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Wkd Box Office 02•06-08•15 - Spongebob cleans up latest Wachowski siblings hot mess

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duckroll said:
But we might actually get a good movie out of it.
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Going by Steiner Math, we'd have a (2 good Wachowski films/7 Wachowski films overall)*100=28.6% chance of getting a good film, which is actually LESS than Zack Snyder [(3/5)*10=60%] before the turdburger that was MoS.
 
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Drago said:
Most of it. Like, 75% hand drawn, 25% live action/CG if I had to throw out percentages.

The super hero angle that's in every commercial/trailer is the climax of the movie. Makes it much easier to sell to kids that way, I guess.
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Wow, color me curious.
 
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wow....American Sniper is the 3rd highest grossing film of 2013, its topped The Winter Soldier by more then $20m!
 
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Messofanego

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“Everyone says, ‘Why can’t you be simpler?’ We’re drawn toward difficult subjects, like the disparity of rich and poor,” Lana says. “We’ve been lucky. People at studios have been interested in our crazy, strange brand of complexity. And we’ve been allowed to keep making them. Will that continue? Probably not.”

“But it was a good run,” Andy adds.
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-matrix-creators-launch-a-new-epic-with-jupiter-ascending-1422548645

Ok, that pretty much seals it, probably no more studio budgets. Back to Bound levels of productions! Interested in Sense8.
 
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jey_16 said:
wow....American Sniper is the 3rd highest grossing film of 2013, its topped The Winter Soldier by more then $20m!
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They both did really well when you consider how hard it was to sell movie tickets that far in advance.

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http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-matrix-creators-launch-a-new-epic-with-jupiter-ascending-1422548645

Ok, that pretty much seals it, probably no more studio budgets. Back to Bound levels of productions! Interested in Sense8.
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They seemed better suited to being limited in some capacity. They're almost Lucas-levels of terrible when not on a leash.
 
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Messofanego said:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-matrix-creators-launch-a-new-epic-with-jupiter-ascending-1422548645

Ok, that pretty much seals it, probably no more studio budgets. Back to Bound levels of productions! Interested in Sense8.
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I see it as they got lucky with the Matrix and that it influenced lectures of philosophy in univerities. the success went to their head and now they try to make things extra complicated to replicate Matrix success thinking that will impact society too.
 
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BobbyRoberts said:
The idea that directors who obviously give this much of a shit about telling stories are somehow "hacks" doesn't make any sense. Hacks don't have ambition at all. They don't care to have ambition. They just do what they're handed and they don't care whether it works or not. That's what a "hack" is.

The Wachowskis have a weird, varied, somewhat crazy filmography. Hacks don't have one of those.

Besides which, it sounds like there's a lot of people in this thread who haven't seen Bound if they think the only thing of worth the Wachowskis have ever done is The Matrix. And I feel like they should get some measure of credit for making the best ever live-action anime adaptation in Speed Racer - for whatever that distinction is worth.
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Okay, so they're not hacks. Doesn't mean their work isn't crap.

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Matt_

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So out of curiosity I just looked at how full the screens are tomorrow and saturday night for 50 shades and I have never seen a cinema so packed before
I'm in the UK but I'm sure its going to transfer across to the US. Definitely thinking that the 60M tracking numbers is lowballing

edit; also I know its not the thread for it but the IMDB ratings are laughable
I'm not expecting the film to be great but men seem to be hating it
 
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Its no wonder why Jupiter ascending bombed. I've seen the ad for it like 10 times and I'm still not exactly sure what the hell is it about or why I should go see it.
 
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http://deadline.com/2015/02/fifty-shades-of-grey-international-box-office-first-day-1201372179/

Fifty Shades Of Grey first day:

- France, $2.7M, Universal's all-time opener beating Fast & Furious 6
- Australia, more than $2M, Universal’s biggest non-holiday opening day of all time and its 2nd-biggest opening day of all time
- Belgium, $543K, studio’s biggest debut day ever, 4th biggest ever in the market
- Philippines, $340K biggest R-18 start of all time
- Switzerland, $136K, Universal’s 2nd highest bow ever

It begins.
 
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From BOM

"On Fandango, Fifty Shades of Grey pre-sales rank fourth all-time behind The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 and The Hunger Games. All three of those titles opened north of $142 million, while the fifth title (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1) opened to $138.1 million. This seems to suggest that a $100 million debut is a real possibility (Universal is more modestly predicting a $60-million-plus start)."

