Eric the Clown

I understand the argument about anti-Chinese sentiment, but I feel like people overrate that. The people who won't see Mulan because its a Chinese story weren't gonna see it under normal circumstances to begin with. Do you seriously think normal people will think "Gee I was really excited to see Mulan, but I'm suddenly a racist now so I won't watch it?" This isn't me saying I'm pro-China or pro-CCP, nor am I saying there isn't negative feelings on the government, but I don't think that's such a big issue on the movie's potential box office.

If Tenet gets pushed to August, I think Mulan should take that October 2 slot, since it'll basically have the month all to itself, although I am aware the issue of a second wave in the fall will probably make studios piss-scared of opening any major tentpoles there.

I've heard people argue the protests would make people not want to see movies, but the thing is...wouldn't people want escapism at these times, especially a month from now? This obviously doesn't discredit what's going on, but I would think people would want a break and enjoy something else. Of course, saying all that, we're also likely going to get an increase of COVID cases, and what I'm saying could mean people would prefer watching something that's coming to PVOD or Netflix

Apple 1. Sonic the Hedgehog 2. The Invisible Man 3. Just Mercy 4. Scoob! 5. The Goonies 6. Heat 7. Waves 8. Trolls World Tour 9. Villain 10. Knives Out Amazon 1. Scoob! 2. Trolls World Tour 3. Bloodshot 4. The Greatest Showman 5. Knives Out 6. Jumanji: The Next Level 7. Bad Boys for Life 8. The Gentlemen 9. Sonic the Hedgehog 10. Fantasy Island

https://deadline.com/2020/06/weekend-box-office-last-of-may-memorial-day-trolls-world-tour-wretched-high-note-1202950241/

So this Cannes announcement...is this for a future festival later this year? Or is this just saying "here was what was gonna debut"?

Apple 1. The Invisible Man 2. Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Heat 4. Scoob! 5. Knives Out 6. Just Mercy 7. The High Note 8. Justice League Dark: Apokolips War 9. Fantasy Island 10. The Gentlemen Amazon 1. Scoob! 2. Trolls World Tour 3. Bloodshot 4. The Greatest Showman 5. Knives Out 6. Jumanji: The Next Level 7. Bad Boys for Life 8. The Gentlemen 9. Sonic the Hedgehog 10. Fantasy Island

...like I said, Han go to bed.

Han go to bed.

Apple 1. The Invisible Man 2. Scoob! 3. Sonic the Hedgehog 4. Knives Out 5. The High Note 6. Heat 7. The Gentlemen 8. The Way Back 9. Like a Boss 10. Jumanji: The Next Level Amazon 1. Scoob! 2. Trolls World Tour 3. Bloodshot 4. The Greatest Showman 5. Knives Out 6. Jumanji: The Next Level 7. Bad Boys for Life 8. The Gentlemen 9. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood 10. Fantasy Island

Guess it's my cue then. That's right, I'm in charge of The Amazing History of Box Office Stories. From 2002 to the present. With no box office to talk about, might as well take a reprieve from the horrors and atrocities of the world and discuss the good ol' days when we actually went outside. I can't give an exact start date on when we'll kick things off again, but I know it will be soon, and I hope to finish this off before the year is over. The only thing I ask of you are requests. Like Baumer, I'm going to take requests on films outside the top 10. If there's a story from 2002 that you want me to talk about, share it right away. I already have movies I'm interested in talking about, but I want to know some of your inputs. Just share them below, and I'll look at the ones that seem most popular. And yeah, that's it. Hope you guys like what you see! Oh and Black Lives Matter

Not really sure if cop propaganda is the movie we need right now 🤔

Heat’s in the top 10 because it’s on sale to own for $5. If it was at its usual prices, it wouldn’t have even cracked the top 100. Knives Out’s also $3 to rent and Invisible Man just became available for $6 to rent. iTunes’ charts get mad impacted by sales and price cuts. By comparison, when Emma and The Hunt became $20 rentals, I don’t ever remember them cracking the top 10, and if they did it was brief. I only ever saw them in the top 20 at most, and then went lower until they became available for purchase/rental. Then they found a place there. Never Rarely Sometimes Always didn’t even make it into the top 20 IIRC. Granted those movies were in a more crowded VOD marketplace, but the fact The High Note is in the top 5 when it had little going for it, would have likely opened sub-10M in a normal environment, and us in the Telegram chat thought it was destined to fail at its $20 price point...yeah it’s not amazing, but it’s way better than most of us thought, and I think is pretty okay

And really, getting into the top 3 on Day 1, and staying in the top 5 isn't that bad for a small movie w/ zero starpower. I honestly didn't think it would end up this high since this was still a $20 rental and didn't have family viewing. Of course, we still don't have a way to measure VOD sales which is trash AF. Somebody get around to pressuring these companies to reveal these sales to us.

https://deadline.com/2020/06/unaffordable-90-day-theatrical-window-is-history-as-leverage-tilts-towards-studios-post-pandemic-analyst-1202948071/