Wkd BO 076-812 - Piderman a firework, Tity Perry pop rocks, Taylor Kitsch am bomba
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Thunder Monkey
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And if they were... can I buy some pot from you?
zomgbbqftw
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I imagine they got a fair bit of money from MS for Bing.
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Nah. It looks like she deserved better, based on the reviews.
Phoenician_Viking
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Heh, i did not notice that.
@zomgbbqftw It would be interesting to see if the prediction that bank buddies made still hold, or if they reduce forecast.
A Human Becoming
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Well I just lost 45 minutes of my time.
Plasticine
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It's solid, if a little slow.
Stone is firmly in his B-movie mode. Think along the lines of U-Turn. There's a few film stock changes and nifty narrative tricks. Nowhere near as showy and aggressive as Natural Born Killers, though. It's just enough to add some flavor to the proceedings.
The characters aren't as colorful as I'd hoped. The dialogue can be a bit stilted and on the nose. But it's a Shane Salerno script, so that's not too surprising. Winslow and Stone are both credited, so I'm sure they did a ton of work.
The leads are all fine. Taylor Kitsch is pretty one note, but he does a good job playing angry. Still not sure how anyone ever thought he could carry a huge budget tentpole, though. DelToro (with a magnificent mullet) delivers the best acting job. He made a great slimy villain. Travolta does a good job as well.
If you're a fan of crime films, or of Stone in general, you should check it out.
Messofanego
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Beasts of the Southern Wild doing good! Too bad gotta wait til October to see it in UK.
What's the highest per theatre average for an indie movie?
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Beasts of the Southern Wild doing good! Too bad gotta wait til October to see it in UK.
What's the highest per theatre average for an indie movie?
Moonrise Kingdom. $130,752 average at 4 locations.
King of the Potato People
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Is Amazing Spider-Man as dull and formulaic as it looks?
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Yes, wildly and upsettingly so.
Messofanego
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Ah, so that's the record it broke. Well deserved.
Phoenician_Viking
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No, it´s a good movie.
Good Job Bob
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No, it's fantastic.
Manmademan
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No one's expecting this to do Spiderman 3 numbers though.
SM3 was following up on the best reviewed entry in the franchise, with recognizable star power. The hype level for it was much higher.
This one is following up on a movie no one was thrilled with, with no-name actors and the public exit of the director that made the series. It's got a much higher hill to climb to put butts in seats.
I can't see how not hitting SM3's grosses is disappointing- it had too much going against it from the get go.
Theres a pretty big split on gaf about it. I enjoyed it.
It defnitely has issues but overall, I felt that they have the best Peter and Spidey here and am hoping the sequel irons out a lot of the complaints about ASM.
Diprosalic
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movies don't stop making money once they're out of the cinema.
AgentChris
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Can't wait for the next Spider-Man movie. I hope Marc Webb returns as the director. The action scenes were sogood.gif
They are disappointing overseas where a lot of people were expecting Amazing Spider-man to match to surpass Spider-man 3's earnings. Even Box office Mojo was expecting $570M overseas in their summer forecast. A lot will depend on China, but the market has expanded a ton since 2007. Even sequels to sub par series entries are breaking or matching franchise highs overseas.
AgentChris
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It's on the shoulders of Amazing Spider-Man 2. In terms of reboots, this is a huge success. Word of mouth has been amazing so that will help it, going forward and as a franchise. Spider-Man 3 was so bad, where it caused a ripple effect on the previous Raimi films and ASM. lol
ZeroGravity
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Yes. You have to try really hard to make Spider-Man "not fun", and they succeeded in that respect.
Gamer @ Heart
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It really is. The rule of thumb is if BO is 2.5 times the budget, they typically turn a profit. If they need 700 mil, then their marketing budget must enormous.
Marketing budgets for summer tentpoles are usually over 100M. Hell, some videogames spend that much on marketing these days.
TheKaeptain
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Tobor is crying right now at the thought of Marvel never getting Spiderman back. Which is a good thing because ASM is better than Marvels recent output.
King of the Potato People
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Ha ha, split indeed. Sounds like it might be worth a rent.
demosthenes
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Yea, I doubt that 700m number. They're floating some other bs into that.
demosthenes
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This is how movies 'need' 700m to break even.
http://boingboing.net/2011/06/27/hollywoodonomics-how.html
To all those who talk about Sony's excessive product placement..., where have you been for the last twenty years? Sony Pictures are shameless in the way they crowbar their products into every scene, even films like The Other Guys had the characters using Vaio desktops etc.
