THB #589: Did Alien Romulus Open Well?

Wow! Must have been a fantastic opening for Alien: Romulus!!!

Uh… not so much.

It’s hardly a disaster either.

But I still feel compelled to repeat over and over and over again in this space that reality is what the goal must be for how media covers the industry. I don’t expect hard hitting exposes… but just reality.

The black space in the graphic above is for The Hollywood Reporter, whose only coverage of the weekend box office is in the, currently, 15th spot in the “Latest News” sidebar. I am both very sad for the people who are getting laid off by the botoxed lady of industry trade-ism and smugly conscious that the Penske gravy boat may be getting a little smaller. (Rick Ellis, who has been all over THR’s slow, but steady transition wrote about how after a decade of the trades bending to publicists’ wills, some spenders seem to be going more internal and less interested in spending on publicity.)

But I digress…

I don’t really care who guesses best. I think I have made that endlessly cl…