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Wkd BO 0721-2317 - Slam Dunk' for Nolan, Apes escape, not rough Girl's Trip, Luc
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Get me off this planet right now.
I am just continually surprised every time we hit 1k posts for the week this year. Before this year we had maybe 10 threads total over that 1k mark (most of them related to the Avengers, TFA, and BvS) and xaosslug has been doing this for close to 10 years.
For whatever reason, more people decided to follow along this year.
The BronsonBump in effect.
Console wars got boring and blockbusters got more nerdy.
When do we call it the BronsonSlump?
Bronson was present in all of those years. Don't let him steal any credit.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
this is a decent narrative. I like it.
Please don't feed the animals...
Forum activity in general continues to go up as memberhip increases year over year.
Factoid: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion thread was the first to hit 10,000 posts. We blow past that with great regularity now.
WaffleTaco
Wants to outlaw technological innovation.
Box office also makes for entertaining talk. TV talk is dead in a public setting due to spoilers, but movies are still okay since almost nothing is surprising anyway and most people who care see it Day one lol.
DecoReturns
Member
Any word on how Dunkirk is doing? 50 mil opening weekend seems pretty good for a non American war movie.
Also, what's the budget for the movie? I read the production note and even there it's not mentioned.
Also, what's the budget for the movie? I read the production note and even there it's not mentioned.
It's doing decent for what it is.
The budget is up in the air. There's some word that it's far lower than past Nolan movies, others are saying $150M, some are saying $100M.
No matter what the budget is I don't think it particularly matters. Worst case scenario Warner takes a loss and gets leverage on Nolan and has a say on his next project.
I would also say they can probably make an Oscar push with it, it hits most of checkboxes for Best Picture.
I guess this is a good point. We've also had a pretty interesting set of films this year, between the huge successes and the multiple big budget failures. I am sure that helps too.
Gentleman Jack
Member
It's going to make $500M+ and be in contention for a bunch of Oscars. If anything, I think Nolan gets more leverage.
The international territories where Dunkirk is most relevant are the mature ones where studios actually make good ancillary cash. The UK, Australia, Germany, France, etc. It would be cool to see a $75M+ gross in China to boost the ww gross, but in the long run the difference between that and $30M in China isn't really a big deal.
Every dollar of UK box office ends up being worth more than $4 of Chinese box office over the lifespan of the film.
Ignatz Mouse
Banned
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Is there such a thing? lol
At this point Warner considers the man himself to be one of their most valued brands, alongside Potter and DC.
Jesus Christ at that Micro$oft decline. Lack of exclusives is killing them.
LordOfLore
Banned
How was Dunkirk met in France and Germany?
It's at $113 million currently with basically 50/50 ish split domestic vs international.
Budget is now reported as $100 million (boxoffice mojo has adjusted their initial $150 M to $100 M). In U.K. in articles the budget was always noted as being approx $100 million and certainly interviews with various people involved have noted it was much less expensive than you'd think due to careful use of physical effects and lack of actors getting a huge salary (interestingly the person getting the big bucks on this one is apparently Nolan himself).
Reviews are glowing and WoM is strong.
As a WW2 based non character non traditional narrative driven film it's doing excellently thus far. Unless it doesn't perform remotely as you'd expect from this point forward it's almost certainly going to be deemed another critical and commercial result for Nolan.
Nightwing123
Member
Nice to see Dunkirk doing well I'm expecting the older audience to give this movie some legs.
SCULLIBUNDO
Banned
James 'Fox will wait more than a decade for me to make the sequel to the highest grossing film of all time' Cameron.
Not counting a couple recent Disney cartoons and Titanic (for obvious reasons), Inception is now the only film to make over $800M worldwide and not have some sort of sequel announced or released.
MHWilliams
Member
Honestly, part of that is because most of the shows haven't started for this season. Game of Thrones is in full swing now, and more are coming soon. On the flip, there's always movies to discuss.
On a whole, I think our biggest community threads are the various Sports, PoliGAF, and maybe Toonami.
LordOfLore
Banned
Man, I don't even want to know how big the Comics community would be if it wasn't rebooted every month.
And I hope he never does a sequel. My respect for him would go down a notch.
That movie and the ambiguity of the ending was fucking perfect.
MHWilliams
Member
PoliGAF is still the king. As an example, the latest thread has 1,723 posts since its reboot yesterday.
Outside of Toonami, PoliGAF, and sports, the bigger ongoing community threads with reboots include COMICS! and the Black Culture Thread.
If you want a monster of an ongoing OT thread, the Dragon Ball Super thread is it.
BronsonLee
Member
RIP Sports.
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
Yes, it is. I mostly lurk there tho.
And then I forget to visit for four months and everything's changed but not really.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Graphic novel adaptation by Bryan Lee OMalley
Live panel discussion moderated by Kevin Smith
Lead single from the film by Ariana Grande
Keeping in mind that this week (week 30) is only on Tuesday, here's an updated graph of Box Office GAF posts in the weekend box office threads through the first 30 weeks of the past 4 years.
2017 made up for the TFA and BvS bumps of 2016 a few weeks back and is now the chattiest year to date, probably passing 23k posts for the year by the end of today. Last year was at around 21k posts by this point. 2015 was at just over 9k. 2014 was at 4.8k (I was mainly talking to myself back then).
This is the Wonder Woman bump.
They had to green-screen it out, if I recall correctly.
Boxoffice GAF is limited in ways those threads aren't. We only get numbers once a day, most people only care about the weekend takes, and there's only so many times that you can make fun of Bronson in a given week. When we exhaust those, we are left to rank MCU films, fight over Man of Steel or BvS, or complain about being old.
BronsonLee
Member
no
NO
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The amount of times you can do that is zero
at least recently we got to make fun of universal for their dark universe shenanigans
Biggest-Geek-Ever
Member
About to watch Girls Trip and there's about 30 other people here. I am the only guy.
Sweeney Tom
Banned
Bronson <3
I still say they should've left it in.
But even then it physically and mentally pains me to do so.
Enjoy it.
This reminds me of that one Saturday in November 2012 when I watched the Twilight quintet. Got to the theater at 8am and watched all five of these movies back to back. If I remember correctly I saw one other dude in that 780 seat theater. Fuck me that was an interesting experience.
I am eagerly anticipating their next steps honestly
Also speaking of questionable movies, King Arthur is out on digital today!
It's kind of bananas to think about the fact that movies now hit home in under 3 months. I remember when it was such a long slog...