James

Well, the point of a club is for it to be risky. That's what makes it fun.

Because I think KFP3 has an immense potential to increase OS, especially in Asia, and SW7 will not be as huge OS as some people predict.

Hmm... when December comes, I think I'll make a KFP 3 OS > SW7 OS club.

I have it on my TO SEE list, along with the last 100 or so episodes of Bleach, Grimm, the last season of CSI and Da Vinci's Demons.

Haha, I love everything about that character. Grew up with it. Still watch the animated movies that came out every other year and some episodes when I catch them on TV.

1. Supernatural 2. Death Note 3. Stargate Atlantis 4. Doctor Who 5. The Amazing Race 6. Relic Hunter 7. Scooby-Doo (What's New Scooby-Doo?; The Scooby-Doo Show etc) 8. Tales from the Cryptkeeper (the animated series) 9. Criminal Minds 10. Teen Wolf 11. The Mysteries of Providence 12. NCIS 13. Game of Thrones 14. Dexter 15. The Originals 16. American Horror Story 17. Stargate Universe 18. Elementary 19. True Blood 20. Children of the Dune 21. Stalker 22. Survivor 23. The Vampire Diaries 24. The Tomorrow People 25. Sleepy Hollow 26. Harper's Island 27. Stargate 28. Da Vinci's Demons 29. Total Drama Island 30. The Walking Dead 31. Under the Dome 32. Bates Motel 33. A Haunting 34. Charmed 35. Primeval 36. Dominion 37. Z Nation 38. Bleach 39. Merlin 40. Gotham

Lol, not America. Romania. In America the prices are probably pretty close to yours.

LOL. WTF?! One ticket for a 2D IMAX show (like Interstellar; 70mm) is between 6-7$ (depending when you want to watch it: weekend, evening, afternoon; for students and old people is less than 5$). An IMAX 3D show is 8-9$. An ordinary 3D show is around 6-7$ and an ordinary 2D one around is 5$.

Very enjoyable little movie. I can understand why people in my country like it so much. It's a short, fun ride. Really needed it. The animation also was surprisingly good. B

I'm thinking it does better than Oz because the story is more well known, but not as good as Maleficent because it seems to be strictly a girl movie and lacks the draw power of a big movie star.

This is just for OS, right? Hmm... 370-380M sounds about right.

I still don't get why people bring up MCU. That's basically 4 franchises brought together. There is no comparison. And anyway, the cultural impact of Harry Potter in general is faaaar greater than MCU's will ever be. We have Potter as mandatory reading in highschool, J.K. Rowling being the only 21st century writer, romanian or foreign, to have that. Back to the BO, there's no other franchise out there to match it right now. Maybe SW, in a few years. I doubt Avatar will ever get a third or a fourth movie made. Cameron is too lazy.

Weekly update: heading for the weekend it's geting more and more clear that 'Mockingjay - Part 1' won't top the opening of Catching Fire. That is surprising. Sequels almost never fail to beat their predecessors here. The main theatre chain went as far as giving it exclusivity for booking after Friday. Basicaly, you can't book any other movie than MJ for the weekend. And even so, it still fails to have any sellouts. I'm seriously starting to wonder whether it will debut in first place or it'll take second after Interstellar's third outing (that constantly sold out both IMAX and normal shows for the Monday-Thursday period).

Lol. Jessie's trolling in this thread is awesome

Just one. And it's been constantly sold out. Even for tonight (it has 4 shows / day). It actually makes around 10-15% of Interstellar's business.

