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We went from BatB being a lock for $500m, to not a chance of hitting $500m, to getting there at Memorial Day.
I love yall.
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13 minutes ago, YourMother said:
Thinking around $150M for CU, I can see it having a OW over $50M due to the lack of family movies since Baby.
You're forgetting summer weekdays. I see it crossing $200m.
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A new sneak peak at tonight's MTV Movie Awards. Shows a bit of the dynamic around the kids. I am feeling it.
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11 hours ago, WrathOfHan said:
Really? God, I can't remember the last time it took 6 months for a movie to release on home media.
Cinderella, another Disney live action remake, released in March 2015 and hit DVD/Bluray in September too.
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I think BATB could reach it this summer. The Bluray doesn't release until September.
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39 minutes ago, cannastop said:
BATB money can do that.
Plus a best-selling DVD and a soundtrack that's one of the year's best-selling albums.
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1 hour ago, Fancyarcher said:
Great write-up Baumer, one mild correction about Henry Fonda though. Technically On Golden Pond wasn't his last role, since he did a TV movie called Summer Solstice, that also dealt with old-age that was released at the end of the year, but yes On Golden Pond is a very good film, and a good way to end his theatrical film career on.
Mommie Dearest is actually one of my dad's favorite films, non-ironically, because of that and having seen it a few times, I'd hardly consider it one of the worse films ever made. There are a hella lot worse films I've seen anyway. Mommie Dearest is at least competently made on the production side of things, it just has a lot of really silly sequences.
And it wasn't really sorely Mommie Dearest that killed Dunaway's career, but also her follow-up choices like Supergirl that did a lot of damage to it as well.
I enjoy Mommie Dearest too, but only because of how outrageous it is, in the same vein as Rocky Horror. It's just a terrible film.
Mommie Dearest was the film that put the Razzies on the map.
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It's a Marvel film. And a sequel. That's what people will see.
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4 minutes ago, filmlover said:
I think what also helps Guardians is that it doesn't face any real direct competition until Memorial Day weekend. Alien has never been a massive franchise, while King Arthur looks like it's targeting nobody. Doubt it challenges BATB's opening but $150M shouldn't be difficult to achieve.
"Direct competition" is not something that hinders Marvel films, as we saw with Ultron and Civil War. The fans will go see it but the general audience is not going to hop on board these movies if they haven't already.
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57 minutes ago, baumer said:
Why did it kill her career? @Chaz
Mommie Dearest was supposed to be Paramount's big prestige picture that year. Everyone involved thought that they were making a great film. The sets were massive and expensive, Dunaway had done a lot of work to get Crawford down and the studio had a lot of faith in the production. The end result was one of the worst movies ever made.
Dunaway, to this day, refuses to discuss anything about Mommie Dearest, despite it being her most famous performance. She looked incredibly similar to Crawford and she had a lot of her mannerisms down, but the performance is an over-the-top monstrosity. The movie became famous because of how bad it was (think Glitter, but even bigger) and Dunaway's performance was continually maligned. She was no longer seen as a credible actress, she was the crazed Joan Crawford impersonator.
Thanks for the compliments, B. You and I share a love of this time period. Keep 'em coming.
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1981 also saw the release of one of the most famous movies of the decade. It also didn't make a lot of money (came in at 38 for the year) but has since been seen by a huge audience due to its camp value. It has dialogue that is still quoted.
Mommie Dearest.
It killed Faye Dunaway's career and forever tarnished the image of one of Hollywood's all time greatest leading ladies, Joan Crawford. It continues to be a popular film today.
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42 minutes ago, baumer said:
Well, I have no idea if you are right or not, but according to this website, Grease is number 7 and The Bodyguard is number 1.
This is based on the RIAA certifications. Grease has not been certified since 1984, and it has more than doubled its sales since then.
Take the 8x Platinum from 1984 and add the 7 million from its Soundscan sales since 1991 - you get 15 million. That's not including all of its sales from 1984-1990. It's the best-selling soundtrack of all time, and we don't even know how much it's actually sold. Crazy.
