Wasn't there someone here who claimed it will be the highest grossing movie of all time? Lol
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BO 0701-0316 - Tarzan-a-doodoo can't Purge Dory, BFG = BOMBA FAIL GOOSE-EGG
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Wasn't there someone here who claimed it will be the highest grossing movie of all time? Lol
Fried Food
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Don't tell me the purge is considered a horror movie now also
BronsonLee
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I wouldn't even classify Purge as a horror franchise, I don't think it's got a lot of gore in it
Low budget action thriller probably makes more sense
Low budget action thriller probably makes more sense
Don't know about that, but I know quite a few were saying it would gangbusters due to "everyone playing WoW at some point" lol
xaosslug
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... did they forget one zero at the Purge budget ? lol
according to mojo og Purge cost $3m, and Anarchy cost $9m, so I would say that's right on. These movies are cheap af to produce. LOL
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
NYSM2 WW - $214,289,445
Spielberg's last two films were Lincoln and Bridge of Spies, both adult-targeted dramas rather than blockbusters; the former was a gigantic hit, the latter was in the solid-if-unexceptional range.
CaviarMeths
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I called Purge a horror franchise because it follows the same sort of rules in production and box office performance. Low cost, very frontloaded, etc. I don't think it's far removed from a slasher flick in terms of studio expectations and audience turnout.
Ethan Hawke will work for favours apparently. Nah man, I don't need a paycheck, just help me move my new fridge into the house and we're cool.
Ethan Hawke will work for favours apparently. Nah man, I don't need a paycheck, just help me move my new fridge into the house and we're cool.
Well, it's the second $100m+ budget movie this year that will fail to double its OW gross.
Hah, I came *this* close to going there, then decided I'd flogged BvS enough. In hindsight, there's no such thing. Thanks. :lol
TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared
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The BFG book was very popular in the UK, least when I was growing up. The David Jason film is excellent.
You don't need to have a lot of gore to be horror.
djplaeskool
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BFG
Not enough Jiggy-raffes
Not enough Jiggy-raffes
I don't think anyone even remembers War Horse anymore but it didn't do this poorly at the BO.
Exterminieren
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The BFG's best known over here for the animated Cosgrove Hall film from the Eighties, with David Jason as the BFG. I never got the sense the book as considered top-tier Dahl, but that film is beloved.
The BFG's lovely. I wish the new movie was doing better.
The BFG's lovely. I wish the new movie was doing better.
The Adventures of Tin Tin. Holiday legs helped it out a bit, but the domestic take was still less than $80M on a budget about the same size as The BFG. Overseas saved that film from being a disaster though. We'll see how BFG does overseas.
No. $80M domestic and close to $180M worldwide on a $66M budget. Not amazing, but not poor either.
Jon Carter
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The new blockbuster bomb based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs property loses out to the new movie by the writer/director of the previous blockbuster bomb based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs property.
RumblingRosco
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I posted in a few threads weeks to months before Warcraft's release along the lines of "so how many weeks until Warcraft overtakes The Force Awaken's worldwide gross?" and it seemed to get quite a few interesting responses.
Any new news regarding the potential of a Warcraft sequel? Seems for it to happen they'd have to really reduce the budget... which may be feasible if they reuse all the assets developed for this film.
BronsonLee
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Ethan basically spends 9 years building up favors, and then cashes them all in to get another Before movie made
Bitch don't lie to me
Future Foundation
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... did they forget one zero at the Purge budget ? lol
Blumhouse, man. Hell, depending on what the budget for Purge: Anarchy was, Election Year cost the most.
Everyone thought the BFG was going to be huge
Well he is 24 feet tall but I think he looks bigger in the movie.
China Box Office Updates:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows - $26M (opening weekend)
Now You See Me 2 - $82M total
Independence Day Resurrection - $67M total
Finding Dory - $36M total (probably won't hit $40M)
Warcraft - $221M total (Using today's exchange. pretty much done at this point)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows - $26M (opening weekend)
Now You See Me 2 - $82M total
Independence Day Resurrection - $67M total
Finding Dory - $36M total (probably won't hit $40M)
Warcraft - $221M total (Using today's exchange. pretty much done at this point)
DizzyCaffeine
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Purge 4 please
The director/creator doesn't want to make a 4th. I wouldn't be surprised if they replaced him, though, considering the series continues to trend upwards.
