Jake Gittes
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The Sessions is adapted, too.
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Hitchcock's adapted, yeah.
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I'd agree if there was any competition. But besides Moonrise, Master, Django, Amour, ZDT, Promised Land and Looper I can't come up with any potential nominees. All right, The Impossible maybe. That's still 8 movies for 5 noms. Moonrise definitely seems like the one to beat for a nomination to me, it's one of the most acclaimed films of the year and Anderson has already been nominated in the category before. Tarantino, likewise, has been very successful in the category before and the Django script was acclaimed by pretty much everyone - unless the changes he's been forced to make to the story during production are disastrous, he's getting his third nomination.
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Looking at Inception and District 9 (adapted, but it doesn't matter), I think it's definitely possible. The field isn't that strong, and the film has definitely made itself visible. I think The Master, Django and Moonrise are almost locked, and then you've got Promised Land, Amour and Looper for the other two spots (plus maybe ZDT, but I'm not a believer yet). I'd say Looper has a good chance to get in.I haven't seen it yet, but do you guys think Looper has any chance of snagging an Original Screenplay nomination?
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Doesn't matter to me as long as he continues to deliver good work and his movies aren't flops. Same goes for Hardy, Fassbender, Gosling, Garfield, etc. Sure it'd be great if they managed to make it as movie stars as well, but if audiences don't like them well enough for that, it's the audiences' loss. And Looper only took a hit this weekend because of Argo going for the same adult audience. It might easily rebound yet and reach $65-70m.
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I chose alive human psychopath, ghost and beast/demon/devil. Was thinking of possessing spirit too, but that'd be too much, plus I like ghosts and demons better.Definitely not zombies, children or mutants. Doesn't mean the films with them are bad, they just don't make for compelling villains 99% of the time.
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If it's someone we already know well, than easily either Fassbender or Tom Hardy. But plenty of other options might come up by the time it's 2017, since that's the earliest the producers will need to look for the next Bond.
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I think Bardem, Ledger and Waltz have played the three definitive, iconic post-2000 villains that there are so far. Gotta love how each of them did it one year after the other and all three took very much deserved BSA Oscars.And yeah, Perks is just another Hurt Locker / Ghost Writer for Summit. It won't even do $20m, now that's a fuck-up by a distributor if I ever saw one.
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Leave it to Summit to take a perfectly crowd-pleasing and relatable PG-13 teen comedy/drama and turn it into another Hurt Locker / Ghost Writer / Into the Wild box-office wise.
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Yeah, I love Fargo too.
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That's atrocious for Seven Psychopaths.
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It's not going to make $50m post ceremony having been released in October. The Departed, a BP winner, only managed $10m post-nominations. And 5+ miltiplier is never, ever a lock for widely-appealing fall dramas no matter how much the audiences loved them. The Social Network, The Town, Moneyball never came close to that. Even The Departed, with its incredible legs, fell short in the end. A 4+ multiplier is very likely for Argo, but at this point, that's it.A+ CS indicates at least 5+ multiplier for Argo kind of movie.Given its Oscar winnings, it can make another 50M or so post Academy ceremony.
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There's only one minor thing I didn't like about Angel Heart - the glowing eyes thing, which was more silly than scary. As a whole, though, it's a fantastic mix of a supernatural thriller and a noir mystery (set in New Orleans in 1955 no less). Rourke is pitch perfect in it and De Niro's performance is one of the creepiest (yet very subtle) I've ever seen. I listen to the soundtrack constantly, too. An excellent, very underseen and underappreciated movie.
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The Shining is my favourite and it will almost certainly remain that way. IOtherwise I don't think I've seen enough horror films to put together an adequate Top 10 (I haven't seen Suspiria, Halloween and The Haunting, for example), but The Exorcist, The Blair Witch Project, Jaws, Angel Heart, The Woman in Black (1989), Dead of Night and the first Paranormal Activity are all definitely some of the best horrors/thrillers I've seen.
