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REGAL IS LIVE!!!!!!!!!

Hope you didn't put yourself in the poor house in the process! That is to say, congratulations. Prob should continue this in the CC thread, but I wanted to give a quick reply. ... Keeping this on topic, I'll consider this a great omen for TROS tonight!

Sure, but they're greyed out on Fandango right now (meaning you can't select it at all), but not on Regal. I'm basically mentioning this to folks who want to knock out auditorium numbers early. I just did about a third of the Sacto area thanks to this, for instance.

If anyone is tracking Regal theaters for TROS, you can check the auditorium number it is playing in by trying to purchase a ticket. It won't actually let you purchase yet, but this is a way to pre-get the auditorium number in case of fast sellouts as it is on the ticket purchase window. Not a huge concern for most, but for folks checking multiple theaters, it might help. Thinking @FlashMaster659's theaters for instance.

He's not very good at this whole non-denial denial, is he?

Stupid question, but is your scraper smart enough to differentiate between unavailable seats and actually sold seats? Because I know some theater chains don't differentiate between the two.

=== It's got a lot of potential. But I think we should hold off comparisons to one of the most popular TV shows of all time (at least until GoT's final season). (yes, I may be a SW Shill and Apologist. Doesn't mean I can't be a conservative/cautious one at times )

The other thing about Maleficent 2 is that our resident daily trackers thought there might be a mid 9 for True Friday at first before it continued strong through the day and did end up over 10m for True Fri after all. And the Sat bump was very respectable. On the other hand, AWiT (to pick a film Disney literally had to drag over the 100m line) was already showing weakness by this point. I know it's folly to over-interpret two days of data. There very well could be a finite pool for Maleficent 2 that it has already almost burnt up. On the other hand, maybe it will have decent legs. It still is a family film. It is calendar theme appropriate. It seems to be getting positive WoM from those who've seen it (again unlike AWiT). Not a hit by any means. But probably too soon to write it off.

Thinking about it a bit more, I suspect they'll cite the eight episode run and release the first two episodes for review about a week or so before the premiere and then have each of the other episodes up for review about 24 to 48 hours ahead of time. Maybe 72. LFL is too wedded to secrecy for its own good a lot of times, and that is one of those cases. If this was even a 10 episode run, I could see them screening the first four. But half the season? I'd be more than a little surprised given Lucasfilm's M.O. when it comes to this sort of thing.

(one of the people who handles Social Media for SW but has a long record of cred in Nerd Circles) Have to admit, this sounds very much My Jam. 👍 === @Ryan Reynolds Wouldn't be surprised if they release the first few episodes for review closer to release. They do that for their animated series, so they might do it here as well. At least the first two. I know the embargo for this ~ 30min look is the 29th. That still leaves two weeks until release, more than enough time for review copies of some episodes to hit.

Travis... ISHIKAWA HITS ONE INTO RIGHT!!!! Just a perfect call. (2014 NLCS Game Five Series Winning Walkoff for those who don't remember)

My controversial opinion, co-signed.

As an aside, I am NOT at all sad to see BOTH Roberto Osuna AND Aroldis Chapman cough up home runs in the ninth. 👍 Osuna may be on my 'stros, but I got a loooooong memory for certain topics. EDIT::: My lane, this is it:

@MrPink @Deep Wang @Menor Had it all the way! 👍 Never in doubt for a moment! 👍 👍 👍

I probably won't have time, as I'll be scrambling locally myself, but I will note that if someone does this, they shouldn't need to count all the seats in case of a quick sellout. Just getting the auditorium number for each showing should be good enough as then @FlashMaster659 can go back later and get the seats at different showings/days if there are indeed sellouts. That's what I did for Endgame, for instance. I ran a screen grabber and just grabbed all the auditorium numbers show by show by show and then went back later and "back filled" the seat count at my leisure.

The "All Audience" (i.e. including unverified folks) is pretty strong at 90 | 4.47/5 as well. Might be a genuine crowd pleaser for folks who are actually interested enough in turning up.

Looks like they're screening it in waves, BTW, so expect reactions to come in throughout the day.

Of course, I will try to be even handed and point out that this IS Collider Frosty and Ash. At the same time we're talking about a TV series here so perhaps initial emotional response is all that we need. Since it was disparate clips we still don't know how it hangs in regards to storytelling. That's the last piece to the puzzle and none of the reactions that are gonna be coming out today will be able to tell us that.

HEY EVERYONE, I FOUND GEORGE LUCAS' BURNER ACCOUNT!!!

The shark was, do I want to say 'mocked'... No that's probably too strong. Let's go with.. "not seen as cutting edge s/fx" even in its own day. There's a reason why it wasn't actually on screen all that much (around eight minutes according to Google). The cast and crew wasn't satisfied with it, either but made do with the limitations they had.

You could have always asked them to look up your old email registration, you know.

Funnily enough, the TrueIMAX theater in town is having a 6am Fri showing. (It only has the one screen, so that does tend to limit its showtimes)