Good Low Budget and Independent Flicks
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
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Quote:Wed was first day for Dead Reckoning. supposed to have $15.5M
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:No... I'm glad you brought this up. Like I said, I always wondered why preview numbers were never counted in the total numbers before, and I also noticed that about 99 times out of 100 that Friday's numbers for a brand new movie are almost always higher than Saturday's numbers, which also didn't make sense to me since most folk work all day on Friday.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Alright. I said "Double counted" and maybe that was imprecise.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:Do you have proof of this? I don't see anything on The Numbers mentioning it, and if Bruce is adding $5M to Friday and double counting, that's the first I've ever seen him do so. Either that, or he always counts the preview numbers in the first Friday's numbers for every movie that comes out on a Friday and SoF just didn't have a benefit of having a "preview Monday" because they decided to release it on a Tuesday instead of a Friday. And if that's the case, it's not shady accounting... it's just how the accounting is always done, which in this unique case is a shame.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Red Door fudged the numbers. They take credit for $5M of preview sales (likely midnight Thursday) on Thursday, but then also include those same $5M again on Friday - double counting. Red Door made about $10M on both Friday and Saturday.
If that is how Bruce calculates Opening Friday, I'd like to know that with something showing that it is the case. It will be something I'd never considered and wasn't aware of before.
It definitely would explain why he never counts Thursday Preview money in with the total money earned. I always wondered why preview money wasn't counted in the Domestic Box Office totals.
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I meant that they counted the same money on Thursday that they also counted again on Friday, but they didn't add the Thursday onto the total twice. Hope that makes sense.
On Thursday, The Numbers wants to give it headlines for the dollars for the Midnight showings. The midnight showings are technically Friday showings, because the films are embargoed until the Friday dates. That is exactly the reason for having Midnight Showings for opening shows. When the show time is 12:01 AM, then the dollars are likely handed to the Box Office on Thursday, before midnight.
On Friday, The Numbers only shows $15M for Friday, with a grand total of $15M. Which means the $5M posted as Thursday was just rolled into Friday's figure, and actual Friday only had $10M - about the same as on Saturday.
I saw no rationalizations written on the site about it, but the NUMBERS don't lie, just The Numbers - haha.
Hope that explains. I was not trying to be obtuse or deceptive. I had thought you already knew this from the posted data. You seem to follow the site a while, I haven't much.
Just writing that reply to you last night I think I kind of worked out in my head what was going on. I just never did before because although I remember finding both of those things odd, I never really put any serious thought into them before.
I still would like to see it stated somewhere that this is what is going on for sure, but even without having that in writing somewhere I can't think of any other plausible way to explain it.
So yeah... Another good point you bring up there. But nothing really can be done about it since a Tuesday release doesn't get Monday night previews.
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Supposed to have midnight Tuesday take of $7M. Which would mean Wed was actually only $8.5M - for likely 4-5 show time slots, compared to only 1 slot for midnight Tuesday.
The totals
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Hollyweird learns no lessons, expensive multi million Dollar projects some cost hundreds of Millions and yet the movie Flops
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Documentaries
The next Hubble Telescope JWST itself cost billions
but Documentary are usually cheap-ish, public NASA images and following scientists around with a documentary cam-corder.
Netflix, NatGeo, PBS NOVA maybe BBC and others will have their own story
Tom Cruise 'sees huge potential in Steve Irwin's son and wants to recruit him to Scientology'
https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/tom-cruise-sees-huge-po
tential-30428705
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SOUND OF FREEDOM Continues to Defy Box Office Expectations
https://www.movieguide.org/news-articles/sound-of-freedom-continues-to
-defy-box-office-expectations.html
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Not sure if good but it looks low budget
Triggered (aka Topakk) Philippines
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Make the Case: 5 Classic Movies About AI (That Aren’t Terminator)
https://culturedvultures.com/classic-movies-about-ai-that-arent-termin
ator/
Final Destination 6 Will Expand The Horror Franchise's Universe, Teases Creator
https://screenrant.com/final-destination-6-horror-universe-expansion-c
reator-response/
Japan
https://blog.indiecinema.co/japanese-cinema/
Netflix Should Cut Its Own Deal with Writers and Actors, According to This Analyst
https://www.indiewire.com/news/business/analyst-netflix-deal-writers-a
ctors-strike-1234888359/
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Netflix should fire all of its writers and hire a few people to manage AI.
Fuck Netflix writers ruining everything they touch.
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Probably low budget....How to Kill Monsters...not sure if good
'The Continental' looks more, expensive, I think its a tv pilot and then series is scheduled to premiere on Peacock in the USA.
Mel Gibson is back, he was drinking for a while when he got married to Oksana Grigorieva in 2009 and controversial statements leaked to the public. In 2013, Grigorieva sued her attorneys, accusing them of advising her to sign a bad agreement, including one with Gibson that states that if she takes legal action against him, her previous settlement will be compromised. In 2014 a judge ruled that Oksana had violated a confidentiality clause due to a conversation she had on the Howard Stern Radio Show where Gibson was mentioned; she lost half of her $750,000 award
They probably have the season Green Lighted
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Some of the films in this thread are decent candidates:
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=2&tid=36099
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Portuguese language Pictures of Ghosts? Lost Cinemas in Brazil
Greek weird crazy Lovercraft horror 'Minore'
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