Jake Gittes

I mean, I don't wanna sound condescending or anything, and definitely didn't intend to cause Kitschface as a reaction I was thinking basically the same things you are just a few years ago. But the world of movies really is much bigger than I'd imagined, and that's awesome.

I see it's that time to say that y'all need to watch more movies.

Actually had a dream a couple nights ago in which I was dating Emma Stone from this movie. I definitely watched that last trailer a few too many times.

Saw on IMDb that Clive Owen, Ethan Hawke and Rutger Hauer are all in this, though only Owen has a character name. At least one of those three should get enough space to ham it up real good.

My first blind prediction would be something like 115-135m DOM (with an OW in the mid-30s and solid legs) and low 300s WW. If marketing is really striking and the film itself does justice to the original (certainly possible with this creative team) I could see it pulling a Fury Road - a low-to-mid-40s OW, up to 150 DOM, 350-400 WW. Of course there's an off chance that it could either explode or leave most of the GA uninterested, which immediately takes me back to the fact that we still don't really know shit. Unlike everyone up above, though, I am excited about the budget if it's true. I trust Villeneuve and Deakins too much to be suspicious about them working on that kind of scale.

Hold your horses. We have no idea what we're going to see here, what the story/hook will be, how strong the marketing will be, nothing.

Well at least this should bring the spectacle with that kind of money thrown at it.

Is it so VFX-driven that it would require more than a year and a half of post? If it finished shooting this summer I'd expect it to be out next summer or fall at the latest. Edit: I misread, you ARE talking about next year. Still I'd hate to see this get lost in between Fast 8 and GOTG 2, hope they pick a better date. Hell June 9 would work better, it's not like WWZ2 is gonna be there.

Just read Story of Your Life. Fairly head-spinning stuff. Very curious about how they've adapted a lot of things in it.

If this is on the level of the last two I guess it should finally outgross MI2. Ferguson's presence will help too.

It's undeniably alive, and every movie in the genre that seriously connects with the audience thrives. Of 17 live-action musicals that have received a wide release in the past 10 years (starting from Dreamgirls), six comfortably crossed $100m and nine got over $85m. That's not a bad track record at all.

There's been a hit musical every few years since Chicago. Dreamgirls, Hairspray, Mamma Mia, Les Mis, Into the Woods. Sure they're all brand names but the genre isn't in any way dead. And those are just live action musicals. People aren't rejecting movie characters breaking into song and dance numbers anymore. Also Birdman made 2/3 of its money before the nominations were even announced.

Oh Baumer.

Never heard of them but that actually makes it more interesting.

Shallow Grave, Trainspotting and 127 Hours are actually the only Boyles I really like. But almost everything he's done is interesting enough that I'm always curious about whatever he's doing next.

1 N Doctor Strange BV $85,058,311 - 3,882 - $21,911 $85,058,311 $165 1 2 N Trolls Fox $46,581,142 - 4,060 - $11,473 $46,581,142 $125 1 3 N Hacksaw Ridge LGF $15,190,758 - 2,886 - $5,264 $15,190,758 - 1 4 1 Boo! A Madea Halloween LGF $7,731,797 -55.1% 2,234 -65 $3,461 $64,921,852 $20 3 5 2 Inferno Sony $6,165,987 -58.5% 3,576 - $1,724 $25,973,917 $75 2 6 4 The Accountant WB $5,872,303 -30.8% 2,688 -714 $2,185 $70,780,497 $44 4 7 3 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Par. $5,453,273 -43.4% 3,079 -701 $1,771 $49,113,273 $60 3 8 5 Ouija: Origin of Evil Uni. $3,869,765 -45.6% 2,380 -788 $1,626 $31,259,015 $9 3 9 6 The Girl on the Train (2016) Uni. $2,690,575 -38.7% 1,572 -1,186 $1,712 $70,647,940 $45 5 10 7 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Fox $2,050,229 -49.7% 1,710 -1,087 $1,199 $83,284,618 $110 6 11 16 Moonlight (2016) A24 $1,235,275 +45.3% 83 +47 $14,883 $2,989,973 - 3 12 8 Keeping Up with the Joneses Fox $1,092,302 -67.8% 1,064 -1,958 $1,027 $13,307,538 - 3 13 9 Storks WB $1,000,558 -64.9% 1,155 -746 $866 $69,968,062 $70 7 14 10 Ae Dil Hai Mushkil FIP $785,376 -64.1% 296 -6 $2,653 $3,621,941 - 2 15 11 Deepwater Horizon LG/S $750,084 -64.2% 783 -1,271 $958 $59,919,222 $110 6 16 12 Kevin Hart: What Now? Uni. $581,805 -66.0% 453 -1,203 $1,284 $23,132,285 $9.9 4 17 15 Sully WB $526,321 -43.5% 454 -401 $1,159 $123,286,540 $60 9 18 13 The Magnificent Seven (2016) Sony $452,520 -66.2% 490 -840 $924 $92,238,549 $90 7 19 14 Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life LGF $405,382 -67.9% 485 -810 $836 $19,120,167 $8.5 5 20 20 A Man Called Ove MBox $368,405 +0.8% 167 +17 $2,206 $1,863,381 - 6 21 17 Denial BST $292,447 -53.2% 218 -369 $1,342 $3,582,304 - 6 22 26 The Secret Life of Pets Uni. $279,005 +25.0% 237 -8 $1,177 $366,815,775 $75 18 23 21 The Handmaiden Magn. $271,343 -17.4% 98 +22 $2,769 $899,581 - 3 24 18 The Birth of a Nation FoxS $260,116 -53.3% 197 -207 $1,320 $15,572,307 $8.5 5 25 24 Suicide Squad WB $246,363 -12.8% 245 -87 $1,006 $325,021,779 $175 14 26 28 Certain Women IFC $168,750 -9.6% 135 +43 $1,250 $724,750 - 4 27 N Loving Focus $159,615 - 4 - $39,904 $159,615 - 1 28 31 Finding Dory BV $153,774 +11.4% 160 -5 $961 $485,885,200 - 21 29 25 Queen of Katwe BV $144,759 -45.2% 172 -66 $842 $8,420,570 $15 7 30 22 Desierto STX $131,646 -57.4% 102 -66 $1,291 $1,828,933 - 4

I still haven't seen Eye in the Sky but I wonder if Helen Mirren could sneak up on everyone. She did get two SAG noms last year out of nowhere, one of them for a movie that came out in the spring. It's possible.

Yeah I think a Minions run could definitely happen here except with lower OW but better legs.

Denzel and Affleck are the only real contenders for the win.

Thor 2 is kind of a weird anomaly when it comes to recent Marvel IMs. Most of them fall in between 2.5x and 2.6x, with all kinds of legs afterwards. Like Thor 2 had a stronger IM than Cap 2, which also opened outside of summer, and we all saw how much better the latter did.

The month and a half before the epic Beauty and the Beast fudge would be glorious.

Spectre multiplier gives it 245. That's probably the ceiling, with 225 as the floor.

I'm not sure they give a damn. And it's already holding about as well as it can. DM2 made $423k in its 18th weekend and made over $3m after that, Pets should be able to add another $1.3m after a $280k weekend. If not around Thanksgiving then by mid-December.

It's told to you that this is a colorful musical romance about two young aspiring artists in L.A., it stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, and people who've seen it are absolutely crazy about it. What the hell else do you need to know?

DS is at 325m WW right now. It should add 140-150m from US alone. You think it'll struggle to make another 130m OS?