Weekend Estimates: Minions - 115.2M; JW - 18.1M; Inside Out - 17.1M; Gallows - 10M; Self/Less - 5.4M; MMXXL - 9.6M; T5 - 13.7M

[Hatebox]

My theory is that Reynolds will never be popular because he has a weirdly formed mouth.

[TalismanRing]

Ew. Shit for Minions. Shittier that IO and JW are hit. Shittiest that there will be no recovery from 4th July and no breakout.

 

It's  $100M+ opening for twinkies doing gibberish and pratfalls with mediocre reviews for a movie made for about $75m. It's a rousing financial success.

Edited July 10, 2015 by TalismanRing

[grim22]

Batman Begins and Casino Royals both being crowd pleasers, critical and commercial hits in back to back years has directly led to the large number of reimaginings we see to this day.

[Cmasterclay]

That movie was a producer s movie.

It cannot be good.

Martin Campbell's did a bang up job with action direction before Casino Royale in GoldenEye and Mask of Zorro. Staging action in and of itself is a skill, and Campbell clearly has it. But keep trying with the whole unreasonably "edgy" and contrarian thing, it's a good look. 

Edited July 10, 2015 by cmasterclay

[ddddeeee]

My theory is that Reynolds will never be popular because he has a weirdly formed mouth.

Someone on here (Chewy?) said he has a face for comedy but the body for action so he ends up being awkward in both.

[Cmasterclay]

NP 

Edited July 10, 2015 by cmasterclay

[grim22]

Ew. Shit for Minions. Shittier that IO and JW are hit. Shittiest that there will be no recovery from 4th July and no breakout.

We're going to see an animated movie open to more than 100M. Not sure how that is shit.

[ddddeeee]

That movie was a producer s movie.

It cannot be good.

Pretty awesome that the producers were fine with the showstopping action scenes being done by the first half and the second half being driven by a romance and card games.

[Hatebox]

Someone on here (Chewy?) said he has a face for comedy but the body for action so he ends up being awkward in both.

 

Wow, that's exactly right. His slightly camp voice also blurs that line.

[CJohn]

Batman Begins and Casino Royals both being crowd pleasers, critical and commercial hits in back to back years has directly led to the large number of reimaginings we see to this day.

We have to thank both of them for Josh Trank's Fant4stic. Edited July 10, 2015 by CJohn

[BenedictL11]

We're going to see an animated movie open to more than 100M. Not sure how that is shit.

Minions will still open above $100M. Nothing wrong with that at all. If there is something to worry about is Terminator 5. It won't even get to $100M DOM unless it sees a high Friday increase tonight.

[MrFanaticGuy34]

I'll have to side with Gopher's highest number on MInions.

[grim22]

We have to thank both of them for Josh Trank's Fant4stic.

I think Fantastic Four (they changed the stylization) will be well reviewed. We may see a First Class level surprise in 3 weeks.

[Jonwo]

$110m is pretty good and the film is already profitable but I do think it's not going to have good legs. I'm hoping Illumination steps up their game with Pets and the untitled film because complacency is never good in the long run.

Edited July 10, 2015 by Jonwo

[CJohn]

I think Fantastic Four (they changed the stylization) will be well reviewed. We may see a First Class level surprise in 3 weeks.

Yeah... Keep believing that. Edited July 10, 2015 by CJohn

[RthDeadWov]

What about JW and IO?

IO taken big hit for now 3.4-4, JP4 3.8-4.5

[ddddeeee]

I think Fantastic Four (they changed the stylization) will be well reviewed. We may see a First Class level surprise in 3 weeks.

I hope so. I need the next trend for superhero reboots to be to have a Philip Glass score.

[The Futurist]

Martin Campbell's did a bang up job with action direction before Casino Royale in GoldenEye and Mask of Zorro. Staging action in and of itself is a skill, and Campbell clearly has it. But keep trying with the whole unreasonably "edgy" and contrarian thing, it's a good look. 

 

Just giving my opinion, don't care if it s seen as edgy or whatever.

I think you simplify things way too much, choosing films that fit your reasoning, making broad generalizations.

 

Moviemaking is such a collaborative process that, to me, great films are more happy accidents than everything else, even if I don't discount the importance of directors.

 

Let s agree to disagree.

 

[CJohn]

IO taken big hit for now 3.4-4, JP4 3.8-4.5

Thanks Rth.

A mod that is not on his phone, please had this to the first post.

[Ethan Hunt]

Wait there are people here who don't think Dory is gonna open over TS3... Da fauq