Eric Prime
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I still think it can cross $100M. Stuff like John Carter and Tomorrowland still opened above $30M, and with zero competition in its wake, it can still find its way to opening above that and getting a 3x+ multiplier. $33M/$110M
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Just now, DAR said:
A monkey usually makes a film better
Dunston Checks In is probably the best movie Faye Dunaway's ever been in tbh
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1 minute ago, DAR said:
I don't think there have been that many hockey movies
Mighty Ducks(3)
Slap Shot
Miracle
Mystery Alaska
Youngblood
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1 minute ago, WrathOfHan said:
Korey Coleman from Double Toasted's top 10 is pretty tight:
1. Get Out
2. War for the Planet of the Apes
3. Coco
4. Good Time
5. Lady Bird
6. The Florida Project
7. Logan
8. Detroit
9. Dunkirk
10. Call Me by Your Name/The Big Sick
Honorable mentions: The Lost City of Z, The Post, Brigsby Bear, mother!, Thor: Ragnarok, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Three Billboards, LEGO Batman, The Shape of Water, I Tonya
I saw the video version. Did he say his honorable mentions in the Soundcloud version?
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4 minutes ago, MrGamer said:
Name a better action scene in the Mighty Ducks cartoon than Gordon Bombay threatening to sue a bunch of stuffy old people.
Name me a scene from any of the movies that has an eyepatch-wearing duck with a laser sword, and the word "Nin-Jerks" actually stated by a character.
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1 minute ago, MrGamer said:
Flying V > that bullshit cartoon
#DucksRock
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52 minutes ago, MrGamer said:
Screw the remakes of animated movies, Disney. Where the hell is my Mighty Ducks remake?
Nah son. I want a remake of that weird Mighty Ducks cartoon about hockey-playing ducks from another planet that fought reptilian aliens. I remember when I was a kid being so disappointed when I discovered the actual movie it was based on was just some dumb movie about Charlie Sheen's brother being a hockey coach to some bratty kids.
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1 minute ago, filmlover said:
You have to question the sanity of a producer who would give Adam DeVine a lead role in...well, anything.
I haven't seen Pitch Perfect 3, but I'm certain that it's the best in the series because there's no DeVine in sight.
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I have no idea what this movie is, but just looking at Adam DeVine's dumb face makes me hate it.
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Probably in front of Paddington 2
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Stealing from the Buzz & Tracking Thread:
http://blog.moviepass.com/your-top-25-movies-of-2017/
25. Ferdinand
24. Jigsaw
23. Geostorm
22. Downsizing
21. Shape of Water
20. Pitch Perfect 3
19. A Bad Moms Christmas
18. Happy Death Day
17. The Foreigner
16. Wonder
15. Daddy's Home 2
14. American Made
13. The Greatest Showman
12. 3 Billboards
11. Lady Bird
10. It
9. Kingsman 2
8. The Disaster Artist
7. Blade Runner 2049
6. Jumanji
5. Orient Express
4. Justice League
3. Coco
2. Thor: Ragnarok
1. Porg: The Movie
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Winter Storm Grayson (a giant blizzard impacting Virginia, Pennsylvania, New England, etc.) has gotten so bad, the theater I track presales for is shutting down today. After a Jumanji and Greatest Showman at 12:05 and 12:30 respectively, it's closing. They're still open on Friday to Sunday though, so don't be surprised if Thursday previews look rough for Insidious.
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WIN #8
SPLIT
"The broken are the more evolved. Rejoice."
Release Date: January 20
Director: M. Night Shymalan
Cast: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Betty Buckley, Hayley Lu Richardson
B.O. Gross: $138.1M DOM, $278.3M WW
When M. Night Shyamalan first landed on the scene with The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs, he was hailed as the next Spielberg. Flash forward a few years, his name would become synonymous with garbage, ranging from disappointments like The Village, to “so bad it’s good” like Lady in the Water and The Happening, to dull messes like The Last Airbender and After Earth. By that point, Shyamalan became a punchline, a gag, a complete has-been. But in 2015, he partnered with Jason Blum and released The Visit. It received okay enough reviews, but was a great success, grossing over $98 million on a $5 million budget. At the very least, the film offered some goodwill to audiences that Shyamalan can still make good work, or at least work that's better than The Last Airbender.
