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If Pikachu overperforms tracking, looks like I could get my photo finish weekend after all. This is gonna be fun.
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22 minutes ago, KJsooner said:
Movie 43?
Shhhh! Don’t say its name out loud!
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6 minutes ago, MrGlass2 said:
How about this cast:
Dennis Quaid, Greg Kinnear, Seth MacFarlane, Will Sasso, Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts, Chris Pratt, Anna Faris, Kieren Culkin, Emma Stone, Richard Gere, Jack McBrayer, Kate Bosworth, Aasif Mandvi, Justin Long, John Hodgeman, Kristen Bell, Uma Thurman, Bobby Cannavale, Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Bibb, Katrina Bowden, Chloë Moretz, Christopher Mintz Plasse, Patrick Warburton, Matt Walsh, Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Gerard Butler, Halle Berry, Stephen Merchant, Snooki, Terrence Howard, Josh Duhamel, Elizabeth Banks, Julianne Moore, Tony Shalhoub, Bob Odenkirk, and Anton Yelchin.
Wait, that cast list looks vaguely familiar...
(looks it up)
You sick bastard.
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1 hour ago, ScoobyDoo21 said:
I do not know how Sonic manages to still survive to this day. He has at least three games that each would have killed a lesser franchise.
He survives on nostalgia and false hope from 90s kids like me. (Though not actually me. I’m a bitter cynic as far as Sonic goes.)
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7 minutes ago, AJG said:
Id be shocked if any immediate redesign on Sonic would be enough for the GA to notice without being told beforehand. It’ll stay.
Back in 2013, I kept seeing the Despicable Me 2 trailer with Al Pacino’s name in theaters for at least a couple weeks after he was officially replaced by Benjamin Bratt, so my guess is this is also going nowhere.
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21 minutes ago, dudalb said:
That needs to be emphasized. The crappy Sonic design was a long, long way from being the only crappy thing in the trailer. If the trailer had some decent stuff in it, the outcry over the Sonic design, thougy it still would have been there, would not have been nearly as intense.
The design is what pushed the trailer (and by association, buzz about the movie) from “generically bad” to “uniquely bad.”
They will give Sonic a makeover but it will still probably just turn it from a generically bad movie with a uniquely bad main character design, into simply a generically bad movie, period.
It still feels like a remake of the Howard the Duck movie.
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On 5/6/2019 at 6:18 PM, DAJK said:
Similarly, I don't see Dog's way Home opening under Dog's Journey; the connection to its predecessor seems enough to spark some interest at least.
Actually, A Dog’s Journey is the one coming out. A Dog’s Way Home is the one that already came out back in January, the one that’s adapted from a book which is by the same author but not part of the same series.
Don’t worry, I get them mixed up too. It’s like 15 years ago when Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset and Brett Ratner’s After the Sunset both came out in the same year, though at least those were completely unrelated movies in different genres.
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I believe you meant to say Majora’s Mask.
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6 minutes ago, Boxofficerules said:
What about the 90s version of Fantastic 4? It was made but never officially released
If The New Mutants is Duke Nukem Forever, and Gambit is Starcraft Ghost, then I suppose Fantastic Four is StarFox 2. Finished, but shelved anyway.
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13 minutes ago, ScoobyDoo21 said:
This movie is the Duke Nukem Forever of comic book films.
No, Gambit is the Duke Nukem Forever of comic book films. It’s been kicking around the release schedule for at least five years, went through three different directors without a frame being shot, and only now seems to have been put down.
Then again, for the Duke Nukem Forever comparison to actually work post-2011, you actually have to have a release eventually. So maybe I’m wrong. TNM is more likely to be released, in which case it will be the Duke Nukem Forever of CBMs. Gambit won’t, so it will be the Starcraft: Ghost of CBMs - publicly in development for years but never finished.
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I hope this is true and not just some hoax, which happens on IMDB from time to time.
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Anybody can contribute to IMDB as long as they setup an account. I can’t find any other info about this online, so someone could have just put it there as a hoax.
Though 2D for one or both of these would be great. (Maybe for Tom and Jerry they get pulled into our world and they’re CGI here, but in their world they’re 2D? I hope not, that trope needs to die...)
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I can’t decide whether breath-powered flight or tail kick is funnier. (Oh, and we also need a GIF of Godzilla’s victory dance from Monster Zero, stat.)
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Just now, TMP said:
James Gunn is a better writer than David Ayer.
If Gunn writes Harley closer to how Paul Dini did, I will be happier.
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5 minutes ago, WittyUsername said:
Ugh. I completely forgot that abomination is rumored to be in this movie. God, I hate that character.
It’s disappointing to hear people who dislike/hate Harley, solely because of her portrayal in Suicide Squad. I’m not disappointed in you, I’m disappointed in the people making the movies. I loved the Harley Quinn character in the 90s cartoons. I just don’t care for the modern “Daddy’s Little Monster” Hot Topic Harley. The character deserves better.
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40 minutes ago, WittyUsername said:
James Gunn worked on some pretty edgy movies before GotG. The live action Scooby Doo film (which he wrote) was even supposed to be rated R.
