DAJK

Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare doesn't look like it's opening in Canada. Which frustrates me for a few reasons. 1) I really want to see it lol. 2) This has been a pattern with every one of Lionsgate's "smaller" releases since Moonfall. 3) Cineplex is now a "distributor" of Lionsgate films in Canada... so I have no clue as to why Canada would forego a release for these movies. Does anyone in this thread (maybe @Shawn Robbins) have any info on this to be able to shed some light? I'm trying to figure out what's going on but haven't been able to find anything concrete.

If this and Fall Guy can both hit 50M openings I’d say that’s a good sign for the summer movie season.

Finally got around to this. It… exists. Not great, not terrible. Pretty much the definition of middle of the road.

Looks great.

Dang, The First Omen was really really good. I only ever saw the original today, but I think I liked this one better than that one. Only 3 of us total in the 7:30 screening though 😕

Omen is NOT doing well for walkups tonight. Wouldn’t be surprised if Friday + previews come in under 3M. Monkey Man is doing fine I guess. It was pretty hot here last night for walkups but tonight is weaker. Could be because the weather in SW BC is really nice today. But yea, nothing to write home about.

I can sort of understand Monkey Man not breaking out. It had online buzz, but at the same time nobody I know outside of the “online film / Letterboxd” community had ever heard of it. Now, if Civil War and Challengers both flop, I won’t really have any excuses. They’ve been pretty big online, and I’ve also heard real-world buzz about both. Monkey Man rather just felt like an online tentpole that never really crossed over. It sucks, but it’s also not incredibly shocking, and goes to show that studios need to figure out how to hit that sweet spot when trying to cross their marketing over from internet hype to real world ticket sales.

I’m always having problems with their website/app, but nothing this week tbh.

Weirdly both openers are not having previews at a couple locations I usually track, and instead start shows tomorrow. At the theaters that ARE playing them, Omen is a non-starter for sure. Monkey Man however is having some pretty great walkups, after some solid presales. If it weren’t for my better judgement saying that this is just an outlier, I’d be thinking this could hit 3-3.5M previews.

You beat me to it by 13 minutes

Is there a way to check a particular user's most liked content? I wanna look back and be like "oh yea, this is where I ate."

2M previews for Monkey Man should surely lead to mid-to-high teens, no? Yea I think it'll play a bit to the Peele niche, but honestly I trust this tracking team a bit more than early Deadline projections. Thinking 15M+ for now unless I hear otherwise from one of our trackers, or until Thursday previews come in.

Part of me does think this could end up being another Angry Birds at the box office (which wouldn't be terrible) but part of me also thinks this could play like an Illumination film.

Horror is very walk-up based (even the big juggernauts like the IT movies). If they peak too early by releasing reviews it could backfire (the collective consciousness doesn't exactly have long-term memory). There are instances where this does work (A Quiet Place) but if they can get anticipation to peak RIGHT before opening weekend it usually helps with walkups.

Anecdotal, but I was subbing for a grade 8-10 Drama class last week. They were doing a film unit, but I wasn't left with a lesson plan by the teacher (and was told I'd be teaching the class 5 minutes before it started). So we watched as a class a bunch of trailers for Summer 2024 movies and discussed whether they looked good or bad (followed by a vote "how many of you are going to see this in theaters?") This movie got the biggest YES vote by far, across the board. The stoners, the theater kids, the quiet readers, the "jocks who don't wanna be there". All of them said they want to see this. Even higher than Despicable Me 4.

I really, REALLY want this to be good. The fact that it's got a prime summer release makes me slightly confident that it'll be more Free Guy and less Lyle Lyle Crocodile. But that poster doesn't look great.

I remember when Dawn was filming in my hometown. Ninth grade DAJK was pretty excited about all that. Also side note, but in retrospect 2014 was a truly awesome year for movies. The ones I liked/loved have only grown on me (Interstellar, Whiplash, Dawn, Fault in Our Stars, GOTG, etc.) and even the ones I didn't like as much on first viewing have grown on me too (TASM 2, Godzilla, Grand Budapest).

Nice to see both horrors this weekend have strong drops. The numbers themselves aren't big, but it's good to see some of the wealth being spread throughout the top 10.

The rumours that this isn't great are kind of surprising. I think the trailers look awesome lol.

To be fair it wasn’t a very good movie lol. I’m actually surprised it did as well as it did, compared to something like All Eyes on Me. The fact that it did as well as Rocketman (a fantastic film imho) is pretty great for it.

I’m just more curious in this movie because it’s made by a non-American. And as a non-American myself I’m far more interested to see a non-American’s take on the United States.

There are absolutely cases where this is definitely wrong, and where taking a “both sides” stance is a root cause of major issues. However, when it comes to an action movie that none of us have seen, I’m on team @Porthos here when I say we should just “wait and see” lol. It’s just a movie.

Yea these movies just aren’t for me.

Sunday drops should be pretty good no? What with Monday being a holiday. I wouldn’t count out 80M yet.

My justification for Twisters is I'm basically predicting a San Andreas run lol.