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    Mamma! Mia: Here! We! Go! Again! | July 20, 2018 | Universal | Ol Parker to write and direct | Greatest Title of All Time? Yes.

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    1 hour ago, TalismanRing said:

    I though Cher was playing the grandmother in the flashback scenes.   But no, there she is all glamorous supposedly a generation older than Meryl, Walters, Brosnan and Skarsgard.   :lol:

     

    Why didn't they get more Meryl for this?  Were they being cheap with her?  I can't believe it's because they hadn't much for her to do or she didn't want to do it again.

    She was probably super busy filming both Mary Poppins and The Post so the creatives decided to focus on a young Streep played by Lily James

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    Classic Conversation Thread

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    32 minutes ago, filmlover said:

    I feel like that flop Arthur remake (which weirdly is also the only time anyone gave Greta Gerwig a lead role in a mainstream project to date) pretty much killed his film career.

    Remember in 2011 when he and his ex-wife appeared in two different live-action/animated hybrids in the same year, and only a couple of months apart? Maybe Smurfs making more money than Hop was what caused Brand to file for divorce.

    Weekend Thread | Estimates (per DHD) ~ MR:TDC 23M, J 15.8M, H 9.8M, TGS 9.3M, TP 8.7M, 12S/DoT 7.9M, TSOW 5.7M, P2 5.5M, TLJ 4M, TBOEM 3.6M

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    4 minutes ago, Arlborn said:

    Gnomes marketing is so weird. It's not like kids would care much for that kind of marketing, right? What are they even trying to achieve with those posters?

     

    I found the posters amusing but I'd never go to the movie theater to watch it no matter how many amusing posters they put out. So what's the plan here?

    Though in all seriousness, I think the reason these posters are made are to get a laugh out of parents and to garner more attention on the Internet and social media buzz than it is to appeal to children. I still think Zootopia was the master at these parodies, and they knew it, considering they would make these types of posters three times (one for regular films, one for Oscars 2016, one for Oscars 2017)

     

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    Weekend Thread | Estimates (per DHD) ~ MR:TDC 23M, J 15.8M, H 9.8M, TGS 9.3M, TP 8.7M, 12S/DoT 7.9M, TSOW 5.7M, P2 5.5M, TLJ 4M, TBOEM 3.6M

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    1 minute ago, Arlborn said:

    Gnomes marketing is so weird. It's not like kids would care much for that kind of marketing, right? What are they even trying to achieve with those posters?

     

    I found the posters amusing but I'd never go to the movie theater to watch it no matter how many amusing posters they put out. So what's the plan here?

    To be fair, it worked for this...

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    The TRAILER thread : Let's gather everything we know about the release dates of movie trailers here!

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    http://deadline.com/2018/01/cloverfield-sequel-dwayne-johnson-jurassic-world-black-panther-super-bowl-movie-trailers-2018-1202270304/

     

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    Universal, whose sister network NBC is airing the game this year, has continually had a footprint during Super Bowl, and this year they’re showcasing their June 22 summer sequel juggernaut Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom as well as the Dwayne Johnson July 13 action pic Skyscraper from director Rawson Marshall Thurber.

     

    Paramount is currently scheduled to air a 30-second spot during the Pre-game and another during the last half hour. Those time slots will be allocated to Mission: Impossible – Fallout (July 27) and John Krasinski’s horror thriller A Quiet Place (April 6). Last year the Melrose Ave. studio ran spots for Transformers: The Last Knight, Ghost in the Shell, and Baywatch. 

     

    In addition, Disney/Marvel‘s Black Panther will also be showing up during commercial breaks: A few days ago, Lexus unveiled its cross promotion with the saber superhero pic which is opening on Feb. 16 to an estimated $120M-$150M four-day weekend.

     

    While Disney will have a presence during the Super Bowl, they’re tight-lipped about their plans. Deadline has knowledge that they will run a 30-second and 45-second spot. A good guess is that a Marvel trailer or two will run, specifically Black Panther and/or Avengers: Infinity War (May 4).  Over the last two years, Marvel has aired spots to their summer season openers during the Big Game, read Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2 and Captain America: Civil War. A spot for July 6th’s Ant-Man vs. The Wasp would be a complete surprise as we haven’t seen any footage from that pic to date.

     

    There’s also the question whether Disney decides to drop a trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story. Should that occur, it would be the first time ever during the Super Bowl that Disney has done so since taking ownership of Lucasfilm. Given that the film’s May 25 release is less than five months away, they have to start promoting. During the 2016 Summer Olympics, Disney raised the profile of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story with a second official trailer drop.

     

    Last year during Super Bowl, Disney also aired a spot for their family title Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Hence upcoming family pics like A Wrinkle in Time and Pixar’s The Incredibles 2 are also likely Super Bowl spot candidates.

     

    Warner Bros. has traditionally sat out during Super Bowl, and will do so again this year. Sony will also be putting a pause on its Big Game promos after airing spots last year for the Ryan Reynolds alien pic Life. 20th Century Fox, which counted spots last year for A Cure for Wellness and Logan also looks to be on the sidelines this year.  

     

     

    WrathOfHan's Controversial 2018 Box Office Predictions

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    Hot take: Sorry for being a "BKB apologist," but I think Meg will probably gross around $65M. The last two shark movies were leggy hits, so having a big-budget tentpole version of it will entice the same crowd and likely some general audience members. Of course, the downside is that it's sharing a direct audience with Predator, but I think there's enough juice in the tank for the both to coexist and for Meg to do passable enough business.

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