Nah, Singer likes them younger.
Wkd Box Office 0212-1416 - Brightest day for Reynolds, blackest night for Stiller
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Nah, Singer likes them younger.
Same here, on Thursday night it was sold out 20 minutes before the movie started in one of the smaller screens. Definitely a missed opportunity.
Obliterator
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Just showed up to my local theater to see Deadpool and it was sold out. And this was 15 minutes before the movie even started. Had to buy tickets for the next showing. I think this movie will pull a big Valentine's Day
Bobby Roberts
Banned
See, I could see this joke actually popping up in Cable & Deadpool.
Calm waterfall
Banned
Deadpool made $260,174,858 World wide. It did $125,124,85 internationally. Amazing opening week.
Betting we'll get an announcement tomorrow on the future of the X-Universe, much like after Iron Man 1, we got a Phase 1 schedule. I see it going:
Gambit: 3/3/2017
Wolverine: 6/9/2017
Deadpool 2: 7/13/2018
Some X-Men Movie: 10/5/2018
The New Mutants: 2/8/2019
X-Force: 8/2/2019
Deadpool 3: 2/14/2020
X-Force v X-Men: 7/31/2020
Or something like that.
Gambit: 3/3/2017
Wolverine: 6/9/2017
Deadpool 2: 7/13/2018
Some X-Men Movie: 10/5/2018
The New Mutants: 2/8/2019
X-Force: 8/2/2019
Deadpool 3: 2/14/2020
X-Force v X-Men: 7/31/2020
Or something like that.
There already is.
I love it, I love it, I love it.
It just feels so GOOD to see Deadpool finally happen and succeed so hard.
For over a decade, it's been a huge roller coaster for Deadpool fans. So many lows, so many setbacks, so many people at Fox in charge that had absolutely no clue what made Deadpool so special and unique.
I remember being so thrilled at Ryan Reynolds being cast as Deadpool for Origins: Wolverine and the lead-up looked alright and then... then...
I have never seen a comic character get f***ed up as badly as Deadpool did in that film. Just... every possible, single thing you could do that would be "un-Deadpool" they did. It would be less shocking to see Batman fight crime in a hot pink unitard. And this was the official, canon, X-men film franchise version.
When you screw up THAT badly, how do you recover? How do you go from that to a Deadpool film that does the character justice? You'd have to do a full-on reboot, but the X-men films were still doing well enough and most movie execs, when doing a reboot, would recast the role. Ryan had his shot and the film blew it.
Then Ryan Reynolds moves on to other movies. He plays Green Lantern of all character, an enormously popular DC superhero. What about Deadpool? If Green Lantern had succeeded, I doubt Ryan would have had time or motivation to come back.
But Green Lantern failed. R.I.P.D. failed. Ryan Reynold's career was getting ice cold. Who would put money on him reprising his role from a film that fans absolutely detested? How do you make ANY of this work?
And then the Fox moguls, even when they considered it, wanted concessions. Make it PG-13. Slash the budget by millions. Sit on it. Decide not to do it.
Script leaks? Well, better not use that script then. Test footage leaks? Well, that wasn't supposed to happen and... wait, fans are eating it up? Hmm... let's consider it. Maybe.
It gets greenlit, but even then you could tell Fox was playing it so safe. Such a low budget, a February release... you can see how much faith they had in X-men Apocalypse by comparison. And yet... the marketing began to kick off. Social media started chatting about it non-stop. Screenings and trailers were getting huge receptions among the fanbase.
And now, nearly a decade later, we have one of the highest opening weekends for a debut superhero movie ever, despite the R-rating, despite the character's past history, despite the folks at Fox slashing the budget, despite sticking to the source material when no other X-men property was remotely close to this level of authenticity, despite all the struggles and setbacks and leaks and career issues and concerns.
And it feels SO damn good.
It just feels so GOOD to see Deadpool finally happen and succeed so hard.
For over a decade, it's been a huge roller coaster for Deadpool fans. So many lows, so many setbacks, so many people at Fox in charge that had absolutely no clue what made Deadpool so special and unique.
