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Yeah, it's Zhang Yimou, even his less accomplished movies are usually an engrossing spectacle, one I want to see on a big screen. It can't be much worse than your average dumb blockbuster really.

Indeed. It grossed 50m OS on opening weekend, which is nearly as much as it will gross during its entire DOM run. And that's without China and Korea, where it opens in a couple weeks. This will make a healthy amount money given the budget. Sequel is safe, imho.

You mean, officially? It's a US-Spain co-production. I'm not sure of the percentages, but they should be published at some point by the Spanish Culture Ministry. Fast and Furious 6 was also a US-Spain co-production though! But as opposed to that one, A Monster Calls has a majority of behind-the-camera talent from Spain. It's a real co-production, not a legal trick to qualify for government tax breaks.

Watched it this weekend and I loved it. Very challenging and emotional, it's the kind of film that bugs you long after watching it. One of my favorites for the year. I totally get why this had no chance of catching with the GA; it's long, slow-paced, has an unattractive subject matter... but above all there's nothing "pleasing" it this film - outside of beautiful shots and camerawork -, it's a harrowing story, and unlike "Unbroken" there's absolutely nothing "feel good" about it. But I'm glad this movie exists. Marty is a treasure. That said, my Sunday afternoon show was sold out (in the third weekend of release), and this is doing quite well at the Spanish BO for a film of this nature. OS should soften the blow a bit, but I can't find any data. BOM has nothing.

Caught up with most Oscar hopefuls these weeks, although some crucial ones (Moonlight, Lion, Manchester by the Sea) remain unreleased in Spain and I suspect they would have made my ballot otherwise. But since I really want to take part in this I will submit a ballot: BEST PICTURE Silence Hell or High Water The Handmaiden Toni Erdmann La La Land Elle Arrival Hacksaw Ridge The Lobster The Wailing BEST ENSEMBLE Captain Fantastic Hell or High Water The Handmaiden Nocturnal Animals Silence BEST DIRECTOR Martin Scorsese, Silence Denis Villeneuve, Arrival Park Chan-wook, The Handmaiden Yorgos Lanthimos, The Lobster Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge BEST ACTOR Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic Ryan Gosling, La La Land Peter Simonischek, Toni Erdmann Denzel Washington, Fences Joel Edgerton, Loving BEST ACTRESS Isabelle Huppert, Elle Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins Emma Stone, La La Land Kim Tae-ri, The Handmaiden Amy Adams, Arrival SUPPORTING ACTOR Issey Ogata, Silence Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water Patrick Stewart, The Green Room John Goodman, 10 Cloverfield Lane Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nocturnal Animals SUPPORTING ACTRESS Viola Davis, Fences Felicity Jones, A Monster Calls Helen Mirren, Eye in the Sky Rachel Weisz, The Lobster Laura Linney, Nocturnal Animals BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Hell or High Water Toni Erdmann The Lobster American Honey Captain Fantastic BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Silence Elle The Handmaiden A Monster Calls Loving BEST VOICE / MOTION CAPTURE PERFORMANCE Idris Elba, Jungle Book Liam Neesson, A Monster Calls Charlize Theron, Kubo and the Two Strings Ginnifer Goodwin, Zootopia Rooney Mara, Kubo and the Two Strings BEST FILM EDITING Arrival Hacksaw Ridge Sully Rogue One: A Star Wars Story The Handmaiden BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Arrival The Handmaiden Silence Hell or High Water The Neon Demon BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN Silence A Monster Calls Arrival La La Land Hail, Caesar! BEST COSTUME DESIGN Florence Foster Jenkins The Dressmaker Hail, Caesar! Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them La La Land BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Star Trek Beyond Suicide Squad Florence Foster Jenkins The Dressmaker BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Arrival The BFG La La Land The Handmaiden Kubo and the Two Strings BEST ORIGINAL SONG Fools Who Dream, La La Land The Great Beyond, Sausage Party City of Stars, La La Land Drive It Like You Stole It, Sing Street Mona Lisa, Popstar BEST SOUNDTRACK Everybody Wants Some! Deadpool The Nice Guys Trolls Star Trek Beyond BEST SOUND Arrival Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Hacksaw Ridge Star Trek Beyond Sully BEST VISUAL EFFECTS Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Doctor Strange The Jungle Book Star Trek Beyond Captain America: Civil War BEST ANIMATED FEATURE Kubo and the Two Strings The Little Prince Zootopia BEST COMEDY FEATURE Deadpool The Lobster Zootopia Elle Everybody Wants Some! BEST HORROR FEATURE 10 Cloverfield Lane The Witch BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE Toni Erdmann The Handmaiden The Wailing Elle The Distinguished Citizen BEST OVERLOOKED FEATURE (Grossed under $15m domestic) The Handmaiden The Lobster Elle Silence Toni Erdmann BEST HERO Deadpool, Deadpool Sook-hee, The Handmaiden Judy Hoops, Zootopia Kubo, Kubo and the Two Strings Desmond Doss, Hacksaw Ridge BEST VILLAIN Baron Zemo, Captain America: Civil War Shere Khan, The Jungle Book The Sisters, Kubo and the Two Strings Howard, 10 Cloverfield Lane Sinoue-Sama, Silence WORST PICTURE Suicide Squad Batman vs Superman Gods of Egypt Zoolander 2 Sing MOST IMPRESSIVE BOX OFFICE RUN Deadpool Zootopia The Jungle Book Bad Moms La La Land MOST DISAPPOINTING BOX OFFICE RUN Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice A Monster Calls Magnificent Seven The BFG Kubo and the Two Strings BEST TV SERIES - DRAMA Westworld American Crime Story The Americans The Night Of The Crown BEST TV SERIES - COMEDY Atlanta Bojack Horseman Veep You're the Worst

Plus they lack the technology to face up against people armed with baseball bats. Yeah, Signs has great tension but it's really stupid. Big fan of Sixth Sense though.

