Weekend Numbers Jan 23-25 pg 46(AS 64 mill, Mom's cookies 15)

[Ando918]

Monday and Tuesday might drop more than expected to even out the exceptional above 60 million weekend.  Anywhere from 12-26 inches of snow from Pennsylvania to Maine.  That area's population is about 1/4 of the entire country.

Edited January 26, 2015 by Ando81

[Jandrew]

Its okay middle America is enjoying 60 degrees and sunshine. Moonshine-Palooza and the Banjo Brawl ends tomorrow so we'll just head to AS this week to make up for you lazy ass northern folk.

[Ando918]

Tell Cletus from The Simpsons that we said hello.

[Mattrek]

Although I liked Foxcatcher, it's lol-worthy that everyone's yelling at everyone to stop expressing their opinion. I mean, in the grand scheme of things, what's more annoying, someone expressing that a movie doesn't deserve money or Pokemon porn?

Please, express your opinion, that's why we're all here to talk about movies within a community. There's nothing wrong with that. Saying your opinion over and over and over (the energizer bunny would run out sooner then some of the users here) is the part that gets grating.

[Deep Wang]

Monday and Tuesday might drop more than expected to even out the exceptional above 60 million weekend.  Anywhere from 12-26 inches of snow from Pennsylvania to Maine.  That area's population is about 1/4 of the entire country.

 

Kinda like last Tuesday and Wednesday evened out the exceptional holiday opening weekend?

[DAJK]

Birdman was the best movie I've seen this year. It should win the BP but I'm ok with AS winning it so it can gross as much as possible.

I do agree in the sense that I want to experixe a scenario where AS actually wins BP, and ends up grossing something crazy like 500M. But on the other hand, it's not the best film of the year so...

Conflicted.

[narniadis]

After letting Boyhood sit for a couple days It is definately falling in my oscar rankings. While AS made a big splash for a film that I wasn't even looking for on my list. Still can't believe that if you take out AS, Imitation tops the list at 60m - rediculously small sample sizes this year. (Still need to see Whiplash and Selma) hoping that Whiplash's Box-Office will catch on.

[forg]

I read an interview with Harvey Weinstein on Deadline and he is confident that The Imitation Game will cross 100M before the Oscar awards. He also explained why he handled Snowpiercer that way http://deadline.com/2015/01/harvey-weinstein-the-imitation-game-oscar-bad-mouthing-sony-hack-quentin-tarantino-1201358304/

[forg]

And the reason why JLo's Boy Next Door only cost $4M

http://deadline.com/2015/01/jennifer-lopez-johnny-depp-boy-next-door-mortdecai-box-office-1201358275/

 

Lopez was looking to do a Fatal Attraction-type popcorn thriller reminiscent of those in the 1980s and ’90s. She and producer Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, who was behind the actress’ 2002 film Maid In Manhattan and her TV movie doc Jennifer Lopez: Dance Again, received a call from Blumhouse who was looking for the right lead for the Barbara Curry script.

Said Goldsmith-Thomas: “We loved the idea of investing in ourselves and taking no money upfront. Our attitude was, ‘Let’s put on a show.’ We all literally shared Jennifer’s trailer. We rehearsed at her house and she pulled costumes out of her closet. All the money was up on the screen and the idea of becoming a participant was the idea we embraced. We shot the film in 23 days.”

At the PGA Awards last night, Jason Blum gave props to Lopez’s CAA agent Kevin Huvane for pointing her in Blumhouse’s direction. “I’m grateful to her for trying our (production) system,” said Blum.

Edited January 26, 2015 by forg

[TLK]

All Blumhouse movies cost $4 million. They shoot 20 movies a year and their business model assumes that a quarter of them won't ever get released in ANY format.

Edited January 26, 2015 by TLK

[Rudolf]

Either way, I just think there is definitely something with Mr Waltz that just grabs your attention whenever he's in a scene. I particularly loved him in Django Unchained.

yes I liked him too, but if you see him again and again in several movies, this splendid actor becomes boring. There is simply too much Depp , Fischer or Waltz and the character is less important. Actors like DiCaprio are more versatile and give the character they are playing more room. I prefer that.

[Rudolf]

Its not really that AS won't win BP(although I'd love to see it win just to see how high the BO would go given that Boyhood is the frontrunner), its the fact that they keep handing BP to shit nobody cares about like The King's Speech, The Artist, and now Boyhood(the list goes on) which keeps making them increasingly irrelevant outside of film circles.  Now I'm not one of those populists that thinks "mainstream" or "blockbusters" like Dawn of the Planet of the Apes or fanboy films should be nominated as if they have or should have a realistic shot at winning, I'm saying they should probably start awarding films that are worthy of it AND ones people will remember. 

 

The only thing impressive about Boyhood is literally watching a kid grow older before your eyes on screen, other than that it is has terrible dialogue and a bunch of corny scenes with no real story, its just boring scene after boring scene.  I don't care if I get flamed by apologists, its a forgettable film with just 1 impressive trait.  How about giving it to Birdman, or some other films that should have been nominated like Gone Girl instead of "omfg this movie was filmed over 12 years!!!!11"

As I have not seen either AS or Boyhood up to now, it is hard for me to utter an opinion on them, but I am thinking the most worthy movies for BP are the ones that are really well made and were seen by a lot of people. Terrible but popular fanboy movies or artsy movie nobody really is interested in should not be considered.

AS got a BP nomination (it is a movie I am really intersted in seeing) and now it makes a killing at the BO, so I think it is a worthy movie. Wether it should get the award in front of the other contenders, I don't know. But if it really gets an extreme BO in the end and not win BP, than people will be annoyed by the academy, whether deserved or not doesn't matter that much, but the Oscars will suffer and get irrelevant year by year.

[Jessie]

I really don't see why DOTPOTA isn't worthy of a BP nomination. The themes the academy tend to go for are definitely there, its very well made and has a relevant, emotional story. The only thing keeping it from a nod seems to be the fact its part of a franchise which is silly imo. Certainly more deserving than 'The Theory of everything' and 'The Grand shitfest hotel'

[filmscholar]

So "Selma" has outgrossed, "The Theory of Everything, Boyhood, Birdman and foxcatcher".   And "American Sniper" is outgrossing them all, LOL.   Good for J Lo, it was low budget so that's going to be a nice return.   Johnny just can't catch a break right now.  God.  I'm not surprised by "Strange Magic", seemed like Dinsey just dumped it in Jan, didn't really promote it like that.  Lucas seemed to do most of the promotion.  The good news for "Sniper" is every movie in the Top 10 most 2nd Weekends ended up grossing over 300 Million.  

[Avatree]

I really don't see why DOTPOTA isn't worthy of a BP nomination. The themes the academy tend to go for are definitely there, its very well made and has a relevant, emotional story. The only thing keeping it from a nod seems to be the fact its part of a franchise which is silly imo. Certainly more deserving than 'The Theory of everything' and 'The Grand shitfest hotel'

I agree to an extent, but at the end of the day it's a big-budget franchise film, so it'll never succeed at the oscars. That sort of reasoning is why I don't really care about the oscars

[acsc1312]

LMAO DOTPOTA is far from BP worthy

[Donald]

RTH pliz see us now

[filmscholar]

Snow Blizzard on the East Coast guys.  Box Office will drop. 

[Donald]

The main market for this is the south...so

No!

[eddyxx]

I agree to an extent, but at the end of the day it's a big-budget franchise film, so it'll never succeed at the oscars. That sort of reasoning is why I don't really care about the oscars

 

Return of the King?