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Eric Lasagna
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Weird. I know that I've heard the name Rob Roy before, but I don't remember it being a Liam Neeson movie. Unless of course, I'm thinking about another movie with Rob Roy in the title.
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Ooh, The Killer's on Netflix. Saving that on my queue.
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The Conjuring 2: $36.6M
Warcraft: $27.4M
NYSM2: $20.4M
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Really enjoyed reading this (might steal the idea someday
), but I would say that I was a little disappointed that To Kill a Mockingbird didn't get a mention. Of course I'm biased, since the book and the movie are pretty much perfect in my eyes, but I do feel that not only did Gregory Peck and Mary Badham set the bar for all future actors to come in terms of conviction and character, but it spoke about the unfairness of bigotry, hatred, and intolerance, something that society has unfortunately carried on, and will likely continue on for decades. It asks us to crawl into another man's skin, and tells us about the importance of growing up and maturing in a way that most filmmakers could never touch on so effectively. Not mad at the overall list, and I know that you might not have the same connection, but it still feels kinda empty to me.
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7 minutes ago, Baumer said:
Actors still to come on the list
Cuba Gooding Jr
Sissy Space
Joe Pesci
Jamie Lee Curtis
C Thomas Howell
Snow Dogs
An American Haunting
Gone Fishin'
Christmas with the Kranks
The Day the Earth Stopped
Nailed it!
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17 minutes ago, Treecraft said:
what oscar change?
Before The Dark Knight's release, the Oscar nominees for Best Picture only went up to 5, and very rarely did big-budget tentpoles get much attention from the Academy. In 2008, Dark Knight and Wall-E took the world by storm and were acclaimed by pretty much everyone, but they weren't nominated, and instead, each slot was given to movies that were good, but nowhere near as strong as those summer blockbusters, resulting in backlash from film fans demanding that these crowd-pleasers are just as, if not more strong than those Oscar bait dramas. Because of the heavy backlash, the Academy decided to expand the Best Picture category to 10, which gave helped give BP noms to movies like Avatar, Up, Toy Story 3, and Inception. They did do some changes here and there with how many BP nominees would be given each year, but even now, movies like Gravity, The Martian, and Mad Max: Fury Road are being placed with movies like Philomena and Argo, making the BP roster far more diverse as a result.
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1 minute ago, Chaz said:
You're a baby. This is adorable.
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Story time for The Dark Knight: I was around 10 years old when I saw it with my older brother and my mom. I wasn't the biggest superhero movie fan, since I grew up more as a comedy movie and cartoon movie fan, but I liked Spider-Man, and I liked Fantastic Four, so I expected a superhero movie along those lines. Something fun, bouncy, and somewhat kid-friendly, but still with some serious moments.
Spoiler alert: That didn't happen. Keep in mind that as a kid, I was a gigantic scaredy-cat, even at age 10, so seeing that movie pretty much blindsided what I thought about comic book movies, and the intense action scenes and Heath Ledger's Joker were in my nightmares for weeks.
I still have yet to see the entire movie in one sitting, nor any of the other Nolan Batman films, but I will admit that it probably helped me gain more interest in the Batman lore, as a couple years after the movie came out, I became obsessed with the Arkham games, and I later fell in love with Tim Burton's films. I also started to care more about comic book movies after 2008 rolled around, so maybe Dark Knight actually helped me acquire better taste.
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Never heard of Easy Rider, but it sounds like something I should put on my watchlist.
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1 hour ago, The Panda said:
I actually want to see it, but nobody wants to go with me. Even if I offer to pay.
...and you can't go by yourself, because?
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What I love about this list is that it's conveniently being released while I'm now trying to get more into the horror genre, so this list will pretty much be a laundry list of horror films I have to see. Thanks, B!
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3 hours ago, MCKillswitch123 said:
Out Of The Shadows less than half of TMNT '14's OW. Apocalypse's drop nearly as bad as BVS'. Alice 2 nearly at 10M, which is what the 1st almost grossed in its 5th weekend. Popstar a bomb on Young Messiah/Brothers Grimsby proportions.
LEGSTLEMANIA II IS GONNA BE AMAZING, FOLKS.
Everyone's legs:
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56 minutes ago, CJohn said:
But Taken 2 is a midtier sequel as well. And it exploded. Same with Pitch Perfect. What you are talking about simply doesn't work like that. Alice 2 was a sequel to a MONSTER hit. Yet it also bombed. There is no magic formula.
