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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: When Disney made a big-budget Charles Band movie. I loved that movie as a kid, and still do; it's a shame that it's been semi-forgotten. It's one of those perfect 80s high-concept family-adventure films.

They have nowhere else to put them, at least two of the three have been repeatedly delayed and they probably just want to get them out now rather than having to truly dump them later.

I will say one thing - the Tarzan movie next year is probably going to be considerably worse.

...yes it was. I should have made it more clear that I was not talking about Batman Begins, I was talking about all the other movies that try to be Batman Begins and fail.

IA4 has the largest OS percentage share for any movie that has made $300m+ WW. In fact, no other intended-for-WW-release movie has grossed over $400m WW and only made 20% of that total or less from North America. (I don't count The Intouchables, because that wasn't made with the intent of North American release, it just got $10m from an art-house import run.) Could IA5 break that record by making more than 81.2% of its total outside NA?

I wasn't thinking of HTTYD2, it must have been Potter. And yes - that is a freaking miracle. I know contractual obligations require the names in a certain order, but with how generic posters are these days, can't the poster designers just use their Photoshop magic to reorder everyone under their names?

It's not like anyone was asking for "Peter Pan Begins." I'm getting tired of these X Begins movies that tell unnecessary back stories we don't need - or want - to know; at least with something like the Han Solo movie, there are definitely people out there who would WANT to see something like that. When I saw this trailer in front of Inside Out, I didn't hear any reaction from the audience whatsoever. That's not a good sign. Also, I know exactly what the "Indians" ("Native Neverland...ians"?) look like. They look like the Lost Boys from Hook. They even say "the Pan" in the trailer...

What does percent have to do with anything, other than percent of total presales on MT? It doesn't give any indication how many tickets are preselling - if Minions presales start getting locked in, the total number of presales of which these are percentages of increases considerably, because a film on OW is going to have many more presales than a film in weekend 4. Of course IO's percentage will drop - it's going to have fewer presales than Minions regardless of how much it ends up holding. It's not like people are canceling their presales for IO for this weekend, the number of presales isn't actually going down. I just don't understand the method for analyzing these presale trend numbers.

That must be what I remembered. Thanks. Though I swear there was something else even closer, down to the "walking at the viewer."

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (I don't consider The Motion Picture bad so much as disappointingly mediocre and ploddingly slow; meanwhile, almost everybody agrees that Wrath of Khan is the best Trek movie of all, and I am of the same opinion)

Does that poster make you think of Peter Pan? At all? I swear I have seen another major film a while back with exactly this kind of layout, down to the Dutch angle. Was it one of the Potter movies? Can anyone recall?

There was an error from some OS BO source where the OS cume was reported as $1.169 billion instead of $1.160 billion, I am pretty sure it was a typo. BOM had the info for less than 24 hours, then they corrected it back. Universal has the $1.160b OS total.

At my local drive-in, looks like IO+JW will be paired up on one screen, followed by T:G, and Minions gets three showings to itself on the other screen. Then on Sunday, it switches to IO+JW and Minions+JW.

MU got another $83 million after DM2 opened, despite "crashing and burning." If IO gets another $83 million after Minions opens, it would still pass Finding Nemo to be the #2 original run in Pixar's history, and end up just over/under the admissions of The Incredibles.

It feels like I post on their Facebook every time something goes wrong. Nothing ever comes of it. Has anybody tried e-mailing them? If anybody has a list of the data problems that need to be fixed...

That incorrect "estimate" from Sunday morning rears its ugly head again. In other news - a drive-in in Texas was the 5th biggest engagement for the weekend? Holy shit, I've never heard of this place! Must have had a hell of a turnout. I'd love to see a picture of how many cars had to be there for them to place so high, even on a weak weekend like this. I guess they're right, everything IS bigger in Texas...

e, I'd love to see these lists reordered by daily gross somewhere. There aren't any lists of top n'th day grosses past opening day.

Yeah, I wonder what will happen if they start having a bunch of sellouts on Friday. Jurassic World was one thing, but dealing with a bunch of screaming kids who came to find that they can't see the movie they wanted to see?

Not sure how true this is, but it does make me wonder - are there any movies that would have done better if they were released earlier, because the buzz was bigger during pre-release than it was by the time release rolled around?

It's freakin' Monday.

Ok you're right. And it adjusts to more tickets than ID4, too. My mistake.

What is the highest daily gross for a film on the 4th? Spider-Man 2? (I think ID4 may still be the most tickets sold for a movie on the 4th - adjusts to almost $32m, and was nearly flat with the 3rd.)

Yeah, I don't see myself ever watching it again, that's for certain. I just didn't hate it when it came out, I thought it was serviceable. (Though like with several other movies of late, Stellan is the best part.)

You take that back! To be honest, the movie had its problems (Pierce Brosnan's singing chief among them), and it was inferior to the stage version, but like with MBFGW I don't understand the HATE for it. IMO it's the second best of the Broadway adaptation wave of the 00s-10s (behind Hairspray), though that's not hard considering the others. (I am still disappointed at the Producers movie musical, the stage version was hilarious but the movie adaptation just felt flat.) I saw that with my mom and her friend on OW, it's one of the few times I've seen two openers on the same weekend/week (only other time I can recall is Interstellar/BH6).