Jonathan
@jonathanmb32.bsky.social
Mostly dumb movie stuff, some dumb TV stuff too https://boxd.it/28hJ
The biggest Tuesday gross of all time. The Spider-Man franchise now has four of the six biggest Tuesdays of all time (two of them thanks to opening that day) www.the-numbers.com/box-office-r...
BoxOfficeReport.com@boxofficereport.bsky.social · 12h agoSony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day grossed an estimated $42.0M on Tuesday (from 4,487 locations). Estimated total domestic gross stands at $449.16M. #SpiderManBrandNewDay #BoxOffice
People were extremely annoying about this post but it also got discussed at the top of Blank Check’s Toy Story 5 episode so I guess it was all worth it
Jonathan@jonathanmb32.bsky.social · 2mo agoPixar Screenwriters: In our movie we invented the Lilypad as a cautionary tale Disney Company: At long last, we have created the Lilypad from upcoming Pixar movie Don’t Play with the Lilypad
Only nine other movies have ever opened above $200M, and only one of them had another movie that same weekend make over $20M (Twisters making $34.99M against Deadpool and Wolverine). Odyssey making $51M against the second movie to ever open to $300M+…bananas.
BoxOfficeReport.com@boxofficereport.bsky.social · 3d agoEstimated Weekend #BoxOffice Top 7 for July 31 - August 2, 2026 1. #SpiderManBrandNewDay - $355.00M 2. #TheOdyssey - $51.00M 3. #ToyStory5 - $6.30M 4. #MinionsAndMonsters - $5.80M 5. #Moana - $5.30M 6. #HadestownTheMusical - $2.00M 7. #TheInvite - $1.24M
Checking back in on the YouTube comments on that Odyssey Countdown Trailer
Little annoyed that it includes Wednesday shows and that screenings started at 12pm on Thursday because that’s basically a full day at most theaters but still holy fucking shit
BoxOfficeReport.com@boxofficereport.bsky.social · 5d agoSony's Spider-Man: Brand New Day grossed an estimated $72.0M from preview shows (including Wednesday's early access screenings & Thursday preview shows). That represents a new all-time record for a preview gross. #SpiderManBrandNewDay #BoxOffice
RIP…Between this and Glen Hansard it’s a brutal morning for movie soundtracks I mainlined as a young adult :(
Liam Wong@liamwong.com · last wk.RIP Kavinsky… thank you for the inspiration 💔
Movie theater recliners <<<<<<< old-fashioned movie theater seats in the row with the railing to prop your feet up on
This A-list billionaire literally has 2, maybe 3 friends. If all of them are busy, our playboy will literally just sit in his home and not do anything and waits for someone to call or text him. He doesn't read or watch television or doom scroll, he just sits there. Not Tony Stark
Part of the fun of the third act of The Odyssey is it’s Nolan going into Batman Mode again, telling the story of a man using a disguise to bring the most trustworthy people together in order to bring down the scum ruining his home.
Seven Bridges has been my local multiplex of choice for five years now, and it's so cool to see them get this moment in the spotlight. Excited to go back for Round 2 of IMAX 70mm there on Monday.
Woodridge draws thousands of film enthusiasts from across the country to see ‘The Odyssey’ in IMAX 70 mm
One of only 25 theaters nationwide showing “The Odyssey” in IMAX 70 mm, the southwestern suburb has become an unlikely destination for cinephiles determined to see the film as intended.
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If Universal were fudging these numbers why would they let this awkwardly fall $628,200 short of an even $200M opening week?
BoxOfficeReport.com@boxofficereport.bsky.social · 2w agoUniversal's The Odyssey grossed $17.63M on Thursday (from 3,919 locations). Total domestic gross stands at $199.37M. #TheOdyssey #BoxOffice
If, like me, you were wondering why The Numbers suddenly went from the best box office site on the web to a fraction of its former self this spring, turns out AI bots and gambling markets are to blame. Incredibly detailed/frightening piece from @stephenfollows.com: stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-...
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Around December 2025, we saw another big spike in traffic which I attribute to agentic AI: a combination of AI agents that scrape sites in response to prompts, and people being able to write agents that scrape sites.
Like every data-rich site, by early 2026 The Numbers was being hammered hard by AI bots scraping its pages over and over at an industrial scale. Bruce says that only 10% of their traffic is from humans browsing the site, with the rest coming from AI bots and automated traffic.
[Chart showing Who Visits The Numbers as of April 2026: 10% regualr human users, 10% AI agents doing live searches, 80% Other automated traffic]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hqdb2whomj2qkfb5fnnrxe2j/bafkreicfcht37k7mq4ffddcj2ddnkoammmzpwhzqvpu2qtgxpaiogeopee)
If, like me, you were wondering why The Numbers suddenly went from the best box office site on the web to a fraction of its former self this spring, turns out AI bots and gambling markets are to blame. Incredibly detailed/frightening piece from @stephenfollows.com: stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-...
Counting on historical accuracy from the guy who included a scene in his Jesus movie implying that Jesus invented the dinner table.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w agoThis would very easy for him to do. But we’ll see if he actually does it.
Seated for round 2 of The Odyssey where a toddler is literally running up and down the aisles.
I feel like that goose-yelling meme right now, because who “inadvertently trained” audiences by sending Pixar films straight to streaming? Who did that?
Ten brand new episodes of King of the Hill are available to stream on Hulu today and I feel like there has been basically zero buzz about it.
We’re also seeing “election denialism” in how they’re treating the audience scores available, claiming Rotten Tomatoes is “blocking negative reviews” while holding up the obviously-review-bombed Metacritic “showing a more accurate picture. “
Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2w agoConservatives on X are now claiming that The Odyssey, which had the most profitable live-action opening of the year so far with $264 million, is a box office flop. Just as I suspected, they are incapable of admitting they were wrong. This is the election denialism of pop culture.
It's me, I am the one of three people that loved Griffin signing off the Odyssey Blank Check episode with the "Jekyll Jekyll Hyde Jekyll Hyde Hyde Jekyll" song from Arthur
Curious how much that viewing number goes up in the lead-up to next week's Blank Check episode.
Universal's The Odyssey grossed an estimated $51.28M domestically on Friday (from 3,919 locations), including previews. #TheOdyssey #BoxOffice
The Odyssey's success really highlights how the Chud Culture Warriors' biggest miscalculation has been assuming any public exhaustion with ""woke"" meant people would be receptive to a right-wing alternative, and not that most people just finds culture war bickering from all sides extremely annoying
The Odyssey scores Nolan’s fifth A grade from CinemaScore, after his Batman trilogy and Oppenheimer. The rest of his CinemaScore history: A: Batman Begins, Dark Knight, Dark Knight Rises, Oppenheimer, Odyssey A-: Dunkirk B+: Inception, Interstellar B: Insomnia, Prestige, Tenet
