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Considering Annabelle, a spin-off, managed to make almost just as much, I think this is heading to 200m OS.

Overall yes, bad weekend. But that is a very good opening for TJB. I wasn't actually expecting it to beat Maleficent. And Disney adaptations always have good legs.

Once again Disney breaks the record for the widest release ever, putting The Jungle Book on 189 screens (the previous record was SW7 on 182 screens). TJG opened to a very good 66.531 adm and $385k. No wonder it had no sellouts though. The number of showtimes must've been ridiculous. For comparison (in admissions): Cinderella - 35.588 / 131.929 Maleficent - 57.629 ($364k) / 180.637 Oz: TGAP - 36.869 / 142.304 Alice in Wonderland ($306k) - 41.919 / 222.314 The WOM is good, but the competition up ahead is bigger than any of those titles had. That said, TJB should have good legs and it has an outside shot at beating AiW in admissions. If we talk USD though, Alice's $1.51m is way out of reach. Still, Maleficent's $1.1m should be reachable.

I really wish you are right considering ho bad the box office was in the last 2 weeks. But it's presales are really really weak. It might be because it has an insane amount of shows, but even so. At this point I'm satisfied with anything over 40.000 adm. I just hope it gets there. Meanwhile, check out the presales for Robinson Crusoe (The Wild Life - It's opening April 29, according to Cinemagia and Cinemacity, but there are showtimes for it starting tomorrow - I thnk they will count as previews). It's insane. It already has a bunch of sellouts and the fact it is an animation makes it even more crazy. I thought that weekend will be awful, but we might see a 30.000+ adm opening for it. In fact, it's presales are way stronger than TJB's on opening day! I don't want to jinx it, especially because Ester is that weekend so on Sunday theaters will be closed, but I think we have a surprise hit coming. It kinda reminds me of The House of Magc back n 2014. That had a small debut (16k adm) but legged it's way to almost 140k.

This is opening here on 29th of April and the presales are INSANE. It has a bunch of sellouts already. Like, it is selling better 2 weeks in advance than Jungle Book was on OD this Friday. It is titles Robinson Crusoe here. I have a feeling this will do good money in Europe.

Huh what? The fourth one s the hIghest OS grosser of them all. It had INSANE legs. Or you mean DOM?

He made Sherlock Holmes and UNCLE so I expect an incredible movie.

Personally, I think the most interesting and complex things in the entire comic book universe is X-Men. They have the best characters (Magneto is, by far, the best comic book character ever), the best arcs (Apocalypse, The Dark Phoenix), the best combo between action and philosophy. Disney Marvel atm is too lite, DC focuses too much on Batman which, honestly, is a boring ass character and Spidey is fine in small dosage only.

Fox is probably throwing a party right now. And anyone doubting Cameron should remember he beat all your (and my) favorite brands and created much bigger ones. Each of these movies wll do at least 1B OS alone. China will ensure that. It's the dream franchise for any studio. wouldn't be surprised if Avatar 2 will clear 2B again.

Solid OW up ahead for The Jungle Book. For comparison, the other Disney live-action adaptations in admissions (OW/total): Cinderella - 35.588 / 131.929 Maleficent - 57.629 / 180.637 Oz: TGAP - 36.869 / 142.304 Alice in Wonderland - 41.919 / 222.314 Hoping TJB can open over 50.000 adm. We will see. For now, the presales aren't as strong as I hoped, but it is a family movie. The Boss also looks ok-ish. Maybe around 20.000. Criminal around 10.000. I really hope we have a strong weekend considering this past one was by far the worst of 2016. April is so damn empty. Thank god for the strong looking Summer. Starting with May, we should have huge weekends again.

It will fall a lot from TFA here, maybe more than 40%? The thing TFA benefited most of was the absolute lack of competition, both DOM and especially OS. RO has a bit more crowded schedule, with Assassin's Creed, Passengers and Sing all arriving 5 days in it's run. I suspect the former will do really well OS, if it keeps the realease date. At least here the game is very popular.

Wow, I never thought I'd see a bad movie starring Leo. Yeah, it was Oscar bait but even so. It was beautifully shot and nicely acted, but it was overlong. You could have cut half of it and not lose a thing. It was just plain boring and I really like this type of movies. Are all Inarritu's films like this? I wanted to watch Birdman, but I kinda changed my mind after this one. C

I hope so too. TBOL is probably one of the best animations I've ever seen. Really, really underrated.

I don't get the hate for Charlie Hunnam. I saw him in Pac Rim and Green Street Hoolingans and he was great in both.

I think this is the Zimmer ost I've listened the most to:

This movies is messing with my zen. I think I will come back in 3-4 weeks once it's run is over.

Well Kalo... he's not even a Top 1000 contender so...

You guys are evil He was the only decent part of the whole SW movieverse.

The article is from January and I really hope it is true. http://www.youthhealthmag.com/articles/31208/20160110/star-wars-hayden-christensen-episode-8.htm

Just read that Christensen is coming back for SW Ep 8. Now I finally have a reason to look forward to that movie. Hope he gets enough screen time.

They are so insanely interesting to me. These are the first SW books I read, all based on the idea of a Jedi turning dark. It resembled Anakin's journey, which is far and away the best thing in all the movies for me. And it is just beautifully done. Yesterday I began and finished the 6th book. Today I think I'll finish or come close to finishing the 7th one

Off topic but: I just finished reading the 6th book in The Legacy of the Force series. Why?!!! Why didn't they just adapt this series?! It is so complex and it really makes you care for the characters. Jacen (Ben in TFA) is a formidable character and you get why he does what he does. Han and Leia are beyond likable (seeing their family and the Skywalker's being thorn apart in the most gruesome way possible really makes you feel sorry for them), same with the other Jedi and the story is so much more mature. Probably that is an issue also. I don't think Disney actually wants this type of movie. It is so dark (you have scenes of torture in this book). But at the same time I love love love the realism of it. It plays much more like a political drama. This is the best thing I've read in a long ass time. And it's kinda sad to see how subpar the movies are compared to the books and how much wasted potential is there.

That is really a subjective matter. For me the Knightmere scenes were the best part of the movie and I'm not a comic book geek by any means (never read a comic in my life). And they fit really well with the "power corrupts" theme, that is actually the base for the whole movie. And anyway, that is not the point. If a scene is put there, in a movie or a book, it means that the director/writer put a meaning behind it. The fact that some people don't get the meaning is irrelevant.

Are you serious? There is no such thing as a pointless scene. If the writers put it there then it means they had a reason. Are you going to say to me that when I write I shouldn't write something that I, as a writer, who knows the world better than any reader, think belongs there just because I have to keep the plot continuously going? That is ridiculous. Have you read any of George RR Martin's work (Game of Thrones). The guy is a master at writing scenes that apparently do nothing to forward the plot but enrich the experience. Same with Stephen King. Look at PJ's LOTR and TH. World building is necessary. I prefer a 5 hour movie with good world building than a 90 minutes one that throws everything out thinking the audience must understand it.