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Everyone's talking about how Marvel is screwed, and they certainly are, but (Disney-owned) Searchlight is also super-screwed. They just dated Magazine Dreams, a movie they likely paid a ton of money for, assuming it was at least a Best Actor lock. Having seen the movie, it's.... gonna be a hard one to sell to the public now. Not going to spoil anything, but there are scenes in the movie that will be hard for audiences to watch after what has potentially unfolded in reality.

A follow-up on this: Thursday preview showtimes start at 3pm. There are some sites reporting the runtime of the movie is 2hr29m, but a pal of mine says it might actually be closer to 2hr42m.

Would depend on if we're talking about strictly comic book adaptation superhero movies, or superhero movies in general. The latter would get tricky determining what counts and what doesn't. But if we're talking the former, I think The Spirit is another one.

Add Vulture to the list, hearing they're also spoiling the movie in headlines.

Hearing Guardians Vol 3 tix April 3 at 9am EST

I'm not sure if it's already been mentioned here, but unfollow Deadline and Variety on social media if you're avoiding John Wick 4 spoilers. I haven't seen the movie yet myself, but I've been told they apparently are already spoiling the movie in headlines, which is especially bold given that about 95% or so of the people who plan to see this in theaters haven't done so yet. EDIT: One of them may have re-titled one of the tweets/articles. Still, even the re-wording is kinda spoiler-y.

Evil Dead Rise tix tentatively set for April 6

Suzume tickets go on sale on Friday.

A 1 month-to-PVOD window isn't all that unusual. Black Adam had the same window, as did Jurassic World: Dominion and Minions: The Rise of Gru, while Creed III will also arrive on PVOD around the same timeframe. It's the deal that Uni put in place that WB and MGM also now follow. Last that was reported, it's <$50m = 17 days, >$50m = 30 days. So, actually, WB might be giving this a longer window than required. I'm surprised it's not dropping on April 4, to be honest.

Mafia Mamma tix on March 29. Nefarious tix on March 31.

Trailer drops on Friday

I'm late to posting these, as I was busy this morning and afternoon. Anyway, my guy is saying: A Good Person tix March 17 Air tix March 24 Pope's Exorcist tix March 29

I only learned about them happening a day or two ago, so perhaps. It was surely more a decision made by the theaters than Universal, I don't think the latter expected these midnight shows to be a significant thing for something that leans more toward families. Not every theater will participate. As mentioned by others, it will likely be theaters in major markets and college towns that will be doing this, as it could be challenging to get staffing together for hours that late at locations that are more rural than urban/suburban. Additionally, some theaters could still be on the fence on if it's worth running or not. If presales look good, it's possible more midnight shows show up.

Like FFH, it's because there's no Tuesday preview options otherwise. I suppose the short length of the movie is making some theaters more willing to supply this option.

They historically love Father's Day weekend too, especially for Pixar. I don't think they'll move it, but we'll see.

I don't think any of these look like heavy hitters. Meg 2 will drop notably from the last, TMNT will maybe do alright I suppose, and I'm not really feeling Gran Turismo. I don't think it's much of a problem for them to open where they are now, moving wouldn't really change most of their prospects.

It actually already came and went in the US! Had a release in about 200-something theaters starting on Feb 24, WB didn't report any box office numbers for it though.

This was very likely a rushed, last-minute deal. Deadline reported a while back that STX (or Miramax?) was shopping the movie around to streamers. Apparently none of them bought it, either because they didn't like it enough or they weren't willing to pay whatever the asking price was. Lionsgate is probably not losing much on this. I would bet they were paid a distribution fee and an agreement was made to get it out in theaters ASAP due to the movie already coming out overseas (and likely hitting VOD/streaming over there soon, as it will here). Presumably, any marketing costs on LG's part were either miniscule based on the clearly subdued campaign or covered entirely by the fee.

Don’t mean to be that guy, but March 2017 actually had five $40m+ openers: Logan, Kong: Skull Island, Beauty and the Beast, Power Rangers, and The Boss Baby. To match it, Creed 3, Scream 6, Shazam 2, JW4, and D&D would all have to open with $40m+, which seems tough for some of those.

To be fair though, Creed 1&2's openings were mid-week Thanksgiving openers. Although, 3 might go beyond what those would've been regardless. Admissions might be down from where 2 would've been at with a normal weekend, would someone be willing to run the math on that?

Dungeons & Dragons tix March 10

Figured something was off. March 9 5pm est.

Mario on sale Mar 25 at noon EST.

Renfield tix should be on sale March 22.

The Lost King also goes on sale on this date.