Actually, maybe there is. The way I see things, the reason why most movies succeed is through the marketing and timing. After all, trailers and TV spots are a major influence on people saying "Oh, I wanna see that" or "Looks lame. I'll just wait for Netflix" Something like Taken 2 and Pitch Perfect 2 managed to succeed because they took the basic premise, but upped the stakes with larger budgets and a bigger scope, and they showed that through the advertising, making it not seem like the exact same movie with one minor difference. They also arrived about three years or so after the first movie, which meant that the movies were still relevant and fresh in the general public's minds.
Alice 2's marketing made it look like the first movie, but with Sacha Baron Cohen hamming it up. Not really a whole lot to get excited for, and that's not including how it had a six-year gap, that sweet spot where it isn't fresh in people's minds, nor nostalgic enough for the original viewers. Neighbors 2 was advertised as the same movie, but with sorority girls. Not really something fresh and a must-see, even with a two-year gap. TMNT 2 faced similar issues with Neighbors 2, as it really only had two new mutants to offer and again had marketing that gave it much differentiation from its predecessor. Ya see where I'm going with this?
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5 minutes ago, Treecraft said:
How is The Magnificent Seven a "guaranteed hit"? It's a western...
Storks should do OK, I forgot about Sully oops. Don't see any reason why Deepwater Horizon should do well. It's not got anything going for it, and has several things against it (sea-disaster movies, public hostility towards the events)
For Deepwater Horizon, it's got Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg teaming up again, right after Lone Survivor performed well, and the marketing seems to be pretty effective in interesting Middle America with their whole family vibe and survivor angle. I can see it doing around Lone Survivor numbers, maybe lower.
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14 minutes ago, grim22 said:
I don't see a Jurassic World, San Andreas or Inside Out style breakout coming up in June. Last year also had Spy, Insidious 3 and Ted 2 (it did make 81M) providing good support as well. June will almost surely be down from 2015 as well.
July, I think can match 2015, unless everything continues the bombathon.
I agree with you on that, but June will have at least 3 strong performers, which is way better than May's 1.
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4 minutes ago, grim22 said:
Worst May in 10 years, down 40% from last year
Year Total Gross Change Movies Avg. Avg.
Drop*#1 Movie Gross % of
Total2016 $709.4 -40.0% 47 $15.1 -52.6% Captain America 3 $380.2 53.6% 2015 $1,183.0 -4.2% 65 $18.2 -59.3% Avengers: Age of Ultron $459.0 38.8% 2014 $1,234.3 -15.5% 61 $20.2 -44.9% Maleficent $241.4 19.6% 2013 $1,461.1 +23.8% 62 $23.6 -51.7% Iron Man 3 $409.0 28.0% 2012 $1,180.3 -1.2% 60 $19.7 -43.5% The Avengers $623.4 52.8% 2011 $1,194.2 +25.5% 44 $27.1 -47.3% The Hangover Part II $254.5 21.3% 2010 $951.8 -27.7% 42 $22.7 -50.4% Iron Man 2 $312.4 32.8% 2009 $1,316.9 +12.8% 39 $33.8 -53.6% Up $293.0 22.3% 2008 $1,167.2 +7.5% 51 $22.9 -53.1% Iron Man $318.4 27.3% 2007 $1,085.4 +20.4% 52 $20.9 -50.1% Spider-Man 3 $336.5 31.0% 
Save us June from this catastrophe!
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7 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said:
These sequels performing the way they are is all setup for the magic trick that is gonna be NYSM2's perfomance. Lowering everyone's expectations just to blow them away.
Sometimes I wish I had your naivete.
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Snow white kinda sorta did save Disney. While the studio was doing well financially, Walt poured almost all of the studio's budget, as well as him mortgaging his own house in order to make the film possible, making it pretty much the Waterworld of the 30s, minus the crushing disappointment. But as said, Cinderella also was another big risk with a giant budget at the time, and could have closed the studio down, since a lot of money was lost during WWII. Sleeping Beauty though was a flop in the box office, which made the studio hesitant on another fairy tale until The Little Mermaid came and put Disney back into the limelight.
(I'm a huge Disney nerd, BTW, so ask me any Disney-related questions at any time
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A Monster Calls has been moved up a week, now competing against Madea, Jack Reacher, Ouija, Joneses, and I'm Not Ashamed. Include limited American Pastoral into the fray, and that's 7 movies on one weekend.
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TMNT 2: $34.6M
Me Before You: $17.7M
Popstar: $7M
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1 minute ago, angeldelmito said:
Rogue One doesn't have as much GA appeal as Assassin's Creed.
