Weekend Thread: Weekend Actuals - Spider-Man FFH $45.35M | Toy Story 4 $20.95M | CRAWL $12.01M | STUBER $8.23M | Yesterday $6.70M | Aladdin 6.17M

[reddevil19]

1 minute ago, TMP said:

But... but... Dave Bautista only does good movies! He said so himself!

It's weird how bad his comedic timing is in this. 

[Krissykins]

Looks like Annabelle Comes Home had a pretty big week worldwide. Up $40m+ from last Sunday. 

[Terraforce]

So basically Aladdin is guaranteed to hit a billion now.

[Ororo Munroe]

37 minutes ago, ZeeSoh said:

I do not remember any such outrage last year (or was it the year before?) when 2 non gay people played the characters in Call me by your name. No one, including those who are calling out Scarjo right now, said fuck all about that. Most were too busy foaming at the mouth praising it to high heaven. Everyone was busy praising Love Simon (one of my fav movie from last year) but I dont remember this level of controversy despite a straight Nick Robinson playing the titular gay character. 

 

I also do not remember this level of controversy when Eddie Redmayne played a trans character and got a bleeding oscar nom for it. No one bats an eye when a non jewish actor plays Magneto whose entire identity revolves around Jewish persecution during Holocaust. 

 

Many many such cases like these can be mentioned. So why the outcry over this? Is it because she’s a women? We all want a perfect world where a role is portrayed by the an actor of the same caste/religion/race/gender/whatever and then realize that thats not a perfect world. A perfect world is where all races/religions/sex/gender/etc all have equal opportunity and can play whatever role because they’re freaking actors and thats what they’re supposed to do. 

 

But until then can we be a little less hypocritical in our outrage?

So... is Scarlett right? Should she be able to play whomever she wants in this less than equal or perfect world? Is the criticism not valid because there wasn't an outcry against something similar?

 

Sorry but to suggest she shouldn't be called out or that there is sexism at play because those other actors over there weren't criticized is a mighty weak argument. 

[sfran43]

 

[filmlover]

The legs on Aladdin have been wild. Likely to have another great drop next weekend thanks to The Lion King opening and will still be in the top 10 the first weekend of August. Don't think anyone expected that even after its opening weekend.

[TalismanRing]

Aladdin and AEG should go up unless their Sundays were the only ones affected by the midtown/west side blackout

 

Sunday, July 14, 2019
 

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TD YD Title (Click to View) Studio Daily Gross % +/- YD / LW Theaters / Avg Gross To-Date Day 1 1 Spider-Man: Far from Home Sony $13,785,000 -24% -46% 4,634 $2,975 $274,529,305 13 2 2 Toy Story 4 BV $6,159,000 -25% -33% 4,210 $1,463 $346,369,574 24 3 3 Crawl Par. $3,400,000 -20% - 3,170 $1,073 $12,000,000 3 4 4 Stuber Fox $2,067,000 -29% - 3,050 $678 $8,043,000 3 5 5 Yesterday Uni. $2,020,000 -27% -21% 2,755 $733 $48,316,525 17 6 6 Aladdin (2019) BV $1,666,000 -32% -15% 2,557 $652 $331,489,720 52 7 7 Annabelle Comes Home WB (NL) $1,635,000 -25% -37% 3,209 $510 $60,760,434 19 8 8 Midsommar A24 $1,031,617 -25% -46% 2,707 $381 $18,406,842 12 9 9 The Secret Life of Pets 2 Uni. $900,000 -27% -28% 2,320 $388 $147,137,185 38 10 10 Men in Black International Sony $665,000 -26% -27% 1,612 $413 $76,483,597 31 11 12 Rocketman Par. $515,000 -30% -20% 1,332 $387 $91,974,910 45 12 11 Avengers: Endgame BV $476,000 -36% -43% 1,443 $330 $851,200,139 80 - - John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum LG/S $444,000 -22% -21% 1,145 $388 $167,538,716 59 - - Child's Play (2019) UAR $157,271 -30% -61% 807 $195 $28,287,378 24 - - The Last Black Man in San Francisco A24 $117,411 -20% +8% 207 $567 $3,336,797 38 - - The Farewell A24 $107,220 -20% - 4 $26,805 $351,330 3 - - Late Night Amazon $102,463 -28% -23% 330 $310 $14,806,837 38 - - Unplanned PFR $100,000 -9% - 49 $2,041 $18,453,952 101 - - Wild Rose Neon $80,000 -39% +51% 161 $497 $751,911 24 - - Pavarotti CBS $80,000 -56% -42% 196 $408 $3,572,561 38 - - Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable ENTMP $76,000 -8% - 205 $371 $250,000 3 - - The Other Side of Heaven 2: Fire of Faith AAE $12,000 -75% -40% 97 $124 $1,229,210 17

