usher report:
ANAC2 - Surprisingly strong in the first three showings, at 70%, 70%, and 80%, respectively. Considering school is back in session, this is very good.
HERO - First show was pretty empty, but the second rocketed to about 85%. The next show isn't until 3:45, so it's too early to tell how that one is shaping up.
SZERO - Hello, is anyone coming to see this? First show had 20 people, the second had two or three more.
BABY2 - Decent business for a POS sequel that nobody asked for. First show 35%, second show 50%. Last show is 6PM, which is probably wise considering its target audience likely won't be out late to see this.
NPDYN - Same business as the last few weeks. Nothing unusual, and I would expect a similar PSA.
The curtain comes down on "The Usher Report" at 8PM EST. I will have a good feel for estimates then. Preliminarily, I won't be surprised to see ANAC2 hit $20M this weekend, while BABY2 gives SZERO a run for its money...or empty seats.
- RT
ANAC2 - Surprisingly strong in the first three showings, at 70%, 70%, and 80%, respectively. Considering school is back in session, this is very good.
HERO - First show was pretty empty, but the second rocketed to about 85%. The next show isn't until 3:45, so it's too early to tell how that one is shaping up.
SZERO - Hello, is anyone coming to see this? First show had 20 people, the second had two or three more.
BABY2 - Decent business for a POS sequel that nobody asked for. First show 35%, second show 50%. Last show is 6PM, which is probably wise considering its target audience likely won't be out late to see this.
NPDYN - Same business as the last few weeks. Nothing unusual, and I would expect a similar PSA.
The curtain comes down on "The Usher Report" at 8PM EST. I will have a good feel for estimates then. Preliminarily, I won't be surprised to see ANAC2 hit $20M this weekend, while BABY2 gives SZERO a run for its money...or empty seats.
- RT
HERO theater report...
-- g2, Aug 27, 17:43
Snacks: hab a burrito before the film. Onely once person at the snack stand on a friday...got a coke...
trailers: like I said before only one person working the snack stand so I miss the trailers.
Theater: largest theater in San Diego, 70% full. Not bad for a 12:30 showing.
Movie. Amazing. I liked it better that crouching toes hidden toe jam or what ever it was. Will make some money this weekend...$10,000 PSA not out of the question becasue every theater showing it has it on more than one screen around here.
Good story, lots of reading, lots of eye candy.
Go see it.
I will see it again so I can catch all the diologe and understand what the damn movie was about!
-- g2, Aug 27, 17:43
Snacks: hab a burrito before the film. Onely once person at the snack stand on a friday...got a coke...
trailers: like I said before only one person working the snack stand so I miss the trailers.
Theater: largest theater in San Diego, 70% full. Not bad for a 12:30 showing.
Movie. Amazing. I liked it better that crouching toes hidden toe jam or what ever it was. Will make some money this weekend...$10,000 PSA not out of the question becasue every theater showing it has it on more than one screen around here.
Good story, lots of reading, lots of eye candy.
Go see it.
I will see it again so I can catch all the diologe and understand what the damn movie was about!
heh I don't know... check this one out, its the "8 oclock usher report"
"ANAC2 - Has remained strong but is no longer a runaway. Though it has been at 70%+all day, Hero has matched those numbers for the 3:45 and 6PM shows. Business for ANAC2 is expected to be strong all day, though a sellout for one of the remaining two shows was considered “questionable” at best. My impression that this J-Loless sequel will take the top spot this weekend.
HERO - The 3:45 show was at 75% capacity, and the 6PM show was slightly higher, perhaps 80-85%. One couple even mentioned to my friend how intriguing the movie was and said they highly recommend it. This is clearly the best film this weekend, but with fewer shows than ANAC2 (here and elsewhere), I see it finishing second to the mainstream snake flick.
SZERO - I think “zero” accurately describes the interest in this. But there is good news. Remember how I said there were 20 people in the early shows? Well, it’s nearly doubled since then! About 40 daring souls have been in the last two two shows, with one remaining at 9:15.
