A Really Boring Weekend Thread | Weekend Estimates: F8 38.7M | Boss Baby 12.8M | Beauty and the Beast 10M | everything else bombing terribly

[Jandrew]

21 minutes ago, GiantCALBears said:

http://forward.com/sisterhood/347307/how-the-knocked-up-sexism-debacle-exemplifies-misogyny-in-hollywood/

 

[drdungbeetle]

Ah yes more Katherine Heigl movies, that's the cure to Hollywood's BO woes

[grey ghost]

22 minutes ago, Elessar said:

 

I dunno if that's what it was. It read more like he wanted to play a bigger part. The issues he had with the script pertained to his role, not the movie in general. I guess i can understand that.

 

 

I'm not sure why they would refuse to make a Predator sequel centered around an older Dutch.

 

Most fans would kill for that movie.

[John Marston]

51 minutes ago, grim22 said:

Arnold is actually building up a pretty good filmography in Direct to VOD movies now. Playing very different characters which go completely against type and he looks to be enjoying himself as well minus the expectations of box office.

 

 

Arnold should join Nicole Kidman in doing another DC movie

[Webslinger]

18 minutes ago, jandrew said:

 

Knocked Up is sexist? Thats news to me. It was on tv just a few days ago.

 

Perhaps "sexist" is too strong of a word, but it's that got tagged to Heigl's decision to complain about the women in the film coming across as "shrew-like." I love the film dearly (it's handily one of my favorite comedies of the 2000s), but she's not wrong: the most prominent female characters in the film are made to look uptight by bossing the men around and are made to feel guilty for taking time for themselves (see: the very funny "DOORMAN!" scene) while the men get to slack around for much longer before the script finally calls them out for acting irresponsibly.

 

It's a damn funny movie that I think is ultimately fair to its characters, but it's tough not to see a decidedly male slant to it. That being said, it's leagues upon leagues more woke (woker?) than The Ugly Truth, whose understanding of gender dynamics basically amounted to "men are chauvinist pigs, but women are shallow too, so that's okay as long as everyone's honest about it."

[Maxmoser3]

Open Road might be shutting down at the end of the year, since The Promise($90 million production minus P&A) is a huge flop for them.

[grim22]

1 minute ago, John Marston said:

 

 

Arnold should join Nicole Kidman in doing another DC movie

 

Wouldn't be surprised if he showed up in one. There were rumors he was in talks.

[John Marston]

oh shit Val. He looks near death

 

 

[grim22]

Just now, Maxmoser3 said:

Open Road might be shutting down at the end of the year, since The Promise($90 million production minus P&A) is a huge flop for them.

 

They funded nothing of it. The Promise is a passion project funded by a billionaire Kirk Kerkorian who passed away a year ago. It was pretty much made because he wanted to make it

 

Quote

Kerkorian’s own family escaped to the U.S., settling initially in the San Joaquin Valley, but many relatives were lost in the tragedy. As Anita Busch reported last year, Kerkorian, in his 90s, became personally involved in the development of The Promise but died in 2015 at 98. His name appears at the end of the final credits, which itself was a milestone: While the billionaire was a generous contributor to causes, he never publicized his giving nor put his name on buildings. Kerkorian understood he was a public figure because of his investments in Las Vegas and MGM but nonetheless disdained the Hollywood glitz. He never went to celebrity screenings, even of MGM films, preferring to stand in line with the paying public at the Westwood Village or Arclight theaters.I got to know this remote man almost by accident when I worked at MGM in the 1980s. I was walking toward the commissary one afternoon when he emerged from a side street. We exchanged nods, but I kept walking until I felt a hand on my shoulder and we were suddenly engaged in conversation. I do not remember the precise dialogue, but it went something like this:

 

“I don’t make movies — I don’t even pick movies,” he said. “But there’s one movie I really need to make.”

“Do you want to tell me its subject matter?” I asked, perplexed.

“No, I don’t,” he said abruptly. “But I just told it to Frank Yablans, and he shot it down.” Yablans, then president of MGM, was blunt, even to his boss

 

Kerkorian guided me back toward the building entrance so we would not be interrupted. The movie he had in mind, it emerged, would be set against the background of World War I and would deal with the program to exterminate the Armenians. To Kerkorian, this was a historic event and a personal one that had been all but banished from everyone’s memory and even from many history books. Wasn’t it time for the story to be told? Yablans argued that the public was not ready for another Holocaust movie, that even critics would be unreceptive.

