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Wkd BO 05•26-28•17 - Rock in bay can't stop Pirates or Guardians, Alien sinks tho

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SomewhatGroovy

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Will be happy to eat crow too:

A Wonder woman in a world war movie is not going to be a hit as many here think it is.

I still can't wrap my head around the concept.
 
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BronsonLee

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I'm skipping watching Pirates today cause it's too early in the morning and I'd spend too much money anyways

I've finally destroyed Disney's hold on me~
 
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Inferno313

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SomewhatGroovy said:
Will be happy to eat crow too:

A Wonder woman in a world war movie is not going to be a hit as many here think it is.

I still can't wrap my head around the concept.
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The first modern female-led superhero flick and the first Wonder Woman film ever is going to do quite well. As we've seen with films such as the F&F franchise, underserved markets show up.
 
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Razgriz-Specter

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BronsonLee said:
I'm skipping watching Pirates today cause it's too early in the morning and I'd spend too much money anyways

I've finally destroyed Disney's hold on me~
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Slayven said:
Pirates might make money by avoiding the Bronson Bump
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CaviarMeths

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I think Wonder Woman could end up doing better in Asia than in continental Europe. Relative to market size, anyway.

I think last week I was a little more conservative and predicting a sub-$100m opening and modest overseas. That was before updated tracking info and positive buzz from critics. I'll revise that tonight after the embargo lifts.
 
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cartographer

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It's a good thing Bronson killed Beautiful Creatures because that series had nothing going for it other than Alden Ehrenreich, and he had a higher calling.

I guessed we missed out on super hammy side characters though.
 
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3N16MA

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I expect WW DOM/OS split to be similar to MoS and Suicide Squad rather than BvS. If it opens to 105M-110M and has decent legs (slightly above SS) it could hit 265M DOM. That would put the OS gross at 335M and the WW total at 600M.

Of course it could go higher which is what I thought it had the potential to do (MoS numbers).
 
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FTF

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Have no idea why Disney thinks gotg2 is going to drop 40% today...shows are sold out everywhere and it's going to hold way better than that.
 
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kswiston

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Looks like craft services was one of the parties to blame for those crazy PotC budgets!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/pirates-caribbean-stars-share-stories-set-1008242

Millions were spent on snacks.

Davenport says the filming crew was so huge for the second and third installments he recalls the craft services chef telling him that around $2 million alone was used for snacks.

“I remember saying to him one day ‘What is your budget for all this?’ He looked me square in the eye and said ‘essentially unlimited.’ I was like ‘what does that mean?’ He was like ‘I don’t know, $2 million.’ I was like ‘For snacks?’ And he was like ‘yeah?’ That sounds frivolous but it wasn’t. He obviously had to keep people fed. The point is that was just a snack line item.”

Hundreds of cell phones were lost at sea.

Davenport, Arenberg and Bailie found their most memorable experiences simply being able to feel like real-life pirates in filming with hundreds of crew, multiple ships and plenty of explosions in St. Vincent, where Davenport recalls a Led Zeppelin-esque experience of jumbo jets chartered to carry hundreds of crew members and 55 boats to ferry even the makeup trailers to and from the set on St. Vincent in the Caribbean: "I remember thinking just don't f—k it up, because the reset for this scene is going to be like an hour and a half," says Davenport who credits Verbinski for being able to keep the production in check. "And that was every scene I was in."

“There was a legendary speech the line producer, Eric McLeod, made at the end of the third movie about ‘Well we’ve finished up shooting. The caterers prepared 170,000 meals. We bought like 700 cell phones and 240 of them went in the water. There was enough rope on this movie to go around Earth five times,' recalls Arenberg. "Stuff like that started to add up like you would have driven around the earth 120 times with all the fuel used. It resonates with you when you understand the magnitude of it…Most people don’t get an opportunity like that in the film business. We won’t be making films like that very often.”

Davenport added, "We used to work on the first film and I remember looking at the call sheet and it would say just catering alone it was 750 lunches and we were in the middle of nowhere. They had to fly in everything, all the food. It was like being in an invading army."
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Also, welcome back to the premature Wonder Woman review thread refugees. Ghaleon is watching you scoundrels.
 
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Biggest-Geek-Ever

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$2M on snacks, heh. It kind of reminds of how much leeway Stanton got to do whatever the hell he wanted on John Carter, no matter how many millions it cost.
 
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FTF

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GhaleonEB said:
I still don't understand why it was posted early or how it got to 1200 posts with no reviews but I'm not digging through to find out.
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There were about 5 or 6 reviews that were posted early or broke embargo, etc. But yeah it was way too early for the thread I guess.
 
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