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They need to just retire this category after the whole "Alone Yet Not Alone" debacle last year. That was the greatest Oscar scandal ever, and that's saying something.

Not really. This never generated big "must see" buzz, and the only time war movies ever really flourish is when they have that (or in the case of Lone Survivor, a big "fuck yeah America" angle). Thus, the solid if muted opening for this isn't exactly surprising.

For a World War II movie that won't be up for any major Oscars (and with two other war-themed films coming out in the final months, likely won't get any technical noms either), Fury probably did about as well as it was ever going to.

Men, Women & Children bombed so embarrassingly hard. I was just reading a long and detailed article on some movie website the other day talking about the almost depressingly fast fall of Jason Reitman's once very promising career.

We're now heading into the calm before the storm that will last from three weeks from now to the middle of January.

A Boyhood Gone Girl The LEGO Movie A- Chef Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Guardians of the Galaxy How to Train Your Dragon 2 X-Men: Days of Future Past B+ 22 Jump Street Captain America: The Winter Soldier Edge of Tomorrow The Fault In Our Stars Fury The Grand Budapest Hotel The Maze Runner A Most Wanted Man Neighbors B Begin Again The Equalizer Get on Up Godzilla Lucy Maleficent Million Dollar Arm Muppets Most Wanted Noah Non-Stop Veronica Mars B- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Divergent Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Magic in the Moonlight Rio 2 C+ 300: Rise of an Empire Jersey Boys The Monuments Men Tammy C A Million Ways to Die in the West Ride Along

I mentioned it in another thread but this really didn't have an appealing hook outside of its Sparks connection, and Gone Girl plus a slew of other movies like Fury are sucking up all the oxygen at the box office. Thus, you're not left with much of an audience.

The Best of Me did $525,000. Probably not even gonna top $15M this weekend, but I can't say I'm surprised.

The Best of Me seems like an obvious sub-$15M opener to me (and to theaters as well, almost every theater around me is showing it on only 1 screen). There's no appealing hook besides the connection to past Sparks adaptations, and there are too many titles with much more buzz taking up all the attention.

Yeah, Arrow escapes its The CW trappings about halfway through the first season and has become one of the best shows on TV right now.

I'm surprised it took this long.

A release date delay of 8 months seems pretty alarming.

The pilot was so much fun. I doubt this show will ever be as strong as Arrow, but man The CW is on fire with the comic book shows. Who knew?

Yeah, the complete and total silence over what happened makes me to believe that this was a salary/contract issue. The only thing that makes sense, outside of Amazon/IMDB trying to pull more crap.

Carrie Coon (as well as any of the other supporting players in Gone Girl, really) doesn't have any chance at being nominated. Pike's nomination will be the film's sole acting nod, unless Ben Affleck coattails into Best Actor.

It doesn't mean anything for Reese. The studio for some reason decided to completely dump on the market with no advertising. Hard for a movie to do well when hardly anyone knows it exists.

I've got a white page as well. They're probably still fixing the glitches.

Maybe they were testing us all to see what the reaction would be if it were gone. We see you, Amazon/IMDB!

So because his last few movies have been blockbusters, that means all of his films must be big hits? Movies are not an obligation, Ando.

Well, it's been available on Yahoo! for like two weeks now.

RDJ being hot off an enormous comeback in 2008 did nothing for The Soloist the following year. Just give it up.

The Book of Life looks soooo beautiful from a visual standpoint. I hope it breaks out just because of that.

No actor can sell a movie that doesn't look overly appealing. Such is the case with The Judge. Nice try.

Also, Men Women & Children is gonna do sooo bad if it actually goes wide next weekend.