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Is it likely that the employees will end up elsewhere in the industry? Perhaps we'll see a number of Ghibli-esque films (much the same as Trigger does things that are Gainax-esque.)

Not at all. But I've observed KATCH 22 enough on the forum to realize that any discussion with him isn't going to be productive. If he wants to go educate himself, Google can help.

So adding in TMNT, that's probably the top 15 of the summer, though the final order will be quite different.

1 N Guardians of the Galaxy BV $94,000,000 - 4,080 - $23,039 $94,000,000 $170 1 2 1 Lucy Uni. $18,283,000 -58.4% 3,202 +29 $5,710 $79,571,000 $40 2 3 N Get On Up Uni. $14,031,000 - 2,468 - $5,685 $14,031,000 - 1 4 2 Hercules (2014) Par. $10,700,000 -64.1% 3,595 - $2,976 $52,348,000 $100 2 5 3 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Fox $8,700,000 -48.1% 3,283 -385 $2,650 $189,330,000 $170 4 6 5 Planes: Fire & Rescue BV $6,424,000 -32.6% 3,241 -598 $1,982 $47,596,000 $50 3 7 4 The Purge: Anarchy Uni. $5,551,000 -47.0% 2,656 -200 $2,090 $62,962,000 $9 3 8 6 Sex Tape Sony $3,550,000 -41.3% 2,500 -562 $1,420 $33,908,000 $40 3 9 8 And So It Goes CE $3,344,000 -28.0% 1,816 +54 $1,841 $10,473,000 - 2 10 10 A Most Wanted Man RAtt. $3,324,000 +23.7% 729 +368 $4,560 $7,059,000 - 2 11 14 Boyhood IFC $2,522,000 +43.1% 311 +204 $8,109 $7,566,000 $4 4 12 7 Transformers: Age of Extinction Par. $2,200,000 -53.2% 1,732 -744 $1,270 $241,166,000 $210 6 13 9 Tammy WB $1,580,000 -54.3% 1,415 -1,147 $1,117 $81,543,000 $20 5 14 13 Maleficent BV $1,243,000 -32.3% 681 -396 $1,825 $234,711,000 $180 10 15 12 How to Train Your Dragon 2 Fox $1,215,000 -45.7% 861 -497 $1,411 $168,569,000 $145 8 16 11 22 Jump Street Sony $1,200,000 -53.9% 828 -785 $1,449 $188,461,000 $50 8 - 25 Magic in the Moonlight SPC $770,000 +86.9% 65 +48 $11,846 $1,353,000 - 2 - 15 Begin Again Wein. $696,000 -55.8% 727 -517 $957 $13,783,000 - 6 - 21 Chef ORF $680,000 -11.0% 350 -55 $1,943 $28,333,000 - 13 - 18 Wish I Was Here Focus $614,000 -46.8% 753 +128 $815 $3,058,000 - 3 - 17 The Fluffy Movie ORF $530,000 -59.6% 432 - $1,227 $2,370,000 - 2 - 16 Earth to Echo Rela. $430,000 -69.0% 536 -736 $802 $36,938,000 $13 5 - 20 America (2014) LGF $375,000 -58.5% 478 -282 $785 $14,095,000 - 6 - 24 The Fault in our Stars Fox $310,000 -35.8% 282 -105 $1,099 $123,397,000 $12 9 - 26 X-Men: Days of Future Past Fox $193,000 -51.1% 190 -99 $1,016 $231,702,000 $200 11 - 30 Neighbors Uni. $117,000 -52.7% 177 -31 $661 $149,714,000 $18 13 - 33 Snowpiercer RTWC $110,000 -45.8% 100 -49 $1,100 $4,139,000 - 6 - N Calvary FoxS $72,800 - 4 - $18,200 $72,800 - 1 - 42 I Origins FoxS $70,000 -9.2% 122 +46 $574 $236,100 - 3 - 41 Obvious Child A24 $69,000 -11.4% 44 -19 $1,568 $2,897,400 - 9 - 43 Ida MBox $33,000 -50.2% 31 -17 $1,065 $3,548,000 - 14 - 58 A Five Star Life MBox $30,000 +206.7% 7 +6 $4,286 $74,700 - 3 - 48 Le Chef Cohen $23,700 -19.9% 18 +4 $1,317 $308,200 - 7 - 36 Persecuted MNE $22,800 -86.5% 32 -352 $713 $1,547,800 - 3 - 57 50 to 1 10F $13,500 +2.7% 10 +3 $1,350 $843,100 - 20 - 64 A Master Builder Abr. $4,500 -35.9% 1 - $4,500 $21,800 - 2 - 74 There's No Place Like Utopia RM $3,800 +17.0% 5 +4 $760 $44,900 - 3 - 69 Fed Up RTWC $3,300 -23.4% 7 -6 $471 $1,533,200 - 13 - 91 Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon RTWC $1,000 +2.2% 4 - $250 $210,700 - 9

