The Wild Eric

There's still hope with a Nick Jr. adaptation on the horizon

Nah, it's still on the 13th

This is actually legit clever marketing.

There was a Monday thread up, but I guess sfran got things mixed up. But I did ask the mods, and they said it was just easier for all of the info for Tuesday to Sunday to just be in one thread. If you disagree, you can just DM the mods and talk to them about it.

https://deadline.com/2019/07/spider-man-far-from-home-midnight-previews-box-office-1202641002/

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Transformers did 2.05x from its 6-day while TASM did 1.91x. TASM was hit hard by Dark Knight Rises in weekend 3, and while TLK is coming out on weekend 3, and it will ding it quite a bit, I don't think there will be anywhere near as much crossover for obvious reasons. So I'd say 2x is probably a safe bet, maybe slightly above Transformers.

So, shouldn't we be getting information from midnights at this point? Feel like they should have been released by now.

lmao they actually had the balls to put in "From the director of The Last Jedi"

Using the middle of that true Tuesday, if it follows Amazing Spider-Man excluding that film's midnights/Monday Canadian previews: 51 Tue 43.2 Wed 29.3 Thu 37.9 Fri 43.8 Sat 33.1 Sun 238.3M 6-Day (excluding midnights) If it follows Transformers: 51 Tue 53.2 Wed 35.1 Thu 41.5 Fri 47.1 Sat 40.6 Sun 268.5M 6-Day (excluding midnights) This seems like it's set to do bonkers numbers, and it will, but maybe not to those extremes. Not only because of the lengthy year gaps, but also because those movies had the 4th land on a Wednesday instead of Thursday. Sadly, Despicable Me 2 and Lone Ranger didn't have their film open on Tuesday, so we're kind of in uncharted territory. But that number indicates 200M 6-Day as the minimum, arguably even something like 215M, which is very very good either way.

If it continues to follow Maleficent for the rest of its run, it gives us 346.3M. And it's been holding way better than Maleficent for the past couple weeks, so I'd say yes.

I know there are technically worse blockbusters, but the first Amazing Spider-Man is the first example I go to when it comes to boring, empty, soulless, cash-grabby blockbusters. And I know that movies are solely made to make money and we live in a world where a live-action Lion King is coming out in a couple weeks, but at least with stuff like the Disney remakes or whatever, there's at least an attempt to add something to it, or the director is making it out of a love for the original. They are trying, which goes a long way. TASM was made just to hold onto the film rights for a popular franchise, and it really feels like it.

@Porthos (yes I know I should sleep, shut up) So using those multiples... Pikachu: 26.2 Aladdin: 22.8 KotM: 27.8 Toy Story: 18.3 Fallen Kingdom: 25.8 Well...fuck

Hobbs & Shaw Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-31 Days and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 24 13 4,976 0.26% Whatever

The Lion King Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-17 Days and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 100 1,080 18,477 5.85% Because I like to harm my health, I'm still wide awake, and decided to add in a few more theaters into my algorithm, and that makes a world of difference. Two theaters in particular boosted the numbers considerably, and while it isn't rocking the boat, there's definitely a massive increase in percentage sold, which is always good. Can't wait to see what the next few days have in store.

Hobbs & Shaw Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-31 Days and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 18 8 4048 0.20% Well that's...unremarkable. This only just barely sold a couple seats at the theaters I track, and theaters aren't really paying much attention to it at the moment, with only a handful of available showtimes. Of course this is kinda lost in the conversation right now, so hopefully it'll pick up at least after Lion King drops.

The Lion King Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-17 Days and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 57 592 13457 4.40% It's important to recognize a few things. A somewhat important one is that I kind of developed this at the last minute, so my theater count is relatively small (9 theaters). Maybe I'll add in more in the future to get a bigger sample, I dunno. But the big thing is that, at least right now, I don't have anything to work with when it comes to comps. I'm basically going in completely blind, so I don't know if this is good or bad. I guess at passing glance, selling close to 600 seats with more than two weeks to go is good enough? Maybe it could have been a little bit better? Really the only benefit from tracking seats sold now is for the benefit of future films.

I'm with Chalabae for life, as we both get old together...y'know, unless he turns into a garbage human.

Also of note, the new Scooby-Doo cartoon that's heading to the Boomerang streaming service (yes, that exists) features Steve Urkel (yes, really) guest starring. Even Robo-Urkel is there too! Between that and a Family Matters reboot, we're close to the inevitable Jaleelaissance.