WKND Est. - Hobbit 56M, NATM 17M, Annie 16M, Exodus 8M, Mockingjay 7M, John Wick 115K, Interview 0M

[John Marston]

I looked at BOM and that would give it better %s each day this weekend than all three LOTR movies. I don't understand why people keep saying it's bad here. Almost every single article I've read these past few days seems to think the movie is doing is great.

Because an opening like that would easily make it the lowest grossing of the three despite finale factor. It also pretty much kills the movies chances for a billion

[La Binoche]

Mockingjay is surviving nicely after a softer than expected start. 

 

Fox’s second weekend of “Exodus: Gods and Kings” will battle for the fourth slot with Lionsgate’s fifth weekend of “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1″ in the $10 million to $12 million range.

For “Exodus,” that would represent a decline of more than 50% and leave the Christian Bale religious tale with $42 million in 10 days. For “Mockingjay,” it would be an impressive hold of under 20% with a 31-day U.S. cume of $292 million — just $40 million short of the top domestic grosser, “Guardians of the Galaxy.”

 

[Frozen]

I don't trust any estimates on Mockingjay anymore. They are always way too high.

[baumer]

I dont trust numbers at 7pm EST.

[grim22]

Mockingjay is surviving nicely after a softer than expected start. 

 

For Mockingjay to do 10-12M for the weekend, it would need an increase of 200% today from Thursday numbers, 8.5M is a more realistic number for Mockingjay.

[CJohn]

An Unexpected Journey did more in 3 days than Battle of the Five Armies will do in 5. Good for NATM3 and Annie.

[Noctis]

Will someone please explain how Annie "looks like crap" ? How does it look like crap by looking at it? You can look at Seventh Son and tell its crap. You could look st Oogieloves and tell its crap. You could look at all low-budget R rated sex comedies and tell theyre all crap. How does Annie? It looks typical. You guys think if its not for you, its not for anyone, thats wrong and so subjective.

Because it looks like shit.

[ecstasy]

I think it's because John Huston had some hallucination that he was the new Vincent Minelli. 

 

The only great American film musicals in the last three decades have been animated.  Other than that only handful are even good.

 

Sad since this used to be a genre at which Hollywood once excelled.

 

What was the last successful movie musical? Les Mis did well and that one other movie with Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan. That movie did incredibly well. But those Broadway musicals to movies seem to miss the mark. I guess Dream Girls did okay. But Rent sure did fail.

[Ando918]

Horror elements turned off musical lovers and musical elements turned off horror lovers.

The thing is, the horror is not the least bit frightening or dark.  When Depp gashes someone's neck, Burton makes sure to let the audience know that there is a tube of ketchup glued to the neck and makes it squirt everywhere in an unrealistic way.  It makes it outrageously entertaining.  

[Ando918]

Just saw "Wild."  Impressed by how quiet and restrained the movie is.  No really loud noises, not much music.  Just a quiet look at human behavior.  And a young boy singing to her for about a minute at the end is very touching.  I was one of 2 males in the theater.  2 males, 6 females, and all of the females looked at least 35 years old.

[grim22]

Wonder what North Koreas response will be: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hustler-produce-porn-parody-interview-759578?utm_source=twitter

 

The porn industry is jumping onto the bandwagon in the wake of the Sony cyberattack.
 

Hustler Video, the purveyor of an endlessly expanding library of pornographic parodies of pop cultural touchstones, from The Simpsons to Glee to Game of Thrones, will produce This Ain't the Interview XXX, an adult-video spoof of the Seth Rogen North Korea-set comedy.
 

The story will center on two civilians recruited by the CIA to assassinate the leader of North Korea. 
 

"If Kim Jong Un and his henchmen were upset before, wait till they see the movie we're going to make," Flynt added.

 

[TLK]

$20 million OW for Annie will translate to over $80 million domestic gross. That's not bad.

[grim22]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-hobbit-battles-80-757332

 

Hobbit 3 - 15M / 80+ 5 day

Annie - 7M / 20

NATM - 6.5-7.5M / 20+

[4815162342]

Noctis and Baumer liking Hobbit 3 has been the kiss of death. The BOFverse couldn't handle it.

Edited December 20, 2014 by 4815162342

[MrPink]

Noctis and Baumer liking Hobbit 3 has been the kiss of death. The BOFverse couldn't handle it.

 

We just needed Elessar to hate it to complete the paradox

[4815162342]

We just needed Elessar to hate it to complete the paradox

 

Unfortunately it was an imperfect lock

[Incarnadine]

What was the last successful movie musical? Les Mis did well and that one other movie with Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan. That movie did incredibly well. But those Broadway musicals to movies seem to miss the mark. I guess Dream Girls did okay. But Rent sure did fail.

Les Miserables (2012) $148.8m domestic , $448.8m WW

Mamma Mia (2008)  $144.1M domestic, $609.8m WW

Chicago (2002) $170.7M domestic, $306.8m WW

[narniadis]

I would say the last big - as in more than 150m - musical was Chicago back in 2002 but Mamma Mia was such a beast all around back in 08.

[Noctis]

I would say the last big - as in more than 150m - musical was Chicago back in 2002 but Mamma Mia was such a beast all around back in 08.

 

Lame sig.

[narniadis]

Lame sig.

And you're an ass. Everybody good?