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I can't tell what is better, Baumer's blind anger or Napoleon's conspiracy theory head in the sand posts.
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Speaking of things that keep me from posting more often, the mods should clean up the design of the site, or reorganize it. I mean, to even get down to see new posts you have to scroll past 4 sub-forums and 10 freaking pinned threads. This along with how slow it loads and operates is not a good user experience.
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Yeah, I really would like to post here more but with how slow the site loads and how much total junk you have to wade through to have any sort of relevant discussion keeps me from posting. Take this thread for example, roughly 3 pages of good posts and 20 pages of people making noise.
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It isn't an amazing number. That is silly. Pseudo holiday with a PG-13 mega budget comic property featuring Batman and Superman grossed almost $5m less than Deadpool. It is a decent number, but AMAZING is not the word for it.
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I posted they weren't great (I was thinking it might be closer to $14m), not a disaster. $15m is not really great on any level. Monday was still a holiday for a decent amount of schools and some are on Spring Break. Barely above Furious 7. $4m below Deadpool. Yes, I know that was a bigger holiday, but it is more of a kid based holiday and that was an R rated movie.
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Here are a couple things.... - Deadpool should have opened even higher than it did. So many theaters were caught off guard (they shouldn't have been) and were still running a normal winter schedule when it came to early/late shows and number of prints/screens allocated on Friday and Saturday. Many didn't have shows before 11am and weren't adding late late shows to accommodate the crowds. BvS had WAY more screens and showtimes running. - Monday numbers for BvS......
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Unless they have changed it, this thing shoots in 3 weeks. I don't know if they even have the time to wait and fire him.
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Looks like I was scooped, but was coming back to say the real number is likely much closer to $165m for the weekend.
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As expected, this was overestimated by $3m-$4m for the weekend. Actuals should be closer to $167m or so.
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It might be a legit $82m, not completely doubting it, but Warner Bros. is sometimes more odd than others with estimates.
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Lol. WB found a magic $2m laying around somewhere to throw into that estimate. Maybe it is their corporate buyouts.
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It did right at $80m on Friday, not $78m that Gitesh thought.
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Justice League shoots in 3 weeks, so they would have to show him the door now or delay shooting.
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No way. If anything, Affleck comes out of this thing clean with nearly everyone saying he was the best thing about the movie and would rather have him direct or can't wait to see him direct the stand alone version of Batman. I am glad that he took this on because Warner Bros. basically told him he can get the budget and direct a number of other projects like Live By Night whenever he wants to.
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I would love to have been there the first time Affleck watched this movie. As a competent and talented director that knows how to tell a story in a coherent way, he had to be sitting there shaking his head at the mess he watched. Part of me wants Warner Bros. to beg him to direct Justice League, but that would take him away from making far more interesting movies like Live By Night that will end up being about 1,000x more interesting.
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Correct. You would have figured the one thing he would have taken away from that is people were completely bored with the over the top CGI and mindless destruction of Metropolis, but then he turns around and basically creates a Frankenstein of a movie that has even more CGI mindless boring destruction. I honestly think he has no clue how to tell a coherent story. This movie and MOS should have been 20 minutes shorter, saved about $100 million in budget and everyone would have been more satisfied.
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The biggest disappointment is they had all the money, resources and time to get it right and still delivered a incoherent mess. This fucking thing started filming in 2013!! It was done shooting in 2014 (except for standard re-shoots). They had over a year in post production.
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Well, when a studio dumps $400 million into the production and marketing of a movie, openings are going to be looked at on a relative scale. The reality is with inflated ticket prices, 3D, IMAX, 4,000+ locations it isn't any wonder why people are looking at $165m openings as fairly standard for a movie like this. It isn't about numb, it is about it being the new and somewhat fairly expected normal.
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Here are some things to consider when comparing Batman v Superman to Ultron or other Disney released films..... - Batman v Superman opened an hour earlier - The thursday preview number contains sponsored and advance corporate buyouts that started as early as Wednesday all the way through Thursday evening - Disney only allows 1 hours early corporate buyouts, so Ultron numbers not as inflated Good start given the reviews for Batman v Superman, but that number is going to be inflated compared to others.
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I don't have anything solid enough to post. Thursday numbers are hard to accurately predict.
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TFA doing 2.5x daily what Jurassic World was doing at the same point. On day 74 Jurrassic World was at $639.6m and it got to $652.2m. TFA is currently at $926.2m Should be able to get to $940m by the end of the run.
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TFA should be able to get to $940m or so.
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$14.2m Saturday for Deadpool.
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I've seen The Brothers Grimsby. It is hilarious in multiple spots, but the marketing is awful and don't think it is going to do well. Has a really short running time of around 85 minutes.
