MovieMan89

BW floppage doesn't surprise me. No one under 30 cares about the Blair Witch franchise and you simply can't have a horror hit without that audience. Not that bad for Bridget on the other hand considering it was never that big DOM and the last two are so old. Its OD is on par with the second one. Doing what it was made to do and cleaning up in Europe. Bring on next weekend and two 45m+ September OWs.

At any rate, Imma pimp The Halloween Tree now: check it out sometime animation/halloween lovers! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0191173/?ref_=nv_sr_2

Lol, you don't have to worry about that (though I do enjoy TLK 1 1/2). Aren't the DTV ones ineligible anyways? If not I definitely would have included The Halloween Tree very high on my list. Probably my fav non-theatrical animated film.

Good to see Hanks has finally built himself back up to some kind of draw status again this decade after his floundering in the latter half of the naughties/early part of this decade. Captain Phillips, Saving Mr. Banks, Bridge of Spies, and Sully were all fantastic role choices on his part.

Wow, we're gonna have three 100m+ September releases this year. Next weekend's battle of the back from the grave franchises should also be interesting to see if either makes a dent.

Looking at other lists, there's like 5 movies I forgot about that I shoulda included. But I wonder if I really should include them if I forgot about them in the first place?

1. The Lion King 2. Spirited Away 3. Beauty and the Beast 4. Princess Mononoke 5. Toy Story 3 6. Wall-E 7. The Incredibles 8. How to Train Your Dragon 9. Howl's Moving Castle 10. The Nightmare Before Christmas 11. Finding Nemo 12. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya 13. Grave of the Fireflies 14. Kubo and the Two Strings 15. Up 16. The Iron Giant 17. Zootopia 18. Toy Story 2 19. Toy Story 20. Mulan 21. Tangled 22. Ratatouille 23. Nausicaa 24. The Little Mermaid 25. The Secret of NIMH 26. Cinderella 27. Lady and the Tramp 28. Monsters Inc 29. Whisper of the Heart 30. The Jungle Book 31. The Great Mouse Detective 32. Inside Out 33. The Land Before Time 34. Coraline 35. Fantastic Mr. Fox 35. Shrek 36. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh 37. Wreck it Ralph 38. The Sword in the Stone 39. Only Yesterday 40. Aladdin 41. Akira 42. Porco Rosso 43. The Emperor's New Groove 44. Lilo and Stitch 45. When Marnie Was There 46. Castle in the Sky 47. The LEGO Movie 48. Finding Dory 49. Tarzan 50. Alice in Wonderland 51. The Prince of Egypt 52. Kung Fu Panda 53. The Good Dinosaur 54. Ice Age 55. The Polar Express 56. Pinocchio 57. How to Train Your Dragon 2 58. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves 59. Bolt 60. Song of the Sea 61. My Neighbor Totoro 62. Fantasia 63. The Road to El Dorado 64. Despicable Me 64. The Book of Life 65. Ernest and Celestine 66. Kiki's Delivery Service 67. The Brave Little Toaster 68. Peter Pan 69. The Wind Rises 70. Big Hero 6 71. The Rescuers Down Under 72. South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut 73. The Croods 74. Monsters University 75. The Fox and the Hound 76. Shrek 2 77. Bambi 78. Chicken Run 79. The Princess and the Frog 80. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 81. Hercules 82. An American Tail 83. Winnie the Pooh (2011) 84. Madagascar 3 85. Rio 86. Oliver and Company 87. Horton Hears a Who 88. Brave 89. Dumbo 90. The Secret World of Arriety 91. ParaNorman 92. Kung Fu Panda 2 93. Pom Poko 94. Rango 95. Despicable Me 2 96. Frozen 97. Pocahontas 98. The Hunchback of Notre Dame 99. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad 100. 101 Dalmatians

Thanks for all the scoring Chas! Damn, I shoulda been better about not missing so many SOTMs and weeklies this summer, I think I didn't answer over half of the SOTMs. If I hadn't been bad about that, with my top 15 score I may have stood a good chance to really a hit a new game highpoint for myself.

SLOP is a holdover beast. Could even come for Nemo and 6th place on the animation chart.

This was even better on a second viewing. The humor in the middle clicked much better for me this time, not sure why I found it out of place the first time. That third act is practically flawless. Just brilliant.

With Don't Breathe doing so well critically, this has been quite the summer for acclaimed horror. The Conjuring 2, The Shallows, Lights Out, and Don't Breathe are all some of the best critically received horror of the decade.

