hello and welcome to this week's movie
math where star wars thankfully solidify
its position as one of the top current
franchises in Hollywood it wasn't close
one and had been projected weeks in
advanced open where did it around 150 it
came in at 155 but then at the last
minute I want to have a little bit
smaller thursday at night than
anticipated it was projected suddenly to
come in at 140 so and i'm sure or a
couple of nail-biting days for kathleen
kennedy you know it was able to still
rally and easily outpace the the three
of other films that were right behind
captain america civil war and batman v
superman when it comes to openings for
the year it didn't want to find itself
stuck in the same pack as Disney
Animation Fox's Marvel films and then
also even suicide squad withdrawal in
the 130s but no it's a solid definitive
30 even pretty close to batman v
superman which therefore makes Star Wars
clearly a franchise on par with Marvel
and the dce you and you're gonna say for
all the all the hits the dcu keeps on
taken its numbers are really good
what right i mean like it'sit's a movie
it's a franchise to beat which is very
impressive
imagine if it had good reviews imagine
if it wasn't the punching bag of the
media and some marvel lights but we're
here to talk about Star Wars now of
course road one wasn't as big as the
force awakens but it was never expected
to be that big and it is the second
biggest opening for the month of
december which is pretty nice dollars is
taken all the record spots when it comes
to December and they have one more
december to go before they switch to
summer with Han Solo will see if thats
decision they end up regretting harry
potter should get when it was a
momentarily a summer movie here and
there but anyway world one also help
disney get past the seven billion dollar
mark 7 billion globally in 2016
they just sent me a press release which
is the first time that studio has ever
done it all
history but I look at that lineup that's
like Yankees lineup right like sure they
purchase that lineup but it's very
beautiful and i think it was worth every
penny because they certainly didn't
spend seven billion dollars on it right
so pretty amazing
now another win well it's it's a mixed
bag but I think in some ways it is a
huge win for kathleen kennedy and that's
the audience for rogue one was sixty
percent mail but forty percent female
which is very unusual for tentpole
pictures
harry potter excuse a little bit female
but if you look at the Marvel the dcu
films they would they would kill for
those numbers so that's a good win for
kathleen kennedy there but at the same
time while she's getting more women to
go
she's clearly getting less men to go
because the the overall total isn't as
big as Captain America Civil War and
batman v superman so she had to say
about the guys going and was able to up
the women numbers at the same time she
would be in the front and so I maybe you
know it's growing pains maybe they'll
get there with episode 8 & Beyond but
very exciting and it's just nice to see
the female audience numbers increasing
get up there right now I guess why
doesn't she go fun one of those forty
percent women ask if they're even
interested in working on Star Wars
although clearly she has a lot of women
on the team already and she's made very
clear now oversees our road one pulled
in 130 5.5 million as an open pretty
much day-and-date I think it really only
as China left to go which is a lot a lot
of money to be had there but we're going
to talk about China a little bit later
on you'll see why i wrote one did not
open
I like I'm like it did everywhere else
but justice Suicide Squad was an
argument for having a diverse cast i
think the road one is hoping to be an
argument for having an international
cast something that was undeniable while
watching the film but now we need to see
if it's reflected in the box office
numbers you have diego luna from Mexico
Donny and John went from China ben
mendelsohn from Australia mads mikkelsen
representing europe i guess and then of
course felicity jones for the UK now
Star Wars has always had a strong
heritage and you know
in the end the UK the films are shot
there and although they haven't had too
many leads until lately right you can
you take the UK talent but there's a lot
of UK challenge in Hollywood they love
him
alright so anyway with the other actors
though those are all actually pretty big
movie-going countries Mexico China
obviously australia europe and that
means a lot of convincing to see a Star
Wars movie but still I you know this is
very well designed to every major
country they go to they have a star
that's from that country so let's see if
that pays off literally
and then also will one did very well on
imax screens and that's a great that's
very important because that gets the
ticket prices up and Doctor Strange had
a similar benefit and that people really
felt the need to see it on a big screen
