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The Hobbit trilogy doesn't retroactively tarnish the LOTR trilogy, just as the Star Wars prequels don't retroactively tarnish the (pre-Special Edition) original trilogy.

I thought Alvin 4 was delayed to Christmas 2016. So it really DOESN'T belong.The marketing for Alvin 1 made me think it was going to be HORRIBLE (Gangsta Chipmunks! Lots of poop jokes!) but then I saw it on an airplane flight and it turned out to actually be not offensively terrible. It was meh, but meh is still better than a live-action Alvin and the Chipmunks movie has any right to be.But from what I've heard, the SEQUELS are as soul-crushingly horrendous as I feared the first one was going to be.Oh, and Dream Weaver makes ME think of Wayne's World...

To answer Pokearcher: Episode I actually did have admissions consistent with/slightly higher than the original runs of the sequels. ESB/ROTJ/TPM's first runs all adjust into the $600m's. It's II that dropped almost 40% from I - a film-to-film admissions decrease on the level of The Lost World: Jurassic Park - and III only increased 14% from II, it wasn't THAT much of an improvement. They were huge, yes, but not as huge as V/VI/I.

Sorry, I came in late and didn't realize.

Yes, that was Legion. When I saw the trailer, that scene cracked me up. Spider-Granny.

Oh and this year, we had Jonah Hill (Lego/HTTYD2), plus Will Arnett and Liam Neeson not only in two films, but the SAME two (Nut Job/Lego).OK, I guess this isn't as rare as I thought. (And again, I don't count regular animation VAs like John DiMaggio or people like that.)...and Kevin Bacon was in Balto.

He was Guy in The Croods.Bratt was in DM2 and Cloudy 2, Hader in Turbo and Cloudy 2, Jeong in DM2 and Turbo.

Everyone beat me to the Tudyk thing.Also, T.J. Miller is now joining the ranks of live-action talent showing up in animated films from multiple studios. (Though how often is it that someone shows up in two in the same year? Last year we had Benjamin Bratt, Bill Hader and Ken Jeong. Ryan Reynolds doesn't count because both were DreamWorks.)

Is there any other male out there besides me who just thinks Friendship Is Magic is simply an entertaining cartoon, without being freakishly obsessed with it? Anyone?I've seen the first few episodes, I liked them, maybe someday I'll watch more, but I do not in any way consider myself to be a Brony.

Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson as male models. Will Ferrell is in it too. Very odd movie, Stiller wrote and directed.You may or may not like it, it's one of those movies where I know people who love it, and people who HATE it.

F yeah Zoolander! Saw that opening weekend back in '01, thought it was hilarious. Still quote it occasionally.

That's insane. Even with school holidays, for TF4 to have dropped so far as to be TIED with HTTYD2?I'm almost considering a move to Oz, clearly they have taste in movies.

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I've heard that part of the reason The Santa Clause 2 only dropped 15% on its second weekend, the same weekend 8 Mile opened, was because teens were buying tickets to SC2 and then sneaking into 8 Mile. Anybody else remember those stories/rumors?

This film was also very important to my childhood. I always got this haunting feeling from it (in a good way) and it still emotionally resonates for me as an adult. (Especially the music - just thinking about the Ivory Tower theme or the flying music gives me goosebumps.)I watched a lot of crap as a kid (including both the sequels - II is mediocre, and III is a travesty, yet for some reason I liked both as a kid) but I'm grateful to have also watched movies like this which stayed with me when I got older.A

Am I the only one who saw the black extras in Frozen? It has to count for something that they didn't HAVE to put them there, they could have just had all the extras be white because it's a European fairy tale setting, and yet they put black people in the crowd scenes, who were not stereotyped or tokenized in any way. They were just THERE.

The problem is that even when they TRY, the same people attack them because they're Disney. (See: The Princess and the Frog.)

Dragon 2 needs your money more than Jump does. But I haven't seen Jump so I can't vouch for it.

Could someone explain to me why HTTYD2 is being reported as $4.7m this weekend, Petit Nicolas 2 at $4.5m, but Deadline says PN2 is the one that won the weekend? $4.5m < $4.7m

National Treasure 3 was one of those great missed opportunities. On the other hand, Sorcerer's Apprentice is so forgotten 4 years later that I had completely blanked on who was in it besides Nic Cage. (It was Jay Baruchel, basically playing Hiccup from HTTYD in live action. We need to think of more examples of someone basically playing the same character in two movies in close proximity - like, the same year. Not supporting roles, protagonists.)

Rocko's Modern Life was a bajillion times funnier than Spongebob.

Well if it didn't have "Planet of the" how would people know it was part of the POTA franchise? :PBut seriously, didn't ROTPOTA have the working title "Rise of the Apes" but the Fox execs ended up mandating that they add "Planet of the" to make it clear that it was a reboot of the franchise? I swear I first heard it announced as just Rise of the Apes.Your average John Q. Walkup probably just calls it "Dawn of the Apes" anyway (provided they don't just call it "Apes.")

That HTTYD2 number doesn't include the areas of UK/Ireland that got an early general release, does it? I know BOM reported weekend numbers for those areas for the previous two weeks...

HTTYD2 will top the first OS, it only has $77m to go and it still has Germany, S.Korea, Spain, Italy, Japan and China.Even if it only gets to a Puss in Boots-level WW total, even if it stays FLAT from the first film WW, I don't really think the third film is in danger. HTTYD2 will still make a profit. All of DWA's sequels have made profits, while on the other hand they had to take writedowns on 3 of their last 4 originals. In the CG era, only one major studio animated sequel has lost money (Happy Feet Two). Smurfs 2 basically broke even WW (if that even counts as animated), but Sony didn't end the franchise - they chose to reboot it as fully animated and closer to the comics, and pushed it back a year, but they didn't CANCEL the film.They're not going to cancel a sequel which has more chance of making money than their originals do. Canceling HTTYD3 with nothing to fill the gap would trigger further layoffs, tank their stock price, cut off a sizable revenue stream, and further undermine confidence in the company. Scrapping/indefinitely postponing an original animated feature (Newt, Me and My Shadow) is one thing. Scrapping an animated sequel that was officially announced several years ago? Somehow I just don't see that happening.

Not sure about that. If Harvey has an opportunity to make more money, but it would be at the expense of his ego, he always seems to choose his ego over money.