Wkd Box Office Est. 068-1012 - Ripley says: Get away from #1 you afro circus!
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Good Job Bob
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Those films are child's play compared to the brutality and violence that will be in Django.
Anyways, huge huge success for Prometheus; looks like a sequel is definitely in play. Hopefully they get my man Joss Whedon to write/direct it, that'd be awesome.
xaosslug
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yeah, Jim Carey did that. Pretty much sacrificed all the goodwill he'd fostered w/ the parental set for his 'craft' (which is his precognitive, indeed. And prob. what he feels is/was best for him) and went from being a huge force @ BO to just another high paid, funny actor. Will Smith doesn't, and LIKES being 'WILL SMITH box office juggernaut!' I guess? LOL
ALL fluff compared to a Tarantino film. Those are the kind of 'violent' films parents think are OK, esp. because Will Smith is in them. And I'm pretty sure Enemy of the state is pre-box-office-GOLD-Will-Smith...?
if/when the Will Smith money train slows, I'm sure he'll try more edgy roles.
No it wouldn't. Unless it's a comedy, and even then I'd rather have someone else.
VisionaryQuest0
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Bad Boys II was dead set in the middle of Will Smith's popularity height and that was in no way family friendly. Pretty sure "fuck" was used over 200 times and had loads of gore. He didn't used to be afraid of getting dirty.
Escape Goat
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Did he have kids yet?
ViewtifulJC
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Nope, that was rather after Independence Day and Men in Black, the two biggest Summer-movie grossing films of their respective years.
But yes, Enemy of the State is relatively tame to the kind of controversial shit Tarantino's black slave revenge film is bound to be. Will Smith is one of Hollywood's last "movie stars", and he knows that. He's not gonna kill the goose until it stops laying dem golden eggs.
edit: Bad Boys 2 definitely isn't family-friendly. That's gotta be one the biggest, stupidest films I've ever seen, with equal disdain of women, gays, Cubans, drug addicts, dead people, suitors for your daughter, AND rats. But it's all assured box office gold, a big budget Michael Bay blockbuster with a hundred action sequences and comedy and sexy romantic interest these kinds of shitty summer popcorn films are built on. Smith wasn't exactly going out on a limb with some off-the-wall shit here. It was a safe choice to keep his reign as summer box-office king.
VisionaryQuest0
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Yeah he did, his first child I believe was born in the early 90's.
Diprosalic
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is 1.5 billion possible for Avengers? sits at 1.4 now.
What happened to the people that thought it would beat Titanic?
Nobody with reasonable predictions thought that. Especially worldwide.
Titanic's Domestic total, never had a chance with WW after the 3D boost.
Avengers will reach $600M. The Hunger Games reached $400M after a $10.8M weekend where it totaled $372M, meaning it made another $28M until now. Avengers needs to make that same $28M and has much stronger early summer week days helping it out. Weekday totals will still be in the $1.0-1.25M range this week.
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The Everyman
i thought so. i was wrong :'(
I know QT makes pretty damn violent movies, but has something been leaked to indicate it'll Django will be just (if not more so) violent than some of his more violent movies?
bigtroyjon
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Looking at the 50 top 6th weekends of all times, Avengers has the lowest % of total gross and that % will only drop as it keeps slowly making more money.
Makes me wonder how high the movie could have gotten if it had released in Dec and had 3 months of relatively crappy competition. The 4th/5th/6th weekends are really where Avatar's lengthy dominance stand out, especially when comparing the numbers to Avengers.
Makes me wonder how high the movie could have gotten if it had released in Dec and had 3 months of relatively crappy competition. The 4th/5th/6th weekends are really where Avatar's lengthy dominance stand out, especially when comparing the numbers to Avengers.
That's what worries me. I plan to see it Thursday and hope it is a creepy, atmospheric action pic. I just don't want it to be dull...or do poorly at the BO. R-rated pics like this need to do well.
The script. Its brutal in violence.
Avengers probably wouldn't have had the record breaking opening it did in December though. Legs might have been better, But I don't know if that would have made up for the momentum lost on those first two weeks. The Hobbit will be the first film to break $80M opening weekend in December.
Can't wait
zomgbbqftw
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That would mean his kid is between 18 and 21, I'm pretty sure that Jayden is not that old.
He has an older son from a previous marriage.
AgentChris
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Diprosalic
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Escape Goat
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Wiki says Jaden was born in 98. So maybe having kids made him more conscious of the roles he took.
zomgbbqftw
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Yeah, completely forgot!
I suppose it's because he isn't in the public eye like Jayden or Willow.
BenjaminBirdie
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"WEE HOO WHERE'S MUH RIFLES YAYYYY HAWWW!!!"
mclaren777
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I'm starting to feel bad for Battleship.
Perhaps I'll go see it this week and just pretend that Rihanna isn't in it.
Perhaps I'll go see it this week and just pretend that Rihanna isn't in it.
That ladder is for stroking his ego.
Hmmmm........
Hunger Games gonna get close to $400M perhaps
Even with a 70M+ second weekend, that wasnt on the cards. And you were calling that for barely 60M+.
HP
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It kinda stinks.
ViewtifulJC
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Broken clock, twice a day, yadda yadda
Diprosalic
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Prometheus is great.
A broken clock is right twice a day or every dog has its day.
Daniel Craig is a BO draw, am I right? Or should I post you and others laughing when I said TDK would do 500M+?
Phoenician_Viking
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There was Sherlock Holmes and MI4 last Christmas. This Christmas there is the Hobbit, Untitled Kathryn Bigelow, Django Unchained, This Is 40, Les Miserables and The Great Gatsby. There´s much more competition this Christmas than the last one.
DrForester
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Hobbit and the last Twilight Movie will blow everything away this Holiday.
Should be a huge winter with those two. Django should do 100 mil+ as well.
Joe Shlabotnik
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It's definitely not an action movie.
DrForester
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The atmosphere of the film is fantastic, it's most certainly not the film's flaw.
Phoenician_Viking
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Skyfall will do over a 100 million. I was only mentioning the movies that are coming in December.
The last Twilight will be even more frontloaded than Deathly Hallows 2. It will make 75-80% of its total gross before December even starts.
I don't think this December is that much more crowded than last year. The Hobbit will make a lot more than MI4, but it is the only movie that is really a lock for more than $150M. Most of the others aren't even a lock for >$100M.
I don't think this December is that much more crowded than last year. The Hobbit will make a lot more than MI4, but it is the only movie that is really a lock for more than $150M. Most of the others aren't even a lock for >$100M.
Phoenician_Viking
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The Hobbit might make more than MI4. Internationally the Hobbit is much more popular.
xaosslug
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i wouldn't expect much from This Is 40, Untitled KB, Django Unchained, or The Great Gatsby... and Les Mis could go either way (I'm more inclined to believe mega hit w/ Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Anne Hathaway headlining).
It definitely should but can it crack 200M?
edit: Breaking Dawn PII will hit a week after Skyfall. :O
Good Job Bob
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Twilight Series isn't finished yet? The fuck..
:lolFor some reason I don't think the audience overlaps all that much
shira
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Maybe he's on the shitlist with the old aunt viv
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