Kerkorian was troubled by all this and posed the following question to me: “When you own a studio, isn’t it your obligation to make the movie you believe in?”

 

I honestly did not know how to reply, except with a nod of affirmation.

 

[Maxmoser3]

May 5th 

[grey ghost]

23 minutes ago, drdungbeetle said:

Rangers is gonna lose lots of theaters!!! BAHAHAHAHAHA, and it won't even hit 90 mil! Then my enemies will be destroyed by the glorious TP Mummy Army, and Age of Rust collective. I will rule this board as a Philosopher-King and all will bow to my wisdom!

 

 

[Momo]

31 minutes ago, drdungbeetle said:

Rangers is gonna lose lots of theaters!!! BAHAHAHAHAHA, and it won't even hit 90 mil! Then my enemies will be destroyed by the glorious TP Mummy Army, and Age of Rust collective. I will rule this board as a Philosopher-King and all will bow to my wisdom!

 

Edited April 21, 2017 by Momo

[The Futurist]

Whatever happened to the Donnie Darko guy ?

 

He was like Hollywood's next big thing for almost 5 minutes ...

 

 

[Elessar]

21 minutes ago, grey ghost said:

 

I'm not sure why they would refuse to make a Predator sequel centered around an older Dutch.

 

Most fans would kill for that movie.

 

Probably because he doesn't bring in the big bucks anymore, even in his signature roles. Of course that's more on the quality of the movies than him...

 

Wish he would do another gig with his old buddy James Cameron. True Lies 2? Wouldn't that be cool!

Edited April 21, 2017 by Elessar

[Jandrew]

12 minutes ago, Webslinger said:

the most prominent female characters in the film are made to feel guilty for taking time for themselves (see: the very funny "DOORMAN!" scene)

 

"YOURE NOTHING BUT A DOORMAN, DOORMAN. DOORMAN. DOORMAN...

 

...DOORMAN." - Leslie Mann, 2007. Such powerful declarations. Love it.

[drdungbeetle]

24 minutes ago, Webslinger said:

 

Perhaps "sexist" is too strong of a word, but it's that got tagged to Heigl's decision to complain about the women in the film coming across as "shrew-like." I love the film dearly (it's handily one of my favorite comedies of the 2000s), but she's not wrong: the most prominent female characters in the film are made to look uptight by bossing the men around and are made to feel guilty for taking time for themselves (see: the very funny "DOORMAN!" scene) while the men get to slack around for much longer before the script finally calls them out for acting irresponsibly.

 

It's a damn funny movie that I think is ultimately fair to its characters, but it's tough not to see a decidedly male slant to it. That being said, it's leagues upon leagues more woke (woker?) than The Ugly Truth, whose understanding of gender dynamics basically amounted to "men are chauvinist pigs, but women are shallow too, so that's okay as long as everyone's honest about it."

This is why Hollywood gave up on comedy releases.

[drdungbeetle]

15 minutes ago, Momo said:

 

But don't you know the TP Mummy Army and Age of Rust Collective have a wonderful plan for your life?

[Arlborn]

28 minutes ago, grim22 said:

 

They funded nothing of it. The Promise is a passion project funded by a billionaire Kirk Kerkorian who passed away a year ago. It was pretty much made because he wanted to make it

 

 

 

Yeah, I've read it before and I hope the movie does as well as it can. Such a shame the critics ended up indeed not liking it much.

[Barnack]

13 minutes ago, drdungbeetle said:

This is why Hollywood gave up on comedy releases.

 

? Not all from hollywood and comedy is a fuzzy category, but there was like one every week last year, 128 comedy with theatrical release in 2016 according to the-numbers:

 

Spoiler

 

