Eric the Clown

June Some Like it Hot - 10/10 The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It - 5/10 Thor - 6/10 Cabaret - 9/10 In the Heights - 9/10 Brokeback Mountain - 10/10 (When David Harbour popped up I screamed) Luca - 7/10 The Boys in the Band (1970) - 10/10 The Boys in the Band (2020) - 6/10 Casablanca - 10/10 Bruno - 7/10 Milk - 7/10 (this has the most cursed cast in history lmao) The Maltese Falcon - 8/10 Meet Me in St. Louis - 9/10 So I didn't end up watching any Fast and Furious content this month. Maybe I'll get to it in July I guess, but I also have to schedule it around my Shyamagod marathon (and also David Lowery I guess). Not really in a rush to see any F&F movie tho, so who knows if I ever get around to it?

Space Jam: A New Legacy Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-16 and Counting (Fri) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 38 58 7177 0.81% Don't have any comps, and the film's sales should be quiet, but it doesn't hurt to have this for any future animation/kids movie comps

Black Widow Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-8 and Counting (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 86 2510 17479 14.36% Total Seats Sold Today: 138 Comp 1.934x of Godzilla vs. Kong T-8 Before Release (18.76M) 2.505x of F9 T-8 Before Release (17.78M)

The Forever Purge Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-1 and Counting (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 27 149 3588 4.15% Total Seats Sold Today: 57 Comp 0.099x of Conjuring 3 1 Day Before Release (967K) 0.745x of Hitman's Bodyguard's Wife T-1 Before Release (2.93M)

The Boss Baby: Family Business Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-1 and Counting (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 42 269 6280 4.28% Total Seats Sold Today: 90 Comp 0.624x of Raya's Thu+Fri T-1 and Counting (1.62M) 0.337x of Cruella's Thu+Fri T-1 and Counting (2.60M) 0.915x of Spirit Untamed's Thu+Fri T-1 and Counting (2.25M)

Jeez Louise you guys sound like dorks

Honestly audiences today are way more complicit in terms of watching the same stuff over and over that I doubt that many long-running franchises will fall apart over the next few years. You look at that Disney Investor Day and people were drooling over a Buzz Lightyear spin-off and 30 Star Wars shows. People today only care about nostalgic IP and it'll be a long while before we get to anything like the New Hollywood era or whatever. I know people want to throw the blame at studios for not diversifying their platter. And like yeah that's a problem, but also whenever they do try this, with a big ad campaign and all, audiences today just don't flock towards it and I think it's fair to call out people on this. If Yesterday or Ford v Ferrari came out in like 2008, they would have probably hit like 145M. COVID probably helped expand the lifespans of a lot of franchises too. People are nostalgic for the good ol' days of 2017 when they could go outside and watch the latest leftovers and will cling further to stuff that's safe and familiar.

Warner/Max movies don't do previews. Even In the Heights still dropped on Max on the Thursday it opened. Thanks for letting me know about Space Jam btw. Planning on doing a long-term tracking of that, though I might wait until tomorrow when I'm finished with Boss Baby and Purge.

I mean technically animated stuff like Zootopia or Hotel Transylvania fits in "original blockbuster franchise", though I'm aware that's not what people are fully talking about here.

This...feels kind of backhanded

Does LOTR not count? It's technically three movies back to back, but still.

Ummmm.....okay?

Needs more BTS

Black Widow Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-9 and Counting (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 86 2372 17479 13.57% Total Showings Added Today: 1 Total Seats Added Today: 159 Total Seats Sold Today: 160 Comp 1.938x of Godzilla vs. Kong T-9 Before Release (18.81M) 2.534x of F9 T-9 Before Release (17.99M) Thought the review bump would be a bit bigger, but it's still a high either way and the film is still doing very well in the comps department. Can't complain too much at this point.

The Forever Purge Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-2 and Counting (Thu) Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 27 92 3588 2.56% Total Showings Added Today: 7 Total Seats Added Today: 823 Total Seats Sold Today: 26 Comp 0.091x of Conjuring 3 2 Days Before Release (896K)