Porthos

2018 happened, you know. For all of the crowing about how the "rules don't apply to Trump" he still is a remarkably unpopular president (especially given the state of the economy) who failed to get the vast majority of his policies approved by the legislature. If this is "perfectly", I'd hate to see what a bungled attempt at his game plan would be.

I would watch the hell out of that, tbh.

Never change, excel, never change. 👍

Joker Greater Sacramento Area Premiere Night Seat Report: T-4 days and counting Sellouts Showings Seats left Total Seats Seats Sold Perct Sold TOTALS 0 199 22595 24366 1771 7.27% Total Seats Sold Today 302 T-4 Comps % Sold T-4 Total Sold Sellouts/Shows Seats Left/Total Seats Perct Sold Comp It 2 88.11 184 2010 0/167 17953/19963 10.07% 9.25m PRE-SALES NOTE: It 2 had 36 days of pre-sales while joker had 11. T-4 Adjusted Comps % Sold T-4 Total Sold Sellouts/Shows Seats Left/Total Seats Perct Sold Comp DP2 40.33 264 3995 0/121 9472/13467 29.67% 7.50m Joker (adj) n/a 267 1611 0/199 18007/19614 8.21% n/a PRE-SALES NOTE: Deadpool 2 had 30 days of pre-sales, while Joker had 11. ADJUSTMENT NOTE: Joker (adj) is the ticket data at the same theaters I had tracking info for Deadpool 2. ==== Just a fantastic day for Joker out of Sacramento today. Century Arden led the way with 89 ticket sales. There still is a bit of that variation I've seen as a couple of the larger theaters didn't match others in the region (if they had, there might have been 350+ tickets sold today). Even so, just an all around great day. Sales have been erratic enough that I can't say for certain that this is the start of a great walkup-ramp up for pre-sales headed into Thur locally. But it absolutely is a good first step. Several good steps, even.

Meh. People have pulled the Oscars Walkups card for other movies, even before they released. Nice try though. 👍

My joke notwithstanding, I think it's which set of headwinds win out in the end: DC's pre-sale heavy nature. R-rated adult skewed type film. Got two strong sets of indicators that normally point in opposite directions. Complicating matters is the 4pm start time. Usually depresses the previews-OW internal multi, though It 2 did pretty well at 8.7x off a 5pm start. On the other hand, OUaTiH got 7.1x on a 4pm start time, and that was with a much lower preview number. Now because DC does tend to have a strong Thur, still plenty of time for pre-sales to spike for Thur's preview number. What happens after that is anyone's guess.

===== Made it all the way to Sunday of release week before someone pulled out the Walkups Card. I think that's a record for this thread.

Joker Greater Sacramento Area Premiere Night Seat Report: T-5 days and counting Sellouts Showings Seats left Total Seats Seats Sold Perct Sold TOTALS 0 199 22897 24366 1469 6.03% Total Seats Sold Today 111 T-5 Comps (somewhat lol at this stage - don't take seriously) % Sold T-5 Total Sold Sellouts/Shows Seats Left/Total Seats Perct Sold Comp It 2 80.45 138 1826 0/167 18137/19963 9.15% 8.45m PRE-SALES NOTE: It 2 had 36 days of pre-sales while joker had 11. T-5 Adjusted Comps (somewhat lol at this stage - don't take seriously) % Sold T-5 Total Sold Sellouts/Shows Seats Left/Total Seats Perct Sold Comp DP2 36.02 167 3731 0/121 9736/13467 27.70% 6.70m Joker (adj) n/a 93 1344 0/199 18270/19614 6.85% n/a PRE-SALES NOTE: Deadpool 2 had 30 days of pre-sales, while Joker had 11. ADJUSTMENT NOTE: Joker (adj) is the ticket data at the same theaters I had tracking info for Deadpool 2. ==== Pretty sleepy Saturday. For the first time, Joker didn't gain ground on It 2 (Joker paced 80% of It 2 exactly today). That's a tiny bit more worrisome for Joker's prospects than the standard sleepy Saturday, as it can be the down day before the ramp up beings in earnest. But not gonna lie, would have liked to see a little more out of Sacto today. Just have to see how it goes.

Logan got 2.56x off an 88m OW. It might be the best potential comp out there if one sets aside the controversy angle (which I know is somewhat silly to do).

I would also add that I am not necessarily talking about movie directing here. What will really raise one of my eyebrows is if I see news of Filoni getting producer credit on some film somewhere. Considering he was hanging out on the set of TLJ and R1, it's not out realm of possibility one day. Not that I see it happening any time soon. But by the time the 2030s roll around? Just... Hmmmm....

