The Wild Eric

TBH, Jumanji seems destined to be a movie that will barely sell anything until the week of release.

https://deadline.com/2019/07/saw-reboot-release-date-chris-rock-lionsgate-1202650547/ Now drops May 15

As somebody who lurks AwardsWatch (I know), one of the big things they've mentioned is that the script only has Mr. Rogers as a supporting character, with the focus being Matthew Rhys' character. I mean I obviously get why Sony is positioning the entire marketing campaign around Hanks, but that could be a problem when it comes to WOM.

Speaking of lists, is a "Best Films of 2009" list still available to use?

Looks good, but Hanks is a little distracting here. Didn't even try to change the cadence of his voice to actually sound like Fred.

Wasn't that the whole point of the CC thread tho?

I got enough group chat apps on my phone as is. I don't need another one blasting my notifications. I'm gonna stick to here, and wait for the rest of y'all to wise up and remember your roots.

But part of the fun of the CC thread was shooting the shit, talking about life, and so on. Take it to another place, and it's just not as fun, and kinda loses the sense of camaraderie this place has.

BKB definitely got it when he got banned. It was honestly kind of cathartic for a lot of people here.

nah but fr, Telegram is a communication group chat app similar to WhatsApp. We have one group chat dedicated to BOT users. I don't know why we do, but it's there I guess.

you know morse code?

Of course, dcasey/Broadwayfreak is still my favorite alt-account poster guy. His Potter passion was truly astonishing, that it surprisingly even made his weird MRA rants about Johnny Depp hate representing feminism destroying humanity weirdly kind of adorable.

Well that sucks. Woulda been even funnier, but whatever

Wait hold up he had alts on the Telegram chat too? Lmao this dude is like 10 steps ahead

Pretty sure Han was the only one predicting 70M

If you look at Deadline, they already admit that the numbers that they have are higher. Even Saturday is 600K higher than what Disney is reporting. Disregarding mixed signals, or a faulty source, that discrepancy is a wee bit interesting. Outside of that, Disney is notorious for lowballing their estimates, often by a considerable amount. Just going by OW, Toy Story 4 estimate was 118M, then it increased about 2.5% to 120.9M. Aladdin estimate was 86.1M 3-Day, then it increased 6.3% for 91.5M. Endgame 350M, then 2% to 357.1M, Dumbo 45M, then 2.2% to 45.99M. Mary Poppins Returns 22.2M, 5.8% to 23.5M. Solo 83.3M, 1.3% to 84.4. Infinity War 250M, 3.1% to 257.7. Black Panther 192M, 5.2% to 202M. Yeah, not every Disney movie lowballs the numbers, but a lot of the time, it does happen, especially to the larger openers, and there's a substantial amount of money left on the table here, . By further comparison, Beauty and the Beast did 170M for estimates, then had a 2.8% increase to 174.75M. And what do you know, using that percentage brings us to 190.2M. Now do I think 190M is a lock for actuals? No. But the precedence is certainly there, and I fail to see why this movie would act any different compared to some of the other mega openers listed.

Booksmart stans on Film Twitter getting all huffy and insisting Aladdin killed that movie's box office was so insufferable. That wasn't even gonna hit 40M in a best-case scenario.

FWIW, I've been predicting around 185M OW way back when the summer started. I would really only consider an opening below Beauty and the Beast as a disappointment all things considered.

Sunday and Disney lowballing estimates. Goes together like chocolate and peanut butter.