Celedhring
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Us has one of the better scripts (as in, purely from a craftmanship aspect, not going into whether the story itself is compelling or not) I have ever seen in a horror movie. The way it sets things up and reuses them later, hides details, etc... is amazing. I really want to watch it again because I feel there's barely a wasted moment. Even what feels like throwaway stuff becomes key later on.
I'm in love with it. Happy that it's making so much money, we need more successful original films.
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I can confirm that Disney Spain seems very confident in this. They have spent more on localisation and marketing than they usually do for their family releases (which is usually very little, Illumination otoh spends loads).
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7 minutes ago, BK007 said:
Pretty sad that Dragon 3 isn't going to get anywhere close to 2 after that opening.
Captain Marvel really hurt it last weekend and the recovery now is irrelevant.
I'm gonna post this in the Dragon thread too, but it's such a shame that though the first was beloved, it never translated to box office success for the sequels. How does Despicable Me or Hotel Transylvania keep more/increase their audience whilst this just dropped and dropped?
I'm glad that the trilogy got made, but still sad at how it was relatively unrewarded. Hell, Boss Baby will make more than it. Boss freaking Baby. How did that get better legs?
From a "where do I take my children this weekend" point of view, all those films you cite are probably more enjoyable to them - they have more jokes, rather simple plots, more slapstick. You need Pixar levels of reception/reputation to pull off incredible legs with more sophisticated animated movies like HTTYD.
Nonetheless, all the movies in the saga still made good money. They hardly failed.
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1 hour ago, TalismanRing said:
The first 10 minutes were great and then.... meh
And it still was the best theatrical Batman since the DCU got started. Which is... quite sad.
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8 minutes ago, terrestrial said:
A lot do say so, Deadline too per that article indirectly - as in after he does...
IMDb
See also news about SS
https://deadline.com/2019/02/suicide-squad-2-will-smith-not-returning-1202566772/
That's a pity, Will Smith was one of the few vaguely likeable human presences in that movie.
Anyway, really happy to see Gunn reinstated.
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18 minutes ago, EarlyDeadlinePredictions said:
https://deadline.com/2019/03/captain-marvel-monday-box-office-record-1202574177/
After a dry winter, it’s nice to see a double-digit-grossing weekday, which is exactly what Disney’s Captain Marvel did yesterday grossing an estimated $11M+ in early morning reports.
What was the last movie to draw double digits during a non-holiday weekday ? (so I'm not counting Aquaman) I'm seeing The Grinch on Monday Nov 12, but that was a -53% drop so I'm assuming there was holiday of some kind?
Otherwise I have to go all the way back to JW:FK on July 3rd, unless I'm missing another movie.
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Funniest thing, my CM screening had the trailer to Aladdin, except that it was recut without the Genie bit at the end. I guess Disney Spain wants to hide it for as long as possible.
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11 minutes ago, john2000 said:
very good from captain marvel i bet that noone expected this
They really exploited the IWD connection (and IWD is really big over here) in the Spanish release. Female driven movies tend to do very well in Spain - better than CBM's in fact, relative to their US BO -, so CM can have a great run if they managed to appeal to women.
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Does that count as a spoiler? Just praising his performance. And I don't think the fact he plays that character is a spoiler either.
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2 minutes ago, YourMother the Edgelord said:
Again this is pretty good for Captain Marvel, it should open anywhere from $140M-$170M depending on how frontloaded it is. Either way hopefully it leads to more diversity in blockbusters.
I’ll be seeing it tomorrow with friends, pretty excited and as long as I gets me some cute kitty screentime and Mendelskrull delivering, I’ll be happy. A Detective Pikachu trailer in front would be the cherry on top.
Mendelskrull is one of the best parts of the movie. Can't get enough of him, really.
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Having Iranians in a movie set in the Islamic Golden Age is pretty realistic, to be frank. For starters, the main characters of the overarching One Thousand an One Nights tale (Scherezade and the King) are Iranians.
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18 minutes ago, Macleod said:
"When I see Jafar, I think Sean Penn...he's got the eyes of a killer!"-- Jon Peters
(Hey, how about Russell Crowe for Jafar...or even Antonio Bandaras?? *Someone*?)
Don't tell me they care about Arab accuracy when they cast Will Smith, and previously...Robin Williams...which is the toughest hurdle to get over, of course...even for Will Smith.
Genies are fantasy creatures, so they have more leeway with them race-wise.
I'm personally happy they didn't pull a Gods of Egypt with this. I agree the leads seem miscast though, hopefully it's just a badly cut trailer. That said, we're just two months away and they should have better material available than this...
