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48 minutes ago, IronJimbo said:
It's obivious isn't it?
It's because he's the only one who can oppose Disney. He's the one who makes his own films and they make more money than Disney shill products. He makes amazing films with big heart that make the most money.
wish this american social politics just stayed away from cinema and FAR FAR away from Jim, it's a load of nonsense
Wasn't that the whole concept of Avatar?
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People are drama queens, it either has to be the best of the best or the worst of the worst.
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4 minutes ago, 2kt09 said:
Does this mean Ep IX will have most consecutive days above 5M$ with 19 days?
It does not! TFA is already at 24 days above 5M$, but the record is still being held by Avatar at 26 straight days above 5M$. Jurassic World and Incredibles 2 are tied with TFA at 24 days.
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The Force Awakens holds the record for most consecutive days above 20M$ with 17 days
The Last Jedi holds the record for most consecutive days above 10M$ with 18 days
Anyone care to predict when these will be broken? EP IX? Avatar 2?
It kinda needs to be a Holiday movie as most big movies get killed around the 13-14 days mark
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TFA posting 17 days straight above 20M$ DOM...(742M$ in 17 days).
Now that's what I call a movie event.
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6 minutes ago, Zakiyyah6 said:
Personally I'm comparing CM's run to The Hunger Games because of the similar release dates and opening weekend. The Wonder Woman comparison doesn't work. CM is doing great in North America but it was never going to get WW style legs and it never needed too. CM is doing unbelievable numbers overseas but it seems like fans had too high expectations in North America. I was never comfortable with those Black Panther comparisons.
Hunger Games had very good late legs - starting from 4th weekend onward, it had only one drop above 40% (48% during it's 7th w-e) until its 23rd weekend (44%).
Considering that CM is 16M$ above HG at the same point, still grossing more on a daily basis (5,2M vs 4,5M) and that HG finished at 408M$, what do you expect CM will finish at? I see it with a 415M$ finish myself.
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Very excited by this movie. Can't wait for April.
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33 minutes ago, Blaze Heatnix said:
Just use Outline to get rid of the paywall. Copy and paste the link on the Outline and it'll unlock the page.
The full review:
- Jordan Peele's 'Us' is a politically impeccable allegory - but it's no 'Get Out'.
- There is such a thing as zombie careerism and I pray, after seeing Us, that Jordan Peele has not succumbed to it.
- After the triumph of Get Out - that widely feted and genuinely fabulous exercise in sociopolitically literate Grand Guignol - Peele has shown worrying signs that he believes those reviewers who, while lauding the film, did much lordy-lordy-ing about its supposed genre confusions.
- Now Peele gives us something close to a zombie movie homaging zombie cinema.
- The zombie reviewers have seen the Peele future and it works.
- It's amazing how, in retrospect, Get Out seemed pure Jordan Peele, for all its own invocations.
I'm not very familiar with how reviews are written, but is this typical? It barely talks about the movie and is mostly focusing on external stuff.
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Definitely holds up upon a second viewing.
The only complaints I could have about the movie are the lack of stakes. You know the main characters (Marvel, Fury, Coulson) are not going to die because it's a prequel and when she finally learns all her power, she basically becomes superman and the only threat to her are what her enemies can do to the people she cares about.
Talos is great and I like the seeds they planted to get the Skrulls to become the vilains in the future.