Both xXx's were also greenlit on the back of successful Fast and Furious films. Hollywood reuses plotlines both on and off the screen!

While home video indeed has costs, otoh TV/streaming rights remain surprisingly profitable - the costs there are practically zero. 85m is actually a very reasonable play for a film that should have a good run OS, which in turn paves the way for decent home and video sales in those markets. I think the film indeed barely breaks even at 200m - which already is far from flopping - and I think it will go a bit above that, which should ensure a modest profit. 50 DOM + The Last Witch Hunter OS already puts the film at 200m, and xXx3 should have more appeal to OS F&F fans than The Last Witch Hunter had.

200 WW against a 85m budget means that the film very likely turns out a small profit when it's all said and done, so certainly not a flop. Given the crazy DOM/OS split that The Last Witch Hunter had (that thing grossed 120m OS) it wouldn't surprise me at all if this goes near 250M either. In fact that's what I'm expecting.

OTOH, on-set deaths by people other than stuntmen have always drawn great outcry. Like that camerawoman on the Greg Allman biopic that was rolled over by a train because some idiot cut corners and didn't secure proper permits for the production. The movie was shut down and people ended up in jail. At the end of the day, a stuntman is a professional that has chosen to do dangerous things for a living, and understands the situation he's in. Animals don't get to chose, nor understand what they are getting into, besides the fact that doing X will please their owners. That doesn't mean that the slow drip of stuntmen deaths is an ok state of affairs - far from it - but people will naturally feel more angry for the death of somebody that was put in danger unwittingly versus somebody that was aware of the risks and decided to go for it.

Isn't his theater in Canada? Different rules might apply. This kind of deal is illegal over here for example.

Don't think it, don't see it.

It's getting 800 more theatres this weekend. I suppose some have started running it Thursday evening.

Is La La Land expanding this weekend? Otherwise HF should benefit from MLK and carry the 4-day. Selma jumped +22% in 2015 during MLK weekend. HF is not as topical as Selma was, but I can see a very good performance from it.

These 40%+ Tuesday jumps are becoming less and less an anomaly. I wonder what's the ceiling for Discount Tuesday? Here in Spain the discount day has always been on Wednesdays, with a 40-50% discounted price in most places. It's been like that since forever, so audiences are very accustomed to it. In consequence, it has become a huge moviegoing day. Nowadays, more tickets are sold on Wednesdays in Spain than on Friday or Sunday (note, that doesn't mean more gross, weekends still are more profitable), only Saturday is a bigger moviegoing day. Given how big Discount Tuesdays are becoming in the US, I wonder if you'll end up approaching this kind of scenario in the future.

Yeah, Sing and HF had estimated some pretty steep Sunday dropoffs. It has been a bit of a meh weekend for all films. R1 and Sing crashed, LLL did just "okay", and I thought that HF would debut higher than that. But the best takeaway is that Sing will now get the record for highest grossing film to never be #1. I love when records get broken.

Let's see if we can clear this up... I pasted the international totals from BOM on Excel and I get 42 million something including all the markets reporting on 1/1/17. So the overall total's date is mislabeled. There's still some large markets left to open (Spain, UK, France, Italy, Japan...), but I don't think this gets much past 60m - and it might struggle to get there.

"Figures show auds don't hide from Fox's new hit" Hire me, Variety.

It was massive in Spain and the highest grossing film of the year, but that was obviously expected. Bayona's films are extremely popular over here. 90% of his current gross is from the domestic market, since it hasn't opened in any major market outside Spain (just minor European markets). That said, it has bombed in all of those, surprisingly. I suspect some very bad marketing/distribution is at play, since it's a movie that should travel reasonably well, this is not a local product with local actors that's bound to be rejected by international audiences. It's a massive CGI fantasy drama with Felicity Jones, Sigourney Weaver, and Liam Neeson. I liked it a lot, myself. A pity it's getting lost in the shuffle since people are missing out on a great movie.

That's a pretty nice international number! Glad to see R1's OS business starting to pick up. Are some overseas markets still on holidays? I know a lot of people here in Spain have off until January 8, and all schools are still out.

I can't see how it doesn't hit #1 though. Rogue One will fall harder and competition from new releases looks really weak. It has a good chance to win the first two weekends of January. Hidden Figures will do well, but I can't see it opening that big. The rest, meh. What's the current holder anyhow? My Big Fat Greek Wedding, I presume?

A bit of a pattern, isn't it? Christmas weekend hold wasn't too hot either, even accounting for Christmas' eve falling on Saturday, and then it posted that huge 32m on Boxing day Monday. Seems a lot of business got shifted to Monday in these two weekends.

It's not a terribly bad film, to be frank, although certainly straight to video fare. It has a pretty decent twist to its premise, but the ending is meh.

Do I win the thread? Pet Domestic Total as of Oct. 6, 2016: $70 Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Release Date: September 30, 2016 Genre: Thriller Runtime: 1 hrs. 34 min. MPAA Rating: R Production Budget: N/A Although I saw it at a Spanish film fest, so I didn't contribute to that gross.

It's a film based around animals covering American pop songs. I'm not surprised at all.