You mean the first one where there was pissing "gag" involving Bumblebee and John Turturro?
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Wkd Box Office - 12•28-30•18 - Jan 4th update: Aquaman now the highest grossing DCEU film ever with $888M worldwide.
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You mean the first one where there was pissing "gag" involving Bumblebee and John Turturro?
Remember the subplot about Shia's dog being high on painkillers?
Remember the Nokia phone, Xbox 360 and Mountain Drew machine that get turned into Decepticons?
I still enjoy the first Transformers to this day - it's what brought me to love the franchise in the first place. I knew of Transformers, but man seeing TF1 at the movie theater as a kid, pure spectacle, solid Bay movie, one of this bests.
Remember when Michael Bay turned the last act of the film into an incomprehensible military wankfest?
Bumblebee is clearly the best since that first one where Shia's character was an unlikeable, irredeemed douchebag...and he was the one we we were supposed to root for.
I remember over the course of the summer, that movie was hyped up to me by my peers in a not-dissimilar way to how The Dark Knight would be the next year so I had pretty high expectations going in and I hated it so much and was pretty much the only person in my school to have that opinion. I hated it so much that I never saw another one.
I really liked Bumblebee. It's not just the only watchable Transformers movie, it's also really good on its own.
You were on the right side of history.
I, unfortunately, gave the second one a chance, hoping things would improve. When I saw the shucking and jiving duo and ultimately the scene with Devastator's balls clanging together, I was out and never returned to the franchise.
Mr. Robot launched the fuck out of Rami Malek's career. I wonder if he's ready to become a full on wanted celebrity.
Also, Atlanta's definitely the best career launcher on TV rn. Brian Tyree Henry has had a hell of a versatile year.
Also, Atlanta's definitely the best career launcher on TV rn. Brian Tyree Henry has had a hell of a versatile year.
Remember when Rami Malek was the sidekick in Need For Speed and got naked in an office for some reason
Yup. It's basically ET with a robot. Lots of heart and you actually care about the charecters.
Yup, I watched the DVD extras of TF1 and Spielberg mentioned that he wanted to explore the relationship between a boy and his car... TF1 did just that but Michael Bay style hahaha - Bumblebee is closer to what he envisioned it seems.
+11% for Spider-Verse! It would be really damn exciting if the overwhelmingly positive word of mouth can give it substantial legs.
Glad to see Aquaman doing so well, too. I'm here for DC's brand shifting to "earnesty."
Glad to see Aquaman doing so well, too. I'm here for DC's brand shifting to "earnesty."
Wan is going to get that Nolan deal over at WB
Any project he wants, no interference
Pretty sure he had that with Aquaman. He earned that with the Fast 7(?) movie and they make a fortune on the Conjuringverse.
Fast is Universal
And horror while a good return isn't the same as giving a billion dollar franchise
Crap. You are right.
But Conjuring movies are a billion dollar franchise. 1.5B to be exact.
Even though he didn't direct it, Peter Jackson was heavily involved with its production and promotion and yeah...that poor guy just can't seem to catch a break outside of Tolkien adaptations.
My assumption is that the The Silmarillion will be his next big project. :)
Would you consider Aquaman obscure?
I think he's just an inherently goofy superhero (though this is easily the best iteration) and honestly, the movie was pretty goofy too. (But also fun and visually gorgeous)
TLJ had poor January legs so that sounds entirely doable.
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tbh I think comic book nerds have a much lower opinion of Aquaman than the general public does (which is to say, they have little to no preconception of Aquaman at all). The whole corny, talks-to-fish, Superfriends caricature is not a version of the character that anyone knows or even remembers outside of comic book circles. So while I prob would not have guessed Aquaman doing a billion, I don't see him as this crazy hard sell for the general moviegoing public either. Clearly audiences are pretty all in on superhero movies now.
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I think that 1B is looking good. This weekend was 140M worldwide, and there is only 250M left to go.
I can't think of anyway it doesn't? Unless it falls off a cliff this week and weekend.
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This weekend was inflated by the holidays, but I am still expecting around 900M by next weekend. Maybe a bit under if I am overestimating weekday holds again.
With that, what do you think it ends up as in it's entire run?
Yup.
Aquaman has been featured in tons of media since Superfriends and he's always portrayed as a worthwhile and competent superhero. His Brave and the Bold incarnation is the closest he gets to being a joke again, and even there, it's because he's basically a giant kid and not because he's useless or dumb. No one is still thinking about a cartoon from the 80s when it comes to him or any other character.
Comic nerds tend to project their feelings on to the general public when it comes to these movies. The public will go see any superhero movie so long as it's good.
It did! Weekend estimates increased from $20.5M to $20.94M! Dat WoM
Bohemian Rhapsody about to get its second wind with Karaoke showings as well. Not sure if that's only a UK thing
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Hard to say. We still have Japan and Italy left to open. Not expecting a ton there, but that's still 20M on the low end. Reaching TDKR will probably be hard with how far that film is ahead domestically.
Aquaman heading to a billion. What a time to be alive.
It worked well in New York, but in Miami it's dead
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Good to see that we didn't lose you with the burial of the Divergent series. Welcome back!
Y'all laugh at him calling him "Seaman". Well guess who's laughing now, GUESS WHO'S LAUGHING NOW!
Thanks bud :) Had to take a step back and do a proper burial for the Divergent Series - it needed all my attention!
It certainly can't hurt it! Like I said in my previous post, if it can get to $400M+ WW, which it should, Paramount would view this as a success and should easily have the leeway available to greenlight Prime!
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