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I'm sticking with Phoenix for now, that is until Jackman's work hasn't yet been seen and Day-Lewis won his second Best Actor Oscar just five years ago.
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The home movies themselves were the best and the scariest part. "The Family Barbeque" was unsettling as all hell.Otherwise Hawke is good in a bit of an unconventional main role (his character behaves like a careless asshole more than once, but you still want to see him get out of the predicament he's in), the atmosphere is good as well. The thing I didn't like the most was definitely the way the characters NEVER turned on the light when walking around the dark, obviously creepy house - it became ridiculous pretty quickly and really had me looking forward to any daylight scenes. The jump scares are there and vary from effective (the girl's face appearing alongside Hawke's) to completely unneeded (the very final one). Another thing I didn't like was how the secondary characters (the deputy, the sheriff, the professor) were set up and then left with no payoff in the end... made them all a bit of a luggage. On the other hand, I really liked the ending in a sense that the main character ultimately died in just as hopeless fashion as all the other victims. Not only didn't he get to fight the demon or get safely away from him, he never even had a single chance against him, and it didn't matter that he was the protagonist of this particular movie. And that's how it should be.
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I'll go with Les Miserables, Argo, Silver Linings Playbook, The Master, Life of Pi and Lincoln as locks / near-locks for now. Other possibilities are The Hobbit if it's good enough to fill the blockbuster void, Django if it's an IB-like certain success, Amour if the academy loves it and doesn't get turned off by the unfliching harshness of the material, Flight if it fulfills its promise as Zemeckis' live-action comeback, Moonrise Kingdom as the summer indie hit which will remain one of the most critically acclaimed of the year no matter what, and The Sessions as a script and performance-driven, small but strong all-around The Kids Are All Right sort of film. At this point I'd be really surprised if some other movie I haven't mentioned here ultimately got in, unless ZDT and Promised Land are surprisingly great. So that should mean a minimum of 6 BP nominees with a very potentially hard choice of directors (I think Hooper, Affleck, Russell, PTA, Spielberg and Lee all have similarly strong chances right now, and what if QT and/or Haneke manage to muscle in as well?)
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WB is going to get TDKR to $450m, no doubt about it.
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Argo could easily challenge Taken 2 next weekend if it goes for Contagion/TSN/Town like opening. All it's going to need is a $7k PTA.
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Agreed, it has everything to be a crowd-pleaser. Maybe Summit wanted it to build WOM a la Juno, but Perks' PTA took a much worse dip in its second weekend.I still don't understand why it wasn't a wide release from the get-go, the material is not obscure and it has star appeal. I hope WOM will keep it afloat. Maybe Summit is hoping for some awards buzz? I would love that but realistically speaking, it's really a long shot but who knows, right?
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Perks needs to go wide ASAP. This is a pretty good PTA hold from last week, but it can't afford to stay in several hundred theaters if it wants to make any real money. The problem is too much competition - the four movies opening wide on the 12th all go after certain audiences, and Pitch Perfect isn't making things any easier. I think Summit should have just opened it wide on Sept 7 or Sept 14, I see no reason why it wouldn't have made over $10m on OW and finished with $35m at the very least. The momentum is getting lost.
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You aren't comparing Stallone and Neeson there, you are comparing the whole cast of Expendables and Neeson. If Bullet to the Head outgrosses Unknown or at least The Grey domestically and/or WW, you'll have an argument.Expendables 2 $300m+Expendables $274mTaken $226mRocky Balboa $155mUnknown $130mThe Grey $77mThere's no way Neeson is more popular.
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How so? It might not even land in the top 3 for the month.18.6M OD
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Frankenweenie won't be facing any direct competition until Wreck-It Ralph, so I think it'll still make its budget back comfortably in the US and maybe even approach $50m.
October record is going down for sure now.
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I'll provide some of the much-needed Big Trouble in Little China love.