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Don't know if anyone's brought it up, but most schools won't get all of next week off. This is the XMas calendar teachers and students dread. Most of us will be going back to work on Wed or Thursday of next week.
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13 minutes ago, redfirebird2008 said:
You're a teacher? I would say you are earning those breaks from work. That is a tough job.
I've been out of the classroom for 4 years, I'm now an instructional coach, but I occasionally get to co-teach a lesson with elementary students. I miss the days where I would show SW films before holiday breaks and at the end of the year when everyone is bouncing off the walls. My office still has a couple of SW posters up and all of my work related avatars are pictures of Yoda, so everyone knows where I stand. I had a video conference today where all people saw of me was a nice image of Luke in his Ahch-To outfit.
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2 minutes ago, redfirebird2008 said:
What is your work schedule next week? My company is giving us Monday/Tuesday off. I am taking vacation for the other 3 days. 10 days off from 23rd to 1st and only using 3 vacation days. Pretty nice!
That is pretty sweet, not teacher generous, but a good deal. I've got Thursday and Friday off this week, all next week, and then back to work on Wed., Jan. 3rd. I think that's fairly typical for schools across the U.S.
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Ugh, XMas on a Monday blows! I have to work until Wednesday and my kids have school until Thursday because of a snow day we had last week. I think many districts across the country are in the same boat. Schools will be in session until the middle of the week. I may sneak over tomorrow after work, but the break made seeing TFA on weekdays so much easier 2 years ago.
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1 hour ago, MovieMan89 said:
Yes and no. While Lucas has major problems as an actual filmmaker, he's a fantastic idea man. I would have been interested in what some of his ideas for E7 could have been like in the hands of more capable filmmakers.
Some of those fantastic ideas included Howard the Duck and the Crystal Skull..... and the fridge, oh gawd, Indy survived a nuclear explosion in a fridge... (And don't believe the stories that it was Spielberg's idea, it was Lucas all along.)
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Don't know if anyone has posted this, but Rolling Stone has an article on BvS and CW:
Civil War' vs. 'Batman v Superman': What Marvel Is Getting Right
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/civil-war-vs-batman-v-superman-what-marvel-is-getting-right-20160509-
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I'm going to have to up my previous predictions to.....
$194M
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6 minutes ago, Water Bottle said:
Huh? Directors leave projects like all the time. Heck, even Marvel has seen directors leave (Ant-Man anyone) for "creative differences". And the same posts (Marvel isn't actually director-friendly) are being made as well.
True, but this isn't exactly a good time for WB right now. It's going to be fuel for the post BvS fire. Faraci won't be the only one to try to use this as proof of turmoil at WB.
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This just makes WB look incompetent. Hopefully, this will all work itself out, but coming off the BvS fallout they're just asking to get slammed.
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3 hours ago, Biph Shmata said:
So is it safe to say that Zootopia will end up out grossing BvS on the DOM front?
Yup, it's only a matter of time. Zootopia will still be bringing in families over the next couple of weeks while BvS gets buried by CA:CW. BvS will fall further and further behind Zoo in the dailies. I wouldn't be surprised if Zootopia surpasses it Sunday or early next week.
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It was an excellent ADULT comedy. It reminded me of Crocodile Dundee when it came out. My wife and I were in our early 30's and already had a couple of kids, we were its target audience. We weren't there OW. Like many, WOM got us to the theater and it delivered solid laughs.-
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1 hour ago, mredman said:On 4/16/2016 at 7:01 PM, The Futurist said:
Shit just got real.
Who opens the
Jungle Book over BvS Dom ?
On 4/16/2016 at 7:02 PM, Jayhawk said:I think it's happening.
don't think so
So a live action family film that opens almost $20M over expectations and has a 95% RT score has no shot at a x3 multiplier? That's all it will take to get it within striking distance of BvS. Just look at what Zootopia's run has done. It opened with $75M and it's over $300M and BvS has just managed to crawl past it. In a couple of weeks Zooptopia will probably over take it again because that's what great reviews, great legs, and great WOM will do for you even if you don't have a huge OW. JB will more than likely out gross BvS and most of us won't be a bit surprised, not after this surprise OW.
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5 hours ago, BKB IS CAPTAIN AMERICA said:
And to think, this was unimaginable back in January.. MARVEL was deemed a has been and BvsS was supposed to be WB/DC's version of The AVENGERS and it can't even get the job done.. All I saw was "The Trinity This and the Trinity that" and when these so called 3 Iconic Superhero's can't dent the box office, that makes me wonder if it's not so much Zack Snyder is the problem as it is that the general audience just doesn't dig DC like the fans do, excluding Nolan's Trilogy for obvious reasons???
I don't think this is a DC thing at all. It's a poorly executed film thing. Another director and a more traditional interpretation of Superman and... Ugh, can't wait for CA and a more positive experience.
Very impressed by JB. Neither of my kids seem interested but we had a lot going on this weekend with a birthday. Maybe we'll catch it next week.
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If Wikipedia is correct it was R.P.M. starring Anthony Quinn and Ann-Margaret.
