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6 hours ago, filmlover said:
Pretty sad article.-
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28 minutes ago, Krissykins said:
Ah, we get both in the UK. Looks like a large amount of people in the US did yesterday too going by these numbers.
It seems Europe always has more vacation time than the USA. Our corporate masters in America really like to grind us into the ground, lol-
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10 minutes ago, CJohn said:
This happens every year on Easter Monday.
Never paid attention to it. My company would give us Friday off, but not Monday. -
So I guess some people must have been off from school or work yesterday. These drops look like summer Monday holds.
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3 hours ago, Brainbug said:
My day was just a bit ruined since ive learned that all the cinemas around me will only show GxK in 3D.
Man i HATE 3D so much
What year is it, 2010?? Sorry to hear that. Thankfully 3D has basically died in my area. -
Don’t really care what he chooses for his movies. But I will be happy if he avoids franchise projects for the rest of his career.
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8 minutes ago, Ziddletwix said:
KFP4's Thursday weekly drop was ~61%, Dune 2's Thursday weekly drop was ~51%. But I'm seeing most predictions expect substantially lower drops for both over the weekend, maybe 40-42% drops compared to last weekend. Is that normal? I.e. on a Thursday you see a much bigger drop from last week than you do on a weekend? (I guess I assumed last Thursday's gross already took that into account).
(I guess for KFP4, the idea is last Thursday was spring break, yesterday isn't, so you see a super steep drop, but on weekends that difference isn't as extreme?)
Also, probably naive question—why was Dune's Thursday weekly drop so much larger than its drops for the rest of the week? Is it just because it lost screens to Ghostbusters? (I.e. I'm trying to predict if it's likely that there are any more >50% drops next week—seems like it's possible if next Thursday it loses even more screens to GxK?)
Thursday preview showings for Ghostbusters hurt Panda & Dune. It will be interesting to see how those films play on the weekend. -
58 minutes ago, LonePirate said:
Any chance it comes close to $40M in Japan in order for the film to hit $1B? Seems unlikely to me but Japan does have a connection to the film no other country can claim and that might be enough to drive it higher than expected.
They should keep re-releasing it in North America, Europe, China, and wherever else. $1 billion would eventually happen, lol -
6 hours ago, BoxOfficeFangrl said:
Oppenheimer officially crossed the 4x multiplier on Wednesday.
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Oppenheimer has a 3.99856 multiplier. It needs $120,000 for a 4.00 multiplier. Universal should go find $120,000 somewhere like Paramount found $2 million in Puerto Rico for Transformers 2. Lol
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3 hours ago, WittyUsername said:
You think the Academy has it out for Marty at this point?
Definitely not the case. Pretty big respect to give so many nominations to his films. A lot of great movies through the years don’t even get nominated in major categories. -
Good number
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1 minute ago, BoxOfficeFangrl said:
Al Pacino explaining that Best Picture presentation:
It was poorly done, not just by the Producers but by Pacino as well. The whole "my eyes see Oppenheimer" with a question mark tone in his voice. Very weird. Nobody was sure if he was joking or what. Compare this with older days. Harrison Ford in 1994: "The Oscar for Best Picture of 1993 goes to...Schindler's List" and he says it with full authority.
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9 minutes ago, WittyUsername said:
Barbie trilogy? Did I miss something?
Just making assumptions here, lol
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36 minutes ago, BoxOfficeFangrl said:
I don't think it's a coincidence that Nolan's two nominations for Best Director happened with World War II era dramas. Spielberg could at least get nominated for Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. The Directors Branch is so highbrow now.
That's true, but I think they will give James Cameron the Best Director trophy on his final Avatar movie. He will have spent around 30 years on the Avatar projects, so I think they will want to reward him for having such a big impact with those movies.
The other one I could see is Greta Gerwig with her final Barbie movie. Let's say she does a very strong trilogy and everyone knows she is finished with Barbie after 3 movies. I could see them jumping on board to give her a trophy for that.
