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Not quite recent, but it could be interesting for comparison later this year. Finding Nemo had a crazy 59 days above 1m. And Shrek 2 had 54. I kinda feel like those might be the highest outside of the Avatar/Titanic/ET trifecta.

Yeah. Most of my noms for most disappointing weren't going to make it.

I hope it's whatever gives us the best meltdown rant.

1. Will Kung Fu Panda open to at least $35M? YES 2. Will Kung Fu Panda open to at least $42.5M? 3000 YES 3. Will Kung Fu Panda open to at least $50M? NO 4. Will 50 shades of Black open to within 25% of Jack Black's weekend total (yes this technically includes Goosebumps ) NO 5. Will Alvin drop more than 62% this weekend? NO 6. Will the Finest Hours Open ahead of the Revenant? 2000 NO 7. Will Star Wars' weekend total be at least $2M ahead of the 6th placed film? YES 8. Will Norm of the North stay above the Big Short? NO 9. Will Dirty Grandpa remain ahead of both the Boy and 5th wave next weekend? 3000 YES 10. Will Jane got a Gun make at least $1.5M this weekend? YES 11. Will 13 hours cross 40M by the end of the weekend? YES 12. Will at least 3 Oscar Nominated films (any category, any position) increase this weekend? NO 13. Will Star wars have a higher PTA than Revenant? 2000 NO 14. Will the 5th wave have made half its budget ($38M according to BOM) back by the end of the weekend? NO 15. Will ride along 2 remain in the top 6 this weekend? NO 16. Will any non-animated film increase at least 85% on Saturday? YES 17. Will The Hateful 8 have a bigger Sunday drop than The Forest? 3000 NO 18. Will Spotlight finish 16th or higher this weekend? NO 19. Will Carol finish above the Danish Girl this weekend? 2000 YES 20. Will Daddy's Home drop more than 53%? NO 21. Did you know there was apparently an Ip Man 1 and 2 that happened at some point? I SAW BOTH OF THEM IN THEATERS. 14/21 - 2000 15/21 - 3000 16/21 - 4000 17/21 - 5000 18/21 - 6000 19/21 - 8000 20/21 - 10000 21/21 - 15000 Part 2 1. What will Kung Fu Panda's OW be? 49.378 2. What will be the combined Saturday of 50 shades and finest hours 6.875 3. What will be the total weekend gross of ALL the films reported on BOM with a one word title? 5.592 Part 3 2. THE REVENANT 5. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS 7. RIDE ALONG 2 9. 13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI 12. THE BIG SHORT 15. SISTERS

*on Netflix.

Abstain while I think about it.

KFP3 - 51m The Finest Hours - 12m 50 Shades of Black - 10m

I made a tofu & lentil curry last week. It's been awesome going through it. So good. I'm out of naan, though.

I'm here for gratuitous use of epic southern rock.

Oh, wait. I meant

I think based on the decisions they've made with casting, it's got a zero chance of being a film that should be called Ghost in the Shell. ScarJo's great. She's completely wrong for this.

Well, I woke up this morning and it seems things are working again, so I suppose it's cool as is with today's deadline. I was just worried it might have been an extended problem.

Sad. I had a slim hope it wasn't going to happen.

Can we get an extension on the nomination deadline? The forums are only working on mobile for some of us which is making it kinda difficult to submit anything.

Ugh. Lost to @moviecriticguy by just a smidge. Shouldn't have been low on The Boy.

Most theater screens are a lot smaller than that. The average screen might be at 100-150 people, but I'd bet on the low end. So say you've got a small theater, 100 seats, 4 showings a day, so 1200 tickets sold over the weekend. If it had an $8 ticket price and sold out the weekend, it's going to get $9600. That's if it's sold out. TFA is a 6 week old film. It's still popular, but it's not going to sell out. So this small theater may only have 2 or 3 showtimes a day. Say 8 over the weekend. And it's pulling in 40 people a screening, which is optimistic. So now it's $2500 for the weekend. It's still doing good business for that theater. Also, pretty much by definition, IMAX is special.

Well, my workout for the day is a "fighter" routine, so I'm going to go with that theme and watch Creed. Thanks for the suggest!

So after i get my writing done for the day, I think I'll be able to go see one last 2015 movie before I put in my ballot for the BOFFYS. Since Costco has stopped carrying the movie vouchers for AMC and I've only got one left, I'm going to limit my options to the Regal theater. So, with that in mind, which should I go to: Creed The Big Short Spotlight In the Heart of the Sea Joy (MMFR is ALSO playing there, but I'm trying to see something new.)

Well, in that list I look pretty good. \m/__\m/

I think my problem with Kingsman is that it really is unsure about what it's trying to convey. I think it -wants- to convey that someone from the wrong side of the tracks is just as good a person as anyone who went to Eton or the like. However, as presented, what it basically says is that the gentlemanly way is so good that it can take anyone, even from the wrong side of the tracks, and turn them into a proper, upstanding citizen. By the end, Eggsy has had his own self and history washed away by his new education. Kinda fucked up, really. Still, despite that, the Free Bird scene is off the charts amazing. One of the best of the year, IMO.

I could possibly buy the argument on on the first point. But not the second.

Looking down the list of all time Thanksgiving openers, the 3-day accounted for 32.6% of the total (will fall a bit from there, but not massively. At best it's got another $3m or so, assuming there's a healthy cheap theater expansion.) And the 5-day is 46.2%. To find an opener with worse legs, you've got to go down to Unbreakable (31.9%, 48.4%), The Muppets (33%, 46.8%), Spy Game (34.8%, 49%), and End of Days (30.7%, 47.1%). I'd kinda forgotten how frontloaded The Muppets was, despite the good response. And at least that had the nostalgia factor to explain why people showed up at the start and not later on. For a family film, TGD's legs have been pretty terrible.

I just need to see them all to finish the great Spy-Off of 2015.