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    WrathOfHan's Controversial 2017 Box Office Predictions

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    51 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

    The Mummy: People on here are underestimating this film. The first trailer exploded online and has some of the highest trailer views for any 2017 movie. Additionally, the IMAX trailer with messed up audio exploded and got people talking more. Do not underestimate how much people love The Mummy. The first film adjusts to 260M, and the second adjusts to 303M. Even The Scorpion King adjusts to 133M! If they had 3D and large formats, the first would have grossed over 300M and the second might have approached 400M. Tom Cruise hasn’t had a big hit lately outside of the Mission Impossible series, but he can be a big draw in the right role. I have had enough of people saying these predictions aren’t controversial. Many have gone outside of the normal range, but people still blast me for this. You want some fucking controversy? I’ll give it to you. The Mummy is going to do to the Monsters Cinematic Universe what Iron Man did to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (I’m just realizing they have the same initials :lol: ). The biggest box office hits come unexpected, and The Mummy has all the right components to break out: a bankable star, buzz, and nostalgia. A Cruise Missile is incoming. You’ve been warned.  

     

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    Weekend Thread (Dec-30-Jan 2nd) 3/4-day #s R1 49.5m/64.3m, Sing 42.8m/56.4m, Pass 16.15m/20.7m, Moana 10.97m/14.3m, WH 10.6m/13m, Fences 10m/12.7m

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    12 minutes ago, ohmigod2005 said:

    Wow, so much wrong with this: 

    1) this was not a non event in the US, plain and simple. This is Rowling we're talking about here, and the film is tracking to about 240 mil.

    2) I damn hope you have never praised a marvel film or a Star Wars film in your life, to be honest, because civil war, and really almost every single marvel film, have been terrible films driven solely by action. Sorry that's what you wanted and didn't get. 

    3) Fantastic Beasts, and the rest of the Wizarding World brand, is sophisticated and creative in ways your fave superhero brands or Star Wars franchise is/are not. Those are light entertainment made to sell toys. I could not for the life of me even begin to comprehend how Civil War and Rogue One were anything but cute, toy selling mindless action films. They're always the same and they only take some risks, if any. Fantastic Beasts has pretty great acting, a complex and compelling story, amazing, huge-scale production design, a beautiful score, great costume and lighting design...Disney franchises typically go for loud childish bombast or nothing. 

    4) What Disney blockbusters have officially done is taken character away from film. The plot drives them and everyone cares about the characters because of what they do, even narrowing it down to how they move and what bad guys they defeat. A number of people on this forum obviously have been trained to not be able to sit through any form of cerebral/emotional/psychological character driven moments whatsoever, which again, are few and far between in franchises and branded entertainment today. Except in The Wizarding World. Which is why it's been shunned by so many tough acting 40+ year old man-babies

    5) The films and books in Rowling's brand are about the only commercially viable piece of entertainment that gets dark, tragic, and takes risks, and says a lot, about war, murder, loss, coming of age, repression, discrimination, bigotry, Capitol punishment, depression, hatred, fear, losing innocence, education interference, political corruption, and spirituality, among many other things. Fantastic Beasts and Potter are some of the only effortlessly sophisticated, morally and thematically mature pieces of branded entertainment in Hollywood today, to a reasonable extent, and it absolutely pissess me off that they're constantly disses and patronized by 30 year old man-babies who love to play with their Disney Store(TM) toys and eat that SW branded GoGurt and try to mask their far more infantile obsessions with Lamentations on how "stupid and kiddie Potter is" and how "Star Wars is so Shakespearean". Ohmygodshutthefuckup. Shutthefuckup. Shutthefuckup. Star Wars is so light in comparison and young skewing in comparison as well I don't know why I have to fight with these people. 

     

    And of course, when patronization doesn't work, they just opaquely trash it (^you my friend) and continue to act like its a Transformers sequel or something, and it isn't the highest grossing franchise, highest selling book series, and second most expensive entertainment brand in the world with far more consistent critical acclaim than Star Wars or Middle Earth. Jesus, get over yourselves. 

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    Top 10 of 2017 predictions!

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    http://www.fandango.com/movie-photos/30-most-anticipated-movies-of-2017-1316

    Fandango's doing something different, and now has a top 30 most anticipated movies instead of a top 10. Of course, it's very important to understand that these lists should be taken with a pinch of salt (Zoolander 2 was like #9 last year), but it's still an interesting list regardless.

     

    1. Episode 8

    2. Guardians 2

    3. Beauty and the Beast

    4. Wonder Woman

    5. Spider-Man: Homecoming

    6. Justice League

    7. Fate of the Furious

    8. Fifty Shades Darker

    9. Logan

    10. Despicable Me 3

    11. Lego Batman Movie

    12. Thor: Ragnarok

    13. Pirates 5

    14. Blade Runner 2049

    15. Cars 3

    16. John Wick: Chapter 2

    17. War for the Planet of the Apes

    18. The Dark Tower

    19. Pitch Perfect 3

    20. Alien: Covenant

    21. Jumanji

    22. Kong: Skull Island

    23. Transformers: The Last Knight

    24. Dunkirk

    25. The Mummy

    26. Baywatch

    27. T2: Trainspotting

    28. xXx: The Return of Xander Cage

    29. Snatched

    30. The Great Wall

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    Top 10 of 2017 predictions!

    in Box Office Discussion

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    1. Star Wars Episode 8: $765M

    2. Guardians of the Galaxy: $420M

    3. Beauty and the Beast: $400M

    4. Despicable Me 3: $355M

    5. Justice League: $330M

    6. Spider-Man: Homecoming: $320M

    7. Wonder Woman: $305M

    8. Fate of the Furious: $290M

    9. Lego Batman: $260M

    10. Thor 3: $260M

    11. Kong: $250M

    12. Coco: $245M

    13. Dunkirk: $245M

    14. Apes: $230M

    15. Transformers: $200M

    16. Logan: $190M

    17. Pirates 5: $190M

    18. Ninjago: $180M

    19. Cars 3: $180M

    20. Dark Tower: $175M

    21. The Mummy: $170M

    22. Rock That Body: $160M

    23. Jumanji: $150M

    23. Murder on the Orient Express: $145M

    24. Baywatch: $140M

    25. Bad Moms Christmas: $140M

    25. Kingsman: $135M

    26. Fifty Shades: $135M

    27. Alien: Covenant: $130M

    28. The House: $125M

    29. Blade Runner 2049: $120M

    30. Pitch Perfect 3: $120M

    31. Ferdinand: $115M

    32. The Star: $110M

    33. Fist Fight: $105M

    34. Captain Underpants: $105M

    35. Red Sparrow: $105M

    36. Greatest Showman on Earth: $100M

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