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‘(Viet)Kong’ movie audacious, very poorly done
3/10 GOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING, SKULL ISLAND! In 1973, just a day after saying goodnight to Saigon, top-ranking government official Bill Randa (John Goodman) gets the green light for an expedition to Skull Island, an uncharted land mass surrounded by a perpetual … Continue reading
The most important films of 2016
Annual top 10 lists are boring and dumb and arbitrary and full of movies nobody’s ever heard of. A big goal of this site is to try and extrapolate the future of movies, so, instead of talking about the year’s … Continue reading
Posted in White Noise
Tagged #10 cloverfield lane, #batman v superman, #DC, #deadpool, #Disney, #ghostbusters, #hail caesar, #jared leto, #johnny depp, #jungle book, #margot robbie, #mcu, #pixar, #rotten tomatoes, #ryan reynolds, #sony, #star wars, #suicide squad, #the force awakens, #the witch, #warcraft, #warner bros., #zootopia, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Captain America, captain america: civil war, Chinese New Year, comic con 2015, Darth Vader made a pun, DCEU, Disney made $7 billion this year, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, finding dory, Fox, gareth edwards, his name rhymes with Pullverine, Hunger Marketing, Lights Out, Logan, Marvel, now you see me 2, rogue one, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Ryan Reynolds crossed with a Shar Pei, Scientist Man, Secret Life of Pets, Shut down Rotten Tomatoes, Sing Girls, Steven Chow, The Ghostbusters cinematic universe, The Mermaid, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Zach Snyder
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When $46 million is not nearly enough
Watching the box office closely, I’ve developed a pet theory that a major studio is going to go under in the next few years. Ticket sales have been declining steadily since 2002, with 2014 actually being the worst year in … Continue reading
Posted in The Möbius strip
Tagged #ghostbusters, #sony, #warner bros., >, A major studio is going to go under, Ghostbusters cost $144 million, Ghostbusters will never make its money back, Is less than, Is not equal to, Is of lesser value than, Legend of Tarzan, Legend of Tarzan cost $180 million, Legend of Tarzan will never make its money back, Less than, Tarzan, Warner Bros and Sony are colossally stupid, Warner Bros and Sony are going to lose money, Warner Bros and Sony do stupid things with their money
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The Möbius strip: Finding Dory takes several animated film records, Hollywood mourns Anton Yelchin
As expected, Finding Dory took over the record for opening weekend for an animated movie with $135 million. The other newcomer, Central Intelligence, got off to a modest $35.5 million and is looking at a domestic run of more than $100 million. None of … Continue reading
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Tagged #anton yelchin, #batman v superman, #china, #Dawn of Justice, #green room, #jeremy saulnier, #jupiter ascending, #leonardo dicaprio, #pan, #ripantonyelchin, #sicario, #star trek beyond, #warcraft, #warner bros., #wolf of wall street, Anton Yelchin dies, Anton Yelchin run over by his own car, Central Intelligence, Central Intelligence opens to $35.5 million, finding dory, Finding Dory breaks animated opening weekend records, Finding Dory opens to $135 million, Finding Dory sets animated single-day record with $55 million friday, Independence Day: Resurgence, Leonardo DiCaprio ordered to testify, PJ Byrne, Runaway Jeep Grand Cherokee recalled, Shrek the Third, Sicario 3 confirmed, Soldado, Stefano Sollima, Warcraft highest-grossing video game adaptation ever, Warcraft streaming rights sold for $18 million
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The Möbius Strip: Jungle Book easily repeats, Dredd 2!!!
Leopold Knopp Facing weak competition, Jungle Book easily repeated last weekend with $61.5 million. Main challenger The Huntsman: Winter’s War didn’t even top $20 million- Box Office Mojo The success of Disney’s Jungle Book — Jon Favreau’s eighth feature film — and its announced sequel puts even more … Continue reading
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Tagged #Age of Ultron, #andy serkis, #ang lee, #anna kendrick, #beyonce, #brewvies cinema pub, #chris hemsworth, #deadpool, #Disney, #dredd, #dredd 2, #green room, #james franco, #jay z, #jeremy saulnier, #jj abrams, #jon favreau, #joss whedon, #jungle book, #karl urban, #knight of cups, #kristen stewart, #lemonade, #marvel, #prince, #rian johnson, #ryan reynolds, #simon pegg, #snow white and the huntsman, #star trek beyond, #star wars, #terrence malick, #the force awakens, #the hobbit, #tribeca film festival, #warner bros., #winter's war, The Avengers
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