Jake Gittes

It's distributed by the same guys who had Brawl in Cell Block 99 and Terminal whose theatrical releases were so limited they don't even have pages on BOM, and they went on VOD either the same week or a week later. So presumably you'll be able to see this at home within weeks or even days.

Denis is uneven but at her best she's made some incredible movies. Based on what reviews are describing I don't expect this to make more than a couple of million but it's cool that A24 is getting behind stuff like this and Climax.

Onboard for whatever the Safdies do.

Why is Venom longer than The Tree of Life

Just start a thread.

I didn't appreciate just how much SOTMs saved me. #25, #26 and #27 in preseason/dom/ww, crazy that I got to #12 overall.

Agree to disagree. Camp works for me when a movie is The Room level of incompetent, or when it's knowing and fun. And there are moments of the latter in MM2, like Fernando. But the first one is just inadequate and cringey

How the hell did both of these drop sub-70% in September?

I like ABBA. I love musicals. You people have some low standards.

So it's the good version of The Nun basically

I'm not even 25 yet why are you making me feel old. Why. You'll know what it feels like when it's 2026 and some teenager's coming in here all like "I'd never heard of American Honey before this list. It's got a cool cast though"

If they put it in March/April instead of going for an end-of-the-year run then yeah it probably doesn't top 5 million. But then they also won't spend any money campaigning it for anything.

@Ethan Hunt could you post how many points/votes everything got?

Can you relax?

FYI if you go to Amazon and just type "region c blu-ray" into the search bar you'll get only the relevant results. I just did it and got 459 results, that's gotta be enough movies to choose from.

Yeah I've been thinking that if they really wanted to contribute to the arts they should've made this Wild Things for the new generation

I doubt this outgrosses Jackie.

I'm thinking Cuaron, Lee and Lanthimos is the top 3 and then the next two spots are between Cooper, Chazelle, Jenkins and possibly McKay.

Jenkins might just kick Chazelle out of best director.

None of those movies I named are confusing or bad. I found them all enjoyable and rewarding on the whole.

First Reformed is good as hell for the most part, but man, between this, The Florida Project and Hereditary, what is it with A24 releases and throw-you-the-fuck-off endings recently.

I love the meanness of Burn After Reading. It's Blood Simple/Fargo/No Country played entirely as a nasty comedy and I actually enjoy it more than 2 of those movies.

Ownage. Congrats @Infernus. You can now look forward to chas sending you a Czech DVD of Cannibal: The Musical as a prize.

Tbf I've made some embarrassing calls this summer game but thanks for sticking up for me.

It's not about having "proof" or what you find or don't find, it's about historical precedent. If you want to predict box office, history is one of the most important things you can know. And the history of the post-Labor Day weekend is that movies drop hard on it. Always have. No, The Help is not the exact same type of movie as CRA. But that's only insofar as it's not a romcom. But genre is not the most important thing. What's important is that, like CRA, it was a massive crowdpleaser released on a Wednesday in mid-August to a mid-20's OW, and then it dropped 38% on the post-Labor Day weekend. If you look for August crowdpleasers that are comedies or have a comedic bent, there's Guardians of the Galaxy and We're the Millers, which had fantastic legs in August, then both dropped 39% on the post-LD weekend. The fucking Sixth Sense, which was leggier than even CRA could ever hope to be, dropped 28% on that weekend and that was 19 years ago. The reason CRA dropped 6% and then 10% in its first couple weekends is because WOM spread quickly and people who didn't immediately see it got interested and went a week or two later. But that never meant they were just gonna keep flocking to it over and over. This isn't Titanic and it was never going to be. This is a Get Out, which had an exceptional hold early on because it took people by surprise, and then had legs that were strong but nothing ridiculous. The fact that CRA already dropped harder on its third (and holiday!) weekend than on its second should have told you something. You're not taking your crow gladly cause you're still ranting. If you call someone a dolt and go "cocaine's a helluva drug" and then a week later they're totally right and you're wrong, you better be able to understand why they were right without them wasting 30 minutes to type it out like I'm doing right now for some reason. You're on a box office forum. Don't go around trashing strangers' box office predictions like an arrogant jerk unless you actually know what you're talking about.