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Too bad she is wooden. Hell winter soldier was the only film where her being monotone as shit helped her out.
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Too bad she is wooden. Hell winter soldier was the only film where her being monotone as shit helped her out.
Under the skin.
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Haven't seen it yet.
Lucy making that much is beyond implausible, and a clear cut sign people just plain like SJ. Which makes it even more ridiculous Marvel won't put out a Black Widow film. Between SJ and Marvel and the female lead thing, it'd fucking clean up at the box office and be comparatively cheap to make.
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Marvel is moving away from the old guard, and Strange will probably be the main character in IW. So considering their slate is absurdly full already theres no room. Pretty sure Feige knows about this "Superhero Fatigue" narrative and will probably try to avoid reusing characters over and over.
Hell RDJ has made over 100 mills from the avenger films, how long until he says enough and quits.
ViewtifulJC
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Lucy making half a billion worldwide got both Ghost in the Shell and Valarian made this year.
The most expensive female directed film is Kung Fu Panda 2 at $150M. Unless you want to count co-directors. Then I think it is technically Jupiter Ascensing.
It's sad but that's probably what it'll be.
Poor GRIMES
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Well I didn't say anything about Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman's potential gross so, no?
Harley is very popular because she's been exposed in a lot of Batman media since her inception, she's everywhere. From Arkham Asylum, to Batman cartoons, to her own ongoing solo comic, to her appearances in Injustice, to, now, Suicide Squad.
DC doesn't really do that with Wonder Woman at all, she only really features in the ensemble Justice League cartoons and Injustice. Giving WW a contemporary film of her own would do a lot of work to increase her brand recognition and appeal to this generation, I think.
For all intents and purposes, Gadot is a newcomer and hasn't really had the opportunities to showcase her acting chops, to be quite honest. We'll see I guess
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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WB probably would scrap their current DCEU plans if that happened.
I wonder if Valerian can outgross the Fifth Element unadjusted.
I never realized The Fifth Element did so badly in the US. I loved that movie as a kid, even if it was goofy as hell.
Also I doubt Valerian will even beat Jupiter Ascending.
Look at all of those flop guesses.
Ragnarok will also beat JL.
broncobuster
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Kathryn Bigelow also had a $100mil budget film over a decade ago. But key here is that it's a female led film.
True on Jupiter Ascending. I've yet to see it but I assume Mila Kunis is the protagonist.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I would say the outlook for $750+M looks like this:
Guaranteed
Beauty and the Beast
Fate of the Furious
Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Transformers: The Last Knight
Despicable Me 3
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Star Wars: Episode 8
Very Likely
Pirates of the Caribbean 5
Thor: Ragnarok
Justice League
Decent Chance
War for the Planets of the Apes
Dunkirk (Probably being bullish here)
Wonder Woman
Coco
That's a pretty great line-up of blockbusters from a BO perspective. Looking at the release schedule, though, August looks horrendous this year.
Guaranteed
Beauty and the Beast
Fate of the Furious
Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Transformers: The Last Knight
Despicable Me 3
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Star Wars: Episode 8
Very Likely
Pirates of the Caribbean 5
Thor: Ragnarok
Justice League
Decent Chance
War for the Planets of the Apes
Dunkirk (Probably being bullish here)
Wonder Woman
Coco
That's a pretty great line-up of blockbusters from a BO perspective. Looking at the release schedule, though, August looks horrendous this year.
WB: Nolan, we let you make your Oscar-hoping WW2 film and your Space movie, now please, PLEASE come back to DC.
Or at least make Inception 2 for us.
Justice League will probably be more akin to Suicide Squad in that general audiences will be more accepting of it due to its lighter tone, regardless of quality. Expecting around $900m.
Aquaman and Batman are both filming in a couple of months (before WW's release) so it's not the final nail in the coffin. Most are expecting those to be far and away the best films in the DCEU due to Wan and Affleck.
I doubt WB is expecting more than $600m from WW, but if JL underperforms then there will be some major changes.
In terms of effectively over I don't mean shut down completely. I think the most realistic outcome would be a major retooling and soft reboot as primarily Batman centric franchise.
The idea of a TDK 4 is never happening, if Nolan and Bale told WB they wanted to do another WB would move heaven and earth to do it DCEU be damned no question at all. But Nolan would never come back anways so it isn't really an option.
The idea of a TDK 4 is never happening, if Nolan and Bale told WB they wanted to do another WB would move heaven and earth to do it DCEU be damned no question at all. But Nolan would never come back anways so it isn't really an option.
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Nolan basically has carte blanche at this point considering a stupid 3 and a half hour space fart movie made almost 700 mil
My take on your list
Guaranteed (The ones I am most confident on)
Fate of the Furious
Transformers: The Last Knight
Despicable Me 3
Justice League
Star Wars: Episode 8
Very Likely (I would say yes in a prediction thread)
Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Beauty and the Beast
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Decent Chance (I would say maybe in a prediction thread)
War for the Planets of the Apes
Pirates of the Caribbean 5
Thor: Ragnarok
Wonder Woman
It could happen (I would say probably not in a prediction thread)
Coco
Lego Batman
Long shot (aka Deadpool/Gravity 2017 edition if it hits $750M)
Logan
Kong: Skull Island
Dunkirk
Monster Trucks
jk
The sequel to Inception is the DCEU all being one of DiCaprio's dreams.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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I feel like Dunkirk deserves better than long shot odds considering Nolan's last two original films averaged $500M overseas. That's a hell of a pedigree.
I'm also ready to say right here and now Beauty and the Beast will be in the top 3 highest grossing films of the year.
So by jk you mean that Monster Trucks is guaranteed, right?
;p
If we're lucky, Nolan will come back and do Batman Beyond with Old Bale teaching Tom Holland how to be Batman.
I have a hard time seeing it over Interstellar, and that was helped out by $123M from China, which is very unlikely to happen for a EU theatre WW2 picture. It would have to perform like Saving Private Ryan adjusted for inflation. The markets most interested in a European WW2 film are also the ones that have had the least growth since SPR.
Those were sci-fi films with big name stars. This is a period piece British war drama with no stars.
Except for Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Harry Styles and inevitably Michael Caine somewhere.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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True, but Dunkirk's getting a bigger push than any WW2 film since Pearl Harbor. It got a teaser a year in advance and an IMAX preview; WB's treating this like a major event film
True Detective didn't turn Matthew McConaughey into a big name, and we also spent last page talking about how star power doesn't matter.
Really not impressed with Rogue One's hold this weekend. There's a strong possibility Sing is above it this coming weekend.
Boy, Paramount and Sony were close.
What are the odds Doc Strange reaches 233 Domestic?
As ever, I'm open to being wrong.
I agree. I had the 3-day at $59M based on Wednesday.
Thor 3: The Dark World is just a Hulk film in disguise. Hemsworth needs all the help to carry the film.
Too bad his all-star brother Liam did not get the role.
They even got Doc Strange in there running assist.
It might be a stretch. What is at $233M?
I remember you saying 233 gives it the best legs for a CBM in 2016.
It would squeeze past Deadpool.
No China this time. Will probably still do gangbusters in China. The growing market in China is the main reason these films do better and better.
Haha. Good memory.
It needs $233,188,096 to take that title. I think Disney would have to give it a late run expansion for that to happen, and they don't seem to do that much these days. That Christmas drop was a killer.
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