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2 minutes ago, That One Guy said:
next chapter in the acclaimed Lionsgate trilogy (Norm of the North, Wild Life, Rock Dog).
I'll take Illumination over crappy animation from Lionsgate, TWC, Open Road etc any day
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1 minute ago, Fullbuster said:
The UK is massive in comparison with the other territories, it's like only English-speaking territories love the movie.....
That was the case for The Lego Movie as well, I think WAG's films are a bit too American centric in their humour whereas Illumination seems to be global focus with more slapstick gags that translate better.
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3 minutes ago, PDC1987 said:
Considering Universal didn't bankroll The Great Wall they're having an exceptional 2017, with tons of potential left. A Dog's Purpose doubled its production cost domestically a couple days ago, and Split is about to do 14x its production cost domestically.
Universal is only distributing A Dog's Purpose in the US, it's more of a hit for Amblin Partners.
The Great Wall is a loser for Legendary, they better hope Kong does well.
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1 minute ago, grim22 said:
Yup, it is a hit but it is no longer a phenomenon. They cashed in big on the first movie but there is no breakout sequel.
I imagine Universal wasn't expecting it to break out, the audience isn't broad enough. They only spent $55m plus marketing so they're getting a good ROI.
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Just now, TalismanRing said:
The problem is that almost half it's WW total is from China where they not only get only 25% of theatrical the post theatrical revenues are almost non existent.
I think if it can keep the budget the same or lower, another xXx film could happen but it hasn't done great in most places which might give Paramount pause for thought.
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5 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:
The Weinstein's haven't been at their top of their game for a while. Reason may exist but it's ill thought out reasoning. It's also reasoning and scheduling that got the Founder financers suing Weinstein over distribution
http://deadline.com/2017/02/the-weinstein-co-sued-over-distribution-of-the-founder-1201904600/
So much for The Founder costing $7m. I imagine Harvey will settle it out of court.
4 minutes ago, CJohn said:Fifty Shades Darker is already at 277M WW. Universal be like
The movie was already profitable last week, even though it'll make less than the first, it's still a hit.
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I'm sure Lionsgate are thrilled with La La Land's success, it's done 10 times its budget although Lionsgate will only see the US and UK revenue since they sold off the rest of the overseas rights but I'm sure their local distributors are also happy with its success.
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1 minute ago, CJohn said:
Empire said they were trying to get as many theaters as they could for Gold but dumping The Founder. I will remember you that Gold came out on the weekend where Lion should have expanded. They are incompetent. It took them a week and a half to expand Lion after the Oscar noms unlike everyone else which expanded their movies on the weekend after the nominations came out. On that weekend they decided to pull all their chips on frikking Gold for some reason.
Welp, this seals it. They are gonna cancel it here and send it straight to VOD.
Who handles the Weinstein titles in Portugal? In the UK it's Entertainment Films or Studiocanal, both who are decent distributors.
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23 hours ago, babz06 said:
It's doing ok for limited release. FSL plan to expand A United Kingdom to 400 theaters by mid march. We'll see what the story looks like then.
As for FSL as a company, they're being passed up by younger hipper indie studios like A24 and now Netflix/Amazon. I think they have to find their an identity again. Just looking at their 2017 slate, it seems a bit confused to me : Table 19, Wilson, Gifted, My Cousin Rachel, Battle of the Sexes
Compared to A24 which has: Free Fire, The Lovers, It Comes At Night, How to Talk to Girls At Parties.
A24 seems more interesting and exciting.
I think the newer indie studios like TWC, Fox Searchlight, SPC etc have been hit hard by the likes of Amazon, A24, Open Road etc acquiring the hot titles but also the bigger studios like Paramount, Fox and Lionsgate/Summit have eaten into their audience as well.
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The Founder would have done better in August or September. At $7m, it would have a nice profit without having to compete with the other Oscar contenders. Look at Manchester by the Sea, it cost only slightly more but made more money because Amazon, Roadside and the other overseas distributors handled the release well.
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Just now, filmlover said:
My point was that The Founder would've done well had it not been blatantly sabotaged by Weinstein. It's no secret that they are on the verge of going broke, hence why Lion has done well in spite of their misfortunes thanks to word-of-mouth on top of awards buzz.