Looking at presales, I think Interstellar's 3rd weekend will actually come pretty close to MJ's OW. There's actually a (small) chance it comes on top again.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE Another excellent weekend,actually bigger than the last one, and most of that thanks to 'Interstellar's amazing hold. - After opening with massive numbers last weekend, Christopher Nolan's epic space movie eased a light 19%, to 46.384 admissions. It's by far the smallest drop for any movie that opened above 50.000 adm this year. In fact, Interstellar's second weekend would count as the 10th biggest OW of the year. It now reached 143.866 admissions and $760K. It will have competition next weekend from 'Mockingjay - Part 1', but if it can hold well (and that's likely, considering we already have a lot of shows close to selling out for the next couple of days), finishing around 'Noah''s number, 1.4M, might be in the cards. Top 5 for the year is a given at this point. - Northmen: A Viking Saga received a wider than expected release and debuted to almost 17.000 admissions (and $ 90K). That's a decent start for a movie that had next to zero marketing and was cheap to produce. - In it's third outing, John Wick fell 50%. It now reached 480K. 650K is still the target. - 5 spots of the Top 10 are occupied by new releases, and 4 of those are directed towards adult audiences, a fatal mistake considering 'Interstellar' is currently owning that segment. So all of them flopped/bombed. The first two are Eliza Graves and Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu? Both had debuts in the 8.000 adm area. - In 6th place, The Boxtrolls fell a light 22% and reached almost 200K. - Next comes Fury, sliding 38%. It's gross stands at a very good 471K (600K is still the mark to beat). - Magic in the Moonlight was the third adult release to bomb, with and expected debut in the 5.000 adm zone. - The Stag dropped 40% in it's second outing. - One of the bright lights was once again The House of Magic. In it's 14th weekend, the animated hit eased a measly 7%. It now stands at 638K. - Outside Top 10, the last adult oriented disappointment, The Good Lie, sold a bit more than 3.000 tickets. Top 10: Next week's openers: - The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 - The Rewrite - Deux jours, une nuit I really don't know what to make of the latest 'Hunger Games' movie. It opens in less than a week, yet it barely sold out it's Wednesday night preview show. That's way behind 'Interstellar' through the same point, that had a few IMAX sellouts (and we're talking IMAX shows of 400+ seats agains 100+ seats normal ones for 'Mockingjay'). The marketing was very strong. It's literary everywhere! But the anticipation doesn't seem very high. 'Catching Fire' opened to 52.500 admissions last year and ended up with a bit over 155.000. But it had almost no competition (it faced 'Thor: The Dark World''s 3rd weekend and 'Delivery Man' till 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' opened and killed it). But 'Mockingjay' faces 'Interstellar' (a movie with already through the roof WOM), then 'Penguins of Madagascar' and 'Horrible Bosses 2' next weekend (both movies with huge predecessor's behind them), then 'Exodus', that will be huge, maybe even on 'Interstellar' levels. I wasn't following Romania's BO back when 'Catching Fire' opened, but unless walk-ins are abnormally strong, I don't see 'Mockingjay' matching it's OW (let alone it's admissions total).

Wow! That is close to it's OD last Wednesday

Just rewatched this. Didn't find it as bad as the first time. It has it's moments. The best scene in the whole movie was Quill saving Gomora. It was unrealistic as fuck, but it had good music and visuals, plus a bit of emotional punch. But I still stand by my opinion: it's trying too much to be humorous and most of the time it fails. The tone is just too childish. Another problem I had was the soundtrack: it's a space epic for fuck's sake, use some epic music. There are a lot of great composers out there. The most cringeworthy scene of all was the dancing scene at the end. It is embarassing how out of place that is. And finally, the villain... Jesus! He has an Infinity Stone, it's supposed o give him the power of a God and a he's defeated that easily. It's just annoying. Anyway, it improved a little: c+ / B-

The only movie I have real excitement for is Jupiter Ascending. I'm pretty interested in seeing Minions, FF7, MI5 and Bond 24. But I could add little interest in Tomorrowland and In the Heart of the Sea too.

Well, 80M will come just from China and SK. That alone brings it to 300M OS. It's on the other territories + Japan to make 200M or so. It's not impossible, just unlikely at this point. If next weekend has a drop in the 30% area we should get a better idea.

You had to bring that up...

Yeah, but the difference is Streep is actually hot

Hmm... I seriously wonder how did WB managed to get Interstellar released so fast and in such a competition free environment. Are they and SARFT in good relationships?

Well, than new Anita chick is actually worse than Nikki when it coms to math and that's something!