Weekend Thread: FvF vroooms past 30M+; Say Goodnight Angels with 8M for CA; Waves washes up 37k+ PTA

[Claudio]

Let's see the case of this November so far:

Both Dark Fate and Midway bombed with just $30M and $18M opening respectively

Doctor Sleep flopped with under $15M opening

And now Charlie Angels with laughable single digit.

All the other releases like Harriet , Last Christmas and Playing With Fire couldn't even touched $13M

FvF does great but that will be just $35M OW at best.

The last 2 weekends of October weren't so hot either with $36M for Maleficent as the highest grossing weekend movie.

 

All of this mean that there's a starving market for 5 weeks since Joker doing incredible. Everyone saving their money to see their anticipated movie and the industry is setting up an explosion next week for FROZEN 2. I'm very confident about FROZEN next weekend. Here's hoping it to break the animation record and lit up the box office with a bang.

 

 

[AndyK]

4 hours ago, Spidey Freak said:

This film reclaims the franchise for women though. Maybe if the marketing had been more clear about that.

 

I think most women don't give two hoots about empowerment.

 

Given the choice, I bet most of them would rather go watch a muscly Momoa on screen.

 

Just my take on it, don't hang me.

[Felandria]

It’s really a shame about Angels, I quite enjoyed it, although there’s one meta joke early in the film that very nearly sinks the whole thing.

 

Spoiler

They photoshop Patrick Stewart over both the original TV Bosley, David Doyle and Bill Murray in photographs showing the history of the Angels, indicating that Stewart’s character was the same Bosley.

 

Which is a real problem considering what happens later in the film, but aside from that, Patrick Stewart’s Englishness is referenced multiple times in the film, which doesn’t track at all if he’s supposed to be the same character.

 

 

[Krissykins]

5 hours ago, cookie said:

To think, Fox is getting a $100m film this year but Paramount won’t.

Profit wise, I think Crawl will be still Paramounts biggest financial hit of the whole year, in relation to return on budget. 
 

$90.5m on a $13.5m budget. 

[The Futurist]

Terminator Dark Fate

 

Charlie s Angels 2019

 

A pattern emerges.

A peasant one.

[harlequinade]

17 hours ago, Ipickthiswhiterose said:

I can't go with this.

 

Walk the Line, The Master, You Were Never Really Here and Gladiator are not even close to each other. Really don't get how you pull "similar range" out of Phoenix's oevre. 

 

DiCaprio maybe, but not Phoenix.

Gladiator was 20 years ago lol I'll give you Walk the Line but TM and YWNRH is a bunch of the same

[harlequinade]

1 hour ago, AndyK said:

I think most women don't give two hoots about empowerment.

 

Given the choice, I bet most of them would rather go watch a muscly Momoa on screen.

 

Just my take on it, don't hang me.

I don't need a movie to feel empowered and yes, I will go see everything starring Momoa lol But these movies need to be getting made, it's not OK how most movies are still led by dudes

 

But this had particularly unappealing marketing. All the other movies led by women out there - WW1984, BoP, BW, Little Women - I'm excited about all of those

[baumer]

I saw Dr. Sleep yesterday.  @Krissykins @75Live....curious if you have seen it,

 

I really enjoyed it.  I thought it was a perfect blend of King's vision and a really good vision of what Kubrick did with the original as well.  Rebecca Ferguson was terrific as was the young actress who played Abra, in fact she was really good.  I think she's worthy of a best supporting nom.

 

Too bad it's not doing well.

[Krissykins]

8 minutes ago, baumer said:

I saw Dr. Sleep yesterday.  @Krissykins @75Live....curious if you have seen it,

 

I really enjoyed it.  I thought it was a perfect blend of King's vision and a really good vision of what Kubrick did with the original as well.  Rebecca Ferguson was terrific as was the young actress who played Abra, in fact she was really good.  I think she's worthy of a best supporting nom.

 

Too bad it's not doing well.

Haven’t seen it yet, but I definitely will catch it before it goes. Glad you enjoyed it, always a good sign! 

