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Chamalet is just 21 though, 22 when Oscar nominations are announced, it is SO hard for anyone that young to get nominated for Best Actor, they usually just fraud the performance into supporting if they can possibly get away with it.

Yikes, SPC has disabled comments on the official Youtube trailer!

What came out in Inception's third weekend? Maybe the new releases then had more to offer than this weekend's slate.

Diary of a Teenage Girl was kind of a flop even by art house standards, IMO in part because of the teen/adult sex angle, and An Education is presented as a cautionary tale, not how awesome it is for schoolgirls to hook up with grown men. Ha, tell that to AwardsWatch!

Shia five or six years ago would have worked, though from comments of people who've read the book it sounds like maybe he wouldn't have been hot enough, for their imaginations anyway. Not sure I even want to know why there's a color coded map about the age of consent or why Texas is in gray???

When you put it that way, it actually sounds reasonable.

Isn't that what they do in the UK with the blockbusters, a week of previews rolled into the opening weekend? I remember that from following Harry Potter back in the day. at The Nut Job 2 actually happening, I hope they keep reporting the tracking for ages like the first one.

Does Tom even have sex in any of his movies now, with all the saving the world, and running while saving the world? He may be old enough to be the father of his leading ladies now but they are still far from high school age. It's the 17 part, especially when Armie is obviously not nearly that youthful in appearance. I know a couple of 2010s book-to-TV adaptations that bumped up teen characters involved in (hetero) sexual situations to 18, even if no laws were broken in the story's setting. You can never totally predict what "controversies" will spring up around a movie come awards season, I mean, La La Land being fascist takes the cake, but Americans in 2017 taking issue with a 17 year old character in sexual scenes with an adult is entirely predictable. Obviously some people won't care, some will say any backlash is homophobia, but I don't think it's entirely that, in this decade R-rated teen movies have really fallen out of favor at the box office, especially ones that delve into sex in any way, even the critically acclaimed movies flop. Though this isn't really a teen movie so...

So I read that Timothee and Armie's characters are supposed to be 17 and 24, they're in Italy so it's legal I guess, but Hammer looks about 30, I see thinkpieces and counterattacks on the horizon as Oscar season unfolds...

Is there a way the mods can pin a list or map of the different timeframes that US students go back to school? Obviously you can't do it by the district but sometimes Deadline mentions percentages of K-12 out of/back in school in their reports, I think it would help in making predictions and also show how it differs across the country. It just seems like a topic that comes up every summer...

I thought Dunkirk was advertised a lot but not always effectively... They weren't really sure of what angle to hype beyond, "WWII action, by Chris Nolan!" Compare it to Saving Private Ryan, which not only had a name director but a huge star and the trailers made the plot clear, or Pearl Harbor, which had the romance element to go with the action, and Ben Affleck was a much bigger star than the lead in Dunkirk. It seems like there was some edict to minimize Harry Styles in the studio's marketing until about two weeks before it came out, though you can say the celebrity media and social media more than made up for the slack in that area. But they also didn't feature Tom Hardy as much as they could have. Sadly no surprise, the presence of ScarJo and an SNL darling were enough for the media to overlook the unappealing premise. Movies where most of the leads aren't white can get pigeonholed as only appealing to the "urban" audience and not worth discussing alongside movies made for "everyone", it's unfortunate. Though I have to say that many BOT posters were championing GT's potential to break out. Shouldn't Oogieloves have had a $20M OW then? IDK if "so bad it's good" actually ever draws a substantial crowd to theaters, unless it becomes a cult thing over time. The reviews here didn't matter because it was sold with a poop emoji, you knew critics were always going to trash it.

I saw on his Wiki page that he's developing another show for TV aside from Westworld, maybe he likes the long format better, TV is more of a writer's medium, plus the idea of stepping into the director's chair on a feature film and having everyone compare your efforts to big brother's...intimidating. Yesterday, I looked at an interview he did about Westworld posted on Youtube and like half of the comments were people so confused that Chris Nolan's brother sounds American and looks like Tom Brady! Would be interesting to see Chris really explore sibling dynamics in one of his films, I can see why he wouldn't though, probably too personal and painful given how the third brother turned out.

Seriously though, Nolan must be absolutely incredible at pitching concepts, it made so much sense when I read that his father was an advertising executive. Good for Girls Trip, how long before a sequel is announced? It might not be needed or make sense for the story, but when has that ever stopped Hollywood?

Yeah, the percentages here vs. the tracking reports don't seem to add up... It seems in a better spot than Apes last week but maybe it had less frontloading? Or they have inside knowledge of this week's openers all tracking horribly in "the heartland" to compensate...

‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ Dominates Social Media for Third Consecutive Week (Variety)

Apologies if the Variety social media write up has already been posted for the week...

Lincoln is at the top or very near of the list for revered US presidents and there hadn't been a theatrical film about him in a very long time. A movie about leaked documents from a dubious/corrupt administration could benefit from being topical...or depress people for seeming too much like the news.

Youtubed the Harry Styles album last weekend and 100% of the ads on the channel were for this movie, WB definitely knows their demo if nothing else. Nothing wrong with that!

Plus, how thrilled must they be that Mandy Moore landed in a big hit show this past year? Not that there's a big overlap in This Is Us and a thriller on the water, but Mandy will get more/better talk show bookings and Entertainment Tonight/Access Hollywood/etc. coverage in the lead up to its release, it can't hurt the movie's chances.

And The Circle, matches my experience in seeing it, definitely a Hanks audience, not many under 40.

IDK, I really liked the graphics, it looked very good for its budget, another highlight was the

Really liked Karen Gillan here, found myself wishing she had a bigger role.

I've always read about D or F grades in online discussions but don't think I've ever actually seen a movie with such a horrible Cinemascore in theaters until now! But there weren't any really standout reactions, no one screaming, "That's bullshit!" at the screen or anything fun like that. My screening had about 30 people (shocked it was that many), definitely more of a Hanks than Watson crowd in terms of demographics. Judging by the book summary I think I know what the reshoots were for, but I'm not sure why it only occurred to the studio after test screenings that maybe this story might be a problem for general audiences? If ever there were a time for a loose adaptation of a book, this was it.

Hidden Figures is a recent PG rated film that wasn't a "kids' movie" per se, sure there could have been more language or racial epithets and not been untrue to life either but the latter would have undercut the movie's point about how prejudice can be more covert. There is more than one approach to Civil Rights on Film than Mississippi Burning. In the 2000s, The Rookie was actually rated G, it was surprising they didn't throw in one "damn" or something bump it up to a PG for mild language. It isn't technically a lie, the movie did make a bunch of lists about spring movies, still I applaud the hustle of STX with that ad, you do what you gotta do when the studio asks you to sell a lemon. I was wondering why the ads for The Circle were so lifeless, plenty of so-so movies have managed to have good trailers, then I saw it. The final push in the last two weeks or so tried making it seem like a 2010s version of The Net, if it had been sold that way from Trailer #1, it may have gotten a mid-teens opening but an even worse Cinemascore I suspect. Is there an F-? The Net for the uninitiated: Unless The Circle comes in WAY over estimates, The Net had a higher opening weekend in 1995!

Just leaving the theater now and like most non-horror movies with abysmal Cinemascores, IMO it's an issue of advertising expectations vs. onscreen reality. Reshoots weren't going to help with general audiences unless they reshot like 40 to 50 percent of the movie and did something totally different than the source material. Parts of it could have made a much better film...I get why, given a fresh/rotten vote, the RT score is so bad, but it's not a complete disaster, more of an interesting, underdevopled failure. Though it nearly lost me at the beginning with