2017-18 Full Year Slates (Division A)

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Re: 2017-18 Full Year Slates (Division A)

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Just to weigh in...

Dunkirk is an ensemble film - Cillian Murphy is the lead, but so is Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance and Kenneth Brannagh. Hell, it even has a dude from One Direction to attract the ladies.

Americans don't know the incident? So what - it's a war film, that's all people need. Does the intimate knowledge of specific historical event correlate to the desire to see it? I think not.

It's been a long time since a WWII film has made 200m. Yep, but as we constantly see in this game, past trends are broken. It's a Nolan film, it's a war film, it'll appeal to an older audiences, it'll open modestly and hold very well. Not sure if I see it making 200m myself, but will leave the prediction to UDM's analysis next week ;)

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All time, there have been five World War II films that grossed $100 million domestically. All of them had an American main character.

And I really don't think older audiences will go see it due to the lack of American characters or appeal and because these are the kinds of people that typically only go see one movie a year (which was probably something that was nominated for Best Picture, most likely when Hacksaw Ridge hit the cheap theatres or Hidden Figures) and instead watch eight hours of Fox News a day. I feel it's going to be strictly Nolan diehards and 70mm buffs that will see this one and I wouldn't be surprised if theatres began dropping it to one show a day or completely by the third week.

To change the conversation, I have to wonder why the hell Lionsgate is expanding to 2,500 theatres on The Big Sick. Yes, it's been playing well in 300 theatres but small markets are never going to see a film about an interracial relationship or one with an Asian lead on a show a lot of people don't watch. How to Be a Latin Lover (not the greatest comparison but it was also a successful movie with what the studios would consider a specialized audience) made money but Lionsgate never really expanded past the 1,200 theatres they opened it in. There's going to be a lot of empty auditoriums this weekend on that one (though Wish Upon's auditoriums will probably be empty too, I was expecting 500 theatres on it rather than 2,200). It's shades of A24 opening It Comes at Night in so many theatres again.
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STANDINGS (WEEK 11/52)

1. Six - $471,283,625 (4 films - Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, Wonder Woman, It Comes at Night, War for the Planet of the Apes)
2. Chien - $432,397,239 (2 films - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Snatched)
3. W - $347,259,839 (2 films - Cars 3, Spider-Man: Homecoming)
4. Shaan - $328,881,498 (4 films - Alien: Covenant, Rough Night, All Eyez on Me, Despicable Me 3)
5. aquamann - $269,231,221 (3 films - Captain Underpants, Transformers; The Last Knight, Baby Driver)
6. UDM - $209,188,594 (2 films - King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, POTC: Dead Men Tell No Tales)
7. Geezer - $134,420,002 (4 films - Everything Everything, The Mummy, The Big Sick, Wish Upon)
8. JohnErle - $58,119,085 (2 films - Baywatch, A Ghost Story)
9. Walleye - $35,772,793 (2 film - Megan Leavey, The House)
Spectre - first film out 7/21





7/21:
Dunkirk (Spectre, 2nd round)
Valerian and the Land of a Thousand Planets (Chien, 5th round)
Girls Trip (Geezer, 6th round)



7/28:
The Emoji Movie (W, 3rd round)
Atomic Blonde (UDM, 7th round)
An Inconvenient Sequel (Walleye, 11th round)



8/4:
The Dark Tower (aquamann, 3rd round)
Detroit (Shaan, 7th round)
Kidnap (JohnErle, 15th round)



8/11:
Annabelle: Creation (Shaan, 6th round)
Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature (W, 7th round)
Happy 60th birthday Jet Li! (4/26/23)

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Just want to clear up that Girls Trip is actually mine, not JohnErle's
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Geezer wrote:Just want to clear up that Girls Trip is actually mine, not JohnErle's
Thanks for the catch. Changed.
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FINALLY, Spectre joins the fight!

