the theaters that still host Babylon only have one showtime, so it's debatable if they even count. Whitney's definitely getting dumped next week when three wide releases hit though.

October 27 Saw X: Jigsaw numbers. Yeah, I don’t have anything else to say. I really don’t care about these movies to think any more or explain more and this franchise has a very specific niche that always turns up. Moving on! 15/30 (2x)

October 13 The Exorcist: The property is still popular, but it’s no Halloween. It also doesn't help that Ellen Burstyn isn’t as big a name as Jamie Lee Curtis, who was a big reason the 2018 Halloween was as big as it was. With this unlikely to be very good either, this will probably do about half of Halloween parentheses 2018. Should still be profitable enough that we’ll get those two sequels, but those films won’t make much of anything. 40/80 (2x) PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie: The last film still did about 40M despite the Delta scares and Paramount+ availability. And judging from some of my friends who have little kids, the franchise hasn’t lost any steam in the past year. There will be enough kids dragging their poor parents to this, but I still think it will make slightly less than the last movie if only because the novelty won't be as strong. 12/36 (3x)

October 6 Kraven the Hunter: Oh Sony, you silly little morons. You try so hard with your silly Spider-Man villain universe that nobody cares about. “It’s Kraven Time” rolls off the tongue better, and the character is more popular, but it’s not as memeable and I doubt this will be anything good. Even with zero competition, this is only going slightly over Morbius. 35/70 (2.14x) True Love: There's no real information about the plot yet, so it's very tough to predict anything. But, and I know I've been a broken record here, audiences only want to see nostalgic toy commercials. And True Love isn't that. Better than Amsterdam, because I'm assuming (or at least hoping) it's better than that travesty, but not that much better than that. 10/30 (3x)

I'll admit that I feel I'm more forgiving of the underwater visuals in this and Wakanda Forever than most and that they aren't as bad as people make them out to be. But frankly, I feel like most people won't care that the underwater visuals are worse than Avatar's. Films and CGI today are the ugliest they have ever been and are rushed like crazy, but the normies still turn up and don't complain about it. People see a brand they recognize and then turn into robots and automatically flock to it. This will be the same case here.

...excuse me?

M3GAN Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-2 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 55 317 8900 3.56% Total Seats Sold Today: 123 Comp 0.210x of The Conjuring 3 T-2 (2.06M) 0.235x of Halloween Kills T-2 (1.14M) 0.297x of Scream T-2 (1.04M) 0.648x of The Black Phone T-2 (1.94M) 0.634x of Smile T-2 (1.27M) 0.222x of Halloween Ends T-2 (1.2M)

The heart replaces nothing. "This!" also replaces nothing