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PITTSBURGH TRACKING: The Hitman's Bodyguard's Wife - Advanced Screening Showtime Date Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats % Sold 6/11/2021 0 2 25 193 12.95% In the Heights Showtime Date Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats % Sold 6/10/2021 0 9 20 1231 1.62% 6/11/2021 0 13 93 1875 4.96% Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway Showtime Date Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats % Sold 6/10/2021 0 5 27 486 5.56% 6/11/2021 0 8 44 772 5.70%

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It Showtime Date Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats % Sold 6/4/2021 0 23 464 2335 19.87% Spirit Untamed Showtime Date Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats % Sold 6/4/2021 0 12 147 858 17.13% F9: The Fast Saga Showtime Date Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats % Sold 6/24/2021 0 7 52 1435 3.62% 6/25/2021 0 19 55 3757 1.46%

Fuck it. I'll start tracking these: I have two theaters in Pittsburgh, PA that I will use: Cinemark Robinson Township XD Cinemark North Hills XD The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It Tracking Date Showtime Date Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats % Sold 6/2/2021 6/4/2021 0 23 314 2335 13.45% Spirit Untamed Tracking Date Showtime Date Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats % Sold 6/2/2021 6/3/2021 0 5 47 351 13.39% 6/2/2021 6/4/2021 0 11 94 819 11.48% Peter Rabbit: The Runaway Tracking Date Showtime Date Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats % Sold 6/2/2021 6/10/2021 0 5 17 486 3.50% 6/2/2021 6/11/2021 0 8 39 772 5.05% In The Heights Tracking Date Showtime Date Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats % Sold 6/2/2021 6/11/2021 0 13 64 1431 4.47% The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard - Advanced Screening Tracking Date Showtime Date Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats % Sold 6/2/2021 6/11/2021 0 2 15 193 7.77%

JULY Meme TH(II)eves - $4.4M/$18.7M/$26.6M The Gnashing - $16.4M/$63.1M Eminem-Esque - $4.4M/$15.5M/$21.9M Fullmetal Alchemist: A Tale of Two Brothers - $61.4M/$149.5M/$465.6M Animal Crossing - $37.8M/$133.5M/$386.5M The Exchange: European Studies - $13.1M/$46M/$70.4M Static Shock: Frozen Summer - $89.3M/$245.7M/$560.3M AUGUST The Wave Heist - $17.4M/$48.3M/$174.4M Frankenstein Jr. - $31.6M/$114.7M/$291.1M The Space Between Trees - $18M/$65.3M/$114.8M Strangers in the Town - $23.2M/$91.3M/$168.4M New Tricks - $19.8M/$70.3M/$133.5M The Outback - $6.2M/$20.4M/$29.9M Learning to Care - $300k/$3.6M/$52.1M/$94.4M Slash, Splat, Boom! - $12.3M/$29.4M/$44M Soar - $8.3M/$29.4M/$40.1M SEPTEMBER Panzer Dragon - $34.9M/$106.6M/$380.7M Floodbath - $17.4M/$53.1M/$150.9M The Million Dollar Jacket - $22.1M/$74.5M/$129.5M The War Between Ants - $8.1M/$26.6M/$37.8M Green Arrow: The Ninth Circle - $56.1M/$143.2M/$503.1M OCTOBER Olive's Hallowed Eve - $70.1M/$249.2M/$603.1M Out of Order: The Decline of the Arcade - $4.7M/$17.2M/$30.1M World of Trouble - $60.3M/$184.6M/$511.2M The Tale of a Guinea Pig - $12.2M/$39.5M/$66.7M Dirty Hands - $24.4M/$83.6M/$157.8M NOVEMBER Everything We Miss - $400k/$5.3M/$64.1M/$127.7M Returning From Hell - $400k/$4.7M/$58.8M/$108.9M The Three Caballeros Ride Again - $17.2M/$33.5M/$49.4M The Bronx is Burning - $33.7M/$167.4M/$310.5M The Last Airbender: the Boy in the Iceberg - $125.3M/$438.7M/$1.352B The World That We Knew - $15.3M/$58.8M/$167.2M Loving Shadow and Light - $15.5M/$54.2M The Castaways - $57.4M/$210.3M/$576.6M The Turkey Squad: The Fred Durst Cut - $2.3M/$4.8M/$5.6M DECEMBER As Fast As I Can - $13.7M/$42.2M/$110.9M Christmas Shopping - $9.5M/$39.4M/$63.3M Dreams - $23.7M/$101.3M/$314.56M Endless Animation's The Un-title-able Squirrel Girl Sequel - $80.2M/$388.6M$1.027B Sins of their Fathers - $38.9M/$217.8M/$644.5M Wii Fit - $9.7M/$36.4M/$70.1M

