WEEKEND THREAD | Weekend actuals (pg. 87 onward) - Dunkirk: 26.6M; The Emoji Movie: 24.5M; Girls Trip: 19.6M; Atomic Blonde: 18.2M; SM Homecoming: 13.2M; War For The POTA: 10.4M; Despicable Me 3: 7.4M; Valerian: 6.3M; Baby Driver: 3.9M; Wonder Woman: 3.3M

[redfirebird2008]

8 minutes ago, filmlover said:

Girls Trip looking at a possible drop below 40% this weekend. Universal is having a really interesting year: their heavy hitter titles (Fifty Shades Darker, The Great Wall, The Fate of the Furious, The Mummy, Despicable Me 3) have either barely met expectations or really underperformed while their much more modestly budgeted titles (Split, Get Out, Girls Trip) have been big breakouts.

 

Furious 8 and DM3 are still huge hits worldwide. Furious feels like the domestic market is irrelevant at this point. If you can get a billion bucks overseas, who cares about domestic? 

[Ethan Hunt]

1 minute ago, Mojoguy said:

If people were smarter they would have let Emoji flop to send the studio a message.

Now SPA is going to release a dozen of these Emoji movies and turn it into their own LEGO movie franchise.

UGH.

stop

[grey ghost]

It would be fucked up if Sony screwed with Nolan fans and made an ad flaunting Emoji's weekend win over Dunkirk.

 

That would be a shame. 

 

Spoiler

 

 

 

Edited July 29, 2017 by grey ghost

[Ethan Hunt]

Just now, grey ghost said:

It would be fucked up Sony screwed with Nolan fans and made an ad flaunting Emoji's weekend win over Dunkirk.

 

That would be a shame. 

 

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It would be hilarious

[cookie]

5 minutes ago, redfirebird2008 said:

 

That's a pretty depressing number on such a huge budget. 

Jupiter Ascending 2.0

[Mojoguy]

Dunkirk taken down by a shit Emoji.

UGH. What a disgrace.

[grey ghost]

1 minute ago, redfirebird2008 said:

 

Furious 8 and DM3 are still huge hits worldwide. Furious feels like the domestic market is irrelevant at this point. If you can get a billion bucks overseas, who cares about domestic? 

 

Sounds like Paramount's philosophy before TF5 belly flopped.

[Ethan Hunt]

The Emoji movie having a little success will not cause the death of cinema.

[nomyth]

Believe me... I'm pretty darn butt hurt that Emojimovie is gonna beat my 2nd most anticipated film of the summer by a good 10M but let's not pretend like this is the first bad movie to do well.

[XO21]

Knowing Sony they're going to report some extra coins to win the weekend 

[Cochofles]

1 minute ago, Ethan Hunt said:

The Emoji movie having a little success will not cause the death of cinema.

LOL

Exactly.

That kind of "OMG, what a disgrace that this film that's not deep, important, or Oscar-buzz serious is succeeding!!" reaction is the epitome of movie snobbery.  

[The Panda]

All the critics are h8rs, this man knows the truth

 

 

[ddddeeee]

"Oh no! A movie I'm never going to see is doing well! Now they might make more movies that I'll never see!"

 

Low key stanning for Emoji.

[Dementeleus]

/wakes up

 

/reads thread

 

Everyone seems so angry. 

[Mojoguy]

The Emoji movie having a little success will not cause the death of cinema.

It sends a message to studios that audiences will watch any animated movie no matter how bad it is. That studios will make money for not even trying.

That's VERY bad for cinema.

Edited July 29, 2017 by Mojoguy

[MrPink]

Just now, Squadron Leader Tele said:

/wakes up

 

/reads thread

 

Everyone seems so angry. 

 

😡

[Blaze Heatnix]

Atomic Blonde's audience score on RT is dropping quite fast. 

 

I'm surprised. Is the movie good? I can't wait to watch it. 

[filmlover]

2 minutes ago, Squadron Leader Tele said:

/wakes up

 

/reads thread

 

Everyone seems so angry. 

The Emoji Movie has brought out the Bruce Banner in everyone.

[a2k]

2 minutes ago, Squadron Leader Tele said:

/wakes up

 

/reads thread

 

Everyone seems so angry. 

 

 

[Ethan Hunt]

There are plenty of success stories of good movies doing good things this summer. Fucking Baby Driver man. It's still my favorite movie of the year and it's run is spectacular. Wonder Woman a superhero origin that really does a great job of creating it's character while also being an exploration of war? Yep. 400M+ Dunkirk, not my favorite movie but a godly director with all the freedom in the world and people show up. 

 

The pessimism here is insane