Lion's done $70m on a $12m budget and given TWC another award contender. I think they've been given a line of credit by Opus Bank so they're still operating though I can't imagine they can afford to solely fund bigger projects anymore
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Lego Batman for me wasn't as good as The Lego Movie but it's a close second,
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14 minutes ago, YourMother said:
Agreed on the whole dial down on jokes a bit.
The rapid fire jokes were a common criticism of The Lego Batman Movie even from those who loved it, Lego Movie had similar issues and Storks to a lesser extent. I do get it because I think you need to give the audience time to appreciate a gag
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10 minutes ago, YourMother said:
I also liked Storks, shame it underperformed here, but at least it was profitable.
If it where to rank the animated films I saw last year and this year:
A+: Zootopia
A-: Kubo
B+: Lego Batman, Moana, Sing, Dory
B: Storks, Kung Fu Panda 3
C+: Trolls, Pets
C-: Angry Birds
(I saw most of these babysitting my nephews except for Dory, Zootopia, Kubo, and Lego Batman)
Storks was good, I think WAG has established they can do gags really well and come with a decent story but I think and hope they could dial it down a bit.
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Incredible that Angela Lansbury and Dick Van Dyke are still acting in their 90s.
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Zemeckis had a good year with this and What Lies Beneath. It's shocks me that Cast Away cost less than What Lies Beneath
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24 minutes ago, YourMother said:
Exactly. It's going to end with a $400M-$420M WW total when everything is said and done, grossing 5 times over it's budget.
If Lego Batman does over $400m WW then it's another huge success for WAG. They're building the brand with good films with only one misfire and even then Storks wasn't bad by any means
27 minutes ago, Fancyarcher said:LB making less than 200m doesn't mean it won't get a sequel, though. The film's a success for WB, so they might actually consider a follow-up of sorts for all we know.
I wouldn't be surprised if we get a sequel or another spin-off. I'm unsure if Lego Superman would work but if anyone could make it work it's the team who did Lego Batman
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9 minutes ago, filmlover said:
Poor A United Kingdom won't even make $5M in total. What's happening at Fox Searchlight these days? They haven't had an actual success since Brooklyn.
Fox Searchlight needs a shakeup, Fox themselves are doing fine with the award contenders like Hidden Figures but Searchlight has lost their way
i imagine Lego Batman will get a sequel or a spin-off, I'm not sure if it should be Lego Superman as I don't know if it would work as well. WAG should look at doing a non Lego DC film that based on more obscure characters like the Metal Men or Dial H for Hero
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13 minutes ago, TheMovieman said:
Ooh, good call.
It'll be interesting to see if New Line can succeed with a DC film, they have done big budget films before with LOTR, Hobbit and San Andreas and the Blade trilogy was successful so i'm confident they can do it. It's strange that New Line got to keep Shazam/Black Adam when they folded into WB, I would have thought that WB would want all the DC films under their umbrella and New Line the Vertigo titles, not that it matters as WB will distribute and will profit anyway.
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I imagine Wan recommended him since he produced Lights Out
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I wonder if The Great Wall was the reason Tull was booted from Legendary? Apart from Jurassic World and Straight Outta Compton which were already in development before Legendary were brought in to finance, none of their projects have been successful at Universal, Warcraft doesn't count because Universal didn't handle the Chinese release
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18 minutes ago, grim22 said:
Weird WB is scheduling a horror against an animated film with horror characters.
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30 minutes ago, baumer said:
How is it flop when it is making good money overseas? When will some of you start looking at a film's total gross and not just what it makes in one market?
Even if it makes $300-350m WW, it's still going to lose money with the $150m budget.
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I have a feeling that The Wall is going to struggle against the new releases and the holdovers, Fences will do well as its open wide today and it had a strong PTA last weekend
2 hours ago, PhilipJ2001 said:£2m for Fifty Shades on Valentine's Day.
We've had a mega week on Lego Batman and Sing. Lego especially the figures must be insane
Lego Batman did seem to hurt Sing a little in its previews and OW but both seem to be coexisting just fine.
Fifty Shades did well on Valentine's Day although I expect it'll going to have a huge drop
WEEKEND THREAD! FRI #s: Lego: 8M: 50SD: 6.6M: GW: 5.8: JW2: 4.1 (pg 8)
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