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2019 sequels impact and upcoming milestones
The LEGO Movie 2 : The second part
- The LEGO movie (150M$ combined) - currently 132M$ (unlikely)
How to Train your Dragon : The Hidden World
- How to Train your Dragon 1 (150M$ DVD and 200M$ Combined) - currently 144M$ DVD and 196M$ combined (unlikely for DVD - possible for combined)
Avengers : Endgame
- The Avengers (250M$ combined) - currently 237M$ (impossible)
- Iron Man 1 (200M$ combined ) - currently 196M$ (unlikely)
- Guardians of the Galaxy (150M$ combined) - currently 143M$ (unlikely)
- Avengers : Infinity Wars (100M$ Blu Ray) - currently 90M$ (likely)
- Black Panther (100M$ combined) - currently 90M$ (possible)
- Spider Man Homecoming (50M$ Blu Ray) - currently 47$ (guaranteed)
Dark Phoenix
- X-Men : The Last Stand (150M$ DVD and 150M$ combined) - currently 145M$ DVD and 146M$ combined (unlikely to both as this has stayed flat since 2016)
Secret Life of Pets 2
- Secrets Life of Pets (50M$ DVD ) - currently at 39M$ (unlikely)
Toy Story 4
- Toy Story 3 (200M$ DVD) - currently 193M$ (possible)
Spider Man Far From Home
- Spider Man Homecoming (50M$ Blu Ray) - currently 47$ (guaranteed)
- The Amazing Spider Man 2 (50M$ combined) - currently 47M$ (unlikely)
Fast and Furious presents : Hobbs and Shaw
- The Fate of the Furious (50M$ combined) - currently 49M$ (guaranteed)
Frozen 2
- Frozen (250M$ DVD and 400M$ combined) - currently 235M$ DVD and 397M$ combined (possible for DVD - guaranteed for combined)
Star Wars ep. IX
- Star Wars The Force Awakens (50M$ DVD and 200M$ combined) - currently 39M$ DVD and 191M$ combined (unlikely for DVD, likely for combined)
- Star Wars The Last Jedi (100M$ combined ) - currently 86M$ (possible)
- Rogue One : A Star Wars Story (100M$ combined) - currently 84M$ (unlikely)
- Solo : A Star Wars Story (50M$ combined) - currently 48M$ (guaranteed)
2020 and future
Suicide Squad (100M$ combined) - currently 96M$
Skyfall (50M$ DVD) - currently 48M$
Wonder Woman (100M$ Blu Ray) - currently 88M$
Despicable Me 2 (250M$ combined) - currently 248M$
Despicable Me 3 (50M$ combined) - currently 43M$
The Croods (50M$ DVD) - currently 48M$
Avatar (250M$ DVD) - currently 235M$
Sherlock Homes 2 (100M$ combined) - currently 88M$
Sing (50M$ Blu Ray) - currently 42M$
Jurassic World (100M$ Blu Ray and 150M$ combined) - surrently 98M$ Blu Ray and 139M$ combined)
Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom (50M$ Blu Ray) - currently 41M$
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A look back at some of my 2018 predictions on impact of sequels.
All my "guaranteed" predictions happened.
On 2/6/2018 at 5:07 PM, langer said:2018 sequels impact and upcoming milestones
Maze Runner - The Death Cure
- The Maze Runner (50M$ combined) - currently 40M$ (impossible) - Stayed Flat
Avengers : Infinity Wars
- The Avengers (250M$ combined) - currently 235M$ (impossible) - Gained 2M$
- Iron Man (200M$ combined) - currently 196M$ (unlikely) - Stayed Flat
- Captain America : TFA (50M$ DVD) - currently 48M$ (possible) - Reached milestone and gained 2M$
- Guardians of the Galaxy (150M$ combined) - currently 140M$ (unlikely) - Gained 3M$
- Spider Man Homecoming (50M$ combined) - currently 44M$ (possible) - Reached milestone and gained 18M$
- Doctor Strange (50M$ combined) - currently 44M$ (possible) - Reached milestone and gained 7M$
Deadpool 2
- Deadpool (100M$ combined) - currently 99M$ (guaranteed) - Reached milestone and gained 7M$
Solo : A Star Wars story
- Star Wars The Force Awakens (150M$ Blu Ray and 200M$ combined) - currently 148M$ Blu Ray and 184M$ combined (guaranteed for Blu Ray, possible for combined) - Reached Blu Ray milestone and gained 4M$ - gained 7M$ combined
- Star Wars The Last Jedi (50M$ Blu Ray and combined) - not yet released (possible for Blu Ray, guaranteed for combined) Reached both milestones with 69M$ Blu Ray and 86M$ combined
Jurassic World :Fallen Kingdom
- Jurassic World (100M$ Blu Ray and 150M$ combined) - currently 94M$ Blu Ray and 133M$ combined (likely for Blu Ray, possible for combined) - gained 4M$ Blu Ray and 6M$ combined
Hotel Transylvania 3 : Summer Vacation
- Hotel Transylvania (100M$ combined) - currently 96M$ (likely) - gained 3M$
Mission Impossible : Fallout
- Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol (50M$ combined) - currently 46M$ (unlikely) - stayed flat
Dark Phoenix
- X-Men : The Last Stand (150M$ DVD and 150M$ combined) - currently 145M$ DVD and 146M$ combined (unlikely to both) - DF not released, TLS stayed flat
2019 and future
How to Train your Dragon (200M$ combined) - currently 195M$
Iron Man (200M$ combined) - currently 196M$
Guardians of the Galaxy (150M$ combined) - currently 140M$
Secret Life of Pets (100M$ combined) - currently 97M$ - Reached milestone in 2018
Toy Story 3 (200M$ DVD and 250M$ combined) - currently 192M$ DVD and 249M$ combined - Reached combined milestone in 2018
Transformers (300M$ DVD) - currently 295M$
Fate of the Furious (50M$ combined) - currently 45M$
Wonder Woman (100M$ combined) - currently 92M$ - Reached milestone in 2018
Frozen (400M$ combined) - currently 388M$
Rogue One : A Star Wars story (100M$ combined) - currently 78M$
Despicable Me 2 (250M$ combined) - currently 247M$
The Croods (50M$ DVD) - currently 48M$
Avatar (400M$ combined) - currently 398M$ - Reached milestone in 2018
Spider Man Homecoming (50M$ combined) - currently 44M$ - Reached milestone in 2018
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On 10/24/2016 at 3:24 PM, langer said:
For those following the "race" to 400M$ combined between Avatar and Frozen, here's the current status:
- Avatar - 394M$ - 3M$ in the last 11 months
- Frozen - 374M$ - 16M$ in the last 11 months
The race is over and the winner is....
