Eric the Clown

M3GAN Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-31 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 33 13 5433 0.24% Total Seats Sold Today: 1 Comp 0.098x of Nope T-31 (625K)

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-16 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 73 496 11535 4.30% Total Seats Sold Today: 3 Total Seats WITHOUT Early Access: 29 Comp w/ Early Access 0.322x of Sing 2 T-16 (3.13M) 1.064x of Sonic 2 T-16 (6.65M) 4.550x of Minions 2 T-16 (48.92M) 33.067x of Super Pets T-16 (72.75M) Comp w/out Early Access 0.218x of Sing 2 T-16 (1.77M) 0.062x of Sonic 2 T-16 (389K) 0.266x of Minions 2 T-16 (2.86M) 1.933x of Super Pets T-16 (4.25M)

Avatar: The Way of Water Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-10 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 152 2192 26516 8.27% Total Seats Sold Today: 77 Comp 2.460x of F9 T-10 (17.47M) 2.582x of Venom 2 T-10 (29.95M) 2.919x of No Time to Die T-10 (18.39M) 2.775x of Dune T-10 (14.15M) 3.341x of Fantastic Beasts 3 T-10 (20.05M) 1.284x of Top Gun 2 T-10 (24.73M) 1.127x of Jurassic World 3 T-10 (20.29M) 2.709x of Black Adam T-10 (20.59M)

I would see it twice if they had Gabriel Iglesias in there. But those cowards didn't bring him back. 😠

https://deadline.com/2022/12/the-flash-ezra-miller-theatrical-release-date-move-june-1235190095/ I have no clue what this is lol

THIS IS NOT A DRILL PEOPLE

Movie Title Distributor Gross %LW Theaters Theaters Change Per Theater Total Gross Weekends In Release 1 (1) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Walt Disney $17,540,051 -62% 3,855 -403 $4,550 $393,671,128 4 2 N Violent Night Universal $13,450,240 3,682 $3,653 $13,450,240 1 3 (2) Strange World Walt Disney $5,085,335 -58% 4,174 n/c $1,218 $25,684,071 2 4 (5) The Menu Searchlight … $3,471,324 -37% 2,810 -418 $1,235 $24,640,056 3 5 (4) Devotion Sony Pictures $2,725,101 -54% 3,405 n/c $800 $13,725,108 2 6 N I Heard the Bells Fathom Events $2,001,603 1,082 $1,850 $2,771,747 1 7 (6) Black Adam Warner Bros. $1,565,051 -52% 2,231 -433 $702 $165,071,691 7 8 (7) The Fabelmans Universal $1,269,515 -44% 638 n/c $1,990 $5,534,961 4 9 (8) Bones and All United Artists $1,188,698 -47% 2,727 n/c $436 $6,038,432 3 10 (9) Ticket to Paradise Universal $854,680 -54% 1,715 -523 $498 $66,528,855 7 11 (-) Top Gun: Maverick Paramount Pi… $676,113 1,864 $363 $717,748,136 28 12 N HIT: The 2nd Case $600,000 280 $2,143 $600,000 1 13 N The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie Crunchyroll $502,000 910 $552 $502,000 1 14 (11) She Said Universal $405,200 -65% 1,117 -906 $363 $5,302,830 3 15 (12) Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile Sony Pictures $400,951 -57% 1,276 -532 $314 $45,745,964 9 - (13) Drishyam 2 Yash Raj Films $314,950 -50% 305 n/c $1,033 $3,004,180 3 - (10) The Chosen Season 3: Episodes 1 & 2 Fathom Events $310,013 -80% 1,695 n/c $183 $14,406,540 3 - (-) The Banshees of Inisherin Searchlight … $235,960 -31% 320 -82 $737 $8,265,327 7 - (-) Prey for the Devil Lionsgate $186,299 -53% 345 -205 $540 $19,401,884 6 - (-) Smile Paramount Pi… $163,309 -62% 366 -228 $446 $105,738,282 10 - (-) TÁR Focus Features $87,320 -18% 97 -3 $900 $5,250,783 9 - (-) The Inspection A24 $85,541 +9% 138 +106 $620 $270,613 3 - N Spoiler Alert Focus Features $82,983 6 $13,831 $82,983 1 - (-) Till United Artists $81,216 -6% 127 +20 $639 $8,886,146 8 - (-) The Woman King Sony Pictures $46,331 -72% 168 -357 $276 $67,103,853 12 - (-) Aftersun A24 $46,312 -3% 75 n/c $617 $874,128 7 - (-) All The Beauty And The Bloodshed Neon $34,672 +20% 10 +7 $3,467 $86,866 2 - N The Eternal Daughter A24 $33,657 29 $1,161 $33,657 1 - N Framing Agnes Kino Lorber $28,214 1 $28,214 $28,214 1 - (-) EO Janus Films $28,000 +80% 6 +4 $4,667 $85,962 3 - N Decibel Wide Lens Pi… $24,550 21 $1,169 $24,550 1 - N Hunt Magnet Relea… $16,348 30 $545 $16,348 1 - (-) Holy Spider (عنكبوت مقدس) Utopia $14,901 -14% 15 -2 $993 $163,236 6 - (-) Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams Sony Picture… $10,836 +68% 69 +57 $157 $49,813 5 - N Four Samosas IFC Films $10,423 27 $386 $10,423 1 - (-) Leonor Will Never Die Music Box Films $6,163 +92% 8 +7 $770 $12,162 2 - N 2nd Chance Bleecker Street $5,267 5 $1,053 $5,267 1 - N Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power Greenwich $4,500 6 $750 $4,500 1 - (-) Cat Daddies Gray Hat Pro… $4,197 +105% 3 +2 $1,399 $53,944 8 - (-) Meet Me in the Bathroom Utopia $3,753 -51% 7 -6 $536 $315,239 5 - N Reflections of a Broken Memory Indican Pict… $3,435 1 $3,435 $3,435 1 - (-) Utama Kino Lorber $3,120 +818% 6 +3 $520 $42,642 5 - N Tantura Reel Peak Films $2,671 2 $1,336 $2,671 1 - (-) Life & Life Indican Pict… $1,725 2 $863 $21,403 8 - (-) When Men Were Men Indican Pict… $1,545 +213% 2 +1 $773 $8,000 5 - (-) Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power Kino Lorber $1,366 +1,239% 3 +2 $455 $25,004 7 - (-) Flaming Ears Kino Lorber $1,320 2 $660 $6,607 3 - (-) There There Magnolia Pic… $755 -65% 2 -1 $378 $8,327 3 - (-) Bad Axe IFC Films $342 -89% 2 -10 $171 $19,233 3 - (-) Only in Theaters The Film Col… $283 -46% 1 -1 $283 $14,206 3 - (-) The Return Of Tanya Tucker: Featuring Brandi Ca… Sony Picture… $264 -29% 2 -2 $132 $92,293 7 - (-) Please Baby Please Music Box Films $251 -6% 1 -1 $251 $22,904 6 52 $53,618,654

