The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[Omega]

Twilight is another monster film already selling out.
Immortals is doing good so far I think.

[bjmdds]

OOOOOOOOOOmega, your avatar picture was a HUGE thing to talk about in 1965. People thought it would expand like crazy to have a jet pack like Bond. THAT gadget was what made Bond successful, along with all of the others.......as Gekko said to Fox on the beach talking into his wireless phone, "astonish me pal". That is what Bond fans want and instead are receiving the royal shafting by the pompous and egomaniacal, borderline artistically deranged, cruciferous dolt.

[bjmdds]

While on the topic of Harry Potter, it is worth briefly mentioning that the comparisons that are often drawn between the boy wizard series and Twilight actually serve to downplay Twilight's accomplishments a bit. The Potter series declined from its first to third entries, while Twilight has actually earned more with each new movie. The last entry, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, made $300.5 million domestically, which is more than five out of the eight Potter movies. Considering how many more copies were sold of the Harry Potter books (Deathly Hallows's initial run was 12 million books, while Breaking Dawn's was only for 3.7 million), Twilight is in many ways a more impressive movie phenomenon in the U.S.

Breaking Dawn will attempt to once again set a new high-mark for the series, and it does have a lot working in its favor. While the longer wait between movies could have caused the Twilight fervor to die down, it so far seems like it has just resulted in more pent-up demand. Also, distributor Summit Entertainment's campaign has smartly focused on events like Bella and Edward's wedding and honeymoon and Bella's bizarre pregnancy, which are moments that fans have been eagerly anticipating for years.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon opened on the same weekend in 2009 and set midnight and opening day records ($26.3 million and $72.7 million, respectively; both of these records now belong to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2) before finishing the weekend with a remarkable $142.8 million. Considering the trend for fourth entries to underperform, Breaking Dawn doesn't quite need to reach New Moon's levels, though all signs currently point to those numbers being reasonable targets. The bigger question is whether Breaking Dawn can top Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2's $169.2 million opening weekend record, which would be a remarkable accomplishment given Potter's final movie status and 3D boost. Aside from its domestic opening, Breaking Dawn will also reach 54 markets this weekend, including most major ones with the exception of Germany, South Korea, Japan and China.

[bjmdds]

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN

Distributor: Paramount Release Date: December 21, 2011
Genre: Animation Runtime: N/A
MPAA Rating: PG Production Budget: N/A
SHOWTIMES: Zip Code This Movie All

Summary Showtimes Foreign Similar Movies Images

View: BY COUNTRY | BY WEEKEND

Country
(click to view weekend breakdown) Dist. Release
Date Opening
Wknd % of
Total Total Gross / As Of
FOREIGN TOTAL - 10/26/11 $56,163,778 35.3% $159,100,000 11/13/11