STANDINGS (WEEK 12/52)

1. Six - $521,740,570 (4 films - Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, Wonder Woman, It Comes at Night, War for the Planet of the Apes)
2. Chien - $450,110,585 (3 films - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Snatched, Valerian and the Land of a Thousand Planets)
3. W - $395,864,928 (2 films - Cars 3, Spider-Man: Homecoming)
4. Shaan - $354,395,117 (4 films - Alien: Covenant, Rough Night, All Eyez on Me, Despicable Me 3)
5. aquamann - $283,776,685 (3 films - Captain Underpants, Transformers; The Last Knight, Baby Driver)
6. UDM - $209,792,813 (1 film - POTC: Dead Men Tell No Tales; 1 finished)
7. Geezer - $179,761,670 (5 films - Everything Everything, The Mummy, The Big Sick, Wish Upon, Girls Trip)
8. JohnErle - $58,485,866 (2 films - Baywatch, A Ghost Story)
9. Spectre - $50,513,488 (1 film - Dunkirk)
10. Walleye - $37,275,305 (2 film - Megan Leavey, The House)


The following film would appear to be done:

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (UDM, 6th round) = $39,175,066





7/28:
The Emoji Movie (W, 3rd round)
Atomic Blonde (UDM, 7th round)
An Inconvenient Sequel (Walleye, 11th round)



8/4:
The Dark Tower (aquamann, 3rd round)
Detroit (Shaan, 7th round)
Kidnap (JohnErle, 15th round)



8/11:
Annabelle: Creation (Shaan, 6th round)
Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature (W, 7th round)



8/18:
The Hitman's Bodyguard (Shaan, 5th round)
Logan Lucky (Spectre, 8th round)
Happy 60th birthday Jet Li! (4/26/23)

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And say hello to last place! I'm going to build a house down here. I'll be staying awhile.

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W might want to consider replacing Renegades, as it's been indefinitely delayed.
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Hopeing for great things from Atomic Blonde.

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Tracking's in the low 20's but Metacritic's gone down slightly (it was 68 last week, now it's 64). It depends on how word-of-mouth is.
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Just to clear up - I dropped Step a while back and picked up All the Money in the World.

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Walleye413 wrote:Just to clear up - I dropped Step a while back and picked up All the Money in the World.
That's Walleye's hope for the game too. He wants to win all the money, he wants to win all the money.
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Change made.
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STANDINGS (WEEK 13/52)

1. Six - $548,577,510 (4 films - Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, Wonder Woman, It Comes at Night, War for the Planet of the Apes)
2. Chien - $463,801,183 (3 films - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Snatched, Valerian and the Land of a Thousand Planets)
3. W - $449,084,224 (3 films - Cars 3, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Emoji Movie)
4. Shaan - $371,596,216 (5 films - Alien: Covenant, Rough Night, All Eyez on Me, Despicable Me 3, Detroit)
5. aquamann - $293,215,270 (3 films - Captain Underpants, Transformers; The Last Knight, Baby Driver)
6. UDM - $228,462,896 (2 films - POTC: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Atomic Blonde; 1 finished)
7. Geezer - $222,077,190 (4 films - The Mummy, The Big Sick, Wish Upon, Girls Trip; 1 finished)
8. Spectre - $101,317,350 (1 film - Dunkirk)
9. JohnErle - $58,987,694 (1 film - A Ghost Story; 1 finished)
10. Walleye - $37,905,695 (3 film - Megan Leavey, The House, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power)


The following films would appear to be done:

Baywatch (JohnErle, 3rd round) = $58,060,186
Everything, Everything (Geezer, 9th round) = $34,121,140




8/4:
The Dark Tower (aquamann, 3rd round)
Kidnap (JohnErle, 15th round)



8/11:
Annabelle: Creation (Shaan, 6th round)
Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature (W, 7th round)



8/18:
The Hitman's Bodyguard (Shaan, 5th round)
Logan Lucky (Spectre, 8th round)



8/25:
All Saints (Six, 11th round)
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Well, Valerian is gonna be a worse round 5 pick than Warcraft was, after all. :roll:
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