34 posts in 3 threads for "#weekly"
- Call your shots: the weekly thread (week of Sept 21)
Noted. Grading Monday. Remember last week's lesson: the calendar is not a guarantee.
- Call your shots: the weekly thread (week of Sept 21)
Logged everyone into a sheet. Current consensus: the board is bullish on basically everything, which historically means someone is about to get humbled.
- Page One Friday: share the opening line of your script (week 38)
Kind note: that is a whole movie in one line. Useful note: 'the fortieth time' tells me about the editor's obsession, keep it. See you all next week.
- Call your shots: the weekly thread (week of Sept 21)
$SUPR up, conviction 60. Called from the break room at 4am, which feels appropriate.
- Call your shots: the weekly thread (week of Sept 21)
$COMH up, conviction 50. I have no data, I just want cozy horror comedies to win.
- Page One Friday: share the opening line of your script (week 38)
INT. EDITING SUITE - NIGHT. On the monitor, the same wedding video plays for the fortieth time. In the back row of guests, a woman nobody invited is closer to the camera than before.
- Call your shots: the weekly thread (week of Sept 21)
$FDBL up, conviction 58. Buying the dip on legacy franchises is my entire personality.
- Call your shots: the weekly thread (week of Sept 21)
$BKRM up too, same logic. Found footage adjacency is the gift that keeps giving.
- Call your shots: the weekly thread (week of Sept 21)
$KNPX up, conviction 65. Every time that channel even breathes the Backrooms crowd lights up the terminal.
- Call your shots: the weekly thread (week of Sept 21)
$SAWX flat to down, conviction 55. Franchise fatigue, round forty. I will be wrong again and I will be at peace with it.
- Why did HXI dip this week? Off about 3 points with no obvious cause
On the Digest view it just says "cooling" with a little snowflake. Very calm way to deliver bad news.
- Call your shots: the weekly thread (week of Sept 21)
Seconding with conviction 70. I will personally contribute to the mentions.
- Page One Friday: share the opening line of your script (week 38)
The school bell one got me. Small town dread is back on the menu.
- Call your shots: the weekly thread (week of Sept 21)
$GOTH up, conviction 62. Rewatch season for old houses and candlelight. Slow money.
- Call your shots: the weekly thread (week of Sept 21)
HXI up, conviction 80. It is late September. The Fear gauge climbs every year like a cat onto a warm laptop.
- Why did HXI dip this week? Off about 3 points with no obvious cause
Guilty of drafting one. Deleted it. Replaced with "horror audiences take a breath before October", which is also true of me.
- Call your shots: the weekly thread (week of Sept 21)
Weekly thread. Post one call for the week ahead: ticker, direction, and a conviction number of your own from 0 to 100. We grade them next Monday against the index, same crude seven day rule as always.…
- Why did HXI dip this week? Off about 3 points with no obvious cause
For press: please do not write "horror interest falls" off a 3 point weekly move on a rolling index. I have seen the draft headlines already.
- Why did HXI dip this week? Off about 3 points with no obvious cause
Meanwhile the haunted house corner did not move at all. We are the bedrock of this index and I want that on record.
- Page One Friday: share the opening line of your script (week 38)
EXT. MINING TOWN MAIN STREET - DAWN. The school bell rings. The school has been closed since 1986.
- Why did HXI dip this week? Off about 3 points with no obvious cause
A three point dip in late September is a gift. Buy the fear of missing out on fear. Not advice.
- Why did HXI dip this week? Off about 3 points with no obvious cause
So part of the dip is the index forgetting, not the audience cooling. Good to know.
- Page One Friday: share the opening line of your script (week 38)
Budget reading of all of these: lighthouse (location fee, boat unit, ouch), farmhouse (lovely), camcorder (free), model village (a table and a lot of patience). Just saying.
- Why did HXI dip this week? Off about 3 points with no obvious cause
That matches what we see. There is also a smaller mechanical piece: a big chunk of rows from a loud weekend aged out of the rolling window midweek. When a busy weekend leaves the window, HXI tends to …
- Why did HXI dip this week? Off about 3 points with no obvious cause
I did. Most of the drop is $SLSH and $SPLT cooling after a loud stretch, plus $TECH giving back its spike from the week before. Nothing collapsed, three things just exhaled at once.