Amph The 2016 Box Office Bloodshower

Based upon that, why exactly would anyone want to see it?

 

Morgan marketing was not that great. I saw one ad on TV and it made it look more like a possession horror movie (and the trailer flat-out lies about a moment that does not happen in the film). It was only when it popped up in an article online that I saw "oh! Sci-fi movie, neat!"

 

Magnificent Seven vs. Storks. Should be a decent box office weekend. Storks is taking the Hotel Transylvania 2 slot. That movie made $48 million on opening weekend and overall grossed nearly 6 x its budget worldwide - the 16th biggest movie of 2015.

 

I'm curious how badly Tim Burton's latest is going to do. It's coming out the same weekend Deepwater Horizon is. Plus, Girl on the Train comes out the weekend after. Plus the trailer makes it look like a typical post-Sweeny Todd Tim Burton fare aka "I'd rather watch Mars Attacks! again than this POS".

 

Magnificent Seven has a 63% on RT. I was hoping that this remake's remake's remake would have faired better with the critics. I guess I'm not surprised. I hope it's actually enjoyable regardless a la Suicide Squad. I may post my review on Thursday morning in the "last movie" thread as I won tickets from my local radio station. #humblebrag

 

Suicide Squad, Magnificent Seven and Rogue One. good year for misfits on a mission movies!

 

Well, hopefully, the third's time the charm.

 

If you keep watching these terrible movies, what will you become?

 

He spoke, from personal experience.

 

It takes balls to open a character-driven sci fi movie the weekend after Rogue One, but I guess Weinstein/Dimension has enormous confidence in the combined box office power of kersplatt and Jlaw.

 

I have every intention of seeing Passengers in theater, after I see R1 a second time (tentatively).

 

The aesthetics of Passenger from the trailer are humiliating for the sci fi genre. A sublight colonization ship brimming with unused space. An android/alien/hologram bartender? Every interstellar spaceship needs the bartender from Kubrick's The Shining via Star Trek the Next Generation. Other than that I got some nice "Silent Running/MST3K" vibes, but also some unpleasant "The Black Hole" discomfort in my GI tract.

 

It was intentionally moved to the Award Season (specifically, Christmas) after they saw the early cut -- so yes, there is immense confidence in this.

 

I'm sure it's all about the Pratt/Lawrence on screen chemistry, annoying sci fi genre cliches be damned. They're both very likable, bankable emerging stars. There hasn't been an on screen meeting this big since the teaming of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

It's probably written into their contract that they're required to have an affair and cause the breakup of Pratt's marriage.

 

I don't want to pile on too much here, but given all of its self generated multi-year hype and expectations, it's pretty stunning that BVS will end up outside of the top five grossing films of the year. It wasn't a financial failure of course, but for a film that was clearly gunning for #1 this year, it's disappointing.

 

I really wanted Secret Life of Pets to beat it. Close. Very close.

But Independence Day 2 and Star Trek Beyond are two of the year's floppiest flops

 

Wait, so this is coming out the same weekend Assassin's Creed is, which is all happening the weekend after Rogue One? Goddamn I wanted AC to be the movie that finally breaks the video game to movie curse.

 

Chances are good that Assassin's Creed will be moved out of the holiday season and directly to Amazon Prime

 

The most profitable movies of the year:

Deadpool - 13.5 x budget
Secret Life of Pets - 10.75 x budget
Me Before You - 10.25 x budget
Conjuring 2 - 8 x budget

Deadpool - Popular D list superhero plus modest budget
Secret Life of Pets - popular animation studio and restrained budget
Me Before You - "Fault in Our Stars" style ill-fated romance plus modest budget
Conuring 2 - low budget branded horror

Nothing very new this year. Same old lessons of commercial success.

 

I feel like this year didn't even deserve its own thread. It's been a total bust. The only good movies (possibly) will be Fantastic Beasts and Rogue One.

 

2016 wasn't a total loss. The Lobster. The Witch. Tickled.

Tickled was definitely this year's Room 237 for me.

 

Deadpool forgot his guns in the third act because Fox axed the budget, again, before they started filming. True story. And, by forgetting his guns, it made the movie even more profitable.

As for Star Trek 14, hey, I think a budget cut for a Star Trek movie isn't the worst idea. Wrath of Khan had way less the budget of Motion Picture and they got a classic out of it.

But, speaking of box office lack of profit on a decades later sequel, Blair Witch made about 9.5 million it's opening weekend. Blair Witch Project made about 29 million it's first weekend of wide release (for a total of almost 250 million worldwide) in 1999.

But the biggest bona-fide lack of cash earners this summer are probably things like Morgan, Popstar and the genuine no good was Ben Hur (by a lot)