[BLAIR WITCH | Sequel to THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT | 9/16/16 | The Blair Witch returns as The Blair "Blair Witch" Witch]

35 minutes ago, Baumer loves Dory said:

Gotta tell you guys, the reviews for this have me all tingly inside and out.  I'm not for reviews to influence me but I do respect some of the reviewers who have weighed in so far.  They pretty much all say that Wingard has blown the roof off of the horror genre and the last third of this film is going to rewrite the book on horror.

 

Slight spoilers in this little blurb here, but nothing that gives away plot pieces:

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This is also a world where the characters have not only seen The Blair Witch Project, which presumably exists as a real document in their world, but where characters have enough technology and common sense to prepare. They have GPS, they don’t want to go off looking for their straggler in the middle of the night, they’re skeptical about all the legends they’ve heard. For these characters to feel peril, the film has to really strip away all their safety nets and it does so organically so that new threats can develop in the world of Blair Witch.

Blair Witch is a love letter to the film that began the found footage horror craze. Even though it would takeParanormal Activity and proliferation of consumer cameras to cause a glut of found footage horror movies, The Blair Witch Project is the one that started it all. Blair Witch honors its tradition and uses all the tricks filmmakers have learned in the past 17 years to make us scared of the woods again.

 

 

 

and then this beauty:

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Blair Witch won’t affect seasoned horror fans (as much), but rest assured that it will destroyeveryone else. This film will hurt people. It’s the emotional experience that transcends traditional narrative storytelling and ascends to a place of Nirvana. What I mean by this is that, whether they can verbalize it or not, moviegoers understand the basic structure to a story. So, while someone watching Blair Witch may think they know what’s going to happen next, they don’t. The film breaks the mold of traditional horror and pushes the boundaries to the absolute brink.

While the complete annihilation of the narrative will throw viewers for a loop, Wingard sucker-punches them with a flurry of the most intense and jarring sound design in the history of horror, which is going to leave many viewers rattled. The sound is simply one of the many well-designed “props” in this relentless funhouse of terror thats coup de grâce is the claustrophobic tunnel sequence that will have everyone squirming for the exits

 

 

 

September 16th seems so far away.

Welp, now I have to see Blair Witch Project now.

[Box Office Theory's Most Anticipated Films]

1. Rogue One

2. Passengers

3. La La Land

4. Lego Batman

5. Moonlight

6. Moana

7. Fantastic Beasts

8. Storks

9. Spider-Man: Homecoming

10. Doctor Strange

[The Dark Tower | August 4, 2017 | McConaughey, Elba | Reviews coming in, it's a bomb etc. etc. - we know this drill by now]

http://www.slashfilm.com/the-dark-tower-trailer/

The first footage is arriving in October (trailer with Inferno I guess). I know very little about the books, but the cast is worth a ticket alone for me.

 

[MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS | 10 NOV 2017 | Fox]

1 hour ago, ddddeeee said:

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/leslie-odom-jr-murder-on-the-orient-express-1201839535/

@WrathOfHan @Jack Nevada

[Tuesday Numbers | 6.25 M SUICIDE SQUAD]

52 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Or Tuesday is just big. The final Ice Age movie also jumped big in July.

Well it makes sense. If I had to take my kid to a movie, and I had to choose between a Monday or a Tuesday, I'd choose the day that would cost me $13 instead of $15-17.

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3 minutes ago, Nova said:

DC Fans when critics don't like their movies 

Y'know, insulting the other side sets more fuel to the fire. Do you really want to continue these flame wars?

[Ben-Hur | 8/19/16 | 7 minutes of Jack Reacher will play before the movie]

2 minutes ago, Baumer loves Dory said:

At the beginning of the summer I thought.... along with everybody else that this is pointless and it's going to tank badly. But for some reason the closer we get to it the more reviews I read about it and the more commercials I see for it I just have this nagging feeling that's going to do way better then I think anyways think it will. Yes it should Miss double digits this weekend. But part of me is thinking it's going to do something crazy like open to 20 million.

There are reviews for Ben-Hur out already?

[Arrival | Nov 11, 2016 | Villeneuve/Adams/Renner | First Reviews Have Arrived.]

So does the domestic trailer actually reveal too much like it was rumored to?