But while The Visit was a gentle reminder Shyamalan was still going to be around, Split was a battle cry that Shyamalan was not only still going to be around, but a force to be reckoned with. Thanks to a creative premise, a PG-13 rating that helped bring in wider appeal, and a unique villainous performance from James McAvoy, Split grossed over $40M in its opening weekend, gaining the highest OW since The Conjuring 2 in 2016. Considering that Conjuring 2 was based off of an acclaimed sequel, and Split was an original film (kinda), that makes it even more impressive.
But what really sealed the deal were the film’s legs and staying power. While this year had plenty of strong legs for horror films, more often than not, this is a genre that’s notorious for being frontloaded, so when the film dropped 36%, 43%, 34%, 24%, and other stellar holds until weekend 9, it was downright shocking. In the end, the film managed to gross over $138 million domestically. Considering most people thought the film would, at best, cross $105 million, this was an amazing feat and outshined everyone’s wildest expectations. There are a lot of compelling reasons why this film held better than other horror flicks, but to me the biggest factor came to James McAvoy. Obviously he’s no Dwayne Johnson level superstar, but seeing him portray multiple characters with unique personalities, while still seeming chilling and frightening helped to make the character stand out as a horror villain, and seeing as how his perfomrance was the main selling point in the advertising, him able to pull it off successfully caused a huge boom in word of mouth, causing people to see how he pulled it off. Add on a twist ending where it’s revealed the whole film was a sequel to 2000’s Unbreakable, and it only helped drive word of mouth even further.
Speaking of which, due to this film’s great success, a sequel is already planned, with Universal and Disney joining forces to releasing it. The sequel, titled Glass, will feature McAvoy and Anya Taylor-Joy teaming up with Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, alongside a new character played by the lovely and talented Sarah Paulson in what’s sure to be an epic Shyamalan event. Let’s hope it doesn’t disappoint when it releases in January 2019, because as a proud supporter of everything and anything Philadelphia, I love and will always support my Shyamalan, even when he ruined one of my favorite shows of all time, and I want him to continue earning praise and adulation for his future features.
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Agree completely with your Red Sparrow prediction. J-Law's back baby!
SpoilerNow I'm ready to debunk your
wackprediction for Wrinkle in Time.
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FAIL #8
THE DARK TOWER
"I do not kill with my gun. He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart."
Release Date: August 4
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Cast: Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor, Claudia Kim, Fran Kranz, Abbey Lee, Katheryn Winnick, Jackie Earle Hayley
B.O. Gross: $50.7M DOM, $111.8M WW
While Stephen King has always had strong years, 2017 was perhaps one of his biggest ever. His novel Sleeping Beauties, which he co-wrote with his son Owen King, became a hit best-seller, while Netflix released two critically-acclaimed adaptations of Gerald’s Game and 1922. And there was also a clown movie that came out that was based off one of his books. I don’t remember what it was called, but I heard it did very well.
But even the best years have some bumps in the road, and for King, that was found in the film adaptation of The Dark Tower. For nearly 10 years, the film had been in development, hopping from studio to studio and director to director, including J. J. Abrams and Ron Howard. But due to the project being such a massive feat, with seven novels to adapt, as well as the previous visions from Abrams and Howard having gargantuan budgets for a film that could potentially flop, the plans fell through. But soon, the rights landed to Sony, who took this sprawling epic, and turned it into a cost-effective midbudget feature. Well, okay, even if it may not be as grandiose as one would expect, it’s still based on Stephen King’s most beloved series. And while Idris Elba isn’t some famous superstar, he still seemed to be inspired casting. This had easy potential to be a great new franchise for Sony, a company that’s pretty barren on that front.
