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post #15001 of 16640
12/5/12 at 12:29pm
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Originally Posted by Ben Grimm View Post

Studios are getting better at selling films overseas, and more of the infrastructure is in place to sell them.

Makes sense, thanks for the information.
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post #15002 of 16640
12/5/12 at 1:43pm

China is a big deal, too, they're steadily rising as second to only us for theater attendences.

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post #15003 of 16640
12/6/12 at 6:11pm

Skyfall looks ro reclaim the top spot this weekend--over a month after it came out. Pretty awesome, and will be sniffing at just under $300 million by the end of its run at least. That's almost double the next highest grossing film in the franchise.

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post #15004 of 16640
12/6/12 at 6:23pm

Bond has definitely struck a cord that the franchise hasn't hit since the 60s.

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post #15005 of 16640
12/7/12 at 12:59am

I hope Daniel Craig is celebrating with a ton of Rachel Weisz-shaped lovin'. I know I would be!

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post #15006 of 16640
12/7/12 at 9:26am
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Originally Posted by MrSaxon View Post

I hope Daniel Craig is celebrating with a ton of Rachel Weisz-shaped lovin'. I know I would be!

 

To be fair, he'd be doing that even if the movie made twelve dollars.

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post #15007 of 16640
12/7/12 at 9:42am

"Rachel, I'm so happy. Let's celebrate" /wink

 

"Rachel, I'm sad. Please comfort me." /wink

 

"Rachel, I'm bored. I have an idea to pass the time." /wink

 

"Rachel, I don't have any time. Take off your clothes. Faster." /wink

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post #15008 of 16640
12/7/12 at 9:45am

...and the whole time, she's thinking to herself, "OMG OMG OMG! I'm marrried to JAMES FUCKING BOND! Take THAT, Jenny Havisham from Third Form!!!"

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post #15009 of 16640
12/7/12 at 9:53am

I like to imagine Craig crank calling Darren Aronofsky every once in a while to let him know who's the boss.

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post #15010 of 16640
12/7/12 at 10:04am

Actually, Jenny Havisham was in the news recently. She's the only person in the United Kingdom who hasn't seen Skyfall now.

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post #15011 of 16640
12/7/12 at 10:39am

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Originally Posted by MrSaxon View Post

Actually, Jenny Havisham was in the news recently. She's the only person in the United Kingdom who hasn't seen Skyfall now.

 

Well, her and little Petey Whittingham who's been stuck in a chimney in Bristol since 'aught six. Keep reachin' for the light, Petey!

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post #15012 of 16640
12/7/12 at 12:18pm

Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz = Brangelina, UK edition. Man, Daniel Craig has pretty much got to be in the running for dude getting the most out of life right now. 

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post #15013 of 16640
12/7/12 at 12:24pm

When Daniel Craig eventually receives his Knighthood from the Queen, I hope that when she taps his shoulder with the sword, she whispers "Welcome to the layer cake, son".

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post #15014 of 16640
12/7/12 at 12:24pm
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Originally Posted by Arjen Rudd View Post

Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz = Brangelina, UK edition. Man, Daniel Craig has pretty much got to be in the running for dude getting the most out of life right now. 

"Life is so fucking good I can taste it in my spit" - Daniel Craig's character from Layer Cake, and I'd imagine these days Craig himself too.
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post #15015 of 16640
12/7/12 at 12:25pm
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Originally Posted by Art Decade View Post

When Daniel Craig eventually receives his Knighthood from the Queen, I hope that when she taps his shoulder with the sword, she whispers "Welcome to the layer cake, son".


My God. This is my favorite CHUD comment of the day. Possibly the week. I'd totally give you two Rep points for this, if I could.

 

EDIT: I'm still laughing at this.

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post #15016 of 16640
12/7/12 at 9:45pm

I see "The Hobbit" opening anywhere between 100-130 million myself and finishing between 300-350 million domestic. 1-1.1 billion worldwide sounds about right, i think some people may be overestimating this a bit too much to me .

