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Interesting note: the plane that figured in the film’s climax was based on an actual Japanese fighter prototype that first flew three days before the bombing of Hiroshima. https://www.historynet.com/godzilla-vs-shinden/

Great numbers for Heron.

Very happy about the updated number on Godzilla.

it did but only by about 200 screens and lost PLFs at the same time. And yeah it’s still early, walk-ups could bump the numbers up a bit.

there were some higher hopes for Godzilla but they went around the horn with Shawn in the buzz thread and settled on 6 so I’d say about as expected. Deadline often lowballs tho so we will see.

Deadline with the early results, fwiw. https://deadline.com/2023/12/box-office-boy-and-the-heron-beyonce-renaissance-1235658395/ Heron Friday 5.4m, BOSS 2.5m, -1 1.8m

well, if it’s any consolation Minus One is up for best foreign language film and best use of visual effects at the Chicago Films Critics Association awards next week. https://chicagofilmcritics.org

VFX team getting a sniff from the Academy. https://comicbook.com/anime/news/godzilla-minus-one-oscars-visual-effects/

Yup by about $28k.

Yeah, WOM still seems like it’s building. For example when I logged on to YouTube tonight the algorithm served me half a dozen reviews done in the last day or less, including Cinemassacre (3.8 million subscribers) which just put a review up a few hours ago. There’s no reason for theaters to rush this out the door.

$685k (-67%) for Napoleon, per the numbers.

Yeah that’s a great hold for Minus One. I would have been happy with 800k.

Big problem with MPR was that the songs sucked. Musicals live and die by their music (I know, duh, but it bears repeating). If Wonka has a banger or two on the soundtrack, it will make bank. If not, it will fizzle.

Same. Actually playing at my local cinemark, which completely surprised me. Between this and Minus One they may have just set a new annual record for number of subtitled movies shown.

Noted today: I didn’t have any premium screen options for Minus One over the weekend, but the Emagine by me just added an EMX screening today.

Per Collider, No. 1. https://collider.com/godzilla-minus-one-global-box-office-34-million/ Also the No. 2 foreign-language live-action debut ever behind Hero (2002).

I wouldn’t be surprised if Sunday ends up coming in a bit higher. It’s still selling very well at theaters around me today.

You made the right choice.

Bummer it didn’t do better. I enjoyed it. Fun, breezy romp that told its story and got out. Flerkin bit in the third act was worth the price of admission alone. Iman Vellani (and basically the whole cast of Ms. Marvel) stole scenes left and right. They’re really good, they should do more with them. Wish they did more with Teyonah Parris’ Photon. Clearly there was a reconciliation arc with CM in there that got cut out. Brie did a fine job, loved the princess scene. Agree that $200 million was absurd for this, but that’s an all-over-Hollywood problem right now. No one seems to be able to control a budget lately. In the long run though it’s a self-correcting problem.

Today’s odd occurance: I’ve never seen my local Cinemark add a movie on its opening weekend, but it just happened. Months ago, I added Godzilla Minus One to my watchlist on the app and it pinged me with a notification tix were on sale a few weeks ago. Awesome…except not at the theater 5 minutes from my house. No, it was showing at two other cinemarks, one an hours’ drive east and another an hours’ drive west. Insert sad trombone sound here. Fortunately the movie was showing at an Emagine about 15 minutes away, and that’s where I and my family eventually went today. I did check my cinemark app Thursday just in case they had added it at my local one, but no. But I checked just now and hey presto! Five shows at my local cinemark! Too late, but just thought I would mention it. Never seen such a late add before. FWIW my Emagine showing today was sold out, the next one only had a handful of seats left, the third show today has a dozen seats left and the last show is about a third sold.

Just got back. Absolutely marvelous. It deserves all the praise it’s getting and more.

My local Cinemark added five “early access” shows today starting at 2. They had sold a combined 6 tickets when I looked yesterday. Up to 53 now. So…yay?

Yeah, my local cinemark has added a 6 pm show tonight which has sold 30 tix so far and 5 early shows Friday that have sold a combined 6 tickets so far.

Well, I guess since they have nothing better to do (you know, strike and all) studio execs have ample time to gossip to the press. So here we go again with another “how it all happened” piece. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/06/disney-succession-mess-iger-chapek.html

A $100 million OW seems to be the emerging consensus right now. It will probably go higher.