Jake Gittes

How to Train Your Dragon was the most impressive to me, followed by TF3, Hugo, Avatar and Dredd.

I don't think Spielberg is fighting for anything at this point. 93% on RT for Lincoln? He's in.

Zodiac

Even two years ago I would somewhat agree, but apparently that's not true anymore? She looks full-bodied enough in those set pics.

After Ratcatcher and We Need to Talk About Kevin, I'll watch anything Lynne Ramsay makes. And if it's a western with Portman and Fassbender, I'll also call it hands-down one of my most anticipated films of the near future.

The Godfather - A strong story very well written, directed and acted, but The Godfather Part II one-ups its predecessor on practically every level. Scope, acting, subtlety, dialogue, dramatic power, cinematography, you name it.The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - I wasn't invested emotionally in 2 of the 3 main characters, which made it much harder to care about the outcome of the final duel. I also couldn't stand plot contrivances which enabled Eastwood's character magically escape death in the last possible moment... at least twice. A very good film overall, but Once Upon a Time in the West is Leone's masterwork.The Dark Knight - Nolan's direction makes it a gripping, powerful, atmospheric and unrelenting thriller for the entirety of its running time, but after a few viewings, the numerous story issues are impossible to ignore.All the others deserve it IMO.

1. Pulp Fiction2. Chinatown3. Once Upon a Time in the West4. Apocalypse Now5. Lawrence of Arabia6. Goodfellas7. The Godfather: Part II8. Five Easy Pieces9. Heat10. Memento

Wasn't the OW $8.3m? I'm not sure how it could have dropped 47% to over $5m from that. In any case, hopefully the cume is correct because it's going to at least outgross QoS and cross $20m now.

I'll side with Baumer here. For $1b WW Skyfall would need to blow past $700m OS which no 2D film has done since ROTK. That includes every single pre-DH2 Harry Potter film, TDKR, DMC and AWE. Until I see it, I won't believe it for a second. Not that I won't be busy being happy with $800m it's guaranteed to make now.

Exhibitor Relations ‏@ERCboxoffice SKYFALL debuts: GERMANY - $23.9M, ITALY - $7.9M, SPAIN - $6.7M, SWITZ - $5.3M, INDIA - $5.1M, HOLLAND - $4.4M, AUSTRIA - $3.4M

Good thing I didn't have a drink in my mouth the moment I read that.This thing is fucking monstrous.

Gitesh Pandya ‏@giteshpandya #Flight opens w/ stellar $25M from only 1884 thtrs for huge $13k avg. Will be another $100M+ hit for bankable #Denzel.

It needs to be noted that the only big animated non-Christmas-themed film that ever opened November with more than $20m and achieved 4x multi is Monsters Inc. back in 2001. The Incredibles, Chicken Little, Bee Movie, Madagascar 2 and Megamind all couldn't get past 3.75, which makes me think Ralph won't as well. The drops in the weekends before and after Thanksgiving are just too hard.

I'm thinking 170-185m final range for WIR.

Exhibitor Relations ‏@ERCboxoffice It's on like Donkey Kong! Disney's WRECK-IT RALPH is #1 w/ $49.1M.

Exhibitor Relations ‏@ERCboxoffice WB's ARGO had the best hold in the Top 10, easing just 15% w/ $10.2M. Total is now $75M.

Exhibitor Relations ‏@ERCboxoffice RZA's THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS booted up $8.2M in its 4th place debut. Expand [*] Reply [*] Retweet [*] Favorite

Turned 19 in late September.

First started checking out the weekend gross numbers at ComingSoon sometime in early 2005 (a month or two before ROTS opened). I was 11 back then. Around the same time I came across the box-office section at IMDb.I discovered BOM in late June 2006 and the combination of getting to know so much about so many movies' box office and DMC opening and smashing all opening records hooked me completely at that moment. Pretty soon there was no way back.

It would have been, at the very least, a 35/110 movie if it had opened in 2900-3100 theaters... might have even got into Safe House / American Gangster territory.

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Argo has the Skyfall weekend and the pre-Thanksgiving weekend as its 5th and 6th weekends, whereas The Town had three weeks of total October desolation to itself after its fourth weekend. I believe Argo will be lucky to have sub-30% drops in the next two weekends (which would be great because most holdovers will fall much harder), and won't reach $100m until Thanksgiving weekend. Then there's the black Friday weekend, meaning a 40% drop at the very least for pretty much any movie. The way I see it, $100m is locked for Argo, $110m is likely, and there's an outside chance at $120m.And I have no idea where you pulled that $40m OW in 3700 theaters from. Regardless of PTA, Flight's OW is still $24m, and any movie that wants to make $100m off a $24m OW has to work long and hard to do it. There's still no guarantee Paramount will expand it enough to substantially affect its legs. I would agree about $100m being locked if Flight made $24m in 800 theaters a la Borat, but it's far from the same situation.

I really wouldn't throw those words together with those numbers around if I were you. Flight isn't locked for anything more than $75m right now and Argo has ways to go before reaching even $100m yet. We'll see what Skyfall and the pre-Thanksgiving weekend have to say about both of them.

Even if it doesn't expand further and follows, say, American Gangster's multiplier, it'll still do $70m at the very least.

What I got out of that theater count was that Paramount wasn't sure if there'd be a demand. To put it more bluntly, I thought they were ready to dump it - just like WB dumped Cloud Atlas. I highly doubt Flight's PTA would have been worse in 2500 theaters, so why didn't Paramount go for that?