Weekend Thread | Weekend Estimates - FD: $136.2M, CI: $34.5M, TC2: $15.56M, NYSM2: $9.65M, Flopcraft: $6.52M

[The Futurist]

Can Gerald Butler act ?

 

I am still not sure.

[BourneFan #1]

I rewatched Finding Nemo and Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation today.

[department store basement]

1 minute ago, The Futurist said:

Without the bear rape controversy, The Revenant would have been a flop.

 

Because a two and a half hour meditative & violent revenge movie set in a remote snowy place with an almost silent Leo, drooling like crazy doesn't scream box office smash to me in any circumstances.

 

Before its release, I had The Revenant at 60m dom & 80-85m best case scenario.

 

 

 

 

 

I actually expected Revenant to do really well and then Concussion and H8 underperformed so I got really worried. I was relieved when it did well in its wide weekend.

[Eric is Quiet]

2 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Paramount has four contenders this year: Arrival, Silence, Fences, and Allied. I'm not sure Allied can even make this year.

Then you add in Florence Foster Jenkins, which is guaranteed a Best Picture Comedy at the Golden Globes. It's funny, considering Paramount only had Big Short last year.

[Webslinger]

Yeah... bear rape and bear rape alone helped The Revenant to $180 million domestically. It totally wasn't an extremely widely-admired actor who picked up an Oscar for his performance.

 

I mean, DiCaprio or not, I'm still surprised that such a gonzo film made so much money (although the ad campaign did do a terrific job of selling the film), but it's hard to deny that DiCaprio's drawing power among mainstream and high-brow audiences and the deafening Best Actor buzz carried the film as far as it went.

[BourneFan #1]

Ultimate Alliance is coming to PS4 and Xbox One! http://gamerant.com/marvel-ultimate-alliance-ps4-xbox-one/

[Mojoguy]

The Lego Movie 2 just got pushed to February 2019, 5 years after the first one.

At least WB is releasing the LEGO Batman in 2017, to make the wait more bearable.

[WrathOfHan]

I think we're going to start seeing stuff shift for the second half of November soon, Thanksgiving alone already has two movies that probably won't make it: Allied and Bad Santa. The former just wrapped filming and the latter has been in production since January yet we've heard or seen nothing. Fantastic Beasts is all alone on November 18 too, so something else like Rules Don't Apply should be moved there.

 

Edit: The Disappointments Room is also on the 18th, but that's going to bomb  

Edited June 18, 2016 by WrathOfHan

[Nova]

Are we doing a parking lot check in this thread? Because DAMN MY THEATER WAS PACKED!!!! 

[department store basement]

5 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Or it could just be Gangster Squad 2.0 (which was moved because of the theater shootings/reshoots but was a crappy movie regardless).

 

I love GS. Hammy Sean Penn all the way. GS wasn't Oscar material because it was goofy as hell

[Fancyarcher]

9 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Maybe they're gonna move Collateral Beauty to 2017 and give Live By Night its slot. I mean, if the movie is high quality, no reason to let it sit in the can for a year if it's gonna be done in time.

 

According to early screenings Collateral Beauty is a dud, so something like this wouldn't surprise me.

[That One Girl]

I feel like WB is gonna move up Ninjago to a Feb. 2018 spot.

[The Futurist]

1 minute ago, Webslinger said:

Yeah... bear rape and bear rape alone helped The Revenant to $180 million domestically. It totally wasn't an extremely widely-admired actor who picked up an Oscar for his performance.

 

I mean, DiCaprio or not, I'm still surprised that such a gonzo film made so much money (although the ad campaign did do a terrific job of selling the film), but it's hard to deny that DiCaprio's drawing power among mainstream and high-brow audiences and the deafening Best Actor buzz carried the film as far as it went.

 

The film is spectacular somewhat (full of CGI tho like your average Marvel movie) but damn isn't it austere and so so self-serious to the point of parody.

 

 

[That One Girl]

Just now, Daniel Dylan Davis said:

 

According to early screenings Collateral Beauty is a dud, so something like this wouldn't surprise me.

 

Link?

[BourneFan #1]

My dad told me he wants to see Ninja Turtles for Father's Day.

[WrathOfHan]

1 minute ago, ThatOneGuy said:

 

Link?

It only started screening the other day but many have read the script and say it's terrible. 

[department store basement]

5 minutes ago, CoolEric258 said:

Then you add in Florence Foster Jenkins, which is guaranteed a Best Picture Comedy at the Golden Globes.

 

Are you sure about that?

[filmlover]

4 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

I think we're going to start seeing stuff shift for the second half of November soon, Thanksgiving alone already has two movies that probably won't make it: Allied and Bad Santa. The former just wrapped filming and the latter has been in production since January yet we've heard or seen nothing. Fantastic Beasts is all alone on November 18 too, so something else like Rules Don't Apply should be moved there.

 

Edit: The Disappointments Room is also on the 18th, but that's going to bomb  

I doubt anything released by Relativity (or whatever's left of them) will actually make its currently planned release date.

[Arlborn]

38 minutes ago, BourneFan #1 said:

Why are you guys still talking about X-Men? What an unmemorable film.

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, department store basement said:

 

Are you sure about that?

It's the Golden Globes