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Latter.

If TFA ends up as "light action" I'm going to be mighty disappointed.

The Boeing IMAX usually has no trailers. I wonder if that's just an IMAX thing, though. Well, there's the two they have to show for the studio, and then they can pick one trailer that's actually good.

In general, yes. Just like there's a large overlap between DC and Marvel fans. But some people are really invested in rivalries for some reason.

Didn't Star Wars fans boo The Beach trailer playing before a TPM showing so much that Leo left the theater?

Pity. It's not even the best light action sci-fi movie this year.

Actually, I could see it for Home. Tip's hair is pretty impressive, technically.

You're a bit off on my theory, I think. The nominations tend to favor the technical side of animation. So films that display a lot of technical innovation will get there. They like stop motion a LOT, and hand-drawn animation quite a bit. For CGI, it needs to be really impressive. (Pixar usually is, there.) LEGO's technical side was mostly lacking, compared to the other nominees. (You're right that MU's snub is an outlier. But this is a pattern analysis, not an absolute algorithm.) WINNING the award, on the other hand, pretty much boils down to popularity. Whatever nominee grossed the most in the US? Probably going to take home the prize. BH6 didn't win because of Hyperion, it won because more people saw it. Had LEGO gotten a nomination, it was pretty much guaranteed a win. So, TGD could get a nomination based on the technology. However, we are in an unprecedented situation. Pixar's got two films. If there's only three nominees, it's doubtful (though not impossible) that both could get in. If it's only one, I'd be VERY surprised if TGD gets in over IO. Regardless, it's pretty much foregone that IO is going to win. It's probably the most guaranteed of any winner since TS3.

TGD may end up under Bolt WW. Probably depends on China.

Huh, even though it's not accounting for budget differences. (Like Jem lost money, but it didn't lose that much in the grand scheme of things) it is interesting to look at. Surprising that F4 isn't on there. Actually, even if you accounted for budget, things like Pan, JA, and Tomorrowland all end up much worse.

Does anyone have a definitive list on which Shane Black films take place around Christmas? Because it's been ages since I saw some of them and can't remember.

Well, that's going to shift the standings.

1. Will Krampus open to at least $10M? YES 2. Will Krampus open to at least $15M? 3000 NO 3. Will Krampus open to at least $20M? NO 4. Will Hunger Games finish at least $4M clear of Good Dinosaur? NO 5. Will Creed drop less than 38%? NO 6. Will Macbeth have a PTA above $24000? YES 7. Will Spotlight have a better weekend change than Brooklyn? 2000 YES 8. Will Peanuts cross $125M by end of Sunday? NO 9. Will Spectre have a Sunday above $2.2M? NO 10. Will The Night Before's PTA stay above $2000? NO 11. Name one film in the top 15 that drops more than 50% (or state none)? 3000 The Hunger Games Mockingjay: Part 2 12. Will Legend enter the top 15 this weekend? NO 13. Will Victor Frankenstein finish above Trumbo? NO 14. Will Love the Coppers stay within 750k of The Martian this weekend? YES 15. Will Krampus become the best post 2010 Christmas Horror Comedy based around a German folktale ever released in USA cinemas? Sure, why not. 11/15 - 2000 12/15 - 3000 13/15 - 5000 14/15 - 7000 15/15 - 10000 Part 2. 1. What will Krampus' Friday to Saturday percentage change be? -26% 2. What will The Hunger Games' total be come Sunday? 231.046m 3. What will Minions' weekend gross be this weekend? 63k Part 3. 3. CREED 5. SPECTRE 7. THE NIGHT BEFORE 9. BROOKLYN 12. THE MARTIAN

I doubt there'd be an animation studio merger like that. The creative culture's too different to make it possible. So if Universal was to buy DWA, they'd probably have to look at what sort of release slate they'd want going forward between the two studios. Kind of like how Disney right now does 2.5 films a year between WDAS and Pixar. Alternatively, they may look at it as entirely about acquiring the DWA IP, in which case they could buy it and shutter the studio, with the intention of having some films produced from Illumination in the future. But really, all the big six have animation efforts of their own which makes a purchase of DWA somewhat unlikely. It'd make more sense for it to enter some sort of merger with a mini-major (Lionsgate, really) or possibly one of the major production houses (Legendary). Assuming such an agreement would be mutually beneficial.

Krampus - 16m The Letters - 1m

So, I look forward to seeing this film sometime in 2020.

That's usually what they look for.

With all that said, Sanjay's Super Team is one of Pixar's best. I would love to see it extended out to a full feature. Hindu stories really do have comic book levels of awesome. That disk block moment was amazing with how it synced up the visuals and the music.

Spoiler free review: Aside from the visuals, which are jaw-dropping, this isn't one for the ages. It's cute and enjoyable. However, it doesn't quite connect for really good emotional oomph. It still has some nice heft, because Pixar's very good at that in general. But it's still not quite there in the way the best Pixar films (and recent WDAS films) are. Still, visuals are worth it and then some.

There are 25 people in the theater for this showing of The Good Dinosaur.

The Good Dinosaur's underperformance has probably guaranteed that Disney can't catch Universal for the year. Star Wars probably needs to do better than 800m by Dec 31 for there to be a chance, and even then it might not happen.

God dammit.

God dammit.

The original is pretty amazing.

There may possibly be upwards of a billion people who are unhappy with the common depictions of Jesus as white.