The Panda

This years animated category could easily be stronger than the best picture category. So many strong animated films this year.

Caine Damon DiCaprio Fassbender Ramirez Let's snub Depp and Redmayne please.

1.The Good Dinosaur 2.The Revenant 3.The Hateful Eight 4.Steve Jobs 5.Crimson Peak 6.Star Wars 7 7.Bridge of Spies 8.Kung Fu Panda 3 9.Joy 10.Finding Dory

Im just hoping maybe the Academy has wised up a bit and will avoid Danish Girl and Brooklyn and give the nod to films that actually have critical and financial traction.

It could possibly give HT2 a run for its money with PRATT and Washington

Martian - 57m Sicario - 14m

So far I'm predicting 1.Spotlight 2.Joy 3.The Revenant 4.The Hateful Eight 5.Steve Jobs 6.Inside Out 7.Beasts of No Nation 8.A Populist Film (Either The Martian, Mad Max, or Star Wars) 9.Carol 10.Sicario I think they pass on The Danish Girl and Brooklyn (mediocre reviews)

2014 1.Boyhood 2.Whiplash 3.Birdman 4.the Grand Budapest Hotel 5.Theory of Everything 6.The Imitation Game 7.Selma 8.American Sniper 2013 1.Gravity 2.Her 3.The Wolf of Wall Street 4.12 Years a Slave 5.Philomena 6.Dallas Buyers Club 7.Nebraska 8.Captain Phillips 9.American Hustle

I bet 50 points to two people October will set the October record I bet 50 points to two people The Martian is over Interstellar DOM I bet 50 points to two people The Martian is over Interstellar WW I bet 50 points to two people Steve Jobs is over Argo DOM I bet 50 points to two people The Peanuts under 150m DOM

1.The Martian 2.Sicario 3.The Good Dinosaur 4.Bridge of Spies 5.The Hateful Eight 6.Steve Jobs 7.The Revenant 8.Star Wars 7 9.Kung Fu Panda 3 10.In The Heart of the Sea

No they shouldn't have, otherwise it would have been a bad movie. It was never going to do San Andreas numbers, but I am disappointed in the expansion, I expected more.

Interstellar is Nolan's best movie not called Memento. Gravity is Cuaron's best movie not called Children of Men.

but it never quite gets there. I can see that, the epilogue is pretty wonderful, and the core theme sets a nice tone. The suspense sections lacked though.

A Ex Machina Inside Out Jurassic World Mad Max: Fury Road B Ant-Man Avengers: Age of Ultron The DUFF Everest Furious 7 Kingsman: The Secret Service The Last 5 Years Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Pitch Perfect 2 C Cinderella Chappie Insurgent Minions Terminator: Genisys Tomorrowland Vacation War Room D Blackhat Descendants Get Hard Jupiter Ascending Max The Man From U.N.C.L.E Mortdecai Pixels T3ken F Fantastic Four Fifty Shades of Grey Hot Pursuit Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 Seventh Son

Everest might get a nomination, mostly for the epilogue piece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUl1C_6Kfh8

The film was very well shot and it made me feel as if I were on the mountain itself. I really enjoyed the film, the performances worked (they weren't great, with the exception of Clarke, but weren't bad) and the story was surprisingly moving. Clarke was especially strong, he had the most emotional moments, I would have liked to see more of Gyllenhaal's character though, and I would have liked to see more development of the Texas guy so his saving could hit the emotional chords stronger. The film just didn't hit you hard enough on the emotional moments, or create enough tension in the suspenseful moments for it to warrant an A. B+ I also really loved the score as a side note, it was simplistic, thematic, and moving in the right moments. The Epilogue piece is really nice, one of my favorite scores so far this year.

Oscar nominated films with LGBT themes over the last time 10 years Films with LGBT issues as A Core Theme The Imitation Game (2014) Dallas Buyers Club (2013) The Kids Are Alright (2010) A Single Man (2009) (Best Actor nom) Milk (2008) Transamerica (2005) (Huffman nominee) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Films Which Featured an LGBT Theme Birdman (the random lesbian scene) (2014) Black Swan (2010) Capote (2005)

Idk, the whole "Falling for another they aren't allowed to love" concept seems cliche. Then again, I haven't ever seen a Todd Haynes movie so maybe I shouldn't judge a book by its cover. The Danish Girl's trailer however was so hamfisted with cliches I wanted to gag. I may have judged to early on Carol though, I'll apologize for that. Oscar Bait films are really no better than a cliche blockbuster, they just get votes for being "culturally relevant".

Carol, Danish Girl, and Brooklyn all look like the blatant cliche'd Oscar bait of the season. There are likely a few others too, they're just the ones that stuck out.

Just to clarify I did not mean Martian would open over 270m DOM. I meant over Gravitys OW

I bet 50 points to two people The Martian opens over Gravity DOM I bet 50 points to two people Hotel Transylvania 2 breaks the September OW record I bet 50 points to two people Pan and Goosebumps total for over 175m DOM combined I bet 50 points to two people Bridge of Spies is over War Horse DOM I bet 50 points to two people Crimson Peak is over Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension OW and DOM I bet 50 points to two people there are at least 6 20m OWs in October (I count the OW as the one the movie expands nationally. Example, the Walk the 9th, Sicario 2nd, and Steve Jobs 23) I bet 50 points to two people Spectre OW is over 105m

They're just not great times for tentpoles. October and late September works well for leggy dramas, horror movies, and low budget films. This years October looks fairly compelling as well. February has a nice holiday weekend and Valentine's Day to help it out, other than that it's usually pretty weak. January has holidays and Oscar nods to propel the box office forward. April is usually pretty weak though as well, its only just recently started to get a few "pre-summer" blockbusters. Its especially weak when Easter is in March.

I'm in

This could actually end up being a decent sized hit, quality or not.

Exactly, it got a major backlash only when it started going to town with Oscars. The film was great, and it didn't lack substance, the style WAS the substance. (Which isn't a bad thing, it's the same idea with Mad Max)