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Disney and Pixar will never divulge the true budget for this, there was a interview with Ed Catmull where he says that they want their films to last longer and the pressure to keep high quality hence why the budgets are much higher and that the low cost films while they'll be hits will have more mixed results.

Black Mass isn't released yet, my guess is that WB didn't want to compete with Legend back in September so moved it to November, it might do okay but i think Bridge of Spies will do better

Lady in the Van did £1.6m which is a pretty good drop. Hopefully will hit £10m total. Next week is The Good Dinosaur, Bridge of Spies, Black Mass and Carol. I reckon TGD will be number 1 but who knows?

The preselling of OS rights is mostly due to the fact they don't have a foreign distributor arm apart from the UK IIRC. In the case of Gods, Summit has a existing relationship with the likes of eOne and other local distributors and I suspect it was presold to them before the movie was even shot, likewise with Divergent and Now You See Me.

Looks fun, interesting that it's being handled by WB/New Line and Universal, I assume the project originated at Universal but ended up at New Line which is the reverse of both Dumb and Dumber To and Straight Outta Compton which were developed at New Line but ended up at Universal.

DWA found out the hard way that 2-3 films a year means quality suffers and I don't want that to happen to Pixar. I assume Iger and Lasseter wants more Pixar films per year so he can have more sequels without losing an original film.

Inside Out really struck a cord with audiences which means TGD was always going to face an uphill struggle but it'll still be a hit for them. Pixar's track record is impressive but I do wonder if expanding to two films every other year may be unwise and given their budgets are much bigger compared to WDAS, (TGD's budget is likely in the $250-300m range) and one misstep would give Disney ammunition to make cuts.

Isn't Lionsgate already in or near profit with because they sold off the OS distribution to MJII to local distributors? They only handle the US and UK distribution IIRC

Especially when you consider the first film wasn't that big a hit, the first film cost $170m, here hoping Universal haven't upped The Huntsman to $200m or it's going to a writeoff

Triple Nine is Open Road I believe.

I thought those sorts of contracts don't exist anymore, I could understand Hemsworth and Theron as they starred in the first film but not Chastain

So many good actors in this, I guess the money was good for them to sign up. I can't this doing well against BvS and Jungle Book then Captain America Civil War two weeks after

MLP is going to struggle since Illumination has The Grinch and Pixar has Coco coming in that month.

I think Mockingjay part 2 will hurt Spectre more than Twilight did with Skyfall because the audience is much broader and it's the first action film in three weeks. I'm curious how TGD does on its OW, my guess will be £6-7m which would be very good. Bridge of Spies I'm think £1.5-1.7m similar to Lincoln and around the same for Black Mass if not a bit lower, those three along with MJII's second week will mean Spectre will lose screens

Universal seems to like adding subtitles to films they release OS. Warcraft for example is Warcraft: the Beginning,

Seems the new title is The Huntsman: Winter's War.

Given the success of The Martian and Gravity, I had a feeling they'd go for October since Spring and Summer 2017 is very crowded. I suspect Jungle Book Origins will move back a week

Steve Jobs did £890k which isn't great but unsurprising, shame as it's a good film

A lot of the older animated characters like Charlie Brown and the Looney Tunes aren't really designed for movie style scripts as they don't really evolve as characters, they barely managed with the Looney Tunes with Space Jam. Something like Scooby Doo for example can work because the formula can be expanded for longer than 22 minutes.

It'll make its money back and then some from just the UK alone, budget is apparently £4m. Sony have had a very good autumn with Spectre, HT2 and now Lady in the Van with only The Walk bombing. Speaking of HT2, it must be nearing £20m, it has only has one more week to itself until The Good Dinosaur comes out.

Looks like Alan Bennett + Dame Maggie equals success, given the success of films like The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, it does show there is a market for these types of films. I expect Mockingjay part II to match or slightly increase from the last film and likely hit £30m total but I do think The Good Dinosaur and perhaps Bridge of Spies will eat into its audience the week after

I think many thought including Dalton thought Bond was likely finished for good since the Berlin Wall came down and the Cold War ended during the hiatus and many thought Bond was a relic of that period, Goldeneye being successful proved that the franchise could reinvent it for the new era. IMO the six year hiatus was a blessing in disguise since it allowed audiences to have a rest from annual Bond films and actually miss it and yearn for its return. We've seen this with other franchises like Jurassic World, Planet of the Apes, Batman etc

It looks quite adult for a Disney film but they've had their logo on slightly less adult films like Saving Mr Banks, that had alcoholism and an attempted suicide in it.

I do think people are slightly overestimating how well Pets will do, it's being released in a year with Finding Dory and Ice Age 5 both which will be OS monsters as well as a live action family film with The BFG, it'll likely be successful with perhaps $500-600m but the family competition is much stronger than what Minions had. I'm thinking the same for Sing with $400-450m.

I reckon DWA will be bought by one of the major studios in the near future. Katzenberg has been trying to sell it for a while and i suspect he values DWA at the same price as Pixar when Disney bought it but no one would be willing to be spend that amount.