SLAM!

Warner Bros must be confident in this one. I think a sizeable portion of the American Sniper audience will want to see this one for sure.

I can't wait to constantly run out of likes during the countdown. I'm really excited!

They probably want to try and give the film a Hostiles type of run, albiet without the potential for any Oscars. I'm okay with this, because that's a nice little spot for limited prestige films to have their own wide release; this film's exit leaves Halloween and The Hate U Give's expansion by themselves. Besides that, I wanna say that I find one moment in the trailer really funny: "It's kind of a big day tomorrow." "I KNOW ALL ABOUT YOUR BIG DAY"

Well, Coogler was some big shoes to fill, so I doubt Steven Caple Jr. would've gotten the job if his directing wasn't up to snuff. I'm rooting for this to succeed for everyone involved.

Taylor Kitsch?!

The theaters were probably also getting complaints about the films' explosions being heard inside the theaters next door, too...

Yeah. They might as well push it into a wider release as soon as possible; many Oscar candidates are going to be nipping at its heels if they wait too long.

I think it's significant to say: I've had NBC on tonight, and a commercial for Beautiful Boy played at least twice; once during The Voice, and once during This Is Us. It seems as if Amazon knows that the audience for the sentimental shows that are popular on NBC would be interested in a film like Beautiful Boy, and that the distributor was able to act on the relationship with Dan Fogelman established by Life Itself to secure the TV spot's inclusion. This is something I caught that certainly can't hurt box office potential. It may also be a sign that Amazon could be planning to expand the film's release over time.

A Annihilation The Death of Stalin Maquia: When The Promised Flower Blooms Mission: Impossible - Fallout A- Black Panther BlacKkKlansman The Incredibles 2 Isle of Dogs Lean On Pete A Quiet Place  B+ Avengers: Infinity War B Game Night I Can Only Imagine Unsane B- Adrift Alpha The Equalizer 2 Solo: A Star Wars Story C+ Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Paul, Apostle of Christ Skyscraper C I Feel Pretty Maze Runner: The Death Cure F The Hurricane Heist  I* The Predator  (* = Incomplete product.) (Note: Films are not being ranked until further notice; instead, films with the same grade are listed in alphabetical order.)

The Predator September 25th, 4:50 pm, >10% full The Pointe Theater 14 Trailers Venom Halloween (excited chatter) Alita: Battle Angel (murmurs) Bad Times at the El Royale A lot of laughs. The audience had fun at the very least.

Huh. I really liked the original, so I'll be eager to see how this will compare to that masterwork. I'm sure it'll be hard to top that!

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At the very least, Lionsgate has John Wick 3 at the ready for next year. Plus, there's Hellboy, Liam Neeson's snowplow action thriller, Chaos Walking, another Madea film, a Seth Rogen comedy, and Roland Emmerich's Midway film. That sounds like a potentially better year to me, at least.

So I've just now become aware of what may just become an anomaly in this race. And it is a Netflix film called Next Gen. The film was made by a Chinese production company with the animation tool Blender, and it was purchased by Netflix at the Cannes Film Festival for $30 million dollars. The synopsis: in a futuristic society, one girl, who at first dislikes robots, meets and befriends a robot who protects her through dangerous times. The common consensus is that the film is overcomplicated but otherwise good. As the film came out of nowhere, Rotten Tomatoes only has four reviews compiled, three of which are fresh. I have not seen the film at this time, but it just might be something to look out for; if this gets nominated, it could cause ripple effects in the animation landscape for a long time. Edit: I guess you need a theatrical release to be eligible, huh? Maybe next time, Netflix.

It took a long time for me to stitch my list together, but I think I'm happy with this! 1. The Prince of Egypt 2. Wall-E 3. Finding Nemo 4. Spirited Away 5. The Incredibles 6. Beauty and the Beast 7. The Iron Giant 8. The Tale of Princess Kaguya 9. The Lion King 10. A Silent Voice 11. Persepolis 12. The Wind Rises 13. Toy Story 3 14. How To Train Your Dragon 15. Princess Mononoke 16. Coraline 17. Inside Out 18. Ratatouille 19. Bambi 20. Zootopia 21. Up 22. Ponyo 23. The Fox and the Hound 24. The Little Mermaid 25. In This Corner of the World 26. Surf's Up 27. Aladdin 28. Kung Fu Panda 29. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves 30. Yellow Submarine 31. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 32. The Peanuts Movie 33. Coco 34. Kubo and the Two Strings 35. Frozen 36. Your Name 37. Ghost in the Shell 38. Pocahontas 39. Toy Story 2 40. Anastasia 41. 9 42. The Nightmare Before Christmas 43. Treasure Planet 44. Finding Dory 45. The Breadwinner 46. Chicken Run 47. The LEGO Movie 48. Over The Hedge 49. Castle in the Sky 50. How To Train Your Dragon 2 51. Big Hero 6 52. The Last Unicorn 53. Shrek 54. Rango 55. Despicable Me 56. From Up On Poppy Hill 57. The Great Mouse Detective 58. ParaNorman 59. 101 Dalmatians 60. Monster House 61. Toy Story 62. Brave 63. Happy Feet 64. Mulan 65. The Corpse Bride 66. The Emperor's New Groove 67. The Sword in the Stone 68. Brother Bear 69. The Hunchback of Notre Dame 70. Wreck-it Ralph 71. Fantasia 2000 72. Cars 73. Tangled 74. Kung Fu Panda 2 75. The Aristocrats 76. Peter Pan 77. Monsters, Inc. 78. Robots 79. Bolt 80. A Goofy Movie 81. When Marnie Was There 82. Moana 83. Sleeping Beauty 84. The Croods 85. Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit 86. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind 87. Trolls 88. Shrek 2 89. The Boxtrolls 90. An American Tail 91. The Black Cauldron 92. A Bugs' Life 93. Lilo & Stitch 94. The Road to El Dorado 95. Cinderella 96. Tarzan 97. The Polar Express 98. The Good Dinosaur 99. Jonah: A Veggietales Movie 100. Hoodwinked

