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Look at the so-so JW. Other than the dinos & Pratt's presence, what else is there? JW mostly writes & shoots itself, and Spielberg's around to supervise. How many chances does Colin Trevorrow get? JW & Trevorrow get a pass because the dinos made $500M so far. Credit the T5 team for doing something different but they shoot themselves in the foot for turning Connor into a villain. Even if it works, it's a turn-off for the GA

What chances?

Obviously nobody involved like this project very much. Even at the executive level. No one is interested in it, from top to bottom. OTOH, you see a movie like Mad Max, another reboot/sequel/whatever which is done very well: The seamless CGI, stunts and camera work, supermodel Theron's willingness to roll around in dust & dirt, showed the cast & the crew are in it for 101%. Maybe they don't like TV Folks (Alan Taylor, director, Emilia Clarke, Matt Smith) crossing over to Movie Land...?

'Twins' Sequel 'Triplets' in the Works for Arnold, DeVito...and Eddie Murphy (Exclusive) http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/twins-triplets-arnold-schwarzenegger-danny-devito-eddie-murphy-306026 The Legend Of Conan producer reveals Arnold Schwarzenegger will film sequel 'as soon as he's done with Terminator' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3096721/Conan-Barbarian-sequel-writer-says-Arnold-Schwarzenegger-stars-back.html

Batman Begins was made almost in a completely different universe. It is not even a reboot or a remake. BB has created a completely new genre: the Nolan Batman Trilogy

OK, he is not that bad. Jack Reacher got sequelized

Is Channing one of the good guys in Hollywood? You know, down to earth, zero ego?

Will do well overseas. Paramount has no choice but to soldier on if they have spent million on the sequels.

So 13 has moved into the list. The rest: Minions Spy Terminator 5 Magic Mike Ant Man Pixels Mission Impossible 5 F4 Maze Runner 3 Hotel Transylvania 2 The Martian Peanuts Movie Spectre Mockingjay 2 Creed Good Dinosaur Star Wars That is a total of 30 sure-fires. The contenders/toss-ups: Paper Towns Trainwreck Vacations Everest Pan In the Heart of the Sea Daddy's Home That is a total of possible 37

With its older and less tech-savvy audience, Genesys' box office take will not be fully reflected in digital booking. There may be more walk-ups than you think

Actually both T3 & T: Salvation have some redeeming qualities.

$700M dom will be sweet though...

Even if JW earned only $20M this weekend, it will still reach $600M. Seriously, man, too much coffee maybe?

6,666 posts: mind blown!

September Transylvania may do more: $150M, trailer is great Maze Runner will definitely do more: $130M Black Mass is very grim & nasty: more like $50M Everest may surprise and do $120M, footage looks impressive Intern is a washout, remember the Vince Vaugh version? Visit is about right Mad Max has received overwhelmingly positive review on the internet. Very few films attract this kind of love outside of Matrix, LotR, Gravity etc.

Me too. When Stallone walks out of the shadow in the trailer, this 80s nostalgia feels more poignant than the smirking Terminator in Gensys

What I meant was the ...whatdoyoucallit, pervasive atmosphere of dread, violence & repulsive decay. Those cancerous lumps on the war boys look gross. Don't get me started on the umbilical cord. Having said that Charlize beautiful dome looks very sexy.

I am sorry to say, if Warner is serious about this franchise they have to downplay the rating, the explicit violence & gore may scare away some audience.

Re: Wachowski. Maybe the Hong Kong action choreographers direct the original & the sequels.

I like this assessment. Like the disappointment of Ted 2, to should be noted that Magic Mike doesn't have the full force of Warner's marketing campaign in the weeks before its release date. OTOH, look at Paramount's relentless TV spots for T:Genesys

Hey, they could make the Universal logo morph into the title. Brilliant idea! This could segue into MCU, with Pratt finally telling the rest of the team how he became Star Lord.

Jurassic World sequel will be titled Jurassic Planet. This time it's war on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. Maybe InGen & Wu move the research to China and just like Transformer Age of Extinction, the subjects, this time bigger & "crueler", break loose from their lab onto the streets of Shanghai & Hong Kong. Maybe they would eventually driven out and settle in Taiwan, lol. In the third sequel, the various multi-national interests would experiment on the genetics, and the resulting failure in containment would lead to: Jurassic World War. With actions spanning from Russia to Greece, from Syria to Afghanistan, from Tunisia to Somalia (bring back Omar "they never learn!" Sy). Finally they contacted Elon Musk to use his Dragon spaceships to dump the dino remains on Mars where no humans could touch & fiddle with their DNA, also serve as a totem of man's hubris, just like the Roman ruins.

Also forgotten: Non-Spike Lee, Coen Bros, Wachowski, Kurosawa, Cronenberg, John Woo, Abrams, Lucas, Mendes, Wheedon, Snyder, Raimi, and Bay.

Let's be on the lookout for 2 $100M weekend grossers in the future. 2015 almost had it.....