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Like Ouija 2. First one was terrible but made 20x its budget, so why not put in another $5-10m and make another $30-40m. I imagine a second Visit film will be without MNS. I haven't see the film, but I'm not convinced he's out of he's doldrums. Give me one more good low budget film and I'll be convinced.

BM: +27% MR2: +49% TV: +47% Everest: +38%

Both BM and MR2 ahead of The Town and MR respectively. I expect Wednesday to have good numbers too. School is out today.

Get it to 350m WW and I'll walk away a happy man.

Can't wait to see what Everest can do in expansion. Better than expected drop for The Visit tbh given the genre and my own expectations.

I'm going to stay away from tracking for now, but I think this opens bigger than Skyfall for sure. 110/360/1.3b

My reply to the comments I quoted did not revolve around why the budget was low, but why the film looks grander in scale for its budget. I simply pointed out rebates and tax credits were put to good use. Every film uses these benefits, but you don't always see it translated on the big screen.

No I didn't you're putting words in my mouth. If you read my comment, you will see I said "film rebates and tax credits are going to good use." I never said that the budget is low because of it.

Ah. What? No. How did you come to that conclusion?

Film rebates and tax credits going to good use.

Those budgets are atrocious too. That's a lot of money to film a movie. A good portion of those budgets went to Depp and RDJ to secure their roles. Pirates was a special case. The complexity of those films required a big budget.

I believe Wes Ball confirmed they will not split the third book. The third one is the final one, unless the adapt the prequels.

That's two movies, which they are filming together. So not quite $500m for a single superhero tentpole. BTW, I have not heard of this ridiculous budget, so if it's true that is just atrocious.

Female-centric YA films do pretty well. We haven't had a male-centric YA film breakout since Harry Potter and that was special case, a whole different ball game. BTW, I don't know of any superhero tentpole that has a production budget of half a billion dollars (about the cost of 4 THG films).

Quoting myself from the MR thread: The movie will make money. It won't have the same merchandise and home video sales as Divergent, but its WW BO is healthy given its budget.