BABY2 – Have you lost faith in humanity? You might after learning that people are showing up for BABY2 – even older people…albeit, with grandkids. The crowds have hovered around 50%, except for one void that was only 20%. But that even that one void is better than SZERO’s best show, and I can see the toddler waste of celluoid not finising last like many predicted.
NYPDN – Nearly idential business as the past few weeks. I expect a very similar PSA.
Final Usher Report Predictions:
1. ANAC2 - $23M
2. HERO - $13M
3. BABY2 - $4.8M
4. SZERO - $3.8M
5. NPDYN - $2.2M
Thanks for supporting “The Usher Report”. It’s been a pleasure bringing you these updates.
“Thunder’s Forecast” To Debut Next Friday. A FAQ will follow in a minute (I could not fit it on here).
"
I think this guys gotta be overestimating Anacondas, but I guess I only think that because it's been doing shitty on moviefone. So maybe 16 million for Anacondas, 14 million for Hero, the other 2, who cares. All I know is that that WSEX bet appears to be a lock, while my intertops bets are hosed.
"ANAC2 - Has remained strong but is no longer a runaway. Though it has been at 70%+all day, Hero has matched those numbers for the 3:45 and 6PM shows. Business for ANAC2 is expected to be strong all day, though a sellout for one of the remaining two shows was considered “questionable” at best. My impression that this J-Loless sequel will take the top spot this weekend.
HERO - The 3:45 show was at 75% capacity, and the 6PM show was slightly higher, perhaps 80-85%. One couple even mentioned to my friend how intriguing the movie was and said they highly recommend it. This is clearly the best film this weekend, but with fewer shows than ANAC2 (here and elsewhere), I see it finishing second to the mainstream snake flick.
SZERO - I think “zero” accurately describes the interest in this. But there is good news. Remember how I said there were 20 people in the early shows? Well, it’s nearly doubled since then! About 40 daring souls have been in the last two two shows, with one remaining at 9:15.
BABY2 – Have you lost faith in humanity? You might after learning that people are showing up for BABY2 – even older people…albeit, with grandkids. The crowds have hovered around 50%, except for one void that was only 20%. But that even that one void is better than SZERO’s best show, and I can see the toddler waste of celluoid not finising last like many predicted.
NYPDN – Nearly idential business as the past few weeks. I expect a very similar PSA.
Final Usher Report Predictions:
1. ANAC2 - $23M
2. HERO - $13M
3. BABY2 - $4.8M
4. SZERO - $3.8M
5. NPDYN - $2.2M
Thanks for supporting “The Usher Report”. It’s been a pleasure bringing you these updates.
“Thunder’s Forecast” To Debut Next Friday. A FAQ will follow in a minute (I could not fit it on here).
"
I think this guys gotta be overestimating Anacondas, but I guess I only think that because it's been doing shitty on moviefone. So maybe 16 million for Anacondas, 14 million for Hero, the other 2, who cares. All I know is that that WSEX bet appears to be a lock, while my intertops bets are hosed.
Anacondas at 10:!5. Kinda wish I saw Hero, but anyways... I saw it in a little (for the theatre) theatre, it was around 50% full. The people in front of me were all buying tickets for Hero and Exorcist. No new previews. The movie was stupid, but still entertaining. They actually tried to build the characters instead of having nameless people being eaten by snakes (the difference between this and Direct To Video movies). It's gonna fall fast though, bad ending.
Mercado 20, Silicon Valley, 4:35pm
120 people in a 450 seat auditorium
Snacks: vegemite sandwich
I missed most of the previews, but who cares? Previews are like foreplay, as long as you get the main feature, you get your money’s worth.
In Anaconda 2: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, the scariest thing about the title is that they are implying that it will become a series. I guess once you have the program written for a CGI snake, it becomes cheaper and cheaper to run them. Anyways, in this installment, you have a bunch of Sheilas from a pharmaceutical company looking for the titular flower. This is where the plot gets silly. There’s this flower, that can do this medical mumbo jumbo and keep people alive forever. The only problem is that it only blooms once every seven years, and only for two weeks. So they have to rush to find it. Of course, only one has ever been seen (and somebody psychically named it something latinus eternalis), so how do they know all this about its blooming cycle.
