MovieMan89

If Good Dinosaur delivers there's about 99.5% chance Dory wins next summer. Pixar will be on a major hot streak again, and Nemo's relevance among children has never really waned. If it's a great movie, then it's really cinched.

Ant-Man 10m behind CA1 through same point, but with a better 4th weekend hold and gross. Should be able to finish at 170 or so.

I'd hoped it could pull 31-32m this weekend, but I'll take 29m.

Well to be fair it was nearly unprecedented as only one other high profile CBM has ever opened in that range. I was starting to think maybe 35m as the week went on, but 25m is just such an epic disaster.

To B. continued after the fortune Teller is saved by the Bell. P.S.: Don't gaze into the eyes of Mara

Yep, brought this up last night. The two are total parallels and really are the two biggest SH duds ever when you factor everything in.

Its OW will rank 50th or 51st among the 100 or so releases BOM classifies as superhero movies. Except all the ones below it were either much older or way lower budget/little known or original characters(again, except Catwoman lol).

I believe Catwoman is the only other 100m+ budget superhero flick to open lower than Fant4stic.

BOM doesn't seem to count it: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/drops.htm

I'll get 13/15 if Magic Mike or Pixels make it. 12/15 if its Compton. In hindsight I have no idea why I didn't include Trainwreck. The signs of summer comedy breakout seem like they were always pretty obvious.

Well statistically it's the movies that open sub 5m that have had the biggest second weekend drops. Probably due to massive theater count loss I'd imagine. Except for the Friday the 13th reboot that opened to 40m and still dropped 80.5% in its second weekend.

It would need like 3.5m or lower next weekend. Lol, what a catastrophe that would be.

Since Fant4stic is already a bomb beyond salvation, I'd like to see it break the second weekend drop record. Undiscovered holds it with -86.4%. Been patiently waiting for something to top that for 10 years. C'mon Fant4stic, at least it would hold a record then!

I gave the edge to 4 on the first viewing of 5, but after the second viewing I give it to 5. Otherwise my ranking as well.

I feel like that's very true for the first three, but couldn't be further from the truth for 4 and 5.

I got kinda dragged to that one and was shockingly on board with that movie until that hilariously awful ending. Everyone in the theater was laughing at that "explanation."

You can compare them in the sense of how well they were done in their genre context. In which case, Bird easily wins with any of his films except TL.

Incredibles, Iron Giant, Ratatouille, or Ghost Protocol by themselves completely annihilate either's filmography.

Excluding the indies: 1. Rogue Nation (Maybe my fav espionage film ever. Got even better upon second viewing) 2. Mad Max: Fury Road (a film I totally thought would be just for the oldies who love the originals. Wrong, wrong, wrong!) 3. Inside Out (another Pixar masterclass, but perhaps the first in that tier I think has been a little overrated. Ranks like 9th or 10th in their canon for me) 4. Spy (simply hilarious ensemble and writing. Spy spoof elements worked well too) 5. San Andreas (sorry, don't care how derivative it was it was a damn fun disaster flick. One of the only straight up disaster flicks I've ever enjoyed)

A movie that's biggest fault is being too ambitious for its own good. JW is a better made film sure, but it's also playing it uber safe. How many directors worth their salt can't make something completely safe work?

Ted is still a success in accordance to its budget, despite its massive under-performance. Vacation will be profitable I'm sure. The rest of those are all movies that were never on anyone's radar to start with. If you look at the top 9 of the summer so far, they've all been big successes and made a lot of profit. MI5 and Trainwreck will end up in that category too. So basically 12-13 of the 18 or so movies that had potential were successful. The vast majority of the smaller wide releases below that were profitable too. Again, it's basically 4 big bombs of the summer and a few under-performers that were still profitable.

It's actually the opposite. There were like 4 disasters and then a whole bunch of successes and a few mega successes.

Brad Bird should be able to make a good F4 film, since he already did it in animated form. But Incredibles 2 is far more important.

I'd much rather his feature length trailer film-making skills be used to tarnish a franchise that's already used to that.

I still stick by my guns that Nolan will want to explore a Bruce Wayne in his older years, Dark Knight Returns esque story in about 15 years or so.