JANUARY Losers Weepers - $8.1M/$17.9M/$35.4M Gunman Clive - $11.4M/$29.4M/$107.6M The Lost Empire - $47.5M/$154.2M/$522.8M White Wyvern - $6.6M/$15.8M/$28.1M Home Invasion: Part III: Hunted - $20.4M/$45.2M/$115.9M FEBRUARY Christie Monteiro - $22.9M/$65.1M/$204.3M Romance Road - $24.4M/$87.1M/$153.5M A Very Adam & Cindy Valentine - $11.2M/$31.5M/$47.8M Funny Business - $14.4M/$41.7M/$79.5M Pokemon: The Case of the Orange Outrage - $114.6M/$278.3M/$966.4M Holland Hannah - $6M/$19.7M/$55.4M MARCH Fable - $42.3M/$120.6M/$388M Flightless Bird: The Downfall of the Boeing 737 MAX - $9.7M/$42.6M/$71.9M Recompense - $12.2M/$38.4M/$63.7M MEG - $5.5M/$13.2M/$15.6M Far Cry - $55.7M/$143.9M/$496.5M Citizen Kale: A VeggieTales Movie - $13.8M/$51.3M/$76.9M Kings of the Six - $4.7M/$13.8M/$20.2M Tyler Perry's Two Happies Families - $19.6M/$46.6M/$52.4M APRIL Numbers Theory - $21.3M/$63.4M/$148.8M Doc Dreams - $2.6M/$6.5M/$10.8M The Idiots - $7.1M/$25.3M/$33.4M Snow Monkeys - $5.5M/$17.4M/$29M No Mercy - $26.8M/$68.1M/$187.3M Up in the Sky - $12.6M/$54.9M/$100.4M The Insect God - $8.3M/$27.1M/$50.7M MAY Mass Effect: Revelation - $152.7M/$372.4M/$1.093B Walking with Dinosaurs: The Cinematic Experience - $11.3M/$37.7M/$145M Wet Willy - $11.2M/$28.5M/$42.3M Monster Bug Wars: The Spider Path - $3.4M/$6.3M/$13.5M Monster Bug Wars: The Scorpion Path - $2.9M/$5.7M/$13.2M Rhino Riders 2 - $31.4M/$90.6M/$367.4M Dealer's Choice - $13.6M/$45.1M/$97.4M Heartman - $41.2M/$118M/$232.5M Sandboy - $800k/$15.7M/$90.6M/$228.5M The Wild Thorberrys - $54.8M/$173.2M/$487.9M JUNE Everything I Never Told You - $14.4M/$67.8M/$107.1M Bailey Buckets: A Hoops Story - $10.2M/$27.5M/$37M Dave-Day - $6M/$15.4M/$23.6M Mighty Fall - $82.2M/$248.9M/$706.6M

@4815162342 sorry but Blank takes precedent because he had the #1 film; can you pick something else?

You also get to add one of the six if you wish!