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7 minutes ago, BoxOfficeFangrl said:
On Xitter, Scott Mendelson mentioned that Oppenheimer is the first Best Picture winner to gross $400+ million worldwide since The King's Speech. There was so much disbelief in the comments because since that Oscars night, the internet has done nothing but bash TKS as a so-so PBS special Weinstein brainwashed voters into liking. When in reality, it got critical raves and the public preferred it to The Social Network at the box office. Sometimes winning Oscars can be the worst thing for a movie or person's long-term reputation.
I really like The King's Speech and don't mind it winning Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Script. I probably would have given Best Supporting Actor to Geoffrey Rush and Best Supporting Actress to Helena Bonham Carter. All three of the main actors in that film were awesome.
I probably would have given Best Director to David Fincher over Tom Hooper, who made some bad choices with the camera that distracted from the GREAT performances by his actors. It's a weird thing. He did a great job getting the strong performances from the actors, but then he chose to use really distracting camera angles that didn't do justice to the movie or the actors IMHO. David Fincher always delivers top notch stuff with his movies, both in terms of visuals and the acting performances.
Biggest problem with the 2010-2011 awards season was Chris Nolan getting left off the Best Director list after what he did with Inception. Straight up outrageous. At that point it felt like they were going out of their way to say "fuck you" to him for no good reason, especially after the snubs on The Dark Knight and The Prestige.
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I'm gonna be seeing TDK, Inception, Interstellar, and Dunkirk at my local Regal in April and May. But I wish they would bring Oppenheimer back to that theater. Oppy is currently playing at some AMC screens in shady locations near me. Not sure I want to take the risk of getting my car vandalized or something if I go there. Lol
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1 hour ago, filmlover said:
I see it's been decided Poor Things is the Awards Season Villain after the fact lmao. These manufactured "controversies" always disappear the day after the Oscars are over. How many people have called La La Land a "white savior movie" in the 7 years since it lost (spoiler alert: zero)?
I suspect the Barbie fans won't forget Poor Things sweeping those technical categories. As a Batman fan, I still haven't forgotten Slumdog Millionaire sweeping a bunch of technical categories it should not have won against TDK (Cinematography in particular).
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16 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:
Poor Things was definitely 2nd place for BP right? 3rd place feels harder to guess but I'm gonna guess Zone of Interest maybe.
Sounds about right, but I think it’s pretty close overall for the #2 spot between Poor Things, Zone of Interest, American Fiction, and Anatomy of a Fall. Very strong Top 5 movies in the running this year.-
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5 hours ago, emoviefan said:
Not saying he should do it. But dam I want his Bond Movie. Sure we sort of got it with both Inception and Tenet. Him and the guy who presented him with his Oscar tonight have both been turned down by the Broccoli's for wanting too much control.
Tenet, Inception, and his Batman movies all have James Bond elements in them. I hope he will stay away from franchise material. -
4 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:
Tbf, Nolan has hung out with Spielberg a buncha times and even done private screenings for him. Probably closer to a friend to him at this point.
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Imagine being a kid born in 1970 and growing up on legendary movies like Jaws, Close Encounters, Indiana Jones, and ET. Forty years later, you are handed a Best Director trophy by Spielberg. That’s gotta be the most incredible feeling for Nolan.
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Just found out Regal is playing TDK on April 11, Interstellar on April 18, Inception on April 25, and Dunkirk on May 9 in Regal’s PLF format (RPX). Bought tickets for all of them and looking forward to it!
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Impressive numbers for both movies.
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Megalopolis l Francis Ford Coppola's future magnum opus l CINEMA HAS BEEN SAVED
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The negative stuff on Titanic was before the movie was shown to anyone. That's not the case with Coppola's movie. The biggest studios in the western world saw the movie on a giant IMAX screen and they don't think the movie is good enough to invest their money into a market & distribution budget.