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The fun thing about this is who knows what he does next. Nolan has the freedom at this point to pursue anything he wants in basically any genre. It makes it really interesting having no idea what he pursues next, and the best part is he's a very active director so it probably won't be too long until we start hearing about his next project
Yep, I def want him to continue to play with other genres, and I'd imagine we will get a new (hopefully) original Nolan flick in 2019.
 
I'm hilarious. This is from 2010.

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Ouch. Yeah you were just a tad off with that one
 
Was that in response to questions of superhero fatigue from the the 2011 slate of 4 major films?

It was about Avatar's success meant sci-fi films would be ascendant, and cape flicks would wane.

The Avatar thread had me looking back for old posts of mine around Avatar's release.

I've been remarkably consistent about it-- I liked it as a ride, but not as a story/movie, even back then.
 
I also didn't realize I'd been a regular BO-Gaf follower that long.

I guess something had to replace NPD threads as I went to the gaming side less and less.
 
It was strangely faithful to the feel of the book. Only thing I didn't like was that final title treatment.

Stopping with the kids felt better for the film.
 
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Update on:
If this ends up in single digits it is a disaster, hope Aronofsky & co can pull through.
Deadline:
Paramount’s mother! is looking at $4.2M today and $9M-$11M this weekend. Many believe it’s going lower because audiences since last night have been hating on the Darren Aronofsky-Jennifer Lawrence team-up. mother! was sold like a Screen Gems horror film, but when moviegoers finally get inside the theater, they find out it’s something completely different. PostTrak results reveal a 51% overall positive and a 33% definite recommend, which is as bad as its gets.
 
Deadline is saying around $17.5M for IT on Friday.

They also have American Assassin at $6M and Mother! at $4.2M on Friday.

That doesn't seem too terrible for American Assassin really with a 33 million budget. If it gets a 16 million weekend I don't thinks it's really a bomb (depending on foreign markets)

Certainly not a big hit but it could have been worse
 
You know Paramount is in a bad state when Lionsgate is ahead of them for the year by a pretty significant margin.

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Last year for comparison:

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Deadline is saying around $17.5M for IT on Friday.

They also have American Assassin at $6M and Mother! at $4.2M on Friday.

That's a bit over 50% drop from last Friday, excluding the Thursday previews. That seems...pretty good? for a horror film. Guessing it drops less than 50% for the weekend as a whole (excluding previews).
 
Sculli is the BO GAF equivalent of the Wendigo curse. He only appears when people start shit talking AVATAR or Cameron.

That's a bit over 50% drop from last Friday, excluding the Thursday previews. That seems...pretty good? for a horror film. Guessing it drops less than 50% for the weekend as a whole (excluding previews).

Probably. Deadline has the weekend at $55M, would would be almost exactly a 50% drop, not counting previews last week.

$300M will happen for IT. I don't think that beating Passion is in the cards though, unless this weekend trends up.
 
Sculli is the BO GAF equivalent of the Wendigo curse. He only appears when people start shit talking AVATAR or Cameron.

In that thread I linked (or maybe one of the others I found in my search) I mentioned that I wasn't excited for Avatar (hadn't seen it yet) and he replied proactively against backlash. I hadn't even put it down.

I basically ignore anything he posts about Cameron these days.
 
You know Paramount is in a bad state when Lionsgate is ahead of them for the year by a pretty significant margin.
Last year for comparison:
Say it with me: Paramount Doom Watch™

I think they might be heading for one of, if not the worst result* of a major studio in modern history unless Daddy's Home 2 is a big hit.

*domestic box office
 
Read on Variety that BR2049 is expecting to open at $40 mil, same as Kingsman.
That would be a great OW for BR2049.

I don't know if tracking usually goes up or down, but for a while I thought 2049 could do similar numbers to Alien: Covenant's opening weekend (I don't remember how that one was tracking before its release). They both had/have similar big online hype that perhaps won't match general interest, but I could very well be proven wrong.

Even if I'm not really interested in it right now, the movie deserves big success based on its director alone.
 
Nah, TFA can't generate the posts like the others can. At least not in the BO thread itself. Maybe after the next round of Star Wars movies when folks that hate TFA retroactively decide it was great all along

I think that Star Wars doesn't generate a ton of fighting in these threads because most of the BO regulars who are big Star Wars fans are pretty positive about the franchise. They are actually excited for new films, and are not bitter fans reduced to hate watching anything that came out after 1983.

Those who don't really care for TFA (Bronson, maybe yourself), don't really care about Star Wars in general. There's also a bunch of us who like the newer films, but aren't super invested in any of it.

There's also no good rivalry for Star Wars right now. Trek fans are reduced to talking about the glory days, hoping that Discovery isn't a complete tire fire, and asking what went wrong with the marketing for Beyond. The MCU and DCEU are probably the two largest genre film fan bases right now, outside of Star Wars, but they are too busy fighting with each other.

You know Paramount is in a bad state when Lionsgate is ahead of them for the year by a pretty significant margin.

Paramount has no chance at catching up to Lionsgate at this point. I wouldn't be all that surprised if Lionsgate increased their lead by the end of the year.
 
Yeah I'm too young and Asian to give a shit about Star Wars

I still maintain that TFA took a dive the second that old man showed up to steal his ship back
 
In that thread I linked (or maybe one of the others I found in my search) I mentioned that I wasn't excited for Avatar (hadn't seen it yet) and he replied proactively against backlash. I hadn't even put it down.

ten years man.

a fuckin' decade.

That's a long time to smash the same key on that ol' grand piano
 
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