Argentina - 1/5/12 - - n/a N/A
Australia - 12/26/11 - - n/a N/A
Austria Sony 10/28/11 $240,177 29.2% $823,459 11/13/11
Bahrain Sony 11/3/11 $11,410 29.2% $39,014 11/13/11
Belgium Sony 10/26/11 $1,992,401 26.8% $7,438,165 11/13/11
Bolivia - 1/12/12 - - n/a N/A
Brazil - 1/20/12 - - n/a N/A
Bulgaria Sony 11/4/11 $18,691 61.7% $30,276 11/6/11
Chile - 1/5/12 - - n/a N/A
Colombia - 1/1/12 - - n/a N/A
Croatia Sony 11/3/11 $37,207 48.8% $76,307 11/13/11
Czech Republic Falcon 10/27/11 $246,822 48.1% $512,657 11/13/11
Denmark Sony 10/27/11 $1,620,628 45.4% $3,569,716 11/6/11
Ecuador - 1/13/12 - - n/a N/A
Egypt - 11/2/11 - - n/a N/A
Estonia - 10/28/11 - - n/a N/A
Finland Dis./Sony 11/4/11 $477,532 48.4% $986,393 11/13/11
France Sony 10/26/11 $21,788,886 45.9% $47,444,367 11/13/11
Germany Sony 10/27/11 $4,565,140 35.9% $12,719,159 11/13/11
Greece Sony 11/3/11 $444,478 54% $822,821 11/13/11
Hong Kong - 11/24/11 - - n/a N/A
Hungary InterCom 11/3/11 $110,393 64.6% $170,827 11/13/11
Iceland Sony 10/28/11 $90,146 32% $281,679 11/13/11
India - 11/11/11 - - n/a N/A
Indonesia - 11/11/11 $691,023 96.1% $719,013 11/13/11
Israel Sony 11/3/11 $141,012 52.9% $266,480 11/13/11
Italy Sony 10/28/11 $1,393,801 29.5% $4,724,944 11/13/11
Japan - 12/1/11 - - n/a N/A
Latvia - 10/28/11 - - n/a N/A
Lebanon - 11/3/11 - - n/a N/A
Lithuania - 10/28/11 - - n/a N/A
Malaysia UIP 11/10/11 $420,364 70.2% $598,905 11/13/11
Mexico - 12/25/11 - - n/a N/A
Netherlands Sony 10/26/11 $1,096,745 36.7% $2,987,710 11/13/11
New Zealand - 12/26/11 - - n/a N/A
Nigeria - 12/23/11 - - n/a N/A
Norway Sony 10/28/11 $716,535 34.4% $2,082,515 11/13/11
Peru - 12/25/11 - - n/a N/A
Philippines - 11/30/11 - - n/a N/A
Poland Sony 11/4/11 $372,166 34.7% $1,073,680 11/13/11
Portugal Sony 10/27/11 $793,444 35.8% $2,217,850 11/13/11
Romania - 10/28/11 - - n/a N/A
Russia - CIS Dis./Sony 11/3/11 $4,810,714 64.7% $7,433,187 11/13/11
Serbia & Montenegro Sony 11/3/11 $18,131 188.3% $9,628 11/13/11
Singapore UIP 11/10/11 $828,854 73.4% $1,128,745 11/13/11
Slovakia Sony 11/3/11 $53,168 100% $53,168 11/6/11
Slovenia Sony 11/3/11 $5,806 12.8% $45,524 11/13/11
South Africa (Entire Region) - 12/23/11 - - n/a N/A
South Korea - 12/8/11 - - n/a N/A
Spain Sony 10/28/11 $3,747,929 18.4% $20,337,801 11/13/11
Sweden Sony 10/28/11 $2,288,201 26% $8,797,761 11/13/11
Switzerland - 10/26/11 - - n/a N/A
Taiwan - 11/12/11 - - n/a N/A
Thailand - 11/10/11 - - n/a N/A
Turkey WB 11/4/11 $293,358 22.2% $1,320,777 11/13/11
Ukraine B and H 11/3/11 $346,269 56.5% $612,744 11/13/11
United Arab Emirates Sony 11/3/11 $607,564 47.8% $1,271,627 11/13/11
United Kingdom PPI 10/26/11 $10,904,334 53.4% $20,420,996 11/13/11
Uruguay - 1/6/12 - - n/a N/A
Venezuela - 12/23/11 - - n/a N/A
This junk is already released before the USA? I guess this could be another DC bomb with Spielberg? Cast
Credited cast:
Daniel Craig ...
Ivanovich Sakharine / Red Rackham (Perfect name for DC............IVANOVICH SAKHARINE.........sounds like a fungal itch.... )

[bjmdds]

Wednesday
21
NEW IN THEATERS DISTRIBUTOR RELEASE
The Adventures of Tintin
Animation Paramount Wide
The Darkest Hour (on Sun.)
Sci-Fi Thriller Summit Entertainment Wide
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Thriller Sony / Columbia Wide
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Action Paramount Wide
War Horse (on Sun.)
War Buena Vista Wide
We Bought a Zoo (on Fri.)
Comedy / Drama Fox Wide
Don 2 (on Fri.)
Foreign / Action Reliance Big Pictures
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (on Sun.)
Drama Warner Bros. Limited
In the Land of Blood and Honey (on Fri.)
(Two Egghead films the same day in the USA? Cruise will CRUISE to a box office win over Cr-egg's crumbs.)

[Alessandra]

Uhm.. a new photo from shooting, just fresh from Twitter/Facebook official accounts...

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1 ... 0353379883

And uhm, the gloom and doom set continues? Seriously.

[katied]

Was looking through some of those pictures..Dame Judi is a lot shorter than everyone else-or maybe it's the way they arranged it(deliberately?)

[Kristatos]

Uhm.. a new photo from shooting, just fresh from Twitter/Facebook official accounts...

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1 ... 0353379883

And uhm, the gloom and doom set continues? Seriously.

I don't know about you, but I can barely contain my excitement for this film

[English Agent]

Is it me? ....or does the production of 'Skyfall' so far seem to be lacking that 'buzz' factor.

