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The question is...what changed between the summer and this holiday season? Because, at least to me, this past summer was pretty big. It was the usual share of blockbusters, sleeper hits, disappointments, flops, and everything in between. But since October (or September, but that month is always dead) the box office has been unusually low, with a few exceptions.The movie industry is in trouble. It's obvious that people don't go to the movies much nowdays.We can blame the product availiable as much as we want but i don't think that this is the real problem. I can see that all films (exept MI4) are underperforming. That just isn't natural. Most of them are good movies. It doesn't matter if we like all of them and in what degree. Those are well made and solid films more or less. From Sherlock to Dragon Tattooo to Tintin and The Muppets and Arthur Christmas and Hugo before them. So it can't be the quality. Even Alvin which is a really lovable francise to its audience is doing mediocre numbers.As far as Saturday drops, they are perfectly normal considering it was Christmas eve. Nothing to prove actually for any movie. From today on i hope and feel that business will pick up. Especially for MI4, Holmes and Dragon Tattoo.
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Troll much?With bthe exception of odd Internet geek and Jeff Wells, you won`t find many tears over TSN Oscar fiasco. Certianly not enopugh to mobilize them in support of frame-by-frame remake of the Swedish movie that was hyped as the ultimate DT movie just a year ago. Remember Noomi Rapace?
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War Horse11:30am showing95% full (pretty incredible for such an early showing)Trailers:The Vow - silence (McAdams needs to move on from this drek)ParaNorman - silenceChimpanzee - notable female reactionJohn Carter - silenceBig Miracle - good reactionMovie: A-Much better than I expected. The first half-hour or so is a little hokey, but after that Spielberg's command of his craft overwhelms any cloying sentimentality. Felt a lump in my throat more than a few times, and once Joey enters the war there's a slew of iconic moments. The horse really is the star here. The film is a mix of realistic and unrealistic (Spielberg's trademark happy turnouts) without ever becoming unbelievable. Audience seemed to like it and there was applause at the end.
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People here underestimate how much it costs to film in other countries that aren't Canada. Also, the longer you shoot the more money you spend, and Fincher is notorious for long shoots.Internationally, yes. DOM, probably not but movies based on books have to be widely accessible to have mainstream success. This is a R rated movie with limited appeal and if it makes 80-90 million DOM and another 140-150 OS it has done well. The whole 100 million budget thing is an entirely different topic. I have no idea what Fincher did with that kind of budget in a movie that didn't have any genuine A-list actors and no CGI.
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Here's the thing...if The Artist doesn't make enough money before the Globes and Oscars arrive, it won't win anything. The market is down, and there's zero mainstream buzz for it right now, so in all likelihood it'll make 10-15mil between now and those awards shows. It didn't matter for The Hurt Locker, but it might matter for The Artist.The Artist still doesn't have much mainstream buzz, I haven't seen a single TV ad, but once it starts cleaning up at the Golden Globes and the Oscars I imagine it will have a very good run- though I doubt it can reach King's Speech heights, simply because of the fact that it's a silent film.Blood & Honey, well it's only in 3 theaters but I can't imagine the studio was expecting a different result. Foreign language film about Bosnian war and rape camps released on Christmas weekend... who is gonna go see that? No award buzz either. The budget was tiny though so it won't be another Hugo-bomb for GK Films.I dunno about Marilyn. It's gotten some decent promotion, unlike the other 2 films I've seen ads all over TV for it, but I don't think it looks all that interesting.
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No. In America only cinephiles saw it pretty much.Does anyone think that the new Dragon Tattoo movie was hampered by the original film being released just 2 years earlier?
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He's a big name. I have no doubt that people know who he is. But that doesn't mean people are going to show up to everything he does outside of Tolkien. Same with Spielberg. As sad as it is, a director's name only draws people if it's paired with certain material.I don't think Jackson is a big name at all and Speilberg's name has been way overused this year.
