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Posts posted by Eric Prime
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So Shaggy Dog with kitties? Yeah, this is gonna bomb.
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KFP3: $45M
Finest Hours: $14M
Fifty Shades of Black: $11M
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4 hours ago, Jessie said:
I don't get what goes through studio heads minds. Out of all the games they could adapt to a movie and they pick this? With Warcraft due this year too, I guess video game adaptations will remain cursed for a least a few more years.
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?
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I don't know if this has been quoted yet, but this jab at Dirty Grandpa from Deadline made me laugh:
QuoteOf the newcomers, Lionsgate and Bill Block Media’s R-rated comedy Dirty Grandpa is in line for the No. 4 spot although it’s being hammered by the critics,including by our own Pete Hammond who called it “stupefyingly awful.” Audiences found it funnier than most critics by giving it a B CinemaScore. Could have something to do with the fact that the average reading level of adults in the U.S. is 7th or 8th grade.
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4 minutes ago, DarthWalker said:
If spending 2.5 hours hunting a bear is all it takes to get an Oscar then the award will have truly lost all meaning
Did you see the same movie I saw?
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The Revenant: $25M
The Forest: $8M
THe Masked Saint: $1M
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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.
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The Hateful Eight: $30M
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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
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Big Short: $14M
Concussion: $12.5M
Daddy's Home: $19M
Joy: $17M
Point Break: $9M
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The War of Stars: $230M
Alvin: $15M
Sisters: $13M
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Heart of the Sea: $13M
Legend: $1.5M
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My god this trailer! This actually put a tear in my eye, something a trailer very rarely has done.
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Interstellar's older-skewing? Weird, I know people in my age who were super excited for the movie, and I'm in high school.
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Ooh, Interstellar and Big Hero 6 both did great this Friday. Hope the rest of the weekend #s are just as strong.
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Looks like I'm on a lonely island of hype...again.
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Okay Jim, I'll see you around. Where you going?
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Kung Fu Panda 3 | 1/29/2016 | New Trailer on Page 26!
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I'm sorry, when was $135M a bad thing? Is it a fantastic number? No. Do I completely agree with Han? No, as domestic-wise, I feel a couple extra million can be added in, due to an entire month to its own with zilch family competition. But that's not a bad number at all. It's only just below the production budget, and with $545M WW, that's 3.75 times the budget, which even including marketing means that it made a pretty hefty profit. So why are you getting on him for predicting something that is both logical and still profitable for the studio?