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Wkd BO 0908-1017 - Beep beep, Reese. I- I- I- I- It floats. Oh , yes. It floats.

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Plasticine

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MHWilliams said:
Tom Hardy is so goddamn glad he's part of the Nolan inner circle of actors.
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kswiston

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Apparently there is a horror film called Friend Request being distributed by the same studio that put out 47 meters down. It releases in 2 weeks. I wonder if IT will still be going strong enough to pretty much shut that film down.
 
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GhaleonEB

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kswiston said:
Apparently there is a horror film called Friend Request being distributed by the same studio that put out 47 meters down. It releases in 2 weeks. I wonder if IT will still be going strong enough to pretty much shut that film down.
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I've seen the trailer 3 times in theaters and it plays like a parody of horror films, though it's not trying to. It elicits unintentional laughter from the audience every time.

It'll probably do decent, but it really looks like utter garbage.
 
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Bobby Roberts

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broncobuster said:
What was weird about it?
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I only read the various drafts the once, all in one shot, and details are fuzzy now, but the Fukunaga draft I read just read kinda leaden. I also remember the climax at Neibolt St being really out of tune with the rest of the movie. Almost straight sci-fi if I remember right.

There was no Stan Uris at all, either.

There were, however, a few more scenes regarding Derry's history, and they were pretty dark/creepy. I remember a scene that was basically a bar fight that turned into an axe murder and nobody getting up to stop it and Pennywise just sitting in a corner (or behind the bar) and grinning at the whole thing. Something like that.

edit: I swear I've asked this before, but did something happen between Nolan and Guy Pearce?
 
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GhaleonEB

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Bobby Roberts said:
There were, however, a few more scenes regarding Derry's history, and they were pretty dark/creepy. I remember a scene that was basically a bar fight that turned into an axe murder and nobody getting up to stop it and Pennywise just sitting in a corner (or behind the bar) and grinning at the whole thing. Something like that.

edit: I swear I've asked this before, but did something happen between Nolan and Guy Pearce?
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This version could have used a scene like that, tbh.
 
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Bobby Roberts

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I don't think any of the scripts I read had a climax like the one that actually showed up in the movie, but as the movie was rolling along it didn't even occur to me to have compared them. I think the only real differences I noticed as I was watching as "okay, this is definitely a different approach" was the spiral/floating, and that Bev didn't smoke as much as she was written to.

Which is probably a good change, as the script basically would have made her smoking look cool, and that's probably one of the bits of 80s nostalgia we can leave back in that decade. In the film she gets wet garbage thrown on her for doing it, and the only other time she looks like a dork and then she throws it away.
 
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kswiston

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Nolan never really worked with the Insomnia cast again either.

He must have really liked his Batman Begins crew. Plus Tom Hardy after Inception.
 
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broncobuster

Banned
Back in 2006 Bale and Jackman agreed to do a straight-to-video Batman vs Wolverine movie in 15 years.

What better movie for Nolan to get the band back together. Guy Pearce can reprise his role as that guy from Iron Man 3. Al Pacino can dust off the Dick Tracey chin. It'll be this generation's Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
 
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PhoncipleBone

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kswiston said:
Apparently there is a horror film called Friend Request being distributed by the same studio that put out 47 meters down. It releases in 2 weeks. I wonder if IT will still be going strong enough to pretty much shut that film down.
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GhaleonEB said:
I've seen the trailer 3 times in theaters and it plays like a parody of horror films, though it's not trying to. It elicits unintentional laughter from the audience every time.

It'll probably do decent, but it really looks like utter garbage.
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They showed a trailer before IT and response at my theater wasn't laughter but just silence. I was thinking, "Didn't we just get Unfriended?"
 
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OrangeAtlas

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I remember seeing Unfriended at a film festival years ago when it was still called Cybernatural and was super interested, only to forget about it and mock it when it popped back up as Unfriended.

I guess they completely switched the market that they were trying to target. Cybernatural is a dope name.
 
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DeathyBoy

Banned
PhoncipleBone said:
They showed a trailer before IT and response at my theater wasn't laughter but just silence. I was thinking, "Didn't we just get Unfriended?"
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This is only just coming out.

I saw it last year.

It's fucking hilariously awful. Especially the cops reactions to Facebook hacking. (There was no IP.)
 
Grizzlyjin

Grizzlyjin

Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
kswiston said:
Apparently there is a horror film called Friend Request being distributed by the same studio that put out 47 meters down. It releases in 2 weeks. I wonder if IT will still be going strong enough to pretty much shut that film down.
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That's just now coming out?! It was filmed forever ago. So this distribution company's M.O. is taking stuff that should probably just go direct to video and rolling the dice? Interesting.
 
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Mortimer Brewster

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Ryuelli said:
I was thinking the same thing. As a massive Friday the 13th fan I was definitely not happy to hear the news.
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I was, if they had gone forward it would have been a rush job that would have bombed because they would have been forced to get it out before the legal grudge match between Miller and Cunningham would have reached the courts.
 
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kswiston

Member
3N16MA said:
Seems like a normal high 60s drop for a horror film (outside of June-August). Correct me if I'm wrong.
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yes. IT will be over $150M going into the weekend, which gives it a good shot at passing $200M in 10 days. As long as the second weekend drop isn't any higher than low 60s.

