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Illustrated guide to all GOT (TV) deaths: http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/entertainment/game-of-thrones/#season-three

The "if you build it, they will come" model works for most of the year. Make a good movie, audiences will come out in droves. The exceptions are that post-Thanksgiving weekend, Super Bowl weekend and prolly post-Labor Day.

Brooklyn's Finest is an underrated movie.

I agree. I think the series would have declined as per usual and by the 4th one, like you said, fizzed out of existence. The reboot, reenergized the fanbase and got the writers thinking about how to get bigger and better. Brilliant move by Vin Diesel (and Paul Walker) to come back and also for Vin to secure some creative control. I'm sure his creative inputs are being under recognized.

I was actually looking into this earlier today. I want every month to have a $100m weekend winner. January/February have come close. Probably within the next decade. September...probably not in our lifetime. August and October - within in the next 10 years, yea. December - Star Wars 7 JANUARY American Sniper $89,269,066 FEBRUARY Fifty Shades of Grey $85,171,450 MARCH The Hunger Games $152,535,747 APRIL Furious 7 $143,623,000 MAY The Avengers $207,438,708 JUNE Man of Steel $116,619,362 JULY Harry Potter / Deathly Hallows (P2) $169,189,427 AUGUST Guardians of the Galaxy $94,320,883 SEPTEMBER Hotel Transylvania $42,522,194 OCTOBER Gravity $55,785,112 NOVEMBER Catching Fire $158,074,286 DECEMBER The Hobbit $84,617,303

Take home $$ for the actors (not a lot of info on FF7 salaries)

"Other". Lol

I got a little nervous at the opening of FF7. There were huge 4-quadrant crowds (young old male female). Very diverse culturally too. I thought of Ep7 and wondered if SW could and would command that type of appeal across the masses in the same way. Time will tell but i am not sure. Ok sounds good

Fantastic opening!!

I think that's the case for alot of people.

I didn't think about that distinction. Went ahead and added boxoffice results (you can make multiple entries)

Multiple choice selections are allowed. I made this poll after I heard someone somewhere else say that BOT's (I like that acronym!) don't care about box-office. While I don't know if that's true or if that's necessarily a bad thing, I want to hear what you guys think.

Wow, that's an opinion I don't come across often...

Discuss. Pretty sure Matrix Reloaded will be on someone's list.

Was that because much of TF4 occurred in east Asia?

Why do some consider Insurgent a disappointment? It made almost as much as its predecessor over the first weekend. For a sequel to a movie which didn't necessarily kill it with the critics, that's pretty good.

I was the opposite. I wished all the plagues were true to the source material (supernatural, not naturally occurring). Things got 'interesting' for the very last one but I will agree, it wasn't his best. His films are very beautiful though. I've said elsewhere, I loved the book (the Martian) so much that I'm nervous about a movie adaptation screwing it up (no matter who was making it).

What logical/natural narrative was missing from Exodus?

Cast Away meets Apollo 13 meets Mission to Mars

Absolutely loved the book. One of my favorite sci-fi novels of all time. I'm nervous the movie won't do it justice. Here's a selfie from the set:

....until Danerys summoned the...

Gnomeo and Juliet made $100m unadjusted. How??

Dakota: "Even now there are moments when I think, 'What the f*** have I done? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2947052/Jamie-Dornan-talks-heinous-sex-scenes-Fifty-Shades-Grey.html

Batman v Superman