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It's not great, but studios do seem to be going that theatre count for most African American lead films (besides Creed 3) these days.

Posted by: notfabio on Apr 13, 13:50 in response to TheWeekendWarrior's post I just don't think the comparison to House Party (which...

Will be interesting to see what Sony does with Big George (I'd be surprised if less than 2K) and Lionsgate with The Blackening (which is definitely going to be a one weekend Juneteenth wonder..or not even that)

BOR: Disney will release Searchlight's Chevalier in an estimated 1,350 locations on April 21. (quasi-dumped, similar to House Party) notfabio Apr 13, 12:48

WRONG! This would have been a limited release at best and Searchlight are putting everything behind getting this one out there.... TheWeekendWarrior Apr 13, 12:56

It's going to be too wide to show decent per screen and too low to show a decent opening weekend (barring a miracle) {nm} notfabio Apr 13, 13:02

(though it is a far cry from a total tank job that Focus did on INSIDE though that was going nowhere anyway) {nm} notfabio Apr 13, 13:05

I just don't think the comparison to House Party (which was always meant as an HBO Max movie) is particularly fair. {nm} TheWeekendWarrior Apr 13, 13:43

It's not great, but studios do seem to be going that theatre count for most African American lead films (besides Creed 3) these days. notfabio Apr 13, 13:50

That used to be the norm, remember, with so-called "urban comedies"...they just target them to bigger cities with large AA communities. {nm} TheWeekendWarrior Apr 13, 14:57

Most films from Searchlight, Focus, Neon, A24 that are around 1500 screens are titles more focused on digtial & streaming than Moviesnob Apr 13, 13:30

Tar had awards buzz + major star & wide release & did <5m. Was short on this one ever since I saw Tar's BO. Tallwonder Apr 13, 13:41

Chevalier was MUCH more than just a composer... that said, KHARR told me he personally loved Tar. {nm} TheWeekendWarrior Apr 13, 13:51





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