It's pretty crazy that Get Out will lose its status as the biggest horror film of the year in IT's first 9 days. Get Out was previously the largest horror film in quite a long time.
 
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kswiston

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With today's news, JJ Abrams now has a shot at joining Spielberg and Cameron on the list of directors who have simultaneously held the top two highest grossing films of all time domestically.
 
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Galactic Specter

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Future Foundation said:
Think they give it another go? Maybe shoot for 2019?
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Maybe but according to a deal WB/New Line made back in 2013, Paramount would have the entire rights to the Friday the 13th IP but only if they produced a new film in the next five years.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/christopher-nolans-interstellar-warner-bros-562879
However, there is a catch: Sources say Paramount only enjoys the rights for both titles for the next five years and has that amount of time to make follow-up movies.
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Paramount would've still owned the IP had they actually made the Friday reboot that was supposed to release this October but they cancelled production after Rings bombed.
WB/New Line are most likely to get their share of the IP back in 2018 due to Paramount's decisionmaking earlier this year. New Line could straight up reboot the franchise without the name "Friday the 13th" since they will own the Jason character and not have to pay Paramount a cent like they did with Jason Goes to Hell.
 
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AnotherDayAnotherDollar

Banned
Question to kswiss, with the dollar now being significantly weaker than it was earlier this year and last year, what do you think the chances are that Justice League do 1B+ and Hulk Ragnarok do 800MM+ WW?
 
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kswiston

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AnotherDayAnotherDollar said:
Question to kswiss, with the dollar now being significantly weaker than it was earlier this year and last year, what do you think the chances are that Justice League do 1B+ and Hulk Ragnarok do 800MM+ WW?
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It definitely won't hurt. Justice League only has to improve $127M over BvS to hit $1B. If better exchanges add 5%, that bumps it up past $900M. $50M more domestic and $50M more overseas doesn't seem like a stretch to me.

Ragnarok getting to $800M would probably take a $300M+ domestic gross though.
 
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Blizzard

Banned
Blizzard said:
I have a weird movie question and I'm not sure of the appropriate thread to ask it.

For quite a while Rotten Tomatoes has had a movie on their front page with high early reviews (8/9 positive?). It was limited release and looked kind of interesting to me. Here's what I remember:

* Scifi / horror movie
* Poster had a woman on it
* Movie is about scientist who, thanks to a teleporter / transporter accident, can no longer form new memories
* I thought it was releasing in the next month or so?


It's now vanished. I've tried looking through various release lists and googling but I can't find anything. If anyone happens to know the name I'd appreciate it.
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Blizzard said:
Thanks but not it either. I'm going to start thinking I imagined this movie. :( I wish I could searchmovies by tagline, because I'm pretty sure the tagline had "hell" in it.

I think the poster had a bunch of repeated images of the woman as well, reflected hall of mirrors style.
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I remembered the name today.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/anti_matter/

I created a fake memory myself, imagining the hall of mirrors effect. The rest of my memories seem accurate -- it did indeed release 4 days ago. I'm not sure why I couldn't find it in release lists, but it appears to have been listed as a 2016 movie in some places, even though Rotten Tomatoes lists it as 2017 limited release.
 
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mooncakes

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http://deadline.com/2017/09/justin-...-sung-family-2008-mortgage-crisis-1202167181/

Justin Lin will develop to direct a film based on the 2016 Toronto Film Festival documentary Abacus: Small Enough To Jail, about how a Chinatown bank run by a Chinese immigrant family because the only U.S. bank to face criminal charges in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis that crippled the global economy.
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Looks like he is doing something different besides doing all the blockbuster movies.
 
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3N16MA

Banned
kswiston said:
Disney is going for $4B domestic in 2019 instead.

I count six films that have a good shot at $300M+ domestic. Some way over $300M.
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Didn't realize Aladdin was getting the old SW spot. Four 1B films in the summer is still on.

Some of these are conservative and others are just using the previous films gross.

Captain Marvel - 200M
Dumbo - 150M
Avengers 4 - 460M
Aladdin - 400M
Toy Story 4 - 400M
The Lion King - 500M
Frozen 2 - 400M
Mulan - 300M (Is this still 2019?)
Episode 9 - 800M

That is 3.61B with a couple of films missing.
 
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3N16MA

Banned
Some of those estimates are conservative (not to get too crazy). Just using BatB gross for Lion king.

Also that makes it 7 films with a shot at 300M. That is unless Mulan is moving.
 
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Caode

Member
$11.4 million tuesday for IT.

That put's it above The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2, already.

Gitesh Pandya‏ @GiteshPandya 7m7 minutes ago
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#ITMovie jumps big 31% TUE to $11.4M. Cume up to $143.6M, shd break $150M tonight. Has already grossed more than both #Conjuring films.
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DarkLordMalik

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kswiston said:
yes. IT will be over $150M going into the weekend, which gives it a good shot at passing $200M in 10 days. As long as the second weekend drop isn't any higher than low 60s.

It's pretty crazy that Get Out will lose its status as the biggest horror film of the year in IT's first 9 days. Get Out was previously the largest horror film in quite a long time.
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The only issue is that Get Out wasn't a 'horror' movie.
 
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