Eric the Clown

Brandon Katz is an entertainment reporter for Observer and is a pretty active one online at that. Because of his position, he probably has good sources for these early box office results and since Deadline isn't doing their mid-day Friday updates anymore (it's really frustrating Deadline just stopped doing them after Jungle Cruise weekend IIRC), might as well get something for the industry/box office nerds to chew on.

Likely including previews. Typically the trades and reporters like Brandon always lump in previews with Friday #s. Charlie is the only guy I can think of that reports previews and True Friday separately...or at least he used to (Comscore, please come back 😥)

https://deadline.com/2021/08/candyman-posts-sweet-thursday-night-with-1-9m-1234823246/

Really appreciate how this newest episode is just everybody talking about how sexy Thor and Hemsworth are. Good stuff.

Subjective analysis isn't a scam.

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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-7 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 60 1540 11464 13.43% Total Seats Sold Today: 131 Comp 1.460x of F9 T-7 (10.36M) 0.582x of Black Widow T-7 (7.69M) 3.711x of The Suicide Squad T-7 (15.21M)

https://www.boxofficepro.com/weekend-box-office-forecast-candyman-is-trending-for-a-late-summer-surprise-likely-to-dethrone-free-guy/ Opener Forecast Ranges Candyman Opening Weekend Range: $16 – 26 million Domestic Total Range: $40 – $75 million Weekend Forecast Boxoffice projects this weekend’s top ten films will decrease between 1 and 15 percent from last weekend’s $59.1 million top ten aggregate. Film Distributor 3-Day Weekend Forecast Projected Domestic Total through Sunday, August 29 Location Count % Change from Last Wknd Candyman Universal Pictures $20,000,000 $20,000,000 3,569 NEW Free Guy 20th Century Studios $10,900,000 $76,700,000 3,940 -41% PAW Patrol: The Movie Paramount Pictures $6,900,000 $24,800,000 3,189 -48% Jungle Cruise Walt Disney Studios $4,400,000 $99,700,000 3,370 -31% Respect United Artists Releasing / MGM $2,500,000 $19,900,000 2,607 -34% Don’t Breathe 2 Sony Pictures / Columbia $2,200,000 $24,000,000 2,703 -57% The Suicide Squad Warner Bros. Pictures $1,700,000 $52,300,000 ~2,500 -50% The Protégé Lionsgate $1,400,000 $5,400,000 ~2,577 -52% Reminiscence Warner Bros. Pictures $1,100,000 $3,900,000 ~3,265 -44% The Night House Searchlight Pictures $1,000,000 $5,100,000 2,240 -65%

Candyman Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 36 1415 6871 20.59% Total Seats Sold Today: 814 Comp 0.719x of A Quiet Place Part II (3.45M) 1.099x of Spiral Thu+Fri (4.1M) 1.933x of Forever Purge (2.57M) 2.448x of Escape Room 2 (2.94M) 0.320x of Space Jam 2 Fri (4.19M) 1.657x of Old (2.48M) 1.380x of Don't Breathe 2 (1.33M) I know I said before to focus on Black-led movies, but I did it this time to put into some perspective. The big one being that I see no reason to follow the Spiral and Space Jam comps because 4M+ previews sounds way too optimistic and unrealistic. But looking at just about everything else, it's still a given that 2M previews are the floor and 2.5M+ is more and more likely. Crazy to think over The Suicide Squad's OW could happen, but these are strange times we live in.

For the record, I gave him warning points twice in the past couple weeks and have told him numerous times that his schtick is old and tiring. Please do not think we're letting anybody off the hook here.

CinemaCon rarely if ever puts trailers out for the public. Spider-Man is the exception, not the rule. And as an aside, can you please stop being overdramatic? Every time anything even mildly negative (and sometimes not even that) occurs, you're expecting delays and/or films to bomb like crazy. It's getting beyond old and beyond tiring seeing these kinds of posts.

The mad lad lol

Dude just stop it.

https://deadline.com/2021/08/lion-king-prequel-cast-kelvin-harrison-jr-aaron-pierre-barry-jenkins-1234822447/

Disney and Warner aside, this has got to be the shortest theatrical window of the year, right?

Video games were a mistake