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Wow that’s a great number! I saw Back to Black with a sold out audience last night, which was the first time that’s happened for a while 😅

I enjoyed this more than expected. It was nice seeing a film with a sold out crowd on a weekday, I must say. A bit of a change these days. There are cheesy moments and clunky dialogue, which I clocked from the trailer alone. But I loved that Back To Black album and hearing these songs again and even recognising some of the paparazzi set ups from back in the day - there was a strange nostalgia and familiarity. Poor Amy. It’s a total Wikipedia biopic, and some people come off very lightly that probably don’t deserve to (including her Dad). But if you’re a fan of music biopics, I think there’s a chance you’d enjoy it.

In! Agreed, hot.

Back To Black WOM here in the UK is good and it’s doing well, expected as it’s her home country. But only a -30% second weekend drop and still #1. Will fly over £10m in a few weeks.

Agreed. Yeh I’m totally over multiverse stuff too.

Well your original post suggested if they got As instead of Bs would it have been different. As I said, reception can’t hit early opening weekend much if the critics reviews drop late etc. Presales vs industry tracking etc is very different. I know what cinemascore is, thank you.

Doesn’t really impact opening weekend too much, as the cinemascore reactions didn’t come out until Saturday morning. More the legs.

Could do without multiverse nonsense tbh (if that’s what’s going on) Some quick questions to catch me up: Is this version of Ant Man dead? Which version of Wolverine is this? Are they jumping into a Dr Strange style portal at the end?

Ghostbusters passed all the other films in the franchise too (unadjusted). Totals: Dune 2 £38.7m Immaculate £1.7m Wicked Little Letters £9.4m Mother’s Instinct £963k Late Night with the Devil £782k The First Omen £1.4m Monkey Man £2.2m Weekend down over 30% on last year again sadly.

1. Back To Black (Studiocanal)£1.9m £6.4m 2 -30% hold 2. Civil War (Entertainment Film Distributors) £1.1m £3.8m 2 -33% hold 3. Kung Fu Panda 4 (Universal)£898,807 £18.6m 4 4. Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire (Warner Bros) £649,284 £12.9m 4 5. Abigail £594,971 Kung Fu Panda 4 will become highest grossing of the series. Civil War is Garland’s biggest directorial film.

It’s doing quite well here in the UK. WOM seems to be good too, first Saturday to second Saturday drop was only -24%. Heading for £10m+

Aw that’s not good! The weather is picking up though. Really great holds for Back to Black and Civil War.

Aside from salaries etc, they also shot on location in Ireland. And because of the strike everyone had to return home and then all go back again. That couldn’t have been cheap. I’m still surprised it’s $28m though, unless Radio Silence got a big pay day after the success of Scream 5 & 6. And there are two directors.

Radio Silence’ next project is an Andy Samberg comedy package according to Deadline. Abigail is dead last for me. I’d put it more in line with Devil’s Due than the Scream’s or Ready or Not actually. Melissa Barrera hasn’t booked any new projects since her firing. It’ll be interesting to see what happens.

Ryan Reynolds just makes me mostly think of direct to streaming films nowadays. So hopefully he can turn that around with IF.

Can’t it just be… fun? This is a things blow up movie.

Two flops in a row for Alan Ritchson. Back to TV he goes!

That’s actually ok for Back to Black and Civil War. I was expecting sub-£200k for Abigail given how nice it was here yesterday and how quiet the cinema was. Book of Clarence, not surprised in the slightest. Looks like the most unappealing film in a long time. A £38 PTA lol.

Yeh solid cinemascores all around. That Guy Ritchie film one is surprising. I don’t usually like to say “looks like a streaming film” but come on. It looks like something from when Netflix first started out. So audience reception and critical reviews aren’t the reason for the low numbers. Hey at least there’s a battle for the #1 spot.

Yeh it’s Quorum being Quorum. Only the familiar titles have bigger awareness. But people could be thinking “yes I know what Garfield is” rather than knowing there’s a film coming and when. Same with Inside Out.

That’s good you still went to see it despite riding the film for a few weeks and saying “this looks BAD”. I actually thought the opposite of you, dragged 30mins then it picked up. But overall I was pretty let down. 3/5. Ungentlemanly Warfare cost $60m before P&A. Sensible decision to send it straight to streaming internationally.

Ah this was a bit of a let down for me. It’s only 1hr49m but something about the pacing feels slow. Not many of the characters worked for me and Melissa phoned it in as a less entertaining version of Sam. But it still provides some great gore gags and the actress playing Abigail is terrific. 3/5

It was Spyglass, a production company, not Paramount.

That’s ok for Abigail, hopefully it’s not frontloaded and gets $11-12m+ for the weekend. Considering Universal only seemingly started promoting it this week, hopefully the great reviews will carry it. Should be certified soon at 83%.

Cinema counts: Abigail 545 Butterfly Tale 439 Met Opera La Rondine 112 Jeanne Du Barry 104 The Book of Clarence 184 (So glad I can finally stop seeing the Book of Clarence trailer, looks like the most unappealing film in a long time lol)