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    Weekend Actuals (Page 96): Dory 73M | IDR 41M | CI 18.2M | Shallows 16.8M | Conjuring 7.7M | Jones 7.6M

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    12 minutes ago, La Binoche said:

    Unfortunately a lot of execs are not very bright people, or even film lovers. Many of them are promoted because they do a lot of bitch work as assistants. So people who want to be in the industry because it's "cool," not necessarily because they like or even watch movies, end up in influential positions because they put up with some douchebag boss's personal bullshit for a few years. 

     

     

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

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    Fanboy Wars Thread: Personal Attacks not allowed | With Digital Fur Technology

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    34 minutes ago, BKB IS CAPTAIN AMERICA said:

     

    Look, you can mock this all you want wit the sarcasm, but I find it a little hard to believe that WB would be stupid enough to continue on with this guy while their fucking Star clearly has issues with him, along with the fanbase and that's no secret.. Why make the same mistakes AGAIN that they did here with BvsS??? See?? If Nolan had made this and Bale was smart enough to take the RDJ type of deal as BATMAN, we wouldn't even be having this conversation now would we???

    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.

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    Weekend Thread | RTH pg 197...Mother's Day not kind to CW but very kind to JB and MD CW 42, JB 9,7, MDD 6.1,Hunts 1.48...puts CW at about 178M

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    1 minute ago, johnboy3434 said:

    How's this for edge? The Shining isn't remotely frightening and is actually kinda boring. Same goes for the first Alien, now that I think about it.

    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. 

    Question for old-timers: What the Hell was with My Big Fat Greek Wedding's box office run?

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    52 minutes ago, johnboy3434 said:

    MBFGW made $5.7 million on its wide opening weekend. It then proceeded to spend 26 weeks in wide release, ultimately grossing $241 million. That's a multiplier of 42.4x. This movie has the best legs of any wide-release film since the founding of BOM, and by a country mile at that (second place goes to Shakespeare in Love, with 29x).

     

    So... what happened? What made this movie so special? What chord did it strike with the audience that kept them coming week after week for half a year? I was too busy being a little whippersnapper, so can some of the old fogies here tell me what it was like?

    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. 

    Ghost in the Shell | March 31, 2017 | Scarlett Johansson | Paramount | New Trailer on page 43!!!

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    3 minutes ago, grim22 said:

     

    Yup

     

    http://www.refinery29.com/2016/04/108423/nina-simone-movie-problems

     

     

    Granted, that isn't the only reason why the movie is controversial, but is a contributing factor.

    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.

    Ghost in the Shell | March 31, 2017 | Scarlett Johansson | Paramount | New Trailer on page 43!!!

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    7 hours ago, filmscholar said:

    Love Scar Joe, really do but the whitewashing has to stop.  "Ghost is the shell" is JAPANESE PERIOD.   There is no debate, there is no dispute and people trying to defend it exactly why Hollywood continues to get to called out by Asians, blacks and other minorities.  There's rumors they are trying to whitewash "Akira" too which is why it's in development hell and will be D.O.A. if they go through with it.  "Gods of Egypt" should be the final wake up call.   Just like how disasterous "Dragon Ball" Was, I mean you have a  franchise that's HUGE that could of generated Hundreds of millions at the box office and serveral sequels but Hollywood decides White Washing the characters was a better idea.   

     

    Does any of this mean the movie can't be good? Of course not but I expect anime fans to reject it and those are the fans this movie needs because they know the source material. There are plenty of asian actors that could of been cast for the role and the movie has other characters that you could of casted as White if you really wanted to.   Of course Scar Joe is a known name but that doesn't excuse this.  This idea that audiences would not have watched a Japanese and or Asian lead is B.S.   It would be like casting a white woman in makeup for "Memoirs of a Geshia" but did they do that?  No they didn't, they had an Asian lead because that's what the source matieral was about.  

     

    Just because that was autobiograhpical and this is a cartoon doesn't change my point.    "Ghost in the Shell" source material is why Scar Joe is a miscast for this role.  The whole story takes place in Japan and deals with Japan's advancement in technology and all the characters have Japanese names.    We are in 2016, we have progressed.   This isn't the 1950's so yellow face is unnessary just as it was back then.   It's also been leaked they were trying to use CGI to make characters look more Asian.   Even if they didn't go through with it, the fact that it was even considered is pathetic.   These are the same excuse they try to use against Black Actors (Sony Leak) as far as Box Office and using Non-white leads.   The Girl from "Pacific Rim" would of been perfect for this role:

     

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    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.

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    Avatar: The Way of Water | 16 DEC 2022 | Don't worry guys, critics like it

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    6 hours ago, kayumanggi said:

     

    STAR WARS has had SEVEN films. These comparisons are just wrong.

    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.  

    Avatar: The Way of Water | 16 DEC 2022 | Don't worry guys, critics like it

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    1 hour ago, IronJimbo said:

     

    Disney just used EVERYTHING they possibly had to make money from Star Wars, but fell 700 million short of a 7 year old film:

    • 30 years of nostalgia
    • Marketed out of the god damn ass, I couldn't buy fruit without seeing BB8 on the packet.
    • Big Director
    • Cameos from the old cast

    They literally used everything they had and the kitchen sink.

     

    Honestly just the brand "JAMES CAMERON" is bigger than sws

     

     

     

     

     

    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. 

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    Weekend Thread | The Jungle Book - Early Weekend Estimates 101m - 103m (DHD - Page 59) (Fri 32m, Sat 41.5m-42m) | RTH Saturday Early Est = 40-44M (Page 46) | Barbershop TNC - Est 20.4m (DHD) | Boss -59% | Hardcore Henry epic -71%

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    2 minutes ago, Telemachos said:

    Okay, guys, here's the whole un-varnished story.

     

    CJohn was never banned. We've actually never banned anyone for the (rare) case of posting fake numbers. The closest we came before was when Noctis did a really good job of impersonating Rth -- the outcome from that is that Rth has his own special verified account so no one can ever do it again.

     

    We decided to goof off and have some fun chasing an imaginary "second account" from CJohn, and yes, the upcoming CIVIL WAR inspired us to take sides as mods. If it got to be too much for anyone, we apologize. We were making sure any numbers that got announced were promptly updated in the thread title so that people could stay abreast of that even amidst the nonsense.

     

    None of this was planned from start to finish. It was basically an improv all the way through.

     

    We're going to put the remnants of the trainwreck in a thread in the Speakeasy if anyone who wasn't around wants to see what happened.

     

    In the meantime, JUNGLE BOOK is looking strong today.

     

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    Beware the ides of April.

    Thursday Numbers: 2.72 M BVS: DOJ | 1.58 M ZOOTOPIA

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    2 hours ago, JonathanLB said:

    Weird, so Star Wars was the only movie to increase besides Zootopia, and TFA's increase was the only double digit increase in the top 13. I wonder why that is. Both TFA and Zootopia are family friendly, is that it? I just don't get how that works sometimes, why one weekday is better than the next haha.

    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.

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    Wednesday Numbers | 2.2 M DEADPOOL

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    1 minute ago, DAJK said:

    Really unfortunate run for ETE so far. That number really kinda stinks :(

    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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