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I recently caught this on TV, haven't watched it for a long time. I really like the movie. The cast, IMO, was incredible. Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Kirsten Dunst, Antonio Banderas were all excellent. I was reminded of how good Kirsten Dunst was as a child actress. The movie 's plot and story flowed smoothly with Louis' perfect narration. Brad Pitt was great, I can feel the anguish, the pain through his portrayal. I can see clearly the transition from "vampire with a mortal compassion" Louis to "detached, unchangeable, empty spirit" Louis. It's quite beautiful. The story about vampires here; from their history, their myths, to their morals, society structure, distinct characteristics, etc...; feels natural, old school, basic, yet I found it very intriguing, engaging, and strangely enough, relatable. That is something that I never find in modern movies/adaptations/portrayals of vampire myth any more; which is quite sad. I enjoyed the movie immensely from start to finish. The final scene, with Lestat driving away under the crowded city lights accompanied by Sympathy for the Devil on the radio, was very poetic. It delivered a great end to the movie. I'd give it an A.

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I liked it over all, and had a fun time at theater watching it with my two little cousins, which was nice. I guess I differed from quite a few others who love Despicable Me cause of the minions. I found them cute at times, but mostly annoying and stupid all other times. What makes me like Despicable Me is the story between Gru and the girls, I think it's well-done and quite touching. Despicable Me is the only Illumination production that I like so far (haven't watched DM2 yet). Hop is such a bore, and The Lorax is just terrible. I hope DM2 can be on par with DM1. I'd give this movie a B.

I'm not sure what the exchange rate is right now, but by looking at the dollar gross - admissions correlation of other movies, if my math is right, then 6M admissions equate to about $43M total.

I hope WWZ can leg it out to 6M, that would be beyond incredible. This kinda feels like the run of IM3 where the projected total admissions keep going up cause the movie's holding so well Man, I hope Thor:TDW can break out in South Korea. I'm happy if it can just increase from the first and gross more than MOS, but definitely wishing for 3M+ admissions. If you don't mind, could you give me an update on Secretly Greatly and MOS, Olive? Thank you

So it turns out that Tiny Times is not as big as So Young was (in total gross). Or is it because So Young got better release date? I wonder how much IM3 could have gross if it did not have to go head-to-head with So Young back then. Speaking about IM3, what's the final total for it?

No, it's not 70M last weekend. 83.4M the whole week, so my guess is it must be under 70M for 4-day weekend. We don't know the exact figure. But yeah, the drop this weekend should be telling. I hope it has a good OW in Brazil next week

Wait, Japan's release date is August 30th? I thought it had the same release date as Avengers last year, which is in the middle of August, to take advantage of the Obon holiday/festival. It's also when students/young adults - the target demo- are off from schools. August 30th is when schools should already be back in sessions, or ready to start.Well, you never know, if it can get pretty good WOM/reception like TA, maybe MOS could break out like TA did ($45M). But 15M is the target now I guess. Anything more would be great.

I'm not sure cause we don't know the exact weekend figures to know the drop percentage. There are also Aus and other small markets opening last week so it's hard to say.Let's see how the drops will be this weekend with all markets (except Brazil and Japan) accounted for to determine where it's heading for. IMO, it'll land in the 340-360 range with current markets. 360M requires strong hold. Will have to depend on Brazil and Japan to see if it can cross 400M I think.

WB didn't report daily numbers, and IIRC, there's no weekend numbers reported last week either. Base on total, the whole week's gross is 83.4M, so I guess under 70M for 4-day weekend.

So 11M is out of reach for MOS? What's the likely total?I noticed that the legs in The Philippines is pretty bad like Russia. IM3 has a 2x multiplier. MOS looks to do worse than that. Is bad legs common or is that the case just for big openers?

Gotcha. So, La Fete Du Cinema, is it still going on? I wish we have something like that in the US. You must have watched quite a lot of movies during that time.

Lol, okay, thanks. If the weekend drop is only 33.8%, isn't a 60% drop week-to-week still pretty harsh? I still hope it can go for 25M+ though.

Thanks. Wait, 60.5%? I thought it hold well? The France thread title said so, and wasn't there a festival that help BO?

Assuming about 12-13 DOM, you're expecting 37-38 OS? That's too high. It made 83M for the last full week, so a 37-38 OS weekend means less than 50% drop from last weekend, no way IMO.

What total do you think it's heading for in France, dash? $25M? $30M?

I enjoyed MOS overall but I have quite a few problems with it. I don't like how Supes is characterized, Cavill's acting performance really doesn't help the case either. I gave it a B/B-. Maybe Hong Kong audience also feel more or less the same as you, hence the bad drops. Still, I hope it can pass $4 million. I was hesitating between NYSM and WWZ in your poll, but in the end, I voted for WWZ's run as the biggest surprise for 2013 first half cause for me, it came out of nowhere. WWZ is having a good run so far, and I'm glad it will gross $5M+

Bluebomb, have you watched MOS yet? Do you like the movie?

Interview With The Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)

Well, don't blame me, you have changed Ed. You turned despicable . I can't side with despicable people now, can I?

All questions are for the three day weekend UOS All questions pertain to top 12 UOS All questions worth 1000 UOS 1) Will Despicable Me 2 have an opening day of more than 25 mill? 5000 YES 2) Will Lone Ranger have an opening day of more than 10 mill? YES 3) Will DM2 fall more than 20% on Thursday? 5000 YES 4) Will Lone Ranger fall more than 20% Thursday? YES 5) Will IM3 increase more than 58.6% on Friday? YES 6) Will DM make more than 85 mill? 5000 NO 7) Will Lone Ranger's 5 day be more than DM2's Wed and Saturday total? YES 8) Will The Heat fall more than 45%? NO 9) Will WHD fall more than 50%? NO 10) Will any film increase more than 91.6% on Friday? YES 11) Will any film increase more than 24.1% on Saturday? YES 12) Will any film fall less than 18% on Sunday? YES 13) Will MU fall less than 30% on Wednesday? YES 14) Will Monster's University fall less than 30%? NO 15) Will WWZ have a Saturday increase of more than 13%? YES 16) Will NYSM fall less than 22%? YES 17) Will TITE have a Thursday drop? NO 18) Will Kevin Hart make more than 8 million for the 5 day? YES 19) Will Kevin Hart have an opening day of more than 1.5 million? YES 20) Will MOS fall less than 43%? NO 16/20 4000 17/20 6000 18/20 8000 19/20 10,000 20/20 15,000 Bonus 1: What finishes is spots: 5 World War Z 6 White House Down 9 This Is The End 11 Fast & Furious 6 Bonus 2: What will the combined gross of DM2 and THR be for Wed? (three decimal places) 4000 37.130 Bonus 3: What will the top 12 cume be? three decimal places. 4000 213.703

Druv >>>>>>>>>>>>> Ed :)Isn't that how things are usually expressed around here?

So happy about MU incredible presales :wub:Go go MU, let's break records!!!

What movie? MOS? If so, no. Fireign/Hollywood movies typically get a 30 days/~1 month run.

Great hold for MU WWZ increased from initial estimates, so that's great. I hope the legs will be decently good MOS dropped better than what the trend indicated earlier, still a big drop but not as terrible. Looks like it'll get 11mil+ total. Thanks for the update Juni