Jonwo
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The comedy in Illumination's films isn't unique at all unless you consider slapstick unique, it's been done many times before by Blue Sky, DWA etc and better as well. they just captured lightning in a bottle with Minions and DM and that's not easy to do more than once. The only thing that's different is that they have smaller budgets. -
The Revenant likely isn't finished, likewise with Joy and The Danish Girl is premiering at TIFF.
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Pixar have a great track record so they justify the praise that they get. Animation can be stunning but great stories and characters are what drive a film.
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The running time should be confirmed at least by Monday. I think 155 minutes is a tad long even for Bond. The perfect length for a Bond film would be 120-130 minutes.
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It's only 2 minutes longer than Casino Royale and 4 minutes longer than Skyfall.
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Dr Seuss doesn't really do that well overseas and it didn't help that Universal held back The Lorax in a lot of places until summer, in the UK it was released on the day of the Olympics Opening Ceremony which says it all. Hop didnt do that well either but it faced Rio overseas and it was a pretty crap film to begin with. To say Disney should look out for Illumination is laughable, they have two very strong studios in WDAS and Pixar who consistently produce good to great films.
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I think Steve Jobs will be this year's Social Network or Captain Phillips. It'll do well box office wise but awards wise I think nominations are likely but Best Picture is unlikely.
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I'm not sure on Pets because it's scheduled against Star Trek 3 and is released in a pretty heavy July in terms of competition and 2016 has many animated talking animal movies either fully or hybrids so by the time this comes out, it may be that audiences will be tired of them and also its overseas competition is Dory and Ice Age, both which will be very successful.
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The animation looks pretty decent but it's going to be one of many animated talking animal films coming out in 2016 and audiences will have experiences KFP3, Zootopia, The Jungle Book (not animated but still features talking animals) etc so it may be audiences will be tired of them by May.
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I wonder if Warner Bros or whoever is it who gets to distribute Bond will be ballsy enough to move Bond out from November to summer or maybe December. Bond hasn't been released in the summer since Licence to Kill 26 years ago.
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The Skyfall posters were very similar with just Bond posing, the one of him shooting was my favourite as was the teaser poster.
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Must be a first for Bond to be shown at two Leicester Square cinemas at the same time.
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I just realised that Inferno is out the week before so it'll be Tom Hanks vs Tom Cruise in October 2016.
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Not to mention Disney are making mid budget films again like The Finest Hours and The Queen of Katwe which makes DreamWorks a bit redundant. Universal don't really need DreamWorks either, they already have Focus Features, Legendary and Working Title and they produce or acquire plenty of mid budget films every year. The success of Lincoln and The Help weren't enough to outweigh the flops, it's going to take more than a new distributor to reverse SKG's flagging fortunes
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Given that there's been more misses than hits at DreamWorks, I'm sure Disney are more than happy to drop them. They were always an odd fit for them. I'm surprised they never thought of merging Amblin with DreamWorks.
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Both Everest and The Walk are opening a week earlier in IMAX and other PLF, wonder if it will be considered previews or not?
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I imagine it'll be December 2017 as summer 2017 is pretty packed. Spring 2018 might be an option as well
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Quite a good release date. I imagine the budget will either be the same or a tad higher than the first but still profitable for Paramount
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Amblin is still based at Universal so having DreamWorks there make a lot of sense. They have quite a few projects that could be successful like The Girl on the Train but they don't release that much per year. Think Bridge of Spies is their only film this year
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I suspect Odeon Leicester Square will get the rights since they usually have first dibs on films like Bond. I wouldn't be surprised if the BFI IMAX gets an upgrade to laser as well in time for Spectre.
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Given DreamWorks SKG hasn't exactly been that successful in the last few years. I'm sure it's no huge loss to Disney and a lot of their films have different distributors, Ghost in the Shell is being co produced by Paramount and Ready Player One is WB.
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Dark Tower probably will move to April and Power Rangers probably will move back a week, not sure on Boss Baby though
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It's not just Toy Story 4, it's Pirates of the Caribbean, War of the Planet of the Apes and Spider-Man. Considering those three are at least $200m domestic grosser and also very successful OS grossers, that'll be enough to dent DM3,
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Rogue Nation will crack £20m this weekend or the week after, it's had a hugely successful run. Inside Out has also done great as well
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The competition is also a lot stronger than what Minions had too.
