Weeknd Official Est: Apes 2 - 73M | Friday Numbers and Saturday Numbers on Page 1

[Blankments]

Going on my box office strike now, will be back on August 11th.Godzilla better be at 200 mil by then, I can't stand watching it keep dropping heavily!

...Box office strike?

[Jack Nevada]

Some very cool news:

 

RTH is coming to Toronto in September, presumably for the film festival.  We are more than likely going to meet up, maybe see a movie, have a few drinks, discuss what it's like to be a God. 

Nice.

[Blankments]

Trailers for Apes 2 are a lot better than HTTYD2 trailers.

They both sucked. Fox's marketing in general has been awful this summer

[Dementeleus]

Some very cool news:

 

RTH is coming to Toronto in September, presumably for the film festival.  We are more than likely going to meet up, maybe see a movie, have a few drinks, discuss what it's like to be a God. 

 

[kitik]

Can we now laugh at all the fans who jumped on the Miami bandwagon over the last few years.

Man the lifeboats!

[Krissykins]

I'm starting to have a feeling about Guardians of the Galaxy.I was in Forbidden Planet today (first time in years) in Glasgow (a comic store). A wee boy of about 8 years old was buying something to do with the film, stickers or cards I think. The guy behind the counter, who was about 35 said "Are you looking forward to the film?" The wee boy said "yes!! it looks so good" and the guy behind the counter said "amazing, it's going to be amazing".Something about that moment, where someone as young as 8 and someone in their 30s, who don't know each other, had the same excitement for a film. Really interesting.

[Mulder]

I'm starting to have a feeling about Guardians of the Galaxy.I was in Forbidden Planet today (first time in years) in Glasgow (a comic store). A wee boy of about 8 years old was buying something to do with the film, stickers or cards I think. The guy behind the counter, who was about 35 said "Are you looking forward to the film?" The wee boy said "yes!! it looks so good" and the guy behind the counter said "amazing, it's going to be amazing".Something about that moment, where someone as young as 8 and someone in their 30s, who don't know each other, had the same excitement for a film.Really interesting.

Watch GoTG do 200+ million therefore wrecking Baumer's BSG score. 

[miketheavenger]

Well, when I say "good legs" I guess I really mean "better legs than the other big openers this summer"

I don't see how Apes could have worse legs than Godzilla, Spidey 2 or even X-Men. I don't see how Apes could have better legs than Maleficent. So I guess a 3x multiplier is pretty reasonable for it.

[Jandrew]

Ed stole my joke, don't give him likes.

 

Anyway, I just saw a tv spot for Malificent on TV...like 7 weeks later. I never see that. They're making less money on it now than in the first few weeks, but they obviously want it to move that doh. It really is a GA power.

Edited July 11, 2014 by Ayy Lmao

[baumer]

 

Yea, you're next.  I will have some vacation time next year.  I'm thinking of either A) going out to California or going to Africa....polar opposites for sure, but still, I was supposed to be in LA last November and that didn't work out, so I owe Cali a visit.

[#ED]

Can we now laugh at all the fans who jumped on the Miami bandwagon over the last few years.

Man the lifeboats!

But what about those Cleveland fans?

[Jack Nevada]

Yea, you're next.  I will have some vacation time next year.  I'm thinking of either A) going out to California or going to Africa....polar opposites for sure, but still, I was supposed to be in LA last November and that didn't work out, so I owe Cali a visit.

Why Africa?

[#ED]

I wasn't invited. So...

[TalismanRing]

I don't see how Apes could have worse legs than Godzilla, Spidey 2 or even X-Men. I don't see how Apes could have better legs than Maleficent. So I guess a 3x multiplier is pretty reasonable for it.

 

X-Men multiplier is going to be almost 2.6 - not bad at all.

[kitik]

Some very cool news:

 

RTH is coming to Toronto in September, presumably for the film festival.  We are more than likely going to meet up, maybe see a movie, have a few drinks, discuss what it's like to be a God. 

 

 

Cool.

 

Baumer, can I expect to meet you down in Ohio for this:

 

 

 

 

It's.....

ROCKPOCALYPSE!!!

9pm, Saturday August 2nd 'til Dawn, Sunday August 3rd!

At the Drexel Theater (2254 E. Main St., Columbus, Ohio)!

Buy your admittance to the madness for a mere

$10 at the door, night of show only!!!

It's an all-night extravaganza of excruciating agony as some of the worst rock movies ever committed to celluloid assault your eyes, your ears, your sense of what it means to rock! Do you have the guts to endure a night so unforgettably atrocious that you'll warn your children, and their children, to avoid these films like the plague? Can you sit through the unrelenting onslaught of the worst films on rock and the worst rock on film? Is there a soft spot in your heart for Freddie and the Dreamers? Rock festivals? Disco? Eighties hair bands? This may be just the corrective therapy that you need. Each feature will be preceded by a multitude of vintage trailers and shorts to properly contextualize each of these crimes against music and cinema.

CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED!

