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Can confirm, Dune is playing pretty similar to what Barbie did last year in Canada. Maybe SLIGHTLY under.

Authur the King isn’t playing ANYWHERE on Vancouver Island! Any chance the studio is skipping a Canadian release?

I’ve seen it. It’s good, but in that “your standard British biopic” kind of way. Hopkins is good, but I don’t think anything in the film is as powerful as the real TV clip it’s based on. Side note, I showed my students in Social Studies 10 the real Winton clip last year before I knew this movie was a thing. For any schoolteachers out there, this is a pretty good WW2 film to show a class. Anyways, back to box office lol.

Holds for this have been insane. If it follows Panda 3 from this point on, it finishes with 215M+. Now, I don’t think it’s going to keep up with that movie, but 200 doesn’t seem THAT far fetched right now.

I made a tiktok back in January talking about what I think the big box office flops of 2024 will be. I was on the money with Argylle, and next on my hit-list was Frozen Empire. Sony better watch out

That’s… very good for Panda. Must be somewhat of a Spring Break effect. Or the audience really is mostly college-age adults

Log scene was filmed about 2 minutes away from where I grew up. Actually on my route driving to school. I’ll tell ya, I thought about it every single day. We all did, especially whenever we were behind a logging truck.

Emma Stone only needs 1 more Oscar to match Dormand/Streep. Which she will definitely get someday. Honestly amazing for her, she’s truly a great actress. Also, while I may have personally voted for I’m Just Ken, I’m so happy What Was I Made For won. The effect that song has on many of the women in my life, especially my younger sister who typically does not like movies and finds it difficult to connect with them, warms my heart, and I’m so happy that she has this to celebrate.

Rewatched 17 Again tonight. Really underrated 00’s comedy, and it certainly didn’t age nearly as poorly as other 00’s comedies.

I don’t know where the “there’s no negative discourse around Oppenheimer” came from, but if you go to some corners of tiktok it is the most evil movie ever put forth by Hollywood.

I'm not sure how well the "starved kids demo" is going to serve IF and/or Garfield in May. Honestly, I could see both movies somewhat cannibalizing each other, only putting up "respectable" grosses rather than one of them truly breaking out. I genuinely think that both have "200M+ potential" but for now I'm thinking they both gross somewhere in the 75-125 range (unless IF for example turns out to be top-tier Pixar quality, which I'm doubtful of). Thinking IF does Tomorrowland numbers (80-90M total) while Garfield does Angry Birds/Migration numbers.

Yea I have to retract what I said earlier about Panda not looking like it’s going to have crazy Sat bumps. Matinees were a bit weaker than I thought they would be, but evening presales and walkups are very very strong.

This and Night Swim were about the same quality-wise for me. Ugh.

It’s still early, but the Panda jumps aren’t as great as I was hoping for today at the locations I track. Based on pre-sale and walk-up data from the past few days, I was thinking 25M could be possible today. Bringing that down to 22M for now.

I was 8 so no

Tracking team strikes again! Well done folks!

Not tracking related but I was still working as a movie theater manager that weekend. My god, that was probably the worst shift I had ever worked, Sunday matinee on Minions opening. We got absolutely CRUSHED by the business.

Really great walkups tonight for Panda across pretty much every theater I looked at. Comps point to 3x The Bad Guys and Trolls 3 (true Thursday) previews. Ahead of Lightyear and Elemental by a healthy margin (pretty much any non-Spiderverse or Minions animated movie post-Covid). Wouldn't be surprised if previews come in above 3M (dare I say 3.5?), but I'll hedge my bets for now, since all other trackers are suggesting somewhere around 3M. But don't be shocked if the number comes in tomorrow morning at 3.5M. Imaginary is less impressive. 750k give or take is what I'm seeing from my markets. And WOM isn't likely to be good, so I wouldn't be surprised if this winds up in high single digits for the weekend. Cabrini is what really surprised be. Very, very strong numbers here. And what's more, a lot of those were walk-ups, not pre-bought Church groups. Curious what this is going to look like over the weekend.

Don’t have full comps yet, as I’ve just done a few seat counts (waiting for numbers to come in from some friends) but Panda’s looking pretty solid in terms of sales throughout the weekend. Definitely ahead of Trolls by a wide margin. I’d be shocked if it opened under 30.

So Madame Web outgrossed the opening weekend of Morbius after all. Small victory I guess?

I mean, Robin Williams did do Flubber and Good Will Hunting in the same year 🤷‍♂️

Unrelated to Dune, but now that I'm working now and no longer in school, I have more time on my hands in my non-work hours, and have been trying to catch up on (good) movies from the 80s-90s-00s that I've never seen (so if any of you have recommendations, send them my way!) Watched Apollo 13 last week. Pretty good movie, well-directed and well-acted, even if I didn't connect with it on an emotional level. 4 stars. Watched Edward Scissorhands last night. UM... WHY HAS NO ONE FORCED ME TO WATCH THIS MOVIE BEFORE NOW??? Big Fish is my favourite movie of all time, so I'm all for sentimental Burton. It's still my #2 Burton (nothing will ever top Ewan McGregor in a field of daffodils) but it's really strong, and the last 30 minutes really, really works. Also, Danny Elfman....?!?!?!?! Ice Dance has got to be one of my favourite pieces of music ever written for a film. I want this Burton back. Hopefully Beetlejuice 2 is good and has some of his flair from his earlier works. But I really hope he makes something original next. A high-concept fantasy/fairy-tale.

Yea… Dune was really strong here in southwest BC (Vancouver/Van Island). The first Dune was also incredibly strong (played like an 80M opener if not higher). Dune 2 previews at the various theaters I have access to all had previews in the range of 13-18M without EA. Again, these are going to overindex like crazy, but even without the high ATP the sheer number of tickets sold was pretty insane. Well ahead of what Oppy did in the middle of summer across the board, and approaching Barbie levels in some locations.

Sorry, what? Completely uncalled for. Anyone with valid data/tracking is welcome in here, which you don’t seem to be providing.