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Friday numbers: THG3 - 6.8, HB2 - 2.8, PoM - 2.6 (weekend actuals on p12)

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Deep Wang Global Phenomenon

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really? there's been hardly any YA movies, Maze Runner, Divergent and Hunger Games. How is that a bit much? its not like comic book movies lol

You forgot The Fault in Our Stars. With that, were just as many YA movies this year as there were comic book movies.

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Jessie Global Phenomenon

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You forgot The Fault in Our Stars. With that, were just as many YA movies this year as there were comic book movies.

 

But atleast there is some diversity amongst the stories in which are told. CBM are all the same, Fault of our stars looks completely different to Divergent which looks completely different to Maze Runner, they just happened to be based on books that appeals to a younger crowd.

With CBM's its always the same, Good guy defeats bad guy, the end.

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Sal Box Office Gold

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But atleast there is some diversity amongst the stories in which are told. CBM are all the same, Fault of our stars looks completely different to Divergent which looks completely different to Maze Runner, they just happened to be based on books that appeals to a younger crowd.

With CBM's its always the same, Good guy defeats bad guy, the end.

 

Yes.  All comic book movies are the same.  Just like all comic books are the same.  In our field we're contractually obligated to just write Batman over and over again.  That's why you could never see a comic book about.. say... Death doing his job (Sandman), a teenage girl time travelling to the American Revolution in her sleep (The Dreamer), sentient sex robots (Sky Doll), Kids getting sucked into a different world to save their mom (Amulet), or Fairy Tale characters trapped in modern society (Fable).  It's not like that's the tip of the iceberg and there's a ton of other comics that are nothing like Batman.  

 

It's not like some of the movies that came out over the past few years are based on comic books that are nothing like the standard superhero fare: Cowboys Vs Aliens, The Crow, Heavy Metal, Josie and the Pussycats, The Mask, Men in Black, Red, Richie Rich, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Tales from the Crypt, Weird Science.

 

Thanks for pointing out to me how all these listed films are exactly the same because they're comic book movies.  Somehow I was dense enough to think they were completely different.

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miketheavenger Box Office Gold

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Apparently this was the worst post-Thanksgiving box office weekend since 1998: http://deadline.com/2014/12/hunger-games-mockingjay-weak-box-office-post-holiday-1201313756/ 

 

Hollywood seems to have written off 2014 by this point anyway.

Thankfully next year should be pretty awesome (at least from Furious 7's opening on).

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