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And why would teenage girls be uninterested in LLL? Obviously it wouldn't be for every girl out there, but it's a romantic musical about having dreams, looks to be highly gif-able and has Emma Stone wearing a succession of pretty, colorful dresses...or by teen audience, does that really mean "boys"?

People fly all over the world, a successful water landing of a jet is pretty much the holy grail of aviation. It was more of a story in America but not a non-story in other places (I remember reading BBC coverage and seeing jokes that Heathrow didn't have to build a third runway, they could just use the Thames). Eastwood directing brings additional attention. Sully isn't going to have the foreign/domestic split of a Marvel movie but it makes sense it's performing better overseas than something like The Blind Side.

Gutsy move though, I figured it would be Nate or Frank!

Pretty sure ERC means Perry's career as a director: Date Title (click to view) Studio Lifetime Gross / Theaters Opening / Theaters Rank 10/21/16 Boo! A Madea Halloween LGF $70,408,079 2,299 $28,501,448 2,260 2 3/14/14 Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club LGF $15,973,881 1,896 $8,075,111 1,896 16 12/13/13 Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas LGF $52,543,354 2,194 $16,007,634 2,194 8 3/29/13 Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor LGF $51,975,354 2,047 $21,641,679 2,047 9 6/29/12 Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection LGF $65,653,242 2,161 $25,390,575 2,161 3 2/24/12 Tyler Perry's Good Deeds LGF $35,025,791 2,132 $15,583,924 2,132 14 4/22/11 Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family LGF $53,345,287 2,288 $25,068,677 2,288 7 11/5/10 For Colored Girls LGF $37,729,698 2,127 $19,497,324 2,127 12 4/2/10 Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too? LGF $60,095,852 2,155 $29,289,537 2,155 5 9/11/09 Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself LGF $51,733,921 2,255 $23,446,785 2,255 10 2/20/09 Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail LGF $90,508,336 2,203 $41,030,947 2,032 1 9/12/08 Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys LGF $37,105,289 2,070 $17,381,218 2,070 13 3/21/08 Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns LGF $41,975,388 2,016 $20,082,809 2,006 11 10/12/07 Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? LGF $55,204,525 2,034 $21,353,789 2,011 6 2/14/07 Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls LGF $31,366,978 2,111 $11,210,754 2,111 15 2/24/06 Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion LGF $63,257,940 2,194 $30,030,661 2,194 4

Really, I thought that was not true. Very good for Arrival, at least I kind of get what Paramount was thinking with the theater count given the combo of star/subject matter: hopeful the reviews will help with WOM/legs but hedging their bets just in case the public doesn't get it. Flight, OTOH, I will never understand Paramount never expanding to even 3000 theaters its entire run, unless they had "research" saying the heartland would be turned off by Denzel playing a drugged up, drunk version of Sully banging women half his age.

#oop, FTFM! Still this should get a healthy field trip audience. HF it's going wide on January 6th now, can the title be updated please?

She's got another racy hit song on the charts right now:

Ugh, we're down to Asher, Connor, Frank, Nate or Wes as the guy under the sheet! I have a feeling it's one of the Keating 5, there's more story than if it's the hitman or the sidepiece.

BoaN couldn't shift the focus to anyone but Parker, since he was such a big part of the film on both sides of the camera. Hacksaw pushed the true story angle initially and they can just throw Andrew Garfield out there. The most "controversial" personal stuff they could ask him is about Spider-Man or Emma Stone. They didn't use Gibson's name to promote it at first, though obviously the director of Bravehart and PotC isn't a mystery. There was a sense of discovery to the general public with Parker's past, since he wasn't all that famous before and the entertainment world had little reason to talk about any aspect of his life, so the outrage was fresh and the more the layers were peeled back, the worse it became. And let's face it, a lot of the "separate the art from the artist" talk comes after a person has done a lot of admired/respected work, so if you're new, there's less goodwill stored up, fewer people who'll be in your corner no matter what. Gibson's controversies and dramas were top entertainment news, mugshot and audio blasted everywhere, and people's feelings about him on on either side took shape years ago. If the arrest report or Oksana tapes were just being released this month, then yeah, there would be more debates about Mel's character and whether his art deserves to be rewarded. But you could hide Gibson and still sell this, when it was impossible with Parker and BoaN.

James Cameron, too.

HF has the history and math angles--twice as many field trip opportunities! NASA cooperated with the making of this, they have links to schools and the crowd pushing STEM studies would be supportive as well. Also, I think a movie with a message that women shouldn't be stereotyped or underestimated and can do anything they set their minds to, just might be...very timely, in January. Good point about the PG rating not being the death knell for a movie appealing to a more mature crowd.

Yasss, get that field trip money! It's not the kind of story that needs to be sexed up.

Annoyed it took her so long to agree about campaigning in Supporting Actress?

