Ando918

If it is a movie with 2 female leads and it does not pass The Bechdel Test, it is pathetic.

Exactly. So how we get Hollywood to stop making dumb rom-com sitcom movies like "The Other Woman"? It didn't pass The Bechdel Test and will end up making 84 million domestic and 190 million globally, with females making up the majority of the movie audience. It just made a big profit on its 35 million dollar budget, so that means they will keep getting made. More ladies need to refuse to see those kinds of movies, and instead focus on the quality ones that are made starring women.

I don't know the numbers, but I was under the impression that 60% of the ticket buyers were female. Most girls at my high school in 1998 were singing My Heart Will Go On probably the same way elementary and middle school girls now are singing "Let It Go".

You would have thought that people would have gotten the memo when looking at what gender the majority of ticket buyers were for "Titanic" - but apparently that was just a fluke.

But isn't Edge of Tom trying to be a brainy, crossword puzzle for adults? Isn't the bulk of the audience over 25? If it is trying to be the "smart" summer movie for brainy adults, then adults don't really care much about special effects or video game sequences, so it is fine to cut the budget and make it smaller. Adults going for story and brains won't care if it is smaller.

I had a feeling that Maleficient would have a good 2nd weekend, regardless of critics/audience reviews. I am of the belief that reviews from critics or audience word of mouth don't mean much for kiddie fare or animated movies - they are often just babysitting time-killers for families and kids. I think Pixar movies would stil be huge hits if they had 60% ratings on RT instead of their typical 90%. Mal should finish around 210 or 220 million domestic simply because only it and Dragon 2 are playing to the babysitting crowd over the next month.

Is it true that E of T really has a production budget of 170 million? If that is true, this looks like another case of Hollywod going way overboard with the budget and visual effects, instead of simply trying to make this movie with about a 100 million dollar budget. Same kind of thing that is now happening with Johnny Depp and others, and probably Jupiter Ascending.

So I've got this basic premise for a new movie. Science fiction/politics/action movie set about 100 years into the future in The U.S.A. I am sure that a dystopian idea similar to this has been done before - I have heard of movies like Idiocracy and such. Movie poster is of a witness standing up and being sworn in the witness box in a U.S courtroom (flag is in background to establish that that this is The United States). The witness has a black ski mask covering his face, and is covered in military gear (like a Middle Eastern terrorist), except the colors he wears are red, white, and blue. Along the bottom of the movie poster it reads "Sometimes the truth hurts. Occasionally it can even kill." Basically, there is a group of a very small number of terrorists working in the criminal underworld of the U.S. 100 years into the future who are always being hunted down by the government. These guys wear ski masks to conceal their identities, drive around in black vans with tinted windows, and own many illegal weapons. The cause these people are fighting for is to bring back a yearning for truth and factual information - because it doesn't exist anymore. Blogs on the internet, rumors, unconfirmed news on the internet have made it impossible for people to filter out factual information from false information. We thought the information/digital age would bring about greater democracy and more access to truth and facts - but the opposite actually happened. Nobody cares about obtaining factual information and tv journalism is now dead. And the people have become extremely apathetic over the years that they no longer care, and so America is now a 3rd world country where terrorists roam free. Although some of the terrorists (like this group) are actually good guys struggling to fight an uphill battle to bring back truth. They even occasionally murder people if they believe it is for the greater good to call attention to their cause.

Here's another interesting chart to make regarding the 2014 movies at the U.S. box office. Of the 65 or so mainstream movies released so far, count how many where the main character / protagonist is female. I think about 15 of the 65 are. Also, count how many of the movies in the top 20 where the main character/protagonist is Black/Latino/Asian. Right now 1 of the top 20 is (Ride Along). They actually make up 34% of the U.S. population. It is an interesting look at American culture.

I think both Maleficient and How to Train Your Dragon 2 will both have good legs, given how there is no Pixar movie this summer (little Planes 2 doesn't count).

When I saw the trailer for Fault, I thought the first 70% of it looked really interesting and reminded me of the same indie feel of something like Juno with folk music in the background. It looked like a compelling character study. Then the end of the trailer just went into overdrive with nonstop schmaltz, tears, and melodrama that it turned me away.

I'm glad it is doing well. We need intelligent movies starring females to do well. (Glad it will crush The Other Woman, for example). It is just that it doesn't have enough crossover appeal to do well with male moviegoers. I bet the audience will be 75% female. I think that can only take you so far after OW.

Gravity is overrated? Only to someone who thinks Adam Sandler, Michael Bay, or Roland Emmerich movies are great filmmaking. Gravity is monumental. I think I'll take its 7 Oscar wins in various categories over your favorite movies - which are all up for Nickelodeon or MTV awards.

I have not seen Maleficient and don't really have an interest in seeing it. I just wouldn't underestimate its legs, especially since its preview was in front of Frozen last November/December/January. After 10 days, its pacing will be just about the same as where Lego was after 10 days.

Really? I could see it getting up to 220 domestically. It did well Monday through Thursday and is only slightly behind the pace of The Lego Movie.

Nah, Mal is going to hold firm with a weekend of 35, and Fault is going to take the hit on Sunday. Mal will total over 200 domestic, this will only total 130 domestic.

I think Dragon is going to slay Transformers 4 domestically this year. I see it getting 325 domestic since there is no Pixar movie to fill in that audience this summer. And I see people tiring of Michael Bay and the 4th movie in a series, so I see TF4 only getting 265 domestic.

I am not going to underestimate Disney or Angelina Jolie in their 2nd weekend. Mal could get 35 million. Especially since this summer schedule seems to have less kiddie-oriented or animated fare than normal.

Nuh uh, no 60s for the weekend. Edge of Tomorrow will be a decent option for date night / GA movie fans looking for escapism. Maleficient will also steal some of Fault's audience.

Competition with Maleficient's target audience on Saturday and Sunday will affect Fault quite a bit. Edge of Tomorrow will perform better Friday night with GA due to no NBA Finals or NHL Finals on TV. Edge of Tomorrow will have decent GA appeal and have improved numbers as the weekend goes on. Fault will only make 50 million this weekend, and won't have great legs.

I agree. Mostly because its audience doesn't have enough males in it. I think the Divergent audience was something like 57/43 female to male, so it had some crossover appeal to give it legs for a few weeks before Captain America arrived. Fault seems like it will play 70% female (and very young) and only end up around 130 domestic.

Won't Fault be extremely front-loaded and somewhat affected by competing with Maleficient's target audience on Saturday and Sunday? Moms taking their 10-15 year old daughters to one of those movies will have to choose between the 2. I think Fault will be extremely frontloaded.

Movietickets.com has Fault way, way ahead of E of T by a margin of about 10 to 1, but I guess that is to expected given how E of T would not be big on advanced ticket sales in the first place - a 25-30 OW would probably just get lots of walk ups. But it will be interesting to see if Fault can actually match Divergent's OW of 55 million.

If one removes the inflated 3-D or IMAX ticket prices from Godzilla, it would probably only end up in the 170s domestic. Bryan Cranston was probably the draw that brought a bunch of people out in its first 2 weekends, but other than that the story does not have much appeal.

Wow, that 6 million dollar number for Seth MacFarlane is terrible. Especially since Adam Sandler just bombed and it has been a few weeks since Neighbors. Audiences might be extra hungry for 22 Jump Street since these last 2 have bombed.