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I still think the PG-13 rating is what really did it. Remember the fan outcry when EX2 was in talks as a possible PG-13 for awhile? I do.

Dammit, really wanted GOTG to go back to #1 this weekend. Still a small chance I suppose.

I thought PG-13 was stupid all along for EX3. Why would kids or young teens be interested in a bunch of geriatric action? EX's bread and butter has always been the nostalgic adult crowd, and they pissed that crowd off by "softening" the franchise.

Yeah, worse than The Host ain't good. Thought about 15m, but yikes.

Bet GOTG will return to #1 this weekend. When's the last time a movie did that after dropping off from #1?

GOTG is so beating TMNT this weekend. Will say 26m for GOTG, 23m for TMNT.

Yikes. Expendables is a franchise that should play very frontloaded to late nights /OD, so under 1m late nights is kinda terrible.

1) Will Expendables make more than 22 mill? YES 2) Will Turtles fall less than 58%? NO 3) Will GOTG fall more than 43%? NO 4) Will Let's Be Cops make more than 15 mill for the 5 day? YES 5) Will Giver make more than 18 mill? NO 6) Will Expendables make more than 2 mill for previews? NO 7) Will any film increase more than 75% on Friday? YES 8) Will Turtles be number one? NO 9) Will Giver make more than Expendables? NO 10) Will Let's Be Cops drop more than 37% on Thursday? YES 11) Will any film increase more than 55% on Saturday? YES 12) Will Into the Storm fall more than 60%? YES 10/12 3000 11/12 5000 12/12 7000 What finishes in spots 5 The Giver 6 100 Ft Journey 8 LUCY 10 Apes 11 Get on Up 2000 each 3000 bonus for all correct. Bonus 1: What will the total weekend gross be of TMNT and GOTG combine? 5000 51.075 Bonus 2: What will Expendables 3 make opening day? 5000 9.466 Bonus 3: What will Into the Storm make on Sunday? 5000 1.980 Bonus 4: What will the combine total be for the three openers come Sunday (5 day and 3day and 3 day) 5000 60.960

Will GOTG drop less than 7.5% on Labour Day weekend (3 day only)? NO Will GOTG pass Transformers before LD weekend? (so counting August 28th numbers) YES Will GOTG have a drop of less than 35% in the next two weekends? ABSTAIN Will GOTG have a Thursday drop of less than 7.5% in the next two weeks? YES Will GOTG have a worldwide gross of more than 450 million by the end of the game (only Sunday estimates will count, so in other words, LD Monday is not part of this equation).? YES

Well I was "only" gonna do 50 until I realized there are easily 100 animated movies I like. All these films score at least a B- with me. Also I chose to include only animated movies, not live action hybrids. *Please note I have not seen the following acclaimed animated films: The Iron Giant, Persepolis, Akira, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Ghost in the Shell, The Secret of Kells, Treasure Planet (the only WDA feature I haven't seen), Arthur Christmas, The Illusionist, several Miyazaki/Ghibli films My Top 100 Animated Films of All Time: 1. The Lion King2. Toy Story 33. Spirited Away4. WALL-E5. Beauty and the Beast6. Up7. How to Train Your Dragon8. Princess Mononoke9. The Incredibles10. Finding Nemo11. The Nightmare Before Christmas12. Grave of the Fireflies13. Ratatouille14. Toy Story 215. Toy Story16. Wreck it Ralph17. Monsters Inc18. Tangled19. Coraline 20. The Little Mermaid21. Howl's Moving Castle22. The Secret of NIMH23. Pinocchio24. Shrek25. Aladdin26. The LEGO Movie 27. The Jungle Book28. Mulan29. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves 30. Lady and the Tramp31. My Neighbor Totoro32. The Land Before Time 33. Kung Fu Panda34. How to Train Your Dragon 235. The Fox and the Hound 36. Ice Age37. 101 Dalmatians38. The Wind Rises39. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut 40. Fantasia41. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh42. Peter Pan43. Despicable Me44. Lilo and Stitch45. The Prince of Egypt 46. The Croods47. Alice in Wonderland48. Sleeping Beauty49. Chicken Run50. The Sword in the Stone51. The Great Mouse Detective52. Kiki's Delivery Service53. The Emperor's New Groove54. Ernest and Celestine55. Shrek 256. Monsters University 57. Cinderella58. Horton Hears a Who! 59. Rio60. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad61. Kung Fu Panda 262. Dumbo63. Brave64. The Princess and the Frog65. A Bug's Life 66. Anastasia67. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm68. Winnie the Pooh (2011) 69. Bambi70. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs71. Despicable Me 2 72. The Three Cabelleros73. Rango74. Paranorman75. Tarzan76. Cars77. The Adventures of Tintin78. Corpse Bride79. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted80. The Rescuers Down Under 81. The Polar Express82. Frankenweenie83. Puss in Boots84. The Rescuers85. An American Tail86. Bolt 87. Frozen88. Over the Hedge89. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 90. Megamind91. Oliver and Company92. Pocahontas93. Ponyo94. Antz95. 996. The Hunchback of Notre Dame97. Robin Hood98. Mr. Peabody and Sherman99. The Road to El Dorado100. Happy Feet

That's not true at all. There have been several "true four quadrant" movies at the box office. Titanic is merely the biggest in its initial run, but not the only.