Ride Along 2	Jan 15, 2016	Universal	PG-13	$90,862,685	$90,862,685
Moonwalkers	Jan 15, 2016	Alchemy	R	$0	$0
Dirty Grandpa	Jan 22, 2016	Lionsgate	R	$35,593,113	$35,593,113
Monkey Up	Jan 22, 2016	Freestyle Releasing	PG	$0	$0
Lazer Team	Jan 27, 2016	Rooster Teeth	PG-13	$1,186,426	$1,186,426
Fifty Shades of Black	Jan 29, 2016	Open Road	R	$11,686,940	$11,686,940
Mastizaade	Jan 29, 2016	Eros Entertainment	Not Rated	$43,403	$43,403
Hail, Caesar!	Feb 5, 2016	Universal	PG-13	$30,080,225	$30,080,225
Zoolander 2	Feb 12, 2016	Paramount Pictures	PG-13	$28,848,693	$28,848,693
Dough	Feb 12, 2016	Menemsha Entertainment	Not Rated	$1,148,304	$1,148,304
Guo Nian Hao	Feb 12, 2016	China Lion Film Dis…	Not Rated	$25,358	$25,358
La città delle donne	Feb 19, 2016	Cohen Media Group	R	$12,516	$12,516
Snowtime!	Feb 19, 2016	Shout! Factory	PG	$0	$0
Steekspel	Feb 26, 2016	D Street Releasing	Not Rated	$0	$0
Tere Bin Laden Dead or Alive	Feb 26, 2016	Phantom Films	Not Rated	$0	$0
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot	Mar 4, 2016	Paramount Pictures	R	$23,083,334	$23,083,334
The Brothers Grimsby	Mar 11, 2016	Sony Pictures	R	$6,864,016	$6,864,016
Em La Ba Noi Cua Anh	Mar 11, 2016	CJ Entertainment	Not Rated	$65,718	$65,718
About Scout	Mar 11, 2016	Breaking Glass Pict…	Not Rated	$0	$0
Me Him Her	Mar 11, 2016	FilmBuff	Not Rated	$0	$0
Kapoor & Sons	Mar 18, 2016	FIP	Not Rated	$2,607,036	$2,607,036
Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse	Mar 18, 2016	Magnolia Pictures	R	$269,144	$269,144
The Confirmation	Mar 18, 2016	Saban Films	PG-13	$0	$0
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2	Mar 25, 2016	Universal	PG-13	$59,689,605	$59,689,605
Jane Wants a Boyfriend	Mar 25, 2016	FilmBuff	R	$0	$0
Get a Job	Mar 25, 2016	Lionsgate Premiere	R	$0	$0
A Bit of Bad Luck	Mar 29, 2016	Indican Pictures	Not Rated	$18,089	$18,089
Natural Born Pranksters	Mar 29, 2016	Lionsgate	R	$0	$0
Everybody Wants Some	Mar 30, 2016	Paramount Pictures	R	$3,400,278	$3,400,278
Meet the Blacks	Apr 1, 2016	Freestyle Releasing	R	$9,097,072	$9,097,072
Ki & Ka	Apr 1, 2016	Eros Entertainment	Not Rated	$857,986	$857,986
Chongqing Hot Pot	Apr 1, 2016	China Lion Film Dis…	Not Rated	$776,649	$776,649
Daddy	Apr 5, 2016	Breaking Glass Pict…	Not Rated	$0	$0
The Boss	Apr 8, 2016	Universal	R	$63,077,560	$63,077,560
When I Live My Life Over Again	Apr 8, 2016	Starz Media	Not Rated	$0	$0
Barbershop: The Next Cut	Apr 15, 2016	Warner Bros.	PG	$54,030,051	$54,030,051
The Meddler	Apr 22, 2016	Sony Pictures Classics	PG-13	$4,267,219	$4,267,219
Compadres	Apr 22, 2016	Lionsgate	R	$3,127,773	$3,127,773
Holidays	Apr 22, 2016	Vertical Entertainment	R	$0	$0
Keanu	Apr 29, 2016	Warner Bros.	R	$20,591,853	$20,591,853
The Family Fang	Apr 29, 2016	Starz Media	R	$262,921	$262,921
Opening Night	May 6, 2016			$0	$0
Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero	May 13, 2016	A24	Not Rated	$230,069	$230,069
Search Party	May 13, 2016	Focus World	R	$4,571	$4,571
How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town	May 13, 2016	Gravitas Ventures	Not Rated	$0	$0
Divine Access	May 13, 2016	Freestyle Releasing	Not Rated	$0	$0
