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I've seen 2001: A Space Odyssey in cinemas this year... this will be quite a challenge for Max

2015 releases in my country (some may have been released in 2014 in USA) The Tale of the Princess Kaguya A+ Ex Machina A Wild Tales A Whiplash A- Still Alice B+ Big Hero 6 B Avengers: Age of Ultron B- The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water C+ A Little Chaos C+ Into the Woods C- While We're Young D+ Selma D+ Furious 7 D Kingsman: The Secret Service D- Home D- American Sniper F Fifty Shades of Grey F Taken 3 F

Why?

80/202/1119

I feel a little stupid for saying Friday would be under 17.5 in BSG...

Holy shit, 60M+ for Pitch Perfect 2?!

this would mean I under-predicted both by 6M each. I'm happy about that if so.

Oh I wasn't talking about Mad Max. OP said to say a number for Friday. Today is Friday 15 May, so I said 15.

15

yeah, you would never have guessed

I googled it and apparently when bank holidays were created, it was for banks. But since we no longer live in the 1800s, it's not the same everyone is off on bank holidays. Most businesses close. 6 weeks. The time flies by. But we also have: - 2 weeks off at Christmas - 2 weeks off at Easter - 3 weeks off across the year as half-term holidays - 5 teacher training days - 8 bank holidays (usually less than that for schools because they can occur during school holidays) I'm not sure which of these you guys have.

School holidays here are generally last week of July until first week of September.

bank holidays are nothing to do with banks. They're just national one-day holidays that we have every so often, so that people aren't constantly working.

75M would be extremely disappointing. I say 100M+. Remember Phantom Menace did $82M back in 1999. That would be insane, possible but very unlikely.

Ah okay, that explains it.

3 month summer break? That's long!

Those of us who were saying it will open to Pacific Rim numbers are spot on at the moment. MM previews $3.7M, PR previews $3.6M. (That's not to say they will perform identically over the rest of the weekend, but still.) Schools in the US close for summer in June?

I laughed at that hanging scene.

1) Warcraft 2) Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3) Mad Max: Fury Road 4) The Martian 5) Jurassic World 6) Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation 7) Tomorrowland 8) Fantastic Four 9) Bridge of Spies 10) The Danish Girl

The title was predictable, so I feel neither strongly against it nor strongly for it. If anyone says they didn't think it would be called War, they are lying. run

That's a bit harsh. Even if a film is dumb, it doesn't mean its audience is all dumb.

I've still got mixed feelings about this discussion. While I think Nolan's films are, in general, intelligent and well-made and engaging, he doesn't come close to some of the filmmakers of the past 20 years. Coen Brothers, Richard Linklater, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher, Wes Anderson, Ang Lee, Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron, Sam Mendes, Darren Aronofsky and many others are all leagues ahead of Nolan in terms of their films. The difference is that, for the most part, they have not connected those intelligent films with the audience on quite the same level as Nolan. And if I'm gonna say that Nolan is a true great for managing to do that, then I'd also be putting Peter Jackson ahead of him. I suppose the truth is, it's hard to say who is an all time great when they are in the middle of their career. Give it 20, 30 years and we'll have a better picture. For now, I don't think there has been another Kubrick since Kubrick.

Most memorable performance for me right now would be Andrew Scott in Pride.

Return of the Jedi > Star Wars > The Empire Strikes Back