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And I bet that is why it didn't do well. Most of my girlfriends saŵ the first one and liked it, but the universal comment was that they wanted less story and more nakedness. None of my friends went to that movie for its story.

It's really not a film that lends itself to sequels. But, then a lot of films don't lend themselves to sequels and we get them anyway. Just see Legally Blonde 2, and Ted 2.

But, a lot of office workers get Friday off as the 4th falls on a Saturday. Or at least everyone I know who doesn't work retail or work in w hospital has it off. So I think it will help somewhat. As for this weekend, if Ted 2 breaks out, then I think JW ends up around 45m and I/O ends up in the low 50s. I hope I'm wrong though. I'd love to see three films over 50m and a real horse race for the top spot.

I'm so glad IO stayed above 90.

He's on a new HBO show.

Definitely JW for me. TA's opening while stunning was predicted to be a monster (just not quite that large a monster). JW's second weekend total was in line with what many were predicting. Not to mention, I think that is was relatively easy to predict that TA was going to open very well. There had been four movies dedicated to building that universe, all of which where hits of varying degree's. JW was coming off a 14 year hiatus where the last two sequels hadn't been that well received (in comparison to JP). I just think it was far more difficult to predict how it was going to do. I think any prediction between 50m to 150m was reasonable.

BvS is going to depend on how good it is. If it's good then it will do well. If it's MOS quality then I think it will disappoint. And with ZS helping BvS the only thing I'm confident will be good will be the trailers.

I think that a lot of dinosaurs had feathers. The raptors had feathers (and were much smaller).

I actually think the pro-Hammond side of the film worked very well. Because I think it's human to be seduced into how spectacular some technological achievements are and believe that we can control that. Malcolm said in the first movie that the science team were so fixated on if they could do this they didn't wonder if they should and I think that is a pretty true statement about a lot of things.

Those filmed deserved disappointing box office. WB got greedy by trying to make it into a trilogy. And to me Peter Jackson is like George Lucas. Someone who so enthralled with the special effects that he forgets about the story. For as much as I care for Cameron at least he remembers that the story needs to anchor the special effects vs the special effects anchoring the story.

I love that both are doing so well. It just proves that the right movies can coexist and make bank.

So only 6 years. I haven't seen it since I saw in the theatre when I was a kid. I had a breakdown mid-movie and my grandmother had to take me into the ladies room and talk me down. It's so different now. I remember we had some friends who had a bootlegged copy of ROTJ on Betamax in the 80s. It was a huge deal for us because it wasn't out on VHS yet, and when it was there was no way that my parents were going to pay £25 for a movie. That was a lot of money.

Not to mention buying a movie on VHS was expensive. The movies we had on VHS were ones recorded from the TV (okay and a couple bootlegged copies of movies). I grew up in the UK, and it could take years before a movie was release on home video. It was just a completely different time. Now movies are available for download within months, and more importantly they are guaranteed to be released for streaming, bluray, etc., within six months (tops). The first movie I saw in the theatre was ET. I think it took ET more than 20 years before it was released for home video.

I went to college in a tiny town that had $1 Tuesday's so I saw a lot of movies. I also had a friend who worked for the same movie theatre and would do free midnight showings after the theatre closed. I think I saw Twister three or four times in the theatre. But, where I live now if you go to a showing before noon, in a non-IMAX screen it's only $6. Most of them time I only go once. I've screen JW twice, and I've seen the original three Star Wars movies twice in the movie theatre, and the LOTR trilogy twice. The big special effects movies are better in the theatre than on my TV at home.

The best thing about movies like JW, TA, etc., is that they are fun action packed movies that aren't trying to be anything but what they are. Fun popcorn movies that entertain. I think that is why they do so well at the BO.

Some schools on the east coast don't get out until the 2nd or 3rd week of June. All the schools in my neck of the woods break for summer the week around Memorial Day. But, I have some friends on the east coast who's kids are still in school.

It's a good marketing strategy. If the numbers are better then Universal can keep sending out press releases with revised figures. And it will keep being reported. If the final numbers are lower, they can argue that their estimates were very early and the press will make it into w non-issue.

I don't see BvS being a record breaker. Man of Steel had a mixed reception, and Batman has been recast, and the movie isn't being directed by Nolan. I think it will do very well, but I would be shocked if it opens above 200 million. The only movie I think has that chance is SW7, and that is only because it's a sequel to the original three movies and includes a lot of the original actors. But, I think breaking 200 million for any movie is wildly difficult no matter how big the buzz is before hand.

I knew this would big (easily 100m), but not this big. I was talking to a cousin of mine a few weeks ago, and they mentioned that JW was a movie theater movie, and that they were going to go. I'll be interested in the gender breakdown as I know quite a few women who usually wouldn't want to go an action movie talking about how they were looking forward to JW. I saw it and enjoyed it. I thought it was a fantastic popcorn movie, and one that I'm glad I saw in the theater. A 200m+ opening weekend is amazing though.