And Sony seemed incredibly confident in the film, as they announced plans to continue the film with a sequel and a television series starring Idris Elba before the film even came out. It seemed everything was going well, until the first initial test screenings were unveiled in October 2016. Audiences responded very negatively to the footage, finding it confusing and messy. This forced Sony to delay the film to August, and create new scenes that better explained Roland Deschain’s backstory. In the end however, they couldn’t save this turkey, as the film opened to a paltry $19.1 million. Even August legs couldn’t save it, as it dropped more than 50% the rest of its run, leading to a $50.7 million domestic run and a $111.8 million worldwide gross, meaning the film couldn’t even break even on its $60 million budget.
There were many reasons for this film’s downfall, but the main one came to its poor attempt in pleasing all audiences, from fans to newcomers. The film is technically not an adaptation of The Gunslinger, but instead a continuation from where the last novel left off. From what I can gather, the filmmakers made this decision to avoid criticisms from fans from “ruining” the source material, as well as said novel being so complex and seemingly unfilmable, that starting from scratch with a new story would make things easier from a filmmaking perspective. That did not turn out well at all. Instead, it was incomprehensible to newcomers and disappointing to fans who wanted to see their favorite story on the big screen.
It also didn’t help that the movie itself was flat-out horrible. It’s probably the worst movie I’ve seen last year. The script was incoherent, the editing was atrocious, the world and character arcs were barely developed, the actors looked completely bored and unenthused, the production looked more like a TNT show than an actual movie, and the tone was all over the place, going from gritty Western in the second act to a Last Action Hero knockoff in the third act, but somehow even worse. It was just a complete mess and was a disastrous end result for a film nearly 10 years in the making. As of now, the television series’ fate is up in the air, but considering how awful the movie was and how it performed, Sony has likely already put the kibosh in the idea, as well as the franchise as a whole.
I’m sure in a few years Dark Tower fans will finally get the adaptation they deserved, but in the end, The Dark Tower was a massive blunt on Stephen King’s year, as well as Sony’s relatively decent year.
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5 hours ago, dashrendar44 said:
I guess Jumanji's christmas success can also be chalked up to the timeless appeal of Chris Van Allsburg's children book.
By the way, Chris Van Allsburg's art is incredible. I know there has been a Jumanji cartoon back in the day but his original illustrations would be worthy of an animated movie (using Disney's short Paperman technique) that doesn't feature a creepy CG Tom Hanks:
I remember reading Polar Express all the time as a kid because of how gorgeous the illustrations were. It was like an actual painting you would find in an art museum. Everything about it oozed the feeling and wonder of Christmas. Still up there as one of my favorite picture books of all time.
That fucking Zemeckis movie.
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3 minutes ago, That One Guy said:
It’s...fun.
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16 hours ago, That One Guy said:
Please don't tell me you actually like King Arthur.
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Honestly, I feel like the more and more I read You-Know-Who's posts about the "Wizarding World," the more and more I've come to the realization that maybe Harry Potter wasn't that great of a series. :/
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Insidious 26 1789 1.45% Fifty Shades 139 1921 7.24% Insidious has all of their showtimes available, and as expected, it's pretty frontloaded, with almost all of the business being done on Thursday and Friday. Shades only saw a tiny bump.
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Ehh, I still think 15:17 has a shot at $100M. Eastwood's on a roll, everyone forgot about Act of Valor, and it's the only major adult-skewing film in February.
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On 1/2/2018 at 10:06 AM, MCKillswitch123 said:
When does the embargo break? Cause I'm really curious if this is yet another January horror masterpiece or if it manages to (sorta) break the trend.
I mean, we wouldn't wanna miss out on another legend like The Bye Bye Man or Texas Chainsaw 3D, would we?
Metacritic has a 57 score up. I'm assuming the RT score will be unveiled on See It/Skip It
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1. Deadpool 2 makes more than $400M, becomes #2 at the DOM box office, only behind Infinity War.
2. All of Disney's features, including Wrinkle in Time and Christopher Robin, will gross more than $100M DOM.
3. Incredibles 2 "disappoints" with only $350M
4. Comedy comes back in a big way: Game Night, Night School, Holmes and Watson, and Ocean's 8 all cross $100M, while Crazy Rich Asians becomes a modest success at over $70M.
5. Venom > Aquaman
6. Rampage over $200M
7. Love, Simon crosses $100M, becomes the sleeper hit of the Spring.
That's all I got.
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