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Child's Play | June 21, 2019 | Orion Pictures
ViewerAnon replied to Box Office Hit's topic in Box Office Discussion
There was potential to be a hit. There was not potential to make $160 million domestically. Chucky has never - and I say this as someone who loves Chucky and thinks Universal was stupid not to release CURSE OF CHUCKY theatrically in an empty 2013 October - been a major box office draw. -
Child's Play | June 21, 2019 | Orion Pictures
ViewerAnon replied to Box Office Hit's topic in Box Office Discussion
Two other HALLOWEEN films adjust over $100 million. The highest-grossing CHILD'S PLAY movie only adjusts to $73 million. But, um, sure. -
Double-check the date your source told you it was three hours long
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Why do I get the feeling this split rumor stems from my original tweet saying it's three hours long?
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Yeah, I know - I'm a source because I've seen it 😛
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If WB wants to divide it into two movies, that's news to me. And the test screenings have gone fine, they just aren't through the roof.
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Just popped over into the BLAIR WITCH thread and it's funny to see how it mirrors this one, right down to the "So sad that you guys care about reviews" comments once it hit 61% at RT. Basically, it's great to care about reviews when they're good and you're predicting a $40M+ opening, but if they're bad, ignore them because they totally don't matter.
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Amped up festival crowd + built-in fanbase = inflated reactions. It's the same reason you should take premiere night reviews with a grain of salt. There's an energy in the room that's contagious.
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Letterboxd reviews don't seem great for this. 42% of the grades are lower than a 3/5, compared to 13% for It.
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They're incredibly different movies - it's sort of like asking to compare Freddy vs. Jason to Us. I did like Annabelle Comes Home more than Pet Sematary, but their goals are so different that I don't think weighing them against each other means much.
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It's not a fantastic film - it's super bland - but see it for yourselves to judge Sad thing is I was the most positive one out of my group of friends. Everyone else hated it, I just thought it was flat.
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I suspect this is going to finish in the mid-60s, but even that is totally fine for this genre. I'm curious to see the CinemaScore and exit polls, though. The crowd I saw it with did not like it very much.
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This is why people need to be wary of glowing reviews coming out of a premiere. SXSW was a wild, super excited crowd - that sort of atmosphere affects how critics in the theater see the film. Now that people are seeing it in the wild, its flaws are more apparent.
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What was scary about it? I don’t mean that to be jerk-ish, but I was shocked by the complete lack of atmosphere or suspense.
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It's closer to an R than a PG. Also: 👍👍👍
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Or, perhaps, everything around Dumbo doesn't work, and most of this movie is what's happening around Dumbo.
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Boy was I not a fan. Dumbo’s great - the rest is not. The kids are genuinely bad with the rest of the cast, save De Vito, ranging from boring to awful. And the cast matters because this thing is so much more interested in the humans than anything else. Even Baby Mine isn’t really from Dumbo’s POV.
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DUMBO's screening for general press tonight and the embargo lifts tomorrow at 9am PST.
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Really? All the theaters I checked in L.A. were 3/4 full at most, which is way down on AQUAMAN or HTTYD3. My Arclight showing wasn’t even have full.
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Terminator: Dark Fate | Nov 1 2019 | Estimated to lose 122.6M
ViewerAnon replied to grim22's topic in Box Office Discussion
This line from Deadline's story stands out to me: "As far as we hear, Paramount has no intentions whatsoever of moving Terminator: Dark Fate. They’re extremely confident in the movie." I've been hearing good things about this for awhile - people involved being confident they have something. I think this is going to be quite a bit better than people expect. -
This one is gonna be an all-timer next to Ben Lyons' "one of the best movies ever made" I Am Legend review. Considering this was basically a red carpet premiere - amped-up crowd, filmmakers in attendance - I've seen a few mixed reactions on social media.
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Terminator: Dark Fate | Nov 1 2019 | Estimated to lose 122.6M
ViewerAnon replied to grim22's topic in Box Office Discussion
I've heard from a few people that it's at the very least pretty good. -
I thought this was pretty flat and shockingly uncreepy, but I mighta just been in a bad mood or something.
