Legion Again

Increased on Th 🧐 Seems like a pretty decent sign

Not sure what this means. Yelena is still alive

The lowest RT here is 79%, so it’s not like this is super informative. Most critics gave all 7 a fresh.

Edit: Didn’t see the warning when I quoted. Feels a little overzealous tbh but deleting to be safe.

So... accurate? Anyway, social media reaction, basically meaningless. Doesn’t quite sound like a 90+, probably won’t go under 75 either, critic reactions shouldn’t affect box office so I’ll just kick back and wait for audience ones.

3.9 cume, not 3.5

Whispering Corridor 6 59% Egg First time I see anything even close to that low

True Wed 1.3

Without covid, Scarlett Johansson would get the first star exec credit. But as is, Hiddleston beat her to it by about 4 weeks.

Well, that’s my problem! A lot of what the TVA says/acts about timelines and time travel is not a logically coherent version thereof. So I can only hope that they’re lying and/or mistaken — which, honestly, does seem likely. So we’ll just have to see where they leave things after ep 6.

I don’t know what you mean. I don’t care about being “linear,” Ijust need it to be logically coherent.

Alright, and we’re off. I still assign a pretty high chance that this will totally ruin the MCU, but if they dodge that it should be awesome and easily the best show so far.

Seems like pretty decent walkins?

Thanks for the heads up. Looks like Metreon is still lacking PLFs though 😔

Nice hold. Could end up within 10% of the first entry.

Now last 3 Fast franchise films, with respective Maoyan of 9.3, 8.6, and 7.5, all have added 7x their Monday (+- like .1). 4th most recent the Mon multi is obviously inflated by the Sun open. Past performance no guarantee of future blah blah blah, but I will definitely keep this rule of thumb in mind for Fast 10.

Wknd: 878 Mon: 67.5 final: 1410-1420ish Mon Multi: 7.9-8.0ish Exactly as expected. Run has basically been over since day 4.

Holy moly BW maybe 11*2.4 or something (though that’s not quite enough for my club, lol)

There you have it. Not so much a “all the people who wanted to see ItH did it at home for free” problem as a “nobody* wanted to see ITH to begin with” problem. *Yes, obviously not literally nobody, it’s hyperbole.

Yeah that is a pretty brutal quote in this context.

Not quite, it actually returned to the top 5 today. But with just 814 admits. It will probably only add another couple dozen thousand in total.

Great idea. You need a non-sequel overperformer every once in a while so you can try to crank out 9 sequels to it

When you only produce sequels to over performers, mean reversion will kick you in the teeth more often than not. That said, you know, I obviously don’t have some kind of clever “solution” to that statistical phenomenon. It’s not like you should disproportionately greenlight sequels to flops instead 😛

Well, just 3.1M True friday. The IM and Sat bump from true fri are just a tad worse than SLOP2

Big drops are common to any sequel (except the MCU). Yet it’s hard to get big budget nonsequels greenlit (except for CBMs). Yet small and mid budget fare often disappoints. A rather vexing trio of observations (unless you’re a total artistic nihilist like me who would happily chug down 10 MCUs a year and little else if that is what Hollywood became ). BUT my point is moreso that these were a frequent topic of discussion in 2018 and 2019 — returning from covid to box office “normalcy” is not going to be returning from covid to some kind of everything-can-be-as-successful-as-its-fans-hope utopia. Surprise underperformance weekends are a big part of normalcy.