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post #15017 of 16640
12/7/12 at 9:58pm

Me thinks you're underestimating the popularity of the Lord of the Rings movies and even the book itself. The opening sounds about right but 300 M domestically is way too low. With the aforementioned love of the Rings trilogy, Christmas holidays, 3D bump and no other family fare competition, I think 400 M is the bottom for this.

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post #15018 of 16640
12/7/12 at 10:13pm
I might be in the minority here, but I kind of really want Hobbit to flop domestically, so that way Jackson will go back to making more interesting films. I see it opening at 130 m though.
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post #15019 of 16640
12/7/12 at 10:22pm
Do you think if it flops, he'll just stop and not finish the other two?
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post #15020 of 16640
12/8/12 at 12:13am

"Damn. That movie didn't do as well as I'd hoped. Hmmmm. What should I do with the remaining twelve hours of footage I've already filmed?"

 

*Empties into trash*

 

"Onward.... to Heavenly Creatures 2!"

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post #15021 of 16640
12/8/12 at 12:44am

The Hobbit will not flop. Don't be ridiculous.

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post #15022 of 16640
12/8/12 at 3:41am

The real question is will Jackson move forward with Tintin 2 in two or three years once he is done playing in Middle Earth?  He probably will.  The days of Jackson making small films are long behind him and aren't likely to return any time soon.

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post #15023 of 16640
12/8/12 at 7:26am
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Originally Posted by Arjen Rudd View Post

Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz = Brangelina, UK edition. Man, Daniel Craig has pretty much got to be in the running for dude getting the most out of life right now. 

 

The things he does for England...

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post #15024 of 16640
12/8/12 at 8:22am
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Originally Posted by S.D. Bob Plissken View Post
The days of Jackson making small films are long behind him and aren't likely to return any time soon.

 

The Lovely Bones was a small film. Just not particularly any good.

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post #15025 of 16640
12/8/12 at 8:35am

The Lovely Bones was a strike film, and PJ held the studio hostage for something like a $90 million budget. And the money's onscreen.

 

This makes eight straight pricey films from Jackson. Dude has got blockbusters in his veins.

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post #15026 of 16640
12/8/12 at 8:40am

90 million cause of the afterlife scenes but the story itself is intimate and small (ala Heavenly Creatures).

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post #15027 of 16640
12/8/12 at 8:43am

It's meant to be, yes. And PJ took it... the other way.

 

That picture probably shouldn't have been a big CGI cumshot, but there you go.

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post #15028 of 16640
12/8/12 at 9:35am

In a just world Lynne Ramsay would be taking pictures away from Jackson, not vice versa.

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post #15029 of 16640
12/8/12 at 10:35am

They're both great filmmakers for different reasons and I'm sure a Lynne Ramsay version of Lovely Bones would be much better but I'm not sure I'd like to see a Lynne Ramsay version of Lord of the Rings.

 

AnyWHO, The Hobbit has the box office to itself next weekend. I'll predict 130-140 M for its opening.
 

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post #15030 of 16640
12/8/12 at 12:20pm
But Lynne Ransey's Heavenly Creatures and Jackson's We Need To Talk About Kevin would both probably work.
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post #15031 of 16640
12/8/12 at 2:30pm

I would want to see Lynne Ramsey's "Bad Taste."

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post #15032 of 16640
12/8/12 at 10:19pm
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Originally Posted by User_32 View Post

I like to imagine Craig crank calling Darren Aronofsky every once in a while to let him know who's the boss.

"Hey, Darren. Got anything I can be in, other than your ex?"

 

*click*

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post #15033 of 16640
12/8/12 at 10:39pm
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Originally Posted by User_32 View Post

Me thinks you're underestimating the popularity of the Lord of the Rings movies and even the book itself. The opening sounds about right but 300 M domestically is way too low. With the aforementioned love of the Rings trilogy, Christmas holidays, 3D bump and no other family fare competition, I think 400 M is the bottom for this.

