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Before Part 3 Of The Endless Interview arrives, Endless drops a tentative slate: Teenage Robot - February Y4 Battletoads - March Y4 - EA Brother Bear - April Y4 Horizon Zero Dawn - May Y4 Stars (formerly Limitless) - July Y4 -EE/IS Crash Bandicoot: The Sequel - September Y4 -EA Spiderwick Chronicles - October Y4 - IS Treasure Planet: Gauntlet of Midas - November Y4 Anatasia - Thanksgiving Y4 Cats - December Y4 - EA

I can see it.

Disney now owns the summer of 2018. I can see this being the “big” August movie with a $40M/$150M run.

Again so that’s 11 screens used up.

Now that I think about it in an average 12 screen theater it’ll be hard for all of them. Early guessing but 2 for Poppins 2 for Aquaman 1 for Holmes 1 for Spider-Man 1 for Mortal Engines 1 for Bohemian .5 for Bumblebee .5 for Alita and then the other 3 might go to smaller films and holdovers.

I mean I get Aquaman isn’t a big draw and JL bombed, but I feel that it’ll at least get $200M. DC has their fan base and Wan can make something good. I just can’t see over WS numbers mainly due to screen space.

Also hyped for this. Seems heartwarming.

If anything that’d be me.

Not sold on $400M/$1B yet. Something like $350M/$850M seems fair. December is stacked. Aquaman can draw families but will likely do smaller numbers ($200M-$250M). Spiderverse still will draw families ($100M-$150M), and even the stuff that might not do hot will take screens. Not to mention there’s no PLFs or 3D for this.

A Wrinkle In Time North Shore Cinema 3/8/18 (2 days before previews, 3 before release) Mequon, WI 7:00 - 24/301 - USCR 9:45 - 0/301 - USCR That is big jump for Winkle and a great one too. Now it’s 41% ahead of DH2 ($41.8M OW) and 50% ahead of Wonder ($41.25M OW). However it’s 47% behind Coco ($27.1M OW).

As a note of reference

Better than 17 to 0.

I’m debating on the plot for WTTJ. The original was a Madagascar/Ice Age fish out of water style romp. The other one I have in mind is a business executive is turned into a jaguar as punishment for acts against the environment. It’s still light hearted but has a strong environmental message but I worry it’s too similar to Brother Bear.

Curious George

To be fair, T1 didn’t make that much and gained a following. Avatar 2 will be big although it’ll slightly dip saying $500M-$600M DOM/$2.2B WW but JC will have the top 3, so no need for a heart attack.

Moved up a week and now has a barren May since IW moved up a week. Any more takers?

Anyone know a good actor for Ron and Dr. Drakken?

This thread sucks now.

Rather counter against something that’ll do big than something that can do gargantuan

If Henry Selick wasn’t claimed, I’d probably do that Moongirl movie instead of Welcome To The Jungle but I digress.

@Xillix please move Welcome To The Jungle (3,892 theaters in 3D) to August 2nd.

I’m kind of happy for Peter Rabbit. Nice to see Sony have another franchise, and SPA needed a $100M+ DOM movie. Also seeing Annihilation today in a hour

Anyone think WIT may go sub $30M or barely over $30M OW?

Part 2: Endless Animation Lynn Terview: Today we continue Part 2 of our interview and we are focusing on the Endless Animation division. We have the CEO of the company, Stewart Gilligan. SG: Hello there Lynn. LT: What does Endless Animation aim for in films? SG: Quality first and foremost. We’ve always been focused on this whether we want a more cartoony film or a more drama based one. LT: Can you tell us about how you feel about the animated films produced by Endless last year? SG: Gladly, both Crash and Spyro overperformed especially the latter. Crash got some Oscar nominations as well. Crash was the better of the two though. It was not as good as say Bounty Hamster or To The Moon or Our City but by good it was good. Both were strong results for the GameVerse. LT: Tell us more about the GameVerse. SG: We had an idea to make an animated Skylanders movie at first but realizing we had the rights to some other gaming characters, we decided to have some fun. Both Spyro and Crash are a part of this universe. Although no GameVerse movie is coming this year, next year heralds both Battletoads and Crash 2, and in Y5 we do Skylanders. Sony Pictures Imageworks, like some of our films has agreed to do the animation for all GameVerse movies. However although all are in the same world, their solo stories are their solo stories and focus on their own respective worlds. LT: I also see you have some original films this year. SG: Yep. We have the Jenkins/Howard movie, Witches in February, Asbury’s Welcome To The Jungle in July, and McKay’s Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive in November. We also have Cats planned for next year along with an adaptation of Henry Selick’s Moongirl CG/Stop Motion hybrid. There’s also Tortoise and Hare, Barbados, and some other projects. LT: Ah, can you tell us some difference in the movies, I’m curious about the animation. SG: We tend to work on the scripts and have the animation done elsewhere. Although we work with SPI for GameVerse, Witches and other projects, Endless Animation finally has their in house studio running. Both Pigeon, a CG/2D hybrid, Moongirl, a CG/Stop Motion hybrid, and Cats, all CG, are done via here. These ones have higher budgets, and focus on mainly hybrid projects along with CG films around $110M. Reel FX is developing Tortoise and Hare and Animal Logic is working on Barbados and Welcome To The Jungle. But now about the movies, all share a strong heart and grade A humor but has their differences. Pigeon is definitely more madcap and cartoony, Witches is deeper in tone but still fun and Jungle is way more comedic than the others. Moongirl is perhaps our most bizarre and dark films yet and Cats is a big grand musical in the vein of Tangled and Frozen. LT: How do the artists feel here? SG: I can’t speak for them but I think they love it. I mean we have directors from all different types of animated movies. We have the best animators lining up to work here. In fact the best animators here have an opportunity to create their own shorts regardless of animation styles, to debut in front of our movies and some of our parents movies. LT: Okay folks, that was Steven Gilligan, next is Infinite Studios turn.