That is an excellent article, and one of the first I've seen that actually takes a deep look at Filoni as a newbie in the realm of live action as opposed to just talking about all of his accomplishments as a animation director/producer. I was particularly interested in his comments about executing someone else's vision for the first time in a long time along with the interesting point about not being in on the ground floor of the writing process. Really am interested in how his directorial debut goes. But I'm equally, if not more, interested in how his executive producing of the series goes. Jon Favreau is the show runner, but it does appear as time goes on that Filoni is something of a co-show runner here. Junior partner, perhaps, but not the first time he's been in those shoes (toward the end of TCW it seems he was a co-show runner with George Lucas, if still the junior partner). Makes me wonder just what LFL might be grooming him for in the long term. He's been racking up producing experience for quite a while now. If he gets long term show running experience in TV side of things and continues to rack up producer credit on the animation angle? Well, then there is only one obvious hole in his resume when it comes to larger and bigger things in Lucasfilm. It's a rather critical hole for what is still presumably a film-first studio, I might add. Still... ==== Also interesting that Dave Filoni gave one of the "I'm so proud of her" accolades to Deborah Chow upon her announcement. Hmmm....

meanwhile, this is how cap is reacting to that initial forecast:

Times like this I'm glad the vast majority of my Steam games work in offline mode.

Joker Greater Sacramento Area Premiere Night Seat Report: T-6 days and counting Sellouts Showings Seats left Total Seats Seats Sold Perct Sold TOTALS 0 199 23008 24366* 1358 5.57% * NOTE: A few showings has the seats they had available adjusted, resulting in five more seats available region wide. Total Seats Sold Today 174 T-6 Comps (somewhat lol at this stage - don't take seriously) % Sold T-6 Total Sold Sellouts/Shows Seats Left/Total Seats Perct Sold Comp It 2 80.45 140 1688 0/167 18275/19963 8.46% 8.45m PRE-SALES NOTE: It 2 had 36 days of pre-sales while joker had 11. T-6 Adjusted Comps (somewhat lol at this stage - don't take seriously) % Sold T-6 Total Sold Sellouts/Shows Seats Left/Total Seats Perct Sold Comp DP2 35.10 230 3564 0/121 9903/13467 26.46% 6.53m Joker (adj) n/a 156 1251 0/199 18363/19614 6.38% n/a PRE-SALES NOTE: Deadpool 2 had 30 days of pre-sales, while Joker had 11. ADJUSTMENT NOTE: Joker (adj) is the ticket data at the same theaters I had tracking info for Deadpool 2.

McGregor is one of the Executive Producers, though. Though that doesn't necessarily mean anything in TV land.

Hmmm, I guess we never did have the mods fix the thread title post D23. Were too busy freaking out in the d23 thread to come back here. @DeeCee @aabattery Can we get the question marks removed when you get a chance?

Two new official posters:

Continuing from the discussion about Maleficent 2 from yesterday, I see Shawn and co have upped their forecast. Pretty in line with Deadline's tracking report from yesterday, if still a bit under it.

@captainwondyful's reaction to Shawn when she sees the forecasted OW:

Joker Greater Sacramento Area Premiere Night Seat Report: T-7 days and counting Sellouts Showings Seats left Total Seats Seats Sold Perct Sold TOTALS 0 199 23177 24361 1184 4.86% Total Seats Sold Today 169 T-7 Comps (somewhat lol at this stage - don't take very seriously) % Sold T-7 Total Sold Sellouts/Shows Seats Left/Total Seats Perct Sold Comp It 2 76.49 104 1548 0/165 18415/19963 7.75% 8.03m PRE-SALES NOTE: It 2 had 36 days of pre-sales while joker had 11. T-7 Adjusted Comps (somewhat lol at this stage - don't take very seriously) % Sold T-7 Total Sold Sellouts/Shows Seats Left/Total Seats Perct Sold Comp DP2 32.84 119 3334 0/121 10133/13467 24.76% 6.11m Joker (adj) n/a 149 1095 0/199 18514/19609 5.58% n/a PRE-SALES NOTE: Deadpool 2 had 30 days of pre-sales, while Joker had 11. ADJUSTMENT NOTE: Joker (adj) is the ticket data at the same theaters I had tracking info for Deadpool 2. === Nice jump in Sacramento today. With the rate of growth against It 2 and DP2, now thinking double digit in previews is fairly likely. See where it stands tomorrow and in the weekend. (And, yes, I nuked the "Day of" comp against Captain Marvel, as Joker came a bit short of tripling it in Day Four sales [169 vs 64], making the comp completely useless, IMO)

LEGO 2 and SLOP 2's shadows loom large, basically.