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  1. 25 minutes ago, The More Fun XXR said:

    Interesting projections by Deadline. Minions Friday only 8% over Thor but predicting nearly 50% higher 3-Day. Beast with a stronger wknd IM than BT or TGM. 

    Let's see how this plays out.

    They also have Minions and Pets down around 33% on Friday week over week, but Minions up 32% FSS vs Pets being flat. I'm not buying that at all based on what I'm seeing out here.

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  2. National Cinema Day report from the Salt Lake Valley, Cinemark Sugarhouse and Cinemark West Jordan 24, 11:00 AM.

     

    Total Saturday presales vs. Friday presales at 8:30 AM.

     

    (1) Super Pets 967 (+959)

    (2) Top Gun 540 (+524)

    (3) Minions 469 (+469)

    (4) Bullet Train 415 (+405)

    (5) No Way Home 377 (+322)

    (6) Thor 352 (+350)

    (7) Invitation 323 (+311)

    (8) Crawdads 238 (+220)

    (9) Beast 217 (+217)

     

    Crazy bumps from yesterday, gonna be fascinating to see how this translates into $$$.

     

    P.S. I did these counts through the Fandango app because the Cinemark site was down when I got home. Now I see that they're up again and have an update telling you how long your wait in line will be. Can't remember one of those messages since The Force Awakens. They didn't see the hurricane that was coming!

     

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  3. 1 hour ago, John2015 said:

    This film got bad Cinemascore rating because it is not a mainstream film, not because it is a bad film.

     

    Many Focus Features films got bad CInemascore rating.  like "The American" got D-, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" got B-.

    When I saw Eternal Sunshine in the theater years ago, people who'd been expecting another Ace Ventura turn from Jim Carrey started to head for the exits about 40 minutes in, and all told probably two dozen- over half the crowd-  just got up and left. I'd never experienced that at a movie before.

     

    It remains in my all-time Top 5.

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  4. 2 minutes ago, DAJK said:

    I’m hearing from people who still work at theatres that payroll budgets haven’t increased for tomorrow, so a lot of locations are being staffed as if it’s a regular Saturday on Labor Day weekend.

     

    Incompetent if you ask me.

    Good Lord, that's a recipe for disaster. I look at the seating charts for tomorrow and this reminds me more of Christmas than Labor Day!

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  5. 2 hours ago, DAJK said:

    The $3 Saturday is REALLY boosting ticket sales, far more than even I would have predicted. Enough that I do think there will be a significant Saturday bump across the board this weekend, even if you take into account the cheaper tickets. 

    Absolutely. Super Pets had 8 tix sold for today at the biggest Cinemark in the Salt Lake Valley as of 8:30 this morning, but is over 500 in presales for tomorrow. Minions and Thor had a combined total of 2, but together are over 400 for tomorrow. I'm pretty confident that after this weekend National Cinema Day is going to be a regular thing. Great for families and great for the theaters!

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  6. 49 minutes ago, Stealing Porthos Name XXR said:

    While I only post the big openers (over $50M), I do track every new films Friday numbers for each weekend. I’m trying to decide if this weekend is worth tracking though. What do y’all think? Cinema Day is gonna make this weekend incomparable to every other weekend.

    New openers here, even Spidey, look pretty tepid on Friday, and Honk needs an outright miracle, but I think Cinema Day itself is what makes this the most fascinating weekend we've had in a long time. I will be posting an update Saturday morning on how all the newbies and holdovers are shaping up for that day.

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  7. Salt Lake Valley Update for Cinema Day, Cinemark 24 @ Jordan's Landing, which I believe is the largest Cinemark in the state. Total tix sold as of Wednesday, 2:30 PM.

     

    (1) Super Pets 414

    (2) Minions 233

    (3) Top Gun 203

    (4) Bullet Train 131

    (5) No Way Home 110

    (6) The Initiation 96

    (7) Jaws 82

    (8) Beast 57

     

    Honk for Jesus is living up to its 4.7 Interest Score with 9 tickets sold currently.

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  8. 1 minute ago, excel1 said:

    Considering this would either be a Christmas 2024 or later release, Clark and Lois would obviously need to be married. Clark and Lois should probably have children. It would need to take place a minimum of 10 years after MOS. This would need to be a true veteran Superman film. He should be 100% used to the world and they should be 100% used to him. I hate saying this because I have wanted a Cavill sequel forever, but at this point, it is SERIOUSLY past due. It is difficult to know where to take the character at this point given how long it's been. Where does the story go? Is it about a superhero struggling work, marriage, fatherhood, and superhero life?

     

    Unless the plan is to fully bring back the DCEU - which would be very weird given Battinson success - there is a side of me that thinks WB would be better off going the solo route with Elordi as a young Superman done right ala Pattinson. Much much easier to map out a 10 year story plan going that route than with Cavill. 

     

    OR...does WB go big-league and figure out some sort of young Superman/veteran Superman team-up film using Flash universe hopping? 

    Well, one place WB could go is to fully embrace the rich mythology of Superman. Even after all these films, which have been for the most part, Superman-downsized, we've still never gotten a look at the splendors of Krypton- the Jewel Mountains, the Scarlet Jungle, Kryptonopolis itself, etc- I would love to see some of that in told in flashback. Or how about the Bottle City of Kandor? The wonders of the Fortress of Solitude? Obviously, there are scores more villains to consider- Brainiac, of course, but how about The Parasite? Metallo? The legions of Kryptonian baddies like Jax-Ur still trapped in the Phantom Zone? And yes, the Silver-Age lover in me I wants some Mr. Mxyzptlk. But if there's one thing I DON'T want, it's dark, edgy, conflicted Superman. That's not the character. Give us something to aspire to, even if it seems anachronistic. God knows the world could use some more light right now.

     

    Directors: Kosinski, McQuarrie, Vaughn, Bird- I'd be thrilled with any of these guys.

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  9. 8 minutes ago, Gokira2012 said:

    why 3 dollars why not 1 dollar, why not free, feel sorry for the artist that made those movies

    You obviously have a deep compassion for the artists who made these films, @Gokira2012, and that's great, but I don't think one day out of 365 is going to break anyone, and if it helps to reintroduce some people to theatergoing, or to catch a film they might have loved but wouldn't have seen at the regular price, well, then everyone- artists, exhibitors, studios, and the audience- wins, right? 

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