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30 minutes ago, Ohana said:

Studios should release their crappy movies 1 week after DCEU films debut, it seems the critics will give rave reviews to any movie who can
push DCEU down.

Oh yeah, I agree. I'm amazed that God's Not Dead 2 was given such rave reviews. And Meet the Blacks getting stellar praise? Those darn critics.

[Weekend Thread | Estimates SS 43.7m, SP 33.6m, PD 21.5, JCIJB 13.6m, BM 11.45m, SLOP 8.8m, STD 6.8m, FFJ 6.58m]

Trek and Bourne are around the same quality for me. 

[Weekend Thread | Estimates SS 43.7m, SP 33.6m, PD 21.5, JCIJB 13.6m, BM 11.45m, SLOP 8.8m, STD 6.8m, FFJ 6.58m]

5 minutes ago, Sam said:

 

I hate it too. But its also the movie thay makes me fall in love with McAvoy. So sometimes, that gives me conflicted feelings.

I know right? McAvoy's able to give a character that had so little personality, and gave him so much likability, warmth, and heart. It sucks that he's still so underrated in Hollywood.

[Weekend Thread | Estimates SS 43.7m, SP 33.6m, PD 21.5, JCIJB 13.6m, BM 11.45m, SLOP 8.8m, STD 6.8m, FFJ 6.58m]

10 minutes ago, ThatOneSausage said:

 

Oh come on.  It deserved every bit of praise it got.  Better than that shitty Juno movie that everyone seemed to like despite its low quality.

Well if the characters actually had motivations that made sense and had more personality than just, "nice James McAvoy", "precocious Saorise Ronan", and "sad Keira Knightley", maybe I'd sing a different tune. Everything else about it is great, but its main cog is just...ugh.

[Weekend Thread | Estimates SS 43.7m, SP 33.6m, PD 21.5, JCIJB 13.6m, BM 11.45m, SLOP 8.8m, STD 6.8m, FFJ 6.58m]

Just now, ThatOneSausage said:

 

Yeah, such an ART FILM THAT WAS DIRECTED BY THE GUY THAT MADE...

 

Okay he had a solid track record with affecting dramas like Pride and Prejudice and Atonement before doing shit like The Soloist and Anna Karenina, and of course, PAN.

Atonement's really not that good, tbh. How it was nominated for Best Screenplay, let alone Best Picture is baffling.

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3 minutes ago, ThatOneSausage said:

 

So what if it flopped??  AMAZING MOVIES FLOP.  BLADE RUNNER WAS A FLOP.

 

And any reasonable person would know that Pan would be a massive failure.    

Pan wasn't supposed to make that much money anyway. It's an art film.

[Weekend Thread | Estimates SS 43.7m, SP 33.6m, PD 21.5, JCIJB 13.6m, BM 11.45m, SLOP 8.8m, STD 6.8m, FFJ 6.58m]

3 minutes ago, ThatOneSausage said:

 

At least JJL HAS ACTUAL TALENT AND DOESNT PICK SHITTY PROJECTS.  Like who does Mara think she was by deciding to be on fucking PAN.  

 

While Mara did Pan in between those two films, Leigh did THE MACHINIST, SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK, SPECTACULAR NOW, AND ANOMALISA.  Meanwhile, Morgan is going to make BANK at the box office.  Just you wait.

Look, Mara just thought Pan could give her some franchise material. But a true auteur realized franchises are stupid, and she should be remembered for picking projects that Oscar voters will cream all over for, giving her way more attention from the GA. Anomalisa was a flop, lol (character break: Although it shouldn't have been )

[Weekend Thread | Estimates SS 43.7m, SP 33.6m, PD 21.5, JCIJB 13.6m, BM 11.45m, SLOP 8.8m, STD 6.8m, FFJ 6.58m]

2 minutes ago, ThatOneSausage said:

 

FUCK NO.  She was awful in Pan and that obviously shows she didn't deserve any of this.  She has to keep a consistent acting record in her movies. 

 

Jennifer Jason Leigh should've won, but of course, the Oscars have a Tarantino bias.  Sigh

Hell no. People don't even remember who JJL is. What was the last thing she was in that people actually watched? Road to Perdition LOL. Mara's last big hit was Dragon Tatoo, but Lion's gonna explode in the box office, and she'll usurp J-Law's throne. HAIL QUEEN MARA!

