Lots of good movies coming out this year. What movie do you think will be number one?

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I actually care about how much movies make because the more money a movie makes the more likely I’m going to get more movies of that same nature.

“Scott Pilgrim vs the World” didn’t make that much, so unfortunately, there won’t be a film of that type. “Kickass” wasn’t a runaway box office success, so unfortunately it’s taken forever for them to decide if they’re going to do a sequel.

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Say what you will, ticket sales is the closest thing to an objective standard you’re going to find on movie quality. Pretty much every other standard is individual opinion and not really subject to discussion.

And as RandMcnally wrote, box office is what gives direction to the movie business. We wouldn’t be discussing the potential merits of The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, and The Amazing Spider-Man if previous superhero movies hadn’t made so much money.

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I never heard of American Reunion, I had to google it.

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As someone who was a walk-on extra in The Avengers, I really, really hope it does well!

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Yeah I don’t know anything about any of these movies but I am pulling for The Avengers to be a huge hit so more movies get made in Cleveland!

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Actually, that’s not true. Here’s something I wrote about a year ago on this very topic:

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This not only has the YA demographic, but the books have been taking up the Twlight slack in the middle-aged woman catagory. Both of these are groups who will go see something a number of times in large groups with the fanaticism of a Star Wars nerd.

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Except that you get results like this:

CinemaScore polls real live audiences. There have only been 7 F’s in its history, two of them this year. The Devil Inside has currently grossed $53,000,000. Last year’s Oscar winner The Artist has clawed its way to $40,000,000.

JohnT, Oscars went to box office successes in the past, but that hasn’t been true for a quarter century. There have been a couple of exceptions, but the all-time top-grosser Avatar lost to a film that grossed $17,000,000 in the U.S., a third of that after it won the Oscar.

And Avatar had an awful, awful, awful script. What possible meaning can good have if you need to include Avatar in it?

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Two questions:

How’d they end up bringing out two versions of the “Snow White” story (Mirror Mirror, comedy fantasy, and Snow White and the Huntsman, fantasy drama) less than three months apart?

Where are the promised 2012 Hugh Laurie movies The Oranges and Mr. Pip, goddamnit?? :mad:

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Dualing

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Did Janeane Garofalo get a facelift? She looks so much younger.

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I said it was an objective system. I never said it was a perfect system. But show me a better one.

The Oscars? Avatar was nominated as one of the best movies of the year when it was released. It got a BAFTA nomination as best picture also. It won the New York Film Critics Award for Best Picture of the year.

And speaking of critics, Roger Ebert gave it four out of four stars and called it “extraordinary”. Lots of other major critics concurred.

Me personally? I thought it was pretty weak. I agree with you that the script was bad.

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I have seen lots of movie that came this year. In between all the best movie that i have seen is The Avengers. Its really nice movie full of Action.

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Okay, as long as this thread’s been revived, here’s some results. The movies that have hit $100,000,000 so far this year:

  1. Marvel’s The Avengers - $1,510,617,210 (Production Budget: $220 million)
  2. The Dark Knight Rises - $1,058,676,748 (Production Budget: $250 million)
  3. Ice Age: Continental Drift - $837,290,851 (Production Budget: $95 million)
  4. The Amazing Spider-Man - $748,605,830 (Production Budget: $230 million)
  5. The Hunger Games - $685,080,950 (Production Budget: $78 million) Called it.
  6. MIB 3 - $624,026,776 (Production Budget: $225 million)
  7. Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted - $620,657,204 (Production Budget: $145 million)
  8. Brave - $499,858,247 (Production Budget: $185 million)
  9. Ted - $407,670,123 (Production Budget: $50 million)
  10. Snow White and the Huntsman - $396,397,203 (Production Budget: $170 million)
  11. Prometheus - $390,990,697 (Production Budget: $130 million)
  12. The Intouchables - $364,642,905 (Production Budget: ?) French movie. It was a big hit in Europe but hardly registered in the United States.
  13. Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax - $337,111,107 (Production Budget: $70 million)
  14. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - $325,860,290 (Production Budget: $79 million)
  15. Battleship - $302,836,260 (Production Budget: $209 million)
  16. Wrath of the Titans - $301,970,083 (Production Budget: $150 million)
  17. John Carter - $282,778,100 (Production Budget: $250 million)
  18. The Expendables 2 - $267,304,140 (Production Budget: $100 million)
  19. Dark Shadows - $238,727,149 (Production Budget: $150 million)
  20. American Reunion - $234,736,898 (Production Budget: $50 million)
  21. Safe House - $205,201,380 (Production Budget: $85 million)
  22. 21 Jump Street - $201,585,328 (Production Budget: $42 million)
  23. The Bourne Legacy - $199,675,565 (Production Budget: $125 million)
  24. The Vow - $196,114,570 (Production Budget: $30 million)
  25. The Dictator - $176,750,222 (Production Budget: $65 million)
  26. Total Recall - $172,217,010 (Production Budget: $125 million)
  27. Mirror Mirror - $162,835,167 (Production Budget: $85 million)
  28. Underworld Awakening - $160,112,671 (Production Budget: $70 million)
  29. This Means War - $156,491,279 (Production Budget: $65 million)
  30. Magic Mike - $154,683,104 (Production Budget: $7 million)
  31. The Secret World of Arrietty - $145,570,827 (Production Budget: ?)
  32. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance - $132,563,930 (Production Budget: $57 million)
  33. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - $131,671,286 (Production Budget: $10 million)
  34. The Woman in Black - $127,730,736 (Production Budget: ?)
  35. Chronicle - $126,636,097 (Production Budget: $12 million)
  36. Step Up Revolution - $122,219,724 (Production Budget: $33 million)
  37. The Pirates! Band of Misfits - $120,002,528 (Production Budget: $55 million)
  38. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - $101,874,013 (Production Budget: $69 million)
  39. The Devil Inside - $101,386,096 (Production Budget: $1 million)
  40. Project X - $100,931,865 (Production Budget: ?)

I used worldwide grosses and included production budgets so you could get an idea of how profitable the movies were. All figures form boxofficemojo.com

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Okay, I’ve really got too much time on my hands.

Here’s the breakdown of “profitability” - grosses divided by budget.

The Devil Inside - $101.39
Magic Mike - $22.10
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - $13.17
Chronicle - $10.55
Ice Age: Continental Drift - $8.81
The Hunger Games - $8.78
Ted - $8.15
Marvel’s The Avengers - $6.87
The Vow - $6.54
Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax - $4.82
21 Jump Street - $4.80
American Reunion - $4.69
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted - $4.28
The Dark Knight Rises - $4.23
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - $4.12
Step Up Revolution - $3.70
The Amazing Spider-Man - $3.25
Prometheus - $3.01
MIB 3 - $2.77
The Dictator - $2.72
Brave - $2.70
The Expendables 2 - $2.67
Safe House - $2.41
This Means War - $2.41
Snow White and the Huntsman - $2.33
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance - $2.33
Underworld Awakening - $2.29
The Pirates! Band of Misfits - $2.18
Wrath of the Titans - $2.01
Mirror Mirror - $1.92
The Bourne Legacy - $1.60
Dark Shadows - $1.59
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - $1.48
Battleship - $1.45
Total Recall - $1.38
John Carter - $1.13

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Isn’t there the last Twilight-thingy movie coming out in mid-November? I think that probably has to make the shortlist of contenders.

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Yes, we still have all the big holiday movies that haven’t been released yet: Breaking Dawn 2, The Hobbit, Wreck-It Ralph, Skyfall, Taken 2, Frankenweenie.

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Same here, plus the Hobbit.