Weekend Thread...Friday numbers (Deadline) HF: 6M| BBM: 5M| PD: 4.2| LLL: 3.97 (PG 18) - NOT THE PIRACY THREAD (OR THE POLITICS THREAD)

[JB33]

2 minutes ago, Valonqar said:

 

I agree with @robertman2 that Jump Street movies are great. So Han Solo is going to be too but, damn, what do they see in Bubblehead (sorry, his head is huge, man, like E.T. big)? He's a great actor but so not Han. Glover has Lando down path, tho.

 

Yeah, I love the Donald Glover casting. Ehrenreich has GIGANTIC shoes to fill but I'll give him a chance. Disney and Lucasfilm have to be aware of the utter sanctity of this character so I'm trusting that they know what they're doing with the casting.

[terrestrial]

Ha Solo movie:

based on e.g. CA Winter Soldier....

I guess we should know latest since CA 2 about that the director(s) can surprise with their work for an unusual to their known genre.... 

The screenwriters are Lawrence Kasdan and his son.

Lawrence Kasdan wrote then the scripts for a few films outside of SW 5 and 6 I really like.

His son wrote and directed In the Land of Women, I have not seen the film, but the summary sounds like he might be interested at least to include some development of a character

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L.A. soft-porn writer Carter Webb is frustrated enough, after his actress girlfriend dumps him, to need a serious break. He decides to spend it with his grandmother, who can't really take care of herself and her Detroit suburb house anyway. Helpful Carter soon overcomes mishaps to bond with the foxy neighbor across the street and her daughters. Helping them actually helps him regain perspective and self-confidence.

 

 

Sadly a great script (if it will be a great script) does not mean it will be a great film, a director can spin the story to something else entirely, see the differences between Buffy the film and the TV-series (both the same writer, the films's script was thought to be more like the TV-series, that the writer produced later on, a rare example to see the difference between the script as thought/idea/planed and the film made IMHO, no matter how good or bad, liked or not liked the end products).

I havent seen the Jump Street films, but I am hopeful for something nice, with the hope for something great. 

Btw, Kasdan (senior) also wrote Raiders of the Lost Ark (IMHO shows 'fun/comedic parts...' in a nice way) and wrote / directed Silverado too

 

I think it is the combination of impressions out of those films that let me hope quite a bit.

[trifle]

23 minutes ago, terrestrial said:

 

is that word based on the German 'Dreck'? (I guess so as it seems to mean in your use: not worthy anything, dirt,....?)

 

Yes!

[terrestrial]

8 minutes ago, trifle said:

Yes!

Thank you!

I am so used to find English terms in our language, but it always surprises me to see another German word/term made it into the English language.

[franfar]

1 hour ago, Giesi said:

Two consecutive years with a Star Wars movie on top of the year-end list, absolutely amazing! 

Disney right now 

 

and this year with Ep8

 

 

You're just referring to DOM #s right? Bc RO would need $200m more for WW #1, and I don't see that happening.

[cookie]

4 minutes ago, franfar said:

You're just referring to DOM #s right? Bc RO would need $200m more for WW #1, and I don't see that happening.

 

It's the fifth time this decade Disney's on top WW so they win either way.

[Brainiac5]

58 minutes ago, franfar said:

You're just referring to DOM #s right? Bc RO would need $200m more for WW #1, and I don't see that happening.

Is the flim still on track to cross a billion?

 

[terrestrial]

47 minutes ago, cookie said:

It's the fifth time this decade Disney's on top WW so they win either way.

 

plus especially in 2016, as it got already mentioned, they are probably not really bothering much which one is #1 or #5 

(BOM still didn't update OS = still 8 January, now we are in the phase: it will updated probably at Sunday, see early into a big release they update sometimes even daily the OS, then per Sunday, with luck in between when hitting a mark, then... after a long while, some late small adjustments for Dollar theatres or whatever)

 

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1	Captain America: Civil War	BV	$1,153.3	$408.1	35.4%	$745.2	64.6%
2	Finding Dory	BV	$1,027.9	$486.3	47.3%	$541.6	52.7%
3	Zootopia	BV	$1,023.8	$341.3	33.3%	$682.5	66.7%
4	The Jungle Book (2016)	BV	$966.6	$364.0	37.7%	$602.5	62.3%
5	Rogue One: A Star Wars Story	BV	$925.4	$488.3	52.8%	$437.1	47.2%

 

[YM!]

