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    Best Animated Feature-2015 predictions

    in And The Winner Is...

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    On November 5, 2015 10:04:17 PM, MinaTakla said:

    Interesting point by CARTOON BREW...3 nominees only may be happening y'all...

     

    Though all of these films have submitted their paperwork, several of the films have not yet fulfilled the Los Angeles theatrical release requirement that would allow them to advance in the voting process. Here’s why that matters: To have five nominees in the category, the Academy requires a minimum of 16 films to qualify. That means if one of these films doesn’t complete the qualification process, the entire field would drop down to 15 films, and the Academy rules would force them to scale back to just three nominees, rather than five.

     

    Cartoon Brew is wrong. Here's the actual rule, straight from the official site: "In any year in which 8 to 12 animated feature films are released in Los Angeles County, either 2 or 3 motion pictures may be nominated. In any year in which 13 to 15 films are released, a maximum of 4 motion pictures may be nominated. In any year in which 16 or more animated feature films are released, a maximum of 5 motion pictures may be nominated."

     

    If one (or two or three) doesn't qualify, there would be four nominees, not three.

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    Minions | 7.10.2015 | Crosses 1 BILLION Worldwide. Beats Toy Story 3 on the all-time chart.

    in Box Office Discussion

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    I'm not saying no animation movies will hit 500M, just that current animation movies blockbusters peak at 350-425M in the last 4-5 years.

     

    There's nothing new about that. Five animated movies have ever made more than 425M adjusted in a single theatrical run, and two have made more than 500M. With the exception of those few outliers, your 350-425 range has been pretty much the (inflation-adjusted) norm for animated blockbusters (i.e. good Disney, Pixar, Shrek, and Despicable Me sequels) for the last 20 years.

     

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    Frozen OS thread

    in International Box Office

    Posted · Edited by Murgatroyd

    Could somebody put the comparison chart of the country´s grosses between Frozen and Minions? 

     

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    Accuracy not guaranteed. All numbers from BOM, except for Minions numbers for Mexico (BOM doesn't have it; I got it from the thread here) and Czech Republic (BOM figure is blatantly wrong; my number is reconstructed from their most likely error).

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    WEEKEND ACTUALS [4-day] | 10.91 M AWITW | 10.85 M SOC | summer 2015 with 2nd fewest tickets sold in over 20 years

    in Numbers and Data

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    It's a pretty standard media practice that goes back years and years...preparing for the inevitable. It's like the news equivalent of having a will.

     

    Again for the reason of releasing it first, right?

     

    Not exactly. Back in the days when print newspapers were the primary news source, the idea was that a paper wanted to be ready so that when they got the word that someone famous had died, they could get a well written article into the next day's paper without having to give one of their writers a large, unexpected last-minute assignment.

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    Minions | 7.10.2015 | Crosses 1 BILLION Worldwide. Beats Toy Story 3 on the all-time chart.

    in Box Office Discussion

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    The notion that ST3 is competition for anything, let alone a billion dollar family franchise, is laughable.

     

    The Secret Life of Pets is not a billion dollar family franchise. It's "from the makers of" a billion dollar family franchise, which is very much not the same thing. Consider, for instance, the varied successes and failures that came "from the makers of" Shrek.

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    Box Office Theory's Most Anticipated Films

    in The Speakeasy

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    1. The Martian
    2. Peanuts
    3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
    4. Captain America: Civil War
    5. Finding Dory
    6. Ghostbusters
    7. The Good Dinosaur
    8. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children
    9. Now You See Me 2
    10. Kung Fu Panda 3

    Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet leaves my list this week, as I no longer have to anticipate it. It was interesting, and odd.

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