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The Newsletter gets us high on our own supply (of statistics).
Before you storm our offices, we admit that we fumbled the ball on Maleficient 2. We’ll say more below, but please accept our apologies first and foremost.
Oh, and the Oscars’ kid sister The Tony Awards had their big night yesterday and even though there wasn’t a lot of movie talk throughout, we still watched and enjoyed spying which film actors crossed over to the Great White Way (Daniel Radcliffe, Rose Byrne, John Lithgow, Nathan Lane, Carrie Coon, Lesley Manville, and of course, the peerless Laurie Metcalf, among others).
The Lost Boys Musical failed to take home the Tony, losing to the Lorne Michaels produced Schmigadoon! This, once again, proves the theory that if you put a musclebound, oily saxaphone man in your production you can never attain top honors. Hey look, we don’t like this rule either and they say it’s never gonna change… “but I still believe.”
Cameron Loyal as Sax Man in The Lost Boys Musical
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Alrighty. Let’s talk numbers:
Last Week’s Highlights
Highest Win Percentage87.1%  Dumbo (1941) | Lowest Win Percentage35.7%  Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) |
DUMBO soared to the top spot this week, trumpeting to a near 87% Win rate. The Tim Burton-helmed live action remake siphoned some guesses, but the O.E. (original elephant) was the right choice. The best part…he works for peanuts. (Shout out to W.F.R.R!)
MALEFICIENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL, the sequel to Maleficient, made enough money to hit circa top 20 of the 2019 box office. It featured Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, a smattering of Brits like (Tony winner!) Lesley Manville, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Harris Dickinson, and of course, Angelina Jolie. Did that matter at all last week when people were trying to come up with the right answer? Noooooooo. Not at all. In fact, this movie did so pooly that we have to take it on the chin and admit we probably should have saved this for the Sunday Stumper. Scratch that, we DEFINITELY should have saved this for the Sunday Stumper. Maybe we needed more quotes with Angelina casting spells, but we couldn’t just name drop the fairy now could we? Anyway. We’re sorry. Our bad. Now let’s never speak her name again until Malefcient 3: She So Horny.
 The late John Cunningham gives us the latest Fed Net news in | Ace of the Week14.7%“A murderer was captured this morning and tried today. Guilty. Sentence, death. Execution tonight at 6. All net, all channels.” Oh man, we’re not too far off from this type of television, are we? The sad prescience of an almost thirty-year-old movie. And once again, a modern cult classic secures the Ace rate. The folks who know STARSHIP TROOPERS REALLY know Starship Troopers. |
Here are the numbers for all the games last week.
Movie | Win % | Ace % |
|---|---|---|
Dumbo (1941) | 87.1% | 3.3% |
Sinners (2025) | 82.0% | 0.6% |
Starship Troopers (1997) | 78.8% | 19.7% |
The Mummy Returns (2001) | 77.3% | 3.7% |
Jaws 3-D (1983) | 74.4% | 1.2% |
Much Ado About Nothing (1993) | 53.0% | 3.9% |
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) | 35.7% | 0.8% |
Sinners got close to taking the top spot for the week, but then Dumbo had to swoop in and knock the Smokestack Twins off their pedestal. Do you know the real character names for the Smokestack Twins? It’s Elias and Elijah Moore. Not sure when you’re heading to the next Michael B. Jordan trivia night, but now you have that in your back pocket.
The Mummy Returns actually would have been higher were it not for the myriad of sequels, spinoffs, and oh yeah, the ill-fated Tom Cruise-led The Mummy, which as we alllllll know launched the mega-popular and highly-reviewed Dark Universe series of movies that everyone loved and respected and are still very much a thing today. (wink)
If you played the Jaws 3-D game last week, we hope you played it with the “Official CineQuote 3-D glasses” which would have projected the quotes directly in front of your face, the text seemingly floating in the air. Hell, if you were able to get the right answer without those glasses that’s a huge feather in your cap. But seriously, hit our merch store and grab a pair. You don’t want to be without them for Avatar Week.
Much Ado About Nothing was one of those movies that catered to people who know the Bard, and if you don’t, well… it might have been tricky. Just know moving forward, Beatrice & Benedick = Much Ado, brothers Don Pedro and Don John = Much Ado, Claudio & Hero = Much Ado.
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Even though sharks always stop when they make contact, we recommend upgrading to shark-proof glass for your home and vehicle.
 Tomboy (2011) | A family moves into a new neighborhood, and 10-year-old Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mickäel to the neighborhood children. We’re big Céline Sciamma stans over here at CineQuote, but because French cinema doesn’t dominate the games here, I’m gonna use this space to tout the second movie she directed, Tomboy. I’ve said it before, and I’ll probably say it again, but you live or die based on having a good kid actor, and Tomboy certainly thrives thanks to young Zoé Héran. -Sean |
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