hello and welcome to this week's movie
math where tinseltown might as well have
been called hold city
yes it seems we're in for some robust
movie-going this holiday season as two
new films were able to solidly enter the
marketplace yet the holdovers remained
steady that is super unusual not just
like one or two holdovers Doctor Strange
at forty-nine percent trolls at 25 hacks
are ridge at 29 and the accountant with
the best hold yet again at 22 now
Hollywood just pat themselves on the
back and say hey it looks like we're
making pretty darn good movies but no
they had some other theories as to why
their movies did so well this weekend
and had nothing to do with the quality
of their work very Freudian Hollywood
alright so the first excuse or
explanation of such a bizarre event was
that in addition to the overall holiday
mood that's kicked in post-halloween
veterans day did happen to fall on a
friday this year so it kind of created
for many people are three of three day
weekend they had had friday off and
decided to go to the movies not just
hacksaw bridge but it seems any every
movie benefited from that that holiday
falling on a friday but then the other
thing was I thought this was that this
was an interesting explanation and
that's that people are so disappointed
in the election results on tuesday they
need to escape to the movies this
weekend
they said I i believe the hollywood
reporter called it group therapy and I
know to be fair there is some merit i
guess to the explanation because of the
blue parts of the country are also the
parts of the country where people are
most likely going to go to the movies
I mean you need the red parts to join
the billion dollar club with people who
go to the movies regularly tend to live
in the blue areas i don't i don't really
know if i would credit to the election
because the heck of a lot of people were
also protesting in those areas maybe
they went to a movie afterwards as a
group
Oh what I actually think you know when
you look at I don't like trolls but for
the most part it's just a darn good
group
movies quite frankly so I think
Hollywood you give yourself more credit
and it seems the only damage that the
new entries were able to do two
holdovers was that they kept moonlight
out of the top 10 as you might recall
from last weekend's last week's movie
math moonlight was at number 11 it was
knocking on the door of the top 10 but
even though it added an additional 93
theaters this weekend i dropped from
11-2 number 13
so it's headed in the wrong direction
but don't worry too much about my light
it would have been nice for it to jump
into the top 10 and I i don't know if it
ever will actually at this point maybe
if it goes even wider because they're
just a slew of movies coming in a
special especially in the specialty
market etc moonlight missed its window
to get in there but up but I it
certainly made a splash and I still
think it's all position for award season
but wait a minute there were actually
three newcomers this weekend and shut-in
was released by Europa core and it would
seem that it's not quite so easy to
release movies in America after all a
Lucas awww yes there's a lot riding on
valerian in addition to Lucas oz
reputation but also he really
desperately needs to establish aerobic
or as a viable american distributor it's
hard to be the next Lionsgate even get
could maintain it for those of you who
don't get the shape that I just threw
down there
Lionsgate summit they actually you know
acquired summit that's really the only
secondary studio that has ever been able
to emerge in recent memory that's join
like the big names like from like that
the era of the studio system right the
heyday of Hollywood the heyday of
Hollywood I think Judy Garland would
argue that it was not quite the heyday
of Hollywood but you know what I'm
talking about
alright so I like first we have to be
respectful and talk about the newbies
even though i think the most interesting
stuff is happening with the holdovers ok
so arrival it debuted at number three
with 24 million now we all did the
doctor strange was going to beat it but
boy DreamWorks Animation should be so
proud they were able to hold on to
number two but again we're focusing on
the new arrivals
but even though it was bested by trolls
and its second weekend
this is still very good for Amy Adams
and Dave this movie debut in line with
her earlier work and chanted julie and
julia the Muppets and you could argue
there
enchanted that was like a Disney
live-action movie to some degree julia
and julia had Meryl Streep the muppet
set up its I guess you know arrival also
happens to some degree jeremy renner and
aliens but still amy adams was able to
bring in an audience and you know she
hasn't been able to do that in the
recent you know recent Parisian box
office products also she's picked this
movie to be her big awards contender
this year which I think kind of sucks
and it's disrespectful to Tom Ford I
mean like wouldn't you let the Academy