That's not a bad comparison. A lot of people questioned X-Men prior to release, and the size of its gross was really surprising.

Glad nobody took my 100pt GotG bet.

I'll take these.

Discussion with you seems a waste of time, so... nope.

I'm sure there's a bingo card I could win on outright just from the things KATCH 22 has said in this thread. Jesus.

It's mostly that I don't see TF4 matching TF3's gross in Japan. Even if it does well, that's probably in the $30-$40m range.

Can I get a scoring scheme clarification? What are 21-25 and 41-44 worth?

Unlikely. Its run in China is over. DOM isn't going to see much more than another $5m and most other territories are similarly late in their run. It only has Spain, Japan, and Venezuela to open in. While Japan was quite good for Dark of the Moon ($54m), TF4 is probably going to come in under that mark. Spain earned about $11m, and Venezuela between $2 and $3m. (Though for all of them, exchange rates may have varied significantly since 2011.) So even if it matched TF3's grosses for those three countries, that's still less than $70m. The remaining 25m or so would need to come from elsewhere in the world.

Yeah. Ronan was super disappointing.

And now I wonder if they'll do the Cancerverse as a storyline for the sequel.

It does speak of a sort of... breadth of movies getting to that mark. Going back to 2007, it tends to be either 3 or 4 films reaching that high. This year we'll probably get 7-9, depending on a few things. OTOH, most years have films that open much higher than we've had this year, so nothing's is really knocking it out of the park in an absolute sense. Although we've had several films do quite a bit better for their OW than expected: Cap, Godzilla, DofP, and Guardians could all be argued for throwing above where they should have.

Well, I suppose it's neat consistency, but I dunno if it's anything to be proud of.

Aren't there something like 32 films with at least 90m OW prior to 2014?

The current records: JANUARY Ride Along $41,516,170 FEBRUARY Passion of the Christ $83,848,082 MARCH The Hunger Games $152,535,747 APRIL Captain America 2 $95,023,721 MAY The Avengers $207,438,708 JUNE Man of Steel $116,619,362 JULY Harry Potter / Deathly Hallows (P2) $169,189,427 AUGUST The Bourne Ultimatum $69,283,690 SEPTEMBER Hotel Transylvania $42,522,194 OCTOBER Gravity $55,785,112 NOVEMBER Catching Fire $158,074,286 DECEMBER The Hobbit $84,617,303 Obviously, August is going to get beaten tomorrow, unless GotG has one of the most ridiculously frontloaded weekends in history.

I'm assuming these are records for OW, not DOM total.

I thought in SW that was established to have the atmosphere held in via force fields.

Umm... yeah. I didn't realize this wasn't Classic Conversation. Oops.

It's a really weird year because I've actually read several of the nominees before the ceremony. (Well, okay. I've read one of the Wheel of Time books. Back in the '90s. I didn't like it.)

God, I'm going to do so bad this week.

It tripped me up for a bit but when I realized what she was doing and why, it was a huge holy shit moment for me. It's really difficult to get something that gets to the core of our assumptions about gender norms and completely turns them on a head. I dunno if it'd ever be possible to adapt it for screen and still retain that poignancy, but It's probably not necessary. Has it won the Hugo yet?

Just because this comes to mind from that: Holy crap, Ancillary Justice. I mean. OH MY FUCKING GOD, Ancillary Justice! It is so damn good. Beats the shit out of any sci-fi that's appeared on any sort of screen in... decades, probably. (Gaaaaaawd, Ann Leckie. Why is the sequel not in my hands RIGHT NOW?)