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In aggregate I'd probably agree that 2010 was better than 2013, but that's mostly that things were stronger on a strict comparison basis. Of the eight directly comparable films, I'd probably rank them something like Frozen, HTTYD, Tangled, TS3, The Croods, MU, and the DMs are interchangable taking up the rear. 2009 isn't even in the same picture, though. Up is fantastic, sure. Fantastic Mr. Fox is cute, but nothing spectacular. (It's not even the best stop motion adaptation of a Roald Dahl story.) Coraline and Cloudy 1 are pretty good, though. And PatF wasn't the return to brilliance that Disney wanted or needed; despite doing some great things, it's got problems. What else was there from that year? Monsters vs. Aliens? Ice Age 3? 2008 is a better year than 2009. Wall-E is at least on par with Up. Bolt is better than PatF. Kung-Fu Panda was the first time Dreamworks managed to make a film that was reaching for more than middle of the road humor. It's also the year Ponyo came out. It's difficult to find a year earlier than 2008 that has a broad swath of good animated features. Disney hadn't gotten good again, yet, Dreamworks wasn't good, and there weren't the broad umber of other studios to throw in as well. 2010 > 2013 > 2008 > 2009 > 2012 > 2011

I don't know if I could limit it to 10. But notable films: Studio Ghibli - My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Whisper of the Heart, Spirited Away (Arguably Princess Mononoke and Porco Rosso should be here, too) Disney - Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Frozen (Which cuts out Dumbo & a number of other Walt productions, as well as Mulan, The Emperor's New Groove, and Lilo & Stitch, but I have to stop somewhere.) Pixar - Monsters, Inc, The Incredibles, Wall-E, Up (arguably Ratatouille and Toy Story 3 should be here, too. Possibly TS 1 and 2.) Watership Down How to Train Your Dragon Akira The Nightmare Before Christmas The Last Unicorn Persepolis Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, or Paprika (I don't know which Satoshi Kon film is the best, but one needs to be here.) The Secret of Kells The Thief and the Cobbler Unfortunately my knowledge base is limited about things that are very old. I'm also limited in knowledge about anything from many countries besides the US and Japan.

I feel like there's a transcription error somewhere: 3 So Young ￥7,190,100,000 $1,178,704,918 Should that instead be ￥719,010,000? Because it seems like it would be huge news if a single film grossed over a billion dollars in China alone. And it's also listed in third place.

Today's movies were: His Girl Friday - Pretty enjoyable, but I found it impossible to root for Cary Grant's character. Death Race 2000 - It would have been better had they put more effort into making the car tricks actually effective. It never rises above schlocky camp. The Expendables 2 - Better than the first, but that's not really saying much. May have had more CGI blood than any other film made. Straight A's - Meh. I tuned out and missed how it ended.

I'll take both of these.

I'll take that.

Wow. I was expected about 500-700 theaters gone for Frozen.

*shrug* Fair enough. There's plenty of people who feel The Avengers is the best superhero film made. Or the best comic book film. Or the best film ever. I don't agree. And that's fine in both directions.

*checks* Actually, her complaints about Avengers pretty much mirror my own. It's a fun escape, but lacks the depth of the individual films.

I watched Once Upon a Time in the West earlier. Awesome score. It also makes me wonder if there's anyone directing today who can tell a story visually like Leone did. There's dialogue, but it's really not important for comprehension.

Hype is overrated.

I think you are very confused about how difficult it is for a film to make 600 million dollars.

If either of these two is hitting 1.8 billion, it's Avatar 2. And I'm not sold on that. Avatar - 600 DOM, 1.x OS - 1.6-2.2 WW Avengers - 500 DOM, 900 OS - 1.4 WW Star Wars - 450 DOM, 800 OS - 1.25 WW

I can totally understand why they'd do this. But after seeing The Lorax, I can't imagine this will be any good.

I've just read her review. I don't have any interest in seeing the film, but it seems a rather balanced look at it. The fact that it's critical just provided the impetus for the Beck reaction. Her being a woman made her an inviting target for him. It is misogynistic. She's a woman on the internet, and it's an ugly place. http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/women-arent-welcome-internet-72170/ The problem is that in our current social climate, "support the troops" is a stance that is 1) without nuance and 2) absolute. It means that you need to completely and without objection support military action. Attempting to make a film that portrays actual events is impressively difficult because if you try to put any nuance, the film is an automatic liberal critique, and therefore, I dunno, un-American or something. But as Nicholson points out, if you don't have that nuance, then it's just pure jingoism. She might be incorrect in that critique on the film, but in abstract, it seems a constant sticking point that filmmakers are tripping over one way or the other.

Yeah, it's pretty wildly optimistic. I can see another 50 million from current markets. 20 million China 15 million SK 45 million Japan 60 million US Which is another 190. There's probably a bit more there, but while 900 million seems a pretty safe assumption, 1 billion isn't guaranteed.

I visited Tokyo in early 2002, just before the theatrical release of Monsters, Inc. there. Mike and Sully were EVERYWHERE, like literally plastered on everything. It's really not a surprise MU did that well. I'm just hoping Frozen can do half of MU's business. Anything more than that would be gravy.

Shrek is another film with a notably long streak above 1 million. It went 54 days, just like Shrek 2. It is a bit weird how multiple films in the same series can sometimes get the same streak despite widely differing grosses.

Yeah, I mostly stopped at 300 because otherwise I'd be checking all night. It's really interesting to see what placed high and what placed low. I'm a bit surprised that TTT and RotK both only lasted 4 weeks.

So I went through and checked every film with 300 million or more domestic for consecutive days above 1 million. 101 Titanic80 Avatar61 Star Wars: TPM59 Finding Nemo54 Shrek 2 Jurassic Park52 The Avengers48 The Passion47 Frozen PotC: CotBP45 Toy Story 3 Catching Fire Spider-Man42 Independence Day40 The Dark Knight Spider-Man 2 Despicable Me 238 TDKR PotC: DMC Shrek 3 Iron Man36 Transformers: RotF35 Star Wars: RotS34 Transformers LotR: Fellowship of the Ring Star Wars: AotC33 The Hunger Games Harry Potter: DH2 Transformers: DotM Indiana Jones: KotCS Harry Potter: HBP Twilight: Eclipse32 Alice in Wonderland31 Iron Man 3 Iron Man 2 PotC: AWE Skyfall The Hobbit AUJ28 LotR: Return of the King LotR: The Two Towers26 Spider-Man 324 Harry Potter: SS

How good is that, overall? It seems to be better than the Argentina number, but I don't know what the movie business is like in each country.

Well, first since 2002, at least, when Ice Age was the biggest animated film. I don't believe Pixar or Dreamworks had a film that year, though. However, it was also the last year that a non-Dreamworks, non-Disney (of any sort) led. It beat Lilo & Stitch by 30 million. Disney's last definite win was 2000, when Dinosaur came out on top. That was a rather underwhelming year for animation, especially since 1999 had both Toy Story 2 and Tarzan.

Titanic fell below 1 million on its 102nd day.

BoxOffice.com AMERICAN HUSTLE was down just 51% from Sunday to take in $0.93M on Monday. Domestic total stands at $102.19M. ‪#‎AmericanHustle‬

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