choose and Buzz choose which movie was
gonna be your big awards push but i
guess you can only campaign showing so
much time to campaign and so she's gonna
throw her her own time I her own efforts
into the into arrival I maybe she feels
like it worked for sandra bullock with
gravity
she was nominated question when but
still maybe Amy Adam but central
authority of the blind side so amy adams
is like I don't have an Oscar huh
so maybe she's hoping to go the gravity
right now it didn't do as well as
gravity the box office but maybe at Amy
Adams hoping for some sympathy box i
also have to say to her credit this
movie was the audience is only fifty two
percent female opening weekend so that's
excellent that she's able to bring in
such a large male audience or at least
not deter them then also 85% those over
the age of 25
so that's not so great thing for her
being in like the blockbusters going for
it maybe if the film had an appeal to
the under-25 set it would have done it
would have been able to beat rolls right
because you know where did the under-25
set go
apparently they ran two trolls will
actually dr. strange and basically
anything else that was available as her
denis villeneuve let's turn to the
director
this is his biggest debut although with
blade runner 2049 AKA Blade Runner 2 on
the horizon
he was going to obliterate whatever his
personal record was soon anyway but
speaking of blade runner to this is
certainly helpful in the ad campaign for
that movie to be able to say from the
directory of arrival right especially
was able to get a couple of wards knobs
under its belt is doing very well with
the critics for the most part i dislike
to quite a bit but i have to say it only
got a B CinemaScore and it's kind of
easy to get an a CinemaScore last week
every movie that open got an a
CinemaScore so the fact that only got to
be maybe I wouldn't want to name-check
it too much when promoting blade runner
you know to to the mainstream audience
perhaps all right now over on almost
with almost Christmas the other big new
release this weekend i will get to shut
in just a moment that got an a-
cinemascore so as you can see you know
it's hard to get in a range that
audience with 61 percent
african-american on that's that's a
pretty good number you know it's it's
it's the majority as one would expect
but I think maybe we're getting more and
more of a crossover situation here and
it's also i think it's worth noting the
second black sentra holiday movie on the
last couple of weeks to do isolate the
box office and of course it didn't do as
well as tyler perry's boooo Madea
halloween and in fact fascinatingly
post-halloween people are still paying
to see that in the theater that's
amazing but you know I still think that
it shows I a real niche market that you
know I think the black felt like
filmmaking has been able to corner and
quite frankly as i said before i
recolored Perry I take another run at
Christmas I think he can do better and
then to some degree well Courtney
Courtney advances in the movie but white
people will take a run at the end of
Christmas movie with office Christmas
party in just a few weeks so we'll see
how that does in comparison
then shut in yikes what is there to say
about shutting it's a complete box
office failure as zero percent on rotten
tomatoes
that's really you know you never see
that and also i have to say the only
thing i guess i can really add to this
discussion when it comes to show it in
is that it's excellent evidence that
it's really hard to kill the career of
someone who has awards nominations and
nobody wants has to oscar nomination
social work forever she cannot die she
is part of the hollywood undead at this
point right i mean even though her
career looks dead on the surface it
still lives because of the gold running
through her veins
i watch leach again she was nominated
for the gold and that was enough so she
will always work she has movies coming
up and that's one of the reasons actors
want those nominations at least so badly
because it guarantees you will work
forever now let's go to those amazing
holdovers oh wow it's not even
Thanksgiving yet already enjoying
leftovers so dr. strange is one of the
best holds ever for the Marvel Cinematic
Universe i'm fifty percent and second
weekend beaten only by the first
man and the first door so methinks that
may be the first generation of Marvel
actors does have to fear the new
generation of Marvel actors right many
people are saying Benedict Cumberbatch's
so strong perhaps he could be the new
Tony Stark / Robert Downey jr. of the
MCU and he looks like he's starting to
get the numbers to back that up
it's also almost at 500 million
worldwide just three weeks being
released
you know globally two weeks in the US
three weeks our worldwide so I think
that puts the billion dollar club now
within striking distance that's very
very impressive you know we want to
worry that fantastic beasts would chop
you know cut down the momentum of dr.
