The Quorum

New to The Quorum: SCREAM

Welcome back SCREAM. It’s been 26 years since the original SCREAM reinvented the horror genre. It returns again in 2022, and this week it was added to The Quorum. As the table below shows, the film debuted with an awareness of 28. That’s not bad at all. Of the nine horror films we’re tracking, SCREAM […]

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Is $80M a good number for BLACK WIDOW?

Making sense of the box office It was reported earlier today that BLACK WIDOW grossed an estimated $80M in theaters this weekend, breaking the pandemic-era record of $70M set by F9 two weeks ago. These seem like big numbers, but is there a way to know for sure? Can we figure out what these numbers […]

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Trailer Callback: June 29 – July 1

Clifford is top dog. The biggest single event in a film’s marketing campaign is the release of a trailer. Usually, each spot has a lifecycle of about a week. After seven days, the trailer has been viewed, shared, talked about, and written about by the media. It then enters the long-tail.  At The Quorum, we […]

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Awareness for HALLOWEEN KILLS has yet to take off.

There has been a flurry of horror films over the past two months. As expected A QUIET PLACE PART II did very well. THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT pulled in decent numbers while SPIRAL: FROM THE BOOK OF SAW and THE FOREVER PURGE landed on the soft side. Now it’s time for […]

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