this chart was inspired by Variety’s piece on ice Age 3 becoming the biggest grossing animated film overseas ever. It’s still #3 in total worldwide gross for animated films.
And for reference:
The Hangover has opened in all major international territories.
Star Trek has played out in most major international territories.
The Proposal has a few biggies overseas left.
Up has barely opened overseas.
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
I actually saw Transformers today (I know I’m late to the party but I have a newborn at home). I though that the haters just had it in for Bay and the Transformers but wow was that a terrible film.
At 812 million, I predict Revenge of the Fallen will become the cinematic equivalent of the leisure suit, in years to come we will all be embarrassed that we had anything to do with it. I have to think the third one is going to pay for the sins of this movie.
I live for this crap, I liked the first Transformers and love Armageddon yet I just can’t imagine any scenario where I would revisit this movie or line up for a Transformers 3. I own two versions of the Animated Transformers movie on DVD.
I know I’m not covering any new ground here but I had to get it off my chest. I was personally offended by how awful T:RotF was. I could go into specifics but it’s not even worth it. Boo!
Shit
No interest
Shit
Probably Shit
Looked Shitty
I Enjoyed It
Not Shit, But Definitely Pretty Slight
Liked It Until My Girlfriend Got Sick And Had To Leave
Shit, But Watchable
Probably Shit
Awesome
Looked Horrid
when it’s all said and done Angels & Demons will be one of the more profitable big hits this year (clearly The Hangover has that claim for the year)
So other than will smith and maybe cruise and pitt. Do star driven vehicles even make the bank like the used to? (I dont count night at the museum because thats more effects than ben stiller.
Major mistake: “Terminator Salvation” is from WB in US/Canada, Sony elsewhere.
hollywoodg, I would argue that Stiller was a large selling point for the Museum films, he had huge awareness from family audiences due to the Focker films and while there were a lot of effects, they were there to provide him things to react to rather than take control of the story itself. I would still count Stiller as one of the big stars left.
As far as Star driven vehicles, the studios don’t seem to want to make them anymore. They feel too small compared to something like Transformers (though I still think that Dark Knight was a Star Driven vehicle)
You have to love how the biggest worldwide hit of the year, “Half-Blood Prince,” was considred a disapointment in the U.S. up until its IMAX release…and now it’s on target to come close to 900 million.
The film will probably finish #2 domestically, #3 worldwide among the Potter films. I thought it was interesting the cumulative IMDB, rotten tomatoes, and metacritic scores ranked the films this way
1. Prisoner 2. Goblet 3. Half Blood Prince 4. Order 5. Chamber 6. Stone
To me, Chamber of Secrets is EASILY the worst, but it was the worst book also…surprised by the ranking for “Goblet of Fire” which I’ve always found to be overated. As an adult film, I thought Half Blood Prince and Azkaban are far ahead of the pack.