SUICIDE SQUAD WEEKEND THREAD | New REVISED SUNDAY NUMBER 134m FROM GURU ON PG 212 | 267.1M WW OW | Nine Lives 6.5 OW |No Spoilers Allowed!!! | ACCOUNT SALES THIS WEEKEND - see first post for details !!

[JohnnyGossamer]

Any confirmation that $135M OW is high by at least a few million?

[Chewy]

Just now, nilephelan said:

 

No, we don't know that and I never said that.  

 

Hoo boy, we've got some Trumps in this thread it seems

[UrosepsisFace]

I love Variety and Brent Lang, much more than Deadline or THR:

 

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Warner Bros. had something to celebrate besides “Suicide Squad’s” hefty numbers. The studio crossed the $1 billion mark at the domestic box office over the weekend, powered by hits such as “Central Intelligence,” “The Conjuring 2” and even the much-loathed “Batman v Superman.” The studio is now the only Hollywood player to reach that milestone for 16 years in a row.

 

I'm glad Batman v Superman could give a little contribution to such successful movies as Central Intelligence and The Conjuring 2. Maybe WB should dump the DCEU movies since they're just the assist to their real hits doing the big lifting.

[Cmasterclay]

Some hope for summer: Apparently that movie Hell or High Water is this summer's version of The Gift- a late summer genre movie that everyone thought looked "meh" but turned out terrific. It's getting exceptional reviews. Plus, Sausage Party, Pete's Dragon, and Kubo are getting excellent word, too. I believe when Gopher says that he heard War Dogs is really good, but Todd Phillips movies are just not for me at all, I can't do that whole bro schtick (even in his better movies like Hangover 1 or Old School). It'd have to get fantastic reviews to convince me that's it tackling that subject in a smart way and not just like Tucker Max with guns. But still, August saving the summer! My birthday month showing out!

[Chewy]

Just now, Bishop54 said:

This one should have been in there without question:

• Joker and Harley then get into a fight, which ends with Harley pointing a gun at Joker's head. Joker sweet-talks Harley into lowering the gun, charming her, then backhands her across the face. Afterwards he sweet-talks her again and they kiss.

 

No. In fact I would argue that they should've cut the rest of Leto's scenes as well

[MCKillswitch123]

Dayum, quite the late rally up for the Squad, here. I come on here after all these hours, after hearing about the 35M Saturday, and then 135M OW slap across my face be making me like WOW IT'S SUNDAY ALREADY AND I'M GETTING OLD. MY OVER DEADPOOL OW BET ON THE CASINO LIVES ON

[MrPink]

1 minute ago, Cmasterclay said:

Some hope for summer: Apparently that movie Hell or High Water is this summer's version of The Gift- a late summer genre movie that everyone thought looked "meh" but turned out terrific. It's getting exceptional reviews. Plus, Sausage Party, Pete's Dragon, and Kubo are getting excellent word, too. I believe when Gopher says that he heard War Dogs is really good, but Todd Phillips movies are just not for me at all, I can't do that whole bro schtick (even in his better movies like Hangover 1 or Old School). It'd have to get fantastic reviews to convince me that's it tackling that subject in a smart way and not just like Tucker Max with guns. But still, August saving the summer! My birthday month showing out!

 

My man Chris Pine delivering so much quality this summer 

[UrosepsisFace]

3 minutes ago, The Panda said:

 

Sorry, I heard someone else say you said it and assumed it was true.

 

My Uber driver told me Wonder Woman has a 500m budget and it's a joyless mess with poor pacing and editing.

[eddyxx]

14 hours ago, nilephelan said:

 

This is bullshit and Tony Gilroy worked with Edwards in the same capacity on Godzilla.  

So it's gonna be shit? 

[Goffe]

35 minutes ago, Chewy said:

 

Well, yeah. But why? Splosions, colorful visual effects, kineticism, etc

my theory is that the brand Star Trek is seen as so hardcore nerd that people wouldn't even give it a chance.

 

my othet theory is that Paramount has never been that great at promoting their films overseas.

 

EDIT: shit, it has been said already.

Edited August 7, 2016 by Goffe

[UrosepsisFace]

2 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:

Some hope for summer: Apparently that movie Hell or High Water is this summer's version of The Gift- a late summer genre movie that everyone thought looked "meh" but turned out terrific. It's getting exceptional reviews. Plus, Sausage Party, Pete's Dragon, and Kubo are getting excellent word, too. I believe when Gopher says that he heard War Dogs is really good, but Todd Phillips movies are just not for me at all, I can't do that whole bro schtick (even in his better movies like Hangover 1 or Old School). It'd have to get fantastic reviews to convince me that's it tackling that subject in a smart way and not just like Tucker Max with guns. But still, August saving the summer! My birthday month showing out!