EA

[bjmdds]

EA........."August?.......the summer's over Larry.......these people think you want the beaches open "..........Sweeney's favorite Jaws line and it applies to all of those expecting Bond 23 to be a triumph..............It's all over..............DONE

[bjmdds]

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 earned an incredible $30.25 million from 3,521 locations at midnight, which is about even with The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ($30.1 million) and up from the last November movie The Twilight Saga: New Moon ($26.3 million). It wasn't quite enough to beat Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2's $43.5 million midnight record, though that movie had the advantage of being the final installment and had a 3D boost.

If Breaking Dawn follows New Moon's pattern from here, it will earn $83 million today and finish the weekend with over $160 million, which will qualify as the second-best opening day and weekend ever. Considering the enormous amount of pent-up demand that the midnight shows helped to relieve, those figures are probably the upper bound of it's potential; still, the movie is now clearly positioned for one of the best opening weekends ever.

[bjmdds]

Dream House

Domestic Total as of Nov. 17, 2011: $21,302,340 $13,600,000 Foreign total
Distributor: Universal Release Date: September 30, 2011
Genre: Thriller Runtime: 1 hrs. 32 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13 Production Budget: $50 million (It's just about over and was never released in the UK. The biggest overseas market was Mexico at $2.2 million. Another DC multi-million dollar bomb )

[Alessandra]

Uhm.. a new photo from shooting, just fresh from Twitter/Facebook official accounts...

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1 ... 0353379883

And uhm, the gloom and doom set continues? Seriously.

I don't know about you, but I can barely contain my excitement for this film

Right? I feel exactly the same.

Looks like we're in for the usual stylish, posh, "I want it so bad but only James Bond can have it" treatment. NOT.

Oh by the way. For those of you who haven't seen Person of Interest yet... I warmly recommend last night's episode. Last night's episode was FABULOUS. All complete with espionage old style and most of all with Jim Caviezel being a spy AND WEARING A TUX IMPECCABLY while he and the woman who made him a spy killed people in cold blood. (you'll all tell me if this reminds you of a certain scene in a certain Bond movie. My thought immediately went to "what, no chit chat?"). PLEASE I beg you all to take a look, it doesn't matter if you haven't seen the previous episodes of the show, you only need to see last night's episode. It's pretty much stand-alone sometimes and last night was one of those cases. Do it and you won't regret it. Because I can assure you, it is AWESOME. And Jim Caviezel was completely and absolutely JAMES BOND. Put in the British accent and we're rolling. I mean it, it was FABULOUS. I'd like to hear what the thoughts of others here who have seen it were?

[katied]

There was a time when news of a new Bond film was a BIG deal. Not so much anymore.

[oscartheman]

What!I missed a Person of Interest!?Say it ain't so!

[English Agent]

Blinkin heck.....what are EON doing?

First they cancel the India shoot

Now they have cancelled the Scottish location, much to the dismay of the locals.

Next they'd probably cancel the film and get rid of DC.

Mind you 'BJ' wont mind that last bit!

Seriously though, EON dont half go into these productions half-cocked...dont they? They must upset a lot of people.

EA

[Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry]

Blinkin heck.....what are EON doing?

First they cancel the India shoot

Now they have cancelled the Scottish location, much to the dismay of the locals.

Next they'd probably cancel the film and get rid of DC.

Mind you 'BJ' wont mind that last bit!

Seriously though, EON dont half go into these productions half-cocked...dont they? They must upset a lot of people.

EA

Eon are fortunate that many people likes the rotten modern version of Casino Royale with craggy Craig playing a young Bond on his first mission or the series really would be in trouble after 4 years of disasters.

[English Agent]

In todays British tabloid newspaper 'The Sun'... it was reported that 'Noel Gallagher' will be meeting the producers of 'Skyfall' with the possibilty of doing the main title song for that film...its not official though.

[Omega]

Noel Gallagher? Who the hell is that? What happened to the crazy stalker chick Adele? (Sorry Honey I went to Afghanistan to avoid you.)

Where is the $230 million going? They are not going to 2 places I thought would be great in a Bond film and as a added bonus they managed to get those countries made at them. I wonder if Mazer is not correct, all the cut locations are down to Craig's schedule

[bjmdds]

Theatre in the round production is what you will get. A stage play by Eon for Bond 23. FBF, get the Carrot ready Noel Gallagher is another Cornell You Know My Name type singer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwHpLDgWonM I never heard of him until EA mentioned him. He sounds like David Cooke from American Idol. Save Adele for the next CLASSY 7th 007 By the way, Keyes Another Way To Die has VERY FEW views on the internet. They did not even get the song correct with Quantum Of Soul-less.