2015-2016 Division A Waiver Wire

[Geezer]

I'll claim Greek Wedding 2, drop Underdogs

[Buscemi]

New titles to add to the wire:

Hell and Back (9/25/2015)
My All-American (10/9/2015)
Tumbledown (2/12/2016)
Suite Francaise (TBA 2015)

And Freeheld is opening 10/2/2015 with a wide expansion on 10/16/2015.

[Aquamann2001]

Add Youth to the waiver wire please. Not claiming it just want it added

[Buscemi]

Add The Green Inferno to the wire. Universal picked it up and will open on 9/25/2015.

[transformers2]

I'm going to drop Self/Less and pick up Keanu.

[Walleye413]

Like Keanu Reeves? Do you get all the money any of his movies make this year?

Ooh, I'm liking this wrinkle. That would be an interesting draft - actors instead of movies. But you'd have to cap it to leads or something to make it work.

[Buscemi]

Keanu Reeves has no connection to Keanu (yet). The title refers to a cat.

[Brockster]

I still need to replace Beverly Hills Cop, so I'm going to add Green Inferno for now (and hope something better comes along later )

[BanksIsDaFuture]

Got it, noted on front page.

[BanksIsDaFuture]

Sony announced they'll be bring Patient Zero to Comic-Con, so I'm adding it to the wire. Still without a date, it's expected to be released before next summer.

[BanksIsDaFuture]

Added I Saw The Light with its new date

[Spectre]

I'm going to drop Before I Wake. With Relativity pushing Masterminds back because of their funding issues (from a great slot to a horrible one I might add), I can't even imagine what's going to happen to this. Either it's going to get promoted very poorly or get bumped/sold. I don't feel like getting stuck holding the bag. Relativity is in it up to their eyeballs.

I think I'll plug my nose and pick up Fifty Shades of Black until I can find something better. I hate bad spoof movies with a passion but Fifty Shades of Grey is pretty much asking to be spoofed so there's actually potential here to be funny. This will probably stink to high heaven but between the subject matter and Marlon Wayans, hopefully it can avoid bombing.

[JohnErle]

I've still got a couple of Relativity titles, and I'm hanging on to them for the time being. All those stories on Deadline are troubling, even though I haven't had time to read them in any detail, but I don't see anything better on the waiver wire either. If Relativity gets their house in order, or auctions off those titles to another mini-major, Kidnap and The Disappointments Room should both be good for an easy 30-50 million.

It's funny to see them in such financial trouble since they've been in the top 10 of all distributors for the past few years, and they generate way more revenue than most mini-majors, but I guess they've been spending way too much money on the titles they've released instead of seeing them as the mid-level hits they were destined to be.

[Spectre]

I've still got a couple of Relativity titles, and I'm hanging on to them for the time being. All those stories on Deadline are troubling, even though I haven't had time to read them in any detail, but I don't see anything better on the waiver wire either. If Relativity gets their house in order, or auctions off those titles to another mini-major, Kidnap and The Disappointments Room should both be good for an easy 30-50 million.

I held onto it as long as I felt comfortable but I read all those Deadline articles and others on top of it and it doesn't sound good. Based on what I've read, everything they're looking at is a band-aid solution at best. Masterminds was their best bet at making money and they moved it from a great summer slot to a super crowded fall one because they don't have the funds to advertise it. If they can't even fund that, are they even going to bother pushing their lesser releases like Before I Wake?

Here's another red flag. In April they moved Before I Wake into The Disappointment Room's September 25th slot. They moved Masterminds to October 9th... that's Kidnap's slot. There's no way in hell they're going to release 4 of their own films on the same 2 days but there they are, just sitting there.

Makes me think a bunch of their portfolio is either headed for the shelf/auction or at the very least they'll get pushed back... but there isn't much room left on the calendar in 2015 after that for a mid-level release unless they want to see it get swallowed up during the holidays. So now I'm thinking it's possible we might not see these movies until 2016 and who knows if the financial band-aid falls off by then?

I just decided that if I'm going to be picking between a couple low upside films, I may as well go with the one I'm confident will get released haha.

[BanksIsDaFuture]

Added 90 Minutes In Heaven and Sleeping With Other People