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They are already two weeks into an Indie movie production so three more weeks and they will be done.

According to Variety, Bradley Copper will replace Jude Law.

Great number for Evil Dead. This should be a Friday evening movie so I wonder if $35 million is in play.

This could be epic. With a Fall date it should be ready by summer 2014 release.

Summary Jack the Giant Slayer is now up to $157 million WW. Bomb Identity Thief has made $16.6 million from 25 OS markets so far. Weak. Mama's WW cume is $127 million. Impressive. H&G's WW cume is $216 million. Pretty Good.

Andrew Stewart ‏@Variety_Stewart Yo Joe! After a $132 mil opening for G.I. JOE: RETALIATION, Paramount said it will move forward with a third JOE.

Very impressive opening. Given that Overseas audience prefer familiar properties, no surprise that Hollywood is greenlighting all sorts of sequels. They just greenlighted GI Joe 3.

Yes. This is going to be frontloaded and will still make less in four days than the first one made in three days. I think $130-135 million is about the best this will do.

I just googled it and you are correct.

This won't make $150 million domestically but I think $400 million worldwide is definitely in play.

GI Joe's production budget is probably closer to $150 million. This $135 million cost was being bandied about last year before they added 3D and did any reshoots. They ran super bowl ad last year for GI Joe 2 and the regular ad campaign had already started when the movie was pushed back so its ad cost is also much higher than $50 million. Nevertheless, this is a pretty solid start for the movie and they will likely make money in the end.

Friday Matinee Trends: #1 ‘G.I. Joe 2′ Hunting $15M For $45M Easter Weekend, #2 ‘The Croods’ Holding Strong For $11.5M/$30M, #3 Tyler Perry’s'Temptation’ Seducing $7.5M/$17M; Stephenie Meyer’s ‘The Host’ $5M/$13M

Three burials is a very good movie if you are a Cinephile. GA will be bored out of their minds and I don't think it made any money.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-report-early-friday-431788# THR GI Joe $36 million ($46 million) Temptation $21 million The Host $18-20 million

There is no precedence for 7 PM Wednesday opening so it is tough to say whether it is a good opening or not.

You mean he pulled a Tom Hanks (Philadelphia) ? Bale didn't play a dying homosexual in The Machinist.

They may be developing a sequel for Alice but unless Depp is on board, it won't even make half of the original.

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Yep. This is the biggest bomb of the year. $119.5 million worldwide. Only $19.3 million weekend from 47 Overseas markets. Ouch.

It made $5.1 million this weekend from just one market. China ?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/natalie-portmans-jane-got-a-430317 Sources close to the project who spoke with The Hollywood Reporter are painting a conflicting picture of who is to blame for Ramsay's exit. Two sources say the Scottish filmmaker (We Need to Talk About Kevin) still had not been presented with an approved schedule, script or budget mere days before shooting was set to begin. Another source says Ramsay, who was revising the screenplay herself, failed to deliver a shooting script despite several delays and increasingly bizarre behavior. One dealmaker says Ramsay had final cut on the film subject to various parameters. If, for example, the movie went over budget or over schedule, she could lose the right to final cut. In light of the uncertainties, Ramsay’s camp apparently asked to amend her deal to preserve a certain measure of creative control amid the delays. But efforts to discuss such issues with the producers were met with resistance. The producers, according to sources, saw the requests as an attempt to renegotiate a deal that already had been closed. With the two sides at an impasse, Ramsay gave notice on Saturday morning that she was exercising her right to exit the project. . . The $15 million-budgeted film is the story of a frontier woman (Portman) who reaches out to an ex-lover to help her defend her farm from her outlaw husband and his gang. Fassbender was to play the ex-lover, but he dropped out in early March because of the delays. Fassbender, according to insiders, was facing a time crunch as his next movie, the Fox tentpole X-Men: Days of Future Past, is about to begin filming. According to insiders, Steindorff submitted a list of 10 actors who were considered bankable to Ramsay and Portman for approval. But the trio cold not agree on Fassbender’s replacement. Eventually, it was decided to move Joel Edgerton, who was originally set to play the leader of the outlaws, into the role vacated by Fassbender and to hire Law, who worked with Portman on the 2004 drama Closer, to take on the villain part. By the time the casting was straightened out, Jane was 10 days behind schedule, having lost valuable prep time. And since Edgerton’s name doesn’t carry the same weight as Fassbender's in the foreign pre-sales world, the film’s financing was on shaky ground. Those issues were straightened out and the film finally was trotting to its March 18 start date. Then came the big clash between Ramsay and Steindorff over the script, creative control and the budget. A dispute on Friday carried over into Saturday, with Ramsay deciding she wanted out. She apparently has returned home to the U.K.

It would've made half as much without Lindsay Lohan. Its trailer looked Movie 43 kind of bad.

^^^ Kids and adults are a lot more familiar with Dr. Seuss so The Lorax had help.

If people see only CGI rich movies in theaters then they will only be getting CGI rich movies on DVD too. If movies don't make money (and a big part comes from theaters) then the studios will stop making them.

Everything seems to have dropped with the latest update. #1 ‘The Croods’ Toons Up $11.4M Friday For $42M Weekend, #2 ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ Rises To $9M/$26M, #5 ‘Admission’ Enters $2.1M/$6.2M, #6 ‘Spring Breakers’ Expands For $1.7M/$4.6M An estimated 13% of K-12 were on school break for the start of the Passover/Easter holidays so family fare ruled. Specifically, DreamWorks Animation‘s pre-historic newcomer The Croods (4,046 theaters, including over 3,000 in 3D) led the domestic box office with $11.4M in the widest release and an ‘A’ CinemaScore from audiences. That will help word of mouth despite only 64% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes endangering its multiple. It looks like a $42M weekend opening (after the expected Saturday kiddie bump) for cost of $135M. Not only is Peter Schlessel’s FilmDistrict enjoying its biggest opening yet with #2 Antoine Fuqua’s R-rated action thriller Olympus Has Fallen (3,098 theaters) looking at $9M Friday and perhaps $26M for its first weekend.But the pic scored an ‘A-’ with audiences that should help word of mouth. That’s a relief because the movie’s cost of $70M is one of the bigger budgets this small indiefilm company has ever released. Disney’s holdover Oz The Great And Powerful (3,805 theaters) is still going strong at #3 with $5.5M Friday and perhaps another $20.9M through Sunday. And #4 is Sony/TriStar’s holdover pickup The Call (2,507 theaters) with $2.7M Friday (-55% from a week ago) and $9.7M weekend. Right now for #5 is Focus Features’ Tina Fey/Paul Rudd new low-budget comedy Admission (2,160 theaters) which may be $2.1M Friday and $6.2M this weekend.