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Why do think other filmmakers will be so easily swayed by fans just because of this one example? In any case, filmmakers get feedback from the general audience all the time in the form of test screenings, and end up making all sorts of changes. it's just that we generally don't hear about it unless they tell us. It was only unusual in this instance because the director reacted publicly to the criticism, but as the Alita example shows, being swayed by popular opinion isn't that uncommon.

How many tickets should we be expecting in that time period?

I wouldn't be able to stand a minute of such a movie; it's why I was so turned off from the anime. Animal noises I can deal with, but them repeating variations of their names is just so grating for me.

DP is selling well in my theaters on Friday and Saturday. Also, DP still has a more family-friendly Fri/Sat ratio, and Saturday matinees make up 46% of DP's Saturday sales compared to 39% for Aladdin. Detective Pikachu Aladdin Thu 2273 1165 Fri 1556 655 Sat 1544 546

I'm guessing 90 for this one. I'm not sure if there will be that many critics that didn't like the first two liking this one, although it does depend on which critics review it; it did pick up 50 critics from the first to the second movie. Pretty stoked for it regardless.

Wow, Dolby screens are really popular, aren't they? Right now they make up 49% of Aladdin's tickets, and after less than 2 days of being put up the three Detective Pikachu Dolby screens have already sold 171. Detective Pikachu San Gabriel Valley (10 theaters), 7 days to opening night Sellouts Showings Seats sold Seats Left Total Seats Percent Sold TOTALS 0 58 2331 7691 10022 23.26% 1 showing added 210 seats added 255 seats sold Date 4/10 4/11 4/12 4/13 Tickets Sold 534 198 110 58 Date 4/14 4/15 4/16 4/17 4/18 4/19 4/20 Tickets Sold 28 45 59 63 36 33 28 Date 4/21 4/22 4/23 4/24 4/25 4/26 4/27 Tickets Sold 35 72 57 44 92 64 79 Date 4/28 4/29 4/30 5/1 5/2 Tickets Sold 91 126 85 139 255 Aladdin San Gabriel Valley (10 theaters), 4th day of presales, 21 days to opening night Sellouts Showings Seats sold Seats Left Total Seats Percent Sold TOTALS 0 56 1165 11187 12352 9.43% 1 showing added 220 seats added 131 seats sold Date 4/30 4/31 5/1 5/2 Tickets Sold 677 208 149 131 1.29x Detective Pikachu's first four days of presales [Detective Pikachu has 29 days of presales compared to Aladdin's 24]

Now I wonder if Paramount is going to pull this trailer from theaters until they fix Sonic's design. Many moviegoers don't watch trailers online, and their first exposure to him will be at the theaters. These people would also not know that the director has vowed to fix the design, and if they hate it they're not going to give the movie a second chance.

The difference is that all the other awful things about the movie were done intentionally. They weren't trying to do anything other than a generic live-action cartoon adaptation, like the Smurfs and Chipmunks movies. Awful as those movies might be, they still find an audience, and they still make money (at least at the start). But if they're hearing that even children are repulsed by Sonic's design then they have a real problem on their hands.

If you want him to stop liking Sonic, then sure.

Now this I agree with. Paramount fixed Creech's design and the movie opened to a triumphant $11 million.

Visuals are the most important criteria for little kids though, and that's who they're mainly marketing the movie to. You have decent visuals and a garbage movie and you can still open to $25 million like The Emoji Movie. Garbage visuals gets you Norm of the North.

I think it's only because this is just about a character's design that they're willing to make changes. It's both arguably the most important thing to draw audiences to see the movie and perhaps the easiest part of the movie to change. If they keep his height and eye level constant, they don't need to do any reshoots and just change the CGI model and render.

Detective Pikachu added its first two Dolby screens in a couple of theaters. Also, the last empty showing is no more! Though it was quite impressive that there were only 4 empty showings after the first day of presales. Detective Pikachu San Gabriel Valley (10 theaters), 8 days to opening night Sellouts Showings Seats sold Seats Left Total Seats Percent Sold TOTALS 0 57 2076 7736 9812 21.16% Date 4/10 4/11 4/12 4/13 Tickets Sold 534 198 110 58 Date 4/14 4/15 4/16 4/17 4/18 4/19 4/20 Tickets Sold 28 45 59 63 36 33 28 Date 4/21 4/22 4/23 4/24 4/25 4/26 4/27 Tickets Sold 35 72 57 44 92 64 79 Date 4/28 4/29 4/30 5/1 Tickets Sold 91 126 85 139 Aladdin San Gabriel Valley (10 theaters), first three day of presales, 22 days to opening night Sellouts Showings Seats sold Seats Left Total Seats Percent Sold TOTALS 0 55 1034 11098 12132 8.52% Date 4/29 4/30 5/1 Tickets Sold 677 208 149 1.23x Detective Pikachu's first three days of presales [Detective Pikachu has 29 days of presales compared to Aladdin's 24]

Both of those have issues as well (what doesn't at this point?) Spider-Verse skewed heavily male to the tune of 2 to 1, and I'm expecting a much more balanced ratio for DP. As for Lego Batman, it actually was balanced as well (slightly more females actually), but that movie had its potential preview audience completely decimated by two other movies: John Wick: Chapter Two which took away the adult males and Fifty Shades Darker which took away the adult females.

I still think Shazam is a great comp. Sure, it's PG-13, but the trailers didn't look PG-13, and a lot more families went to that than normal, looking at how high its opening Saturday was compared to Friday. DP and Shazam have nearly identical Friday/Saturday presale ratios as well. And Shazam works here as well. with 43m views for its first trailer and 17m for its second.

A bit puzzled by all the tracking in the teens. BOP even increased their prediction in the last few weeks from their initial $8 million. We'll see, but this could be another Missing Link scenario.

Going through akvalley's archives, they don't look like good comparisons at all. Neither movie had a first-day spike - both movies actually sold two tickets each for opening night on their first day of presales. Also, there wasn't any ramping up in ticket sales until 4-5 days until the opening.

There's no way that's a coincidence. Paramount had to have seen this and thought it was perfect. Same with how similar the parody Dora trailer and their own Dora trailer look.

Not unexpected. Remember that an energy surge knocked out power across the entire Pacific Northwest.

If that happened, I would argue that since superhero movies always drop harder on their second weekend than their third (outside of holiday releases like Aquaman), the fact that Endgame dropped the same on its third weekend indicates that DP impacted it a lot, and to make that big of an impact DP would have exceeded the $63 million that you have Endgame making.

Given that Aladdin's first-day presales did around 1.4 times Detective Pikachu's according to Porthos' and my theaters' numbers, while the tracker says it did around 0.7, you could argue that Monday was underestimated by half. On the other hand, Detective Pikachu suddenly jumping to 670 seems too high. At this point we need a tracker to track the tracker, to tell us during which minute sales stop in each block of time. Quis scrutet ipsos scrutator?

That's not what the cap is. Pulse tracks all the movie sales in each 15-minute period, but stops tracking until the next 15 minutes if it reaches 4,000 tickets. So if 8,000 tickets were sold in 15 minutes, the tracker is underestimating every movie's ticket sales by half during that period, assuming tickets were being sold in equal proportion. Edit: As @Thanos Legion pointed out, this should say 4,000 per hour instead of per 15 minutes.

Did you tell her his reaction? If you didn't, I think there's more hilarity to be mined from watching her having to break it to him.

Relevant:

Vice's hard-hitting journalism has got your back, fam. Admittedly, that article was written when only the silhouette poster and the standee picture were revealed, but the overall anatomical features haven't changed that much, and the criticisms listed in the article sound like they would apply to the actual design as well.