Jake Gittes
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To be fair Tangled had less than a 3x from its 5-day OW, and that excellent legs of its own and very little actual holiday competition, especially compared to what Moana is about to face. So with a $90m five-day it's entirely possible Moana tops out at 250. But it'll be safely ahead of FB no matter what. -
And Collateral Beauty will match The Pursuit of Happyness adjusted! Boom.
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Well maybe you should see the rest
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KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE | Sep 22, 2017 | Trailer on page 15
Jake Gittes replied to CJohn's topic in Box Office Discussion
Threatening my man Villeneuve? Not cool -
Alien: Covenant | 5/19/2017 | Who needs mystery?
Jake Gittes replied to Neo's topic in Box Office Discussion
Oh man you really should. Especially if you're a Gladiator fan. -
I think 2009 will remain the high watermark for a very long time. Up, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Mary and Max, The Secret of Kells, Coraline, Ponyo, Cloudy, and The Princess and the Frog - a huge variety of animation styles and all really good to fantastic movies. Don't think this year can go up against that at all.
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Alien: Covenant | 5/19/2017 | Who needs mystery?
Jake Gittes replied to Neo's topic in Box Office Discussion
Valerian would be smart to grab August 4. -
All these years later I still wish GDT would have stuck around for another six months and got to make his two-film adaptation (presumably with both films being not much longer than 2 hours). Especially since I don't care for Pacific Rim at all.
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This. It's all about his own enthusiasm. He was crazy about getting Kong made too, hell he wanted to do it even before LOTR in the mid-90s. The Hobbit was a totally different story.
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I only really enjoyed two scenes in the entire Hobbit trilogy, the dwarves' introduction/dinner and Riddles in the Dark. The rest was excruciating, and it got worse as it went along. ROTK and Kong were the ultimate Jackson blockbusters, he had nowhere further to go after them and should have stuck to smaller budgets and runtimes, even after The Lovely Bones was a disappointment. Right now I'm honestly wondering if The Hobbit left him so burned out he doesn't even know how to go back to normal again.
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I think it'll be somewhere close to There Will Be Blood, another long and challenging (for the GA) period piece with a lot of critical acclaim that came out in late December and expanded through January on its way to many Oscar nominations but few wins.
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I'm definitely predicting that with the assumption that it gets a lot of critical love and Oscar noms across the board. And it feels like the kind of film European audiences will embrace more readily than the Americans do.
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I imagine as long as it does $40-50m dom and $100m WW it won't be seen as bad all things considered.
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That giant worm slo-o-owly consuming Andy Serkis is forever burned into my brain. I physically can't bring myself to watch that shit again, and I'll watch just about any hard-R gorefest you'll throw at me. Also, seems pretty random today that Kyle Chandler of all people comes to their rescue. Back then dude was just another character actor.
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Silence has the scenery, La La Land has the elaborate show-offy long takes. I'm still going with LLL but they'll be close.
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Surely it wouldn't be the first nominee that uses pre-existing music alongside the original score. It's not like they're pretending Johannsson wrote it. It's not even his own special version of it or anything (a la In the Hall of the Mountain King in TSN, which went on to win). Should be fine.
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I don't think it'll make noticeably less money or anything but I always thought opening a movie on a Sunday is just perverse. Should have at least gone for the 23rd.
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Someone needs to update the release schedule in the thread title already. @Noctis?
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Seems they pushed back the wide release from December 16 to the 25th
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I love that film but I'm relieved we aren't looking to get a Judah Iscariot with a Brooklyn accent here.
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It's pretty much guaranteed to be his lowest grossing since Bringing Out the Dead. Looks fascinating though Garfield's return as dramatic actor has been reminding me more and more of Di Caprio lately. As in I couldn't entirely buy him either in this trailer or in Hacksaw Ridge, I can just see him trying too hard. Compare it to Driver right next to him, who in just few shots looks a lot more natural and, I dunno, comfortably in his character's skin.
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Honestly if it were up to me Pine and Bridges would both be nominated in Lead, and Foster and Birmingham would both be in Supporting. Boffies here we come.
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Hell or High Water and The Witch should be all over the main categories c'mon.
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Hey Spotlight just became the first movie to win BP and only one other Oscar since the 1950s, maybe Patriots' Day will be this century's Grand Hotel
