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Other R hits include The Equalizer - 100m 300 2 - 106m Non-Stop - 92m Tammy - 85m Annabelle - 85m Let's Be Cops - 82m Fury - 80m+ The Grand Budapest Hotel - 60m There were a lot of strong ones last year though.

This year we have had 3 R movies over 150m 22 Jump Street Gone Girl Neighbors

Yes, I saw MJ1 that was poor quality, especially when compared to catching fire.

I'm just going to say im really impressed with Gone Girl's run, it's stayed in the top 5 for nearly 2 months straight despite an entourage of releases. With a strong awards run it could still be in for another 20m or so. Very happy that Fincher has a solid hit.

I mean if it's not #1 it's pretty much last

That's not what paramount told me.

I actually heard it's looking into becoming a state, like why not count it?

I'd disagree, it was painfully obvious there was something going to be wrong with Peeta (this is from a non-book reader who didn't know coming in). Especially when Gale said it was strange how Snow just let them go, as well as Snow saying it's the things that love most that destroy us.

While this year has been strong quality wise, it's very weak when it comes to strong awards contenders.

Normally, I wouldn't either. But so far we have absolutely no frontrunner, and I just cant help but think Unbroken (the biopic I think has the best chance of winning) is going to slightly disappoint critically.

Think of it this way, Lionsgate dropped the ball on marketing, and because of that they are missing out on around (if not more) than 100m domestically, possibly more if this trend carries overseas. Plus, they get less forward momentum for Part 2. They're losing over 100m dollar of profit they would have otherwise had if they didn't drop the ball.

How are multipliers meaningless? They are strong gauges on how well the movie played. Both Catching Fire and the Hunger Games had a 2.7x multiplier, however both had strong WoM and Catching Fire in particularly escaped having sequel legs due to glowing WoM. Mockingjay's is seeming fairly lackluster, and it's looking like the top of its opening weekend range is around 125m. So let's say it does that and gets the best legs possible for it (2.7, the movie won't get any higher than that) and it caps out at 337.5m. That's its ceiling. You're using anecdotal "remember whens" to back your logic, im simply using logic and statistics based on what we have and what's happened before.

How high or low it opens doesn't mean much for its legs, especially since there isn't any reason for it to be opening this low except for a decrease in interest (And time isn't going to increase that interest). Catching Fire had glowing WoM, Mockingjay Part 1 isn't getting close to that reception. There also isn't much to the movie that'll make people excited, it's kind of like filling up the tank and getting it ready to run. It is all build uo.

How? At this point that would require a multiplier larger than Catching Fire's.

A's Birdman: Or The Unexpected Nature of Ignorance Boyhood Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Fury Gone Girl The Grand Budapest Hotel The Guardians of the Galaxy Interstellar The LEGO Movie Snowpiercer X-Men: Days of Future Past B's 22 Jump Street Bad Words Bears Begin Again Captain America: The Winter Soldier Chef Edge of Tomorrow The Fault in Our Stars The Giver Godzilla How to Train Your Dragon 2 Neighbors Next Goal Wins Noah Only Lovers Left Alive St Vincent C's About Last Night That Awkward Moment Blended Divergent Dracula Untold God's Not Dead The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Life Itself The Monument's Men A Most Wanted Man Muppets: Most Wanted Oculus Veronica Mars D's 300: Rise of An Empire Alexander and the No Good, Terrible, Very Bad Day The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Annabelle Jersey Boys Maleficent A Million Ways to Die in the West Need For Speed Non-Stop Ride Along RoboCop Transcendence F's Deliver Us From Evil Endless Love I, Frankenstein The Nut Job Ouija Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones Pompeii Trans4mers: Age of Extinction Winter's Tale Z's America: Imagine a World Without Her

So given that Mockingjay does hit around 41m for the day, Weekend plays out as Fri: 55 Sat: 41m Sun: 27.1m Wknd: 123.1m That's a 40m drop from catching fire

I saw it and I'm rather conflicted, when the film first started I was enjoying it, it had that same build up that I loved in Catching Fire. But then it just keeps moving along at that same pace, it wasn't necessarily bad at what it was doing, but it was quiet moment after quiet moment and it never truly built to anything. Now, I understand that in context it's because Mockingjay part 1 should be build up to part two, but there should still be inner climaxes (especially since you have to wait a year to get your climax from this build). My point being is that I was hoping for something more akin to deathly Hallows part 1 (to a lesser extent) or Two Towers where you use the movie to build to your main climax (the next installment) but still have a movie that is enjoyable in its own right. I felt like it had to try to have some intense moments but they were all very sort, limited, rather sudden, and kind of fell off a cliff in intensity. It honestly also makes sense why they didn't shoot this in IMAX because there were no real shots/scenes that felt worthy of IMAX. All of the performances were just as strong as they were in catching fire, and they were some of the better parts of the film, I really don't want to totally bag on the film, but you really do leave the theater indifferent. The film really just ends as if Lawrence decided, "Well, we have two hours of footage cut off now!" It'll probably be stronger in context with part 2 but the problem is we don't have part 2 and so I have to make a judgement on part 1 as a film. I'll give it the benefit of the doubt and be generous with a C+ but it was definitely a disappointment

There's more than one Hobbit movie? But there's only one book!

I personally don't think a biopic is going to win, there are to many that are looking to be nominated. I could see this going down between Boyhood and Birdman.

I figured they weren't because I couldn't find them, but just curious.

Did RTH actually say those numbers?

Interstellar was one of my favorite movies this year and I am a big fan of Memento (I was supporting Interstellar all the way after I saw its potential). Believe me, I don't shit on Interstellar because I have a thing against Nolan movies, I do (and even then I am not trashing it, just saying it's nothing more than a decent thriller) because it's really not all that great.

It's because there;s no fun/glory in it after its already a lock.

Catching Fire dropped 24% from its Friday plus previews, my personal prediction was that it'll drop around 32% from Friday, I don't see how that's unreasonable.

It could possibly end up lower than Deathly Hallows Part 1