@Blankments, @4815162342, and @SLAM! (in that order), you've all made my favorite films of Y8, and as such, you get to pick a pre-read of mine. Numbers, you can keep your Aquarius pre-read or swap it out for a second pick in one of the six films below. Note that casting is not final yet for these films: CASSIA OF THE NIGHT (Drama/Romance/Fantasy) (dir. Celine Sciamma) Cassia, an immortal drifter in 1980 New York City discovers an underground scene of vampires living within the city, keeping at peace with the mortals among them while fending off those who wish them dead. When Cassia falls for a fellow creature of the night, she begins to question the life she has led for over four hundred years and face a world conditioned to fear her with her true voice. DANSE SAUVAGE (Musical/Biopic) (dir. Hanelle Culpepper) A stylish, musical (a la ROCKETMAN) biopic of Josephine Backer and her years in France from the early 20s and her rise to fame in the city. In addition to becoming one of the most famous black singers of her time, she would go on to become one of France's greatest assets against in the resistance to the fascist regime of Nazi Germany. FRANCIS (Animation/Sci-Fi/Comedy) (dir. Owen Dennis) A young married couple threatening to collapse under the weight of their collective problems is invited to test a new product by a prolific tech company, a robotic friend named Francis. When Francis turns out to be far more powerful than imagined, they're forced to put aside their issues and help their creation save the world from a force who sees a means for exploitation in the self help android. INNER VOICE (Horror) (dir. Jen and Sylvia Soska) VERY loosely inspired by the novel Be More Chill, A lonely young man in High School discovers a secret pill that will help him unlock the secrets to social success by installing a special monitor inside his brain. It seems to work incredibly well, at first, but the more he relies on it guiding the way, the more he loses of himself and the further he descends into a nightmare. THE PRODIGAL CHILDREN (Comedy/Sci-Fi/Thriller) (dir. Claire Scanlon) Two children used as psychological experiments in WWII are released into a seemingly normal life, until they become television stars in the 1960s for their incredible, godlike abilities. Life couldn't be sweeter for this family, but when the CIA tries to loop them into Cold War shenanigans, their façade slowly begins to crack in dramatic, darkly comedic ways. THIS WASN'T SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN (Comedy/Drama/Fantasy) (dir. Taika Waititi) Five strangers who died in freak accidents over the course of a given day are chosen at random by a playful archangel. They wake up in a strange facility, one that presumably used to have a Sears. It soon comes to their attention that one of them will be given the chance to live again, but who?

1. Olive's Hallowed Eve 2. Strangers in the Town 3. Everything I Never Told You 4. Everything We Miss 5. The Bronx is Burning 6. Sandboy 7. Flightless Bird: The Downfall of the Boeing 737 MAX 8. Christmas Shopping 9. Up in the Sky 10. Sins of their Father 11. World of Trouble 12. The Space Between Trees 13. The Last Airbender: The Boy in the Iceberg 14. The World That We Knew 15. The War Between Ants 16. Learning to Care 17. Holland Hannah 18. Mass Effect: Revelation 19. Returning from Hell 20. Static Shock: Frozen Summer 21. Losers Weepers 22. Floodbath 23. Wet Willy 24. Funny Business 25. Mighty Fall

Full List: All Scores: (Out of 5)

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Ezen Baklattan's Infinite Playlist --A CAYOM TOP 25-- It's that time of year again. No games. No gimmicks. Well, I guess one gimmick. Every film in the top 25 will be paired with a song as well as a small review. I can provide more in-depth analyses upon request, but I won't have as much free time as I did to review these films. Like with before, there will be offerings of pre-reads for the top 3 filmmakers. @4815162342 has existing arrangements to read Aquarius that I need to deliver on, but who will get a third slot? Only time will tell. I might not drop options until tomorrow, though. Small disclaimer: I read a few films during the festival circuit that that I gave certain grades too. I didn't do a full revisit on everything, but a few grades did shift up or down respectively. Also, two honorable mentions got a 3/5, the others got a 3.5/5. I will post full scores after the list reveal. Without further ado, the honorable mentions.

Oh, one quick thing before we start. Losers Weepers

9PM EST.

@CayomMagazine The second announcement for AFFINITY's debut slate will be Claire Scanlon's dark dramedy THE PRODIGAL FAMILY. The film follows a married couple (Bill Hader and Rachel McAdams) and their child (Roman Griffin Davis) in 1960s America who have taken over the cultural landscape for their incredible psychic and life affirming powers. When the CIA seeks to use them as living weapons in the cold war, they're forced to reckon with the target that fame has placed on their backs, along with the traumatic events that inspired their powers in the first place.

1. Flightless Bird 2. Everything I Never Told You 3. The Bronx is Burning 4. Sandboy 5. Eminem-esque (#numberscurveball) 6. The Space Between Trees 7. World of Trouble 8. Christmas Shopping 9. The Un-title-able Squirrel Girl Sequel 10. The Sins of their Fathers