Eric the Clown

OMFG YES THIS IS THE TRASH I CRAVE

The Grudge Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report Final Count Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 26 542 3,882 13.96% Total Seats Sold Today: 420 Comp 1.263x of Crawl (1.26M) 0.833x of Scary Stories (1.94M) 2.794x of 47 Meters Down (1.44M) 0.156x of It: Chapter Two (1.64M) 2.710x of Countdown (1.4M) 1.376x of Doctor Sleep (2.06M) 3.638x of Black Christmas (837K) Really great jump. We'll see if it's just overperforming, but hopefully this leads to something positive.

September 25 Last Night in Soho: Edgar Wright finally hit the mainstream with Baby Driver, and is bringing Anya Taylor-Joy my Queen. Can he recreate the same success again? Probably. I’m sure Focus will put “from the director of Baby Driver” in all the marketing, and being a horror movie will help it play well through October. It won’t be as “fun” as BD was, but it’ll get a good-sized audience, and on the upper end of Focus’ releases. 22/85 (3.86x) The Many Saints of Newark: Downton Abbey saw great success last year, and I think it’ll replicate the same success if not better. At this point, there’s probably a good amount of nostalgia for Sopranos, and while obviously the lack of the original cast will diminish interest, I think WB will play their cards right and deliver something that can excite that fanbase. 35/105 (3x) Praise This: Even with Will Packer as a producer, the whole thing sounds pretty generic, and the director doesn’t give me all that much confidence. So...8/24 (3x)

September 18 The King’s Man: I was down on it last year, and I’m even more down on it this year. Simply put, who is this targeted movie to? The Golden Circle already put a bad taste in some people’s mouths, but this movie looks like it’s sucking away the wild, idiosyncratic tone that defines the series. This doesn’t even have Egerton and Firth, and nobody cares about Kingsman lore, so you’re already alienating the fanbase. I see little reason for newcomers to get invested, so you're losing potential new audiences too. And moving the movie to September after two whole trailers comes out that targeted for a February release...yeah, that’s basically Disney-Fox wanting it to die. Shoulda just gone with a Golden Circle follow-up. 20/50 (2.5x) The Mitchells vs. The Machines: After Sony redeemed itself with Into the Spider-Verse, we have another Lord/Miller produced animated feature. Hotel Transylvania aside, September animations haven’t really seen major box office success lately, and just reading the premise, I don’t really see the same thing here. I'm sure once we actually have footage I'll change my tune, but for now, I'm gonna say this will be on par with Smallfoot. 25/85 (3.4x) Without Remorse: A Tom Clancy adaptation starring Michael B. Jordan sounds good on paper. Sicario 2 wasn’t that great, but I think this could do well if the marketing delivers, especially since MBJ is growing to be a bigger name every year. Might as well be a touch more optimistic on this one. 30/95 (3.17x)

September 11 The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It: After solid initial success, The Conjuring Universe has seen some missteps. The Nun was a hit, but a critical dud. La Llorona was despised and ignored. Annabelle Comes Home brought back the Warrens, and it still became the lowest-grossing film in the franchise. What exactly is the hook for this one? Getting the La Llorona guy doesn’t help this movie’s case either. I just don’t see this one capturing the same success as the other post-Labor Day horrors, but the name brand should be enough for it to do...okay. 30/75 (2.5x)

September 4 Monster Hunter: Paul W. S. Anderson fucked up Resident Evil six times, so might as well fuck up another Capcom franchise! I’ve never played the games, but looking at the premise and first images, this seems like something that will piss off fans, which is never a good thing, and I doubt it will appeal to anyone else. The last Resident Evil movie barely got over 25M, so let’s just put that lower. 8/10/20 (2.5x, 2x)

Han's taking his sweet-ass time with his August stuff, so I'm just gonna throw out my September stuff now

They did. I just didn’t bother pasting it because the whole Deadline roasting session is so 2019

Sorry if this was already posted https://deadline.com/2020/01/star-wars-rise-of-skywalker-has-a-happy-new-year-shoots-past-400m-the-grudge-previews-tonight-1202819475/

Dolittle Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-15 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 26 34 5,160 0.66% Total Shows Added Today: 1 Total Seats LOST Today: 406 Total Seats Sold Today: 1 Comp 0.293x of Maleficent 15 days before release (674K) 0.055x of Frozen II 15 days before release (465K) Yeah, I think I'll drop Frozen starting tomorrow. It's clear both movies are going in very different directions. And as for the seat loss, one theater downgraded the movie to a smaller auditorium. Whether or not that's a good thing is up to you.

