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[JB33]

Eff you Deadline! Eff you! Now I'm going to go to bed with some hope and the real number is going to be $35M or below!

[keysersoze123]

1 minute ago, JB33 said:

Eff you Deadline! Eff you! Now I'm going to go to bed with some hope and the real number is going to be $35M or below!

I cant see it go below 38m. But we will see where things stand tomorrow.

[grey ghost]

5 bucks says Tele dropped acid and watched Cats instead of seeing Star Wars.

[FTF]

1 minute ago, JB33 said:

Eff you Deadline! Eff you! Now I'm going to go to bed with some hope and the real number is going to be $35M or below!

 

Even they couldn't fuck up that much right?!?  I just want it to start with a 4 now.  Give me just $40m at the nose and I'll be ok with that.  But if it is $45m like they have, that's just awesome.

[Knights of Ren]

My audience that stayed seemed to love it.  There was like 4-6 people that walked out.  Big applause at the end. 

[FlitcherBooks]

Audience vibes coming out of my sell out were positive. I think anyone who stayed home due to TLJ will be told by their friends that they should go.

Edited December 20, 2019 by FlitcherBooks

[Mekanos]

Thursday could be inflated by the finale rush factor, much like Deathly Hallows 2's midnight previews. Just spitballing. It's Deadline, so you never know. 

 

180 is safe imo. What happens next is anybody's guess.

[DAJK]

Some guy at the very beginning, when it was silent "a long time ago..." stuff shouted

 

WAIT... THIS ISN'T CATS????

 

That got a prey big laugh from everyone. 

[Fancyarcher]

8 minutes ago, grey ghost said:

5 bucks says Tele dropped acid and watched Cats instead of seeing Star Wars.

Oh he definitely did, and he even brought Tele Jr. to subject him to the horror. 

[JB33]

6 minutes ago, FTF said:

 

Even they couldn't fuck up that much right?!?  I just want it to start with a 4 now.  Give me just $40m at the nose and I'll be ok with that.  But if it is $45m like they have, that's just awesome.

Well you'd think not, but I trust our resident trackers a lot and a few of them suggested the number could go pretty freaking low so I'm not counting it out.

 

That being said, if WOM is indeed positive and the preview number is bigger than we all expected, there's yet another positive outcome here: the internal multi could be better than we all think as well. @keysersoze123 already mentioned that the Sunday hold could be really good, but we may also see a bigger Saturday increase (from true Friday) than any of us expect. Right now I'm expecting the standard 9 or 10% that both TFA and TLJ had.

[Porthos]

4 minutes ago, DAJK said:

Some guy at the very beginning, when it was silent "a long time ago..." stuff shouted

 

WAIT... THIS ISN'T CATS????

 

That got a prey big laugh from everyone. 

I didn't know @Plain Old Tele was vacationing up in Canada.  He should have let you know so you could say "Hi."

[Akiraptor]

People who were hoping for sub-R1 numbers before the Deadline estimates came out, and then after:

 

[ZackM]

28 minutes ago, Menor said:

If Deadline's number is correct then it must have gotten some kind of ridiculous numbers at small chains. MTC numbers were pointing to high 30s.

I can definitely say that the smaller chains in Michigan sold significantly better than the big chain that I was tracking.

[jb007]

Have been a fan since 1977.  Have watched every single Star Wars movie in its original release at the theaters.  Loved the movie. Cannot wait to watch it again tomorrow. 

[JB33]

1 minute ago, Akiraptor said:

People who were hoping for sub-R1 numbers before the Deadline estimates came out, and then after:

 

HAHA! Perfect. I mean, that's me too, except I wasn't laughing before going WTF (at Deadline's last report).

[Fancyarcher]

12 minutes ago, DAJK said:

Some guy at the very beginning, when it was silent "a long time ago..." stuff shouted

 

WAIT... THIS ISN'T CATS????

 

That got a prey big laugh from everyone. 

Pretty sure if I saw that same kind of thing happen in my theater, my reaction probably would have gone something like this...

 

[JB33]

3 minutes ago, Akiraptor said:

People who were hoping for sub-R1 numbers before the Deadline estimates came out, and then after:

 

Laughing = @shayhiri when he made his EG under IW club.

 

WTF = shayhiri after OW.

[ZackM]

6 minutes ago, ZackM said:

I can definitely say that the smaller chains in Michigan sold significantly better than the big chain that I was tracking.

For reference:

 

Major Chain
12/19/2019	Showings	Seats Left	Total Seats	Seats Sold	Pct. Sold
Total	208	23,683	35,207	11,524	32.73%
Small Chains
12/19/2019	Showings	Seats Left	Total Seats	Seats Sold	Pct. Sold
Total	123	6,053	19,906	13,853	69.59%

[HouseOfTheSun]

Well the movie is messy but in the way Revenge if the Sith was messy. I liked it. Certainly far more than Last Jedi where I walked out thinking “what the hell was that”

[Plain Old Tele]

20 minutes ago, Porthos said:

I didn't know @Plain Old Tele was vacationing up in Canada.  He should have let you know so you could say "Hi."

People keep tagging me in this thread and I find it disturbing and just a bit nerve-wracking.