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I don't believe we're going to be seeing an extended cut in theaters. We'll see it when the bluray comes out. It just reeks of desperation. I can't believe WB is seriously contemplating this. The only reason we're even discussing it is because BvS is dropping like a rock.
Is there even a precedent for this? Can anyone think of a major release that saw an extended cut released WEEKS later?
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3 hours ago, Water Bottle said:
There were some who saw the bad legs months ahead of release. Like me who predicted terrible legs months ago.
After the RT numbers and the OW I saw weak legs on the horizon. Don't remember exactly when I posted it, but I thought a sub 2x was possible.
On a side note, I really enjoy this place, but I'm pretty close to using the ignore feature on a poster. It's one thing to love a film and stick up for it, but it's another to just post one ridiculous comment after another.
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I really think this is just going to keep dropping and dropping... I expect a sub 2.0x multiplier. BvS will end up around $315-320M
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I'm in! Don't know what my final prediction will be, but I've been thinking CA:CW will end up closer to $500M than $400M.
Plus, this place was a great place to track TFA's B.O. run and the BvS saga has been a blast. Even if I lose I'll feel the money well spent.
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10 minutes ago, Last Man Standing said:
I don't agree at all. MoS basically makes sense. Zod needs Superman and Earth to maintain his species, Superman opposes him for obvious reasons. The BvS script is really unclear in comparison, the motivations of all characters are muddled and none of them act in a rational way.
While I think BvS has higher peaks that MoS, MoS is more consistent. It's a more solid film IMO. And Shannon is great. He was a compelling antagonist and you completely understood his motivations. I actually felt some sympathy for him after the World Builder was destroyed. Kal really did rob him of his sole purpose. The purpose he was genetically engineered to fulfill. Shannon's Zod never had the choices that Kal did. And BvS has a hulked out grey ninja turtle and Troll Luthor....
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27 minutes ago, Bishop54 said:
You were a good sport about it, it was all in good fun.
Don't have to apologize to me. I'm one of those that thinks the critical reception for BvS was pretty spot on. I've got my share of problems with it. But it definitely has its moments and I've got to see that extended cut.
5 minutes ago, vc2002 said:Are we actually seeing worse legs than Batman and Robin?
Batman and Robin
OW: 42m
DOM: 107m (2.54x mutiplier)
BvS
OW: 166m
DOM: 350m (2.1x) (or it most likely will go lower than that)
To be fair, BvS will most likely have worse legs than BaR, but that film was a train wreck that killed the series. It's lone redeeming quality is that it led to Nolan and BB. And it's easier to have legs when your OW is only 42M.
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And there's the Superman version:
The Batman is my favorite.... but with patience it won't be $129 for long...
12 minutes ago, Bishop54 said:Wait until the 2nd week when the stores drop the price by 71%.
That was pretty good.
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It seemed like yesterday there was talk of $18-$19M, not we've come crashing down to $15.3 and a possibly a sub $50M 2nd week. Ugh. And yet, I've seen it twice and in July I'll be seriously tempted to shell out $129 for this...
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With no competition this weekend, does BvS have a chance of extremely over performing? Fandango says there good repeat business and is sitting pretty good on movietickets.
I don't think there's much of a chance. I don't want to just keep bashing it, but I don't think there's enough good will out there for BvS to start surprising us with strong holds.
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Off topic but: I just finished reading the 6th book in The Legacy of the Force series. Why?!!! Why didn't they just adapt this series?! It is so complex and it really makes you care for the characters. Jacen (Ben in TFA) is a formidable character and you get why he does what he does. Han and Leia are beyond likable (seeing their family and the Skywalker's being thorn apart in the most gruesome way possible really makes you feel sorry for them), same with the other Jedi and the story is so much more mature. Probably that is an issue also. I don't think Disney actually wants this type of movie. It is so dark (you have scenes of torture in this book). But at the same time I love love love the realism of it. It plays much more like a political drama. This is the best thing I've read in a long ass time. And it's kinda sad to see how subpar the movies are compared to the books and how much wasted potential is there.
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It was a good series but there's just too much there. You're on book 6 and your still not done with the story. Plus, it's literally built on the foundation of dozens of books and comics. The EU was simply too cumbersome to keep in place and start a new trilogy. I always knew they'd wipe the slate clean if a new trilogy got greenlighted.
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Wednesday Numbers: TLJ $5.1 million
in Numbers and Data
Posted · Edited by jedieb
I know it's not perfect, but I was curious at where TLJ would wind up on BOM's All Time Adjusted chart in terms of SW films.
2. ANH $1.59B
11. TFA $965M
13. ESB $876M
16. ROTJ $839M
18. TPM $806M
57. TLJ $544
58. RO $539M
65. ROTS $529
95. AOTC $477
I haven't tracked this run as closely as I did TFA's, so I really have no solid idea just where TLJ is going to end up, but I don't think I'm too far off in thinking it's going to end up either just north or south of $600M. TLJ is going to drop hard from TFA, but it doesn't look like the drop is going to be as steep as AOTC's drop from TPM. I remember being crushed by that run. At the time, AOTC not only got beaten by Spiderman, but it barely made it past $300M. First SW film to not end up #1 the year it was released.