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$700M WW is in serious doubt now...

How much the original FRIENDS made in terms of admission?

Can TDW really still do $60M like MoS?

EP

What is your total prediction for GRAVITY?

To me, TDW China revenue is beyond luck. I was predicting $30M-$35M. To actually earn more than $50M is a gift to Marvel.

Show of confidence?

BMH

After Miley Cyrus, everybody wants to see something decent, clean and ...just there....

It is rated R therefore it is crass? Have you seen endless stream of crude & mostly unfunny stuff like TAKE HIM TO THE GREEKS, MILLERS, THE BABYSITTER, ID THIEF, BAD GRANDPA? THERE'S SOMETHING ABT MARY is the original crude-fest and "one of a kind". Underneath it, it is a sweet underdog movie. Anything labelled gross-out comedies that come after this movie is just lazy, exploitative, crude and most importantly: soulless & unfunny.

"..420K admissions for gravity and 300K admissions for Thor.." What is that in $ dollars?

Any prediction for GRAVITY's 3rd weekend?

Any prediction on GRAVITY second weekend/cumulative?

Good to hear that

HOBBITS comes from a very oldish Anglo Saxon folktales & myths.Chinese loves their own myths (case in point the $200M-grossing JOURNEY TO THE WEST). Could be a tough sell but like the common wisdom here, sequels & franchise always win new audience.

A huntress, a God, and a bunch of little people for the Holidays. Sound familiar?

No more market to open. Surely it can do some face-saving and earn $200M WW. Fox should stop investing so much on materials that does so little.

I thought the Age of Super Blockbuster got started in 1989, the year of Burton's BATMAN, INDIANA JONES 3, GHOSTBUSTERS II, STAR TREK, Disney's HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS, Cameron's THE ABYSS, & the highly lucrative LETHAL WEAPON 2. BATMAN is the model of contemporary summer movie marketing & the importance of opening big. The template for summer line up complete with counter-programming with dramas & comedies started to take shape in 1989: look at the grosses for DEAD POETS SOCIETY (opened in June), WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (July) & PARENTHOOD (Aug). In todays' dollars BATMAN & LAST CRUSADE more than $400M. LETHAL 2 would have made close to $300M. Summer 2013 looks lame compared to the time before Netflix, Tivo & HBO. That was the time when comedies families & decent adults could enjoy could gross around $200M adjusted (HARRY & SALLY, PARENTHOOD, DEAD POETS). These are quality PG-rated stuff, not the kind of crass entertainment we get today (BAD GRANDPA, MILLERS & IDENTITY THIEF).

Thor has nothing on Bond. NOTHING!

^^BLUE JASMINE coulda opened bigger, in $3M territory....

2012 is Sony's dream year. MIB & SPIDEY take no effort to make but SKYFALL is a classy Bond. This year on the other hand...

EP is trailing THOR 2? Who woulda thought?

What does that mean?