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Grease is still the best selling soundtrack of all time in the U.S.
Fun fact: it has not been certified by the RIAA since 1984. The label that initially released the album went bust in the 80s and any record of its sales were lost. Nobody knows exactly how many copies it has sold, but it far exceeds the 8x Platinum status that it was given in 1984. With the 1998 re-release of the film, the soundtrack sold an additional four million copies just in that year.
All we we know about its sales is that it was certified 8x Platinum in 1984 and has sold nearly 7 million copies since Soundscan began tracking sales in 1991. That leaves six years worth of sales that are completely unknown.
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On 4/18/2017 at 5:24 PM, baumer said:
Barbara Streisand's A Star is Born came in at number three with 80 million and the Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman political thriller All the President's Men came in at number four with 70 million.
Best picture winner Network, which was released one week after Rocky, took in 23 million or the equivalent of about 95 million in today's dollars.
A Star is Born's gross is really extraordinary. It adjusts to $324 million. Elvis was originally interested in the role of John Howard, but Tom Parker pulled him from consideration after Streisand wouldn't give up top billing on the project. Imagine that story with Elvis in the role of a former superstar who has fallen on hard times. (This was also the third iteration of the A Star is Born series, with the fourth version releasing next year. Lady Gaga will play the Esther role (now named Ally) popularized by Janet Gaynor, Judy Garland and Streisand.)
Network...what a masterpiece. Even more relevant in 2017 than in 1976. Very, very, very few films in history have that sort of impact.
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On 4/15/2017 at 5:28 PM, Noctis said:
Mediocrity has always been constantly celebrated in the US. Case in point...Star Wars.
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7 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:
I'm going to be the last one on here to see F8
I'll never see it so go with God king
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10 hours ago, YourMother said:
Mr Marosa/Cochofles/EurakaThunderHeart but she's banned.
Damn, that was cochofles? I didn't know.
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Where is that guy who said that BATB wouldn't hit $500m and everybody jumped on him?
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6 hours ago, Xillix said:
Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills?
I used to watch that awful show on USA. Man, that network has changed.
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23 minutes ago, MrMarosa said:
Love the passive-aggressiveness of ”hey, it’s his blahblablah opinion and [the subtext of] we have to respect it, god bless his little dumb soul for not riding the BATB bandwagon.” Great mb moderation lessons.
Girl, for a troll, you sho is sensitive.
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5 hours ago, MrMarosa said:
What I love about this blind adoration and defense of the crappy BATB remake is that some people have actually taken away that I am somehow defending BvS!!!
Nah. That would be awesome for the staunch BATBheads, because that way they could justify their calling me 'retard' and maybe even the 'troll' accusations, but I feel that both films —BATB 2017 and BVS— are equally bombastic, misguided, soulless spectacle. The difference is that BvS was the followup to an equally crappy film, while BATB2017 is the followup to a wonderful, beloved film that had more artistry, heart, and genuine soul in the fricking opening credits than the remake has in its entire runtime. Nostalgia is indeed a potent, common-sense-impairing drug.
You're fun.
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Disney has been the dominant family movie machine since the 20s. That will never end.
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1 hour ago, baumer said:
When does spring break kick in for the US?
Some have it in March, the majority have it the week of Easter. That's when my state is out.
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7 minutes ago, MrMarosa said:
When this film, which is already, and unquestionably, a gigantic financial success (in spite of its being utterly mediocre), fails to gross 500 million, I will sit back and enjoy the excuses, backtracking, and scrambling for arguments to justify it. People are just high on the OW box office fumes and predicting crazy numbers. The OW has burned off demand and this ia no Star Wars. That Monday drop is far from spectacular (2 million less than BvS??).
Girl, what? BvS' first Monday was the day after Easter.
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Cher had an epic year in 1987. This was also the "Bagle Boy" era and she had several hit singles from her Cher album that year.
She's a true entertainment legend. Conquered TV, movies and music.