Jake Gittes

Jackie doesn't even have a distributor yet.

Bourne overtook X-Men, Ghostbusters overtook Tarzan, and Bad Moms overtook IDR literally on the last day of the game. Add SS getting to $300m in the last minute and we got some amazingly close calls this year.

$300,104,337.

Polytechnique is another very good Villeneuve. Centers on a school shooting but isn't at all exploitative, which is an achievement in itself.

Even though there's only about 15 minutes of it, Scott Walker's score for The Childhood of a Leader might be my favorite this year. Magnificently dark and oppressive. The man should work in movies more.

I suspect Affleck will win the most critics' awards but lose the Oscar. Still it's gonna be between him and Denzel.

If it manages $3m next weekend it'll probably be able to crawl there. Plus they can always fudge it with Mag7.

Hell or High Water is a possibility I'd say.

A24's big contender seems to be Moonlight, then maybe How to Talk to Girls at Parties unless that gets delayed till next year. I'm hoping they give at least some push to The Lobster (so far it looks like it can dark horse its way into Screenplay, but nowhere else) and The Witch (this is much more of a pipe dream, but ideally the dialogue alone would give it a Screenplay nom, and if not that, how about Production & Costume Design at least?)

All three of them could be BOT emojis.

1. The Witch: A New-England Folktale 2. Hell or High Water 3. Zootopia 4. The BFG 5. Everybody Wants Some!! 6. The Lobster 7. Microbe and Gasoline 8. Don't Breathe 9. Midnight Special 10. The Nice Guys

It's pretty great.

GOTG killed the previous August record by 35% as well, didn't seem to have any negative impact on its legs.

Spring Breakers is awesome. One of the few halfway idiosyncratic & unexpected choices there.

The summer also had The Darkness.

They'll probably do both if they like the movie enough.

Our local distributor recently slated it for January 12.

Maybe there's hope for Kubo after all

It's more or less exactly the list you'd expect after polling a couple hundred of today's international film critics. Both for better and for worse. Can't bring myself to have any strong feelings about it.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/charlie-hunnam-drama-lost-city-924979?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=THR+Breaking+News_now_2016-09-01+13%3A15%3A39_ehayden&utm_term=hollywoodreporter_breakingnews

1. Will Light between oceans Open to more than $7M? No 2. Will Light Between Oceans Open to more than $9M? 2000 No 3. Will Morgan make more than $5M? Yes 4. Will Morgan make more than $7M? No 5. Will Don't Breathe make more than $11m? Yes 6. Will Don't Breathe make more than $13m? Yes 7. Will the top three films combine to more than $25m? 3000 Yes 8. Will Suicide Squad stay in the top 3? 2000 Yes 9. Will Sausage Party fall more than 40%? 3000 No 10. Will Yoga Hosers have a PTA above $3,000? No 11. Will Klown forever have a PTA above $1,500? Yes 12. Will Mechanic stay above War Dogs? No 13. Will Bad mom's cross $100M on or before Saturday? Yes 14. Will Hell or High water stay in the top 12? No 15. Will SLOP have a higher percentage drop than Kubo? 2000 No 16. Will Jason Bourne have a higher PTA than Pete's Dragon? No 17. Will Lights Out drop more than 60%? 3000 No 18. Will Under the Sea 3D cross $35,090,000? Yes 19. Will Jungle Book ever stop being in American cinemas? Yes 20. Was it confusing for the fake out bonus questions to be in 19th place and not here? No 14/20 - 2000 15/20 - 3000 16/20 - 5000 17/20 - 7000 18/20 - 9000 19/20 - 12000 20/20 - 15000 Part 2 1. Yoga Hosers' OW be? 5000 It won't be reported 2. What Hands of Stone's PTA be? 5000 $1,243 3. What film will make closest to $2,000,000 this weekend? 5000 Southside with You Part 3 2. Suicide Squad 4. Kubo and the Two Strings 7. Bad Moms 9. The Secret Life of Pets 12. Jason Bourne 15. No Manches Frida

STB only losing 75 theaters this weekend @MrPink