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https://www.instagram.com/tv/CcqfJkADqkW/?igshid=NDA1YzNhOGU= Lin lookin' pretty uncomfortable in this post from Vin about a week or so ago.

I don't think I buy the classic studio-drafted "creative differences" line here, the usual line given to the press when something goes down. Dropping a director, especially one like Lin who has been with this franchise for so long, a week into a major studio production? Maybe it's just me, but it seems fishy. You'd think any major "creative differences" would've been worked out sometime before cameras started rolling. For that reason, I'm not sure it's a script-related issue. Might be something else, we'll see.

Was thinking the same thing. They probably would've obtained more screens than expected going wide on June 3, since I'm sure there's plenty of theaters that would like new content that week with nothing else going wide. Gonna be much harder to find space opposite JWD, even if the demographics differ.

Seems it was just corrected to $17.3m, a -41% drop.

Starting this early just seems normal for Universal. I'll never forget F9 tickets initially going on sale in Jan/Feb 2020 for a late May release date.

Haven't participated in this forum much. I mostly lurked around on various other movie-related forums and kept box office observations to myself and to friends and colleagues. I forget what initially got me interested in all of this, but I started following around 2009/2010 I think? Some fun years there, but I'll echo what some have said in that 2015 was a pretty wild year. Jurassic World pulling in the biggest OW of all time was a massive surprise, but American Sniper's $89m+ debut was the biggest head-turner for me that year. Absolutely didn't see it coming, thought it would do more along the lines of Lone Survivor from the year before. Maybe there aren't as many of those nowadays, but I can't help but still find it fun to track this stuff rigorously. For whatever reason, it just doesn't get old. Besides, there's still some minor surprises for me. I wasn't expecting Lost City to do $30m+ until closer to its release, or for GB: Afterlife to nearly match the debut of '16. Certainly didn't expect Demon Slayer's $22m+ opening despite the strong numbers in Japan (Shows how little I know about anime, which I think the growth of is another fascinating box office development). I thought for sure Dog would open in the single-digits, yet it did almost $15m. I always try to find new ways of looking at this stuff, there's usually something interesting going on. ... Or I'm just easily impressed? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Was already shooting a couple weeks before Morbius opened, too late to stop now.

With how well Dog and Lost City are doing, it seems like a bit of a missed opportunity not putting this in theaters.

I was gonna say, the Tuesday jumps aren't particularly noteworthy for any of the results that have come in. Thinking people are waiting for the holiday weekend rather than seeing anything during the week leading up to it.

Sing 2 and Encanto also plummeted harder than all the other movies today. This is just what kid/family movies do, they drop hard when the school week starts. Nothing to worry about here, as far as I can tell. Sonic 2 will more than recover when the weekend begins.

Was this on TV or YouTube? And were you for sure it was an ad intended for the US? Some HBO Max titles get theatrical releases overseas in select territories, so if there was no MPA rating or something in the ad, it might've been a mix-up on WB's part.

I find it amazing that a Minions 2 trailer played before both the first and second Sonic movies. That has to be a first of some kind.

Totally forgot they had that coming up. Would be a great spot for it.

Would be a great place for counter-programming, though. Have felt for a while now that a horror title should be placed there. Maybe not something high-profile, but some horror movies Lionsgate is sitting on (Cobweb, perhaps? Or maybe even Devil's Light) would work there as quick one-week-wonder cash-ins.

Oh of course, and I could forgive them for thinking September was going to be awful, but by the time we got around to January and especially March, you'd think there would've been some sort of improved foresight for their own sakes. You know, this conversation got me thinking about how if Morbius kept its Jan 28 date, we would've had the C+-scoring, toxic-WoM-induced front-loading of both that movie and Moonfall back-to-back. Heh...

I believe the studios have made this mistake 3 times now in the past year, turning a perfectly fine space into a wasteland and handing another studio a huge W. Happened in September (King's Man and/or Jackass would've been nice during the mid/late portions of that month, Clifford prob should've stayed put too if they were set on D&D), again in January (Ok, not exactly a great spot, but something should've taken the old Morbius weekend), and yet again in March. No idea why they keep making the same error over and over.

Both Ambulance and The Bad Guys should've repositioned themselves into that mid/late-March period where hardly anything was coming out. Might not have completely turned around their financial prospects, but I suspect they would've done at least a little better. I worry they're about to get buried where they are now.

Deadline should at least have it in their write-up tomorrow, no? That's usually where I've had to find Sony scores ever since Miss Bala, of all movies, came out.

Additionally, Hellboy 2019 got a C.

Not defending Rock's joke in any way, but I don't think I can possibly disagree more with the idea that physical violence is ever OK in this sort of situation. Never feel it does anything to de-escalate, rather it does the opposite.

Lol, Easter Sunday showtimes are going up for its current Aug 5 release date. Are they actually putting tickets on sale on Easter instead of... y'know... releasing it on Easter?

There's an IMAX early access for FB3 on Apr 6, pretty early for one of those. Also an IMAX early access for Everything Everywhere on Mar 30 (after the limited opening, but a week-and-a-half before the nationwide rollout).

Was just checking how I was doing. I'm not sure I'll land Jackass and Scream, but I'll enjoy my slim lead now while it lasts.

Eh, it's another one of Sony's pandemic-era Stage 6 dumps (similar to what they did for Long Weekend, The Last Shift, Mouthful of Air, etc.) They spend next-to-nothing on acquiring/producing and releasing them, and most haven't gone beyond 800-or-so theaters outside of Here Today (cracked 1k) and Broken Hearts Gallery (2k). Early in the pandemic, they seemed to be doing these releases as a courtesy to theaters by giving them something new to play. As business has since picked up, I'm not quite sure why they still do these.

I believe EC said the date for sales to begin on this one was March 28.