So according to the thread title, The House With A Clock in its Walls is about to have a better OW than The Predator did. I think I'm happy about that. Eli Roth has done something nice for the kids.

Do you mean The Long Way North? I heard that was a good movie!

No problem! Thank you for letting me know this!

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/animation-is-film-announces-11-animated-features-in-competition-lineup-164312.html Fascinatingly, GKIDS is producing their second annual film festival, Animation Is Film (or AIF for short), in Hollywood's Chinese Theater. The eleven films in the main competition are: Another Day in the Life (Poland/Spain) Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (Spain) Funan (Belgium/France/Cambodia)* I Want To Eat Your Pancreas (Japan) Mirai (Japan)* Okko's Inn (Japan)* Pachamama (Argentina/France) Penguin Highway (Japan) Ruben Brandt, Collector (Hungary) Seder-Masochism (USA)* Tito and the Birds (Brazil)* * = It's no surprise because Annecy Int'l is also a part of this festival, but the asterisk states that the film was also in competition over ar Annecy. (Descriptions of the films, as well as a list of the festival competition's jury members, are available in the provides link.) **** Sidenote: I took a look at each of these films, and one that caught my eye was Ruben Brandt, Collector. It is about a thief who steals paintings from museums, not for the money, but for his sanity. Each character is made to look like a figure that would be seen in a Picasso image, and action -- yes, action -- is prioritized. I think there is a reason why Sony Pictures Classics (The Triplets of Belleville, Paprika, Persepolis) bought it, even if they did it quietly; this film could come out of nowhere. I'm posting the trailer below:

1. A Star Is Born 2. First Man 3. Bad Times at the El Royale 4. Halloween 5. Serenity 6. Beautiful Boy 7. Can You Ever Forgive Me? 8. Indivisible 9. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald 10. Widows

I also have a question to ask you, @chasmmi. There's two animated films from this year, 2018, that I am wanting to put on my list. Would you be okay with me and other voters putting films from this year on our list? Or is it too early?

There's a film I just watched with Amazon Prime Video. It's from 1982, so you can tell it's got some age on it, but if you can, I wholeheartedly believe that it is at least worth a look. Beautifully animated, marvelously voice-acted, and presented with an exceptional directorial effort, The Last Unicorn is a hidden gem that is deserving of attention. The film is at once a fairy tale and a fantasy epic, and the film is not afraid to ask intriguing questions. It is also fascinating as a product of its early-80s time period. It is a film that I will certainly be putting on my list.

Titanic v. Rogue One  The Dark Knight v. The Exorcist

Counter argument: My family and I also fall into that Republican-voting category as a middle class family in a fairly populated city. But I want to say that, if we fall into that category, and if we want to vote Republican because of that, then we need to take up responsibility by doing two things: 1) Volunteer Service -- in other words, serving people who are in need without being told to do it by authority figures. 2) Encouraging others to help themselves initiate their own financial betterment. "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime." My current situation with Hurricane Florence provides a good allegory for my viewpoint. My father owns a kitchen for his business, and he was given the opportunity to host a non-profit organization that cooked meals for people in shelters, people like policemen and firefighters, and power line technicians. Thanks to my conservative father's selfless choice to lend his kitchen to the volunteer organization, 10,000 people have been fed every day for a week. That includes the people in shelters who were in need, and the people keeping the city safe, who needed food in order to keep themselves able to do their work. I've been able to help with dishes during this time as the one who organizes all the pots and pans and utensils for the kitchen workers. And I've seen that my efforts were helping to facilitate their ability to work efficiently. That's what's important -- to help others, so that they can help themselves. You probably agree with everything I'm saying in this rant already, but my main point is this: you've been blessed with priviledge in your life, and that's definitely okay. But I personally believe that people like us need to regard our priviledge as a gift, thus harnessing it to improve the livelihoods of the fellow Americans around us. And that's not gonna be accomplished by a mere vote; that's accomplished by going into the landscape that's been ravaged by the (in this instance, metaphorical) Apocalypse, and helping others to get through it themselves, no matter the personal sacrifices.