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15 minutes ago, kowhite said:
I LOVE mega budget garbage. Warms the soul. Bring it Gerard.
Considering it's delayed three times already, WB likely aren't expecting much
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2 minutes ago, grim22 said:
That's the thing, we don't even know if Sony is even involved anymore. The distribution deal went out for bid post Spectre, and nothing from EON since. Strange silence for sure, I guess they will reveal the distributor + cast + director + title and release date for the next movie at once.
If Warner Bros got it, it'll probably go to the November 1st 2019 slot that they're reserving for a DC film and they'll push the DC film to mid November since they'll alternating Fantastic Beasts films with DC films every other year.
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4 minutes ago, grim22 said:
All this co-production talk just reminds me - whatever happened to the James Bond rights? Been a long time since Spectre, it was supposed to be announced last year and still nothing.
I'm guessing EON is still in talks, I have a feeling we won't see a new Bond film until 2019. Whoever gets it should try and get a better deal, Sony got the short end with Skyfall and Spectre as they only got a meagre percent of the profits compared to MGM and EON.
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1 minute ago, grim22 said:
The WB-Village Roadshow deal ends this year, maybe they are looking at Skydance to fill that slot? Unless they reup the deal. Village Roadshow also has a similar deal with Sony, which was struck just as WB got RatPac on board as well. Maybe we will see Village Roadshow move to Sony and Skydance-RatPac with WB at the end of the year (just speculating). Alcon has a distribution deal with WB, but Alcon is more they self-produce and WB just distributes unlike RatPac.
Warner Bros and Village have been in partnership for almost 30 years, it'd be a huge shock if they left to go with Sony full time. They're already attached to Ocean's 8 and Ready Player One so if they did leave WB, they'd still be involved with 2 more films.
WB and Skydance would be interesting but I wouldn't be surprised if Skydance split their slate with WB and Sony rather than stick with solely one studio.
Alcon is an interesting case, WB has domestic distribution and sometimes OS distributions but some films like Prisoners and Blade Runner 2049 have a different OS distributor.
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3 minutes ago, grim22 said:
Skydance and Paramount seem to have had a falling out over the past year, especially after Genisys and Beyond. Rumor is that Skydance is looking for new distribution partners as well, which is why they are testing the waters with WB and Sony.
Interesting, WB already have Ratpac and Village Roadshow so I wonder if they'll want to have a third financier, Sony would be a good option or even Universal as I doubt they'll renew their deal with Legendary.
Paramount seems to taken on new finance partners like China Movie Channel and Alibaba so I imagine they could afford to not have Skydance
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On 17/02/2017 at 5:05 AM, Telemachos said:
Yep, Costner was at his peak and that song was everywhere. It had a really good trailer too. I remember getting really excited about it.
Too bad the movie itself was fairly crappy.
The song spent 16 weeks at number 1 in the UK, 16 weeks! Only Love is all Around covered by Wet Wet Wet from Four Weddings and a Funeral did 15 weeks at number 1 in the UK and the band took the decision to delete it from records as everyone was fed up of hearing it on the radio
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On 02/03/2017 at 2:58 AM, grim22 said:
Actually this will be a Skydance production with WB distributing. Unlike Tarzan or King Arthur which are 100% WB, this is 100% Skydance like Point Break and Blade Runner being 100% Alcon.
Interesting that WB is distributing a Skydance film, usually they partner with Paramount. I'm guessing they turned down this and Life the latter being distributed by Sony
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5 minutes ago, Fifty Shades Rth said:
Top playdates 5-Mar
all Logan1-Vue Westfield London
2-Imax Southbank
3-CW Sheffield
4-CW Glasgow Renf
5-Vue Stratford
6-CW Dublin
7-Odeon Liverpool One
8-Odeon Manchester
9-CW Leicester Square
10-CW Crawley
11-Odeon Metrocentre
12-CW Milton KeynesVue Westfield reclaiming the top spot from Cineworld Sheffield, BFI IMAX did very well to get second, it's going to be a busy month for IMAX with Kong, Beauty and I think Ghost in the Shell.
It's interesting that Vue Westfield usually beat the central London cinemas, I guess combined CW LS and OLS do more business money wise but they're limited by showtimes for a single film whereas VWL can have up to 4-5 screens solely for a blockbuster.
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I'm guessing It's What I Do isn't going to be directed by Spielberg anymore. He's got a packed schedule for the next three years alone,
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2 hours ago, Scubasteve716 said:
Idk if this is news worthy enough to bump but with Lego Batman I've been thinking more about this movie and it was just announced Larrikins is canceled so I imagine Smallfoot just added another 20-50 million.
Good news for me since I've liked the WB animated movies and hope they do more original stuff.
Depends if Captain Underpant moves to Larrikins slot but Smallfoot for now can stay put.
