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Gitesh Panda has THG at high 60s, but that was 6 hours ago.
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Anything over 70m will be great for THG.Expected to poor numbers for the other two big openers.
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I'd be surprised if it's that high.
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I guess this proves that even with gigantic openings, 400m is still a tough milestone.
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I dunno, in this day and age great legs are more interesting to me. Not that anyone can take away from THG remarkable opening.
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I fully appreciate it's good for March. But the 2nd weekend will be more interesting.
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Decent number, but the phenomenal weekend didn't quite spill over into the week as much as some may have hoped.
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*resists making a 'captain obvious' joke*
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So a million less than its estimate. Catastrophic.
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Interestingly (or not) this hasn't opened especially big internationally. Be interested to see how big the inevitable WOM makes it, though.
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Have to admit I hope it doesn't beat TDK in the actuals, but great number. If you'd predicted that a month ago you'd have been laughed off the forum.
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I agree with the thrust of Shawn's point. Another example woulf be Inception's OS take. -
If it makes studios think twice about insane budgets then I'm glad JC failed. That might be optimistic, though.
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Dr Seuss isn't big in the UK at all, so that opening boggles my mind.
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I don't mind watching dislikable characters, but if a movie's that mean-spirited they have to be at least interesting. Doesn't sound like this manages that.
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The irony is that by today's standards Jaws is virtually an art house film. It's very character focused and the pacing in the second half is deliberately slow and atmospheric. Transformers and Twilight aren't good comparisons because they'd never win awards even if they made little money.
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Early Friday Numbers (The Lorax - 17.5M; Project X - 8.2M)
Hatebox replied to CJohn's topic in Numbers and Data
If certain filmmakers are in it only for the box office why would they care about awards? -
Not sure what you mean here - the first three fifths of the movie is all dream logic insofar as the characters we see represent the emotions and aspirations of the Naomi Watts character we see in the final two fifths.It'd be too much for all of the dream scenes to be filmed in the surreal manner of the Silencio sequence because we wouldn't get as involved in the narrative. We'd feel like nothing matters. And, Twin Peaks aside, it's never been Lynch's style to make it obvious what's real and what isn't.
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Midnight/Thurs Numbers Project X 1.2M/SH passes 100M
Hatebox replied to Hiccup's topic in Numbers and Data
There was a story about a girl in the UK a few years ago who, inspired by the TV show Skins, organised a house party via Facebook and over two thousand people showed up. I just pity the parents. -
Brilliant film, highly deserving of its reputation. I don't care too much for the IMDB top 250, but given how cemented Blue Velvet is in pop culture I can't believe it's not on there.
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'Trickery' is the wrong word to use for Lynch - you know going into his films that many scenes are likely to invoke dream logic. In MD one of the first shots you see is the camera descending into a pillow so he's telling you from the get-go what kind of film it is. There is actually a very concrete plot if you examine the relationship between the last 20 minutes or so of the film (the reality) and what went before.
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He tends to like more than he dislikes (he was very kind to the Twilight films) but when he hates something he REALLY hates it.
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Racism exists everywhere, but I think the subject matter of The Help was a uniquely American snapshot of the issue. UK critics weren't especially taken with the film as I recall.
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Because, for better or worse, a story about black American fighter pilots overcoming racism isn't going to be very appealing to most OS markets.