strange but now I think fantastic beasts
needs to be very worried or perhaps
there's room for all kinds of magic at
the box office holiday season and as for
trolls
speaking of magic oh it seems that
dreamworks animation's wishes have come
true because even they had a really
rough time of it as of late but this
movie in addition to an amazing second
weekend hold it's already past that the
century mark domestically that's amazing
it's a 222 million worldwide and i
really do think that was we discussed
last week that dreamworks animation has
themselves a new franchise so that's our
amazing to go online with Shrek
Madagascar Kung Fu Panda and now trolls
like really trolls and not megamind it's
so frustrating but for those of you who
do like trolls
congratulations you'll be seeing IC
trolls in your future attacks on ridge
of course I got a Veterans Day boost but
also I think that the strong opening
last weekend was a signal to people who
maybe we're on the fence about going
that it was okay to go you know you
might have you know complicated feelings
about Mel Gibson but audiences in the
general public have decided to back this
film rights over like some people were
like are we going with the center and
the first way was like yeah we're going
with that because it's such a good movie
i think this is a fabulous film and many
others do as well and so you're seeing a
very very strong hold I think this bodes
excellent for hacks are ridges awards
chances particularly for andrew garfield
for best for best actor but this is such
a good hold and if we keep this up maybe
have a little bit more mental its
momentum and some other categories as
well I still
thanks for mel gibson but maybe you know
we'll see maybe there's some other areas
that could get noticed
now getting noticed I'm so happy for the
account because at first it was getting
all the wrong notices right like it was
very scary that it wasn't gonna do on
you know it hasn't crossed the century
mark domestically like trolls as but it
has gotten 228 million worldwide and was
just a 44 million dollar budget it's
already in the green even when you
account for advertising dollars so
that's a great position to put in for
streaming and I think that bodes well
for a potential sequel it's already done
better than John wick it costs more
money than John wick but it's doing much
better than John week quick and it's
almost about to surpass jack reacher the
room the first Jack Reacher's domestic
hall and now it's just got to pull in
that money overseas and also even beyond
the account is a movie itself when it
comes to ben affleck this puts look by
night in a nice position as well he it
would really not be helpful for that
film for him to come off a box office
sticker but now this is a very
respectable box office performance on
let's turn our attention to the
specialty market where Billy Lenz
halftime walk from angry debuted with
little fanfare was supposed to be this
big deal it's like cutting edge
technology but you know I think with
this point after what peter jackson
experience with the hobbit it methinks
the audience doesn't really care much
about framerate is not working odds i
think i spects like vr improve it
perfectly honest with you I'll be
surprised to be our catches on but i'm
open to being proven wrong but billions
on how long i have time Walker whatever
century such a bad title and anyway it's
part of your average was very strong but
for comparison sake moonlight also
talked to a hundred thousand per theater
average when it opened but it wasn't for
theater so it was able to do that across
40 years while billions just into i
think that the buzz for this the award
points for this film is gonna be pretty
weak it does go why this coming weekend
we'll talk about that in just a moment
but first i want to let you know that
cause it's award season is coming up i
want to give you a heads up now I'm
gonna start doing it for like smaller
releases right so the specialty market
this coming weekend Amy Adams is back
with nocturnal animals like a shadow
wood split rewards momentum between that
arrival I manchester-by-the-sea also
hits theaters this is not
Matt Damon produced films starring Ben
Affleck's brother Casey Affleck but it's
also from amazon so that's a very
important movie I let's see here and
then fantastic beasts of course after
the wide movies fantastic piece is set
to open with 78 million million can it
match or top doctor strange
no that's that's the pacemaker now and
now so far fantastic beasts said to come
in a little underneath that edge of
seventeen i supposed to open with 12
that's not bad for hailee steinfeld but
she's in a close race with Billy lynn
who is also expected to open with 12
wide and then bleed for this continues
the bleeding out of miles tellers career
hasn't said to open with just 5.5
million so that's the weekend box office
thank you so much for going over with me
i'm curious what do you think were you
one of the people you saw one of these
movies and their second weekend
what made you decide to go and then also
what do you think of Amy Adams decision
to go with the arrival / nocturnal
animals for award season and just how do
you feel the overall box-office shaping
up but also i guess the last thing I
want to ask you is what do you think was
the reason for these holes good movies
the holiday season just wanted to get
out there you know either be the holiday
season in general or veterans day and
then of course do you believe that it
was a group therapy coming off of our
election on Tuesday write your thoughts
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