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Also $64.68m if it follows GotG2

While many of us were hoping for a total over $700m, it looks like this movie is going to basically follow the previous Star Wars habit of the sequel to the first of a trilogy decreasing by about ~30%. If it follows TPM to AotC then it makes just over $656m, while a ANH to ESB drop puts it at just over $638m.

To be fair he pitched the original Avatar to Disney after Fox turned him down, it was only because Fox had ‘right of first refusal’ that they kept him onboard.

If it makes about 215/216 this weekend that means the TFA to TLJ OW drop would be about the same as the drop from AUJ to TDS. If it ends up with the same multiplier as TDS it’ll be at about 757 DOM by the end of its run. I can’t see why it’s multiplier would be much worse than TDS’, let alone worse than RO’s (which puts it at 741, a good number still).

JL OW under TLJ OD

I know my local Vue won’t be particularly representative, but normally the biggest screen is at least half-full for most midnight showings, even relatively smaller films do alright. There are currently 8 people other than me here. Not great.

1. Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2. Thor: Ragnarok (technically out today here in the UK, but I'm not seeing it for a few days so I'll count it) 3. The Incredibles 2 4. Ant Man and the Wasp 5. Solo: A Star Wars Story 6. Avengers: Infinity War 7. Isle of Dogs 8. Mission: Impossible 6 9. Red Sparrow 10. Deadpool 2

As soon as they announced Flashpoint I wondered if they'd get a Thomas Wayne Batman with Jeffrey Dean Morgan playing him again.

- April and the Extraordinary World - Kubo and the Two Strings - Moana - My Life as a Zucchini - Zootopia* Alts (in descending order of likelihood): - Finding Dory - The Red Turtle - Miss Hokusai *Will win

The BAFTAs should really bring back separate British and Foreign acting categories. Blunt was the best part of Girl on a Train by far, but Best Actress nom worthy? Probably not. It's clear the BAFTAs have a bias to British actors anyhow, just make it a formal split IMO.

The general criticism I've seen from a few reviewers is that the stuff in the past is good fun and a good movie, but it's the real world stuff that drags it down. It seems they took the worst parts of the game and made them the main part of the movie, which just seems stupid.

My local cinema, while definitely not representative of all UK cinemas was very busy tonight. Definitely and obviously not so much as TFA, but personally I think it was more packed than for any other major movie in recent years. Also who gets to decide what trailers play before movies? I found out weird that only one Disney trailer played, Universal got 3. Other studios got one each.

Denzel will have a fight on his hands to win Best Actor against Casey Affleck, but I think Viola is a lock to win. It'll be her third nomination and she should've won against Meryl a few years ago.

Is it that great? I've briefly looked at the numbers for animated movies that came out in the last few years in November and all have a similar Monday drop, some slightly better and some slightly worse. Seems pretty par for the course to me. Also how will election day effect parents taking their kids to the cinema? I would've thought it'd hurt the jump but soften the Wednesday drop?

Agreed, plus Iron Man and Ant-Man had to face competition in their respective third weeks, and both had fairly strong competition in their fourth weeks too - especially Iron Man against Indiana Jones. Plus Guardians of the Galaxy had to face Turtles in its second weekend, though admittedly GotG didn't have much more competition than that for weeks.

I assume so too, I just wonder what will happen to the timetable now for all the films.

Indeed, I imagine it'll be a fight between GKIDS' Miss Hokusai and FUNimation's Your Name, though honestly neither may make it seeing as how the Oscars only seem to appreciate Ghibli's work.

If Strange has a $33.5m Friday and follows Thor: The Dark World exactly then it'll just edge a $90m OW. Not bad.

It's not so much because of who the actress is, it's more the film is meant to be starting principal photography in two months, the last thing DC needs with its current Director crisis is a fresh casting issue. Plus it would be embarrassing to lose a key cast member so soon after losing a director, and if they kicked her out for whatever reason (which I find unlikely) then that opens a whole can of worms.

Yeah, I reckon 2018 will be switched around so that Aquaman comes out in March, The Batman gets a July release date and Flash comes out in October.

This is something of a double-edged sword, on the one hand I think Famuyiwa is an overrated director who, alongside what is probably a bad script from a poor screenwriter, would've IMO made an average film at best. Now they can hopefully get a better director in! On the other hand this film only has about two months before principal photography starts, no director, what is likely a bad script and now it's a bit up in the air if Clemons is going to stay as Iris. Surely this film is going to have to be postponed? I imagine it'll be moved to Shazam's position? Or the 'Untitled' October 2018 slot?

I love most Ghibli films I've seen, though I've not seen quite a few I must admit. My favourite is Ponyo - though it's a close match really between that and a few others. Least favourite is The Cat Returns, it's not wholly bad, but it's definitely not on par with Ghibli's other movies.

Yeessssssssssssss! Excellent trailer, JLaw and Pratt look great together. Hopefully Tyldum has pulled this off in the final product. Also Michael Sheen was good and kind of creepy as the robot.

Steinfeld's a great actress, she deserves something good now, been too many years of meh since True Grit. Hopefully this will be good for her.