piranesi Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 fucking Ant-Man. This should be the official title of that on BoxOfficeMojo from now on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Id be curious to see a geographic map of ticket sales for SOC and if it was as predictable as you might presume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 ...and there were people who passed on this thinking it was too risky. Maybe now Hollywood can stop with the whitewashing bullshit.Seriously? It's a freakin' biopic. Largely about two guys who went on to become respectable mainstream actors. I can't imagine anything LESS risky this side of Sesame Street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Yeah, but they're black. Several theaters had cops giving surveillance in case of violence, as well as a few police organizations speaking out against it. So, see, they're still scary. And black. Yeah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Remember all the black dudes who shot up movie theaters. Me neither. But yeah there were definitely studios that passed on this and thought it was too risky. If you look at the success of this and then also Furious 7 which had a huge non-white turnout, Hollywood just needs to get with the fucking program already... they are way behind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 And hats off to Universal for not promoting either of these as just ethnic or urban movies. They advertised Straight Outta Compton during the GOP debate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Speaking of.. Marco Rubio✔ @marcorubio Hey @TeamMarco clear two hours on my schedule on Aug 14. Gotta see #StraightOuttaCompton 10:39 AM - 21 Jul 2015 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_MJ_ Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Shameless. Hilarious, but shameless. No chill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtVanderlay Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 BOM still isn't calling them actuals, but they've updated the weekend estimates. Straight Outta Compton is now at 60.2 million. Which bumps it up to the 7th best R-Rated open ever. Someone at Universal clearly sold his or her soul to the devil. Will be curious to see what the second week drop is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.K.o.S. Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Largely about two guys who went on to become respectable mainstream actors. Sorry, who am I forgetting here? The two guys are Ice Cube and... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazzil Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Largely about two guys who went on to become respectable mainstream actors. Sorry, who am I forgetting here? The two guys are Ice Cube and... ? Dre, obviously. Who are you to doubt the greatness of The Wash? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted August 18, 2015 Share Posted August 18, 2015 Did you forget? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 The expected WOC back lash against the movie has started, if social media can be trusted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 Some people are pissed that the Dee Barnes incident was skipped over but I'm not sure it's going to negatively impact the movie at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted August 21, 2015 Share Posted August 21, 2015 SoC passed Ray on Wednesday. It's now already the second highest grossing musical biopic of all time (domestic, non-adjusted) It's just shy of 40 million behind Walk The Line, so, barring a collapse, it should take number one pretty easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Back to back for the NWA. Street knowledge rules. About nine million away from Walk The Line for musical biopics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Looking at some of the other random movies from the summer Trainwreck passed $100 million this week (on a reported $35 million budget) Spy is at $110 million against its reported $65 million budget Fantastic Four still hasn't passed $50 million domestically Paper Towns has done $73 million worldwide on a budget of $12 million. Hopefully Fox wasn't expecting it be Fault in Our Stars because I would be pleased with that profit on a movie targeted to Teenage Girls and me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Some people are pissed that the Dee Barnes incident was skipped over but I'm not sure it's going to negatively impact the movie at this point. I don't think it was "skipped over", so much as "If we show or heavily allude to this, it will point out the man is a fucking monster and change the whole film." Like, Serpico's womanzing was skipped over. Domino Harvey's drug use and legal issues were skipped over. This, on the other hand, was left out for a very good reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Fantastic Four still hasn't passed $50 million domestically Hollywood is going to keep doing these FF reboots until they finally get it right. Alas, none of us will still be alive in 2120. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Coming into today, street knowledge was less than 3 million behind line walking. SoC made over three on Tuesday. So, yeah, this isn't taking long. How did it take a decade+ for this to go from pitch to screen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Because black movies are "risky" and we need to fund extra security etc.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 The inevitable has happened, SoC put it's foot in Walk the Line's ass on Thursday. It's projected to win a third straight weekend as well, so, clearly, it's the kind of movie that's built to last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 Prob helps its the end of august when few good pictures come out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_MJ_ Posted August 29, 2015 Share Posted August 29, 2015 Are you going to sit there and tell me "We Are Your Friends" is not going to be a gigantic box office success with a straight face?You guys just don't understand the deep, dark DJ world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted August 30, 2015 Author Share Posted August 30, 2015 Just did a quick check in on JURASSIC WORLD and saw that it was at $643 million domestic. So... Dude, you're high. This movie has been out for a month. It's going to play for another 8 weeks, at a minimum. It will close a lot closer to $650 than $620.FACTUAL STATEMENT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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