Delusibeta
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Yeah, apparently Anarchy cost nine million. Still, excellent return on investment.
This is wrong. Disney coproduced and co-financed it; I don't think Dreamworks is even credited on the film.
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/s...ing-turn-with-walt-disney-studios-1201471319/
BronsonLee
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Vinny leading me astray AGAIN
Future Foundation
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Looking it up, Blumhouse's largest budget on a movie was $48 million for The Tooth Fairy.
Dash_Riprock
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It has not been a good year for Warner Bros.
starchild excalibur
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Count me amongst those that didn't expect Tarzan to have as good of an OW as it did. Too bad it's budget was insanely high. I don't think even China will save it.
Kinda surprised to see The BFG do so poorly. I'm also in the camp that never heard of the kid's book, but I somehow managed to never hear of some pretty popular kid's books until their film release (like Cloudy w/ a Chance of Meatballs). Not sure how much it played a role, but I remember thinking the billboards for the BFG looked pretty plain and boring.
Kinda surprised to see The BFG do so poorly. I'm also in the camp that never heard of the kid's book, but I somehow managed to never hear of some pretty popular kid's books until their film release (like Cloudy w/ a Chance of Meatballs). Not sure how much it played a role, but I remember thinking the billboards for the BFG looked pretty plain and boring.
It's sandwiched between Dory and Pets. It had disaster written all over it.
It's been a pretty bad year for most studios other than Disney.
Warner Bros at least has Suicide Squad and Fantastic Beasts to look forward to. It'd guess that those two will end up making about $500M domestic between them.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Steven has an Dreamworks deal with Disney through their Touchstone banner with them.
Backstory on the BFG:
Disney sold much of the international territories to boot. They didn't have much faith in the product either
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/will-steven-spielberg-drop-dreamworks-826201
http://deadline.com/2016/07/tarzan-...tional-box-office-weekend-results-1201782497/
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starchild excalibur
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Yep. Compared to animated animal hi-jinks - especially one of those being a sequel to a super popular film - a film with a nice, gentle giant probably isn't likely to win out for most people.
It's definitely a film that seems weighted to those who have fond memories of the book, as none of the trailers I saw for it made it seem like a film I'd be thrilled to see if I was a kid.
Jon Carter
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I think it will be the highest-grossing film of all time. Everyone has pets at this point.
I'm not sure. Minions had relatively poor legs for an animated film, and the early reviews for Pets are sort of middling (that 6.3 average on RT makes me think that the 84% it currently enjoys will tumble when we get more reviews).
AmaterasuOni
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The last movie I liked before The BFG was München. Ten years of bad movies.
It's really weird that we don't see more of them. Like only a few a year really.
I don't think you can call Lincoln or Bridge of Spies bad movies.
We have already had 6-7 low budget horror/thriller movies hit wide release this year. I'm sure that number will be well over a dozen by the end of the year. Most of them just don't stick in people's memory more than a week or two.
AmaterasuOni
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I can. I just called them bad movies.
Bridge of Spies was all sorts of mediocre, Rylance was the only thing I liked in it. I hate those Spielbergian "sweet" worlds he creates. Every character was just kind and mellow. There was absolutely no suspense in the movie. Like a thriller for children. It was like a sweet little thing with all fluffy people and little laughs, although it was supposed be dramatic. Historical DDR was not like that at all. Just too sweet, I got bored. Compare it to Son of Saul and you'll get what I mean.
Lincoln was boring. Again, the main guy made the movie. Daniel was just awesome. Otherwise bland. I don't have a sweet spot for American history.
Yeah, 95% of mainstream horror is awful. Luckily we have few hits here and there.
It might end up somewhere between DM2 and Minions when it comes to how well it plays with critics.
How much of an impact does reviews have on animated family films? It seems like something like Pets can do more than 250M with decent reviews.
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