[Davidwested]

1 hour ago, The Horror of Lucas Films said:

 

That's quite solid, looking at $160m OS and $230m WW, another solid hit for TCU.

Yep that is solid indeed since it opened in the summer with more competition than the other 2 movies which opened in October and August.

[lorddemaxus]

Stuber is the 4th flop for Fox this year. The only decent hit they have had all year was Breakthrough lmao.

[sfran43]

 

[UserHN]

2 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

Stuber is the 4th flop for Fox this year. The only decent hit they have had all year was Breakthrough lmao.

What were the other 2? I can only think Stuber and Dark Phoenix.

[sfran43]

 

[lorddemaxus]

1 minute ago, UserHN said:

What were the other 2? I can only think Stuber and Dark Phoenix.

Alita and The Kid Who Would be King but both were pre-Disney though.

Edited July 14, 2019 by lorddemaxus

[boxofficeth]

OMG This is the worst attended mid-July weekend since 1987.

 

All the blames go to clumsy studios and their nonsensical counterprogramming. Sure it is a sandwich wknd between FFH and TLK but an adult-leaning movie would have enough room to breathe and summer weekdays to get more audience. Looking ahead there are 5 films lining up for release on a mid-August wknd. Sigh! 

[Cooper Legion]

5 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

Stuber is the 4th flop for Fox this year. The only decent hit they have had all year was Breakthrough lmao.

Disney keeps flopping, sad 

[Alli]

dinsey is having trouble with these adult Fox movies. they don't know what to do with them

[TalismanRing]

1 minute ago, Ororo Munroe said:

So... is Scarlett right? Should she be able to play whomever she wants in this less than equal or perfect world? Is the criticism not valid because there wasn't an outcry against something similar?

 

Sorry but to suggest she shouldn't be called out or that there is sexism at play because those other actors over there weren't criticized is a mighty weak argument. 

She didn't say that though.  She said it's a trend in my business that needs to happen for various social reasons but that yes it does impact the art of acting where you pretend to be all kinds of things you're not.

 

It wasn't the most elegant or articulate turn of phrase but she wasn't doubling down on her mistakes the way Vulture claimed.   Criticism was warranted before in her acceptance of roles but it was disproportionate compared to other films and actors and Vulture cherry picking one phrase via the Daily Mail seems like more disproportionate piling on.

 

 

[lorddemaxus]

Paramount should have just dumped Dora this weekend and put Crawl in Dora's spot. I mean, Dora would make the same regardless of when it was placed and Crawl has much better potential for breakout.

[LawrenceBrolivier]

6 minutes ago, boxofficeth said:

OMG This is the worst attended mid-July weekend since 1987.

 

All the blames go to clumsy studios and their nonsensical counterprogramming. Sure it is a sandwich wknd between FFH and TLK but an adult-leaning movie would have enough room to breathe and summer weekdays to get more audience. 

That was supposed to be Stuber.

People didn't want to watch the 21st century version of 48 Hrs w/ Drax & the dude from Silicon Valley. Probably figured they could "wait for netflix" because it wasn't blockbuster-y enough....

 

Crawl too, for that matter. The studios did what you're suggesting they should have done.... Audiences don't do what you're suggesting they're supposed to do anymore. 

Edited July 14, 2019 by LawrenceBrolivier

[sfran43]