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If most movies are "underperforming" then maybe it is an issue with your expectations.

Those 4 big-budget, starry movies will underperform because of Neighbors 2?

Just booked my ticket for the ID4 double bill on opening night. Will probably only watch the first one.

Witness is dull mediocrity. No interesting characters whatsoever, nothing to care about in the movie at all.

Has this got a rough release date?

Wait what, The Nice Guys has a $50 million budget? I thought it was like a small $10M thang

Disastrous? 9M OD means roughly 25M OW, finishing with 65M+, plus international, on a 35M budget. That's not disastrous. It's an expected steep drop from the first one, sure, but it's not a flop by any means.

So I fill my list with real sci-fi movies, and they all get ignored but GRAVITY shows up? Fuck this place.

Worked at one for a year, quit and got a new job in January

I disagree. You got any idea how satisfying it is to refuse service to a teenager? They get so desperate when they get ID'd and have no ID. On a boring day...it brightens things up.

Everything going according to plan... first time every movie has performed as I predict in some time

Yassss, 40M+ for Angry Birds.

Vertigo is shown several times a month at my local cinema and I still haven't seen it. i feel kinda bad.

this was pretty great, it kind of lost its way with the soppy romantic subplot but fortunately 90% of the movie was just with the douchebag jock guys and that stuff was aalllllll gooood.

Preach.

oh, didn't know that. wouldn't surprise me, every report of Bay i read seems to confirm what his filmmaking style implies.

You really don't think Trekkies will watch the new Trek film?

dont think being fired is "being abused", she likened Bay to hitler so spielberg got rid of her for being unprofessional & offensive

"what if animals could talk" is an original concept? LOL.

From what i recall, michael bay had no beef with megan fox, it was spielberg who fired her and doesn't want her back

I really haven't seen enough old movies. Can't feel bad about it though, I have a whole lifetime ahead of me to be culturally enriched

I think it is self-evident that piracy has some effect on box office - people are very aware that you can watch a decent version online of a movie almost as soon as it's in cinemas, and naturally there are going to be some people who prefer to do that, compared to, say, 30 years ago where it was much more difficult to watch a movie outside of a cinema. Given how huge piracy is, it's impossible that it has no effect. However, I don't believe that piracy has much effect on a case by case basis, it's more of a general issue. For a movie like Civil War, most people are gonna watch it on the big screen regardless of how soon the torrent is up, or what quality it is. But it's very difficult to establish just how great an effect piracy does or doesn't have. As for repeat viewing effects? Like said above, the number of people who re-watch a movie several times in its first theatrical run is marginal at best. And though I'm sure there are plenty of people who have rewatched Civil War online already, you have to ask yourself if those people would really have gone to see it again if the stream wasn't available. An illegal viewing doesn't equate to a lost sale. Moreover, it is essentially impossible to track which box office sales are rewatches - they are just sold as normal tickets. There are so many factors as to why a movie might have shortened legs that you can't just pin it on piracy. Hell, Batman v Superman, a near-identical movie to Civil War, had no HD stream upon release and Civil War is legging it out far better than that movie.

Knowing is much better than people give it credit for. But it's still fun to rip on it, given some of the bonkers plot, imagery, and embarrassingly shoddy effects

As far as James is concerned, when a movie loses colour picture it is also drained of all potential quality.

Oh yeah, easily the best MCU film. It actually wants you to have some fun and enjoy yourself...