Remember Luke...
Today is May the 4th which is often considered Star Wars day now since it now sounds like May the Force be with you. But then there is debate on if the 5th or 6th is Sith day, the anti-Jedi since both do sound close to the word Sith. I think the 6th is closer as both start with an S and it gives a day gap between the two dates. Also this should be an international observed holiday, I mean the movie franchise is world wide and has sparked so many new things like spin-offs and conventions all to itself. What once was part of something like San Diego Comic Con and other conventions is now on it's own PLUS that with Celebration that is generally heled in a rotation between Anaheim, Germany and Japan. This is definitely one of the few things that has spanned the globe and almost recognizable in some form or fashion that I think it deserves it's own day which should be today of all days.
Weekly Update:
This past Saturday I went to the Walt Disney Studio lot for an event called Mickey's Morning Mayhem. This was the 3rd annual of this event and it is fashioned after Disneyland's Minnie's Moonlit Madness. This year the weather was overall better (not 90+ degrees) and they had water throughout the entire event! I did get to test several of the clues beforehand and I have to say they were all pretty easy. The average clue time should take around 8 to 10 minutes each and I was able to finish them under 5 mins with the group I had during testing. With the clues being kind of easy, there ended up being a LOT of ties for each grouping. From their easy to hard, every one of them had a tie from 5 teams to as high as 11 teams! That was pretty crazy but with that happening last year (but not as many), they were prepared with tie-breakers and those worked out nicely. But overall a great event with a really good breakfast featuring breakfast burritos and steel cut oats. I was very full by the time it was the start of the event through the entire rest of the day! But also, I miss the studio lot and it was great to be back again, sort of felt like coming home.
At the movies:
New at #1 with a hefty 77 million is The Devil Wears Prada 2. Being a 20-year gap since the first film, this is a good number but the real test will be how it holds up in week #2. Slight drop to #2 is Michael with an extra 54 mil as it now narrows in at the 200 mil mark and should hit that by mid-week. Also slightly dropping to #3 is The Super Mario Galaxy Movie with 12.1 mil more in it's 5th week and just passing 400 mil which is a fantastic number. Holding on to #4 after 7 weeks is Project Hail Mary with 8.6 mil as it slowly starts to wind down from it's run just passing the 300 mil mark. New at #5 is Hokum with 6.4 mil and this was barely in and will likely drop out next week.
New movies that did not make the top 5:
A few this week starting at #6 is Animal Farm with 3.4 mil on a very wide-release pattern only averaging $1300 per screen which is very poor. New at #8 is Deep Water with 2.2 mil on about 1600 runs and with an even less per screen average. And at #9, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea with only $100k but on less than 1,000 screens making about $1100 per screen. The movie title will be longer than it's theatrical run!
Quote of the week:
"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke
Facts & Tips:
A bee has five eyelids.
"Livin' in the ghetto, black is everywhere you go. Would have thought I'd love a girl whose skin was white as winter snow?" - Elijah Kelley as Seaweed in
Hairspray (2007)
I'm a fan!
Weekly Update:
The last two Saturday's I went up to Burbank to do some game testing for an upcoming event in May. It was easy getting up there at around 830 to 9AM but coming home around 1PM was insane. What took me about 40 minutes to get up there, took me closer to 2 hours to get home when I left around 1PM. Why was there so much traffic on a SATURDAY!!? Rhetorical question but why oh why was there so much and it wasn't even a work day! School's are out, no churches (Saturday remember), no big events that I am aware especially at that hour, and gas prices are so high across the country... that it feels like more people are out driving! I need there to be none to light traffic on a weekend, please!
At the movies:
Hanging on to the #1 spot for a third week in a row is The Super Mario Galaxy Movie with an extra 35 million and still on a solid track to hit 400 in time. Also holding at #2 is Project Hail Mary with 20.5 mil and just shy of 300 mil cume, should get that by end of this coming week. New at #3 is Lee Cronin's The Mummy with 13.5 mil and I think the general audience is waiting for a different kind of mummy movie. Drop down to #4 is The Drama with 4.8 mil as it continues to wind down. Rounding off the top 5 is You, Me & Tuscany with 3.8 mil more and possibly will fall out next week from the top 5.
New movies that did not make the top 5:
Several this week as we start with #7, Normal with 2.7 mil in a wide release and only $1300 per screen, won't be able to hold onto those screens. At #8 is Busboys with 1.6 mil but just under 1,000 runs, still a low number. And finally at #9 is Bhooth Bangla with 977k, also under 1,000 runs and didn't fair so well.
Quote of the week:
"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino
Facts & Tips:
Cats have over 100 vocal cords."I know there's a "D" in there, but it keeps moving every time I try and write it down." - Kaley Cuoco as Penny in the TV series
The Big Bang Theory.
