Roxanne

Personally I'm fascinated by Michael Bay's brain and while I don't think the Transformers movies are his best work by a longshot (go check out 13 Hours and AmbuLAnce, both of which are significantly underrated), they contain enough off-the-wall shit to make them incredibly interesting watches, especially Age of Extinction and Last Knight. The first one is my least favourite just cause it's (relatively) so restrained.

Seems like a real collapse for TFOne. Kinda surprising after ROTB overperformed expectations last year. Can't help but think this same movie but in Lion King style psuedo-live action would've done better, I think the animation style turned people off by looking too similar to the Transformers stuff you can see on TV.

Final check-ins: Transformers One: 19/283 (+46% since 5 PM), nearly all D-BOX seats (15 D-BOX to 4 normal). Bigger growth from 8 AM-5 PM than from 5 PM-7 PM, which is probably too granular to actually matter (people plan earlier in the day and buy tickets then, etc) but I still don't like the smell of it. The Substance: 4/129 (+300% since 5 PM). Solid for an indie distributor in a market where, frankly, I'm very surprised we're even getting this. Looks like a group of 3 in addition to the previous solo, so I'm not sure this is evidence of wide interest, but still. Never Let Go: 1/154 (+technically infinite % since 5 PM). Godspeed, lone soldier.

Checking in on my local and following vafrow's advice to track the final day, TF One has gone from 2 sold at 8 AM to 13 at 5 PM. I'll check it again at the showtime proper in two hours to see what's up then. No movement all day for The Substance or Never Let Go, which are at 1 and 0 sold respectively.

So I wanted to try my hand at collecting some data from my local theatre, but I think my market is too small/my theatre is too not-open-enough to produce any actually usable numbers. I've got five movies with advance tickets on sale right now and the only one with more than one THU showtime is Joker. Transformers One: 0 sold of 283, one showtime Never Let Go: 0 sold of 154, one showtime The Substance: 0 sold of 129, one showtime The Wild Robot: 0 sold of 283, one showtime Joker: Folie á Deux: 2 sold of 566, two showtimes I'm considering expanding my net to include Sudbury, which is two hours away but might actually have some activity to speak of. Is this data usable in any way without a built-up catalog to comp against?

Wild that everyone was so worried about Momoa and Heard's 'chemistry' when she was pretty obviously the best thing about the first movie.

Spider-Verse sold less than GOTG and Ant-Man in the first hour and ended up having the highest OW of all three. Not saying Marvels is Spider-Verse, but one hour of data is nowhere near enough to draw conclusions from.

The Creator opening to 15M is gonna make me upset if I keep thinking about it so I'm gonna turn the forum and the chat rooms off for the rest of the weekend I think. Something something y'all say you want original movies... (the general y'all, not directed towards anyone here)

Woman King hit 19M off 1.7M previews at 3PM (11.2x IM) around this time last year and Venice just did 11.9x. Creator can still hit 20M. It's probably over for Saw X though, that's gonna play exactly like Jigsaw did and I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up there.

THEY BEEN TRYNA STOP THE WAVE BUT THE WAVE WON’T STOP 🗣🗣🗣

And that movie had 3x legs when it was getting pulled from a third of its locations by weekend 3. It'll be fine. This has a roadblock second weekend for sure but after that it'll play out how all of these movies play out.

I wish that Gillman number was real. I liked that movie a lot, real shame it bombed.

Fully agree with this. The ending is way more dark than it needs to be and I know I, personally, felt absolutely cheated when it came to the character who sold me a ticket.

Yeah, 60% seems like a reasonable prediction to me? TLM is getting good/great WOM but not leaps and bounds beyond Aladdin's, and ATSV is way bigger and more direct competition than KOTM was. Add in the added importance of PLFs nowadays and I don't see why TLM's drop would be lower than Aladdin's. Feel free to point something out if I'm missing something here, I'm open to modulating lol

Well, completely failing to remember to clock in for this for two weeks is definitely embarrassing. Apologies.