had to go check and see if that post was real and the banal herbal medslop ad below it really gives the genocidal nuclear holocaust threat an unexpected piquancy

Great domestic opening (third best for A24 after Civil War and Marty Supreme) but really impressive international start too, considering it wasn't even a complete worldwide rollout and has several markets left to open in www.imdb.com/title/tt3307...

I love how in Toy Story “Bedsheets? Who invited that kid?” actually pays off later

Hi I’m Woody! Howdy howdy howdy

Just saw a TV spot for Mortal Kombat II that said “SUMMER BEGINS WITH KOMBAT,” trying to steal Devil Wears Prada 2’s First Summer Movie valor smh

Shoutout to the dad in front of me chaperoning four teens to see a matinee of The Drama

Pretty fun jumping back into The Pitt in the middle of a 24 rewatch (season 4), such day and night approaches to the real time concept that really make me more deeply appreciate both the nuanced, slow-burn approach of the former and the brazen silliness of the latter.

Contemporary 40-Year-Old Virgin remake where his young co-workers are all trying to stop him from having sex

Instagram keeps showing me ads for random regional theatre productions on the east coast

lfgggggg

Doing a triple rise bread

Me watching Alpha: wow that French nurse looks a lot like Emma Mackey lol Me watching the end credits: oh

This week on Blank Check:

Post-COVID, studios kept forgetting that families would want to see new movies in theaters in between Christmas and Easter; this year they remembered, and we already have two original animated films above $100M.

Insane hold, the only $80M+ openers to have better drops are Wicked, Top Gun: Maverick, and Avatar: Fire and Ash - and two of those had holiday second weekends to buoy their drops.

Had an analog horror moment putting an unmarked cassette tape from my family's old collection in my player and just hearing creature sounds and screaming for like a full minute. Realized upon hearing Sam Neill yelling that it was just the T-rex attack scene from Jurassic Park.

Fascinated by how suddenly the "joke-a-minute spoof" sub-genre has returned between the new Naked Gun, new Scary Movie, Fackham Hall, and now this.

No one in America under the age of 31 has voted in a presidential election without Trump.

This week on Blank Check:

Joy Kwon:

When they do the third live-action Harry Potter adaptation in 20 years, Harry’s scar will be located just above his right ear.

Curious how A24 is feeling about TMZ going on an active "spoil the big twist" campaign against their big spring tentpole. Maybe a bit of a silver lining as it'll deter people from seeing it that would have been apoplectic at said twist and tanked word-of-mouth.

You would think a 7:45pm Monday showtime of Ready or Not 2 would be one of the last places you’d encounter a preschooler sitting right behind you. And yet,

Will never understand why so many people have opinions about whether or not a pop star can ""handle"" fame and think it is of any importance to them.

Honestly, one of the most impressive openings this decade. Almost all movies to open this high recently have been direct sequels or based on well-established properties from the 20th century; an adaptation of a 5-year-old stand-alone novel opening this high is a real throwback.

The protagonist of Project Hail Mary is a left-brained elder millennial teaching middle schoolers, him having a Reddit sense of humor is maybe the most realistic part of the movie.

lol. lmao.

Whenever I drove with my dad as a kid he would listen to music stations but always switched over to 780AM at the top of the hour to listen to CBS’s top news stories. Sad end-of-an-era shit from idiots that proudly don’t know what they are doing.

They cancelled the Bachelorette because of the one contestant who was only there for the ziplines

God I love it when an episode of TV stresses me out like that

I love all the throwback posters studios have been putting out for their movies recently.

(Vulcans every 7 years) in my slut era

Watched Southland Tales for the first time tonight and this shows up in the opening prologue.

This whole “release two seconds of the trailer at a time” gimmick feels like a throwback to the days of slowly downloading QuickTime trailers on the Apple Trailers website while on dialup, excitedly watching the next three seconds of the video that took five minutes to load.

Quiet vibe shift occurring in the Best Picture race: after a 16 year streak from No Country for Old Men to Everything Everywhere All at Once of the winner premiering at a film festival, two of the last three winners (Oppenheimer, One Battle) have skipped the festival circuit entirely.

Silly minute Oscar fact: One Battle After Another is the first Best Picture winner to be commercially released in September since American Beauty.

Under-discussed part Weapons' wild awards run is that almost wasn't even going to be eligible this year.

PTA shouting out the 1975 Best Picture lineup that's fucking RIGHT

Imagine telling someone a decade ago that half of the acting winners at the Oscars would come from horror films

With Marty Supreme getting goose-egged, Sinners missing Casting, and Secret Agent missing International Feature, very curious about where Lead Actor is headed...

Between this and the Winter Olympics, big winter for gold coming to Norway

Of the ten Picture nominees, only F1, Frankenstein, One Battle After Another, and Sinners have won any Oscars so far, with only a handful of categories to go.

SINNERS UPSET I KNOW THAT'S RIGHTTT

DiCaprio giving me one of my favorite Oscar ceremony details, "actor with an odd look because they are in the middle of filming a movie"

Ludwig Göransson, first millennial three-time Oscar winner?

Y'all don't let me forget to cancel this YouTube TV free trial at the end of the night