Why is that so crazy for SW? Granted 700 would be the high end of the range I think, but we're talking about the king of the box office franchises when you look at ticket sales. And a Holiday release gives it the chance at a big OW and legs, opposed to summer where it would probably just have a massive OW. The only way I see SW missing 550m is if kids just have zero interest in it. But capturing a new gen of kids was certainly no problem for the PT. BTW, your avatar kinda looks like a guy grabbing his dick at that pic size.

Go big or go home: 1. Episode VII - $675m 2. Avengers 2 - $580m 3. Mockingjay 2 - $425m 4. Jurassic World - $350m 5. Minions - $300m 6. Fast and Furious 7 - $265m 7. Bond 24 - $260m 8. Tomorrowland - $240m 9. Ant-Man - $235m 10. Inside Out - $225m 50 Shades is my big wild card of the year. Could see it being as huge as 250m or so, but for now will guess around the 200 mark.

Such a strange summer. Who would have guessed August would be the redeeming month for the box office? I'm guessing having the 1st and 4th biggest August openings back to back is gonna make studios reconsider August's role in the summer from now on. Expect a lot more higher profile tentpoles.

Audiences don't need to reject franchise films just cause they're franchise films. They need to actually, horror of horrors, use their brain and look at which ones are blatant cash grabs with no effort made. It's really not that hard to weed those ones out. Plenty of franchise films are great though (or at least had an effort made) and shouldn't be punished just for being franchise film. Just like an indie film shouldn't be rewarded with an oscar just for being an indie film.

It's ridiculous to start with that indie films are what have to be considered Oscar films these days because most blockbusters are too dumbed down now. If we really wanna go back in time we'd see that the blockbusters WERE the oscar films 80% of the time up until 2 decades or so ago.

And that's my whole reason for bitching about TMNT's OW. It will never change because Hollywood can make ZERO effort with a franchise film and see it open huge.

Oscar type movies come out over the course of the year. The fact is the Academy chooses to ignore nearly anything released before June, primarily because they have short term memories (and considering their average age possibly Alzheimer's as well) and there's no rule requiring them to re-watch an older movie from the year.

I don't have to see a movie that literally spells out in the marketing that it's a cash grab film with no effort made. But for the record I did see it with my little nephews this morning, and shock of shocks it was a cash grab with no effort made.

At least Disney has been good about upholding certain standards when it comes to their Marvel movies for the most part. No most of them aren't masterpieces, but it's also clear that pretty much all of them had effort put into them even when they failed in certain aspects. I don't care if you didn't like GOTG, you still can't say there wasn't an effort made to give it an actual plot, real characterization, humor, and an overall high end production value. You can say you didn't like those aspects or they didn't register with you, but you can't deny they at least tried to make it a worthwhile film. Disney could slap the Marvel name on anything and put no effort at all into it, but the fact is they don't do that. I appreciate the effort even when I don't think it works out (like in IM2 or CA1 for example which I dislike). TMNT is literally just slapping a franchise name on dumbed down action and selling it to kids. There was no effort made with anything, even the crappy CGI. A mindless action flick is one thing, a cash grab with no effort is another.

Oh I get it. We live in a dumbed down society where trash looks appealing and quality often has to be marketed in deceptive ways to look appealing, especially when it comes to kids (i.e. every animated film these days having to showcase dumb jokes in the marketing to have any real chance at success). Again, quite sad.

Sorry but garbage doing well is a big reason garbage continues to get made. This summer bad to good ratio in terms of blockbusters certainly ain't good. I mean we already had one mindless Bayhem film do well this summer. Even if there are people who enjoy that, do we really need more of those kind of films doing well? No because it just sends a message that's what audiences want so that's what we're gonna get more of in the future. And maybe that is what audiences want, but we live in a sad time for film if that's the case.

I can't believe that number for TMNT though. Why must shit movies like this do so good? We're certainly not encouraging Hollywood to improve quality. I mean why should they when half assed garbage can make freakin 60m+ on OW?

Get On Up is a mild shocker for me. I honestly thought it had a very strong chance at 100+ going into summer. Or at least do as well as 42. The over 40 audience hasn't really turned up for anything this summer.

Wasn't a breakout hit or anything. Did pretty much what was expected, actually below many expectations.