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I'll see this in about a month when I'm done with my exams. Really curious if I'll end up liking the character or hating him. Either way, I'm excited.

Hmmm... I'm really thinking this is doing more than 500M WW. A place in Top 10 for the year might be in the cards.

Weekend update: Nice weekend ahead. Thanks to a strong TV marketing campaign, 'Blackhat' is doing some impressive job at selling out shows. From a presales POV it looks almost as strong as 'Taken' last weekend. Unfortunately, it has fewer shows. Still, I'm starting to think 40.000+ adm OW will happen. 'The Water Diviner' is doing amazing in limited release. It has only 2-3 shows/day in most locations, but even so, it looks like having a nice chance at ending up with over 20.000 adm for the weekend. 'Big Hero 6' doesn't offically open here till next week, but it has so many preview shows this weekend you can basically say it already opened. Of course, the entire week of previews will be included in it's OW (so, basically, a 10 day OW ). If it fails to open to at least 50.000 adm next weekend (which would be less than 'The Penguins of Madagascar' made in just 3 days), it should be considered a major disappointment. Tickets for 'Unbroken' are also selling well. It's having preview shows starting with Wednesday and it should have a good opening next week. Surprisingly, no more shows were added for 'Mortdecai', depite the fact that the only one it has sold out in a matter of minutes. Maybe they will try a limited release? It remains to be seen. And finally, the anticipation for '50 Shades' is sky-high. It has much more votes on the offical site of the biggest theatre chain than 'The Hobbit': The Battle of the Five Armies' had before it's OW (and '50 Shades' is 3 weeks away!!). Starting to think it might have a chance at breaking 100.000 admissions.

I don't know about JA and Focus, but Get Hard will be another huge hit. Thinking 150M+.

I thought Warner's 2015 will be awful without any franchises, but damn, what a start!

I was betting on 50 Shades beating The Passion of the Christ, but it looks like American Sniper will have that honor first.

What?

60M for the 3 day will happen.

GOTG and DOFP are ok-ish. But why the hell did CA2 get a nom?! That is not even special effects heavy or memorable in any way from that POV. It's just stupid.

Tele, we have very different taste in movies. And Boyhood looks pretentious. GBH is the epitome of adult thingy that you have to be a bit older than me to understand or like imo.

Guys, I didn't say that I don't know who MLK was. I said I don't understand the phenomenon. There are much more interesting and worthy of attention historic characters that don't have movies made about them.

Haven't seen any of them since none opened here yet, but TOE looks like the only interesting one (that and TIG) in an ocean of semi-pretentious productions. TGBH - not a Wes Anderson fan at all. TIG - Well, yeah, this also looks ok. And I like Cumberbatch so I'll probably watch it. Birdman - no interest in this. Boyhood - uh... maybe. Selma - MLK is pretty much a american thing that I do not understand so... Whiplash - uh... again, maybe. American Sniper - well, looks interesting enough.

This year's nominations are just plain bland. No blockbusters there and we had quite a few good ones. Also, The Lego Movie not being nominated in the animated catgory is just mind-boggling to me. I hope The Theory Everything wins BP. If AS wins 200M DOM is as good as locked and considering it's impressive start OS, 350M+ WW is where it's headed. Also, I expected Interstellar to be nominated more. WTF?

I was looking at MOS' run. It made another 105M from the domestic home market (That's more than Iron-Man 3, CA 2, Thor or Thor 2). OS theatrical run wasn't that big, but I guess at least another 50M must have come from there. Add TV rights and it was a huge money maker for WB. And that's not even coonting the fact that 170M also came from third-party promos in the movie, so WB got back most of their production budgt even before the movie was released. Considering how hugely anticipated BvS is, I have no doubt they will make their entire budget back before the theatrical release just from promotion.

Look at Turtles go! It will likely end up above Guardians. It's crazy.

370M

Lol, they have protection spells. Also, Baumer - Potter, really? Why isn't SW on the list? It is certainly worthy of No. 1.

Generally speaking, it's a good number a movie, but for a series as popular (the books are mega-sellers here) as this it's disappointing. Especially when you have movies like The Hobbit, that already made almost $2.8M or 300:Rise of an Empire' that made 2x more than it. It's number 19 for 2014. I will probably end up on 18th when all said and done. Maybe MJ2 will make 1M. It has a better chance than CF and MJ1 since it wont have any mammoth like TH to contend with. SW wont be as big.

MJ is at $837K. It's still making money but it will probably end up a bit behind CF's 855K total, despite selling more tickets. Worse exchange rates than last year.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE Very good weekend, mostly thanks to 'Taken 3's impressive debut. - Opening on 60 screens, Taken 3 draw a huge number of people into theatres (79.401) making $398K. In admissions, that is one of the biggest openings ever. It's also way up from the previous instalment of the series (52.042 admissions and $277K). 'Taken 2' had pretty bad legs, but even with a similar multiplier, 'Taken 3 should still hit $1M. - The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies had a similar drop to 'Desolation of Smaug' through the same weekend last year, falling 61%. The admissions stand at a mighty 486.679 and the gross at $2.73M. At this point it looks to end it's run with around 550.000 adm and $3.2M. - Seventh Son fell to third, after a 65% slide (the biggest in Top 10). It now passed 100.000 adm and made $560K. $1M might not happen if it doesn't have a decent drop next weekend. - Asterix: Le domaine des dieux fell a big 61% despite being an animation. - The Penguins of Madagascar eased and ok 50% and finally passed the 1M border ($1.03M). It is now the most attended and the highest grossing movie in the 'Madagascar' franchise and also the 6th highest grossing animation ever. - Annie had a good hold (-43%). Still, total is a weak $203K. - Exodus: Gods and Kings had the best drop in Top 10 (-40%). It now reached a good $494K. - Dumb and Dmber To was down 64%, but the cume is a great $612K. - Paddington enjoyed another solid hold (-43%) and brought it's gross to a decent $368K. - Into the Wood almost dropped out of Top 10 in it's second outing. In fact, Interstellar's 10th weekend was very close to overtake it. Total stands at a pathetic $55K. Top 10: Next week's openers: - Blackhat - The Water Diviner - Birdman - Kis Uykusu 'Blackhat' looks to have some solid presales and I see a lot of TV spots for it so a debut north of 30.000 adm should happen. 'The Water Diviner' also looks solid, but I think it will have a pretty limited release so it should stop in the 10.000 adm area. 'Birdman' should debut weak, with maybe 5.000 tickets and the last movie - well under that.

It opens on January 23.

At this pace, Baumer is gonna enrage half of the fanbases around here. Good job! If you touch Potter though...

Get rid of the beard and he/she would look better than most women there.

Baumer Just... why? And how can you not love Interstellar?

This is actually boding well for The Hobbit. Most of these releases seem to disappoint.