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Strong reviews. WOM. Even the negative reviews praised her. That OW happened because the fans saw the movie, loved it, and kept coming and it even hooked the wider audience.

The franchise is over. Instead of one $400 million film they get two $300 million dollars films. Mockingjay was always the least popular book, was always the least cinematic and they split it into two parts. They held their own regardless.

Is this the annual Hunger Games overreaction thread? Will end up well over $300 million again.

So We Are Your Friends had the 4th worst 2000+ screen opening weekend in history.

Not sure beating F4 is something to brag about.

For me the highlights of the Summer have been first watching JW spear that overrated, cynical crapfest known as the Avengers. Twice. Second watching the sequel to said crapfest make $170 million less in the US than the first one did. And Third is F4. If a movie is going to flop, go big.

Paper Towns. Wow. So much for the Cara Delevingne era. She is not the only reason, but the media cannot just manufacture a film star.

What's not to like about a movie with freaking dinosaurs?

There is no such thing as a movie star if we define it as the ability to make a film that has no commercial appeal, limited distribution and marketing into a hit. Put Dicaprio and Jolie in a small indie with limited distribution and it is still going no where fast. A draw is just someone who is careful with their career choices. A movie star to me is someone who has appeal with the audience who can make the most of a role. Give them a good role in a promising film and they deliver and the audience buys them. Something like that. This looks like a very interesting film.

Congratulations to all the dinosaurs involved in the JW production.

I kind of like the idea of JW taking the crown from the Avengers. Motorcycle raptors and a genetically engineered T-Rex. What's not to like?

The original was a great movie. This one was well timed, placed, marketed. I liked the big water monster, scientific or not.

The less said about it the better.

Reasonablly successful. How about one big hit (JM), one decent hit (Vanilla Sky), one OKish family film (We Bought a Zoo), one wretchedly overrated movie (Almost Famous), and one very annoying film (Singles).

SA proves there is always an market for big, dumb movies. When big, loud, effects driven movies do reasonably well at the box office I tend to see it as meh. But it was well positioned and heavily marketed. Cameron Crowe has had an underwhelming career. Realistically his only hit was Jerry Maguire. Almost Famous is nostalgia for rock music nostalgia.

It was inevitable that Avengers 2 would come back to earth. The novelty has worn off and the market has been saturated with films from the same characters (IM3, THor2, CA2). They'll make a billion dollars anyway.

When you have a huge breakout hit like Avengers you have to expect a drop off. It is just that when the original numbers are so high, it will drop significantly but still do great numbers. If anything IM3 was the film that benefited from the Avenger's effect. The only sequel film that didn't decrease following a huge breakout hit was probably Catching Fire.

Oh come now. Avengers:AOU is a huge disappointment. A failure! A flop! A debacle! Because people were predicting $220 million. Or something. A film doing what logic says it will do is not a disappointment. It is just that in retrospect the predictions didn't make much sense. Personally I have been sick of every Marvel film except Iron Man 1 and X-Men:DOFP. It is lazy film-making, the same formula again and again. Fatigue sets in.

FLLOOOPPPP!!!!! The Avengers was an "event" movie devloped and marketed in a unique way. I would not even place it in my top five comic book movies. So you have the loss of novelty, and multiple Marvel films dealing with the same characters (IM3, Thor 2, Captain America 2) and Marvel films that use the same formula (Guardians), making the movie stale. Of course there will be some loss of interest. It may end up below $500 million US.

To be honest Avengers was a mediocre film. Never had the slightest interest to see it again. It was a marketing event.

I still think the bylaws have to be consulted on whether AS is 2014 or 2015. Maybe Chuck Norris could vote. First compared it to Passion of Christ. But then recalled that Saving Private Ryan adjusted to $370 milion. Patton and Sargeant York adjust to well over $300 million ($325 and $356 million) and Platoon adjusts to about $290 million.

Focus didn't even crack 20m. AS's run is great but remember Saving Private Ryan adjusts to $370 million domestically. And Platoon made about $115 million in 1986, although I'm not sure what that adjusts to. Good war movies have an audience.

Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.

Probably around $300. Then again if enough people attack the movie people may see it out of spite.

Locks have a funny way of dissipating.