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Wkd BO 0310-1217 - Giant gorilla, just like in one of those old video games, king
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Don't make me shoot, son.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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DO IT.
Anyway, I don't think it was mentioned in the last thread, but Collide had the worst second weekend decline* of all time for a wide release last week: -88.5%
*If you don't count Delgo completely disappearing from theaters before its second weekend.
That and Live By Night are making sure that this year is a record setter.
I can count on you to to correct my posts that make litttle if any sense.
Correct again on Star Wars.
This is true. I I think it was the best thing since TDK, but I'll never ever rewatch it. It was too powerful for me. Repeat viewings must be at an all time low for CBM.
OrangeAtlas
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I'll be sure to weep at the fact that I'm a Montrealer from my luxurious seat seeing Kong in 70mm.
Speaking of, these are the theaters in North America playing Kong: Skull Island in 70mm if anyone is interested:
Plymouth Willow Creek 12
Dallas Look Cinemas
Montreal Cinema Banque Scotia
Hollywood Arclight
Sherman Oaks Arclight
New York City City Cinemas 1,2,3
Seattle Cinerama
Oakland Renaissance Grand Lake Theatre
Demoncarnotaur
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Glad to see Get Out performing so phenomenally. It's incredibly well earned.
Surprised Logan is looking to have some worse than expected legs.. the movie deserves more people seeing it.
Eh, I wouldn't say that.
Skull Island is dumb as bricks, but at least it doesn't presume to be anything else, so it's easy to swallow.
I bet something causes Godzilla to rage out, and he's the baddie for a portion of the film and Kong the protector. Godzilla breaks free of what's causing him to go berserk right when the real monster/threat appears, and him and Kong team up for the ultimate beat down.
Surprised Logan is looking to have some worse than expected legs.. the movie deserves more people seeing it.
Eh, I wouldn't say that.
Skull Island is dumb as bricks, but at least it doesn't presume to be anything else, so it's easy to swallow.
I bet something causes Godzilla to rage out, and he's the baddie for a portion of the film and Kong the protector. Godzilla breaks free of what's causing him to go berserk right when the real monster/threat appears, and him and Kong team up for the ultimate beat down.
They become best friends after discovering both their mothers are named Mothma.
Demoncarnotaur
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WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME
Discotheque
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they don't make you buy an extra ticket for your hand, that would be absurd.
Razgriz-Specter
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SAO wasn't weekend and it was likely under 5 million.
Black Republican
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Any chance of getout in china?
LFMartins86
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Practically none. The movie has almost no presence worldwide. In the past two weeks they had a couple more countries in Europe but they are showing it in the end of April, start of May.
Unlikely. Unless the deal Legendary cut to extricate the project from Universal included a small percentage of the overall gross (2 to 5% ???) I don't see this being the case.
KONG is actually a Warner Bros property (Turner bought RKO, Time Warner bought Turner) and Legendary intended to self finance the film when it was set up at Universal so moving it across town was pretty easy.
Universal licensed KONG from WB in the 80's, after the studio had little regard for it, and just held onto it for decades. In this age of studio owned IPs and established brands evidently Warners saw a chance to take back their property (albeit majority financed by Legendary) and took it.
Probably profitable just based on all of the licensed crap that film will push.
Logan increased slightly in the actuals. Get Out decreased a bit. Kong was right on.
Prototype Viktor
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Kong had too high of a budget​, how could they not do that on 120 million or so
BronsonLee
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LOOK at that movie
I want the movie to do well, but I also want it to tank so no one wants to buy those promotional souvenir cups that are always sold out and I can get one for a friend.
Like Monster Trucks?
Tom Hiddleston's tight blue t-shirts aren't cheap.
paragonpro
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LFMartins86
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Pretty sure it has nowhere else to open.
Matt_
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Fandango: Beauty and the Beast Becomes Companys Top Family Pre-Seller of All Time
In case anyone still has doubts for some reason
In case anyone still has doubts for some reason
This is great news for the future of X-men. Apocalypse had no idea what it wanted to be. Logan knows exactly what it is and it does a damn good job of it.
Yup. You see so many "who asked for this" type posts about beauty. Apparently millions of people.
PhoncipleBone
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What is actual tracking right now?
This thing is going to be a box office... *puts on sunglasses*... beast.
120-140
Good! I'm going for my second viewing next week with the Mrs. She usually hates Marvel superhero movies but I know she'll love this. Big fan of TDK.
illmatic22
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So, Kong was really good! #Bronsonwasright
Human characters were better than Godzilla 2014. The director oughta get a DCEU gig.
