Eric the Clown

Jungle Cruise Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-6 and Counting (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 37 115 7571 1.52% Total Seats Sold Today: 25 Comp 0.128x of A Quiet Place Part II's Thu+Fri T-6 (2.48M) 0.342x of Cruella's Thu+Fri T-6 (2.64M) 1.322x of Snake Eyes T-6 (1.85M) If there's anything to say at this point, this was a good day for the movie all things considered. Snake Eyes at this point in time, for a comparison, pretty much had nonexistent sales a week before release. If we continue seeing this kind of movement, it should lead to all my comps getting above 2M, which should at least ensure 20M...maybe. Who knows how Delta or D+ or whatever will impact it?

It's more than just the openers. Them doing poorly is whatever to me. My issue is just at the holdovers and the market in general. Black Widow's drop is abysmal. Space Jam's 70% fall is absurd, even compared to other HBO Max titles. And I know that people will talk about WOM and streaming and piracy until they're blue in the face for justifiable and valid reasons. But it's not like Delta isn't having any impacts at all here. And yeah, outside of Quiet Place, F9, and Widow, things really aren't that great. The other openers are still pretty low, and while legs are compensating for it, it's still not healthy enough to make me think theatrical business will be fine in the long-term. If people were really missing the movies, you would think the market would come out in droves and things would be better than it is now, no? I also have zero confidence that Delta will be the last major variant obstacle and that we're still gonna see issues well into the fall. I will admit though that delays probably won't happen and that it will be more of a day-and-date kind of deal. But even so, this stuff is still not good for us who enjoy theater exclusivity and will sting for theater owners hard. Basically, I see little faith in things getting better from a box office perspective.

I can't really say anything against the first statement (I'm thinking about what's going to happen in about 5 years and it is bleak for traditionalists like us), but just know I'm sending you positive vibes and hopes for you on the job front. I obviously don't have any power, but I went through the exact same problem you're going through just a few months ago. Just keep on applying, keep revising your resume, and make those connections happen. I'm rooting for you because I love you, and you can always talk to me if you want to vent.

I don't know how long this Delta stuff will last, and I know people will think I'm being paranoid (I don't care), but I'm now convinced we're getting a few more movie delays. What movies they will be I have no idea, but studios will be piss-scared to release anything after this weekend. We're bound to get more variants in the months ahead too. Antivaxxers will keep this shit going for a long time.

https://deadline.com/2021/07/snake-eyes-old-m-night-shyamalan-weekend-box-office-1234798883/

Honestly I feel it could go the other way around. I feel like Shyamalan has a bit of an Edgar Wright-style fanbase that could be interested in seeing it right away. Snake Eyes is also a franchise too, but they don't really focus on the GI Joe connections much in the marketing and I don't think there's that rabid of a fandom for it that will want to catch the first showings.

https://deadline.com/2021/07/snake-eyes-old-m-night-shyamalan-weekend-box-office-1234798883/ I'm aware this is unlikely to happen, so don't pester me about it, but I will cackle supremely hard if Black Widow actually ranks #1 again this weekend lol

https://deadline.com/2021/07/snake-eyes-old-m-night-shyamalan-weekend-box-office-1234798883/ Deadline mentions Snake Eyes with 1.4M previews. Whoever wins the weekend will be unknown (probably Snake Eyes?), but neither film will get out of the mid-teens tracking.

Boom baby!

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You'll be amazed how much mileage you can get out of manbaby outrage towards reboots of 80s properties. These dudes will get mad at anything! There's outrage on Twitter over that new He-Man Netflix cartoon being too woke. He-Man!

Because you risk hype peaking long before the movie actually comes out. The Internet Age and Peak Content era we live in today means trends and interest moves very quickly and things get lost in the shuffle. If you put reviews up too early, like In the Heights did, it'll get washed away from all the other movie news and people will forget about the movie coming out in a couple weeks.

I'd really prefer not to give this Geeks & Gamers grifter any sort of attention or spotlight here. The man's known for using fanboy movies as a way to spout alt-right beliefs and I really don't want this stuff here.

I know there's logistical and money-saving reasons for this, but I really hope this pandemic doesn't cause marketing windows to shrink, because big, elaborate ad campaigns is a huge part of the fun for a lot of movies. Having a long period full of trailers and promos just makes me more excited about the movie and gives you a fun period where you'll have a long wait, but it makes the whole thing even more worth it. I still remember when I was 11 years old and when Toy Story 3 had its first teaser out more than a year before its release, it just made me more excited. Knowing something I'll love is coming out, and coming out soon-ish, was amazing. It just made me more and more hyped to check the film out, search online for more trailers and promos and sucked me into something that I knew I was gonna love even more. I even had those same feeling with Black Panther and the Star Wars sequels, even if they weren't quite a year long in terms of promos and campaigns. I also had the same reactions at 11 with The Last Airbender with its first teaser trailer, but that obviously didn't pan out nearly as well as Toy Story did.

The Suicide Squad Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-14 and Counting (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 35 263 8111 3.24% Total Seats Sold Today: 14 Comp 0.375x of F9 T-14 (2.66M) 0.142x of Black Widow T-14 (1.88M)

Jungle Cruise Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-7 and Counting (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 37 90 7571 1.19% Total Seats Sold Today: 13 Comp 0.113x of A Quiet Place Part II's Thu+Fri T-7 (2.2M) 0.479x of Cruella's Thu+Fri T-7 (3.69M) Decided to add in one more comp to all this just for funsies. I'll also likely add in a Snake Eyes comp tomorrow when we get preview results.

Snake Eyes Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 36 652 6111 4.25% Total Seats Sold Today: 392 Comp 0.197x of Mortal Kombat (1.8M) 0.331x of A Quiet Place Part II's Thu (1.59M) 0.126x of A Quiet Place Part II's Thu+Fri (2.44M) 1.594x of Cruella's Thu (2.23M) 0.512x of Cruella's Thu+Fri (3.95M) 0.144x of F9 (1.02M) This is a little all over the place, but a gun to my head guess has me at somewhere in the high 1s?

Old Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 25 854 3943 21.66% Total Seats Sold Today: 591 Comp 0.434x of Quiet Place 2 Thursday Previews (2.08M) 0.333x of Conjuring 3 (3.26M) 1.167x of Forever Purge (1.55M) 1.477x of Escape Room 2 (1.77M) Purge had a similar explosion as this did on its final day, so I think 1.5M previews sounds about right.