Flopped

Sure. I do hate every Scream movie after the first one lol.

There's also something that feels forced about her encountering yet another crazy killer after X...this time bc it's 80s LA, it's the Night Stalker. And the whole "I wanna be a star!" thing was done to perfection in Pearl and feels repetitive here. So it's taking an element out of X and and element out of Pearl and combining them but to what looks like diminishing returns. But I hope it's great.

Perri has abysmal taste and while I appreciate her positivity towards the genre, usually just gives all horror movies a 4 or 4.5.

I loved X and adored Pearl but this trailer....didn't really do it for me.

I know it's early and there's a high degree of variance, but based on this, if you HAD to guess, what would you say Abigail will open to?

And 2/4 from Ebert.com

That doesn't seem terrible although I don't follow int'l box office closely. Where do you see it ending with that start?

I agree but sadly the C Cinemascore is telling of how audiences really feel. I saw that it opened in almost every international market this weekend; were numbers released? It's sooo much better than a breakout hit like Smile, which I found derivative on first watch and never revisited again.

While the Omen is not "hot IP," they really dropped the ball with the marketing materials. I saw more stuff for First Omen this April (bus ads, pics of a splashy premiere, etc) than I did for Evil Dead Rise last April (both being old horror IP), but the materials were lacking while EDR made what they had count: better posters, trailers, taglines.

can you tell us about omen, pls

How is Omen doing here?

Im not "trolling" them. Im not saying this to get a rise out of them. Its what I believe. Opinions. People have different ones.

Disney did irreparable damage to moviegoers' viewing habits. The general audience has lost its connection to good movies. For 16 years they were forced-fed Marvel (there is not one rewatchable movie out of all of them), garbage new Star Wars (none of them rewatchable either), and subpar animated films (even Pixar is trash now). Other studios tried to remake themselves in Disney's image. Meanwhile, Netflix serves unwatchable garbage that get clicks because they pay bad actors like Ryan Reynolds or JLo $20-30M and you don't mind that the movies are bad cuz you're watching from home. So there is now a ceiling on how much a good movie will gross because only a very small % of the population hasn't been tainted by the last 16 years. Now that Marvel is thankfully over and Disney can't seem to sell water in the desert, maybe audiences will be retrained to not only recognize but want good movies en masse again, but it will take time to undo the last decade and a half.

Lol where is the Omen number?

Yes.

Fall Guy is supposed to be good, right? The trailer is unfinishable but happy to be proven wrong.

It's well crafted and well acted, but who is the movie for? It's a beautiful, long, slow drama/paranoid thriller with a few scares (probably added in reshoots) and some graphic body horror imagery. Every single shot lingered....the people I was with appreciated the craft but were checking their watches.

Batman Returns only insofar as the original was such a smash and the sequel damn near got outgrossed by Sister Act that Summer. McDonald's pulling their sponsorship, parents complaining, the director being replaced for the next instalment. But what's interesting is how beloved it has become, thanks largely to Catoman and the Xmas elements. I see why more people talk about it now than any of the other pre-Nolan Batmans.

Is April really that barren? Civil War, Abigail, Challengers, etc. Not saying any of these movies will break out and smash but there's competition on the horizon.

Where did you get Omen's number from?

What are people thinking for Omen this weekend?

This looks BAD. Between Cocaine Bear, Renfield and now this, what is Universal doing?

Disney almost exclusively released garbage for the past 10+ years and plenty of it smashed.

Something about this feels like it's bad form.

Heard Omen's actual budget after reshoots is well above 30M