I think it's already been bandied about but it didn't really stick before. Thankfully this year all the black Oscar hopes are not wrapped up in BoaN...it's going to be difficult to peddle the "they just wanted to keep the black man down!" narrative should Denzel win his third Oscar in the same timeframe.

Yep, Parker had a nice enough career before where his past wasn't overly questioned, but he had to reach for the glory and the brass ring. It's really all on him, the scrutiny he's facing now. Mostly on him, because the whole thing was on his Wikipedia page and briefly delved into in other profiles, so it should have made Fox Searchlight do a bit more research before handing over $17 million, to see it was not a simple he said, she said case and maybe this is not the guy you want to parade on the media circuit as the face of social justice. Still, BoaN probably could have been a major awards player anyway, if he'd just been an actor in it and someone else had written the script. Maybe Hollywood shouldn't have let Polanski skate for what he did* but two wrongs don't make a right and also AFIAK there wasn't some sex with an underage girl subplot in The Pianist serving as a reminder to everything. *In a different time, it would play out very differently now I suspect, like how the Cosby allegations gained traction in 2015 though he'd been accused of the same behavior by multiple women in the aughts.

It's a chess movie, a totally Sad! genre at the box office when you get down to it.

There was an ad during Empire last night, it showed Parker's scenes but didn't mention him by name. Oh dear... IKR? Poor him. You know, I first heard about the charges and acquittal back when Great Debaters came out, but in very limited terms and the interview didn't mention the friend who was convicted at first, or the business with harassing the woman. He didn't go on about it but then he wasn't the star, so it was easier for him to just gloss over specifics. If you didn't know any more details, it was easy to categorize it as a he-said she-said case and believe that maybe he was really innocent. He had a nice career as a working actor and no one was doing exposés on the fifth-billed guy in Non-Stop. It's only because he sought the limelight as this heroic storyteller bravely rescuing Nat Turner's legacy, that he's in this predicament. Not only that, but to bring on the other guy as a co-writer and to add in that scene, casting himself as the righteous avenger....seriously, what is his damage? Is he colossally arrogant or incredibly stupid or both?

I agree, it's not a reasonable expectation though I could see it going a bit lower or higher depending on how well it goes over with the public (vs. the critics) and if it feels "been there, done that" to people, as there have been a lot of books and TV movies about Jackie through the years. Here's a clip from the movie: Before everyone jumps in criticizing her voice, here's the real Jackie for comparison: Friends teased her about the breathiness she affected in interviews and insisted her voice wasn't quite so....Marilyn Monroe-esque in private conversation. Here she is in 1960, months before the election in a more relaxed setting. Still a soft voice but slightly less put on. You get to see a humorous side that she's not really known for, though obviously it won't be displayed too much in this movie:

Maybe they really did rush out that trailer with the divorce news/affair speculation and those aren't the final VFX...

It's the same message in English and French.

Yikes at the turn the Jolie-Pitt divorce has taken in the past 24 hours, Paramount is probably longing for two days ago, when they had a sexy alleged affair to exploit for publicity! Who's going to hit the morning/talk show circuit to promote this thing now?

Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery in Entrapment. He was James Bond and all but come on now... Well, The Hunger Games movies aren't exactly a great case for JLaw having love interests in her age range... It's part sexism...okay, a lot sexism but also middle-aged actors and execs wanting to stay on top and fend off the young studs....especially now, they used to let Tom Cruise and Will Smith and Ben Affleck be leading men who carried the mainstream movies in their 20s, but now it's like guys are stuck playing high school/college kids until they're around 30, unless it's some indie/VOD. Meanwhile the internet snipes about twentysomething actresses playing dress up or looking too young, to be cast as mothers or young professionals. Another thing these graphs show is that the movie industry so leery about interracial pairings. Put JLaw with Michael B. Jordan!

Yeah you have the ones who say they didn't have "surgery" which might be technically true but they've been stuffed to the gills with fillers and Botox and lasered beyond belief, but hey, it wasn't surgery! As for Zellweger, some speculated that it wasn't about looking more youthful, because she didn't really (she looked unrecognizable at first but not noticeably younger), but possibly to erase her ethnic features (she is part Sami) or because as she got older, the folds of skin around her eyes were causing vision problems for her. If it was the latter, even if it was more "vision problems" than vision problems, the fix would have been deemed medical and Renee could truthfully say she didn't have cosmetic surgery. And if it was a medical thing, sometimes people keep that sort of thing private. Whatever happened, she looks more like herself than she did a couple of years ago. Anyway, I think a movie about Bridget Jones having a kid would have been a better idea 5-6 years ago. And the reviews make it all sound charming, but a Who's the Daddy? scenario just seems so...Maury Povich. LOL, Colin Firth doing a "You are NOT the father" victory dance...