Listen now | CinemaScore's Kenny Miles joins us to discuss why opening night audience polling is still more trustworthy than IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes user scores.
Well thankfully the trade war that never was won’t impact the box office. The ferocity of Canada’s fighting spirit made Trump wilt like cilantro in a hothouse. You’re welcome for us demonstrating the formula to beat him: solitary and tenacity.
Lisa pitching a Jeff Smith's Bone adaptation for the next big animated feature franchise--your lips to God's ears, Lisa! My 8-year-olds are in the bag for all those middle school graphic novels, they just got into Bone and are devouring it. They should adapt it and when it becomes the next How to Train Your Dragon franchise, go and adapt more works from Smith disciples like Kazu Kibuishi's Amulet and Raina Telgemeier's semi-autobiographical comics.
I was also surprised that Companion opened to $9.5m instead of somewhere around $11-14m, and I agree that a fraction of that missing horror audience that propelled many horror movies to higher opening weekends last year could've thought it was too comedic or predictable from the second trailer, and falsely gave the impression that they'd seen the majority of the plot spoiled from it, so there'd be no need to go see the full-length version. Hopefully movies like Drop and Sinners avoid this audience mentality of not checking out the full movie. Maybe a reason Companion over-indexed with men was just that demographic liking Jack Quaid more and, stereotypically speaking, wanting to see an attractive woman in a romantic comedy thriller with him. I also noticed that the "men under 25" approval score for this movie was significantly low, so did some men not recommend it because they disliked the story being against controlling and enslaving a robot woman?
Anyway, Dog Man is a good example of Dreamworks continuing to maintain a distinct identity with their movies with this and The Wild Robot, beyond just "funnier than Disney and Pixar." Illumination movies being pure comedies has ironically made Dreamworks usually look like a happy medium between them and Disney/Pixar now, and I believe we're getting to a point where even the parents of today's kids, who are in their 30s, are young enough to remember the difference between a Dreamworks movie and Disney animated movies, and kids always know that Dreamworks sequels are consistently at least as good as their predecessors, so that's good news for The Bad Guys 2 and its legs. Besides sequels to Dog Man and Captain Underpants, other smart investments for franchises that cater specifically to today's kids are the upcoming Five Nights at Freddy's sequel and the Minecraft movie, along with whatever other video games I've vaguely heard of that are popular with today's kids (Fortnite, Among Us, or Roblox?).
I also remember seeing The Last Jedi in theaters on the opening Friday night, and being pleasantly surprised by the immediate widespread applause the film got as soon as the credits started, considering the big risks it took in the climax. It's nice to know I wasn't the only one who experienced this.
Well thankfully the trade war that never was won’t impact the box office. The ferocity of Canada’s fighting spirit made Trump wilt like cilantro in a hothouse. You’re welcome for us demonstrating the formula to beat him: solitary and tenacity.
Blame/Hail Canada! I assume you have a basement my family can hide if/when the time comes! ;-)
Lisa pitching a Jeff Smith's Bone adaptation for the next big animated feature franchise--your lips to God's ears, Lisa! My 8-year-olds are in the bag for all those middle school graphic novels, they just got into Bone and are devouring it. They should adapt it and when it becomes the next How to Train Your Dragon franchise, go and adapt more works from Smith disciples like Kazu Kibuishi's Amulet and Raina Telgemeier's semi-autobiographical comics.
I was also surprised that Companion opened to $9.5m instead of somewhere around $11-14m, and I agree that a fraction of that missing horror audience that propelled many horror movies to higher opening weekends last year could've thought it was too comedic or predictable from the second trailer, and falsely gave the impression that they'd seen the majority of the plot spoiled from it, so there'd be no need to go see the full-length version. Hopefully movies like Drop and Sinners avoid this audience mentality of not checking out the full movie. Maybe a reason Companion over-indexed with men was just that demographic liking Jack Quaid more and, stereotypically speaking, wanting to see an attractive woman in a romantic comedy thriller with him. I also noticed that the "men under 25" approval score for this movie was significantly low, so did some men not recommend it because they disliked the story being against controlling and enslaving a robot woman?
Anyway, Dog Man is a good example of Dreamworks continuing to maintain a distinct identity with their movies with this and The Wild Robot, beyond just "funnier than Disney and Pixar." Illumination movies being pure comedies has ironically made Dreamworks usually look like a happy medium between them and Disney/Pixar now, and I believe we're getting to a point where even the parents of today's kids, who are in their 30s, are young enough to remember the difference between a Dreamworks movie and Disney animated movies, and kids always know that Dreamworks sequels are consistently at least as good as their predecessors, so that's good news for The Bad Guys 2 and its legs. Besides sequels to Dog Man and Captain Underpants, other smart investments for franchises that cater specifically to today's kids are the upcoming Five Nights at Freddy's sequel and the Minecraft movie, along with whatever other video games I've vaguely heard of that are popular with today's kids (Fortnite, Among Us, or Roblox?).
I also remember seeing The Last Jedi in theaters on the opening Friday night, and being pleasantly surprised by the immediate widespread applause the film got as soon as the credits started, considering the big risks it took in the climax. It's nice to know I wasn't the only one who experienced this.