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Fox did incredible last year with X-Men Days of Future Past, Apes 2, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Rio 2, Penguins & Gone Girl, totaling $5.4B WW This year they stumbled with Fantastic 4 & Maze Runner 2. Martian will be their highest grossing title but people will still complain the movie does not do as well as Gravity or the overrated Interstellar. This is not Fox's year.

Hotel Transylvania 2 & The Martian will get to $100M in no time. I was rooting for Everest, Pixels, and Maze Runner 2 to hit 100 but all have performed very disappointingly. So the rest of the year is looking like this : (Sure Fires, in bold + Potentials) Episode 7 Mockingjay 2 Spectre The Martian Hotel Transylvania 2 The Good Dino Joy Peanuts Bridge of Spies Alvin 4 Goosebumps Sisters Point Break In the Heart of the Sea Hateful 8 Dady's Home Concussion Joy is the third Fall/Holiday collaboration between JLAw, DeNiro & Bradley Cooper Third time still a charm?

Bad poster. Awesome trailer. Kate Winslet very gangsta.

RE-RELEASE GRAVITY NOW ! LIBERATE IT FROM THE UNDESERVING SMALL SCREENS AROUND THE WORLD!!! Warner, you owe us!!! (sh*t I paid for 5 IMAX 3D showings, can I get some coupon for Point Break or that Hemsworth whale movie?)

Somebody here is already predicting $220M final tally based on that $55M opening.....

In a normal theater that long, drawn out opening when the space shuttle & George Clooney sloooooowly come into focus will be unbearably boring in a smaller screen. On IMAX, that scene feels, looks incredible. It felt like peering through an opening of some giant space station overlooking the whole movie. Great use of Large Format Theater, just like James Cameron's use of 3D in Avatar to enhance the experience rather than diminish it

Your maturity is very inspiring and is very much needed in the increasingly juvenile atmosphere around here...

I am sorry I am all for freedom of posting but that GIF is super annoying

What's so funny with Shark Tale???

As far as ticket counts or admissions is concerned, The Martian has the October record

Is it a drama? A comedy? What's up with the shotgun? Makes J Law look like a sociopath...???

The hell?

Grosses from East Asian countries should be massive. But no China date according to imdb

Which one is that?

She only spins around one time....

It is a very interesting to compare the Martian to Gravity: Both involve an astronaut stranded in outer space after a failed mission In Gravity, the astronaut could survive by being self-reliant. In The Martian the astronaut will die if he is not saved. Self-reliance is a theme in Gravity while in The Martian, self-reliance can only get you so far. Both characters have to rely on their wit, creativity, and out-of-the-box thinking In The Martian, the character is able to establish communication whereas in Gravity, communication is impossible. Damon character can have a little hope because NASA knows where he is. In Gravity, Bullock is spinning aimlessly around the Earth's orbit. In Gravity, Sandra is lucky to bump into Russian & Chinese gear to be used for re-entry. In Martian, Damon's fate is in the hands of his helpers. The Martian is an excellent adventure but Gravity is still the more intense cinematic experience.

Agree, totally, and completely.

The Martian is exciting but Gravity is intense. Dude, you gotta admit that if you got a pulse

is ten times more intense than anything in Gravity Uh, OK, it is a pretty intense scene but 10 times more intense than anything Gravity is really pushing it. I think the surgery scene in Prometheus (a very mixed bag of a movie) is more intense. Apple to apple here, another Ridley Scott movie.

Well, it is an intense movie not a light-hearted one like Martian. Bullock character just lost her child for God sake. The whole movie could be in Bullock's head as she loses blood trying to commit suicide but pull back to consciousness by ER doctor played George Clooney in those dream sequence. The whole movie, Gravity, takes place inside Bullock's head: a failed astronaut who ends up working in medical industry. Survive! Survive! The word "survive" is a combination of "surge" & "revive"

Totally. Respect its vision, but that doesn't mean it is easy to sit through.

The Martian is a lot of fun. I wish those Matt Damon scenes go on and on. Chatterbox Matt is a lot more fun to hang out with while stranded in outer space than manic depressive Sandra Bullock.

Mission to Mars has a bad ass sandstorm and a National Geographic lesson at the end. Entertainment & education in one movie! Kidding aside, both Red Planet & Mission to Mars are lackluster movies. But Mission has a nice scene where they have to, if I remember correctly, jump from one module to another landing module while tethered to a cord. Gut-wrenching scene, some cool scifi ideas but the whole thing in the end (evolutionary lesson taught by an alien) is ridiculously out-of-place.

Well, Universal is losing ground fast in the Fall/Holiday season to Fox (Martian, Alvin, Joy), Sony (Spectre, Hotel 2, Concussion) & Disney (Good Dino & Episode 7), but you gotta admit The Visit is better than expected and they have an orgasmic, spectacular, once-in-a-lifetime summer so they can afford to have a lousy Fall season.

No IMAX. And what is the 3D share again?