Jake Gittes

1) Will Fault in our Stars have a bigger Thursday than Edge of Tomorrow? Yes 2) Will Fault in our Stars open to number one? Yes 3) Will Fault in our Stars open to more than 35 million? Yes 4) Will Fault in our Stars open to less than 45 million? No 5) Will Edge of Tomorrow open to more than 25 million? Yes 6) Will Edge of Tomorrow open more than 80 million WW? Yes 7) Will Maleficent drop less than 50.5%? Yes 8) Will DOFP have a Friday increase of more than 70% Yes 9) Will DOFP drop by less than 45%? No 10) Will Godzilla increase by more than 45% on Saturday? Yes 11) Will Blended fall less than 40%? No 12) Will any film in the top 12 have a Saturday increase of more than 75%? No 13) Will Million Ways make more than Blended and Neighbors combined? No 14) Will Fault in our Stars have at least an A- cinemascore? Yes 15) Will Fault in our Stars open to more than 60 mill? (for all the loonies) No 12/15 3000 13/15 5000 14/15 7000 15/15 10,000 Bonus 1: What will be the combined gross of Fault and Edge? 5000 83.162m Bonus 2: What will Godzilla's drop be this weekend? 5000 42.26% Bonus 3: What will be the best Friday increase % wise? (not the film, but the actual number...so if you think Million Ways to die will have the best Friday increase, and you think it will increase 97.55%, your answer will simply be 97.55%, I don't need the movie) 5000 183% What finishes in spots: 1 Fault in Our Stars 2 Edge of Tomorrow 3 Maleficent 8 Blended 12 Belle 15 Heaven is for Real

It'd also be pretty distracting. This isn't Boardwalk Empire. Draper dying in the end seems far too obvious to me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2KKq4LxTP0

Think Like a Man Too

Not a fan of the happy ending at all, but for most of its runtime it's a smart and intense movie with one of the most interesting and fully realized visions of a near future in all sci-fi cinema. Spielberg's at the top of his game as an action director.

The Grand Budapest Hotel.

It's alright. Same hold as Up, but 5% worse than SWATH's Monday hold.

I've been told by a friend that because Top Film Distribution is a Kiev-based company, they are being refused distribution rights in Russia. Hence the delays. I don't know if it's true, but it sounds logical (and disgusting) enough for the environment we're currently in.

ED and Tele:

Has the TASM four-parter been scored yet?

11 right and 2 slots.

I don't think it's that hard to get at least 7k points here, which is more than you get for abstaining. Because we're dealing with percentages, the bigger the gross of the previous film, the better your chances. Take TF4. Let's say you predict it to finish with 85% of TF3 which would put the gross at 299.5m. This means you get 7k as long as the movie makes between 75% and 95% of TF3, aka between 264.3m and 334.7m. You really think you can't predict a 70 million range for TF4?

The Grand Seduction opened to $323,743 in 94 theaters, placing #17

Rich, fascinating and gorgeous-looking, but I didn't particularly connect with it emotionally save for a few moments. Riva does almost all of the heavy lifting while the main male character hardly left any impression on me. There were times when just the flow of images worked so beautifully that I felt distracted by the narration and almost wished it hadn't been there, even though it presents a lot of the themes in the film. Definitely a film to watch more than once. Not going to grade it yet, but it's an essential viewing for sure.

Or how they failed to award Ennio Morricone even while nominating him 4 times. He is this category's Stanley Kubrick / Peter O'Toole. I'll always stand up for TSN though. Reznor & Ross should have won a second one for TGWTDT, too.

I'm fine as long as Mal falls short of 193.

It's 7 AM here and I've slept for two hours and I feel like I'm gonna either abstain or go for all 6.

Yeah The Lego Movie is easily more of a BO story than The Other Woman, and God's Not Dead is more of a story than Heaven Is for Real.

Two things to consider: the original X-Men had a noticeably worse 57% drop, and X2 was at the time the fourth biggest opener in history. The 53% drop might look bad compared to Spider-Man's 37% hold a year earlier, but that film was a phenomenon that X2 could never have been.

I said this before, but X2's legs got destroyed by Matrix Reloaded. Its 53% second weekend drop wasn't bad at all.

Maleficent has toxic WOM? Doesn't seem like it. I feel like it should clear 180 at least.

I'm afraid that from now on, every time I see DeHaan in a movie, I'll want to punch him in the face. And I actually liked the guy in every film I saw him in. (No, TASM2 is not among those)

Well shit. That is gonna be a big OW.

Der Siebente Kontinent - excellent Amour - good The White Ribbon, Benny's Video - insufferable