Cabbagehead
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wat?
Deadpool shatters record with $47.5M opening day
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Frosty Droid
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It's going to be interesting to see how Tom Rothman gets along with Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios on the Spider-man films.
What did he mean by this?
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Best marketing campaign of the 21st century? Only ones that come to mind are Cloverfield and The Dark Knight
Are you 16 and unable to get into a theater because you have strict religious parents?
Smokey_Run
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Yeah, it probably would have done half of what it's going to do because there would be no appeal.
Shpeshal Nick
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Huh? If it wasn't R it wouldn't be as amazingly stupendous as it is.
I'm sure everyone is crying that they didn't make it PG-13.
PrimaNocta
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ummm.....i think your missing the entire point of this movie.
Was crazy. Maybe 30% of the audience was like boys and girls under 10. I mean sure I watched R rated horror or action movies as a kid, saw nude scenes and whatnot. But this was so over the heads of kids in a lot of ways, I couldn't imagine ever watching this as a kid with my parents or taking my kid to this film.
Bet you those parents will think twice about superhero films the next time lol.
SpeedySwaf
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Reminds me of those stories where they'd stock hentai on the same shelves of other animated fare, completing ignoring the film rating.
How big of an audience do you think this type of person is?
StealthPandemic
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Know just make a really, really, really good Hulk movie. PLEASE!
hodayathink
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Your head of Sony Pictures, ladies and gentlemen.
Not surprised by that.
Cabbagehead
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Dude there literally was a 4 or 5 year old in the theater and two parents with their at least 10 to 12 year old kids a few rows in front of me. Didn't really get to see in the back of the complex but i'm sure i saw at least two to three other kids. Like what the fuck.
Milly Osworth
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Milking comic book nerds worked out well for the movie industry.
Cabbagehead
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Thanks for you're bright and shinny contribution. Now go some where so you don't poop on the carpet.
Bobby Roberts
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comic book nerds probably account for maybe 30-40mil domestic, tops.
Seeing as this film is clearing 100 mil in 4 days guaranteed, I'm guessing that ain't comic book nerds lining up, for the most part.
(comic book nerds can barely account for 200k in comics sales a month)
I would be ok with this.
https://youtu.be/N3472Q6kvg0
...is that why Blur made the CGI reel?
The final level of Rising, except the whole game.
I'm gonna be honest. That is some of the worst BO prediction than I have ever seen.
Like, what? The majority of sales aren't from people taking their children on mistake. Heck, there are tons of families who will see this deadpan and the see the next one. A lot of kids were in my theater and they really enjoyed (they were actually amazingly good in the theater. In fact, for a full house, everyone was mature and had a great time).
So, nah. You are kinda 100% wrong.
There will be lots of showings where the kids will watch the movie without their parents.
I think there has been a shift in parental attitudes among parents who came of age in the 90s, during the era of gangsta rap and violent videogames, and this has fedback into the wider popular culture.
Just think of some of the lyrical content of some of the most mainstream pop music, then try and remember the last time there was any significant controversy about any music artist. Even when someone is trying to create controversy (a la Miley Cyrus), the reaction is mostly 'meh', from even relatively conservative places. I haven't heard anyone I know who restricts the music their kids can listen to at all really, and I live in a very conservative/religious part of the country.
I don't know a parent that grew up post Mortal Kombat that doesn't let their 11-12 year old kids play M rated games. Sometimes younger for your CoDs and stuff that are M rated for more 'acceptable' reasons.
Not that I doubt there will be some very confused parents who are totally out to lunch, but really the movie is named Deadpool and the poster has him using the gun as a phallic instrument, so even if you don't look at the rating should tell you this ain't the avengers. I just think there have been some fairly major cultural shifts as to what is acceptable. Because the people with ~10 year old kids now grew up with all this shit, and the internet makes it basically impossible to restrict access in any meaningful kind of way anyway.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Rth updates to 44-46.
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Betty White perfectly summarised why this movie is successful
https://twitter.com/bettymwhite/status/697839194568167424
https://twitter.com/bettymwhite/status/697839194568167424
twinturbo2
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Does anyone know how Zoolander 2 did yesterday? That film looks like a hot mess, and this tweet from a Zoolander superman uses the term "crushing disappointment" to describe his feelings.
https://mobile.twitter.com/jamesmielke/status/698332925989883904
Think it'll be the first huge bomb of the year?
https://mobile.twitter.com/jamesmielke/status/698332925989883904
Think it'll be the first huge bomb of the year?
