Jimmyfenix
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How is boyhood?
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Box Office 0711-1314 - getting a #1 movie so easy a monkey can do it. Hail Caesar!
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Bobby Roberts
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You always seem to underestimate Hunger Games, man
I think Mockingjay has a REALLY good shot of breaking a bil.
I think I'l go next week. I liked the first one
Blargonaut
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why? domestic is hardly a priority in Hollywood these days
Bobby Roberts
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It's still a priority, c'mon. Its not as important as it used to be, but it's still plenty important to these studios.
On the way to Dawn, I saw an old woman coming out of the theater for "America" crying, and I said to my wife "What the hell is America?"
Watched Dawn, loved it.
Walking out of the theater, we saw a huge group of old white people with walkers coming out of America, saying how great the movie was.
Got home, googled it, then said, "OHHH, now I get it!"
Watched Dawn, loved it.
Walking out of the theater, we saw a huge group of old white people with walkers coming out of America, saying how great the movie was.
Got home, googled it, then said, "OHHH, now I get it!"
ViewtifulJC
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I've been having this conversation all the time IRL, pls tell me I'm not crazy...
It makes sense. Dawn is a start, rise is embracing your power and taking over. The titles are fucking switched lol.
Wonder if its because they didnt know if they would do a second one.
Inferno313
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100% on RT and 99 on Metacritic. See it when it comes out near you.
Shamrock7r
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wrong thread
Diprosalic
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You always seem to underestimate Hunger Games, man
I think Mockingjay has a REALLY good shot of breaking a bil.
If it goes like HP and Twilight the Part 1 movie won't do much better and then the Part 2 movie is the one who does great.
HGMJP2 should clear the billion mark easily.
Jimmyfenix
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Nice!
You always seem to underestimate Hunger Games, man
I think Mockingjay has a REALLY good shot of breaking a bil.
It would need to clear 575-600m overseas when the last one did 440ish. That's a big increase for 1 year, and not something that any similarly timed franchise managed (pirates, twilight, Harry Potter, etc). Also, a lot of these big increases have been largely coming from big increases in China. Catching Fire performed poorly over there, making less than $30m, and coming in flat compared to the gross of the first film.
friskykillface
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Apes taking over B^)
glad to see, fantastic movie, now give me a third one
glad to see, fantastic movie, now give me a third one
Apes from san fran vs the world apes, if the virus spread then the apes from different countries should have got it, boom koba vs ceaser part 2, if hes alive
IncandescentPrecept
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100% of a domestic grossing doesn't go to the studios so it hasn't made back its money.
Even old white bigots need entertainment options!
alfredofroylan
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Finally we got numbers for Snowpiercer
Jul 1113 $677,000
Wich is sad because it's on 356 Theaters, last week it made $1,007,926 with 250.
Jul 1113 $677,000
Wich is sad because it's on 356 Theaters, last week it made $1,007,926 with 250.
It shouldn't be that surprising with the VOD expansion this weekend. I imagine most will opt for that at this point.
Also I'm sure people imported the DVD awhile ago if they got tired of waiting for it.
Considering D'Souza's previous "agenda" film made 33 million back in 2012 and Michael Moore's made 119 million in 2004, one could argue these things resonate more in presidential election years than not.
Yeah, most people don't give a shit about politics until presidential elections.
Messofanego
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Transformers knocked off, Boyhood and Dawn of the Apes doing well? Good weak for movies.
Everyone go see Boyhood. Especially if you somehow stomached through 166min of Bayformers, cause both movies are the same length
Everyone go see Boyhood. Especially if you somehow stomached through 166min of Bayformers, cause both movies are the same length
There seems to have been a rapid expansion of international money making these last 5 years. Honestly i think movies are making more money than ever, taking in the "premiere" experiences like 3d and imax and how every market apparently gets a release. Failing domestically doesnt mean you wont make a lot of profit. It never used to be like this. Plus all the digital distro release opportunities now that are starting to grow.
TheKaeptain
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Aren't they fucking synonyms?
EDIT: In context to the movies and titles. They mean the same thing. Both are referring to a new day in which apes come to rule.
Next movie will be named "Ascension of the Planet of the Apes"
BladeoftheImmortal
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HTTYD2 still isn't out here in china. so that could rise considerably.
It's over $140m behind the first movie though (I'm not sure if they added last week's foreign take to that yet.) It still has a number of smaller territories to open in too, but my guess is it'd have to do over $90m in China to even have a chance at catching up in total international gross.
Speaking of which, what's the most reliable way to find release dates in China? It seems some movies they don't have release dates for a long time, for example, HTTYD2 only got a release date announced today for August 14. Is it because they have to wait for state approval and all that?
August 29.
Damn that's quite late. Pity was looking forward to seeing it soon.
South Korea and Germany are not smaller territories. The first film made $40M in those two countries. Spain and Italy accounted for another $20M. Those plus holdovers will bring the overseas total to at least $300M. Add China on top of that. HTTYD2 could still beat the first movie's take.
neogaffer1
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They had stuff in the first movie that was just set up for sequel movies (spaceship news story, Koba being introduced despite his very small role). I just see it as the apes rise up in the first movie, and in the second movie their rule over the world begins to dawn.
HTTYD 2 is suffering the same fate as KFP 2, I expect the end result will be the same. Diminished grosses domestically and slightly higher ones worlwide thanks to the international markets. Both sequels were expected to perform much better than their originals.
Edge of Tomorrow's grosses would have been okay if the movie's budget wasn't as insane, maybe they can still eke out a small profit with rentals and sales though. So it's not an outright disaster.
Maleficient is probably going to cross 700m, that's pretty insane.
Edge of Tomorrow's grosses would have been okay if the movie's budget wasn't as insane, maybe they can still eke out a small profit with rentals and sales though. So it's not an outright disaster.
Maleficient is probably going to cross 700m, that's pretty insane.
That was supposed to be the bomb of the summer though.
Gentleman Jack
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You should see the trailers. Probably the most unintentionally hilarious trailers I've seen all year.
TheKaeptain
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Only male nerds said this. It's a Disney movie aimed at women and their daughters.
BronsonLee
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Starring Angelina Jolie. That literally screams piles of money
ReturnOfTheRAT
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Cool. Also dead again.
True, but if you account for inflation, Star Wars and LOTR have both managed three (SW has had six straight if you ignore the animated spin-offs). Of course, something that has only been done by SW and LOTR is still incredibly rare. I don't think anyone would have imagined we'd even be having this discussion about The Hunger Games before the first movie came out.
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