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising	May 20, 2016	Universal	R	$55,340,730	$55,340,730
Maggie’s Plan	May 20, 2016	Sony Pictures Classics	R	$3,351,735	$3,351,735
Welcome to Happiness	May 20, 2016	FilmBuff	PG-13	$0	$0
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping	Jun 3, 2016	Universal	R	$9,496,130	$9,496,130
The President	Jun 3, 2016	Corinth Films	Not Rated	$0	$0
Puerto Ricans in Paris	Jun 10, 2016	Focus World	R	$102,890	$102,890
Der Vampir auf der Couch	Jun 10, 2016	Music Box Films	Not Rated	$30,115	$30,115
Range 15	Jun 15, 2016	Tugg	Not Rated	$575,258	$575,258
Central Intelligence	Jun 17, 2016	Warner Bros.	PG-13	$127,440,871	$127,440,871
Seoul Searching	Jun 17, 2016	Mondo Paradiso Films	Not Rated	$18,654	$18,654
Hunt for Kiwi Smurfs	Jun 24, 2016	The Orchard	PG-13	$5,205,471	$5,205,471
Wiener-Dog	Jun 24, 2016	Sundance Selects	R	$470,575	$470,575
The Steps	Jun 30, 2016	Monterey Media	R	$0	$0
Microbe et Gasoil	Jul 1, 2016	Screen Media Films	R	$63,802	$63,802
Buddymoon	Jul 1, 2016	Gravitas Ventures	Not Rated	$0	$0
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates	Jul 8, 2016	20th Century Fox	R	$46,009,673	$46,009,673
Ghostbusters	Jul 15, 2016	Sony Pictures	PG-13	$128,350,574	$128,350,574
Undrafted	Jul 15, 2016	Vertical Entertainment	Not Rated	$5,777	$5,777
C Street	Jul 15, 2016	Indelible Films	R	$0	$0
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie	Jul 22, 2016	Fox Searchlight	R	$4,772,155	$4,772,155
Don’t Think Twice	Jul 22, 2016	Film Arcade	R	$4,417,983	$4,417,983
Des nouvelles de la planète Mars	Jul 22, 2016	Kino Lorber	Not Rated	$310	$310
Don’t Worry Baby	Jul 22, 2016	FilmBuff	R	$0	$0
Bad Moms	Jul 29, 2016	STX Entertainment	R	$113,257,297	$113,257,297
El Rey Del Once	Jul 29, 2016	Kino Lorber	Not Rated	$63,201	$63,201
Nine Lives	Aug 5, 2016	EuropaCorp	PG	$19,700,032	$19,700,032
Angry Indian Goddess	Aug 5, 2016	Mongrel Media	Not Rated	$23,192	$23,192
Amateur Night	Aug 5, 2016	Cinedigm	Not Rated	$0	$0
Sausage Party	Aug 12, 2016	Sony Pictures	R	$97,670,358	$97,670,358
The Black Dove	Aug 12, 2016	Indican Pictures	Not Rated	$22,781	$22,781
Ghost Team	Aug 12, 2016	The Orchard	PG-13	$6,245	$6,245
Joshy	Aug 12, 2016	Lionsgate Premiere	R	$0	$0
War Dogs	Aug 19, 2016	Warner Bros.	R	$43,034,523	$43,034,523
No Manches Frida	Sep 2, 2016	Lionsgate	PG-13	$11,528,613	$11,528,613
Klovn Forever	Sep 2, 2016	Drafthouse Films	Not Rated	$5,700	$5,700
Zoom	Sep 2, 2016	Screen Media Films	Not Rated	$0	$0
Brother Nature	Sep 9, 2016	Paramount Pictures	R	$0	$0
Wild Oats	Sep 16, 2016	Weinstein Co.	PG-13	$40,598	$40,598
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?	Sep 16, 2016	Area 23a	R	$39,928	$39,928
Miss Stevens	Sep 16, 2016	The Orchard	Not Rated	$4,611	$4,611
The Last Film Festival	Sep 16, 2016	Monterey Media	R	$3,558	$3,558
Dirty 30	Sep 23, 2016	Lionsgate	PG-13	$0	$0
Total Frat Movie	Sep 23, 2016	Gravitas Ventures		$0	$0
Laid in America	Sep 27, 2016	Universal		$0	$0
Masterminds	Sep 30, 2016	Relativity	PG-13	$17,356,894	$17,356,894
En man som heter Ove	Sep 30, 2016	Music Box Films	PG-13	$3,479,315	$3,479,315