I remember being so thrilled at Ryan Reynolds being cast as Deadpool for Origins: Wolverine and the lead-up looked alright and then... then...
I have never seen a comic character get f***ed up as badly as Deadpool did in that film. Just... every possible, single thing you could do that would be "un-Deadpool" they did. It would be less shocking to see Batman fight crime in a hot pink unitard. And this was the official, canon, X-men film franchise version.
When you screw up THAT badly, how do you recover? How do you go from that to a Deadpool film that does the character justice? You'd have to do a full-on reboot, but the X-men films were still doing well enough and most movie execs, when doing a reboot, would recast the role. Ryan had his shot and the film blew it.
Then Ryan Reynolds moves on to other movies. He plays Green Lantern of all character, an enormously popular DC superhero. What about Deadpool? If Green Lantern had succeeded, I doubt Ryan would have had time or motivation to come back.
But Green Lantern failed. R.I.P.D. failed. Ryan Reynold's career was getting ice cold. Who would put money on him reprising his role from a film that fans absolutely detested? How do you make ANY of this work?
And then the Fox moguls, even when they considered it, wanted concessions. Make it PG-13. Slash the budget by millions. Sit on it. Decide not to do it.
Script leaks? Well, better not use that script then. Test footage leaks? Well, that wasn't supposed to happen and... wait, fans are eating it up? Hmm... let's consider it. Maybe.
It gets greenlit, but even then you could tell Fox was playing it so safe. Such a low budget, a February release... you can see how much faith they had in X-men Apocalypse by comparison. And yet... the marketing began to kick off. Social media started chatting about it non-stop. Screenings and trailers were getting huge receptions among the fanbase.
And now, nearly a decade later, we have one of the highest opening weekends for a debut superhero movie ever, despite the R-rating, despite the character's past history, despite the folks at Fox slashing the budget, despite sticking to the source material when no other X-men property was remotely close to this level of authenticity, despite all the struggles and setbacks and leaks and career issues and concerns.
And it feels SO damn good.
Mix Master
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Great Post Garlador.
IMO we need more Deadpool's and (Flash)es embrace the comic book fuckery and go with it.
IMO we need more Deadpool's and (Flash)es embrace the comic book fuckery and go with it.
Watched this weekend, the film is superb. Honestly Ryan Reynolds story should be a film one day, he believed in this project while everyone was pointing fingers to him as the joke of Hollywood.
Not that he is the king of acting now, he is a niche actor, but the way all things unveiled until this massive success now is just amazing.
Not that he is the king of acting now, he is a niche actor, but the way all things unveiled until this massive success now is just amazing.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Bruh.........
Technically Deadpool did get rebooted thanks to DoFP wiping out Origins from continuity. I'm sure that helped a lot to further convince Fox to try again.
You truly are a bandwagoner since you left in "a Pizza Place." I remember when ABC dropped that portion (as well as the black owner of the establishment) from the title.
True, but Deadpool doesn't even try and pretend that it "fits" with the continuity (Colossus is completely different, Wade initially got the Weapon X treatment way back in the 70s yet appears in this in modern day and hasn't aged much at all, etc.)
The fact he goes out of his way to poke fun at the timeline and they outright show the Deadpool from Origins Wolverine in toy form attests to that.
Well, that and the script for this film was almost entirely unaltered from the leaked version I read years and years ago, long before DoFP was even thought up.
Old fuck at the box office checking in... took my 11 year old daughter and a friend to see something called The 5th Draw or some shit.. I don't even know. Some teenage love story alien invasion tripe..so I'm sitting here bored to tears and up on the screen pops Peter from Office Space !! And he looks exactly the same...exactly. Every time he showed up on screen I spoke out..'did you get that memo?' The kids were all looking at me like, wtf? You're soooo weird. Happy Valentine's Day everyone!!
GuitarAtomik
Member
So happy for this whole Deadpool situtation. Amazing to think this movie had barely a chance in hell to even be made so long ago to release at these numbers. Happy for Reynolds too. You can tell this was his baby for a long time.
