[Bet Thread. Please post all ongoing bets or completed bets in this thread.]

LOL, so this thread explains all the name and sig changes.

[Official IMAX OW Thread]

They need a new IMAX vs LIEMAX website. The one I go to is nice, but just a little out of date.

['Mission: Impossible' on track to win holiday B.O. / FRIDAY numbers]

edit: Sorry, someone mentioned these were predictions, so I, too, mis-read it.

[Wednesday 12/21/11 Numbers]

And Daniel Craig. 4 movies, none of them breakout and 3 were expected to be.

DC has got to be one of the driest actors in movie history next to Liam Neeson. Wonder why he is getting all these action roles.

[Wednesday 12/21/11 Numbers]

I think story of 2011 is downfall of animation.We still had sequel that made money DH2, TF3, H2 and BD1. All animation sequels flopped massively.

True. Movie studios would be wise to cater to the OS market as long as the economy in America stinks.

[Wednesday 12/21/11 Numbers]

I agree the Tintin advertising has been very small. Compared to the other two. Watching football the last two weeks there was nothing but MI and DT oh and Sherlock.

They knew it wasn't gonna do well in the states, so they didn't want to waste more money on advertising.

[Weekend Estimates: Sherlock Holmes 2 - 40M; Alvin 3 - 23.5M; Mission Impossible 4 - 13M]

Good Gawd, the Fox spin for Chipmunks is every bit as bad as the WB spin. They're pulling out a bullshit argument about how people are too busy shopping to go to the movies right now. They might want to explain how I Am Legend opened to $70+ million over the same weekend four years ago. Idiots.

To be fair, that was just before the economy went AWOL.I do agree, however, that interest has waned. The trailer should have been more about the menacing Moriarty (a la the Joker in TDK) instead of more of the same RDJ gags (*cough* IM2 *cough*).Imagine if the Joker took a backseat in TDK. It probably wouldn't have made half as much as it did!In any case, the studio execs can certainly hope for good holds during Christmas, so we'll wait and see.

[Friday Estimates: SH2 $15m, Alv $8m, MI4 $4m]

I wish I'd had the guts to make a club for Sherlock, it's opening is just what I thought it'd be given the good but not great reception of the first film and the extremely tired marketing.

You should have made a club, though it may have been locked considering how high all the predicts were.I remember making a Rise of the Apes club for >$200M DOM that got locked instantly, but it only missed by about 11% of what it needed.

[Friday Estimates: SH2 $15m, Alv $8m, MI4 $4m]

Anyways, if these predicts/projections hold true, it looks to be a very disappointing Winter.Hopefully, Christmas will help boost Alvin's & Sherlock's 2nd weekend and give it some strong legs, but usually sequels don't have very strong legs unless they're really, really good.

[Friday Estimates: SH2 $15m, Alv $8m, MI4 $4m]

Atmom?

yah, he lost me there, too. At Mice of Men? The Last Ravengers? Alvin & Lipmunks?????

[The Sony Pictures Thread | Happy 100th anniversary to Columbia Pictures!]

I noticed Sony is distributing most of Tintin's foreign markets instead of Paramount. Does that complicate things more??

[Who would u cast as a Batman Villian]

I always saw Paul Giamatti as The Penguin.And Joseph Gordon-Levitt or even Jason Statham as Robin, depending on how they want to use him.As for Batman? Hmm... no clue whatsoever. Ewan McGregor???