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No, the movie wasn't dumped. This is just counter-programming a week before a fanboy event movie. 2014 The Other Woman 2013 The Big Wedding 2012 The Five-Year Engagement AOA is doing fairly well in context and can possibly make $50 million with a $15 million + opening

Unfriended is going to be Project X 2.0 . Trivia - Project X was the most torrented movie of 2012 ( #2 The Avengers #3 Dark Knight Rises)

Emma Stone was supposed to star in the last GDT movie but she had to drop out because of Spidey 2 promos. I am betting that she will star opposite Gosling in this movie.

They have a shot but TA2 and Star Wars will be just too big to overcome. I mean you can safely bet on TA2 and SW7 combine to make $2.5 billion worldwide. That's just insane.

Universal is killing it this year and I don't think they'll relinquish their lead to Disney until Star Wars opens. TA2 will make a billion dollars on its own. They also have Inside Out and Antman but JW, Minions, PP2 and Ted 2 will balance them out and more

Wednesday drops will be huge.

I think it helps them a lot. They have taken write downs on a couple of their projects and this will make money to the tune of $200 million + domestically. They will need their next couple of movies to come through as well but this is going to be a big boost to DWA and Fox.

Rihanna should get as much credit as Kristen Bell got for Frozen.

Sean Penn is an asshole but he is a very smooth and smart guy. Watch him speak and you will understand his track record with the ladies.

Harvey can't handle more than 2-3 movies. A couple of these movies are going to get fucked over for sure. Tarantino's movie will do fine even if it isn't an Oscars player but my bet is on Macbeth getting dumped.

Harvey's Oscar push movies are typically released in November and December but this is a good date too.

This is a $100 million movie. It will have to be really bad (even by Sandler standards) to bomb. This also has a completely different audience from movies like Trainwreck, Pan, Paper Towns etc. Ant-man will be direct competition but let us not pretend that it has some tremendous buzz and anticipation even if it is Marvel.

This is my most anticipated July movie now.

He is getting burned out and people will start tuning him out. Same thing happened to Johnny Depp when he played so many weirdo characters in succession.

Liam Neeson needs to chill for a couple of years.

US Dollar is pretty strong these days so the amount a movie is making in US$ is less than what it was last year for the same number of tickets sold in Europe, Latin America and Asian markets. $400 million overseas will be very, very good for Cinderella.

Overseas is more problematic for a live-action fairytale movie. If this was a Disney animation I wouldn't have ruled out a billion.

This has to be one of the best movie announcements of all time. I never thought I'd say this but I am actually anticipating a freakin' sequel for Zoolander.

These two are completely different kind of movies. Free State of Jones is going to appeal to the older (30+) audience while the under-30 is the primary demographics for Warcraft. That said, Free State Of Jones should open during the Oscars season to maximize the returns.

STX Entertainment is legit but I am surprised that they are bypassing the Oscar season. http://deadline.com/2014/09/adam-fogelson-hired-as-chairman-of-stx-entertainment-840303/

Will Smith's kids had nothing to do with it. The problem is that a.) the movie isn't that good and b.) the movie doesn't fit into a genre box ( Romance ? Comedy ? Action?) which made it difficult to market. The most telling statistics was that 88% of the audience was over 25. That's a good number for a Maggie Smith movie but not for a Will Smith movie. It is very rare for a movie to get wiped out with the under-25 crowd and still make a lot of money.

88% of the audience for Focus was over 25. This is a terrible stat.

Weakass Friday Numbers across the board. Hopefully Saturday will be better. 1). Focus (WB), 3,323 theaters / $6.76M Fri.*/ 3-Day: $20.2M/Wk 1 2). Kingsman: The Secret Service (FOX), 3,282 theaters (+16) / $3M Fri. (-43%)/ 3-Day: $10.8M (-41%)/ Total Cume: $85M/ Wk 3 3). Fifty Shades Of Grey (UNI/Focus), 3,383 theaters (-272) / $3.4M Fri. (-57%)/ 3-Day: $10.24M (-54%)/Total Cume: $146.9M/ Wk 3 3). The Lazarus Effect (REL), 2,666 theaters / $3.9M Fri.*/ 3-Day: $10.22M/Wk 1 5). The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PAR), 3,467 theaters (-213) / $2M Fri. (-49%)/ 3-Day: $8.7M (-47%)/Total Cume: $137.6M/ Wk 4 6). American Sniper (WB), 3,235 theaters (-201)/ $1.9M Fri. (-28%) /3-Day: $7.3M (-27%)/ Total cume: $330.4M/ Wk 10 7). McFarland USA (DIS), 2,765 theaters (+10)/ $2M Fri. (-44%) / 3-Day: $7M (-36%)/Total Cume: $21.4M/ Wk 2 8). The Duff (CBS/LGF), 2,622 theaters (+47)/ $2.1M Fri. (-51%)/ 3-Day: $6.3M (-41%)/Total Cume: $19.1M/ Wk 2 9). Still Alice (SPC), 1,318 theaters (+553) / $755K Fri. (+10%) / 3-Day: $2.6M (+24%) /Total cume: $11.9M /Wk 7 10). Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (PAR), 2,880 theaters/ $690K Fri. (-70%)/ 3-Day: $2.1M (-65%)/ Total Cume: $9.9M/ Wk 2 http://deadline.com/2015/02/will-smith-focus-weekend-box-office-opening-lazarus-effect-1201383452/

Why is JLaw subjecting herself to this shit ? She is the hottest actress on the planet and can work with almost any director in Hollywood. I don't think this is is about Oscars either. She can get a nomination without help from anyone and she didn't even bother to campaign last year so it can't be such a high priority for her.

As a general rule I am for writers having creative control over their books. There is also the fact that Hollywood treats its writers like shit. It isn't unusual for big Hollywood movie scripts to go through half a dozen writers or more with only 1 or 2 getting the writing credits in the end.