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Wkd BO 0224-2617 - Peele rules the Box Office and Rotten Tomatoes. China loves RE6.
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Sibersk Esto
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At this point, I can't help but feel the actual concept of the X-Men as a team is no longer a bankable concept.
BronsonLee
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Ya I think this is the plan now
We're pretty much gonna get that, right?
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Rth puts Get Out's second Friday at $8M, which means it's heading for at most a 25% wkd drop. Just crazy for a horror film; I wonder if it can leg it to $150M
Yes. If Logan hits 80, I think it would have had a shot at being the highest grossing xmen movie if this month wasn't so crowded. WOM is gonna be crazy good.
I mean, Days of Future Past cleaned up just 3 years ago. Apocalypse was a huge box office disappointment but it was also terrible. Good X-Men movies can probably still make money.
broncobuster
Banned
They'd need to make one and see. When you think about it, they're almost always forming or breaking up the team. Following Apocalypse, they have an opportunity to make it about the X-Men as a team. The young cast is solid and the foundation is there.
ryutaro's mama
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If it were up to me, I would focus the next 3-5 years on:
Deadpool
X-Force
x23
And then after that, reboot the XMen completely (kinda like how JimLee rebooted the comic) , with new casting for everyone and then get your their shit together and understand how fuck awesome Dr. Doom is alone and how amazing F4 should be.
What I am saying is, the Singer-Xverse needs to go away.
It's time.
Er, no, it's not. They've got a new X-Men film in an advanced state of development, to the point of getting the cast back, and New Mutants (due to film very shortly) is set in the 1980s-verse.
Why would a Nightcrawler solo film be R-rated?
my name is ed
Banned
You know how Catholic Nightcrawler is?
Now just imagine a mash up of the Young Pope and X-Men
Now you can see why it would need to be for mature audiences
Obliterator
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Not surprised at Logan whatsoever. There's been huge buzz on my social feeds for it for months. The fact this is Jackmans last portrayal as the character is making some serious waves even with people who aren't big X-Men fans. He's become so iconic in the role that even if you've never seen one of the films everyone knows he's Wolverine.
I just wish I could stomach the gore to sit through it. I plan on watching it but might have to wait for him video on this one
I just wish I could stomach the gore to sit through it. I plan on watching it but might have to wait for him video on this one
when logan and deadpool do better at the box office than your pg rated x-men film, everything becomes r rated!
bring on the r rated cyclops movie!
Mister Wilhelm
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It doesn't need to go away. Singer already killed it himself.
Bobby Roberts
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New Mutants is gonna be the next one after Deadpool though, isn't it?
There's still (apparently) some sort of Gambit movie on deck, I guess?
(Ehhhhhh)
There's still (apparently) some sort of Gambit movie on deck, I guess?
(Ehhhhhh)
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Saints preserve us if Logan's success actually gets Tatum's Gambit movie fast tracked.
vinnygambini
Why are strippers at the U.N. bad when they're great at strip clubs???
New Mutants is next yes.
I have a feeling the Gambit film will never materialize, could be dead wrong though.
ryutaro's mama
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Gambit carrying an entire movie alone?
They tried that once with JCVD and it was called Hard Target and it it was dreadful.
Bobby Roberts
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I dunno, I rewatched that recently and it was a lot of dumb fun.
Brimley on horseback shooting people with a shotgun and yelping in a bad cajun accent.
Van Damme punching a snake in the face.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
No. Brinley on horseback, riding away from an explosion in slow motion while holding a bow. That is pure greatness.
Such a horrible and horribly fun film. Definitely a guilty pleasure.
ryutaro's mama
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Bishop android as the main bad guy with the Mummy as his goon...
Bobby Roberts
Banned
We'd be LUCKY to get a Gambit movie with that level of entertainment in it.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
And Lance Hendrickson having that single shot pistol is great. But love how hilarious his death is in it.
Oops.
ryutaro's mama
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Peeling off the burning jacket while grunting.
Thanks !
PhoncipleBone
Banned
I'd be down for a film with Xavier and Magneto as the leads against a threat. Just those two. The feel of Magneto's early stuff in First Class.
I'm all for more McAvoy and Fassbender. They're the best things about X-Men next to Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart. To be honest, I've never been a fan of McKellen as Mags.
He was so good in X-Men 2. Nothing before or after comes close. That scene with Pyro in particular.
cj_iwakura
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Black Republican
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...-75-million-loss_us_58b82da9e4b0a8ded67ac41c?
Great Wall will do fine overseas but slipping in NA?
Great Wall will do fine overseas but slipping in NA?
He wasn't given much to do after X2. X3 was X3, and he was basically a cameo in DOFP.
CaviarMeths
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Fantastic death scene though.
"All those years wasted fighting each other, Charles... to have a precious few of them back."
Of course. They killed it in X-Men 2. Cox and Ian and Patrick.
LordOfLore
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Yeah, had them all on DVD thanks to a boxset in a briefcase I got as a 15 yo birthday present and now I have them all on BD.
ryutaro's mama
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Bobby Roberts
Banned
I know the length and the rating make one-to-one comparisons with other X-Men movies harder, but with a 33mil Friday, does that mean we're looking at an 80mil weekend?
What's, say, the 2nd best multiplier for an X-Men movie?
What's, say, the 2nd best multiplier for an X-Men movie?
MrPink93485
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80-85 seems to be target for OW.
I think 2nd best multiplier is First Class with 2.65x
Bobby Roberts
Banned
That'd put it somewhere between 210-225mil domestic
Corpsepyre
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Fox is fucking weird. Quality's been all over the place, especially for Wolverine films.
LFMartins86
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They cut a lot of scenes from Logan for China, that probably wasn't possible for Deadpool.
Half of the X-Men films were released on Memorial Day weekend, which sort of messes things up as far as comparisons go.
Violence Jack
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How dare you good sir besmirch the mulletly greatness of the John Woo classic Hard Target?
Bobby Roberts
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I'm wondering if legs might be a little better because it's coming out in the spring, where there's (relatively) less competition?
I know Kong is coming next weekend, so comp isn't free & clear in the least.
ryutaro's mama
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Hey, pigeon...
I think that the quality and word of mouth might get some business from the types who don't rush out for comic films, but we'll see.
A lot of the X-Films hover in the 2.5x multiplier range. I would be surprised if it is much lower than that, even if it doesn't get Deadpool legs. $200M is likely the low end.
MrPink93485
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March is pretty packed though, lots of competition, Beauty and the Beast will be huge even if it's not directly targeting Logan's audience.
I think Logan will hit the usual multiplier of the good X-Men movies, about 2.5x. Maybe slightly better.
I think Logan will hit the usual multiplier of the good X-Men movies, about 2.5x. Maybe slightly better.
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