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@Barnack, your posts are consistently very informative and enlightening to read. Thank you! 100m dom and 300m WW are just nice round numbers, so I'll keep hoping it gets to those milestones, even if it'll be a slow crawl. In the end I think considering the reviews, it did about as well as could be expected. I enjoyed it a lot and I hope to see these two actors work together again at some point.

I didn't plan to watch this movie in theater, but I think I will now.

It's really depressing. It's like people no longer care what the truth is, they just want to be outraged and angry. If an article has a misleading headline, often people will only regard that and not even read the rest. If more facts come in late to shed new light on a situation, it's ignored by most everyone. The most baffling thing here is that the video is honestly so clearly manipulative in its editing. I have a dog which I love dearly and I would never consider that video daming evidence.

Ugh. Yeah, TMZ are the ones who care about protecting animals. God, how stupid can you be? The article is great though, so thanks for linking it. Really sad what's happened to this movie. Media literacy courses should be mandatory in every school, because some people are duped far too easily.

No way.

Yup, in March. It's going to be a crawl to 300m, I think. A lot depends on how well it does in Japan. I have no idea what to expect from that market.

The last theater loss really hurt. I hope it stops bleeding theaters out now, since there seem to be plenty of other candidates for theater losses now and not that many new movies vying for those screens.

Damn, she was also moviesareawesomegirl! Talk about putting your all into a single purpose, she used every one of her "personas" to attack this movie and troll this thread. I'm almost impressed by the dedication.

I still don't get the reviews this movie got and I probably never will. Sure it had its issues but it did not deserve to be panned and protested against. I'll probably watch it again tomorrow, for the third time, and I'm looking forward to seeing how my viewing partners respond to it. It could have gone way Better, but not with these reviews. It was basically doomed as soon as they came out. Yeah. I get the irrational desire to watch something fail, but it seems particularly mean spirited to keep harping on it as if anyone here was trying to claim otherwise and needed convincing. i mean, did this movie kill your dog or something? WTF is there to be so happy about that this underperformed? There isn't even any rivalry going on that would benefit anyone else by comparison (DC vs. Marvel style).

And now it's losing another ~800 theaters. Gonna slow down a lot. If it's gonna get to 100m, it'll be a crawl. Considering where Mag7 and Sausage Party ended, not sure why everyone is sure Sony will fudge this. They clearly couldn't be bothered to fudge a few of their other close calls.

- (10) Passengers Sony Pictures $326,646 -19% 2,447 $133 $92,233,188 30 If we're done gloating, Thursday's numbers.

I wonder who the kids will be in the new one. I think I read the kids from JW aren't coming back. Right now we know so little about the storyline, I'm curious to learn more.

Really sad it lost so many theaters again this week. A lot of the holdovers were doing weaker business per-theater, but this will obviously hurt Passengers' holds going forward. Is 100m still on the table? What do you think?

LOL fixed.

I'm curious to see how this size works for King Kong. I mean, that's so outside the realm of realistic gorilla size, that it crosses a line where it might veer into absurd. I tend to think an animal that is slightly exaggerated is scarier than one that is preposterous by real world standards. Sort of like I find a large Tarantula spider scarier than some giant man-size spider like certain sci-fi movies have. That size works for Godzilla because our frame of reference is dinosaurs which were huge. I'm not sure it works for King Kong.

Hmm, I thought they were only starting production in March but Chris Pratt posted this today: #ChrisPratt on Weibo "I am getting ready to go film JurassicWorld2. At the airport. I want to say thank you to everyone who saw #太空旅客[電影]##Passengers# this weekend. We are all very grateful! ?♥" If it's really already starting to shoot, I assume we're going to get some more details about the plot and cast pretty soon.

Ugh. Still don't get why Sony couldn't have bargained for a better release date in China. I thought that was gonna be one upside of having a partnership with Wanda, but hey, guess not.

Just a reminder that Passengers is officially the highest grossing original movie of 2016. "Non-established franchise films" don't come around as often as they once did. But this really is a useless argument that never ends. It's enough for me to see recognition that this movie's performance relied entirely on its stars' wattage. They are all this movie had going for it, and if that alone is worth 300 million, that's plenty.

Just because Jen is a bigger star than him, doesn't mean he gets none of the credit/blame for how this movie is performing. It was sold very much on their combined star power. I think it speaks to both of their ability to open a movie, and I agree with Trifle that their combined presence here was an added attraction, making the partnership larger than the sum of its parts. It might be a while before his next non-frenchise project is announced, though - he is pretty much booked solid through 2019 with roles in GotG 2, JW 2, and Infinity War + sequel. I'm very curious to see what he does next but I'm not expecting to find out anytime soon.

Going by this type of logic you can discredit almost every actor in Hollywood as a "star". How many actors are the sole reason a non-franchise/sequel/known property movie does amazingly well? Basically there's DiCaprio, and... DiCaprio. If anything, this movie is about as close as you can get to that perfect storm of having an actor's name be the sole appealing thing. But then that's not enough because it's not a huge hit, it's just a 300m WW panned original sci-fi. As for Pratt "coasting" on two "big" properties... GotG became big due to the movie, it wasn't big beforehand. His portrayal of Star Lord is what established him as an up and coming star, and he brought a lot of his own humor and improvisation into the role. Simply put - it would be a different character if he wasn't playing it. Jurassic, while it was a more straightforward role, still utilized his image and presence very heavily in its marketing. It's the only movie in the series which had a human character appear prominently in the posters and artwork. And all of this, when he's not even the main protagonist in the movie! You can argue he had nothing to do with its success but obviously Universal's marketing team felt differently when they decided to plaster him all over the billboards.

Depends on what you mean by "bigger star". If you mean "more people in the GA would recognize his name" than yeah, probably - he's been in Hollywood as a recognizable actor for a lot longer. If you mean - is a bigger draw for audiences nowadays, and considered more valuable by studios, then I'd say probably no.

Oh FFS. And here I was thinking "no way would he write a full article without double checking".

After actually reading the article, looks like 255m is the correct WW number. It's a full article devoted to this number and its implications, would it be written without a solid source? really like the closing paragraph:

Hmm. So who has the right numbers? It would be awesome if this is correct. Maybe some OS territories reported late and that's the cause for the disparity?

Look at the line before the one you quoted. "But all things considering, and..." you can't take what is clearly meant to be part of the argument and act like it's the entirety of it. He's talking about it making 100m dom, along with the rest of the circumstances. That's what "all things considered" means.