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As someone who had never seen a horror movie in theaters before Get Out, I read a lot of reviews that mentioned this. Do other horror movies not have similar audience reactions? I mean, many reviews even say that the last act plays more like a conventional horror movie, so presumably a lot of past horror films also tried to please the crowd in the same way.

I just refreshed it four times and it gave me four different review totals of 199, 198, 200 and 197, so maybe not all the reviews are fully in the system yet.

It did it! The first ever movie to make it back to 100% on RT after dropping below it!

Yeah, it's already broken the record for most reviews with only one negative review; the previous record holder was Finding Nemo with 174. If it gets 15 consecutive positive reviews it'll become the first ever movie to be at 100% (if only temporarily) despite having a negative review.

No, not really. This is your post that I responded to: You seem to think that someone ought to have posted something about it, whereas I made my post as an addendum to Zootopia's Japan numbers. I never said that you can't post international numbers, just that there's a reason why nobody had.

It's quite easy to find subtitled versions of the previous movies on Chinese websites. Besides, neither Zootopia, Frozen, Big Hero 6 or the Croods were sequels and all of them made considerably more than any Pixar movie. Heck, Home made more than most Pixar movies. I think that Chinese audiences simply find Pixar movies too slow-paced and maybe too emotionally manipulative.

Right now, yes. Who knows what the exchange rate will be in late December. I'm just going off the calendar year, and also what cannastop used. Using the Japanese movie year TFA has already surpassed Zootopia.

Rogue One is another one, just because TFA killed it last year. Still, that movie only made $96 million, and a 25% drop is enough to put it below Zootopia.

Looking ahead, August 11 is going to be a doozy. X-Men Apocalypse, Secret Life of Pets and Jungle Book are opening at the same time! I know that superhero movies don't play very well in Japan, but it should still be good for a $2 million opening had it been on a weekend instead of on a Thursday to kick off Obon. I wonder how the seats and showings will be distributed between the three.

I really want to know if Alice is going to break some admissions record on Friday or if they're wildly overestimating its potential. If it's really that popular, then opening on the first of the month is only going to boost its attendance. The first movie killed it at the box office despite getting horrible ratings on Yahoo, so the sequel getting just as bad reviews might not really hurt it if it's critic-proof.

I don't know about Pixar as a whole, but I've been reading Finding Dory reviews on Douban, which has seen FD's score drop from 8.3 to 7.5 in just two days. It seems like most people loved Finding Nemo, but many considered the sequel lacking. Common complaints include: Too childish, only for the kids Too much of a rehash Lack of subtitled version (hilariously ironic considering the recent discussion about Americans being unable to stomach subtitles), inadequate dubbing Boring plot, not as emotional as the first

It was missing for last Thursday, but they fixed it by last Friday, so this Friday's drop will be accurate. Looks like the top release for this week is their equivalent of Freddy vs. Jason.

Tuesday was Toho Cinema day, so the lack of drop was understandable. I don't know if Wednesday was another special day of some sort.

Corpse: All-Time Best Multipliers (¥1 billion Earners) [1998-] 01. 33.34 - Frozen (Mar., 2014) 02. 30.37 - Spirited Away (July, 2001) 03. 26.99 - Princess Mononoke (July, 1997) 04. 26.13 - Avatar (Dec., 2009) 05. 23.21 - Departures (Sept., 2008) 06. 19.96 - Les Miserabes (Dec., 2012) 07. 16.44 - The Cat Returns (July, 2002) 08. 16.15 - The Eternal Zero (Dec., 2013) 09. 15.69 - Monsters, Inc. (Mar., 2002) 10. 15.29 - Big Hero 6 (Dec., 2014) 11. 15.25 - The Last Samurai (Dec., 2003) 12. 14.98 - Ponyo (July, 2008) 13. 14.84 - Howl's Moving Castle (Nov., 2004) 14. 14.81 - Always: Sunset on Third Street (Nov., 2005) 15. 14.65 - Zootopia (Apr., 2016) [8 Weeks in Release] Zootopia just needs $8 million more to pass The Cat Returns to be in 7th place, so that's all but certain. Passing Les Misérables requires about $22 million more, so it's probably going to fall short of that.

It's not that it's a better strategy; it's that it's now becoming an equivalent strategy. As for the trend, if studios don't even try to release good movies outside of school vacations, of course no movies are going to make money in those months. And more studios are doing it. Next year, for instance, will have Monster Trucks, The LEGO Batman Movie, The Boss Baby, Smurfs: The Lost Village, The Emoji Movie, Ninjago and My Little Pony all released outside of the prime months, and that's just animated films. So what would convince you that releasing outside of the prime months is just as successful? If you keep claiming that those movies would've been even more successful had they been released on vacation days, something that is impossible to prove either way, I don't how what evidence would satisfy you.