James

Umm... America just made AS the biggest movie of 2013... so please let's not talk about mediocre movies in certain countries.

AS and MJ1 were both bad to mediocre movies. Really no point in arguing that.

So is 50 Shades locked to win the year or could something else beat it?

Excuse me?

JA increased a bit from estimates. Great!

Well, Piranha 3D actually looks more appealing than Jaws

I was talking about Batteship P.

Ok, I've heard of 3 or 4 movies so far. Fight Club would make my Top 10 All Time and Inception would be in Top 100.

Yeah, that is pretty uninteresting. The Napoleon, Borgia, Medici and Roman eras are the most interesting to me.

I agree, mine too. But certain parts I find really really boring. Eu history is awesome though. And the Asian one to some extent. And North African civilizations.

Umm, yes. Old acting sucks. It's corny as hell. Staying 2 hrs to atch A flight Over the Cuckoo's Nest in english class was the worst torture of my life.

I don't. But just as I don't like my country's history (even though I love Europe's history in general), I also don't like movie history. There are some things that should only be associated with the present. Films only got better and better with time. Animation on the other hand...

Yeah, I know you people hate having fun at the movies.

Nope, Home Alone is still the greatest series of comedies of all time and The Addams Family is a close second.

So? From footage it still looks really really bad. The fact that it was among the first is not reason enough to overlook everything else.

This is better. Haven't seen it but it's better. The shark looks so fake though.

For real people, that's 1925. That's B.T. (before Tele). Everything that defines cinema today was non-existent back then so it is not even a movie.

I've never even heard of this.

OVERVIEW Three big movies ended their runs this past week: - The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - $ 2.939.962 and 526.702 admissions - Interstellar - $ 1.666,910 and 317.457 admissions - Exodus: Gods and Kings - $ 546.032 and 98.238 admissions (I count 'Exodus' here because it's run was remarkable in a way: it managed to do that without any help from the main thetre chain; if CinemaCity would have shown it it would've made $1m+ and it would've been in last year's Top 10 for sure.) Five 2014 titles made the Top 20 All-Time: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (no. 2), 300: Rise of an Empire (no. 8), Interstellar (no. 10), The Wolf of Wall Street (no. 12) and Noah (no. 16). Here is the Top 20 All-Time: In addition, Fifty Shades of Grey will likely finish 12th or 13th on the list. UPDATE for this coming weekend: Chappie will be shown by the main theatre chain after all; it will actually take all the IMAX screens from Jupiter Ascending so expect it to open now in the 35.000 admissions area.

Beautiful, beautiful movie. I'm surprised, I'm a convinced atheist so I didn't think I'd enjoy it. It was certainly better than Noah, the acting was great, the effects were astounding and the God kid... well, I wanted to punch him for the most part of the movie, but still, very good movie. One of the best of 2014. Oh, and the soundtrack - I love that oriental tune, sooo gooood. A+

About another Disney animation using the same formula over and over again? No, thank you. I actually prefer something more cultural.

Actually, Ratatouille is the 6th biggest Pixar movie WW, behind TS3, FN, MU, Up and very close to TI It's also the 5th biggest one OS.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE A weekend with a few surprises, notably a very big opening for 'Focus' and a local movie overperforming. - Surpassing all expectations, Focus opened with a great 44.812 admissions and $225k. That is the biggest Will Smith debut ever, ahead of 'Men in Black 3's 41.518 adm. Among similar titles, it is also bigger than 'Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol' and almost on par with 'The Hangover: Part 2'. The WOM also seems to be very good (a nice 8.1 grade on the biggest movie site here). With not much direct competition up ahead, 'Focus' seems locked to close with around 150.000 adm, maybe even more. - In second, Fifty Shades of Grey collapsed again (-66%). Still, it now stands at a huge 295.760 admissions and $1.36m. - The local political movie De ce eu? (Why me?) debuted surprisingly strong. It's 19.924 admissions ( and $70k) opening is bigger than the past local hits 'Pozitia copilului' and '#Selfie'. Both of those closed with over 100.000 adm and it remains to be seen if 'De ce eu?' has the necessary WOM to reach that mark. - Jupiter Ascending enjoyed another solid hold (-40%). It's $734k total is a very good one, but it now seems poised to fall short of $1m. - The next two places are occupied by two new releases: The Boy Next Door (with 8.738 adm and $42k) and The Lazarus Effect (with 8.801 adm and $40k). Both are pretty weak. - The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water was down only 38% and reached $415k. - Shaun the Sheep bombed with 6.080 adm and $25k. That is a bit surprising. Despite being a (small) brand name, it opened lower than other completely unknown animations. - Kingsman: The Secret Service fell 47% and reached a so-so $231k. - The Theory of Everything tumbled a big 52% from OW. Cume is a meh $92k. - Outside Top 10, Grand Central bombed horribly with only 554 adm and $1k. Top 10 Next week's openers: - Chappie - The Loft - Jimmy's Hall So not a very busy weekend. From the reactions when the trailer was shown in theatres 'Chappie' should do pretty well, but I still don't see it on the main theatre chain's site which means they either pushed it back a week or they won't show it. That being the case, I don't think it could domore than 20.000 adm. The other 2 movies won't touch 10.000 adm. Maybe not ever 5.000.

Angels and Demons was very very good. I would've liked it to keep some of the book elements, but it was still great.

Fantastic Beasts and Inferno and Star Trek 3, in this order (can't belive some unknown thing like Moana was mentioned, but Inferno didn't). Maybe (and that's a big maybe) BvS and X-Men: Apocalypse. The rest, I don't give a fuck.