BronsonLee
Member
All things considered, Mad Max did alright.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
It could have done better. I don't remember Warner putting any effort into the marketing until weeks after it came out.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
Behold the long-and-awaited Allegiant trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvq6cMtT5nA
Wut? WB were relentless in promoting the film. $41M solely on TV advertising. They went all out.
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/m...-bros-dominates-top-tv-ad-budgets-1201539126/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvq6cMtT5nA
Wut? WB were relentless in promoting the film. $41M solely on TV advertising. They went all out.
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/m...-bros-dominates-top-tv-ad-budgets-1201539126/
Vestal
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Hopefully studios don't make that conclusion. Deadpool is not your run of a mill R film, it has the perfect balance of humor, action and gore that a lot of comic fans have been clamoring for a long time. It is a unique film in a sea of cookie cutter superhero films, which I believe makes it truly stand out and garner the success it so richly deserves.
I used to think Hugh Jackman and RDJ would never be topped as far as bringing a comic book character to life and playing them to perfection, but Ryan Reynolds may have just done that.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Gods of Egypt is gonna bump Deadpool out of IMAX. I hope that movie bombs so hard the theaters would have no choice but to put Deadpool back in IMAX.
I know that she is in her mid 20s, but Shailene Woodley has one of those faces that make her look 16, making all of her military scenes come off a little goofy. Like a film version of a JRPG.
Also, Miles Teller looks like he desperately wants out of his contract for this series.
JK Simmons still wins.
Yeah, I guess.
Why?
Between 50 Shades, Kingsman, and now Deadpool it looks like February is good spot for R-rated films. Not having to compete with summer blockbusters is a good thing.
And Mad Max is?
In Jackman's case, its not so much that he was a perfect match for comic Wolverine as it is Marvel artists modifying Wolverine over the years so that he more closely resembles the Hugh Jackman version.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
I think all of the actors want out of their contract lol
The first Divergent was fun, it seems Lionsgate has forgotten what made the series enjoyable to begin with.
I LOVED Fury Road but honestly, I wouldn't call it a hard R rated film. I don't even remember anyone saying Fuck in it.
Jawmuncher
Member
The sooner Bryan Singer never has anything to do with Xmen the better.
Yeah when I watched the film it could have easily been a PG-13 much like the original Matrix.
Yeah when I watched the film it could have easily been a PG-13 much like the original Matrix.
"Help"
They would have to cut down all sorts of violent shit to get it to PG-13. It's not just nudity and swearing.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
"How low can we go"
AgentOtaku
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Wait.... what's with the Zoolander2 rotten tomatoes score?
It turned out terrible?
It turned out terrible?
I can imagine Shailene's pep talk to Miles during production.
"We've been in a good movie together once, and it can happen again. We just need to work through these contracts, and everything will be fine after that."
Most times, it's for him, but she needs to remind herself from time to time, as well.
These shit movies still on going? Good god that ride never ends.
Guess what! This is another split finale, though they're being sneaky and not mentioning that in any of the advertising.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
There really hasn't been one series that split the source material into two movies that have worked well imo
Harry Potter Deathly Hallows P2 was amazing, but P1 was a bore fest good god.
Duno if we will ever see the day where the studios make it work.
DrForester
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So how long till a Squirrel Girl movie?
Wow, Deadpool did waaaay more than I ever expected, I truly believed till some days ago that it would either bomb or just barely make it.
Really happy for Ryan and looking forward to see the movie.
Kind of amazing, talk about Second chances or redeeming mistakes of the past...
Really happy for Ryan and looking forward to see the movie.
Kind of amazing, talk about Second chances or redeeming mistakes of the past...
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
A rated R Squirrel Girl movie?
Was there anybody that was actually good in the third film, though.
I mean, HHH found a way to suck at playing HHH.
AgentOtaku
Member
Man... how did they f'ed it up!?
...then again, waiting THIS long to finally do a sequel probably wasn't a good start...
Jarring considering Games, the actors were in high spirits in the middle of things.
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