I do want original WAG films to succeed because it would easy for WB to just concentrate on Lego and films based on their animated libraries.
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7 minutes ago, Gabriel Sales said:
I agree it is a success! In the US, UK and in the future Australia. WB will make a good profit on the film, but could do much more if the jokes did not sound better in the English language.
To an extent, I agree but I think making the Lego films more globally appealing could hurt them in the English markets so it's a balance WAG needs to tread carefully. It's similar to how American comedies don't fare well in many countries because the humour doesn't translate.
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4 hours ago, Mockingjay Raphael said:
Hailee said on Twitter that they finished shooting this. This was pretty fast, I hope we will get a trailer soon.
It's a comedy, they usually have shorter schedules. I suspect they'll be a trailer in May or June.
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3 minutes ago, Gabriel Sales said:
I agree!
It will improve when it opens in Australia, considering that the film has been doing well in English-speaking countries, I predict between $ 15-20 million. In Japan it must bomb. Even so the overseas numbers are mediocre in view of the commercial potential Lego films have.
It's already a success and the run isn't over yet. With its $80m, it's making a healthy profit for WB.
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1 hour ago, tribefan695 said:
Will finish with about $50 million. Ultimately this movie was kind of overshadowed by the LLL/Moonlight wars, but still a career definer for Kenneth Lonergan and Casey Affleck.
It's made a healthy profit for all involved and for Amazon Studios, it's a real win for them with two Oscar wins.
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25 minutes ago, filmlover said:
It's gonna be another Legend of Tarzan for WB. Whatever they make from it, they'll just take it and keep on walking.
Good thing Legendary is footing most of their bill.
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The Lego Batman's failure in China is interesting though not a surprise, like The Lego Movie, it seems the film is thriving in the English speaking markets but not so good everywhere else.
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5 minutes ago, DAR said:
Boss Baby, that looks really rough
You can DWA has been cutting budgets, the animation look worse than previous films
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2 minutes ago, grim22 said:
I think a trailer will come with Boss Baby, but I would say I am leaning on it being moved as well. 2 months is not a promotion timeline for any movie nowadays.
I get the feeling Fox is dumping it as it's the last film in their contract with DWA. The UK release was moved to late July so I'm thinking it'll move to late July or early August
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1 minute ago, Water Bottle said:
That's the Mentalist! And the MCU!
And Doctor Who!
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Just now, Water Bottle said:
Huh? I love the MCU (have yet to see an MCU movie I disliked except for half of Iron Man 2) and I love Star Wars (have yet to see a live-action SW movie I disliked except for half of AOTC) but...
The MCU is very different than what SW is doing. The MCU is kinda like the Mentalist. Many stand-alone entries with maybe 5 minutes of sequel/universe building in there with some occasional episodes dedicated to advancing the "main plot" of the universe. Star Wars is kinda like Lost, where every episode matters and advances the plot and now with the stand-alone stories we're getting the filler episodes.
Not a perfect analogy.
Basically like a procedural with an ongoing arc where casual folks can dip in and out but fans get rewarded if they watch every film.
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4 hours ago, Kraken said:
All those guys had the Marvel brand to propel them. Old Purple Pants didn't. In Wonder Woman's case the brand will probably hurt more than help tho.
6 hours ago, YourMother said:However Wonder Woman is the first female CBM in the new golden age. I don't see $250M+ like others but easily over $200M due to competition. Guessing an $85M-$110M OW despite CU (which should do $25M-$45M OW) with a $200M-$255M total.
Hulk was the second highest OW for a superhero film at the time IIRC after Spider-Man did great business, I imagine Universal thought Hulk would do big business.
Wonder Woman has the advantage of being well known outside of comic book fans and I wouldn't underestimate the WB marketing muscle, they got BvS and SS to huge OW so I wouldn't be surprised if we see a big OW for WW. As for Captain Underpants, I get the feeling it's going to be moved, we haven't seen a trailer which for a summer release is a worry
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42 minutes ago, grey ghost said:
Why would Wonder Woman do so much better than Dr. Strange or Logan?
I'm going to say 70/165 m for now.
Wonder Woman is the most iconic female superhero, and a solo film has been long overdue, right now I'm thinking $100m OW but i wouldn't be surprised if it outgrosses MOS OW
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2 hours ago, YourMother said:
Since Logan is looking to finish with $200M-$240M, I wonder how the other CBMs will finish domestic.
Guardians is thinking $350-400m, Wonder Woman $250-290m, not sure on Spider-Man, Thor and Justice League at the moment
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eOne released it in the U.K. and it did okay business,
Captain Underpants | June 2, 2017
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$150m is going to be difficult with Cars 3 and DM3 in the same month. I think $25m/80m is more likely