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Well, Jurassic World was more enjoyable than AoU IMO, so if it beats it I would be okay. I'm more than positive Star Wars is taking the year though.

If JW opens to $160 million or more, I don't think Inside Out is making it to first place next weekend. I can't see JW dropping more than 55% next weekend with Father's Day to boost it.

All the more impressive when just a few years ago they were really struggling to produce hits.

Jesus. This is Furious 7 all over again. It's just getting higher and higher. I think this really speaks for how huge and iconic JP is. That after years of being a dormant franchise, the new one is opening with $150 million plus.

If you don't like this film I don't like you.

Inside Out might end up Pixar's first film not to open in first. Though it'll still have big numbers.

You never know. I do think it's a safe bet over $60 million, at least. I don't know how much higher it could get though.

I think anybody predicting anything over $140-150 million is getting a bit ahead of themselves. I'm really excited by the prospects of this opening super huge too but we really have no idea how frontloaded this could be. It very well might miss $60 million for Friday.

So what are we looking at here? $65 million Friday? If so, is a $50 million Saturday likely?

Holy fuck. That is all.

So, after sleeping on it, I think I know where I stand. I liked it, a lot actually. It isn't a great film, exactly. It has a lot of flaws, some glaringly bad, but the film's highs are so well done and do their best to recapture the imaginative and thrilling feel of the original and does about as good as one could do. Bryce Dallas Howard was pretty good, though her character in the first half of the film was kind of "meh", she does a 180 and ends up having some of the film's best moments. Chris Pratt was great, as expected. People love that guy, too. I heard a LOT of chatter behind and around me about him. Once the plot kind of got going (coincidentally, when Pratt was introduced) things got a lot of fun. Aside for only a couple of dull sequences, it stayed on a pretty good course. I thought the ending was sort of bullshit, but fuck it, it looked cool I guess. I give it a B-. Good film, not nearly as great as the original, but about on par with TLW.

Par for the course for BOM these days.

Spy losing 500+ theaters on its second weekend is baffling. Surely some sort of mistake.

Trailer got a great response with Jurassic World.

Well I like this idea. Let's see where it goes.

I love it when studios do stuff I wanted them to do.

What are the theater counts this weekend? BOM is slacking.

It came to my attention the other day I don't read enough, so I ordered the book off of Amazon. Should be here Wednesday.

I read that article not too long ago (I frequent cracked a lot). I do agree with a lot in there. That shot in The Hobbit 3 is fucking silly as hell.

The trailer is great but the poster suffers a bit from "LIVE. DIE. REPEAT." syndrome.

Awesome!

Movie was funny as hell. Sort of dragged a bit in the middle I thought, but it the third act was so damn brilliant it made up for it. Everybody did great. McCarthy was good as usual, Jude Law did fine, and Statham, Byrne, and Peter Serafinowicz were all fantastic. Seriously, putting Statham in this role was a stroke of fucking genius. Not without its flaws, at times it became your usual "dick/vagina joke" filled R-rated comedy, but most of the time it acted as a really witty spy film parody. I give it a B+, among the most enjoyable films I've seen in the past couple of years.

The Heat did $1 million en route to $39 million btw though I don't remember it's start time.

Need this trailer.