Weekend #s June 3-5: TMNT2 35.25m, X:A 22.3m, MBY 18.27m, Alice 10.69m, Birds 9.775m

[The Futurist]

5 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:

John Wick is one movie I actually really WANT a sequel for, tbh. They did some really cool worldbuilding there, and also, it'll be fun as fuck. 

 

A Cat get canned this time ?

 

Edited June 3, 2016 by The Futurist

[CoolioD1]

2 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

 

A Cat get canned this time ?

 

set in italy this time. one can only imagine to set him off someone forgot to water the plants at his Roman holiday home.

Edited June 3, 2016 by CoolioD1

[department store basement]

Some consistent series I forgot were Step Up, Night at the Museum, and Insidious.

[Finnick]

What about the Fast and Furious  8, 9 and 10? And Uni are also talking about FF prequels and spinoff!!!!

 

[department store basement]

1 minute ago, leatherjacket said:

What about the Fast and Furious  8, 9 and 10? And Uni are also talking about FF prequels and spinoff!!!!

 

 

The franchise makes a TON of money, especially overseas. The sequels won't stop in the near future.

[franfar]

3 minutes ago, leatherjacket said:

What about the Fast and Furious  8, 9 and 10? And Uni are also talking about FF prequels and spinoff!!!!

 

Fast and Furious has been going on for 15 years, yet it's only been making more money over the past few years. You wanna know why? Because the franchise re-branded from racing-oriented, to heist-oriented with Fast Five.

[filmlover]

LOL I hope that Fast/Furious movie set in outer space actually happens. lmao.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

How about Transformers? All seem to be love or hate movies.

[La Binoche]

57 minutes ago, filmlover said:

This fall is going to be ruled by Haley Bennett. Watch yo back, JLaw! Cover your crown, Queen Brie!

 

Nope. This fall is going to be ruled by Queen Huppert. 

 

Her 1st punch: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/771443757/

 

Her 2nd punch: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/things_to_come_2016

 

America will finally know her name. 

 

[Ethan Hunt]

6 minutes ago, CaptainJackSparrow said:

How about Transformers? All seem to be love or hate movies.

Nah. They're super inconsistent. 1 is a masterpiece. 2 is an abomination.  3 is pretty good. 4 is pretty bad.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

The X Men movies for me. I quite like all of them, although X2 is by far my favorite.

[superweirdo87]

Hopefully, this will incentivize studio executives to hesitate more about sequels and consider them more carefully. Maybe, it can also make the climate more welcoming for original material without franchise potential. Jupiter Ascending and Tomorrowland are the outcomes that studio executives fear the most. But, maybe studio executives would warm to original material without a sky high budget.

 

Broadly, the risky nature of original material leaves one bind. Some argue that big bets are a viable business strategy for entertainment. So, it is sound to invest a lot in blockbusters/tentpoles to help them fly high. The thing is with original properties, there is potential for them to crash and burn with huge losses. WB over the past few years.

 

Clearly, though studios have gone too far at this point with the sequels and audiences are getting fed up.

[WrathOfHan]

I hope you guys enjoy the (relative) calmness of this weekend thread, because it's going to be trainwreck after trainwreck for these threads until Late August.

[CJohn]

Just now, WrathOfHan said:

I hope you guys enjoy the (relative) calmness of this weekend thread, because it's going to be trainwreck after trainwreck for these threads until Late August.

James Wan will save us next weekend.

[The Futurist]

The problem is that most of these movies are so expensive, I really can understand the nervousness of a studio executive green lighting a 100m-150m-200m tentpole from an untested property.

 

 

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, CJohn said:

James Wan will save us next weekend.

Honestly next weekend's thread could be an all timer. We're going to lose our shit over how well The Conjuring is doing, we'll have hordes of Warcraft fanboys, and we can laugh at NYSM2.

[CJohn]

2 minutes ago, The Futurist said:

The problem is that most of these movies are so expensive, I really can understand the nervousness of a studio executive green lighting a 100m-150m-200m tentpole from an untested property.

 

But really, if you were a Paramount executive wouldn't you greenlight a TMNT sequel? I would do it first thing in the Monday morning after the OW (which was what happened lol). 

 

The marketing for this sequel was also SHIT. Re-watch the trailers for the first movie. It were 500 times better. 

 

 

1 minute ago, WrathOfHan said:

Honestly next weekend's thread could be an all timer. We're going to lose our shit over how well The Conjuring is doing, we'll have hordes of Warcraft fanboys, and we can laugh at NYSM2.

Unlimited potential. Warcraft fanboys losing their shit and claiming China will be enough and that America has no taste and everyone made up their mind long before watching it. Ethan will suffer at our hands. And we will praise James Wan for saving us.

[The Futurist]

I would greenlight Dunkirk 2 & 3, that s for sure.

 

@WarnerBros

[Boxofficerules]

The marketplace seems way too crowded recently, 2 big movies last weekend, three this weekend, another three next weekend.

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, The Futurist said:

I would greenlight Dunkirk 2 & 3, that s for sure.

 

@WarnerBros

Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson are about to become Oscar winners, y'all.