CUCKOO PATROL (1967)

The second year of the British Invasion brought a wave of bands from Manchester, England-England. Why was Morrissey so depressed? His hometown legacy of Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Herman's Hermits and Freddie and the Dreamers topping the U.S. charts for five consecutive weeks in the spring of '65 may have had something to do with it. On the heels of a more leisurely success in Britain, Freddie and the Dreamers, featuring a hyperactive Jerry Lewis-like stage presence and the cartoonish goose-stepping Freddie dance which they tried to inflict on America, had two fevered months of chart success and frenetic TV appearances stateside. After a couple of earlier brief musical appearances and again as supporting cast in a teen comedy on Brit movie screens, they parlayed this new demand into their own desperate stab at Laurel and Hardy-esque comedic leading roles. Freddie and the lads star as a sadly inept boy scout troop in this would-be HARD DAY'S NIGHT-style comedy, minus the wit, charm, cinematic or musical talent. Though produced in 1965, it wouldn't be released in England until 1967, and then only as a barely mentioned second billing to the American adventure AFRICA: TEXAS STYLE. If there were ever any posters produced for CUCKOO PATROL itself, they've completely disappeared. You'll discover why an American release never materialized and actually wish that they'd sing more, and even do that stupid dance. Perhaps the longest 76 minutes of your life!

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED (1977)

NOT ON DVD!

The Monterey Pop Festival in '67 launched the age of rock extravaganzas and in '69 Woodstock kicked things into high gear. Amid a flurry of 1970 all-star tours and mega-events, a group of entrepreneurs hoped to cash in by staging another Woodstock, but this time in the heart of New York City, and filming it. What could go wrong?! Every special interest group within a subway ride of Randalls Island demanded a piece of the action. A woefully unprepared film crew generated little in the way of useable footage of performances by Mountain, Van Morrison and the few acts who performed before other stars began refusing to go on stage, given the frightening chaos rapidly descending around the festivities. The existing footage languished for years before the producers had the brilliant idea to emulate GIMME SHELTER by re-staging the behind the scenes drama for a 1977 release, with aging deejay and self-proclaimed fifth Beatle Murray the K playing himself as the lynchpin of these wheelings and dealings. Again, what could go wrong?

CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC (1980)

It was a double feature of XANADU and this disco opus from producer Allan Carr which inspired the beloved institution we've come to know as the Razzies, the Golden Raspberry Awards. CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC took the inaugural awards for Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay. Actress Nancy Walker's directorial debut kicks the already rotting corpse of mainstream disco around the mirror-balled dance floor for one last twirl. Village People's 15 minutes were pretty much up as their fictionalized biopic drags Valerie Perrine, Steve Guttenberg and Olympic decathlon gold medal winner Bruce Jenner down, down, down into a disco inferno which must have gotten at least a few agents fired. Young man, don't put on those short-shorts! Will America, having previously declined to embrace the Freddie dance craze, now become obsessed with doing the Milkshake?

INCIDENT AT CHANNEL Q (1986)

NOT ON DVD!

Much like the 1950s rock films with Alan Freed and a bevy of acts, the plot here is just an excuse to string together a bunch of mid-'80s music videos. Tension between the straight-laced community and a station playing hard rock videos erupts as a disgruntled employee barricades himself inside and plays nothing but the metalhead videos he loves. Al Corley "risks all. And makes sure that Rock Ain't Dead." Album cover graphics legend Storm Thorgerson (almost all the Pink Floyd covers, classic Zeppelin, Sabbath, list list goes on, look him up) broadens his music video work to take on a feature, a fact generally unmentioned in most of his 2013 obituaries. Featuring "uncensored" videos from Kiss, Scorpions, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, Rush, Deep Purple, Lita Ford, Golden Earring, Motorhead and Rainbow.

[baumer]

Some very cool news:

 

RTH is coming to Toronto in September, presumably for the film festival.  We are more than likely going to meet up, maybe see a movie, have a few drinks, discuss what it's like to be a God. 

 

And if this does happen, this will be the second person I have met in Toronto from the forums, and funny enough, both of them will have been gay men....hmmmmmm....maybe God is trying to tell me something. 

[#ED]

It would cost me about $1400 to visit Tele.So yeah...Apes has better chances at 100M this weekend.

[Blankments]

Playboy interview with Eddie Murphy about Landis from 1990:

 

PLAYBOY: You could have directed Coming to America but didn't. Why? 

MURPHY: I wanted to help out [the director, John] Landis. I figured I'd give this guy a shot because his career was fucked. But he wound up fucking me. 

PLAYBOY: What happened? 

MURPHY: As it turned out, John always resented that I hadn't gone to his Twilight Zone trial. I never knew that; I though we were cool. But he'd been harboring it for a year. Every now and then, he would make little remarks, like, "You didn't help me out; you don't realize how close I was to going to jail." I never paid any mind. 

PLAYBOY: Did you think he was guilty? 

MURPHY: I don't want to say who was guilty or who was innocent. [Pauses] But if you're directing a movie and two kids get their heads chopped off at fucking twelve o'clock at night when there ain't supposed to be kids working, and you said, "Action!" then you have some sort of responsibility. So my principles wouldn't let me go down there and sit in court. That's just the way I am. If somebody in my family was guilty of something, I wouldn't sit there for them in a courtroom and say, "You've got my support." Fuck that. The most it would be is, "Hey, you go work that out. I still love ya; I'm still your friend." 

Can this Eddie Murphy return? I've missed him

[baumer]

Why Africa?

 

Because I met a travel agent through work who said that going on a safari is great for single people traveling alone.  It's affordable and when you go to the hotel and then book the excursions, they then place you in a group of other travelers so that you are never alone on the trips.  It sounds like a cool vacation.

[CoolioD1]

Why Africa?

Blended really effected baumer on a deep level.