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I mentioned this before but the marketing shift in tone for Earth to Echo was pretty funny and bizarre. Look at the two posters for the film for no greater evidence of this.

Yeah, I think some (well, BOM only, really) thought this summer just had to have a big horror breakout just because The Conjuring was big last year and that Deliver Us From Evil would be a repeat, when that was an exception, not the rule. This has not been a good year for horror at the box office at all so far, so I'm not sure why they thought this would be different.

A $6M opening day for Tammy is solid but that C+ score spells nothing but doom. Even Identity Thief got a B. Okay for Earth to Echo and Deliver Us From Evil (although man, BOM really overpredicted it in the summer predictions 2+ months ago), I guess. The horror movies this year just aren't really catching on with audiences at all.

A C+ CinemaScore grade for Tammy seems...pretty ominous. And glad you enjoyed Begin Again, Boogie Nights. Gonna try and see it (instead of Jersey Boys) over this holiday weekend.

OMG guys have you heard of these awesome bands called Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls or this awesome new home video format called DVD?! Gah! But really, I remember Titanic-mania like it was yesterday. Oh to be a junior in high school again...

Did you ever see her Razzie acceptance speech? LMFAO she is the fucking best. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghS98BKy29Q

LOL I completely forgot about All About Steve's existence. I'd love to see Sandra and BCoop make a movie, preferably a romcom, now that doesn't have a grotesque premise like that did.

The movie of the same title came out 5 years ago.

Into the Storm looks like an inevitable bomb and The Expendables 3 is limited in appeal (despite the PG-13 rating for this one), so that's two down. Let's Be Cops is opening in the We're the Millers slot, but starpower is zilch and it's opening after a summer filled with comedies so who knows.

They always crowd August up every single year. 2009 showed that with the right movies it is possible for there to be hits in the month (despite the idiocy of putting two horror sequels on the same weekend). But the month is mostly treated as a dumping ground 90% of the time. I mean, just look at the movies opening in the second half.

Didn't BOM predict something like $115M for Deliver Us From Evil and that it would be this summer's big breakout? Oy!

Freddy Got Fingered is the worst movie in history. Remember when they tried to make Tom Green happen (along with his super short marriage to Drew Barrymore)? Ugh.

This thread is making me hungry for pizza. Stop it now!

The only holdovers still playing at most theaters around me are Transformers, Think Like a Man Too, Jersey Boys, 22 Jump Street, How to Train Your Dragon 2, and Maleficent, so I'm not surprised that there are some really big theater losses happening.

Can I just say that I find it hilarious how the marketing for Earth to Echo has shifted from selling it as a found footage wannabe to an E.T. knock-off? Just look at the discrepancy between the film's two posters lol.

The outrage over the How I Met Your Mother finale earlier this year really made me wonder what it would've been like had Twitter existed when the Seinfeld finale aired. How they ended such a terrific series until that point on such a dreadful note is still beyond me.

Bow to the (drag) queen!

LOL Maleficent is a hit, people. Get over it and move on with your lives.

I love You've Got Mail (the movie), and make no apologies for it. Poor Meg Ryan. I used to have such a crush on her as a teenager.

LOL I remember the hysteria when that movie hit stores in that big VHS set with people waiting in lines and lines to get it. Fun times.

I wonder if the actual will be revised within the next few days because of all the attention. That would be even funnier than the outcome of the whole "Alone Yet Not Alone" thing at the Oscars.

He's probably staked out at the local multiplex yelling at everyone buying a ticket to Transformers that they're an idiot and an embarrassment to society.

I think the reason everyone (well, "everyone" being certain members here and other movie studios, I don't give a shit either way) is so angry about this particular case of box office reporting is because Paramount already has a questionable history going back to that "Puerto Rico" thing five years ago, as well as the fact that the actual is almost $100M on the dot (not $500,000 to $1M over that wouldn't make it look so skeptical), so if they had played their cards well and been less subtle about it, there wouldn't be such debate. Or who knows, maybe it did make the exact amount that it did and everyone is just running around like a headless chicken for no reason. Whatever.