Jake Gittes

Lion King and Nemo only got over $900m after re-releases. And sure, let's push Shrek 2 $80m further when it's already finished, what's the big deal. Looking at Rango and The Lorax's numbers in the third weekend of March, if Zootopia's Friday is under $10m it likely won't reach $35m for the weekend. Still a great hold though.

I dunno, the movie is perfect but you know what could have made it even better? The mafia killing Brody's cat and Hooper and Ellen having an affair.

Hugo's only real competition would have been The Descendants, and that would have made for an even more forgettable BP winner. (Not that it's stopped them before). I think Scorsese would have at least won Director.

Billy Lynn Birth of a Nation The Girl on the Train La La Land The Lost City of Z Loving Manchester By The Sea The Promise Silence Story of Your Life

He's turning 74 this year. It's like they want to get him to keep making these movies until they kill him or something. For fuck's sake.

I wish this were just a two-hour hangout movie or something. Once that trailer took a turn for clichéd "you were born to..." dialogue and obligatory conflict with CGI monsters, I could feel my curiosity going away. Still it definitely looks better than Alice in Wonderland and Dark Shadows, and Eva Green is Eva Green, so there's promise. Might be a better X-Men movie than Apocalypse too.

For now The Thing, but In the Mouth of Madness sounds so much up my alley that it might go straight to #1 once I get around to it.

Yeah Zootopia's acclaim is closer to something like the first HTTYD, which no one would ever predict for a BP nom. Even with its thematic depth I think its shot at a nomination is pretty close to non-existent.

It's especially weird because the movie isn't too arty or slow or adult - sure, it's not a goofy team park ride filled with easy jokes, but it's not in any way more difficult than your average Pixar or Laika movie. I have no idea why Paramount or anyone else wouldn't give it some decent promotion and a wide release.

Yeah, that was pretty easily the most predictable category.

Probably the closest any period piece of recent years has come to matching the tone and character work of Mad Men, taking a story that could have been wildly melodramatic on screen and playing it subtly and without clichés and hysterics - but also with some expertly placed moments where the emotion breaks through, and it's all the more powerful because we'd seen the characters hold it back before. Mara's performance is in contention for the best of last year, and Blanchett's ethereal quality is perfect for the character who should be believably larger-than-life. I could go on, but in short I really loved this. If I had seen it in 2015, would have been my #2 of the year behind Fury Road.

This is dumb as hell.

You mean best.

He should have won for Barton Fink. And probably The Big Lebowski too.

Spectre's run is getting more hilarious each week. Okay, so now its PTA jumped about 600% compared to last Friday... great, except it also lost 3/4 of its theaters, so the actual Friday gross only rose by 80%. It'll still be $40-50k away from $200m after this weekend. Get your shit together Sony

It made as much in Russia in rubles as Django.

Still one of his best, maybe even top 5.

So weird that JJL's starring in this, even if she signed up for it before her big prestige comeback. I wonder if she simply sleepwalked through this or actually does something interesting.

David Ehrlich on Letterboxd: Granted, he likes pretty much everything, but it's still exciting.

If Damien Chazelle wasn't in the conversation before he surely needs to be now.

Amy Adams - Story of Your Life Emily Blunt - Girl on the Train Rebecca Hall - Christine Ruth Negga - Loving Emma Stone - La La Land

It also opened with just 40% of what Zoo made and didn't have a likely $150m+ opener waiting for it in its fourth week.

Just being cautious. It's possible to be a very well-received animated movie and not go above 3.5x.

Should be good for a 255-275 finish or thereabouts. (Lego's legs would give it 275, I'm wary of going higher than that now).

It would require a 3x to get to 345.5m, since the cume before the weekend was 294.8m. I think it might just miss 350m the way TDKR missed 450, but it's more likely that it crawls over it. There's no way it touches Passion of the Christ at this point though.