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Marilyn's a botch with a 20m budget. So is A Dangerous Method if that 7.5k PTA holds true. Luckily The Artist's PTA will be very strong this weekend. And here's hoping Shame opens really well next week.
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And finally, give Muppets a 50% drop and BD1 a 64% drop and Muppets will win next weekend. By my projections it will finish with 130m-135m, a solid result, IMO.
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Like I just said, it's in a third of the theaters AC and Muppets are in. It has recovered a lot from Wednesday, indicating that word of mouth is strong. And on the 9th its supposed to double its theater count. That doesn't mean it'll be recouping that budget anytime soon, but with Polar Express legs or better, it'll make a valiant effort.Hugo is, for all practical intents and purposes, in wide release, right? So how is a $15m OW - on Thanksgiving! - good? Isn't the budget well past $100m? Unless it gets Polar Express-style WoM and Holiday boon, recouping even half its budget in the US is basically impossible. What am I missing?
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BD1 corrects itself from Wednesday, 16.9m will get it to 40.5m for the 3-day, down 71%. Muppets will do 30m for the 3-day and break its budget in five days. Happy Feet 2 will make 12m, down 43%, continuing its terrible domestic run. Hugo is doing as well as Arthur Christmas in a third of its theater count. Descendants is well outperforming Up in the Air and is on its way to 100m+.
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I don't know, Spaghett. But I'd definitely take back seeing anything below where Red State is.
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1. Drive
2. The Tree of Life
3. 50/50
4. The Descendants
5. Win Win
6. The Muppets
7. Rango
8. Bridesmaids
9. Moneyball
10. Midnight in Paris
11. Crazy, Stupid, Love.
12. The Guard
13. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
14. X-Men: First Class
15. Margin Call
16. Puss in Boots
17. The Help
18. 30 Minutes or Less
19. Attack the Block
20. Horrible Bosses
21. Contagion
22. Our Idiot Brother
23. Like Crazy
24. Carnage
25. A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas
26. Jane Eyre
27. The Ides of March
28. The Debt
29. Super 8
30. Warrior
31. Paul
32. The Trip
33. Kung Fu Panda 2
34. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
35. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
36. Cedar Rapids
37. Terri
38. Fright Night
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. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
55. Rio
56. No Strings Attached
57. The Green Hornet
58. Your Highness
59. Limitless
60. The Hangover: Part II
61. Apollo 18
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Okay, Dex, I'm done. I was hoping that this season would reverse Season 5's lameness, but I get nothing out of this show anymore. It had a decent run, pull the darn plug already.
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Wouldn't its box office correct itself from Wednesday, though? If it follows NM's jumps for the rest of the weekend it makes 36m, or a -74% drop from last weekend, enough that 270m would be in doubt. It could do better today, but like you said, besides Wednesday it's been following NM to a tee.Just for the record, it's not awful for Twilight. The only day it hasn't performed almost identically to NM is Wednesday. The drop yesterday is very consistent to NM's.
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If Muppets follows Tangled from here on out- 6.6m Wednesday 5.9m Thursday 14.3m Friday (142%) 13.6m Saturday (-5%) 7.8m Sunday 35.7m weekend, 48.2m 5-day
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If history repeats itself, Breaking Dawn and Puss in Boots will go down quite a bit today (the Muppets could too), but everything else should go up substantially.
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Also, go Descendants! That's a huge number!
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It's probably good for The Muppets (6.5 is okay given) that the whole box office was pretty poor yesterday. Those are very weak increases all around.
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I can write a list of things I loved about it and it would take me forever. But I'll start- Lots of emotional moments. I got misty eyed during the Rainbow Connection number near the end No one can break the fourth wall like The Muppets can, and it happens all the time hereAnimal's little anger management subplot Muppet barbershop quartet (in a barbershop) singing Nirvana The chickens' musical numberOf course Miss Piggy would be an editor at Vogue! Life's a Happy Song and Man or Muppet, the movie's two best numbers Amy Adams lines- "This is going to be a really short movie"- and physical humor momentsChris Cooper's rapping and maniacal laugh The 80s robot that served New Coke Punch Teacher and Donald Glover's cameo The Moopets, particularly Miss Poogy Zach Galifianakis singing along to the Muppet Show opening Jack Black, who has rarely been funnier or more likable than he was in thisSo yea, easily the most entertaining movie I've seen all year. Long live the Muppets.
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Expected for Twilight (edit: DHD says 13m, which is actually a bit low). Muppets is more Enchanted than Tangled, which is fine, I guess. Soft for the other three kidpics.
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It's overwhelmingly good. Hysterical, heartfelt and extremely nostalgic. I think I should see this again; there's so many gags here that you'll miss one if you blink.
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Some are off all week, most are off Wednesday-Friday.
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I can't imagine Happy Feet 2 doing more than 80 million with three family movies opening tomorrow and the post-Thanksgiving crash. What a horrible result for WB.
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Noah Baumbach co-wrote Fantastic Mr. Fox... I guess I'll be seeing this, then.
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One of the best movies I've seen all year. It has such a simple, specific premise that illustrates grand ideas about these characters in an observed, authentic way. Clooney's at the top of his game, but the whole cast is pretty great. Funny that Jim Rash (or Dean Pelton in Community) co-wrote this.
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Descendants wins the weekend. 1.222m from 29 sites gives it the record of breaking into the top 10 with the lowest theater count (29). It's setting itself up for a long, healthy run. Number-wise that's a great result for Breaking Dawn. It failed to reach NM despite 2 years of inflation, but I doubt anyone could care.
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Okay Noctis, I saw it again. DH1: B+DH2: B- It's just an okay movie. Potter deserved a more competent ending.
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Sigh...This Twilight film is affecting the box office weirdly. Blind Side and TLA were both great counterprograming to NM and Eclipse, respectively. But Happy Feet bombed (pretty hard) and nothing else held that well.BD1 will have much better hold.
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It's a really frustrating show to watch. I hate all of the characters to some degree, because the writers really have no idea how to utilize them. But they do things like the last five minutes of this last episode or the whole West Side Story episode that keep me going.The plotline feels like it's following an endless cycle. I'm only watching this for the occasionally solid musical number.
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Hugo
in Review That Movie! (Spoilers Allowed)
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This movie represents and reflects on why I like movies. I don't know what did exactly it in for me, but this is a magical film that's directed almost impeccably by one of the greats.
And Hugo did what I thought no film could: It made me believe in 3D. This isn't a fad. If used well (I should say, used this well), it's a technical marvel and makes for an immersive experience.
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