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Maybe the combined negative effect of the primary players recent past. Seth's Million Ways Mark's AOE Tom's balls

I went digging and couldn't find a weekend where 3 movies grossed $50 million or more. The closest was Memorial Day 2005, where Madagascar and The Longest Yard both missed by roughly $3 million. Some more history, perhaps?

I actually didn't mind Khan, outside of the stupid mystery box reveal. My biggest beef with Into Darkness's script is that they built the entire movie around Kirk learning about consequences to his actions, then proceeded to make a 2 hour movie where Kirk's risky choices end up costing him or his crew nothing. He even DIES, but is promptly revived by magic space blood. It's amusing to me. ST09 got some things right and a lot of things wrong. STID fixed some of the issues I had with ST09, but broke a lot of the things it got right.

I feel like Into Darkness has a poor reception amongst fans while general audiences enjoyed the sci-fi ride it was. I just wonder how something so poorly scripted go the praise it did from critics. I'm more liable to give ST3 some leeway with writers like Orci, Kurtzman, and Lindelof away from the series. Then again, I said the same thing for Transformers.

It's important to note that PP2 has done significantly better on Fridays than just about any other movie it's been up against. It's Saturday bumps have been soft it's whole run.

The only difference between a reboot and a revival is a tenuous connection to the first film. I think, with "reboot" becoming a dirty word that filmmakers and marketing people have been increasingly distancing themselves from it. I think that when Tron Legacy came out, studios started looking at cult films in their back catalog to see if any were worth dusting off today. After, you started seeing the prequel to The Thing and production for MM:FR and JW really start in earnest.

"My dick is bigger than your dick!" "Well, my dick competed against much larger dicks. Your dick competed in an empty dick marketplace! "My dick is bigger when adjusted for dick inflation!"

I'll only say this once, but the way I view a person's death is related to the life they lived and the way they passed. I was sad when Christopher Lee passed, but knew that he lived a long and fulfilling life. Dusty Rhodes was in retirement, but I was still torn when he died because he was vital to the development of younger wrestlers and he seemed committed to getting healthier in his last few months. Paul Walker and James Horner, their deaths happened as they were still creating, entertaining, and had more to give to their professions, let alone their personal lives. They were vibrant individuals who didn't get their retirement tour, didn't get their walk into the sunset. They were here one day and gone the next, just taken from this earth right in the prime of their lives. On the other hand, here's the funny thing with entertainers and artists. They never really die. Their heart stops beating, but their work is immortal. I can watch a Dean Martin movie, listen to a Miles Davis album, and read an Ian Fleming novel. Their work literally can last for centuries. It's, to a degree, timeless. 50 years from now, there will be kids getting their first exposure to Robin Williams and it will feel as fresh to them as it did to us.

Yeah, but the Terminator franchise is saddled with two poor sequels that....hurt the perception....of the...franchise MY GOD!

Didn't Maleficent earn an A Cinemascore?

"Let the dislike flow through you."

Kids today don't know what it was like to grow up during the Disney Renaissance. Those plastic VHS packages.

This should be called the "Star Wars Generational Effect". The prequels (and eventually The Force Awakens) benefited from the kids who saw the originals now being old enough to have children of their own. Everyone my age or younger received exposure of Star Wars from watching it with their parents, either at home or in cinemas during the Special Edition rerelease.

I dunno. I want to see how JW performs in it's 3rd weekend before calling $650 plus. The hold it got this weekend was boosted by Fathers Day, which might give us a false read on how good it's legs will actually be in the long run. It's still going to need $150 million through July and August to get there and that usually doesn't happen.

JURASSIC AVENGERS

Early/Mid June was hot shit for a while. The Burton/Schumacher Batman films, Hulk, Tomb Raider, Ghostbusters, Dick Tracy, Speed, The Rock, Austin Powers, Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I think what happened was 4th of July tentpoles started creeping out into late June and started squeezing all the tentpoles out of the middle of June. Mid July (the Nolan/Potter slot) started becoming a lot more popular as a result.

-49% drop, the lowest for a $100 million OW since Toy Story 3 (and the lowest for a $150 plus OW) -Biggest 2nd Weekend -Fastest to $400 million (10 days) Now, with Inside Out with the biggest non #1 OW, the past two weekends have been the busiest June weekends in history. With another potential breakout in Ted 2 next week, this looks a lot like May/June 2004, where Shrek 2, The Day After Tomorrow, and Prisoner of Azkaban all had great openers in back to back weeks.

Cargo shorts. You can hide anything in cargo shorts.

When I worked at Quiznos, we used to regularly sneak Sammies (small flatbread sandwiches) and bottled soda into theaters in our pockets. I think I had 3 of them during The Incredible Hulk.

Another possible record that'll be a photo finish.

The movie I've seen the most in theaters is Casino Royale........with three trips. I need to step my game up.

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$100 million openers with sub 50% 2nd weekend drops: -Shrek 2 -Spiderman -Alice in Wonderland -Goblet of Fire -Toy Story 3 -Revenge of the Sith Iron Man would have counted had Thursday previews been wrapped into the Friday numbers as they are today.

I could nitpick little details out of the movie (none of which hampered my immense enjoyment of the film), but one major story arc remained stuck in my head. The story used classic Spielberg character elements (main character becoming less reluctant at the concept of family and the unorthodox family unit) and while I enjoyed the inversions, I can't help but feel that the elements are poorly thrown in and clash with the rest of the story.

DHD updates this early are basically them reading tea leaves. It all amounts to "Well, the early matinees are doing well, so it'll probably hit the studio's prediction."