Hope Kong performs well. Though Beauty and The Beast might complicate things unfortunately...
Human characters were better than Godzilla 2014. The director oughta get a DCEU gig.
Hope Kong performs well. Though Beauty and The Beast might complicate things unfortunately...
Messofanego
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Can some box office enthusiasts explain to me why bad faith-based movies do well at the box office but great ones like Silence not hit it? Is it because Silence wasn't about American Christians in America?
BronsonLee
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Faith-based movies have a built in audience that will fill entire theaters themselves for a quick excursion/group outing
Does Silence seem like something you wanna take 35-40 people to?
So if you're Fox right now, why even fucking bother making a high budget, PG-rated superhero movie.
The two R-rated films made more money, were critically acclaimed, and are a fantastic way to differentiate yourself from Marvel and DC (well, DC for now).
Silence is a period piece dealing with the Roman Catholic church and the expulsion of Christians for Japan. The major audience for faith-based movies in America is Evangelical Christians. They want the preachy, feel-good type of faith based movie that promotes Evangelical ideals of Christianity and the active participation of God in the lives of people. They don't want Silence.
Outside of a limited release in a few select markets? Not really. IMDB lists a bunch of European dates.
hodayathink
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Because we haven't seen what happens when you make film at this mid-level and it turns out legitimately not good/bad. You look at DC, and even though those movies are nearly universally derided as not being very good, you're still looking at more than $700 million worldwide. Amazing Spider-Man 2 ended up over that number as well (and the truth of the matter is that the reason Sony re-rebooted Spider-Man wasn't because it wasn't good, it was because the whole point of the first reboot was to try to get the budget in check and they completely fucked that up by the time ASM2 rolled around). If Mangold had flubbed on the execution of Logan, are we looking at a $300 million worldwide take (what Passengers has ended up at)? Or something even lower? You're not going to hit on each one of these (well, unless you're Marvel), but we generally know the floor for the PG movies is still fairly high.
Edit: What it looks like Fox may be doing, and I think it's actually a good line to take, is to keep churning out the $100 million+ movies in the hopes that one of them still catches (since it seems Supernova is still a thing that's going to happen), but continue to make the $50-100 million movies in hopes of starting a new franchise. The only thing I'm not sure of is where New Mutants fits into this.
Fantastic 4 made $167 million on a $120 million budget
that's the floor
I think with even a bad R-rated superhero movie, the floor will always be well above the budget. We have all been afraid the big bad R rating... but in reality there is such a massive adult fanbase for this stuff.
Future Foundation
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What would've counted as "in check" for Sony? Because ASM's budget was pretty high.
OrangeGrayBlue
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The faith based movies that bring Churchgoers to theatres are ones that are light-hearted and end with a positive affirmation that their faith in Jesus will pay off in dividends. It's a straightforward and boring formula, but people are going to feel good about their faith, not to see cinematic masterpieces. Imagine that you're a folksy 62 year old grandmother and ask yourself if Silence is a movie you're inclined to sit through.
hodayathink
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That's more the absolute worst case scenario than the reasonable floor. They ended up re-shooting the ending and editing by committee, and the director disowned the movie right before release. The making of that movie seems like it was basically a dumpster fire. I'd argue the floor for X-Men movies lies somewhere between First Class' $350 million and Apocalypse's $545 million. If I had to guess, somewhere around $450-500, which should mean as long as you keep your budget at or below around $150 million you aren't hurting yourself too badly by taking the shot.
Freeza Under The Shower
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too smart, not dumb and loud enough for JEEBUS people? I'm just guessing here.
BronsonLee
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Real being real, I don't see much reason to bag on faith-based movies. They're dumb as shit but of the ones I've seen, only the really egregious bullshit like God's Not Dead slams you over the head with the religion thing.
But I'm mostly talking about the silly Hallmark Channel movies and especially the Christian Christmas ones because whew
But I'm mostly talking about the silly Hallmark Channel movies and especially the Christian Christmas ones because whew
Discotheque
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There's plenty of good religious movies. I liked hacksaw. Silence and Tree of life are freaking amazing. Calvary was really dope as well
Nothing wrong with movies that have characters of strong faith or ones that tackle religion. It's the garbage lifetime-tier movies like Gods Not Dead that are wack.
Nothing wrong with movies that have characters of strong faith or ones that tackle religion. It's the garbage lifetime-tier movies like Gods Not Dead that are wack.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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BronsonLee
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Beast gonna get the #1 opening git ready
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