Violence Jack
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This year has not been kind to Will Smith in the way of movie reviews.
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Wkd BO 1216-1816 - Mele kalikimaka for Disney as Rogue One & Moana #2
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What was his last critically well-received movie?
Define critically well-received. Concussion (61%) and Men in Black 3 (68%) are his only fresh movies in the past 5 years. The last time he was in something over 80% on RT was Men in Black. He tends not to pick a ton of projects with amazing reviews.
Titanic is awesome though. Knowing what happens actually enhances the film, if that makes sense.
Aaron Strife
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Japan got Frozen very late from what I recall as well, and then they ate that shit up. Maybe there's something to it.
StopMakingSense
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Zootopia as well.
That's surprising to me. I would have thought Hitch, I am Legend, and Pursuit of Happyness would have all hit that mark.
Pursuit of Happyness got a 67%, I Am Legend got a 70% and Hitch got a 69%.
damn...
Roland_Gunner
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It feels like movie reviewers are getting less critical. I Am Legend is better than a bunch of 80%+ movies from the last few years.
PhoncipleBone
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Lower your expectations. Will it hit $50m domestic?
100 is too high. It won't get close to that. It will be lucky to do 60 mil domestically
Violence Jack
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I say it doesn't get anywhere close to $50 million.
If I Am Legend was an original film it'd have got much better reviews.
WaffleTaco
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Star Wars Episode 7 has a 92% and is very unoriginal.
Sounds solid! Still have a week until I see it.
Affeinvasion
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There's still a difference between derivative and a literal remake even if it's mostly a semantic difference.
Other than Miss Sloane and Moonlight, the entire top 20 was under predicted. Disney was surprisingly on the mark with the Rogue One estimate as actuals only went up $90k (0.1%).
Moana was significantly underestimated and increased by over $1M.
Percentage-wise, Arrival and Doc Strange were also up quite a bit.
Moana was significantly underestimated and increased by over $1M.
Percentage-wise, Arrival and Doc Strange were also up quite a bit.
Yeah. I checked as well and was surprised they were so low. None are masterpieces, but each are well-made crowd pleasers, so I would have assumed low to mid 80s on RT for each.
How would $18M compare to the Sun / Mon drop of TFA percentage-wise?
Much higher, but TFA only dropped 33% on Monday. compare that to the 56% drop for Jurassic World (the record holder before TFA) on Monday. If 18M holds, Rogue One's drop will be 52%. A little over 1/3 of K-12 students are on winter break right now (similar or lower to the amount of students on summer break for JW), vs over 70% for TFA last year.
Rogue One is going to have a different run. This week won't be nearly as impressive, and Saturday will be terrible. However, Sunday and Monday will be very strong thanks to X-Mas on Sunday, and an almost universal holiday on Monday to make up for X-Mas being on the weekend. Kids also go back to school later in January, which should lead to a good set of third weekdays.
Ep 7 has real special effects in it not some cheap laptop cgi that looks like college kids did it in a day.
Rogue One made $17.7M on Monday, giving it the 11th biggest start on the non-holiday Monday chart.
Last year, The Force Awakens made $40.1M on its first Monday, setting a new record for the largest monday of all time. Its second Monday of $31.6M was the second largest Monday of all time.
I'm not really seeing $600M for Rogue One, but I think $500M+ is still looking good. We will obviously have to see how the holiday business looks first though.
Last year, The Force Awakens made $40.1M on its first Monday, setting a new record for the largest monday of all time. Its second Monday of $31.6M was the second largest Monday of all time.
I'm not really seeing $600M for Rogue One, but I think $500M+ is still looking good. We will obviously have to see how the holiday business looks first though.
So it begins.
Prince of Persia was always the superior Ubisoft franchise anyway...
Woo hoo...
Definitely gonna be interesting to see how Christmas day and that monday goes for this movie. I know personally I'm going back on Christmas with family
Pachter thinks it's gonna do great. So $200m dom right?
Man, TFA was a beast.
Rogue One is going to kill with WOM.
Great Wall is out in mid-Feb here. Rogue one is out in early Jan in China.
WaffleTaco
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True.
Not sure what you are talking about...I Am Legend looked great for the time it came out.
Ninja Scooter
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Sometime in the next couple of weeks the original Tim Burton Batman is going to drop out it the top 100 North American box office.
**pours one out**
**pours one out**
Pretty crazy how much the box office has changed since then. Batman 1989 was the fastest film to $100M, taking 10 days to get there.
Now the record is one day. When Star Wars Ep 12 comes out, $100M will be the Thursday previews
Edit: before someone brings up inflation, Batman 1989's 10 day gross inflates to $217M. There are 29 films that have made more than that in 10 days without inflation.
CaviarMeths
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People talk about Jaws, but Batman '89 is the first modern blockbuster IMO.
Nah. Jaws changed the game. A $7M opoening weekend doesnt sound that impressive until you consider the fact that it was only released in 400 theatres opening weekend. Adjusting for inflation, it would be the same as a film making close to $30M from 400 theatres, with a $72.5k PTA.
Batman was released in around 2200 theatres and adjusts to an $88M opening with a $40k PTA.
The Force Awakens had a $60k PTA.
CaviarMeths
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Right, Jaws was the first blockbuster, but I consider Batman the first modern blockbuster. It's the one that started the trend of huge opening weekends and (relatively, for the time) short legs. The biggest films of today tend to perform a lot more like Batman than they do Jaws.
Ah. I missed the modern part. Ghostbusters 2 was even more modern!
The BvS of 1989.
Lifejumper
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Sweet, thanks!
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