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Wkd Box Office 0116-1815 - Rocket Raccoon tak3's top spot, rips out bear's heart
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You know, I think most audiences would have preferred something a bit more over-the-top than how the film depicts hacking, which is little more than Hemsworth and the Chinese actors typing silently at keyboards, while the camera glances over at lines of code and lists of commands. It probably did need a blowjob, a parkour sequence, or a blowjob parkour sequence.
Yea I feel I will enjoy it as well. Plan on seeing it in a few weeks
vinnygambini
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Hahaha so true ;.;
Poor Seventh Son, it stands no chance.
Jupiter Ascending may do extremely well overseas though so it may not be as much as a disappointment for WB.
Aquamarine
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worldwide total for big hero 6 now surpasses $428 million.
very close to the break-even point.
very close to the break-even point.
Fox Mulder
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i liked him in Rush.
It seems like Ron Howard's taking a big liking to him after leading Rush, since he's also leading In the Heart of the Sea, which is based on the story that inspired Moby Dick. I doubt he's going to be hurting for jobs any time soon.
Delta Assault
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Yeah, but even there you walked away thinking about Daniel Bruhl's performance, when the marketing led you in thinking about Hemsworth.
Second trailer for Jupiter Ascending was 10 times better then the first. Don't think that it's going to be a bomb WW but also not really a hit. Then again people didn't go into Edge of Tomorrow alot which was very good in my book.
TheAbsolution
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The TV spots for American Sniper have been very good. I'm surprised at the numbers but I'm not surprised that people want to see it.
The film still has future openings in Germany, France, the UK, and other EU territories. It will easily pass $500M. Maybe even $550M.
Jupiter Ascending tracking so far has been awful. It is tracking to be a massive bomb. Edge of Tomorrow is likely a mega hit by comparison.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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The only thing close is Titanic with around 80%, but you're right, it is more for a "Oh wow" kind of laugh than anything.AS has already shown remarkable longevity in limited release, so I'm almost tempted to say it's more likely than not to beat Mockingjay.
It's certainly a game changer kind of opening, the same way Spider-Man 1, 300, and Hunger Games were. I wouldn't be surprised to see Paramount move Mission Impossible 5 to MLK 2016
Of the two, Jupiter Ascending stands a better chance, if only because WB has been advertising it quite a bit, and Cloud Atlas put up respectable numbers internationally, even if it didn't quite clear its budget. It's still crazy how much faith WB has in the Wachowskis, but considering they bankrolled a film as financially toxic as Inherent Vice, I suppose they have a bit of a masochistic streak about them.
Seventh Son is fucked eight ways from Sunday.
Seventh Sun opened to $16M in China this weekend. I wonder if that will end up being higher than its domestic opening.
Pop-O-Matic
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Jesus Christ at Blackhat. How bad do you have to be to hyperbomba during FUCK YOU, IT'S JANUARY!
Sony was wrong.
Gentle Rodriguez
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A good friend of mine wants me to watch Taken 3 with him
Razgriz-Specter
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War movies in general yeah, modern war movies doing well is only a more recent development though.
Hollywood considered them toxic for years and Hurt Locker was the first to start a turnaround.(even that only did 17mil total in the US though.)
Edit: Holy shit Hurt Locker is already 6 years old?
I think the wedding ringer is a Sony movie.
The Lone Courier
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Shit blackhat Bomba.
Delta Assault
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A good friend of mine wants me to watch Taken 3 with him
...Good luck.
It's projected for $8 million right now, so that will almost assuredly be the case. Jurassic World can't come soon enough for Legendary.
And they still shitted on him
Phoenician_Viking
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Holy shit at American sniper. The wedding ringer did well too.
Thor's starpower is not enough to save a shitty movie.
People wanted to see if he shot that kid from the commercials. I know it's the first question my father asked when I got back.
Separately, it was a great movie.
Yeah folks thought that Marvel hype would spill over.
Well Legendary has been sitting on Seventh Son for about a year and a half now, so I'm sure they have already written the film off.
It was originally slated for Feb 2013.
BuckRobotron
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On top of the positive review buzz and solid trailers for American Sniper, I saw Bradley Cooper seemingly showing up everywhere doing solid/positive interviews to promote it. Not surprised to see it do better then expectations...but this is another level.
Not really.
Fury only made $40m on its opening weekend.
Lone Survivor only made $40m on its opening weekend (in January. following a limited release similiar to American Sniper). And that was the highest grossing among the more recent post-9/11 war film genre, according to Wikipedia.
If anything, people have traditionally been pretty fatigued from war movies.
CassidyIzABeast
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I thought the chart was fake at first.
Matt_
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To be fair Paddington wasn't ever expected to do much more and it should hold quite well with those reviews
The Boohbah Zone
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Blackhat, a true bomba
Holy fucking shit at American Sniper. Good marketing (and half a dozen Oscar nods, I suppose) really goes a long way.
Holy fucking shit at American Sniper. Good marketing (and half a dozen Oscar nods, I suppose) really goes a long way.
megamerican
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Wait. Are you trying to say that $40 million opening weekends for R rated, non franchise, non sequel movies are bad?
If anything war movies have been gaining steam again. There was a lull for a while with Stop Loss, Kingdom, and even Hurt Locker underperforming. But seems like they're back now.
Fury and Lone Survivor weren't very good, though, either. And I mean that in the entertaining sense since making war movies fun and exciting seems anathema.
American Sniper was the first war movie I've seen in awhile that made me compare it to Black Hawk Down.
Jawmuncher
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That's fucking nuts for American Sniper.
That's going to hold the january record for years to come.
That's going to hold the january record for years to come.
In comparison to the $90m opening weekend of American Sniper, they aren't comparable.
You cannot just pithily explain AS's success as "people like war" (like the original poster asserted) or war movies are "back now" when Lone Survivor had less than half of American Sniper's OW gross just one year ago under similar circumstances.
Once again, I'm not saying anything about their quailty. I'm merely responding to someone who thinks that the fact that something's a war movie means it will do well. if that was the case, then the quality of Fury and Lone Survivor wouldn't matter. I'm arguing that clearly the quality clearly does matter and that the positive buzz/WOM/stars attached to AS must be a difference-making quality beyond people simply liking war movies (which was a disputable claim itself).
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