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5 minutes ago, ThatOneSausage said:

Why can't we have fights over comedies and Oscar-bait dramas .  It'd be much more interesting than fucking CBM arguments.

Alright, I'll start: Rooney Mara deserved Supporting Actress last year. COME AT ME DANISH GIRL FANBOYS!

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7 minutes ago, Daniel Dylan Davis said:

 

Star Trek and Bourne.

Bourne's Universal, brah.

[Passengers | Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence | Dec 21, 2016 | Trailer pg 70]

3 minutes ago, robertman2 said:

Ugh

that show was so fucking bad

And with that, Tele just banned you. Nice knowin' ya man!

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Fun fact: Bad Moms was originally going to be a Paramount movie, and now this movie's going to gross more than every Paramount movie this year sans Star Trek.

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1 hour ago, MovieMan89 said:

Yep. If WW is another BvS/SS received film then 125-150 for JL DOM, which is absolutely a disaster for that movie. 

Oh come on.

[Top 10 of 2017 predictions!]

Alright, my turn:

1. Star Wars 8: $750M

2. Beauty and the Beast: $405M

3. GOTG 2: $370M

4. Spider-Man: Homecoming: $340

5. Despicable Me 3: $325M

6. Wonder Woman: $310M

7. Fast 8: $300M

8. Lego Batman: $290M

9. Justice League: $275M

10. Coco: $240M

11. Kong: Skull Island: $230M

12. Thor: Ragnarok: $225M

13. Dunkirk: $220M

14. Apes: $200M

15. The Mummy: $180M

16. Transformers: $180

17. Kingsman 2: $175M

18. The Dark Tower: $165M

19. Ninjago $160M

20. Wolverine 3: $150M

 

Pirates 5: $140M

Baywatch: $140M

Jumanji: $135M

Smurfs: The Lost Villiage: $135M

Cars 3: $130M

Ferdinand: $130M

Pitch Perfect 3: $130M

The House: $125M

Captain Underpants: $120M

Blade Runner: $115M

Alien: Covenant: $115M

Power Rangers: $110M

Murder on the Orient Express: $110M

Mother/Daughter: $100M

Fifty Shades Darker: $100M

[Box Office Theory's Most Anticipated Films]

1. Passengers

2. Rogue One

3. La La Land

4. Lego Batman

5. Moonlight

6. Moana

7. Fantastic Beasts

8. Storks

9. Spider-Man: Homecoming

10. Doctor Strange

[Weekend Thread | Estimates SS 43.7m, SP 33.6m, PD 21.5, JCIJB 13.6m, BM 11.45m, SLOP 8.8m, STD 6.8m, FFJ 6.58m]

11 minutes ago, UrosepsisFace said:

Guys, Suicide Squad dropped 79.4% from Friday to Friday. That's terrible. For example, other movies that have done this poorly:

 

1. Captain America: Civil War -74%

2. Twilight Series ~75%

3 The Dark Knight Rises -76.6%

4. Batman v Superman -81.6%

5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 -84%

 

What do those movies all have in common? Toxic word of mouth? I was going to say huge previews on Thursday, built-in fan base, and all that jazz, but nah...toxic word of mouth it is. 

 

Also, another interesting point to ignore, Suicide Squad had crazy Thursday preview numbers AND Tmobile Free Ticket Fridays. Sure, the major drops seem to be associated in comparison to that first Friday, which just so happened to be special in at least two ways, but hey, let's forget that, and project the anomalies into generalities, just like the best numerical analysts.

 

So to continue its flop status, like such other flops, Suicide Squad could do anywhere between 15m -21m Saturday, depending if it's WOM is like Twilight or if it's like Dark Knight Rises. Can't wait to find out!

We get it.

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5 minutes ago, Water Bottle said:

So today:

 

Pete's Dragon first or Sausage Party?

 

(Kinda disappointed with Pete's Dragon opening but eh, at least it only had a $65 million budget.)

 

Coin Flip?

Edit: Just go Pete's then Sausage, since the latter will probably have a bigger crowd at that time, and comedies are always great when there's a big crowd.