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In good fun (but pretty damn serious), I'm on the verge of declaring $700m+ a lock for TG2.

TGM will be at $522m or so after Sunday. It will be at $540m going into next weekend. I would guess it is at least $570m by the end of 4th of July and about $580 going into Thor weekend. Should pass $600m by July 10th or so. I am pretty confident it has a really good shot at $700m+. It will absolutely be on screen and putting up solid numbers going into mid-September.

$12m TG2 $10.7m JWD $10m Elvis $7.2m BP $7m LY

$5.2m LY

$13.5m $10.25m $8.5m $7.5m

Wrong

I have had the numbers for a few hours, but enjoying watching a classic BOT friday meltdown. Let’s see how far it can go.

Honestly, because putting the "number" on the end of the movie was ruined by studios starting in the 70's. When you have a successful movie now, the studios actually put more money and resources behind a sequel and often it is increasing its performance and quality. 40 years ago they did the opposite. When something like Jaws or Nightmare on Elm Street was a hit, they immediately rushed to churn out a sequel that was often done at a lower budget and a far lower quality. You ended up with stuff like Jaws 2, Nightmare on Elm Street 5, and so on. After the quality and production was shit, anything with a number on the end of it signaled you were likely getting a low budget rip off. Studios have moved away from it mostly. Even something like John Wick that uses the number puts "Chapter" in there.

Again, the easy solution would be tell him to stop posting that garbage schtick over and over and over because I am not the only one annoyed by it after the millionth time. Instead, you put the onus on me to put him on "ignore" and don't address him at all. Par for the course.

Santikos skews heavily to kids films. It also has locations surrounded by dine in theaters that draw far more adults.

Get a new schtick.

I told everyone a while ago it had potential to blow up and likely would.

They aren't true, it is using a bloated source that is full of shit. Paramount the movie studio does not in any way want to shove TG2 on streaming as soon as possible. It's complete bullshit and isn't happening either way.

Give it a fucking rest, you are beyond annoying in your schtick.

$4.9m-$5m for TG2

I saw the footage for that as well, looks pretty damn good.

I have seen the Salem's Lot footage, it looked good.

A really early number for today is $4.7m for TG2, but with it adding some PLF screens back, let's see what the real impact is with the new openers.

$5.45m for TG2 $5.4m for JWD

I don't want to get in a long debate on this, but not going to define a spinoff that opened to $51m+ a bomb. It isn't doing well and won't end up with a good gross, but won't label it a bomb.

I'm ready to sound the alarm on this movie. Not that it is moving, but that the marketing is just wrong and the actual interest in the film seems to be little to nothing less than a month out. Universal has got to start actually selling the film and not just the "from writer/director Jordan Peele", because not nearly enough people know who Jordan Peele is, and the ones that do realize Get Out was going on 6 years ago and Us wasn't exactly well received. Looking at the ticket sales and overall interest levels, this feels like the first true bomb of the summer about to happen.

I think Nope is going to be our first true bomb of the summer. You could argue that Lightyear is, but I could see Nope not catching on at all unless Universal figures out a way in the next 2 weeks to actually market the film. They are relying on name recognition of Jordan Peele at this point. Unfortunately for them, not enough people really know who he is and Get Out was 5 years ago and Us just wasn't well received. I get that they want to take the high level approach to the marketing, but quite frankly the movie looks very uninteresting visually and the premise is about as clear as mud. The daily ticket sales updates seem to indicate that there is little interest at this point. It could surprise, but Universal has to get moving.

I'm also going to mention again that this is the first time since the pandemic began that theaters have a robust set of films with multiple huge films coming up. A lot of theaters need to bury something to clear the road for as many screens of Minions and Thor: Love and Thunder as they can get. Many of them are going to take the opportunity to stick it to Disney, and my guess is you see Lightyear run out of a whole lot of theaters by July 7th. It isn't going to get the opportunity to recover and have July legs. I know for a fact a lot of theaters cut back to one screen this week already and have moved it down to their smaller houses for the upcoming weekend.

$4.05m for LY

$5.15m for JWD