Gentleman Jack
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It's a fun ride if you can tolerate human beings being an order of magnitude more stupid than they usually are for this genre. Kong himself looks amazing.
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Wkd BO 0310-1217 - Giant gorilla, just like in one of those old video games, king
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It's a fun ride if you can tolerate human beings being an order of magnitude more stupid than they usually are for this genre. Kong himself looks amazing.
Are we talking those two idiot scientists in Prometheus levels of dumb?
If you like giant monster movies it's pretty damn fun. I enjoyed the hell out of it. It's basically a modern B-Movie, creature feature.
AmaterasuOni
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That shit was hype.
Really hope this movie can have some decent legs. The showing I went to must have been like 40% full, but the audience seemed to be pretty into it. I can definitely see why the budget was so high as well. You could really see the money on screen. CGI was great.
Off-topic, but I watched Apocalypse last night. Went in with low expectations and it was...worse than I expected
Pretty awful movie.
Strange had a similar opening and a better hold its 2nd weekend. It grossed another 80M from here on out. 220M seems close.
Fancyarcher
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That's a great Saturday jump for Kong. It's playing like a family film.
It's fine, but considering X-Men Legs in general, it just proves that the franchise will never go beyond a specific "niche", or have very good box office legs.
It's fine, but considering X-Men Legs in general, it just proves that the franchise will never go beyond a specific "niche", or have very good box office legs.
Which is a shame, they have so much potential.
Off-topic, but I watched Apocalypse last night. Went in with low expectations and it was...worse than I expected
Pretty awful movie.
Never bothered watching it until it hit Netflix.
No need to watch it again.
Anecdotal: my local theater got A Cure for Wellness and didn't have room for Get Out when it was released; they keep movies for a minimum 2 week run. They dropped Wellness this week and added Get Out. Probably quite a few made similar swaps given its legs.
Good for Kong! Heard the director on Doug Loves Movies and he was fully aware of the idea of the movie going public not really being into yet another King Kong movie and promised it wasn't what you think. Then he went on to using Journey and Shadow of the Colossus in describing the inspiration for certain aspects of the film. Totally sold me on it (this is the guy that wants to do the Metal Gear movie, too, I believe).
$438M worldwide for Logan.
$596M for Moana, with a pretty good opening in Japan.
Other worldwide updates
La La Land - $417M
50 Shades Darker - $369M
John Wick 2 - $153M
The Great Wall - $327M
Split - $248M
A Dog's Purpose - $140M
Lego Batman - $275M
Resident Evil Final Chapter - $308M
$596M for Moana, with a pretty good opening in Japan.
Other worldwide updates
La La Land - $417M
50 Shades Darker - $369M
John Wick 2 - $153M
The Great Wall - $327M
Split - $248M
A Dog's Purpose - $140M
Lego Batman - $275M
Resident Evil Final Chapter - $308M
Under its current ownership. If someone bothered to adapt the source material with some respect and care, it could be a billion dollar franchise.
2019, Dog Transformers, presented by Michael Bay
Deadpool had the best box office legs of any superhero film last year though.
Future Foundation
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No Marvel Xmen movie would be even close to quality to Logan.
I'm really disappointed by the Logan hold, I thought audiences were going to respond better to good, non cape cbm, but I guess Doctor Bland deserved the money. Fuck everything
I meant a billion per film. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
Shame JW2 didn't do more. It was a fun movie.
Future Foundation
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GitarooMan
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Kong was really good, John C. Reilly kills it in that movie. Glad to see it had a solid opening.
At some point the $4.5m production budget becomes a rounder.
"How much did Get Out make?"
"About $150m."
"No, I mean after it's budget."
"About $150m."
It'll make more than that, too. :lol
Haha yeah. When a movie makes 30-plus times its budget, the budget ceases to matter.
TheSkullPrince
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Gonna go watch King this afternoon, most reviewers have issues with the human characters, but I'm just going in expecting a fun popcorn movie.
Anything to wash the bad taste left by Godzilla 2014.
Anything to wash the bad taste left by Godzilla 2014.
I think its more likely that Logan is a heavy movie. Lots more repeat business for a comedy like Deadpool then a ringer of a movie like Logan.
thehypocrite
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Too many jokes.
Bobby Roberts
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It wad not a "bomba" at all. It's underperforming, but it's not cratering.
(unironic usage of "bomba" in 2017, ha)
Disney gonna win again this year.
SmackAttack
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What if Godzilla and Kong team up to fight the Jaegers when they step in?
What did he mean by this?
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I can sort of see why. It's pretty poorly written with things too dark/mean for kids. Plus I'm sure the gay overtones didnt go over well with some families
broncobuster
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The Shack is ruining a great top five. But I appreciate the 4 covering the S in the OP.
Bold prediction. They are also going to win every year for the foreseeable future.
The question is only by how much.
I bet they cross $3b again. Maybe close to $4b.
Bobby Roberts
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Stupid thing for me to not notice, but I honestly didn't notice it until it was directly pointed out to me in an article about Paramount:
I didn't know Disney had decided a little bit ago to reduce production/distribution yearly specifically to spend more money and focus on each individual release they did push through.
They basically changed their business model to a home run derby awhile ago. Now other studios are starting to wonder if that should be their deal, too, instead of covering the full spectrum of sizes.
I didn't know Disney had decided a little bit ago to reduce production/distribution yearly specifically to spend more money and focus on each individual release they did push through.
They basically changed their business model to a home run derby awhile ago. Now other studios are starting to wonder if that should be their deal, too, instead of covering the full spectrum of sizes.
Almost everyone says Logan is better than 90% of the Marvel Studios movies to date, easily.
That is a movie with more respect and care for the characters and quality filmmaking in this genre since The Dark Knight. So that argument doesn't really hold up.
And hell, your definition also applies to Deadpool, perfectly.
I doubt they hit $3B again. They only have 9 movies scheduled including that panda documentary and an untitled fairy tale movie in July that may or may not happen.
BronsonLee
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Disney can afford to do that though
Paramount and Sony can't even GET home runs, and WB's too fucking crazy to even try that shit
Paramount and Sony can't even GET home runs, and WB's too fucking crazy to even try that shit
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