Haha, i'm not underestimating "The Hobbit" at all, it will certainly do great buisness at the box office, no doubt in my mind about that. But 400 M domestic as the low estimate, now that's what i call overestimating my friend, but to each his own. Now if 400 m domestic is the worst number you see, what's the best number you see 500 M domestic.

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post #15034 of 16640
12/9/12 at 8:17am

What the hell is the next major movie coming out after the Hobbit that could challenge it? Django Unchained?

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post #15035 of 16640
12/9/12 at 1:39pm

SKYFALL heading closer to the 1 Billion mark.

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post #15036 of 16640
12/9/12 at 1:53pm
Wow, really weak weekend in general though. HA! Take THAT, Playing for Keeps!
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post #15037 of 16640
12/9/12 at 2:03pm
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Originally Posted by mcnooj82 View Post

Wow, really weak weekend in general though. HA! Take THAT, Playing for Keeps!

 

I had to Google that movie because I hadn't heard of it.

 

I want whoever is keeping Gerard Butler's career going to stand up so that I can shoot them in the face.

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post #15038 of 16640
12/9/12 at 2:16pm
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Originally Posted by MrSaxon View Post

 

I had to Google that movie because I hadn't heard of it.

 

I want whoever is keeping Gerard Butler's career going to stand up so that I can shoot them in the face.

 

It's the Gerard Butler Leprechaun, and he's got the drop on you.

 

 

 

"I needs me gold!"

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post #15039 of 16640
12/9/12 at 3:17pm

Skyfall being at number 1 in its 5th week has to be the first time a movie's managed that in a while. Has anything done that since Avatar?

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post #15040 of 16640
12/9/12 at 3:46pm
Dark Knight Rises maybe? Though I don't think TDKR did as well as TDK. Hype never seemed there to me.
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post #15041 of 16640
12/9/12 at 3:49pm
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Originally Posted by UrchineSLICE View Post

Dark Knight Rises maybe? Though I don't think TDKR did as well as TDK. Hype never seemed there to me.

 

uh, what? Hype was there, there was a certain tragic incident that hurt it at the US box office, but it did better than TDK in foreign markets. It still managed a slightly bigger opening weekend than TDK, so it's hard to argue one had more hype than the other, isn't it?

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post #15042 of 16640
12/10/12 at 8:16am
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Originally Posted by Paul C View Post

Skyfall being at number 1 in its 5th week has to be the first time a movie's managed that in a while. Has anything done that since Avatar?


Live Action? No.

 

Congrats to Skyfall on it's unprecedented success. For all the hullabaloo surrounding Spiderman, James Bond just shot past Peter Parker to be Sony's highest grossing film EVER!

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post #15043 of 16640
12/10/12 at 6:40pm
People didn't seem to be going apeshit for TDKR like they were for TDK is what I was trying to get at. But yeah it did beat TDK in world wide box office so I guess that's what counts eh?
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post #15044 of 16640
12/10/12 at 6:41pm
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Originally Posted by UrchineSLICE View Post

People didn't seem to be going apeshit for TDKR like they were for TDK is what I was trying to get at. But yeah it did beat TDK in world wide box office so I guess that's what counts eh?

 

It counts more than your idea of how apeshit people went.

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post #15045 of 16640
12/10/12 at 7:10pm

Ha, Megaman, so mean about nothing.

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post #15046 of 16640
12/11/12 at 2:04am

Dark Knight Rises obviously didn't have the zeitgeist quality of the last movie. OBVIOUSLY, Megaman.

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post #15047 of 16640
12/11/12 at 6:01am

MegaMan does not care about your human concerns.  He exists in a world of pure numbers!  "I am become math."

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post #15048 of 16640
12/12/12 at 1:49am

Damn, Killing Them Softly and The Collection are disappearing FAST.

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post #15049 of 16640
12/13/12 at 3:36pm

So it's the eve of The Hobbit. Tracking has it headed for a 70+ M opening.

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/peter-jacksons-hobbit-tracking-70-400775

 

Any other predicts?

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post #15050 of 16640
12/13/12 at 4:52pm
$90M ish.
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