[Dbui8743]

31 minutes ago, baumer said:

I saw Dr. Sleep yesterday.  @Krissykins @75Live....curious if you have seen it,

 

I really enjoyed it.  I thought it was a perfect blend of King's vision and a really good vision of what Kubrick did with the original as well.  Rebecca Ferguson was terrific as was the young actress who played Abra, in fact she was really good.  I think she's worthy of a best supporting nom.

 

Too bad it's not doing well.

RF is phenomenal.

[Valonqar]

The problem with empowerment movies is that one of their messages, beaten in the movie as well as outside of it (cast, director), is shaming "Momoa ogling". Empowerment is presented as total rejection of anything masculine or male, including finding men sexy. And that's against target audience psychology. There's nothing wrong or un-empowering in feasting one's eyes on Momoa's abs.  You can have action movies headlined by women that not only don't scoff at shirtless chads but actually enjoy the view like the audience. That's relatable. 

[Napoleon]

5 hours ago, Jiffy said:

CA has the most tragic opening I've seen in a long time. 

Still not as sad as The Goldfinch's numbers

[Movie nerd]

1 hour ago, harlequinade said:

Gladiator was 20 years ago lol I'll give you Walk the Line but TM and YWNRH is a bunch of the same

I fundamentally disagree but ok. 

I'm curious if you have watched films like Sister Brothers or Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot to name a few of recent ones and if you think it's also "bunch of the same". 

[LOGAN'sLuckyRun]

How much money is Sony going to lose on this? It has to be at least 50m

Edited November 17, 2019 by LOGAN'sLuckyRun

[The Horror of Lucas Films]

10 hours ago, The Futurist said:

Logan was oh so creative.

 

A western !

A manhunt !

A force of nature protecting a child & becoming its parent.

Never seen that.

Ever.

 

Strip down as much as elements as you can that would make you think you are watching a superhero movie.

Imagine the horror if people thought Logan was a superhero movie.

 

Incredible creativity on display in Logan.

 

Yay for creative freedom !

At this point I don't even read The Futurist's post anymore, I just instantaly give them a WTF emoji,

[harlequinade]

36 minutes ago, Movie nerd said:

I fundamentally disagree but ok. 

I'm curious if you have watched films like Sister Brothers or Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot to name a few of recent ones and if you think it's also "bunch of the same". 

I saw SB and it was so forgettable I literally cannot remember what Phoenix did in it or who he played but considering that I don't remember  his performance it's safe to say I also didn't find it interesting or impressive in an way.

[Movie nerd]

14 minutes ago, harlequinade said:

I saw SB and it was so forgettable I literally cannot remember what Phoenix did in it or who he played but considering that I don't remember  his performance it's safe to say I also didn't find it interesting or impressive in an way.

Well I'm not claiming that it was particulary impressive performance, I was alluding to your "bunch of the same" claim, but if you don’t remember anything, there's not much to talk about. 

[Litio]

1 hour ago, Valonqar said:

The problem with empowerment movies is that one of their messages, beaten in the movie as well as outside of it (cast, director), is shaming "Momoa ogling". Empowerment is presented as total rejection of anything masculine or male, including finding men sexy. And that's against target audience psychology. There's nothing wrong or un-empowering in feasting one's eyes on Momoa's abs.  You can have action movies headlined by women that not only don't scoff at shirtless chads but actually enjoy the view like the audience. That's relatable. 

I didn't know you are a woman.

[harlequinade]

1 hour ago, Valonqar said:

The problem with empowerment movies is that one of their messages, beaten in the movie as well as outside of it (cast, director), is shaming "Momoa ogling". Empowerment is presented as total rejection of anything masculine or male, including finding men sexy. And that's against target audience psychology. There's nothing wrong or un-empowering in feasting one's eyes on Momoa's abs.  You can have action movies headlined by women that not only don't scoff at shirtless chads but actually enjoy the view like the audience. That's relatable. 

I don't think that's a problem though - Ghosbusters had the ladies relatably admiring Hemsworth

 

But I am always pro Momoa ogling  i really think him and Isaac together in Dune may kill me but I will die happy at least lol

[a2k]

The opposite of 1st 2 CAs would be a seductress cougar Bosley hiring 3 Momoa like dudes to do her bidding..Charlotte's Angles