Hopefully everyone talks just like in Brick.
Wkd BO 0106-0817 - Rogue #1 while Figures no longer hidden, Underworld: bomba wars
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Hopefully everyone talks just like in Brick.
ViewtifulJC
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I hope its literally just Brick. The Opening Crawl comes down, and then Brick (2005) comes on.
ryutaro's mama
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I have never seen a single Underworld movie but I have seen every single RE movie.
What does this mean?
What does this mean?
You like seeing Milla Jovovich in leather rather than Kate Beckinsale in leather?
Milla Jovovich cries more than Kate Beckinsale?
ryutaro's mama
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I know Paul WS Anderson is gonna turn in horrible slop with those RE movies (and I love the RE game series) so I watch the trainwreck.
Underworld never interested me at all. I have no idea how many movies there are in the series.
Gamer @ Heart
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Underworld outfit is actually latex. Its a different fetish guys. Please be sensitive to the difference. Thank you
WhiteRabbitEXE
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I mean, it sucks that it's doing poorly but he does have JP5/JW2 so I mean, he's not hurting *that* badly.
Wiki has A Monster Calls' budget at $48 million. Poor Bayona.
Plasticine
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You have five movies to watch.
Obliterator
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Damn that's actually a pretty impressive Internation Weekend for Assassins Creed isn't it?
Also, it looks like Passengers may end up breaking even. Not too bad considering the disaster it could have been with those reviews. You gotta think the cast is saving it
Also, it looks like Passengers may end up breaking even. Not too bad considering the disaster it could have been with those reviews. You gotta think the cast is saving it
Passengers seems to be heading toward the "not good but not particularly disastrous" range of box office gross. Assassin's Creed will also not be a Jupiter Ascending level disaster it seems, still bad though.
Considering its relatively low budget, Underworld will probably be fine with overseas grosses.
Considering its relatively low budget, Underworld will probably be fine with overseas grosses.
Japan still likes the Resident Evil films. Final Chapter might end up in the $30-35M range there. Second or third in the series, and ahead of almost all of the superhero films outside of Spider-man and The Avengers.
Edit: $30.6M first weekend for Rogue One in China. There's a chance that it finishes under Hacksaw Ridge there (currently close to $57M in China) if legs are poor.
The Great Wall is now at ~$160M in China.
Edit: $30.6M first weekend for Rogue One in China. There's a chance that it finishes under Hacksaw Ridge there (currently close to $57M in China) if legs are poor.
The Great Wall is now at ~$160M in China.
Freeza Under The Shower
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It has barely advertised its wide release though. I doubt anyone who doesn't look at schedules or BO threads even knows it's out.
I think they used them in the fourth film like a decade after their peak popularity. Sort of fitting for Underworld.
The Han Solo movie will be set entirely on one planet that coincidentally looks a lot like China.
Like Star Trek Beyond's Yorktown coincidentally looking a lot like Dubai.
I think no matter what, the next one will be the most liked of the three: it's definitely got the best talent involved on the writing/directing side.
They should just cut their losses in China.
Struggling to top Star Trek Beyond is not a good look.
BronsonLee
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The only way is for the next Star Wars movie replaces everyone with Asians
Honestly, SW in China shows you exactly how the brand is strong without nostalgia. Without the massive US centric nostalgia, SW is a blockbuster on the level of super hero movies which is still great though.
Rogue One honestly was always gonna be a hard sell in a region without nostalgia. It's a movie about stealing some plans that will be important in that movie from the 1970s that looks pretty bad by today's standards so no one here in China is very interested in watching that.
Rogue One honestly was always gonna be a hard sell in a region without nostalgia. It's a movie about stealing some plans that will be important in that movie from the 1970s that looks pretty bad by today's standards so no one here in China is very interested in watching that.
Jungle Book ruined it. Loser.
Now I am picturing the Lucasfilm people singing Linkin Park while looking at those Chinese grosses (and the money they spent on their China Press tour).
The Force Awakens had a pretty massive marketing/press push in China. It did pretty well in general, but was well under industry and exhibitor expectations a month or two prior to its release.
Rogue One's Chinese gross isn't going to be very notable for a hollywood blockbuster. We're looking at maybe the bottom end of the top 30 for the year if 2016 was anything to go off of. The equivalent of Magnificent Seven or Ride Along 2 on 2016's domestic chart.
