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  1. 29 minutes ago, iJackSparrow said:

    GotG wasn't a second reboot with three poorly received films preceding it. It's day 21th and SM:H is standing ahead of GotG both by $30m+ AND making better weekday/weekend numbers. Hence why I'm saying that 2-8x-3x multiplier for Homecoming is very much at play. I don't think Homecoming will get the same multiplier than GotG, but it will come very close. 

    Next week is the last week of summer before school starts. I don't think that's going to happen.

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  2. I saw the top five movies in the theater as a kid, but there is one 1995 disappointment that was the go-to movie for all of my friends and me:

     

     

    Power Rangers was EVERYTHING to us. It's all we talked about, we had every action figure, and watched the show religiously. We all loved this movie at the time. Now, I can look back and see how fucking terrible it is, but it sure made me happy as an eight year old.

     

    Despite it being the #1 kids show on television, it only made $38 million at the box office. 

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  3. 2 minutes ago, Fancyarcher said:

     

    Yeah, was surprised to learn that. Chase was in a number of successful comedies back in the day, like a lot of comedians his career burned out by the 1990's especially with a series mediocre / poorly received films, and because he was so difficult to work with. By 1994 he was still on producers want-list went it came to comedies though.

     

    Another one that came to mind just as I was rereading your 1994 post was John Travolta. 3 of his films from 1996 (Phenomena, Michael, & Broken Arrow), wound up in the top twenty of the yearly box office in 1996. Wow, he really did have a comeback at the time. 

    Wasn't the Grease Anniversary also released in '96? It was huge for a re-release.

  4. 11 minutes ago, baumer said:

    And to people like @Chaz, who I know are huge animation fans, sorry but I'm not so that's why it may seem that TLK write up isn't very informative.  I don't have a lot of personal energy invested in it.

    It's all good. We already know the stuff about The Lion King. You give us stuff that we otherwise wouldn't research on our own.

  5. In another "Hollywood shocker," Disney never thought that The Lion King would be the monster that it became. They expected 1995's Pocahontas to be the prestige pic that would finally win them the Best Picture Oscar. Jeffery Katzenberg is even on record in 1993 as saying that The Lion King will be a fine movie, but it wouldn't be anything compared to Pocahontas.

     

    Ridiculous today, but hindsight is 20/20. The Lion King has sold more tickets than any animated movie of the last 50 years. It was the best-selling VHS of all-time, the third best-selling DVD of all-time, and in the top 10 best-selling Blu-rays of all time. A new Blu-ray edition releases on August 29.

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