Weekend Thread 11/16 - 11/18 - Grindelwald $25.7M Friday, Instant Family at $4.5M Friday

[CoolioD1]

1 minute ago, TMP said:

CooliD1 is the Alex Jones to BOT's Twitter.

Sad! 

me when i see someone praising nolan:

 

 

[TMP]

2 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

me when i see someone praising nolan:

 

 

ok, this is epic 😳😳😳

[Nova]

Christopher Nolan is the greatest director of our time. 

[Wrath]

2 hours ago, Cassidy said:

and women are raised in the shadow of men.  my ex gf's might as well be ex bf's.

 

w/e... i don't care.  I don't care about anything.

 

Um... are you ok?

[MrPink]

I feel like I'm supposed to jump in but I don't have the willpower to fight anymore

[Nova]

10 minutes ago, MrPink said:

I feel like I'm supposed to jump in but I don't have the willpower to fight anymore

[MrGlass2]

Great directors like Christopher Nolan or Rob Letterman always provoke backlash.

[MrPink]

2 minutes ago, Nova said:

 

I am a weakling Nolanite.

 

Maybe he's taking too long to announce his next project and I need that to fuel my recharge.

Edited November 18, 2018 by MrPink

[CoolioD1]

1 minute ago, MrPink said:

 

I am a weakling Nolanite.

 

Maybe he's taking too long to announce his next project and I need that to fuel my recharge.

i think he's waiting for Yates to be fired from FB3 before he jumps on it.

[Brainbug]

23 minutes ago, Nova said:

Christopher Nolan is the greatest director of our time. 

 

Personally, Denis Villeneuve has been the best this decade for me. Masterpiece after Masterpiece.

[GraceRandolph]

52 minutes ago, TMP said:

TDK is still the GOAT comic book film. TDK Trilogy is the best comic book film trilogy, and it's not even close.

Lol no. That garbage is beyond overrated. The only reason its AS acclaimed is because Heath Leadger croaked. It's a superhero movie that puts more effort into hiding the fact that it's a superhero movie than it does anything else. Both THE DARK KNIGHT RISES and BATMAN BEGINS are sleep inducing. As far as dark and gritty comic book movie go Winter Soilder and Civil War are superior. 

[Nova]

8 minutes ago, GraceRandolph said:

Lol no. That garbage is beyond overrated. The only reason its AS acclaimed is because Heath Leadger croaked. It's a superhero movie that puts more effort into hiding the fact that it's a superhero movie than it does anything else. Both THE DARK KNIGHT RISES and BATMAN BEGINS are sleep inducing. As far as dark and gritty comic book movie go Winter Soilder and Civil War are superior. 

Mods please delete this abomination of a post. 

[YLF]

I want to see widows again tonight, but it’s sold out at the three local theaters near my house.(front row is available at some, but I can’t do that lol)

Edited November 18, 2018 by YLF

[Barnack]

2 hours ago, La Binoche said:

Is Spider's Web the year's biggest bomb?

Widows cost $40M...best case scenario is it breaks even. 

 

Depends of the bomb definition obviously but it is probably one of those:

 

Solo

Nutcracker

Wrinkle in time

Depending on the deal Mowgli not even getting a release

 

With some other contender on the way.

 

The sister brother for example is still under 10m at the box office with a similar budget to girl with a dragoon tattoo, not the same marketing spent obviously but still and we could find a bunch of 20-50m movie doing not much this year, Hunter Killer, Hurricane Heist (15.6m on a 35 million budget).

 

Papillion did really little, not sure about the budget but location period shoot are rarely cheap.

 

Kin the James Franco/Zoe Kravitz/Quaid/Coon/Michael B. Jordan movie (bombed so much many will have no idea what it is), 10m on a 30m budget.

 

Girls with a dragoon tattoo will be quite middle of the road, bad for a franchise movie but probably above average for a 20-60m budget range flop.

 

 

Edited November 18, 2018 by Barnack

[Hunch]

I think a lot of things went wrong here.

 

1. the appeal of the HP films was the trio along with the fantastical setting. That's why the other YA properties that tried to imititate it (Hunger Games, Twilight, Divergent, etc) all had a similar central young trio of characters. Fantastic Beasts' protagonists were a bunch of odd looking, unappealing middle aged people. 

 

2. No one knows who Grindelwald is outside of HP fans. The title limited appeal and relevance to the general public.

 

3. The first Fantastic Beasts was ok. Not a classic. With no books to base interest off of, the second one was bound to fall.

Edited November 18, 2018 by Hunch

[Jonwo]

Widows was funded by Fox, Regency and Film4 so Fox is only up for a third of the budget plus P&A so even if Widows does say $60-80m WW then Fox probably lose very little or break even. 

[Hunch]

1 hour ago, La Binoche said:

Is Spider's Web the year's biggest bomb?

Widows cost $40M...best case scenario is it breaks even. 

No, it's between A Wrinkle in Time ($130m WW vs a $120m budget) and Solo ($390m worldwide vs a $300m-$350m budget).

Edited November 18, 2018 by Hunch

[GraceRandolph]

37 minutes ago, Nova said:

Mods please delete this abomination of a post. 

Me when the mods KO me for my controversial opinion:

Edited November 18, 2018 by GraceRandolph

[Frozen]

Solo is the biggest bomb of the year. 

[Darth Lehnsherr]

TDK Trilogy is the best but I do prefer Captain America's arc over the course of his three films over Batman's.