There's no real spinning the fact that China doesn't seem to be interested in the franchise beyond the level that they are interested in all big budget Hollywood films.
How do space opera style sci-fi adventure movies tend to fair in China?
I know Paramount also without avail tried to push the JJverse Trek films hard in China as well where it never took off to the same level as Trek does in US and Europe.
I know Paramount also without avail tried to push the JJverse Trek films hard in China as well where it never took off to the same level as Trek does in US and Europe.
Calling it US centric is completely false. Star Wars is massive above super hero type blockbusters in Japan and many european countries like it is in US.
That's not the largest category out there.
Stretching the definition a bit to include all sci-fi adventure films featuring space travel, here are films from the past 3 years that have released in China (further back than that is not all that comparable).
The Force Awakens - $125M
Interstellar - $122M
Guardians of the Galaxy - $95M
The Martian - $95M
Star Trek Beyond - $65M
Jupiter Ascending - $45M
Rogue One will end up around the same range as Star Trek Beyond. Passengers opens in a week.
EDIT: And while TFA was on top of that list, remember that outside of China, it made more than Interstellar, Guardians of the Galaxy, and The Martian combined.
BronsonLee
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Should've had more robutts in it
I am dyin' at them popping Donnie in there and it doing nooooothing
I am dyin' at them popping Donnie in there and it doing nooooothing
Could've help more if they didn't treat the 2 chinese dude like DLC characters.
It should, I'll be surprised if it doesn't.
They actually had decent sized roles given the screen time that everyone other than Felicity Jones and Diego Luna got.
didn't they literally put a chinese actress in one small scene in iron man 3 specifically to get chinese butts into seats
and it WORKED
BronsonLee
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I'd say Donnie was third on the sheet besides Felicity & Diego, he was set up to have the most moments
Ya but that shit don't work anymore
Conkersbadfurday
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Poor Underworld 
I really enjoyed it. I mean, I'm not surprised at all 
but still.
I really enjoyed it. I mean, I'm not surprised at all but still.AnotherDayAnotherDollar
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Pretty much. Donnie Yen/Jiang Wen didn't help at all. SW just doesn't have that kind of pull in China.
andthebeatgoeson
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Hidden Figures is a great movie
cartographer
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I'm sure that this has been discussed before, but how do people think Beauty and the Beast is going to perform? Over / under Maleficent ($758 million WW)?
RastaMentality
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probably near a billion.
cartographer
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That's what I think, too, but I'm heavily clouded by nostalgia having been raised on the animation.
It's come up in every conversation I've had about movies the past two weeks or so.
Obliterator
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If Beauty and the Beast is good a billion is certainly possible. Just look at the gross for Jungle Book
WhiteRabbitEXE
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If Jungle Book can get that close to a billion than I wouldn't even say "certainly possible", it's a damn near certainty. I'm pretty sure there's much more nostalgia for Beauty and the Beast than Jungle Book. Not to sell Jungle Book short or anything, but I think just about the only Disney film that would ride an even higher nostalgia wave than Beast is The Lion King, and Jesus Christ, that is gonna be huge.
Yeah it worked because everyone wanted to see how a Chinese specific version of IM3 would work. In the end there was a massive backlash from the Chinese population against those kinds of "cameos". IM3 was huge in China for the same reason it was huge everywhere else in the world - it was the first post Avengers movie.
Ok to be fair, I should have said a very heavily leaning US franchise. When the international and US grosses for VII are about equal, you can pretty much deduce where the SW power lies.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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Its domestic success is disproportionate to its international success, yes, but it's overseas haul is still the 4th biggest of all time, behind only the Cameron twins and Fast 7. So it's more that Star Wars is obscenely popular in the US and only just extremely popular worldwide.
And actually, it's less the US (and Canada) and more English-speaking first world countries. I believe VII was also the highest grossing film of all time in the UK + Ireland, and second highest in Australia and New Zealand.
HollowCentral
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Glad to see La La Land getting some love.
That movie... uhhhh, it's so DAMN good
That movie... uhhhh, it's so DAMN good
Obliterator
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Oh yeah Beauty and the Beast hitting 1 Billy wouldn't surprise me at all.
I will say it does feel like there is considerably more hype to the build up than there was for JB. And that came so close to the Billion club
womfalcs3
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The Jungle Book was done really really well, and it doesn't make beastiality live action.
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