The Grudge Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-1 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 26 122 3,882 3.14% Total Seats Sold Today: 61 Comp 0.787x of Crawl 1 day before release (787K) 0.434x of Scary Stories (1.01M) 1.525x of 47 Meters Down (787K) 0.051x of It: Chapter Two (536K) 0.659x of Doctor Sleep (989K) 2.068x of Black Christmas (475K) Feel like O/U 10M is about right.

August 28 The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard: The first Hitman’s Bodyguard was a solid success, and it’s continued to play on HBO for a couple years to help keep the property alive. And obviously this isn’t having the same second wind as John Wick, but I think there’s enough people who like it and would be interested in another Reynolds/SLJ adventure, so let’s just give this a decent-sized increase. 27/85 (3.15x) Spell: It’s a horror movie from a director best known for The House at the End of the Street remake and episodes of random TV shows. LOL who cares? 5/13 (2.6x)

August 21 Bill & Ted Face the Music: Excellent! *guitar riff* Bill and Ted return in another adventure, and this should be an okay way to end the summer. Keanu Reeves will probably still stay as America’s Sweetheart, and the director has done good stuff before. I was going to put this at about Dumb and Dumber To, but...fuck it, this month is gonna be awful. Might as well give it triple digits just to be nice. 38/100 (2.63x) Fred Hampton Project: A Black Panther biopic produced by Ryan Coogler and starring Daniel Kaluuya sounds like it has good potential, both in quality and in box office. Queen and Slim is looking to finish at about 40M, and I think that sounds about right here, and would be a great success. 10/40 (4x) Let Him Go: Wow, everybody really wants that Frozen pie. Okay, but seriously, it’s another August movie I don’t know what to think. This looks to be more dramatic and thriller-like, which is a pretty big jump from a director whose previous work was the Selena Gomez vehicle Monte Carlo. We’ll see if he can pull it off, but I’m not holding my breath, especially when there are buzzier options, even in an August as dead as this. 8/20 (2.5x)

Ehhh, there was a bit too much talking for my tastes.

I've gotten the trailer at Star Wars and Little Women, and they keep putting that dragon scene and the squirrel saying 'I'm too beautiful to die" at the end as their big money shot. I don't get it either.

https://www.the-numbers.com/news/243870830-2020-Preview-January The Grudge: 35M 1917: 75M Just Mercy: 45M Like a Boss: 50M Underwater: 20M Bad Boys for Life: 125M Dolittle: 75M The Gentlemen: 45M The Turning: 35M Gretel & Hansel: 25M The Rhythm Section: 35M

Little Women damn near made me cry. So jealous of Gerwig's talents there. And my God, Timmy's hair! His costumes! I love it!

August 14 Escape Room 2: The first Escape Room was a surprise success, with a decent opening, and surprisingly good legs. I was thinking of a higher opening, similar total from this, since I feel that Escape Room, both the movie and concept, are still popular. But having this on the same day as Malignant is really going to diminish audiences for both. One of them really needs to move to late September or something. 18/50 (2.78x) Malignant: Before James Wan makes money from ocean to ocean, he squeezed one more horror film out. Sounds pretty interesting so far, and WB’s been able to juggle two horror films (Anabelle 2 and It) to great success. So long as the trailers get the money shots, this should do okay. 30/80 (2.67x) Nobody: Cool, an action movie starring Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen and Christopher Lloyd. The only real question mark here is it’s from the director of Hardcore Henry, so I don’t know if this is going to have his first person BS. Regardless...I’m just gonna spitball this one again. 12/33 (2.75x) The One and Only Ivan: So this is basically Dumbo, but without the iconic IP attached to it. Even with Jolie as one of the voices, this won't even reach Pete's Dragon. At least it’ll do well on Disney+? 22/70 (3.18x)

August 7 The Empty Man: This is a hard one to pin down if only because there is little to point at in terms of potential quality. The director doesn’t have a Wikipedia page, the biggest actor in the movie is Stephen Root, and it’s based off a graphic novel I have never heard of. Umm...I’ll just spitball this and predict poor things, since the following weekend has higher profile horror options. 12/28 (2.33x) Infinite: For what it’s worth, Mark Wahlberg has a fanbase, and I feel like Fuqua can do something cool here with the premise and in the visuals or action that will make people curious to check it out, at least on its opening weekend. 2 Guns did solid business back in the day, and I can see similar results here. 25/70 (2.8x)