This could be the showpiece in a cinema as art discussion. Visuals on a whole new plateau for the medium. The story was powerful and poignant at its core, however some of the dialouge, character interactions, and tonal shifts in the middle felt a bit too conventional in a fairly unconventional film, and therefore out of place. Not bad though, just a bit jarring bookended by the first and third acts. The box office is tragic, but at the same time I can admit it's not really for kids under 11 or so, so it's not like there's no explanation for why it wouldn't do well. It should win everything as far as awards go. Zootopia is more finely tuned and perfected overall, but not of the level of visual or narrative artistic achievement as this. One of the best films of the decade so far, even with the flaws. Also the credit sequence set to that truly sublime rendition of While My Guitar Gently Weeps will go down as an all time favorite in credits for me. That alone is deserving of tons of awards.

Yeah, the trailer attachment rate to movies was crazy for me, starting back with my TFA screening and never really letting up. They certainly tried at least.

Not really...it's just non-cgi animation has ceased to be appealing to the GA for a decade. Even Disney couldn't get Princess and the Frog to be successful.

Damn, I really thought Kubo could do a bit better than that. I mean how it can have a worse OD than Boxtrolls with a far more aggressive and mainstream looking marketing push and such striking visuals is beyond me. Hopefully goes up more to 5 at least.

I remember that first trailer gave me a lot of hope. It looked like it could be something really special right off the bat. Do you think WOM will be there tribe?

So stoked for this. I can't believe it sounds like it could be the best animated film of the year with Zootopia and Dory making such strong cases.

verything is for the 3 day, top 12 and Domestic UOS 1. Will Ben Hur Open to more than $16M? No 2. Will Ben Hur Open to more than $20M? 2000 No 3. Will Ben Hur Open to more than $24M? No 4. Will War Dogs open to more than $16M? No 5. Will War Dogs open to more than $20M? 3000 No 6. Will War Dogs open to more than $24M? No 7. Will War Dogs open to more than Ben Hur? Yes 8. Will Kubo Open to more than $12M? 2000 Yes 9. Will Kubo Open to more than $16M? Yes 10. Will Suicide Squad stay at number 1 this week? Yes 11. Will Sausage Party stay in the top 3 this week? Yes 12. Will Jason Bourne stay above Bad Moms? No 13. Will Star Trek stay above Florence Foster? 3000 No 14. Will Pete's Dragon increase more than 47% on Saturday? Yes 15. Will Ice Age's PTA stay above $850? Yes 16. Will Nerve drop more than 65%? Yes 17. Will Jungle Book stay above Civil War? 3000 No 18. Will Ghostbusters decrease more than 25% on Sunday? Yes 19. Will SLOP cross $350M by the end of the weekend? 2000 No 20. Are these questions the simple ramblings of a crazy jetlagged maniac? Nah 14/20 - 2000 15/20 - 3000 16/20 - 5000 17/20 - 7000 18/20 - 9000 19/20 - 12000 20/20 - 15000 Part 2 1. What will Ben Hur OW be? 5000 8.445m 2. What will Suicide Squad percentage drop this weekend be? 5000 -58.125% 3. How much will Sausage gross on Friday? 5000 5.22m Part 3 2. Sausage Party 4. War dogs 7. Jason Bourne 10. Star Trek Beyond 12. Hell or High Water 15. Nerve 3/6 - 2000 4/6 - 5000 5/6 - 9000 6/6 - 13000

Can you blame him? He's one of the big chunks of the cast that knows where his bread is buttered and it certainly isn't in his career outside of the franchise. As kowhite stated, Vin is the sun of the Fast solar system and I'm sure the people that want to stay in the franchise are gonna be quick to gravitate toward's him. One day Vin's supernova will burn out though and implode. I'll be there for that day, soaking in the glorious debris of that epic meltdown.

I desperately want this to fail hard. It legitimately looks like the douchiest film of all time. Surprised Snyder or Bay didn't direct.

Only 300k behind with a 115k higher 15th weekend. So possible. IM3 had two separate theater count expansions in August though not just one.

Actually the entire top 8 highest grossing SM films fall into that horror animation sub-genre, except for Chicken Run. So it's the go-to niche for the medium.

Gothic-animation/horror-animation I guess? Though Kubo doesn't fall into that, another reason I think it will do better than their usual. And Burton also targets that genre as well, and long before Laika's existence.

Hope the WOM and legs will really be there like it was for Coraline and Paranorman since this has even better reviews.

Trek FTW I suppose. Even if it is a glorified TV episode, I'll take it over Jason Bouring.