Box Office Mojo provides up-to-date ticket sales for movies that are in theatrical release. Looking back 20 years, there is a trend that hasn’t been commented on elsewhere. Based on the trend, movie theaters will close and more movies will be sequels.
This survey on tipping is interesting because nobody knows what they are supposed to do. Tipping etiquette used to be an element of American culture, but “tipping culture” wasn’t a thing. With social media, someone says the rules have changed, it goes viral, and becomes part of tipping culture.
Everything you need to know is on this graph.
Proclamation on the Termination Of Emergency With Respect To The Southern Border Of The United States And Redirection Of Funds Diverted To Border Wall Construction.
WH.Gov: Biden upens the Southern border.
On the first day of President Biden’s term, he rolled back Trump’s border policies.
FoxNews: Biden wants to close the border.
“To protect America as a land that welcomes immigrants, we must first secure the border and secure it now,” he said. “Simple truth is there is a worldwide migrant crisis and if the United States doesn’t secure our border, there’s no limit to the number of people who might try to come here, because there’s no better place on the planet than the United State of America.”
Biden should hand the keys to Trump right now and apologize to America.
Americans who knew the border invasion was a threat and bad for American citizens will not be fooled, and will remain Trump voters.
Americans who consider the border invasion to be beneficial and good for the Democratic Party, will be angry that Biden threw them under the bus and disgruntled Biden voters.
Biden did the same thing with the Israel/Palestine issue. He pissed off everyone.
CNBC: Nestle launches Vital Pursuit
People take these to work, and eat with their friends. “Healthy Choice” and “Lean Cuisine” invite criticism if you courteously accept a cupcake that someone brought in for Dessert Thursday. “Hungry Man” announces that even you don’t believe you are big-boned. “Marie Callender’s” declares that you really are better than them.
More food brands should be named like a military operation.
Taco Bell could move into frozen meals under the “Rolling Thunder” or “Urgent Fury” brand
Have a “Vital Pursuit” for lunch with a couple of Red Bulls, and you are Tommy Lee Jones, going after The Fugitive. Your afternoon plan may be to teach Algebra 1 to a bunch of mopes who sniffed out all the dry erase markers, but you’re ready for that too.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a movie made for streaming, but it opened in theaters 6 weeks ago and only pulled $21 million domestically. It has a good cast, used poorly.
At this point, it would be easier to list the Covid statements that were true and backed by scientific evidence.
Sixteen thousand people erupted into rapture when Donald J. Trump walked into the Prudential Center in Newark at 10 p.m. Saturday to attend an Ultimate Fighting Championship match.
UFC doesn’t appeal to me, and this article about Trump’s attendance isn’t illuminating, but it did get me thinking about other presidents.
Where would Joe Biden go to revel in the embrace of his most avid fan base?
When was the last time a Godzilla movie was a good movie? Not good for a monster movie, but a good movie? Godzilla Minus One is a good movie and is available on Netflix. It won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, has a 7.9 on IMDB and 98%/98% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Godzilla Minus One cost $15 million to make and pulled $56 million at the domestic box office. For comparison, Godzilla x Kong has an IMDB rating of 6.2, cost $150 million to make and pulled $196 million in domestic ticket sales. Godzilla x Kong turned a profit, but is a forgettable movie.
NYT: Will the Force be with The Acolyte
NYT: Will the Force be with The Acolyte
In two days, a Star Wars spin-off TV show, The Acolyte, will premier on Disney+. The eight episode season will cost $180 million. It’s hard to believe anyone thinks this show will be successful.
This is how Leslye Headland, the show creator, pitched her idea for the show to Kathleen Kennedy, the president of Lucas Films.
Headland described her concept in the meeting as “‘Frozen’ meets ‘Kill Bill.’” Kennedy bought it on the spot.
That’s why the Star Wars IP is trashed. Kennedy couldn’t resist a sister drama crossed with a woman’s revenge fantasy.
Stenberg, the show’s star, said “Leslye really is driven by emotion and heart and relationships. So even though our show is within the ‘Star Wars’ universe and set in outer space, in a galaxy far, far away, it’s really a family drama.”
Star Wars fans don’t want that, and everyone else knows that Star Wars is a deteriorating IP, so aren’t going to get on board now.
There was a way that the Star Wars universe could have thrived if the people in charge were competent and didn’t despise the original fan base. Instead, they tried a bait-and-switch.
Make the three pre-quels and sequels for the original fans. Tell those masculine stories by staying true to the original trilogy. Knock out a few TV shows in the same manner, like Mandalorian .
With a well-developed universe, be honest about a TV series that is going to be less action-oriented. Say you are making a family drama, love story or children’s adventure in that universe. The original movie, Star Wars: A New Hope was described as a Western in space. There are plenty of family-oriented Westerns like The Big Valley or Bonanza. Make sure that original fans know that you don’t hate them and aren’t going to destroy legacy characters. Emphasize quality, not diversity.
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