11 minutes ago, Brainiac5 said:

Is the flim still on track to cross a billion?

 

Yes. It has about $40M left here and enough steam left in the tank internationally to end at $1.05B

Edited January 14, 2017 by YourMother

[Brainiac5]

1 minute ago, YourMother said:

Yes. It has about $40M left here and enough steam left in the tank internationally to end at $1.05B

How much do you think it will end up with in china?

[DeeCee]

1 hour ago, terrestrial said:

Thank you!

I am so used to find English terms in our language, but it always surprises me to see another German word/term made it into the English language.

It's an English word now. Thank you. 

 

The English language. The great vacuum of languages. 

 

 

Edited January 14, 2017 by DeeCee

[YM!]

19 minutes ago, Brainiac5 said:

How much do you think it will end up with in china?

Unfortunately R1 flopped in China.

[#ED]

Where's the NFL Playoff discussion thread tho!?

[NCsoft]

1 hour ago, Brainiac5 said:

How much do you think it will end up with in china?

a bit more than 60 M, probably.

[elcaballero]

4 minutes ago, NCsoft said:

a bit more than 60 M, probably.

That would mean that Star Trek might actually beat Star Wars financially for once!

[Dragon]

slay hidden figures

[terrestrial]

41 minutes ago, YourMother said:

Unfortunately R1 flopped in China.

It made in China incl. Saturday's est. $49.9m since it opened there at 6 January.

It does confuse or annoy or bore or... at least some bigger parts of the Chinese GA for different reasons, at least 2-3 of all of those are in my POV based on avoidable mistakes by Disney China.

SW R1 has a bit worse exchange rate than SW 7 ($124,159,138) had last year.

SW R1 has stronger competition... too plus some Chinese calendar reasons, why its run (and all other foreign film's runs) will be even more short in considerable amounts as usual in China (in China all films are very front-loaded for reasons not being the same as in the US, just in case someone might not know).

It might end between $55m and maybe just under $60m. That is still a better SW 7 drop than in some Asian and other countries.

 

I'd not call it a big success, but also not a flop.

But for the sake of future releases I hope Disney China looks very closely   to what could have done in a better way. 

 

[Avatree]

so even accounting for the +22% extra cinemas this weekend, LLL is going to increase from last weekend... that's nuts. Nothing will stop this train.

[JonathanLB]

6 hours ago, Cmasterclay said:

Sad that Fences hasn't held better. I thought it was terrific. Also think that the complaint that it was "too much like a stage play" is maybe the sneaky worst go-to complaint of 2016. It's a Pulitzer Prize winning play that takes place entirely in one backyard. What did people expect, car chases and Denzel shooting people? It adds montages and season changes and a ton of subtle but classical shit that really adds to a work that would still be awesome if I filmed it on a cellphone in my own backyard. Great movie, man.

 

I think it's a valid criticism. Film is not the right medium for some types of stories, even if they are good stories. I personally enjoyed Fences, it was one of the better "awards movies" that came out, I thought. It's a tough subject, but had a clear message and I found the acting and dialogue superb. I thought it was surprisingly good, given what I expected. That being said, it's not cinematic. It doesn't lend itself to the medium, so I can't really call it a "great movie." It's an impactful story, though. I definitely would recommend it to people who are interested. You have to be in the mood to see that kinda movie, though.

 

Amazingly enough despite taking place in one location basically it's far more exciting than boring crap like Manchester and Moonlight, which were "cinematic." It didn't help they both had terrible cinematography, though. You can have as many locations as you want but if you literally set the camera down and don't move it for 3 minutes while actors talk in the distant background, you still may as well be watching a fuckin' play.

[Brainiac5]

1 hour ago, YourMother said:

Unfortunately R1 flopped in China.

I've heard the flim isn't doing well as many of us thought.

This is why I asked the "Is it still gonna make a billion" question ,just was wondering if this flims was gonna be a 500domestic grosser and not make a billion.

Overseas however ,I would have put R1 at 700+.Barely or not crossing 500o.s really shocks me.