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Neoxon

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Lemaitre said:
Nintendo is hard to work with. Someone tried making a Metroid movie years ago and Nintendo wouldn't allow them to develop the story/characters enough because it would be a loss of control over their IP that they were not comfortable with.
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Nintendo recently started to open up to licensed stuff like animated shows & movies in an investors' meeting earlier this year.

But yeah, Marvel & Disney are the unstoppable power couple of Hollywood.
 
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Slayven

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TheKaeptain said:
I'd stop watching Football.




Nope. Let Disney handle that shit.
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Guess that is why you hate Hockey

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Adam_Roman

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Surprised to see Birdman up there. I saw it on Friday and it definitely doesn't seem like something that would draw a very large crowd for any reason other than its cast. I thought it was good, but it was very pompous at the same time.

It had a great place to end too, but they let it go for another ten minutes and it ended up sputtering out instead of having a very nice, clear-cut end. If it would've cut
right as he was knocking on the door at the start of the final scene of the play, it could've been so much more powerful because you wouldn't know who he ended up shooting. Where it actually ended with Emma Stone looking out the window felt like an ending they thought was clever, but just added more confusion.
 
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kswiston

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Adam_Roman said:
Surprised to see Birdman up there. I saw it on Friday and it definitely doesn't seem like something that would draw a very large crowd for any reason other than its cast. I thought it was good, but it was very pompous at the same time.[/SPOILER]
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Birdman is actually an early frontrunner for best picture nominations
 
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HK-47

Oh, bitch bitch bitch.
Adam_Roman said:
Surprised to see Birdman up there. I saw it on Friday and it definitely doesn't seem like something that would draw a very large crowd for any reason other than its cast. I thought it was good, but it was very pompous at the same time.

It had a great place to end too, but they let it go for another ten minutes and it ended up sputtering out instead of having a very nice, clear-cut end. If it would've cut
right as he was knocking on the door at the start of the final scene of the play, it could've been so much more powerful because you wouldn't know who he ended up shooting. Where it actually ended with Emma Stone looking out the window felt like an ending they thought was clever, but just added more confusion.
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That's a terrible ending
 
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Alrus

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googleplex said:
Holy crap at that Annabelle number! Movie cost 6 million to make but Grosses over 200 million?

Is that movie any good?
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From what I've gathered you're better off watching Rosemary's Baby again than watching Annabelle. "The movie does nothing new and is pretty boring" seems to be the general consensus.

And The Conjuring "ties" really did wonder for the movie's box office. The Conjuring 2 is going to be massive if it's not completely awful.
 
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googleplex said:
Holy crap at that Annabelle number! Movie cost 6 million to make but Grosses over 200 million?

Is that movie any good?
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Heck no, in fact it's an awful piece of garbage in my opinion. The movie was popular mostly due the social media campaign. Seriously I got like 20 people asking on Facebook if I saw this thing.
 
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Interstellar didn't make it to 50 mill according to more up to date estimates.

8TH UPDATE, MONDAY, 10:25 AM: By most all distributor accounts, Big Hero 6 is right in line with Sunday’s estimates of $56M, But despite Paramount’s best efforts yesterday, Interstellar is sitting right around $46.3M to $46.7M (with only one estimate higher than that) and a cume of $48.9M. Paramount, however, is reporting that its sci-fi saga did $47.5M and a cume total of $49.6M. Yes, those in the know are rolling their eyes again at the studio’s reportage of grosses. So, the big-budget, Christopher Nolan-directed, lengthy effort did not break $50M in its opening weekend, neither in three-day gross nor the final tally — as Deadline’s calculations showed yesterday.
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y2dvd

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I'm happy with Big Hero 6's numbers. Really enjoyed the movie. I'll have to catch Interstellar sometime this week.
 
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djplaeskool

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Don't know if Interstellar will have the staying power of Inception.
I saw Inception in theaters four times.
I think I might see Interstellar once more in a week or so.
 
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kswiston

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jett said:
Interstellar didn't make it to 50 mill according to more up to date estimates.
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Interstellar was never going to make that $50M estimate. Paramount fluffed the Sunday number with a 20% estimated drop so that they could have a nice weekend number for the Monday papers. Sunday's drop in the actuals was a normal for this time of year 32%.
 
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Scullibundo said:
Original? Based on existing property that carries the Marvel name. Give Interstellar its due.
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To be fair I think the Marvel name carried a lot more weight than the Guardians title with that one, but it's certainly not an original. Interstellar's opening was excellent by any measure but especially for an original sci-fi.

Looks like Interstellar did $47.5m for the weekend. Big Hero 6 was right on with its $56.2m estimate. Amazing weekend all in all.
 
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Lebron

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Still couldn't outdo Gravity, but no one expected it to. Now that was an experience film.


But really, it did fine for what it was.
 
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Road

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Interstellar lost $2.5 million domestic but gained $2.9 million international. Paramount still managed to find another $0.4 million despite all the accounting smoke and mirrors to get better headlines.

The Way He Looks
Opening Weekend: $26,334
(#51 rank, 9 theaters, $2,926 average)

Better than last year's Oscar pitch, but with worse theater average.

Neighboring Sounds
Opening Weekend: $12,666
(#71 rank, 2 theaters, $6,333 average)
 
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BronsonLee

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Big Hero 6 being Disneyfied was the best thing that could've happened to it.

Also it looks like Insterstellar got left...

IN THE DARK DARK
 
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evilromero

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Replicant said:
No. If "The Conjuring" is a parent, it'd be ashamed of "Annabelle". It's not even half as scary as "The Conjuring".
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The Conjuring wasn't scary. It was just really great horror. I can always tell a non-horror fan just from the fact that they think horror films are simply supposed to be scary. In most cases "scary" to some is just jump scares, not actually unsettling or disturbing scenes. Atmosphere, characters, soundtrack, monster effects, framing and more are what horror fans love about the films. Annabelle was pretty underrated in my opinion. Was it derivative? Yes, absolutely. But it did a lot of the horror elements really well. That elevator scene in the basement alone was worth the price of admission. So well done. Decent soundtrack, some good creepy moments throughout and a nice pseudo remake of Rosemary's Baby.
 
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XBP

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Loved Big Hero 6, great movie from start to finish. Going to watch intersteller next week most probably.
 
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vatstep

This poster pulses with an appeal so broad the typical restraints of our societies fall by the wayside.
killertofu said:
I might have missed the hype for this but I randomly saw Whiplash this weekend and it was more gripping than Interstellar for me



Where da hype at doe?
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There wasn't really any hype on GAF, but it's been incredibly well-received otherwise. It's my favorite movie of the year.
 
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kurahador

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Mr.Swag said:
About what?
I liked guardians, I just don't think its worthy of daily conversation like here on GAF everyday.
Like, I get it, it was funny and different
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It was brought up alot just after it was announced about how it'll be a giant flop for Marvel.

So yes, it's worth being brought up now and then just like how the BO prediction thread about Avengers will make less than TDKR was.
 
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