Eric Duncan

So Shaggy Dog with kitties? Yeah, this is gonna bomb.

KFP3: $45M Finest Hours: $14M Fifty Shades of Black: $11M

What exactly is wrong with Assassin's Creed? I agree that maybe it should have come out a couple years earlier when the games were actually good, but it's still really popular. It's sold over 73 million copies, and the overall concept has potential for a movie, and I think if marketed right, it could seem interesting to the general public. Really, the issue I have is with the scheduling. Why have it premiere a few days after Rogue One?

I don't know if this has been quoted yet, but this jab at Dirty Grandpa from Deadline made me laugh:

Did you see the same movie I saw?

The Revenant: $25M The Forest: $8M THe Masked Saint: $1M

Definite (22): Kung Fu Panda 3 Deadpool Zootopia BvS Jungle Book Civil War Alice X-Men TMNT 2 Finding Dory Independence Day 2 Pets Ghostbusters Star Trek Bourne 5 Suicide Squad Doctor Strange Fantastic Beasts Moana Rogue One Sing Likely (14): Ride Along 2 Angry Birds Neighbors 2 Conjuring 2 NYSM 2 Central Intelligence The BFG Ice Age Pete's Dragon Storks Gambit Trolls Passengers The Girl on the Train Maybe (15): 13 Hours Zoolander 2 Allegiant My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 The Boss Warcraft The Legend of Tarzan Sully The Magnificent Seven Deepwater Horizon Inferno The Great Wall Pitt/Cotillard/Zemeckis Movie Assassin's Creed Jumanji So if all of the definite ones and likely ones get in, that's 36. Add in a maybe here and there, and it looks like this could very well happen.

The Hateful Eight: $30M

1. Rogue One: $490M 2. Batman v Superman: $470M 3. Finding Dory: $460M 4. Civil War: $390M 5. Moana: $320M 6. Independence Day 2: $300M 7. The Jungle Book $270M 8. The Secret Life of Pets: $270M 9. X-Men: Apocalypse: $260M 10. Fantastic Beasts: $240M

Big Short: $14M Concussion: $12.5M Daddy's Home: $19M Joy: $17M Point Break: $9M

The War of Stars: $230M Alvin: $15M Sisters: $13M

Heart of the Sea: $13M Legend: $1.5M

Happy to see Mockingjay Part 1 potentially getting the #1 highest-grossing movie of 2014. Also interested to see how well-received American Sniper is. Who knows what'll happen on MLK weekend? And let me also say that I am very satisfied with Hobbit 3's #s. Regardless of your opinion, potentially earning $270M+ along with even more worldwide is a good number. What, it not being the biggest smash hit is suddenly wrong? Expecting it to be on the same level as Return of the King or even Fellowship set your hopes up way too high already. But that's just me.

I remember the 2003 Peter Pan movie in commercials when I was six, but I've never watched it. The only Pan things I've experienced were the Disney flick, Finding Neverland, and the NBC special.

Y'know what I'm surprised by? Not the legs of Hobbit or Mockingjay, but how people are "surprised" at WiB2's performance being better than they thought. Hasn't horror movies in the first week always have a decent opening weekend for the past 4 or so years? While not fantastic, they do fine on the first weekend. Marked Ones, Texas Chainsaw 3D, Devil Inside. Course they all drop down hard, but still.

How come I never get those cell phone ads about specific movies? I only ever get an M&M's one at my two local theaters.

Into the Woods December 30th, 7:10PM Crowd: Around 60%, lots of women, girls, and families. Trailers: Black or White- no reaction (Mom didn't say anything) Selma- no reaction (Mom's thoughts: "Eric, do you know the reviews for that? It looks interesting.") Pitch Perfect 2- some big laughs (Mom's thoughts: "Oh come on Eric, that was funny!") Paul Blart 2- big laughs (Mom's thoughts: "Y'know honey, the first was a really cute movie.") Tomorrowland- couple murmurs (Mom's thoughts: "Seems interesting.") Cinderella- no reaction (Mom's thoughts: "Eh, not a fan. But the effects look decent.") Movie had fantastic first two acts, but a decent, though not nearly as strong third. But it was easily the worst theater experience I had there. Three girls behind me laughed and talked with themselves through the entire movie, people in the audience moved everywhere, my seat felt kicked, some kid was bored so he/she had his/her Sketcher shoe light up throughout the movie, it was just obnoxious.

Birdman December 6th, 3:45PM Crowd: 25%, mainly middle-aged couples. Trailers: Wild-no reaction (Mom's thoughts: "I think I want to read the book first.") The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel-some faint laughs (Mom's thoughts: "I thought this already came out.") Inherent Vice-little whispers and a couple chuckles (Mom's thoughts: "This seems like a must-see! It's kind of like that Bradley Cooper 70s movie.") I think Wild and Inherent Vice look entertaining, but I'm clearly not the target demographic for Marigold. The crowd seemed to really like it. There were huge laughs at appropriate times, as well as a gasp here and there from Mama. The movie was fantastic. The editing and direction are fantastic, and the acting is out of this world. Definitley a must-see.

My god this trailer! This actually put a tear in my eye, something a trailer very rarely has done.

Interstellar's older-skewing? Weird, I know people in my age who were super excited for the movie, and I'm in high school.

Ooh, Interstellar and Big Hero 6 both did great this Friday. Hope the rest of the weekend #s are just as strong.

Looks like I'm on a lonely island of hype...again.

Okay Jim, I'll see you around. Where you going?