 

As with Star Trek Beyond, a movie needs to be more than good apparently to really do anything to the Box Office. I hope all of those have that ability. I'm especially looking forward to Sausage Party, Florence, and Kubo.

[a2k]

12 minutes ago, John Marston said:

one movie that has been saved overseas is Now You See Me 2 which already is at 250m overseas with some markets left to go. 

 

WARCRAFT probably the biggest beneficiary...
 

Domestic Total as of Jul. 28, 2016:$47,225,655 Distributor: Universal Release Date: June 10, 2016 Genre: Fantasy Runtime: 2 hrs. 3 min. MPAA Rating: PG-13 Production Budget: $160 million

 

Domestic:	$47,225,655	10.9%
+ Foreign:	$385,800,000	89.1%
= Worldwide:	$433,025,655

[Napoleon]

3 minutes ago, UrosepsisFace said:

I love Variety and Brent Lang, much more than Deadline or THR:

 

 

I'm glad Batman v Superman could give a little contribution to such successful movies as Central Intelligence and The Conjuring 2. Maybe WB should dump the DCEU movies since they're just the assist to their real hits doing the big lifting.

So that flop BVS had some use for WB after all. Nice.

[Cmasterclay]

2 minutes ago, MrPink said:

 

My man Chris Pine delivering so much quality this summer 

Chris Pine definitely has something more than alot of "handsome white dude" star actors do. He needs to do more roles like this. I thought that Hell or High Water movie looked like every generic crime thriller that gets like 55 percent on RT and people forget about in a week (like Triple 9 or something), but I've actually read some reviews for this that say it could be an awards contender if they push it hard enough. Pine and Judd Apatow produced movies saving the summer. God knows it needs it. 

[EmpireCity]

5 minutes ago, JohnnyGossamer said:

Any confirmation that $135M OW is high by at least a few million?

 

How could there be confirmation?  It is 11:35am Pacific time on Sunday and there is an entire day of business to go.  Nobody has any clue if it is estimated high or low.  

[filmlover]

4 minutes ago, MrPink said:

 

My man Chris Pine delivering so much quality this summer 

 

[terrestrial]

9 minutes ago, IMojammer said:

Now that you say that about GotG I vaguely remember seeing 190-something before.  And Ultron may have gotten something else back from other shooting locations or other sources but it may have cost even more than I said before. And yes, in one way or another different numbers can all be true, just depends on what the number is really pointing to.

 

I'm perfectly fine judging Suicide Squad against a 175m budget because of all the unknowns (and BvS and Civil War against  250).  But there's always going to be an asterisk beside all of them.

 

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Disney has spent $330.6 million on the movie since production began in February last year but $50.7 million of this was offset by payments from the tax authority.

 

Pinewood UK 20%, Pinewood Alabama 25%,... no wonder they (not only Disney) film there so much.

 

AoU had at least contracts with Samsung (including a theme thingy phone), Audi (paid a lot in the past for other movies), Harley Davidson, the citiy of Seoul (SK) alone paid $3.6m for being shown in the movie (and supported the movie's need for traffic regulations,... whatever maybe for free, read that somewhere, instead of having to pay for permissions like e.g. in New York), Adidas, Beats headphones, Korea Air (?), Under Armor (no idea what that is), Levis,...

 

After reading than about MoS gotten $160m for product placement I really started to get interested into learning more details about that. Sadly probably not a chance of support for non-action movies or indies or so. Before that I think Skyfall got something under $50m ($45m?) for product placement. Another detail smaller studios / projects might be in disadvantage.

[CoolioD1]

 

3 minutes ago, filmlover said:

 

 

[Dementeleus]

It's like people don't even want to reasonably talk anymore. Each of you has your own ironclad opinion, and fuck everyone else (including the studios).

[JohnnyGossamer]

10 minutes ago, Cmasterclay said:

Some hope for summer: Apparently that movie Hell or High Water is this summer's version of The Gift- a late summer genre movie that everyone thought looked "meh" but turned out terrific. It's getting exceptional reviews. Plus, Sausage Party, Pete's Dragon, and Kubo are getting excellent word, too. I believe when Gopher says that he heard War Dogs is really good, but Todd Phillips movies are just not for me at all, I can't do that whole bro schtick (even in his better movies like Hangover 1 or Old School). It'd have to get fantastic reviews to convince me that's it tackling that subject in a smart way and not just like Tucker Max with guns. But still, August saving the summer! My birthday month showing out!

August baby too. Used to such a shit month for movies. Things have changed.