Forecast (February 13-15)
1. Fifty Shades of Grey - $92 million ($101 million four-day)
2. SpongeBob - $33 million (-41%)
3. Kingsman - $28 million ($32.5 million four-day)
4. American Sniper - $16.3 million (-30%)
 
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Mr.Swag

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I was right on the money with 50 Shades.

Kingsman definitely picked up momentum when they started showing more in the commercials, first trailer was Cody Banks. Its a surprise how well it did.
 
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Other 50 Shades international opening records:

http://deadline.com/2015/02/fifty-shades-of-grey-international-box-office-first-day-1201372179/

The day [Thursday] was good for $23.3M, bringing the two-day cume to $28.6M in a total 34 markets with No. 1s in 33 of those (Hong Kong being the hold-out)


  • - Russia, the opening of Fifty Shades is bigger than any of the films in the Harry Potter, Hunger Games or Twilight franchises, $2.3M, the movie is the biggest opening day ever for Universal, the largest opening day for a 16+ or 18+ film,
  • - Argentina where the movie is the biggest opener of all time with $1M
  • - Brazil, it is Universal’s biggest debut ever and the highest opening gross ever for a film rated 16+ with $2.4M
  • - Mexico is the biggest R-rated opening of all time at $2.1M
  • - Germany, top February opening day of all time at $2.3M.
  • - Italy is a best-ever bow for Universal and the biggest R-rated start with $2M.
 
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Friday Studio Estimates:

1) 50 Shades of Grey - $30.2M
2) Kingsman: The Secret Service - $10.5M
3) Spongebob - $6.5M - $70M
4) American Sniper - $3.8M - $292M
5) Jupiter Ascending - $2.0M - $25M
 
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Jupiter has serious casting issues. They hired Tatum and Kunis mainly for their sex symbol status, which is fine if you are making a 40-50 million dollar rom com, but not a giant sci fi movie. The Wachowski name really carries no weight anymore, the demographic that would want to see Tatum and Kunis is not nostalgic for Matrix.

I like Tatum, he is much better than given credit for, and Kunis can work, but not in action or scfi movie roles, that is not where her strength is.
 
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50 shades of grey is going to slaughter the competition. Releasing it on valentines was a master stroke move by the studio.
 
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Abounder

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Guardians of the Galaxy got lucky that 50 was pushed back (yea yea different audiences but you still don't want another huge release in the same weekend)
 
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DarkFlow

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When I went to see kingsman last night, they had like 5 sold out showings of grey. I also saw packs of middle age women acting like teenager's.
 
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Matt_ said:
From BOM

"On Fandango, Fifty Shades of Grey pre-sales rank fourth all-time behind The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 and The Hunger Games. All three of those titles opened north of $142 million, while the fifth title (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1) opened to $138.1 million. This seems to suggest that a $100 million debut is a real possibility (Universal is more modestly predicting a $60-million-plus start)."

Forecast (February 13-15)
1. Fifty Shades of Grey - $92 million ($101 million four-day)
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Well.

That's an awful lot of moist theater seats.
 
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kmax said:
50 shades of grey is going to slaughter the competition. Releasing it on valentines was a master stroke move by the studio.
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Universal is on a run with 25+ women demography. First the Jennifer Lopez movie, now Shades. Both with utterly modest budgets.
 
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Anth0ny said:
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holy fucking shit. That would be biggest R-rated opening weekend of all time.
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3-Day will probably be closer to $80M.

Without Thursday Previews, the film made $21.6M on Friday. A $91M 3-day would require a 100% jump over that today.

Still a great number.
 
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Mr.Swag

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Neoxon said:
I haven't been this baffled since Guardians' box office numbers. What the shit?
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How is anyone surprised at this?
100 million copies sold
Trailer had a 100 million views
The IP's popularity has already proven that the general public isn't embarresed to like this type of softcore weird BDSM.
Film adaptions of popular books always do well.
Also, you got to remember that this is basically Twilight 5: The Adultening.
 
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Neoxon said:
I haven't been this baffled since Guardians' box office numbers. What the shit?
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Never fail to get that guardians plug in your posts lmao

Anyways I don't see how anybody can be surprised. These female book franchises (the ones that garner a lot of media attention and hype that is) do huge in box office weekends

Add that to the fact that it's valentines day and a lot of dates will be dragged to see this and it's easy money

Too bad it doesn't talk about the subject on an adult level like last tango in Paris or shame
 
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