Ok, that last part is actually not accurate. I think it was supposed to be more PG-13, but there is no way it was going to be R. What Gunn said was that the MPAA nearly gave it an R because they misinterpreted a joke as being about oral sex. (No idea what joke, I haven’t seen the movie. Maybe they had to cut in in the end, anyway.)
My understanding is that it was more like Galaxy Quest, where a movie scripted/filmed angling for a PG-13 was softened for a PG at the request of the studio. (Though I’m not sure Scooby was retooled as late as Galaxy Quest was - the “PG-13” version of that made it all the way to test screenings, and there are a few lines that are clearly dubbed to get the rating down, and a costume continuity issue caused by the removal of a scene.)
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I know the uncanny valley is approaching tired cliche these days, but yeah. It’s that.
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Honestly, even if EG drops like that next weekend, it’s fine. I want to see Endgame/Pika fighting to take #1, it’s more interesting that way.
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Anybody remember the claim that kept circulating prior to IW’s release that the two films combined were budgeted at $1 billion? Yeah, I doubt that was true, but $356m for just one seems like a bargain in comparison.
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2 minutes ago, keysersoze123 said:
More than monday its drop next weekend is more interesting. Can it beat Pikachu to stay number 1. Pikachu will easily win friday but Endgame’s wed/thu drops will tell us if it has a chance to stay number 1.I was hoping for an Inside Out vs. Jurassic World squeaker between EG and DP, just because those are always fun. It feels more possible now than it seemed going into the weekend.
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Honestly, keeping him old would be fine. Placing it in the 70s would dovetail nicely with the possibility of him going up against former Nazis hiding out in South America. (This hasn’t been rumored, but honestly, it’s a perfect hook. Think “Old Indiana Jones and the Boys from Brazil.”)
And that idea has precedent: LucasArts was going to do a sequel to Fate of Atlantis with a similar plot, but set in the 40s-50s. Everything I read says they scrapped it because they knew they would not be able to get such a game passed by the German censors due to the restrictions on depicting Nazis and Nazi imagery, particularly in video games. No matter if they replaced all the swastikas for the German version, there would have been no way they could have gotten around the story being about Nazis in exile in South America trying to resurrect Hitler. From what I know, Germany was a huge market for home computer games, and LucasArts’ graphic adventures were mostly exclusive to computers, so this would have cut off a major revenue stream. Fortunately, the story was repurposed as a comic book.
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5 hours ago, DeeCee said:
The absolute best case scenario I came up with for GWTW was 185 million tickets. Most likely is 155-160 million.
This is interesting, because it could mean that Star Wars (A New Hope) has been holding the actual all-time adjusted domestic record since 1997, but nobody knew it. Using more accurate gross data for each release than BOM has (i.e., actually splitting the $307 million up between 1977. 1978, 1979 and 1981 instead of lumping it all into 1977), I’ve calculated that SW:ANH sold roughly 168.5 million tickets. That adjusts to something like $1.53 billion, less than BOM says but still more than enough to place it above The Sound of Music.
Meanwhile, the high end of your “likely” scenario would adjust GWTW to only $1.46 billion.
That said, it would still appear that with your GWTW numbers and my SW numbers, it would have taken the Special Edition to push ANH over GWTW. That was 30 million tickets by itself. (Hence why I said “since 1997.”)
I acknowledge that GWTW was a cinematic milestone (and actually a unsung VFX achievement too), and that trying to elevate a single film to “the most successful movie ever” is folly, but the possibility that SW might have the adjusted record instead of GWTW...this does put a smile on my face.
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38 minutes ago, keysersoze123 said:
One minus point of Endgame is long run time. After initial weekend when people watch it at any time at all cost, late shows slow down dramatically. I see here in Bay area even iMax/PLF are almost empty. I wish Multiplexes would reduce ticket prices for late sunday like pre-noon shows to encourage audience to come in. I dont see a point running a show with 4-5 tickets sold.
AMC Bay Street 16’s Dolby Cinema was full at my 11:15 matinee.
Also, unless they have no other choice (e.g., crowded OW), are people really going to see a movie late on a Sunday when they have school/work the next morning? I certainly don’t.
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6 minutes ago, NCsoft said:
A sequel has never been an all time record holder.
The Force Awakens has held all-time domestic gross for the past 3+ years, but otherwise you’re right.
Weekend Thread: Friday Estimates: Pika pi! 20.7m, Assemble! 16.1m, Anne Hathaway! 4m, Cheerleaders: Endgame 1.5m, LotR: Origins 825k
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I don’t get how a movie can have huge trailer reception but then people don’t show up. I know it happens, but how much of it is losing interest after seeing more of the movie in later trailers/hearing reviews, how much of it is just plain losing interest over time, how much is waiting for digital, how much is waiting for piracy, and how much is not actually being interested in the movie at all and just being temporarily hooked on it like any other viral video that fades from memory?
Part of me wishes studios would just drop these kinds of initial trailers that get great reception, right before release so that the movie will actually be there to see when the trailer is getting buzz. Instead we get them months out and by the time the movie comes out interest has often cooled.