The Nun

In the note This should be a traditional box office weekend for the weekend after Labor Day, decent box office driven by a well marketed Horror film. Following the same pattern we’ve seen lately, we’ll crush last year's total ( Barbarian and a decent $4.5 million Bollywood film) and maybe get close to doubling it, and similarly we’ll be well behind 2019 where It Chapter 2 grosses a terrific $91.1 million. The rest of the month should look pretty similar to last year, a bunch of singles and the overall totals each weekend should line up pretty good to last year. However, thanks to Ms Swift and her cult massive fanship, we’ll have a terrific October. Not much to say today, and it's been another rough week losing another titan of the industry in Jake Bloom. But speaking of titans, I do find it interesting that when you throw in the Disney/Spectrum scuffle with all the rest of the disruptions going on, it’s clear that we needed this crossroads to address everything that’s been changing in the industry. What’s interesting is that you’ve got Disney going both ways. On the Guild side, the Guilds are saying ‘we don’t like the way the past contracts work for us going forward because of current technology’ and Disney is saying ‘nah, we good’. On the Cable side, it’s the opposite; Spectrum wants to protect what the old contracts gave them that keep profitable bundles together, and Disney is looking for bandwidth to make some money outside of the bundles. So when you see a company as vast and entrenched as Disney is in all phases of the business, but needs to be on different sides of the evolve/stay put issues, you know it’s going to take a while to untangle it. Anyway, based on something I learned from reading the script for Weekend at Bernie’s 2024: Nancy Pelosi’s Campaign Victory Party, here are some thoughts on the weekend box-office. The Nun II - WB has released some pretty successful scary movies on this weekend, from the ground breaking It to the most terrifying of them all, Contagion.

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