Biph Shmata

Sounds like the plot of a Kevin Spacey and Frank Whaley movie.

The way to get a good superhero movie out of Snyder, is have someone write a fantastic comic novella then have Snyder shoot exactly that. His original ideas suck, but he does a decent job of putting someone else's original idea on screen.

It's tough for a director to keep the fright level high while also hinting to the audience that he actually faked the moon landing on a set outside of Tucson.

I'd be happier if it shaves another million plus off of BvS's DOM total lead.

So is it safe to say that Zootopia will end up out grossing BvS on the DOM front?

I know, but I was just pointing out the common thread at least in audience makeup between the two films as at least a partial explanation for both films success.

This can only mean that a Manimal movie is just around the corner.

I can think of one other low budget film that had a similar insanely long run and legs, Dirty Dancing. It seems both films struck a chord with post teenage women.

To be fair that complaint wasn't about Saldana's race so much as her appearance and that's a biopic not a work of pure fiction. A darker skinned mixed-race Hispanic actress who looked more like Simone would seem to pass muster with the daughter.

Would there be all this hullabaloo if Zoe Saldana was the lead?

Will you raise just as big a stink if Idra Elbas plays Roland Deschain in the Dark Tower movies? Because at least according to the books Roland is definitely white. BTW at least based on that picture of the main character she looks hafu at best regardless of her name.

First off look at what I was responding to, a claim that the James Cameron brand was bigger than Star Wars, it aint no director is not even Spielberg. The fact of the matter is that Avatar for all the money it made was no where near the cultural phenomenon that ANH was. The major reason for this and why no movie may ever carry the widespread and deeply felt impact that Star Wars does is pretty much the first thing you see "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away" this moves the classic hero with 1,000 faces from the realm of the impossible that the old myths of Hercules, King Arthur, Gilgamesh etc etc reside in, to the realm of the possible by taking it out of our own world or even galaxy. It allows us to drop some of our skepticism and at some level view it through a similar lens as our ancestors viewed the old myths. Avatar is a great in theater experience in fact more than any film it has to be seen in the theater to be fully appreciated, this however is also why it doesn't carry the same cultural weight as even other Cameron films like Titanic and T1 & 2, because unlike those films and Star Wars I cannot come close to replicating the in theater experience in my living room with Avatar and this explains why for all the money it made the impact of Avatar recedes more over time than most other major blockbusters, the gulf between the in theater and at home experience is just too pronounced.

IDK how you define bigger, but without a doubt Star Wars is far more profitable than Avatar. No one buys Avatar video games, no one buys Avatar toys, no one dresses up like a an Avatar character for Halloween, no one looks forward to introducing their kids to the magic of Avatar. It's only a movie and when the movie goes away so does it's impact on the GP. Star Wars is a cultural phenomenon, it's a bigger than just the movies. It's popularity is greatest in U.S/UK. less so in Europe and much less in Asia, but when the movie finishes it's run Star Wars still goes on.

Beware the ides of April.

My guess for TFA is that the Rouge One trailer motivated people to go see it again. Them both being Disney movies the trailer may have gotten people to go to them in hopes of seeing the trailer. In any case both increases are 100% due to the Rouge One trailer because raisins.

I'm assuming $190m + or - 10m OW for BvS (because I both loathe Marvel and am just a DC hater depending on who reads that number). So I'm leaning 2nd weekend.

Not even sure what thread I should ask this in, but I'll axe it anyway. How long will it take BvS to overtake Zootopia Dom? Will it catch it the first week? Or have to wait till it's 2nd weekend? Or longer?

The Rabbit of Caerbannog in Monty Python and The Holy Grail.

A rabbit and a fox working together. I don't know if you have ever seen a rabbit and fox interact in the wild, but it is not friendly at least not for the rabbit.

Star Wars-The Knights of Ren

Maybe they should have told the true story, Eddie was an accomplished amateur downhill and stunt skier who just missed the the 84 Olympics in the downhill rather than unathletic rube really really really wants to be in the Olympics. The true story could've hardly done worse at the BO.

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