Seriously I think in the last twenty odd years Sony have made less than a 10 films that were set either in the past or the future and I'm willing to bet that Total Recall remake will be filled with Sony branding and Sony products on Blade Runner esque futuristic billboards.
Sony had a long policy of making films that were set in contemporary times. One of the many reason they like being in business with Adam Sandler. They stay well away from the far future and the past. And DEFINITELY stay away from anything to do with WW2. For obvious reasons.
The name of prominent Jewish lawyer. He is a pillar of his community and yes..., he does whatever a Piderman can..., to help those in need.
Yup. There is no way that Universal can be happy with only $350m at the global box office t date when their total investment in the project (including production and P&A costs) is easily $300m or so.
This is also reflected in the fact Snow White/Huntsman was produced by the same guy who produced Alice In Wonderland, Joe Roth. Clearly the studio had big ambitions for this project but it just hasn't taken off at the International box office at all. Though the US numbers are better than I thought they would be.
I agree with this, just how much did people expect this to make? Even in the fall I wouldn't expect this to do any more than $20m ala The Town. And frankly I'm surprised it made as much as it did.
In saying that Universal's effort to release Savages as 'counter programming' at this point in the summer doesn't feel like it's worked at all.
Worldwide advertising mang. It's very expensive.
IIRC Magic Mike cost $5m to actually produce and WB paid $7m for the North American distribution rights.
Seriously I think in the last twenty odd years Sony have made less than a 10 films that were set either in the past or the future and I'm willing to bet that Total Recall remake will be filled with Sony branding and Sony products on Blade Runner esque futuristic billboards.
Sony had a long policy of making films that were set in contemporary times. One of the many reason they like being in business with Adam Sandler. They stay well away from the far future and the past. And DEFINITELY stay away from anything to do with WW2. For obvious reasons.
The name of prominent Jewish lawyer. He is a pillar of his community and yes..., he does whatever a Piderman can..., to help those in need.
Yup. There is no way that Universal can be happy with only $350m at the global box office t date when their total investment in the project (including production and P&A costs) is easily $300m or so.
This is also reflected in the fact Snow White/Huntsman was produced by the same guy who produced Alice In Wonderland, Joe Roth. Clearly the studio had big ambitions for this project but it just hasn't taken off at the International box office at all. Though the US numbers are better than I thought they would be.
I agree with this, just how much did people expect this to make? Even in the fall I wouldn't expect this to do any more than $20m ala The Town. And frankly I'm surprised it made as much as it did.
In saying that Universal's effort to release Savages as 'counter programming' at this point in the summer doesn't feel like it's worked at all.
Worldwide advertising mang. It's very expensive.
IIRC Magic Mike cost $5m to actually produce and WB paid $7m for the North American distribution rights.
Hot Coldman
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There's no fucking way that happens. Orshit and Worstman will make sure of that.
Yeah, I saw that many folks expected $200m+ based on the opening weekend returns. Pretty amazing.
I think Ted has a great shot at making more than Spidey in all honesty.
Hot Coldman
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Bwahahahaha. So much for that cheaper Spidey film they seemed like they were gunning for originally.
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DAT WEBB
Feels about right for a 'troubled' production of that size. Say another $100/150m for WW marketing and that $700m WW gross figure to break even sounds plausible.
THat is of course keeping in mind that studios never, EVER tell the truth about how much their films cost to produce and market.
lol way too much.
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I'm Marvel Studios biggest detractor on GAF and I disagree, if ASM was a Marvel Studios flick it'd be the worst one.
It's not worse than Iron Man 2 or Captain America.
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I think so.
twinturbo2
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I hope so. Part of Me's Tomatometer is still better than Piderman.
You must be very proud of yourself.
Documentaries tend to have higher aggregated scores on average than regular movies. I think it is easier to make a good documentary. We like looking into other (real) people's lives. Even if you don't like Katy Perry music, I am sure there are some interesting stories amd behind the scenes in the film.
Speedymanic
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Not bad for Spidey, but not great by any means either. Didn't it have a 6 day OW?
Prome.will be lucky to hit 125m. Really thought it hit 130m domestic.
Prome.will be lucky to hit 125m. Really thought it hit 130m domestic.
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