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Quorum Updates Bablyon T-18: 24.74% Awareness, 5.13 Interest I Wanna Dance with Somebody T-18: 29.3%, 5.38 Ant-Man and the Wasp T-74: 36.27%, 5.88 Cocaine Bear T-85: 15.74%, 5.23 Creed III T-92: 48.59%, 6.58 Scream 6 T-99: 42.39%, 6.07 Shazam! Fury of the Gods T-102: 38.07%, 5.53 The Super Mario Bros. Movie T-123: 49.61%, 5.98 Elemental T-193: 27.01%, 5.5 Magic Mike's Last Dance T-67: 29.15% Awareness, 5.28 Interest T-60 General Awareness: 63% chance of 10M, 33% chance of 20M General Interest: 78% chance of 10M, 48% chance of 20M

Yeah Puss in Boots won't do it. 2022 will be the first time since 1995 that a film didn't gross in the 200M range. That's bleak af

M3GAN Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-32 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 33 12 5433 0.22% Comp 0.095x of Nope T-32 (609K) Wanted to do this earlier, but I was too tired to track it. But yeah, felt like I wanted to give this the college try even if it won't sell much initially. Feels like this has a chance to do a Devil Inside-level opening (not in terms of IM hopefully), so wanted to give this a shot. Won't have anything else in 2023 until Ant-Man anyways.

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-17 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 73 493 11535 4.27% Total Seats Sold Today: 2 Total Seats WITHOUT Early Access: 26 Comp w/ Early Access 0.332x of Sing 2 T-17 (3.23M) 1.108x of Sonic 2 T-17 (6.92M) 5.539x of Minions 2 T-17 (59.55M) Comp w/out Early Access 0.333x of Sing 2 T-17 (2.71M) 0.058x of Sonic 2 T-17 (365K) 0.292x of Minions 2 T-17 (3.14M)

Avatar: The Way of Water Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-11 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 152 2115 26516 7.98% Total Seats Sold Today: 99 Comp 2.445x of F9 T-11 (17.36M) 2.725x of Venom 2 T-11 (31.62M) 3.185x of No Time to Die T-11 (20.07M) 2.812x of Dune T-11 (14.34M) 3.537x of Fantastic Beasts 3 T-11 (21.22M) 1.289x of Top Gun 2 T-11 (24.82M) 1.140x of Jurassic World 3 T-11 (20.53M) 2.772x of Black Adam T-11 (21.07M)

...what? No. Like...no.

So uh...we're less than two months away and we still don't have a trailer. It's pretty clear at this rate the movie sucks, but are we getting another delay?

I'm still under the "TGM for Best Picture" camp. I know that it's very boring, but like Coolio said, this is catnip for the boomer voters and the awards contenders this year have failed to catch on at all (probably never will again for that matter). Top Gun's already an industry darling and is arguably the most non-objectionable movie of the bunch. No backlash, no obvious frontrunner status, etc. Plus there's even a "this movie saved theaters forever" narrative. Been a while since we've had a Titanic/ROTK style winner anyways. The time has come.

