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You're a mole, you know you're going to have problems with the light, why did you step out into it?!

Why is the top-grossing summer release #8 for the year and only grossed half as much as the biggest release of the year-to-date? Is this a particularly bad summer BO, or is summer not a big movie season in Finland?

The Lion King sold more tickets.

Are you sure Rth is not referring to the NCM Fathom theatrical screening of the premiere?

I was going to say Elite Squad 2 in Brazil, but I see that The Avengers has a slightly higher USD total on BOM, and BOM gives Titanic's (pre-3D re-release?) USD total as $70M. So that's out...

If HTTYD2 and Rise of the Guardians were as popular in the GA as they are on Tumblr, DreamWorks would not be having any financial problems whatsoever.

I've seen Waking Sleeping Beauty, Katzenberg was essential to the Renaissance but he had some opinions and suggestions which were not followed, for the better. The big one was that he wanted Part of Your World cut from The Little Mermaid. The defining song of the movie. One of the most important moments in the Disney Renaissance. That's right there with almost ruining Toy Story.Katzenberg has always been an enigma.

That will work with my schedule. I'll try to remember to participate.

OK, good to hear. I assume a lot of these high-ranked ones are also IMAX venues? If you're the only IMAX location around (especially if you're REAL IMAX) I assume you'll get a lot of business just for that alone.I know that's why the AMC Metreon in SF is so high. Even Regal Hacienda Crossings in Dublin (my local megaplex) occasionally makes 19th or 20th (they did on the opening weekends of Gravity and Godzilla - and strangely, Cloudy 2 and The Lego Movie, which weren't IMAX. Oh and they were 11th on STID's opening weekend)

At least it's not any higher.

The earthquake was only localized to part of Northern California. Outside of Napa County, it wouldn't have affected moviegoing.Here near San Francisco, we felt it for about 15 seconds in the wee hours of the morning and that was it. It didn't affect the rest of the West Coast. It didn't affect L.A. or Seattle or Portland or Phoenix or anywhere else.

Something I just thought about: 1999 was really a banner year for flops/disappointments that later became cult classics. It was the year that brought us The Iron Giant, Office Space, Fight Club...I haven't seen The Prince of Egypt in almost 16 years, but images from it still stay with me. Rameses mourning his dead first-born was so solemn, it was amazing. (But I do remember cringing at the stuff with the comic-relief priest guys even at the age of 11. I always wished they had just left that stuff out.)

Before GOTG, I always said this was Vin Diesel's best performance. I'm still not sure whether Groot trumps it.

I love The Nightmare Before Christmas. Though I wish people would give more credit to Henry Selick and stop calling it a Tim Burton movie.

WTF- the L.A. engagement of Roaring Currents sold the most tickets of any single movie at a single theater in all of North America?!Only The Numbers has weekend numbers for Roaring Currents, and they're just estimates. This weekend it made $480,000 from 47 locations, $10.2K PTA. Last weekend was $525,500 from 30 locations, $17.5K PTA.And I understand big cities and a lot of LA/Southern California venues, and McLean, VA is a suburb of Washington D.C., but what's with Moore, Oklahoma? Yes, it's a suburb of Oklahoma City, but still - why did THAT theater pull in so many ticket sales?And why does that theater in Calgary consistently have the top engagements in Canada?

Portugal loves Lucy.

Why NO? I'm guessing their numbers are wrong then? Please explain.

Wait, Deadline and BO.com say the total up to Sunday was $48.2M, not $50.5M. So shouldn't the estimated total as of Monday be something like $50.2M and not $52.6M?

Sellouts for HTTYD2, I'm so jealous of you guys across the pond. My OPENING NIGHT screening was only about half full.The only walkup sellout experience I've had recently was a Memorial Day weekend showing of Iron Man 3.(Actually, the one time I do remember not getting to see a movie because it was sold out was the Nutcracker movie with Macaulay Culkin. I was in tears for some reason (I was 5, gimme a break). But that event boggles my mind today, knowing that the movie was a FLOP. Must have been in the smallest auditorium...)

I didn't know, I was just asking. (I'm trying to avoid spoilers and go into this film as blind as possible - I like to be surprised.)

Scott Mendelson has his share of typos and mistakes and stuff. He's still my favorite box-office columnist to read. I love how he works in BO history, and I LOVE his historical look-back articles.

The Disney female designs have been generally similar for its entire existence. There is a "Disney" female design aesthetic, running from Marc Davis' Cinderella and Aurora on through Glen Keane's Ariel and Rapunzel and so on. Pixar has a kind of design aesthetic for females too. Boo and Bonnie look similar. And Helen Parr, Collette, Ellie and Merida all have that round-head look.Some studios have a general "look," others don't. I have heard people give DreamWorks flack for their character models looking "ugly" - they have a different design aesthetic on each film, and when executed in three dimensions they may not be AS pleasing to the eye as Disney's. (Some of the DreamWorks character design art bears out that certain characters would actually look better in 2D.)Disney is going for a clean, smooth visual appeal - why is that so wrong? It just feels like more anti-Disney soapboxing about they're stunting cultural progress or some rubbish like that - the subset of cultural critics that look on Disney with contempt and scorn and disgust, similar to the way most movie critics look at Michael Bay.And the people complaining about Honey Lemon are overlooking that she's one of FIVE human protagonists, perhaps the most motley bunch of human designs in a Disney film since Atlantis. And Gogo, the other female character (who, correct me if I'm wrong, is actually the more IMPORTANT female character?) looks completely different.Honestly, I'm not bothered by this at all.

Holy shit, the Doctor Who premiere was screened theatrically nationwide? And placed #4 for the weekend?

Roger Rabbit is AMAZING. It still blows my mind today.And this freaked me out as a kid:

Actually, it was Filmation. Web Woman from The Super 7 was supposed to be named Spider-Woman, somehow Marvel caught wind of these plans and created Spider-Woman to trademark the name.http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2005/12/08/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-28/Honestly not sure why Marvel didn't think to trademark it before 1976...