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The Gunman also moved to March 20 (I have no idea when that happened, but it did). So I guess Kingsman will be the most successful hard-R action film of February by default. Also, I just realized that the majority of big studio releases in February were moved there, and not originally slotted there. Jupiter Ascending, Seventh Son, Fifty Shades, Kingsman, Hot Tub Time Machine 2, Jane Got a Gun and McFarland USA. I think Spongebob and Focus are the only major films that were originally announced for February and stayed there.
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Actually, that brings up an interesting point. Frozen actually didn't have any shorter of a release window than GOTG will; both will hit home video about 4 months after release. Frozen was "too early" because they didn't delay it after the film had better legs than expected.
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I don't like the Transformers movies either, but I don't know if it's THAT simple. Battleship was basically a Transformers/Bay clone, and yet it flopped. So there must be something people liked about the Transformers movies specifically, even if we don't like them. And I have said before that there has to be a sizable portion of the moviegoing public who showed up for the braindead Transformers movies and enjoyed them, and yet also showed up for the much more intelligent and "challenging" Dark Knight and enjoyed that just as much. But this isn't a Transformers thread. The original point, Avengers' high RT/IMDB scores, I can't comment on. I do agree that there is too much IMDB 10-bombing when a film comes out that captures the Internet-cultural zeitgeist (just as there is 1-bombing of whatever current target of scorn from those same people - remember when Disaster Movie was the lowest-rated movie on the site?) But I don't use IMDB scores as a gauge of quality or even of mainstream public opinion, just of what IMDB users think are the best films.
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Movies that inexplicably didn't receive a sequel ...
TServo2049 replied to Thrylos 7's topic in The Speakeasy
Hancock (I'm not sure if it was development issues or what - Peter Berg should have made Hancock 2 instead of Battleship) The Karate Kid (Karate Kid 2 would have probably done well if Will had committed Jaden to that instead of f'in After Urf) Wedding Crashers (not because it needed one; I'm just surprised that studio execs didn't try to get a sequel going. Even if it was inferior, it could have had a Meet the Fockers/Hangover II sequel bump; anybody remember any rumblings about it from back when?) -
Shazam! | April 5, 2019 | 21st Most Profitable Film of 2019
TServo2049 replied to Neo's topic in Box Office Discussion
They could be shooting it early in case something else gets cancelled/shuffled around. No joke - after all, look how early principal photography for BvS is... -
I enjoyed Lucy enough for a one-off viewing. I'm not chomping at the bit to see it again, but it wasn't as horrible as some make it out to be.
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Yes, things do seem to be back to normal (except that trying to use the adjuster gives a Forbidden error on many pages - you can work around by copying the string from a page where it DOES work, pasting it on the end of the URL, and replacing the year with the one you want). Still shouldn't get complacent. But Ray writing articles again gives me more confidence.
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Well, considering how often their original films have been falling on their faces, I almost wouldn't blame them at this point. It's not that they're not developing new films, it's that they're having trouble developing new HITS. When three of their last four originals led to write-downs, they might be forgiven for retreating to the security blanket of their franchises. And speaking of originals, that's another reason I want HTTYD to conclude. I want to see what Dean DeBlois can do next. By the time this wraps, he will have been working on the same series for almost a decade.
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How to Train Your Dragon 2 OS (418 mil OS!!!)
TServo2049 replied to Godzilla's topic in International Box Office
Cars 2 was 5 years after Cars 1, HTTYD2 is only the third longest gap (4 years, 3 months) -
Which is why I am still urging that the project to back up all the data continue, and why I think that any interested BO aficionados should work to put together a contigency plan to establish some sort of wiki-like free and enthusiast-run historical BO database that can take its place if they do decide to bury BOM in the future...
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Mojo returned last night, then was updated this morning/afternoon after a ton of technical difficulties. (The adjuster still gives a 403 error when trying to use it on certain pages.) Unfortunately, that does make more and more sense the longer they stay quiet. If that's true, then to all the people I warned not to jump to conclusions, I recant and thank you for saving BOM. And if they were intending to do so, maybe that's why there was no report for this weekend. As I said, if Robert Stack were still alive this would probably eventually end up as an episode of Unsolved Mysteries...
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And now the site finally has an accurate Last Updated timestamp, and is displaying up-to-date showdowns and links to Friday/Saturday estimates. (But no article yet.) Sanity seems to be returning. Though every other time I visit the front page, it shows up like it did before (albeit with Last Updated 10/12/2014, 12:27 PM Pacific Time - and now, I notice, with up to date showdown numbers too). Weeeeird...
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There are updates, it has the weekend estimates and daily estimates. But it's down again, for the I've-lost-count-th time. Maybe they're trying to get the foreign info and all-time charts and stuff up? Anybody know a medium, so we can make contact with the ghost of Robert Stack to host an episode of Unsolved Mysteries about this?