Flock of Dudes	Sep 30, 2016	Starz Digital Media		$0	$0
Middle School: The Worst Years o…	Oct 7, 2016	Lionsgate	PG	$20,007,149	$20,007,149
All in Time	Oct 7, 2016	TomCat Films	Not Rated	$0	$0
The Late Bloomer	Oct 7, 2016	Momentum Pictures	R	$0	$0
The Great Gilly Hopkins	Oct 7, 2016	Lionsgate Premiere	PG	$0	$0
FML	Oct 11, 2016	Sony Pictures	R	$0	$0
Search Engines	Oct 14, 2016	Indican Pictures	Not Rated	$18,851	$18,851
Ordinary World	Oct 14, 2016	Universal	Not Rated	$0	$0
Little Sister	Oct 14, 2016	Forager Films	Not Rated	$0	$0
Jacqueline Argentine	Oct 18, 2016	FilmBuff	Not Rated	$0	$0
Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Hal…	Oct 21, 2016	Lionsgate	PG-13	$73,206,343	$73,206,343
Keeping Up with the Joneses	Oct 21, 2016	20th Century Fox	PG-13	$14,904,426	$14,904,426
Leokki	Oct 21, 2016	JBG Pictures	Not Rated	$466,505	$466,505
Tanpopo	Oct 21, 2016	Janus Films	Not Rated	$224,097	$224,097
Good Kids	Oct 21, 2016	Self Distributed	R	$0	$0
The Pickle Recipe	Oct 21, 2016	Adopt Films	PG-13	$0	$0
Mr. Donkey	Oct 28, 2016	China Lion Film Dis…	Not Rated	$356,255	$356,255
Swing State	Nov 1, 2016	Swing State Film Pr…	R	$0	$0
Rainbow Time	Nov 1, 2016	The Orchard	Not Rated	$0	$0
My Dead Boyfriend	Nov 3, 2016	Momentum Pictures	R	$0	$0
What Happened Last Night	Nov 4, 2016	Gemelli Productions	R	$9,244	$9,244
Army Of One	Nov 4, 2016	Anchor Bay Entertai…	R	$0	$0
The Love Witch	Nov 11, 2016	Oscilloscope Pictures	Not Rated	$228,894	$228,894
Dreamland	Nov 11, 2016	Abramorama Films	Not Rated	$0	$0
Bad Santa 2	Nov 23, 2016	Broad Green Pictures	R	$17,782,176	$17,782,176
Oddball	Dec 6, 2016	Momentum Pictures	Not Rated	$0	$0
Nerdland	Dec 6, 2016	Samuel Goldwyn Films	Not Rated	$0	$0
Office Christmas Party	Dec 9, 2016	Paramount Pictures	R	$54,767,494	$54,767,494
Le tout nouveau testament	Dec 9, 2016	Music Box Films	Not Rated	$127,910	$127,910
Slash	Dec 9, 2016	Gravitas Ventures	Not Rated	$5,902	$5,902
Short Stay	Dec 16, 2016	Anthology Film Arch…		$0	$0
Why Him?	Dec 23, 2016	20th Century Fox	R	$60,323,786	$60,323,786
Toni Erdmann	Dec 25, 2016	Sony Pictures Classics	R	$3,160,311	$3,160,311
Paterson	Dec 28, 2016	Bleecker Street	R	$2,141,423	$2,141,423

 

 

Ride Along 2, Zoolander 2, Dirty Granpa, Borthres Grimsby, The Boss, Bad Moms, Central Intelligence, Keanu, Keeping up with the Joneses, Sausage Part, Why Him, etc...

 

This year we already got Fist Fight and Boss Baby and we will have a Baywatch comedy, Daddy's home 2, Downsizing, Pitch perfect 3, Super troopers 2, Snatched, Captain Underpants, Despicable me 3, Girls Trip, Rought night

 

Arguably the Mcu are comedies, maybe not all of them but most, Force Awaken was mostly one too, big animated movie are often comedy. It is rare we get a large budget release without a good amount of comedy in it (there is Rogue One, Silence, Fury road, Skyfall, mockingjay 1-2, but they are not common).

Edited April 21, 2017 by Barnack

[baumer]

58 minutes ago, drdungbeetle said:

Ah yes more Katherine Heigl movies, that's the cure to Hollywood's BO woes

 

What box office woes? This year is off to a blazing start.