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I know. What I was saying is mainstream appeal is not the sole reason last year's Oscar contenders broke out. Because this year we have quite a few that SHOULD appeal to a relatively wide audience, but they're not.yeah, but they don't look like they will break out. Hugo is a flat out financial failure. No other way to describe it
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War Horse, Hugo, and even Dragon Tattoo all have elements friendly to wide audiences.It probably helped that last year's had a ton of mainstream appeal. King's Speech, True Grit, and even Black Swan had elements friendly to wide audiences. None of this year's do. Sadly, this Oscar season is looking like a pretty boring one in stark contrast to last year. The Academy is going to seriously regret their revoking of the 10 nominee rule, because unless Potter can sneak in with a nomination (and even that may not matter much) there's really no reason for people to watch the show this year.Well, other than Billy Crystal.
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I'll wait until after this weekend to predict doom and gloom, but these numbers do seem small...for everything. Where's the Christmas bump? I suppose you could argue, disregarding quality, that these numbers aren't totally unexpected. We have three sequels no one really asked for, a disturbing, R-rated crime thriller, and a mo-cap film based on obscure source material from Europe.
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Said this in another thread but I guarantee sometime between now and March the box office recession talk will end because a handful of movies will either break out or exceed expectations, thus temporarily ending our worries until another slump rears its head, and so on and so forth. This happens every year. Yes, it's true admissions have declined. But going to the movies will always be relatively popular, at least for the near future.Also, quality of movies isn't a problem. It's the same it's always been. There are just as many movies that are fresh on Rottentomatoes as there are movies that are rotten from 2011. People watch crap and avoid great movies every year. Should they make less remakes and less sequels? Absolutely. But there's plenty of original films every now and then and people don't watch them, they watch franchise movies like Transformers, Potter, Twilight, Pirates, or comic-book movies. And while there's nothing wrong with that, audiences are sending a message to Hollywood when they frequent those and not anything else, and that message is: we flock to brands. The message may be unintended, but that's what studios hear when Transformers makes 300mil and Drive or The Descendents make only 40mil.
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The Sitter7:45pm showing50% fullTrailers:Project X - laughsChronicle - chatterThe Three Stooges - few laughs at the Snookie jokeMovie: C-Not always laugh-out-loud funny, and I'm not sure it really earns the more "heartfelt" moments between particular characters, but this is nowhere near as bad as the reviews make it out to be. Their accusations that the movie is racist and homophobic are way off base. Jonah Hill is likeable as usual, Sam Rockwell once agains plays a great villian, and it has its share of laughs. Despite all that...too many cliches, the kids are not likable at all for a good stretch of the film, and it's chock-full of plot holes. Very flawed, but passable entertainment on a rainy day.
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Sherlock Holmes IIMidnight showing60% fullTrailers:MI4 - some chatterWar Horse - silenceThe Dark Knight Rises - cheers, some clappingMovie: B-Entertaining, a couple good action sequences (forest chase is a highlight), a couple good performances (Besides Downey, Jared Harris steals the show), and continued chemistry between Holmes and Watson. However, the endless pithy banter begins to annoy, especially with every character speaking so quickly and so "English." The comedy isn't nearly as effective and at times too over-the-top (Holmes' array of disguises grow tiresome). Until the climactic showdown, the story is convoluted and quite hard to follow. An exciting climax, riveting scenes between Holmes and Moriarty, and a plot that goes to some interesting places toward the end saves the film from becoming a shallow, over-directed copy of the original.
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I don't know, I don't think there's THAT many people out there downloading movies. At least, I don't know anyone who makes a habit of it.It means that people are downloading more movies, not that are watching less...
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Just realized why Happy Feet is underperforming so badly...the original was five years ago. HF1 wasn't a big enough hit for a sequel half a decade later to come close to matching its total.
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You're joking, right?What is it?
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Funny People opened with 23mil. Jack and Jill is expected to make 18-20mil.As if to make things more depressing for Sandler, Jack and Jill STILL opened higher than Funny People.Colored me shocked at Immortals; I was expecting maybe $17M for the weekend but that was optimistic.The most impressive is J. Edgar considering the weak reviews, which has more of an impact on these kind of Oscar-bait flicks.
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