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This would've been much better as a sequel to "Hot Pursuit", with Liam Neeson pairing Resee Witherspoon's character.
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18 hours ago, Wrath said:
As one of the very few people to see Replicas, I’d like to say it got what it deserved.
My mistake was having a few drinks before hand in hopes of appreciating some really epic camp and cult-film worthy badness and it failed to deliver on those grounds as well as conventionally.
Which was a shame. The robot and the sidekick knew exactly what was up and tried their best, but they weren’t able to get the ball over the goalline.
Yeah, sadly Replicas looks like a failed Johnny Mnemonic. I never thought this concept was possible.
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1 hour ago, Brainbug said:
That PTA for Dragon Ball...
3 N Dragon Ball Super: Broly FUN $10,657,442 - 467 - $22,821 $21,077,471 - 1 Funimation definitely left money on the table by cutting so many theaters after the opening.
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Still surprises me that Dragon Ball still continues to be so popular up to this day. I remember watching the first series when I was 10 y/o (and it was huge over here, pretty much the cartoon of my generation) but that was... let's say a while ago!
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1 hour ago, La Binoche said:
Comparing B&W art films, COLD WAR is much better than the unwatchable snoozefest ROMA.
Things actually...happen in CW.
Loved it. Beautifully directed. It's one of those films where people do really stupid things because they're crazily in love, but I'm sucker for those.
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BR is now the top grossing film released in Spain in 2018 after going past JW:FK this weekend. It has made the equivalent of 300m+ in the USA.
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41 minutes ago, Taruseth said:
It's an average regardless of release date.
But those legs really are impressive compared to that.
Always wondered by The Numbers don't try to do more with those graphs. Something really basic as just using the average of films released that month would yield much more useful results and probably would not be that hard to code. They have enough data to produce a decent average.
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30 minutes ago, DAR said:
Why are we doing previews at 4pm on Thursday?
Yeah, at which point isn't it just a Thursday opening?
OLD FART WARNING
I still remember when preview shows were a 12 PM thing only, and just for hyped movies...
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15 minutes ago, raulbalarezo said:
Bohemian Rhapsody
Domestic Total as of Dec. 28, 2018: $187,621,515 (Estimate) Distributor: Fox Release Date: November 2, 2018 Genre: Drama Runtime: 2 hrs. 14 min. MPAA Rating: PG-13 Production Budget: $52 million Total Lifetime GrossesDomestic: $187,621,515 26.8% + Foreign: $513,345,226 73.2%
= Worldwide: $700,966,741 
If I'm not missing another movie, New Moon is currently the most successful Hollywood film ever with a budget of 60m or lower, grossing 709m WW. Can't wait for BR to get past that.
That movie's run is just incredible. I love when we get insane stuff like this.
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Finally caught up with Into the Spider-verse. Well, that was fantastic. Pity it's not doing as much as it deserves, we need more big budget animated films that aren't either Pixar copycats (and I love Pixar) or lowest common denominator slapstick crapfests.
Does it have animated Oscar buzz? I hope so.
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2 hours ago, terrestrial said:
Universal probably wishes it closed up shop for the holidays after THE GRINCH. MORTAL ENGINES fell off the edge of the world, dropping -77% in its 2nd week, hauling in just $1.7M, $12M total. It's not just the biggest bomb of 2018, it might be the biggest bomb of the decade.
Not sure if already posted. Such situations make me sad a bit, even if not interested into the movies/material.
It's a disaster, but it's doing enough money OS to avoid the "worst bomb of the decade" moniker. IIRC it will open in China, too. Can see it limping past 100M WW. If it somehow does a bit better (say China or Japan take to it) might end up losing less money than Solo.
The concept was way out there for the GA to buy into it, and the books aren't that famous. It screams "you shouldn't spend 100m doing this".
Their best market is Russia, Russians do love bizarre sci-fi extravaganzas.
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I enjoyed Ralph 1 (granted, large part of it was the nostalgia element but it was decently made). My issue with Ralph 2 is that all the trailers that were shown over here failed completely to show what the movie was about except internet jokes and the princesses scene. It had no hook.
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Weekend Thread: weekend #s (Actuals) Dumbo $45.99M, Us $33.23M, CM $20.66M
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I think you're being slightly unfair. Yes, they are cynically double and triple dipping on remakes, but current Disney has produced some remarkable original animated films too (Frozen, Zootopia) that have no doubt garnered enough appreciation to get their own remakes in due time.