Tom Rothman is the guy who fucked up X-Men 3,Origins Wolverine and a whole lot more fuck that guy and he hates superhero movies and now he is head of sony pictures i pray for spidey.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
The trailers were edited to hell and back except online. (even in front of R-rated movies in theaters)
Unless it picks up Saturday night, it was very, very slow at my location.
I chuckled a few times during Deadpool, I've been onboard with this type of humor in comics over the last 25 years. Sure took ages to get to this point.
This type of humor can be found in Punisher, Judge Dredd and Lobo comics.
Dont forget Keith Giffen's version of the Justice League where Green Lantern Guy Gardner takes his date Ice Maiden to a XXX theater.
The Guardians film also dipped it's toe into fun and humor and a mainstream audience didnt seem to have a problem with the tone.
The Clive Owen film Shoot Em Up, has a similar tone to Deadpool, was that film just too early to resonate with audiences? Or did Shoot Em Up go too far with unbelievable over the top sequences?
This type of humor can be found in Punisher, Judge Dredd and Lobo comics.
Dont forget Keith Giffen's version of the Justice League where Green Lantern Guy Gardner takes his date Ice Maiden to a XXX theater.
The Guardians film also dipped it's toe into fun and humor and a mainstream audience didnt seem to have a problem with the tone.
The Clive Owen film Shoot Em Up, has a similar tone to Deadpool, was that film just too early to resonate with audiences? Or did Shoot Em Up go too far with unbelievable over the top sequences?
Discotheque
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Shoot Em Up comparison is spot on. Really enjoyed Deadpool but I found the action and definitely the villain far better in that. Less blatant cg work too.
If you put Clive Owen in a supersuit and released that now it would have been the success it should have been
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
We're definitely getting a sequel now...
AND CABLE
At some point Cable needs to say "I cannot sanction your buffoonery.".
Oh, so THAT'S why Spider-Man went back to Marvel
Messofanego
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I should take my grandma to this.
It was before Spidey went back to marvel but i have doubts in the future for sony pictures with superhero movies.
BlackNMild2k1
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I believe Rothman is not involved in anything to do with the Spiderman movies, as I believe Amy Pascual (now ex-co-chairman of Sony Pictures) stepped down to handle the Spider-man deal exclusively as a Producer along side Kevin Feige.
I don't remember all the specifics, but I think this was done to shield Rothman from having a hand on Spider-man and allowing the franchise to be what it needs to be (i.e. under Marvel's creative control)
my personal speculation is that while Sony will remain the face of all final decisions made, Marvel (aka K. Feige) will likely be steering the creative ship on the Spidey franchise for a while. Whatever spin-offs Sony had planned will not be happening, and they will completely fold into the plan for the MCU as long as they are putting out a "Sony" branded Spidey related movie ever 2-3 years.
Razgriz-Specter
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There were maybe 7 or 8 people in my 5PM showing.
Movie was so damn disappointing and literally 1 good actual joke not in the trailers.
Movie was weird as hell, it was like it had ADHD especially with the cameos(was like 1 every 5 minutes)
I'm really impressed by it!
Can Crusher
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Reynolds did it. Can't believe he finally made it.
greatestjediever
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When first announced I was afraid this movie wasn't going to make $48m in its entire run much less opening day. What a turnout.
Who was it in the Box office thread that thought Deadpool would be the first film to open over 50M but fail to hit 100M domestic?
You will have to up that to 100M opening and less than 200M total.
If we are looking at more than 110M for the 4 day opening, Deadpool might end up being the highest grossing X-film domestic. It would only need so so legs for a comic film to get there.
You will have to up that to 100M opening and less than 200M total.
If we are looking at more than 110M for the 4 day opening, Deadpool might end up being the highest grossing X-film domestic. It would only need so so legs for a comic film to get there.
There's not that much competition in the coming weeks. I feel like the movies also going to end up with better legs than anyone expected as well.
300m+ in the cards?
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