Jake Gittes

No movie that opened with that kind of PTA has finished below 13m and subtitles aside Parasite is a lot more accessible in terms of pacing/tone/entertainment value than films like The Master and Inside Llewyn Davis, not to mention Oscar nods in the main categories will give it a second life. High teens at least, let's go

TD YD Title (Click to View) Studio Daily Gross % +/- YD / LW Theaters / Avg Gross To-Date Day 1 1 Joker (2019) WB $17,000,000 +105% -57% 4,374 $3,887 $154,728,787 8 2 - The Addams Family (2019) UAR $9,716,000 - - 4,007 $2,425 $9,716,000 1 3 - Gemini Man Par. $7,500,000 - - 3,642 $2,059 $7,500,000 1 4 3 Abominable Uni. $1,690,000 +165% -39% 3,496 $483 $43,491,350 15 5 2 Downton Abbey Focus $1,460,000 +63% -39% 3,019 $484 $79,247,590 22 6 4 Hustlers STX $1,170,000 +110% -41% 2,357 $496 $95,335,339 29 7 - Jexi LGF $1,140,000 - - 2,332 $489 $1,140,000 1 8 5 Judy RAtt. $955,000 +83% -29% 1,627 $587 $12,673,851 15 9 6 It: Chapter Two WB (NL) $870,000 +155% -40% 2,303 $378 $204,780,424 36 10 7 Ad Astra Fox $563,000 +71% -55% 1,678 $336 $45,651,432 22 11 8 Rambo: Last Blood LGF $396,000 +50% -58% 1,831 $216 $41,756,586 22 12 - The Lion King (2019) BV $163,000 +204% +21% 1,687 $97 $541,765,701 85

Not a bad idea, that'd give Phillips the opportunity to rip off Shutter Island

I wouldn't call Mills' films inaccessible but it's a sad consequence of the ongoing bullshit mainstream/arthouse division that they're left with no other option than to be relegated to the "indie platform release that plays in 600 theaters for two weeks and closes with a 5m gross" pile.

Cancer needs to fuck off, and it especially needs to fuck off away from Twin Peaks cast members.

RIP to a quietly great one.

Unless I missed something all it needs to do for that is outgross Spring Summer Fall Winter and Spring's 2.380m. The Host and The Handmaiden are the only other ones to make 2m. Really hammers home what woeful luck SK films have had with American distribution.

For comparison the current PTA record for a foreign film is Lust Caution's 64k in 1 theater. In more than 1 theater the top 3 are all Almodovar movies from the '00s with around 50k each.

WB could have possibly marketed this better, and obviously it would've gotten it out of Joker's shadow, so maybe a couple more million on OW. But if it still were the exact same movie it wouldn't make much difference in the end.

for comparison Logan and Deadpool increased 102-109%.

the irishman would have been a 100m grosser for paramount @TMP

The box office story of the weekend I can feel it.

The best part of that was how Black Swan then outgrossed Narnia. Glory to Searchlight. Same happened to Sony in 2000 when SPC's Crouching Tiger ended up their biggest movie.

They're pretty different. I'm sure this would have been a lot more interesting in Scott's hands though.

Also saw this linked on Twitter and it cracks me up. Ah the '90s. Lemke hits H’w’d with 2-pic pitch Darren Lemke, who until February was wrangling shopping carts at a ShopRite in Carlstad, N.J., is now a half-million dollars richer, having sold two pitches to Touchstone for Tony Scott to direct. The price for both is an estimated $500,000. JD Prods.’ Don Murphy and Jane Hamsher are producing. The first pitch is “Undertow,” the search for the black box after Air Force One is blown out of the sky, and the second is an untitled sci-fi thriller about a successful corporate assassin who is hunted by a younger clone of himself, created by a genetic engineering company. The 27-year-old scribe has been writing screenplays since he was 15, but his scripts hadn’t gained attention until he gave a script called “Cherry Poppers” to Salvatore Capone, a friend who worked for director Joe Dante’s company Renfield Prods. “It’s beyond words and it hasn’t hit me yet,” Lemke said. “I always thought I had two talents: pushing up shopping carts and writing. I had no middle ground. Going out to Los Angeles is like visiting Oz. People want to look at my scripts and talk to me. I mean I even met Tony Scott. I’m somewhere over the rainbow.” https://variety.com/1997/film/news/lemke-hits-h-w-d-with-2-pic-pitch-1116679545/

In her first couple scenes with Smith I was all like just put these two in a legit North by Northwest type movie. Why so half-assed?

American Sniper dropped 27%, The Passion of the Christ 36%.

Nice that we got the correct Coppola ranking in here.

Now I wish Judy Davis had been a part of the Mad Max universe that would have rocked.

I'll give Green Book this: it's extremely good at ingratiating itself with the mass audience. A cultural critic could probably comfortably write a, ahem, book about all the choices it makes as part of that and what they effectively mean.

No clearer proof than The Lion King in its 13th weekend playing in more theaters than Ad Astra in its 4th.

Well he got one thing right.

fuck yeah sorcerer

"I don't believe in anything. I just thought it'd be good for my act" is the movie describing itself to the audience. Still, I liked Joker ranting and shooting people in the most basic sense that he was finally fucking doing something instead of being kicked around by everybody.