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Interesting, because I feel I've seen a lot of advertising for TSBEMH and very little for UB, though I did hear Vince Vaughn on Fox Sports Radio yesterday. Offhand, I can the bit where all the women start drooling over Richard Gere and Dev Patel telling his mom that he was only pimping her out a little. And Maggie Smith was crabby at some point. I guess it just depends on what you watch, and where do you go on the web. TSBEMH probably didn't spend a ton to run ads during, IDK, Empire, while there might have been a lot of UB promo on ESPN.

"Well, what can you do, Yoko? Can you play the tambourine?" Loved Jamal's coming out moment. LOL at it being a top story on CNN but CNN is kind of a mess these days, so... Nice to see that the rest of the family was happy for him, even if Lucious is acting like someone died, dressing in black the next day and carrying on about the tragedy of it all. Looks like Boo Boo Kitty's duplicity won't go undetected for long. Sometimes this show moves a little too fast!

Double crap! Universal's $76M weekend projection is ridiculous.

Set low expectations and then you can publicly act "surprised" that the movie surpassed them. Classic studio lowballing.

BOM says Titanic sold 128M tickets in its first run. In 1940 (when GWTW was still in limited road show engagements, higher prices, but it didn't go into general release until 1941) the census had the US population at 132M total. People did go the movies a lot more often then, but the US had more than double the population by 1997 (272M). Theoretically, a four quadrant movie now could sell more tickets than a four quadrant movie back then simply because there are more potential customers. Not that it works out that way in practice, as there are simply many more options to watching a movie in theaters than there were back in 1940. Still, the box office for both films is the best of the best.

Not really. Sure, she didn't get the Oscar nom, but considering the overall quality of the movie, that she got as close as she did to the Academy Award nod is a win for her and will probably help her be more easily considered for serious roles in the future. Before Sandra Bullock won her Oscar, she was in the second Truman Capote movie that only made a million dollars or so, but it showed range beyond her rom-com roles. If Jen gets her Erin Brockovich/Blind Side in the next few years, she will be gunning for the Best Actress win IMO, and Cake will be part of that narrative.

The Honest Company, a line of eco-friendly household and kid stuff. Like Jessica Simpson, she'll be incredibly wealthy without having to work in the profession that originally made her famous, ever again. But a freshly steamed one...

Basically. It's less that Goop has been put out to pasture than that doing Broadway or a Netflix drama would take precious time away from cleansing and steaming herself. Nice rebound for Sniper and crazy to see a SpongeBob movie even more popular than it was ten years ago but the nostalgia angle makes sense.

Every few years, Hollywood seems to get amnesia about the fact that America is perfectly willing to embrace black people as TV and movie stars (it goes hand in hand with the repeated "shock" that women like going to movies starring women). I am half afraid, half anticipating how other networks will respond to Empire's success....will it lead to true diversity or really bad knock-offs? How many different characters are going to beat up Hakeem? I will be surprised if the Lucious/Anika wedding happens; he's still in love with Cookie.

It's a remake, so somebody liked the story well enough to do it again...

Looks like we have a race for BP...

Since 2010, but nice try

Catering to older barbershop clientele and people who've gotten notices from the ISP about downloading before? Or they still have dial-up...

Yeah, it is, even down the singer/actress star and in a sexy/campy "Fatal Attraction" wannabe thriller. I wonder who the "What the hell is he/she doing in this?" star is going to be for Boy Next Door, the one that shows up a half hour/hour into it, clearly for the paycheck.

The Academy and the Government working together! They hired a bunch of actors to go to different screenings in the South/Midwest and make it look popular! The truth is out there!

IDK, it was obvious Titanic was going to win, it was up for the most awards and the whole 1997 Best Picture lineup was pretty popular (adjusted totals): Titanic: $1.065B As Good As It Gets: $262.9M Good Will Hunting: $245M L.A. Confidential: $115.5M The Full Monty: $82.3M I don't know if AS is enough of a spectacle with a huge fanbase like Titanic and RotK that will bring in viewers. Will the Sniper controversy still be brewing a month from now? But yeah the Academy is super relieved that The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Imitation Game aren't the biggest hits of the lineup and they don't have to hold their ratings hopes on getting Cumberbabes to tune in.

JLo has been everywhere promoting The Boy Next Door and the ads made it look like it might be intentionally unintentionally hilarious ("I love your mother's cookies!"). I think it's earned its own audience. If sellouts help other movies, why didn't Blackhat do better? Not that it's really similar to American Sniper but it's more like it than The 30-Year-Old Next Door.

Final ratings up to a 4.4 with 11.07 million viewers! Very intrigued by Andre's wife. I guess they have an open marriage? Glad that Jamal finally moved out. Sure, his dad should accept him but he doesn't have to foot the bill for your luxury apartment either way. When will Luscious realize straight sons are far less stable than the gay one? Hakeem was just a fictionalized Bieber/Breezy before the Oedipal stuff with Naomi Campbell... but added a layer or two. Cookie's newfound grudging respect for Anika had better not keep them from having at least one good old-fashioned soap opera catfight...

IDK, predicting it not to come anywhere close to Lone Survivor (especially since they acknowledge the great trailer) still seems like a pretty bad prediction to me. Could anyone see a $90M weekend, of course not, but why would it make $40 million total? Of course I thought Selma would surely make more than the Jackie Robinson movie, so...

Gwyneth seems to be promoting it by dishing on Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck and what she thinks of Chris Martin dating JLaw. Anything to keep from talking about the movie! The Butler was about the Civil Rights movement but also a more personal story about a family and not just a history lesson, though it was kind of like a black Forrest Gump, in a way. That clip of Oprah smacking Oyelowo for disrespecting Forest Whitaker was in every ad and trailer and definitely resonated. You did have more stars in it, black and white, and the stunt casting got it a lot of attention (Robin Williams as Eisenhower! Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan! Lee Daniels is such a troll). At one point McConaughey was supposed to be JFK: "Ask not what your country can do for you...alright, alright, alright!" Would've derailed the Oscar campaign before it ever started! Being the only adult drama around at the time definitely helped.

It kind of makes sense if you think about it: 1946 was the first full year after WWII (millions of solders returning home) and TV hadn't taken off yet. Much easier for movie attendance to be super high in a time when people only had radio shows to listen to at home. Nice article, though, shows that people were complaining about the quality of movies back in the good-old days as well. Wild Hogs making nearly $170M.

From posters on the board, IDK, but you get racial breakdowns a lot in the box office reports, especially for things like the F&F franchise.