Star Wars has less appeal to the GA than Assassin's Creed?
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1 minute ago, Treecraft said:
100M can quite easily be accomplished.
Even against Rogue One?
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Championship racer Lightning McQueen, voiced by Owen Wilson, will need help to compete in the increasingly high-tech racing world of the upcoming Cars 3.
That’s where the new trainer comes in — the sleek, yellow Cruz Ramirez is a young Hispanic female race car who instructs Lightning McQueen, as this exclusive concept art depicts during a beach run.
“Cruz Ramirez is trying to figure out how this old dog can learn some new tricks,” says Cars 3 director Brian Fee.
Pixar's anthropomorphic Cars franchise has followed Lightning McQueen as a rookie racing for the Piston Cup in Cars (2006) and around the globe in the World Grand Prix in Cars 2 (2011). But in Cars 3 (in theaters June 16, 2017), McQueen has progressed beyond veteran status.
“Think of where he’d be in his career now in real time,” says Fee. “(McQueen) is not an old man, but he's one of the older cars on the circuit with new rookies coming in. People start to wonder and ask when he might retire.”
These questions grow louder after a race trouncing by upstart Jackson Storm.
“Jackson Storm is the face of these rookies who have come onto the scene,” says Fee. “And McQueen is in a position where his entire racing generation is being pushed out. But it’s too early to be shown the door right now.”
Ramirez aims to help him adapt and close the technical gap. The duo prepare in the racing off-season for McQueen’s one chance to show he’s got the goods in the Florida 500 (the equivalent of the Daytona 500).
“Everyone can relate to feeling like someone is at their heels, that they might be a little outdated in something they used to be very good at, feeling an expiration date. And knowing you need someone to help you get a second chance," says Fee.
Cars 3 is deep in production with some story points still being solidified and major casting (such as voices for Ramirez and Storm) not yet announced. But animation already underway in established scenes.
“We’re still creating the blueprints on some rooms of this house, but we’re starting to paint in other rooms,” the director says.
Fee is well entrenched in the Cars world for his directorial debut, after serving as storyboard animator in Cars and Cars 2, directed by John Lasseter.
“Brian was part of the original story team on Cars, so he really knows the DNA,” says Lasseter, now chief creative officer for Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios and executive producer for Cars 3.
Cars 3 will feature McQueen with his signature Cars look and bring back familiar characters from the original's Radiator Springs, including tow-truck Mater (Larry the Cable Guy), girlfriend Sally Carrera (Bonnie Hunt) and auto-body shop owner Ramone (Cheech Marin).
The story will stay in America, hitting historical race sites throughout the country.
“This movie is a love letter to racing and the American way,” says Fee. “We’re inspired by the Americana you see traveling through the South where every small town has a dirt track.”
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I definitely enjoyed the movie, but it's definitely a huge departure in quality from the previous ones. While it's admirable that Singer attempts to add in dozens of new characters in addition to the growing relationships between Charles, Erik, and Mystique, but it leaves a lot of things underdeveloped or flat-out uninteresting. The new actors did fine, but they didn't really have much going for them, outside of their short story arcs, and Quicksilver's reveal about Magneto being his father felt tacked on and unneeded. Not to mention, the climax felt overlong and way too small in scale for what is supposedly the X-Men's biggest baddie. That said, Charles, Erik, Quicksilver, and Mystique are likable and interesting as always, and I enjoyed Apocalypse (although I do wonder why he doesn't use his powers to make the X-Men fall into the earth). The Wolverine cameo was fun, if unneeded, and I do like the inner battle between Charles and Apocalypse. I do see plenty of potential here for the next movie to be another strong film in the franchise, so hopefully Apocalypse will lead to greener pastures in the future.
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), but I would say that I was a little disappointed that To Kill a Mockingbird didn't get a mention. Of course I'm biased, since the book and the movie are pretty much perfect in my eyes, but I do feel that not only did Gregory Peck and Mary Badham set the bar for all future actors to come in terms of conviction and character, but it spoke about the unfairness of bigotry, hatred, and intolerance, something that society has unfortunately carried on, and will likely continue on for decades. It asks us to crawl into another man's skin, and tells us about the importance of growing up and maturing in a way that most filmmakers could never touch on so effectively. Not mad at the overall list, and I know that you might not have the same connection, but it still feels kinda empty to me.
Weekend Estimates (Page 50): The Conjuring 40.3M | Warcraft 24M | NYSM 23M| TMNT 14.8M | X-Men 10M | Me Before You 9.2M
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It's still at least an A++ though, right?