Monday, August 12, 2024

Hot and sticky

Hot Hot and Hot!  It continued to be another hot week here in Sunny Southern California with a bit of humidity again!  I am fine with the straight heat but this humidity is just not something we are used to out here.  It doesn't make sense!  How can you be hot and hot in the shade??  It doesn't make any sense but the nights do continue to drop down in temps, as low as 60 degrees so that is nice to look forward to.  Unlike other states like Florida, I have been outside in the pouring rain at 10:30 PM and it was at least 90 degrees because of the humidity factor.  Weather just didn't make sense, when no sun, supposed to be cooler!!  Not just as hot as it was during the day!  Make it make sense to me!!

Weekly Update:
This past weekend Disney had this semi-Annual D23 convention at the Anaheim Convention Center.  They had an expo part of it but the big part of the event is the convention stage announcements which were pretty much divided into a few sections with the big ones being Movies & TV announcements, Park announcements and Miscellaneous more or less.  I have to say the movie presentations were pretty... lack-luster.  Some disappointments were yet another Toy Story movie, a "live" action Lilo & Stitch and another Lion King based film.  Moana 2 already looks a bit weak so we'll see what happens but the computer generated Stitch was really disappointing.  It would have been way better if they did another traditional animation film instead.  One cool thing was hearing of The Greatest Showman Musical going to the stage, that one makes all the sense and long overdue but I'm sure there was a lot of things to overcome going from 20th Century Fox to Disney.  One thing for sure, I stayed away from that area all week long, it must have been a traffic nightmare.

At the movies:
Still holding on to the #1 spot for a 3rd week in-a-row is Deadpool & Wolverine with 54.2 million extra and now inches away from 500 mil cume.  Likely will get that sometime tomorrow and start it's way to 600!  New at #2 is It Ends with Us earning a very big 50 mil in its debut.  I would say the ad campaign has been pretty amazing on it but 2nd week will be a big tell.  Hanging on to #3 is Twisters with 15 mil as it breaks the 200 mil cume mark but this storm may be calming down.  New at #4 is Borderlands with 8.8 mil and not a great number for the Summer however, it's going up against some major competition.  Drop down to #5 is Despicable Me 4 with an extra 8 mil as it slowly winds down.

New movies that did not make the top 5:
Just one this week, in at #9 is Cuckoo with only 3 mil, gives it only a per screen average of 2K and this will be gone and out soon.

Quote of the week:
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James

Facts & Tip:
Octopuses think with their tentacles.

"That is an Earth fish. Very traditional in China. You arrest me, that's a hate crime." - Keone Young as Mr. Wu in Men in Black 3.

posted by McDuck @ 00:00

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