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  1. I don't think I've ever seen a blockbuster face such minimal competition for so long like BD1 has. New Moon faced The Blind Side, DH1 faced Tangled, but nothing whatsoever for BD1. Very lucky.

    I thought The Muppets would be, but apparently kids are a-holes.
  2. Yea, cause the Muppets is such exquisite, perfect cinema with the grace of a butterfly and the importance of political drama.So many film snobs here. The Muppets is about talking puppets, BD is about vampire romance. Give me a break.

    I'll take talking puppets over vampire romance any day of the week.
  3. 100m could still be possible with the holidays coming up (it needs Tangled's legs from here on out), but theaters might be less inclined to keep playing it than they were with Tangled or Enchanted. If it does well overseas, a sequel could still happen, as long as it's not any more expensive than this one (45m). Given the terrible market for family movies this year, things could be worse. Happy Feet Two won't reach 80m, meaning it will sell ~25% of the original's admissions. Arthur Christmas will finish in the typical Aardman region (55m-65m), not good considering it cost 100m and it's not doing that well overseas. Hugo might have nice expansions and allocates, but at the end of the day they're not getting that 170m investment back.

  4. Is their budget significantly slashed this season? Because nothing really happened in these first seven episodes save the premiere, the finale and a few good character moments. For them, staying on the farm makes sense, but it doesn't make for exciting TV. They don't have good enough performances to fall back on. And from the preview it doesn't look like they're leaving the farm when the show comes back in February.I know this isn't Mad Men or Breaking Bad. Walking Dead's strength has always been the zombie kills, which the show has proven it can do very well. But if you don't have enough money to do a lot of those, what's the point?

  5. Muppets will probaby drop 50% this weekend since the Post Thanksgiving weekend isn't kind to family films. Could still pass 100M with Christmas holidays though

    I see 120m-130m, providing it sticks around for the holidays to the same extent Bolt did. Definitely enough for a sequel (budget was 45m, less than half of Arthur Christmas and a fourth of Hugo's, heh). Now that they've gotten the nostalgia out of the way, I'd love to see what Segal and Stoller could do with a new Muppet adventure. Something like The Great Muppet Caper. Bring Walter along for the ride, I'm sure it would be great.
  6. That bad, huh??

    Remember the old Dexter? Suffused with Miami flavor, decently clever and not entirely predictable? Remember feeling that most of the scenes, even the ones with the bad side characters, contributed to the main plot in some way and were leading to something? Remember how the backstory of Harry and Dexter unfolded over three seasons, slowly and carefully, and felt mostly planned in advance? Remember how fresh and fascinating the main character felt? Cause that show doesn't exist anymore.
  7. Another awful show. Season 2 had some outrageously bad episodes, but that was somewhat entertaining trash TV. Many episodes were misses but you could tell they took a swing. Season 3 is worse, because they're not really even trying anymore. The plots go by extremely fast, we're not getting many character moments, the music choices are mostly uninspired. And even the good moments- a good deal of the West Side Story ep, Santana singing that Someone Like You/Rumor Has It mashup- don't go anywhere because the show has no continuity. Maybe I should just quit already.

  8. 1. Drive

    2. The Tree of Life

    3. 50/50

    4. The Descendants

    5. Hugo

    6. Win Win

    7. The Muppets

    8. Rango

    9. Moneyball

    10. Bridesmaids

    11. Midnight in Paris

    12. Crazy, Stupid, Love.

    13. The Guard

    14. Rise of the Planet of the Apes

    15. X-Men: First Class

    16. Margin Call

    17. Puss in Boots

    18. The Help

    19. 30 Minutes or Less

    20. Attack the Block

    21. Horrible Bosses

    22. Contagion

    23. Our Idiot Brother

    24. Like Crazy

    25. Carnage

    26. A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas

    27. Jane Eyre

    28. The Ides of March

    29. The Debt

    30. Super 8

    31. Warrior

    32. Paul

    33. The Trip

    34. Kung Fu Panda 2

    35. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop

    36. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

    37. Cedar Rapids

    38. Terri

    39. Winnie the Pooh

    40. Red State

    41. Cars 2

    42. The Lincoln Lawyer

    43. The Adjustment Bureau

    44. Captain America: The First Avenger

    45. Friends with Benefits

    46. Fast Five

    47. The Beaver

    48. Super

    49. Thor

    50. Bad Teacher

    51. Transformers: Dark of the Moon

    52. Hall Pass

    53. Just Go With It

    54. Rio

    55. No Strings Attached

    56. The Green Hornet

    57. Your Highness

    58. Limitless

    59. The Hangover: Part II

    60. Apollo 18

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