Eric the Clown

Presales and advance tickets take up a bigger share of opening weekends and grosses every year. So ticket sales for a 2021 movie will almost always outpace sales from a 2016 and 2017 movie. The only apt comparisons when it comes to this kind of stuff, though still not perfect, is comparing movies from this year and maybe last year (or I guess in this case two years ago). So the fact this is outpacing F9's ticket sales is a better, stronger indicator on how the movie's doing, as the basement for this film looks to be 70M.

This is destined to drop like a rock anyways (seriously, the first movie suuuuuuuuuucked). Might as well hit rock bottom

https://deadline.com/2021/07/black-widow-advance-ticket-sales-fandango-record-2021-1234787552/

I...am very confused by the music choice here.

Space Jam: A New Legacy Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-10 and Counting (Fri) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 43 267 7824 3.41% Total Seats Sold Today: 59 Comp 2.188x of Cruella's Thu+Fri T-10 Before Release (16.87M)

Black Widow Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-2 and Counting (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 5 142 4287 25379 16.89% Total Showings Added Today: 49 Total Seats Added Today: 7,316 Total Sellouts Added Today: 3 Total Seats Sold Today: 631 Comp 1.639x of Godzilla vs. Kong 2 Days Before Release (15.91M) 2.212x of F9 T-2 Before Release (15.71M)

Reviews came in. 70 on MetaCritic and 85% on RT, but I've also seen a few mixed reactions too

That ass is terrifying stuff

https://deadline.com/2021/07/peacock-will-become-pay-one-partner-for-all-universal-pics-after-hbo-deal-expiration-at-years-end-1234787069/

I just hope they bring back that IHOP menu. I tried it out of morbid curiosity and it was surprisingly better than I thought it would be.

I hate to be that guy and steal from the New Mutants thread, but I honestly thought this would have another delay announcement when I saw the thread bumped.

I mean...you kinda got what you wanted

Keep your shirt on I like that movie too 😂

@charlie Jatinder I had to adjust this BW/TROS comp, because I added in three new theaters since the pandemic. Adjusted, BW is 0.202x of TROS. That translates to...8.09M. This shows just how preview-driven SW is, because at this point in time, TROS sold 13,050 tickets. That's lightyears ahead of every other comp I have from 2019 (didn't track Endgame just for clarification). So yeah, maybe don't pay any mind to this comp in the future. The closest to this is Lion King, which (again, adjusted), translates to about 0.426x for Black Widow. That's about...9.8M. So yeah, I don't think I'm doing 2019 comparisons anymore.

Space Jam: A New Legacy Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-11 and Counting (Fri) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 43 208 7824 2.66% Total Shows Added Today: 3 Total Seats Added Today: 270 Total Seats Sold Today: 48 Comp 1.944x of Cruella's Thu+Fri T-11 Before Release (14.98M) By contrast, this did surprisingly well today. Not sure why though.

Black Widow Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-3 and Counting (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 2 93 3656 18063 20.24% Total Showings Added Today: 3 Total Seats Added Today: 277 Total Seats Sold Today: 297 Comp 1.694x of Godzilla vs. Kong 3 Days Before Release (16.44M) 2.258x of F9 T-3 Before Release (16.03M) Yeah this was not a good Monday, but it seems I'm an outlier as the other bumps from July 4th were far more prominent. It could also be that people are waiting for more showtimes to pop up. While not all of them are filled up, a lot of the good times are already very populated so I think some people could be waiting for that. I dunno, I'm just theorizing here.

Just finished rewatching Superman. I know the whole "they don't make them like they used to" is a little unfair to a lot of great filmmakers today, but...man they don't make it like they used to. It feels so nice to have a sincere, hopeful, optimistic superhero movie that doesn't force out a million jokes or tries to deconstruct the superhero narrative. It's just a passionate, kind look at an amazing hero that effortlessly blends comedy and drama and heroics into a beautiful package and I really hope we get something like this again.

Oh ho ho yes please

https://deadline.com/2021/07/boss-baby-family-business-forever-purge-f9-box-office-weekend-july-4th-1234785567/