Avatar - 400M$
Frozen - 397M$
Expect Frozen to pass Avatar by the end of the year.
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I think @LaughingEvans's point is that you're not going to get the equivalent of a political science thesis in a 2 hour movie. You're gonna get a summary at best.
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4 hours ago, LaughingEvans said:
Lads, they're comics.
The only meaningful way they can be written is to be character driven. And it ends there.
If you inject politics in comics, it's going to be watered down politics. If you inject social commentary, it's going to be watered down social commentary, and it goes on. Whether Moore is completely right or not, he makes a valid point: If you take your morals from comic books, they're gonna be watered down morals.
I'm telling you all this as a person who loves comics and still reads them at 29.
QFT
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2 minutes ago, JamesCameronScholar said:
Good for you. Some people also believe the Earth to be flat.
Baited and hooked
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I still don't believe this is coming out at this moment. Will need a teaser to make me believe this is coming out in the next 5 years...
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37 minutes ago, reddevil19 said:
Well, that's hardly difficult to imagine. I mean, when the box office for their first 6 movies is pushing 5 billion, with only two well-liked installments, it says a lot about the brand's power. They still have a lot of work to do, to get in a position where unknown characters can make bank (a la Ant-Man; none of the current movies have used unknown characters - maybe characters that weren't taken seriously, such as Aquaman, but he was very recognizable), but the potential is there for anyone to see.
Definitely looking forward to see how the DCEU will unfold and what they are gonna do with Batman and Superman. I'm still cheering for Batflek and Cavill to come back.
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5 hours ago, AndyK said:
The numbers posted their weekly home video sales data. They run around 2 months in arrears but the latest data for Nov 25th is interesting because it's the first week of the Xmas sales where there is a huge spike.
Some interesting takes..
Deadpool2 is tops, selling double IW, even though they were released in the same week (nearly).
Black Panther is not in the top 30.
Wonder Woman is # 8 and topped IW even after 65 weeks in the chart.
This is the Thanksgiving / Black Friday week. It really depends on BF specials. Look at the previous week to get a better picture of what is trending.
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DCEU has yet to release a movie under 225M$ DOM. Pretty good for a bad franchise.
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On 11/9/2018 at 3:44 PM, TalismanRing said:
There's tons of great fantasy material that could have been or could still be adapted.
Narnia was certainly worthy of better but stuff like Eragon was junk to begin with while a fine book series like Susan Coopers The Dark Is Rising was turned into garbage to jump on the fantasy bandwagon and LeGuin's great Earthsea was murdered on TV.
A shame. There so much great material out there from LeGuin, McKillip, Gavriel Kay, Pratchett, Miéville, Williams, Zelazny et al
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin is my favorite book ever. I make a point to read it once a year.
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As of October 12th 2018, I still don't believe this is coming out.
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I'm still to this day a very big fan of BvS but I have been very disappointed by JL. I'm in the minority that prefers Snyder style to Whedon and having these two directors try to mesh JL into a cohesive movie was painful to watch.
I would cut 1 minute of BvS and be happy with it all (the way Superman says Martha, not the sentence, just the delivery --- Batman saying to Martha he's a friend of Superman, minutes after trying to kill him)
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This will be a horror movie about mutants, but they will remove all links to Marvel or super hero... mark my words.
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As of today, I still don't believe this will come out in 2020...or even before 2025. Waiting on a trailer...Is Sam Wortington even acting anymore? ( has he ever acted?)
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The main themes of Avatar are absolutely about social justice. Don't let a trendy term (SJW) cloud your judgement.