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I don't think it's just about the seriousness of his injury (although it's supposedly pretty serious) but also the fact that the actors have other commitments to work on that were probably scheduled around Death Cure's original filming plan. I guess Jan 2018 is the best release date they could get from when they could get everyone back to get production back underway and completed.

Damn. I was liking the original Feb 17 release date because it at least gave them a leg up before Divergent Series: Ascendant came in and officially buried all goodwill toward YA adaptations. Now this will be trickling into theaters months and months after that all Johnny Come Lately. Ah well.

Is that what some are saying? Ugh...

Wait for it...

I assume they yell "morphin' time!" and the suits just magically grow onto their bodies in the form of a slimy crawling gel.

The red ranger looks like an anatomy book picture of a body stripped down to show all the muscle layers. Why are the pink and yellow rangers' boobs sticking out so much?

It also has the word "Cure" in the title. So what?

Pretty

My aunt likes to tell the story of when she first came to the US and she was almost fired from her new job because she didn't show up to work on December 26 -- she had no idea we didn't celebrate Boxing Day.

Some countries recognize Easter Monday along with regular old Easter Sunday.

Indeed. I would think they'd be warned not to read that book due to the surgeon general's warning. CAUTION: THIS BOOK WILL BREAK YOUR BRAIN.

BVS - 178M Zootopia - 25M Greek - 16M Allegiant - 10M Miracles - 9M

Possibly no. Domestic will have to stretch to hit 70M, so it will need to make at least 130M OS - no more than a 23% overall drop from Insurgent. I don't know if it's on a track for that. The OS markets last weekend had bigger declines than that already. Allegiant's OS may have a 30% drop altogether from Insurgent, better than domestic's 45% drop but still... maybe 190 WW tops.

Indeed, I don't see them dropping Ascendant. They would lose more face and damage their reputation more in admitting this failure than they will by the financial bomb it will turn out to be. They'll just do it just to get it over with, to "please the fans" or whatever and give the franchise closure since it's just one more. I read an article that likened this to the movie version of Netflix picking up a canceled network show just to finish out the series with one last season to give it and the fans closure. Just do it. No one's getting anything out of it and they might come up a little short in the end with the diminished, or outright lack of, profits, but they came this far and they might as well just cross the finish line and be done with the damn thing once and for all. With Lionsgate's foreign presale thing covering a chunk of their budgets upfront, they won't lose nearly as much on this sunk cost endeavor as other studios might -- because indeed I believe this time they will actually come up with a loss even after all the revenue streams are done. Just take the hit. With 3 out of 4 films already in the can, it's just silly not to just do the last one and it would make them look bad if they didn't. Now, who wants to do an over/under for how many points Lionsgate's stock will drop tomorrow?

I watched a YouTube review last night where the girl was pissed at how they adapted the book and treated the ending to the story -- oblivious to the fact that there was going to be a fourth movie and thus this was not actually the ending. It would appear going into (and coming out of) this movie not realizing that it was only "part one" soured her impression of the whole thing.