This whole flower thing is just an excuse to send a bunch of multicultural hotties down a river with a tight schedule so that they do stupid things and keep justifying it because of how rich they’ll be. They then spend the next half hour justifying why they won’t have sex with each other. This is where all the really bad lines start up, and boy are there a lot of them: “She may be ugly, but she puts out.” “We’re young, and in Borneo, why not?” etc. Unfortunately, the only nipples we see are male, but there are plenty of wet shirts. The cast is a bunch of mostly unknowns, like Johnny Messner, who plays the river guide and learned his craft at the Botox school of acting, where any facial expression is wasted energy. There’s Morris Chestnut, who spent most of the movie yelling at his agent on a cell phone about how Gabrielle Union was supposed to be in this picture. And finally there’s Nicholas Gonzalez, who seems to always play a doctor or med student, even though he obviously can’t even do a simple butterfly stitch.
Thankfully, the movie never gets boring, and before you can say “Crikes! A croc ate my Sheila,” things get more interesting. The cast gets killed off in no apparent sequence, but in a movie like this, screen time is directly proportional to the number of times the actors went down on the director. There may have been some editing issues, because at one point a character says "Two people are dead!" even though there have been way more than two deaths. I can't tell if that's a continuity thing or they were trying to tell us that blondes can't count.
Even though the movie is full of lines like “In the jungle, it’s eat or be eaten” there is no sex of the mammalian kind at all. I think the producers should have chucked the whole snake thing and done a porn movie: Two and a half weeks in Hawaii: The Hunt for the Female Orchid.
120 people in a 450 seat auditorium
Snacks: vegemite sandwich
I missed most of the previews, but who cares? Previews are like foreplay, as long as you get the main feature, you get your money’s worth.
In Anaconda 2: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, the scariest thing about the title is that they are implying that it will become a series. I guess once you have the program written for a CGI snake, it becomes cheaper and cheaper to run them. Anyways, in this installment, you have a bunch of Sheilas from a pharmaceutical company looking for the titular flower. This is where the plot gets silly. There’s this flower, that can do this medical mumbo jumbo and keep people alive forever. The only problem is that it only blooms once every seven years, and only for two weeks. So they have to rush to find it. Of course, only one has ever been seen (and somebody psychically named it something latinus eternalis), so how do they know all this about its blooming cycle.
This whole flower thing is just an excuse to send a bunch of multicultural hotties down a river with a tight schedule so that they do stupid things and keep justifying it because of how rich they’ll be. They then spend the next half hour justifying why they won’t have sex with each other. This is where all the really bad lines start up, and boy are there a lot of them: “She may be ugly, but she puts out.” “We’re young, and in Borneo, why not?” etc. Unfortunately, the only nipples we see are male, but there are plenty of wet shirts. The cast is a bunch of mostly unknowns, like Johnny Messner, who plays the river guide and learned his craft at the Botox school of acting, where any facial expression is wasted energy. There’s Morris Chestnut, who spent most of the movie yelling at his agent on a cell phone about how Gabrielle Union was supposed to be in this picture. And finally there’s Nicholas Gonzalez, who seems to always play a doctor or med student, even though he obviously can’t even do a simple butterfly stitch.
Thankfully, the movie never gets boring, and before you can say “Crikes! A croc ate my Sheila,” things get more interesting. The cast gets killed off in no apparent sequence, but in a movie like this, screen time is directly proportional to the number of times the actors went down on the director. There may have been some editing issues, because at one point a character says "Two people are dead!" even though there have been way more than two deaths. I can't tell if that's a continuity thing or they were trying to tell us that blondes can't count.
Even though the movie is full of lines like “In the jungle, it’s eat or be eaten” there is no sex of the mammalian kind at all. I think the producers should have chucked the whole snake thing and done a porn movie: Two and a half weeks in Hawaii: The Hunt for the Female Orchid.
