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    The Top 100 Animated Films of all time, according to BOT, 2018 Edition PM List to chasmmi, Deadline September 23rd

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    5 hours ago, rukaio101 said:

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    In This Corner of the World

     

    Imagine if Grave of Fireflies was also a slice-of-life. That's this movie and it also works so much better than I ever thought possible, melding both aspects perfectly into a sum that's greater than its parts. And all without undermining either the pleasantness or its heavy emotional drama involved. My 3rd favourite movie of 2017.

     

     

    I've seen this and I can confirm that the film is extremely well done. It is available on Google Play, and I highly suggest that people watch it. It'll be on my list as well.

    Creed 2 | Nov 21 2018 | Steven Caple to direct. Production begins March

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    Posted · Edited by Slambros

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    So, I was watching Sony's E3 aftershow when they showed a sizzle reel of Playstation VR games, and one of them was Creed: Rise to Glory -- it was revealed in March but it's the first time I've heard about it. It is, simply put, a Virtual Reality boxing game.

     

    If the game releases around the time of Creed 2, it certainly couldn't hurt the game's sales; I feel like a technical showcase such as this could only help. This is smart on MGM's part.

    Classic Conversation Thread

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    7 minutes ago, Jandrew said:

    Welp, Post Malone just got himself another #1 and Ty $ gets his first @Cmasterclay. A rap song has been #1 since February 3rd, 20 weeks. And a rapper has been in the #1 slot for 21 straight weeks. That has to be some kind of record. And what diversity, you got a white guy, a Canadian, and Lando Calrissian. 

     

    Seems rap has been steadily taking the mantle away from pop. Looking at 2011's chart, rap was #1 for whopping one week of the year and 2012 had a grand total of 0 weeks (Flo Rida is not a rapper idc, he's a pop star).

     

    2017 was the golden year imo. Rae Sremmurd (so underrated), Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar, Migos, Cardi B, Post, DJ Khaled/Wayne/Chance, and now this year Young Thug, Ty $, and Gambino join the club. 2017 was a force and it seems 2018 hasn't skipped a beat other than some early year Ed Shereen.

     

    I think it's absolutely crazy that rap has surpassed pop in such a way. Then again, the current wave of pop musicians aren't exciting in the least. Yes, there's legitimate artists like Harry Styles and Alessia Cara, but they're few and far between. Pop has simply become much staler than it used to be, and it's just reality that an audience would do a mass migration towards another genre if nothing in the genre is legitimate. I feel like what makes pop music "pop music" is being fundamentally misunderstood in the current landscape, to be honest.

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    Crowd Reports Thread

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    Adrift

    June 9th, 4:40 pm, 20% full

    Regal Mayfaire Stadium 16, Wilmington, NC

     

    Trailers

    Crazy Rich Asians "Stars of Hope" Ad

    Searching (two old women were notably interested in the fact that the main characters were asian)

    Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! (laughs)

    The Darkest Minds

    Peppermint (reactions at Jennifer Garner)

    Crazy Rich Asians (laughs)

    Mile 22

     

    Laughs at appropriate times. Audible sniffles at the end. The two old ladies were telling each other that they were exhausted.

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    A24's HEREDITARY

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    1 hour ago, tonytr87 said:

     

    The thing is...its not funny either. 

     

    This. There's only so much mud a comedy can trudge through before it crosses a line and drowns in it. I've never seen the film, but I have read about it on Common Sense Media, and I have to say, I don't think there's anything remotely about it, with the sole exception possibly being the way Barry Keoghan eats spaghetti.

    Stuck | Freestyle Releasing | August 24th, 2018 | starring Giancarlo Esposito, Ashanti, Amy Madigan, & others | dramatic musical about six subway passengers who change each others' lives

    in Box Office Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Slambros

    Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the film that Entertainment Studios chose to replace Replicas with in the 2018 schedule: Stuck, a dramatic musical.

     

     

    The IMBd synopsis is this: [Stuck is] an original pop musical film about six strangers who get stuck on a New York City subway together and change each others lives in unexpected ways.

     

    The film stars Giancarlo Esposito, Ashanti, Amy Hardigan, and others. The film is set to release on August 24th against A.X.L., Destination Wedding (though Box Office Mojo hasn't dated it yet), and Slender Man (which may not release, as Sony was reported to have been shopping it around to other distributor).

    Box Office Theory's Most Anticipated Films

    in The Speakeasy

    Posted · Edited by Slambros

    1. The Incredibles 2

    2. Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    3. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

    4. Sicario: Day of the Soldado

    5. Ant-Man and The Wasp

    6. Sorry to Bother You

    7. Eighth Grade

    8. Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!

    9. Blindspotting

    10. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot

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    A24's HEREDITARY

    in Box Office Discussion

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    17 minutes ago, harrycaul said:

    Sounds like this will have no legs at all.

     

    I was literally just thinking to myself that it would have a 4x multiplier and leg its way over $50 million. I hope that the reactions are exclusive to themselves and that the film can still strike a chord with regular moviegoers.

    Beautifully Broken | ArtAffects | August 24th, 2018 (limited) | faith-based film starring the guy who played Reverend Jude in the God's Not Dead films

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    Beautifully Broken is a dramatic faith-based film that follows different families in different parts of the world who are going through tough times -- in other words, it seems like a faith-based take on Babel, a comparison that is probably only halfway valid. It is to be distributed by the relatively new ArtAffects, a distributor that specializes in faith-based films, and this will be their fifth release. The film was dated considerably early and August has become a bit of a wasteland, so I decided to go ahead and makd a thread for it, just in case the film can manage a suprising sleeper success akin to Let There Be Light, which came out at around the same time last year.

     

    To me, the film looks to be pretty, though I'm a little scared that people who take it at face value might accuse it of being white-savior-ish -- Same Kind Of Different As Me was accused of that last year, and the accusation did its box office absolutely no favors. This film doesn't seem like it's doing that, though, at least from the trailer.

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