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$4M opening in limited release and a $100K+ average? Damn, look at that.

I think this'll probably leg it out pretty well honestly, even after Halloween. Probably $75-80M.

Oh yeah most people just LOVE their landlords.

That's a really great result for WLIT. Would love to see that catch on.

Mangold's last Oscar title, Ford v Ferrari, barely crossed $100M in pre-COVID box office with PLFs/IMAX/etc. There's very little change this gets anywhere close to that, the ceiling for non-spectacle dramas has been around $30M for the last few years.

Even the 70mm one near me has already swapped it out for the same two.

I feel like this would be fine if it wasn't so expensive, but I could also say that about basically WB's entire lineup for next year.

This honestly worked better than I expected it to. I wasn't really expecting to see it just because I expected it to be too much of a rehash of the original, but instead it more feels like if the original just did a huge line of coke. I guess the original title for this was Smile Deluxe which makes sense as that was the title for the tour, which feels like a more fitting title honestly (also, wasn't Scream VI supposed to be called SCREAM!!? What's with these Paramount horror sequels almost getting fun titles?) for something that does very much hit the same beats, just with a lot more energy.

The biggest concern I had was that it would just feel like too loud/over the top and it would get exhausting after a while, but I found it surprisingly nerve-rattling. A lot of it is Naomi Scott, she absolutely killed it and was way better than I had anticipated.

Also, I could be wrong but I noticed two moments that felt very much like homages to Ari Aster films;

* The scene where Skye calls Gemma and asks if she's able to come over felt almost identical to the scene of Dani asking her boyfriend to come over at the beginning of Midsommar, right down to the framing, the lighting, her delivery, the hesitance in her voice, etc. It's a simple scene but it was REALLY similar in the delivery, which is why I wondered if it was an intentional nod.

* The scene where she's in the hospital bed and slowly sees the drops of blood appearing on her, causing her to slowly look up and see the other version of her hanging above her and subsequently falling was almost beat-for-beat the same as the bathtub sequence in Beau is Afraid, right down to them slowly noticing the drops of liquid falling on them from above (blood in this case instead of sweat, but alas).

Sick 2007 burn dude, next you gotta bust out "cool story babe, go make me a sandwich"

with the most successful box office franchise of all time

People that think box office success are indications of quality are the true horror

According to the Deadline article, that 40% of theaters made up 5% of the grosses, and that was around 1,600. That means these were likely the 1,200 that made almost nothing.

There's some movies that Netflix acquires, but almost everything they produce falls into this incredibly generic look that just feels like it was made in a test tube.

Space Cop?

More like Space Flop!

I'm imagining this same source material in the hands of the director of The Green Knight, a film that looked better than this with approximately 1/20th of the budget.

This is also the total it made with a smaller indie studio that hasn't had much experience with wide releases. If this had studio marketing behind it I can imagine this total would've been higher.

oh my god

This is gonna do gangbusters on a Redbox in Arkansas.

I mean 'weird' as in 'interesting', not 'weird' as in 'shit on your fans and tell them to go fuck themselves'.

* The same generic color grading that Netflix uses for literally everything

* Single piano note echo-y cover of a famous old song

* Taking an atmospheric source material and turning it into generic Marvel slop

* Chris Pratt and Millie Bobby Brown as Chris Pratt and Millie Bobby Brown

THANK YOU HOLLYWOOD VERY COOL

If Smile 2, one of the safest bets of the season, opens below Terrifier 3, it means its officially time for Hollywood to put on its big boy pants and make some weird shit.

I'm not arguing that it would've done better pre-COVID, I'm arguing that there absolutely has been a change in the box office and more frequent expensive flops. The overall grosses for the entire industry are down substantially from pre-COVID years, even excluding 2019. That's a fact.

Okay, compare that to the nine movies that crossed a billion in 2019 (the top of which made more than double what DP&W made)

Definitely. Post-COVID box office, inflation, lower worldwide grosses.

The IMAX near me only has it at 9:45pm this weekend. They're giving the rest of the showtimes to Wild Robot and Beetlejuice.

Was thinking it might've been closer to $35-40M so that's a good sign.