OBSESSION earned over $8M yesterday, surging more than 30% from last Friday.
It’s the BIGGEST third-Friday increase for a non-Christmas wide release in over 50 years — since the rise of modern cinema with JAWS in 1975.
> be Disney
> spend $165 million and 7 years making a new Star Wars movie
> first one in theaters in 7 years
> open it on Memorial Day with 4,300 theaters and the entire Lucasfilm marketing machine
> take #1 for the weekend. finally
> then Monday comes
> lose to Obsession
> lose to Obsession again Tuesday
> lose to Obsession again Wednesday
> Obsession is a horror movie made for under $1 million
> it went UP 39% in its second weekend. yours opened below Solo
> a movie that cost less than your craft services budget just retook #1
you brought Star Wars back to theaters after 7 years. it got out-grossed on a Wednesday by a wish-granting toy from a movie 200 times cheaper.
Make really good low budget horror movies.
Market them well.
Put them in theaters.
Take chances. New ideas. New filmmakers.
It has always been the way.
Nicolas Cage says “someone had put a montage of my meltdown & freaking out moments and put it online called ‘Nicolas Cage Loses His Shit’”
“I went viral overnight, I kept looking at it going ‘What is happening to me’”
This is the clip he talks about.
Bret Hart x Curt Hennig. At the time, their matches were among the best stuff I had ever seen, and like fine art, they look more amazing every year that passes. Absolute masters. (4.23.1989) 🌟
Gorllia Monsoonisms
“He hit him in his external occipital protuberance”
“He just got his clock cleaned”
“They’re literally hanging off the rafters here at the Garden”
"This match could be a main event any arena in the country”
"Stick a fork in him, he's done!"
"Will you stop!"
"It’s a happening!"
“A Pearl Harbour job”
“give me a break!”
"The irresistible force meeting the immovable object."
"Got him right in the bread basket!"
A capacity crowd here tonight.."
“action personified”
“they don’t get paid by the hour”
“Bombs away!”
"A miscarriage of justice"
"Highly unlikely"
"Members of the mutual appreciation society"
"He looks to be in tremendous shape."
"A relative newcomer here in the WWF"
"The youngster's got a lot of spirit"
“Close but no cigar!”
“I’m glad I retired"
“The winner’s share of the purse”
"reverse crescent kick"
"right in the bread basket"
"A lot of scores to be settled in this one"
“He doesn’t know the difference between a wrist lock and a wrist watch”
"Stick a fork in him he's done"
"We're getting down to the nitty gritty"
“Holy Mackerel!”
“This place has gone bananas!”
"he's a fountain of misinformation"
"he's a piece of work"
"Goodnight Irene!"
"History has been made here"
“I love it!”
"Double noggin knocker"
“There goes your meal ticket”
"Slipped right out of the back door on that one"
"No love lost between these two"
"Right in the kisser!"
"Clothesline City...he nailed him"
"Let's get the official word"
"Went to the well one too many times"
"Dropkick and a beauty!"
"I hope the ring has been specially reinforced for this one!"
"360, over the top rope!"
"A shot to the patella"
"The lateral-collateral ligaments"
"A bewildered look on his kisser"
"He definitely doesn’t have both oars in the water."
"This guy doesn't know a wristlock from a wristwatch."
"Excedrin headache number five"
"Get that little pip-squeek outta here"
"Suplex city comin’ up, beautifully executed"
"Forget about it, You could count to a hundred!"
"...so thick you can cut it with a knife!"
"meal ticket"
"Rookie mistake by the ring veteran there"
"Pearl Harbour Job!"
"Oh he caught him right in the kisser with that one brain!"
"Tag Team Specialists"
"History has been made"
"What a shot!!"
"He graduated from the Terry Garvin School of Self Defence."
"Would you be serious!"
"The SRO signs went out early for this one"
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