Just a few more weeks and we approach the M3GAN Sweep

#14 Miller’s Crossing 90 points, 15 lists "Nobody knows anybody. Not that well." #3 placements: 3 Top 5 placements: 4 Box Office: $5.1M Rotten Tomatoes: 93% Metacritic: 76 Awards: Critics Award at Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, Grand Prix nomination at the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics. Its Legacy: Ranked in Time and Total Film's Top 100 list. Ranked the 24th best crime movie by The Guardian. Gave Jon Polito a paycheck. Commentary: Like Blood Simple, we have a sharp, well-told noir story with great dialogue, humor, and set pieces. And through it all are some incredible performances. There’s Gabriel Byrne as the shady protagonist who causes two rival gangs to go after one another, John Turturro as the man supposedly whacked, and the two lead gangsters portrayed by Albert Finney and the late great Jon Polito. His performance as Johnny Caspar is my personal favorite work of his and it still hurts that he’s no longer with us. But within this classic gangster tale is a film with a memorable script and unexpected directions that get you invested and afraid of what’s soon to come. You can’t get much better than that if I’m being honest. It was ultimately overshadowed by other gangster pics from 1990 like Goodfellas and Godather 3, understandably so. But that only makes the fans of the movie seem like the cool kids for knowing something seemingly so obscure. And that's all that matters, really.

#15 Blood Simple 86 points, 16 lists "Well, if the pay's right, I'll do it." Top 5 placements: 1 Box Office: $2.7M Rotten Tomatoes: 93% Metacritic: 83 Awards: Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, 2 Independent Spirit Awards Roger Ebert's Review: "The genius of "Blood Simple" is that everything that happens seems necessary. The movie's a blood-soaked nightmare in which greed and lust trap the characters in escalating horror. The plot twists in upon itself. Characters are found in situations of diabolical complexity. And yet it doesn't feel like the film is just piling it on. Step by inexorable step, logically, one damned thing leads to another." Its Legacy: The one that started it all. The first feature film for Carter Burwell and Frances McDormand. Placed #10 on Roger Ebert's Best of 1985. Part of the Criterion Collection. Gave M. Emmett Walsh a paycheck. Commentary: It’s the one that started it all. Joel and Ethan’s big debut is pretty fascinating when you think about it. Last year, I did a Martin Scorsese countdown. And his first film, Who’s That Knocking at my Door, was well-regarded, but generally considered sloppy and messy and inferior to future works that explored its themes and ideas a lot better. Blood Simple isn’t really that. While still one of the lower-ranked films, pretty much all the Coen trademarks are here and done perfectly. Great editing, great music, an engaging plot full of twists and turns, a fair amount of dark humor and eccentric characters, and a strong visual style to tie it all together. It would still take a while before Fargo became their big, huge, major breakout, but this neo-noir has everything you could want in a Coen film. Action, violence, comedy, and Frances McDormand. And it’s done incredibly well. Some will argue better than some of the guys’ later revered work. And it shows really how some directors can just nail it right out of the park. Even the best can’t make those claims.

#16 The Tragedy of MacBeth 59 points, 12 lists "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes..." Top 5 placements: 2 Box Office: $524,771 Rotten Tomatoes: 92% Metacritic: 87 Awards: 3 Academy Award nominations, AFI's Top 10 Films of the Year, 1 BAFTA nomination, 2 Critics Choice Award nominations, 1 Golden Globe nomination, 1 NAACP Image Award nomination, 3 National Board of Review wins, 1 SAG Award nomination Its Legacy: Joel Coen's first movie without his brother. One of the premier attractions for Apple TV+. Will probably be shown in high schools for years to come. Gave Corey Hawkins a paycheck. Commentary: Movies based on Shakespeare are always present. Macbeth is no exception to this. You got all the silent film versions, you got the Orson Welles movie, the Polanski one, the Fassbender one. There's even one made that starred Sam Worthington of all people. And if you want to be that guy, you also have the one made by Akira Kurosawa and the Disney version with the talking lions. Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth is perhaps one of the most fascinating interpretations of the classic work. The minimalist sets and emphasis on fog and shadows takes this popular story into a whole new world of unique visual language. Not only does this minimalism emphasize the story’s theater roots, but also creates a foreboding dread, symbolizing Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s twistedness and despair into madness. And even outside of the unique visuals, full of shadows and contrasts, this is a movie that boasts two fantastic lead performances from both Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand, a wonderful supporting cast, and an engaging take on the greatest writer ever. While Macbeth isn’t my personal favorite Shakespeare story, this film managed to really make something that has stiff characters and retreaded plots and makes something really fun and enthralling. Guess that shows how good Joel Coen (his brother was nowhere in sight) is as a director. Taking something this old and breathing new life, making it feel as if we are listening to this story for the first time. I like that.