Eric the IF

This deserves to bomb now tbh

That’s because Halle’s an icon. A queen. A goddess. Everything really.

Elizabeth Gillies deserved the career Ariana got. No cap.

She wasn’t even good on Victorious tbh. Like the rest of the cast acted circles around her. If she didn’t have the voice of an angel, she would be doing CW schlock like everybody else in the cast.

Musical nerd here. And uh…no.

I love Ariana, homewreckerness aside. Her music has made my life so much better and gotten me through tough times. But like…why has she not graduated from Nickelodeon acting yet? Like this is James Corden levels of awful for musical casting holy fucking shit.

Yes.

They probably think it’s actually a Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends and are assuming the powah of nostalgia will carry it through (not wrong tbh)

I mean I don't know about you, but non-consensual kissing, even if it's on the cheek and "isn't sexual", is really fucking gross and Coppola shouldn't do that shit. And if that's somehow ageist to not do something creepy, then I guess I'm cool being ageist then.

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Very curious how a movie that features a farting gummy bear is "too dark" lmao

Same reason Night Swim held so well. Horror fans have literally nothing to watch.

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Quorum Updates Bad Boys: Ride or Die T-25: 56.77% Awareness, 60.35% Interest Longlegs T-60: 12.11% Awareness, 43.82% Interest The Crow T-102: 32.44% Awareness, 43.64% Interest Moana 2 T-198: 44.1% Awareness, 53.01% Interest Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim T-214: 16.06% Awareness, 42.38% Interest Back to Black T-4: 35% Awareness, 40.86% Interest Final Awareness: 41% chance of 10M, 7% chance of 20M Low Awareness: 28% chance of 10M, 7% chance of 20M Final Interest: 49% chance of 10M, 17% chance of 20M Low Interest: 35% chance of 10M, 2% chance of 20M IF T-4: 56.3% Awareness, 52.09% Interest Final Awareness: 92% chance of 20M, 72% chance of 30M, 36% chance of 40M, 24% chance of 50M, 16% chance of 60M Animation/Family Awareness: 100% chance of 20M, 33% chance of 30M Final Interest: 78% chance of 20M, 59% chance of 30M, 46% chance of 40M, 32% chance of 50M, 24% chance of 60M Animation/Family Interest: 100% chance of 50M, 60% chance of 90M, 40% chance of 100M The Strangers: Chapter 1 T-4: 32.86% Awareness, 48.81% Interest Final Awareness: 41% chance of 10M, 7% chance of 20M Horror Awareness: 43% chance of 10M, 7% chance of 20M Final Interest: 49% chance of 10M, 17% chance of 20M Horror Interest: 42% chance of 10M, 10% chance of 20M Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga T-11: 39.21% Awareness, 40.77% Interest Final Awareness: 41% chance of 10M, 7% chance of 20M Tentpole Awareness: 100% chance of 10M Final Interest: 49% chance of 10M, 17% chance of 20M, 10% chance of 30M Tentpole Interest: 100% chance of 30M The Garfield Movie T-11: 52.94% Awareness, 48.95% Interest Final Awareness: 92% chance of 20M, 72% chance of 30M, 36% chance of 40M, 24% chance of 50M, 16% chance of 60M Animation/Family Awareness: 100% chance of 20M, 33% chance of 30M Final Interest: 49% chance of 10M, 17% chance of 20M, 10% chance of 30M, 4% chance of 70M Animation/Family Interest: 80% chance of 10M, 50% chance of 20M, 20% chance of 20M, 10% chance of 70M

Will say though I never bought the more pessimistic sub-100 predictions people had over this. Like even if the last movie underperformed, it was still well-liked and the franchise is more popular than ever. There's even a bit of a nostalgia cycle going on with the Caesar trilogy that certainly helped this movie out. Like even if the film had like 45% or something on Rotten Tomatoes, it would have still opened to 40M+ on the brand popularity alone IMO.

This really followed Rise of the Beasts last year lock and step. A soft reboot that opens well above BOT expectations and overperforms to ~60M. Probably going for a similar total. All told, good stuff all around for it.

I mean, nobody talks about Sugarland Express, so the Spielberg comparison is still appropriate.

Possum Trot sounds like a TikTok dance some redneck invented to become viral.

15.6M for True Friday. Thursday minus EA is 5M.

https://deadline.com/2024/05/box-office-kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-1235911118/ Mother's Day helps of course, but definitely some much better holds compared to last week. Fall Guy's also a tad better compared to Lost City, so that's a nice feather in its cap. It's good thing for all these movies too, since I'm sure next week will probably be similar to last week with three new wide releases taking over things.

The mean those movies stink, but I do agree we need to cut the fat. I marathoned the Fast and Furious, Indiana Jones, and Mission: Impossible movies last year. And while not all of them are perfect, the earlier ones felt pretty breezy and well-paced at 130 minutes or less. With stuff like Dial of Destiny and Fast X, you can really feel how padded out they are. How you could cut out one or two set pieces here and there and not change a thing. I’m not sure why every blockbuster is 2.5 hours nowadays, but we might need to really determine if we are really getting our bang for our buck here with these runtimes.

https://deadline.com/2024/05/box-office-kingdom-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-1235911118/

It’s funny, because the Burton version’s ending is more accurate to the book. But it all comes so fast and out of nowhere that it just makes you lost and confused once it’s all over. The 1968 film’s ending is also kind of out of nowhere, but it really does hit you like a truck and works so much better thematically. Really shows what good direction and pacing does to a script.