i even said that for in my rogue one
coverage i said it wasn't so much 3d
that was important but the biggest
screen possible now of course imax only
ran a 3d print so that really got the
ticket prices up so you can see
Hollywood doing their best to use i
always like to say use box-office
steroids now there's a chance that while
road one didn't open his biggest the
force awakens it could have even
stronger legs
although the force awakens obviously had
very good legs for those who don't know
the term legs means like how long will
carry on week-to-week staying power now
clearly there are a lot of people who
still haven't seen the movie because the
box office opening isn't as big so you
want to get that like a hundred million
people or so to come and see it right
also they could be repeat viewing I've
already seen it twice
I know many of you have already seen
multiple times although that is factored
into the 155 darn it but hopefully you
know people will keep going and then
others a word of mouth and then also
passengers and assassins creed or
supposed to be two hurdles for rogue one
but they are not coming together you
know
Assassin's Creed reviews haven't been
released yet passengers reviews have not
been good
both films could rally but i think that
with such negative reviews they're not
going to really be able to rally in a
way that's hurtful to road one the only
the middle potentially hurt road one is
very strong surprisingly strong box
office numbers for awards contenders
zero genuine interested in the wards
contenders as we're going to discuss
shortly but first it's time for a selfie
montage i asked you guys are we I
brought this back one of you said are
you gonna do the ticket montages this
time for rwanda I had stepped away from
it for a little bit and I was like yeah
let's do it so I asked you to tweet me
pictures of yourself over the weekend at
the theater with your robe one ticket
stub now you know either in the lobby
here in the multiplex I told you have
fun with it
you guys really had fun with it and so
I'm so pleased that I got so many
pictures from you you're eager to join
the rebellion and so without further ado
here is the bt road one selfie montage
Oh wasn't that fantastic i hope that you
enjoyed watching it as much as i did
collecting the photos all weekend and
then editing it together for this
montage you could feel love but somebody
who was not feeling any love this
weekend was Will Smith warner brothers
and their film collateral beauty which
was supposed to be counter-programming
to road one but what are brothers as we
discussed this morning on morning movie
news was shocked shocked at the poor
response to the film and have taken to
blaming rotten tomatoes unfair unfair
assessment of the film
ah not unfair alright so as we discussed
this morning that the trailer did not
want anyone over and I think that did
the most damage but i think that will
submit it doesn't help either and if you
look at his box office numbers recent
box of his openings for similar films
this is just the natural erosion of his
brand like this was what they were
this is what he was marching towards and
they couldn't pull them out of the dive
even focus more commercial movies margot
robbie open was just 18 recently so his
numbers his star power has dimmed
considerably and it's very it's weird
because you know this is somebody who
prided himself on you know kind of
coming up with a formula based on box
office performance of other movies and
he made it seem very scientific and for
awhile worked i remember he was the guy
who owned the fourth of July but his
mouth is not working as mass strong
right now and I think that he just I
think that I wonder how many yes men are
around will smith and if there's anyone
who is willing to tell the truth if he's
willing to listen but you know what he
really the person he wants to surround
himself right now is Margot Robbie you
know he wants a dead shot movie but that
still like in that just idea phase right
now with Warner Brothers going maybe but
they're definitely making gotham city
sirens and as many of you sent me he was
quoted as saying to mtv he will do
anything that margot robbie wants so
that he can be in that movie and just
continue I think to align his star with
her
I mean he helped her with focus to some
degree and they got a lot of people
city over potentially maybe being
romantically involved on that film
ah but you know I don't think he got her
the harley quinn role because she
already had a good relationship with
Warner Brothers from Tarzan and some
other things she worked on with them so
they're kind of like we're coming up
together and now he just won't go away
so I think if I were more of a Robbie if
I was giving her advice I would say
thanks a very nice thanks to Will Smith
but I think it's time for you to
separate yourself from him and a few and
while you're at it dammit here but David
was locked in
let's just not make this gotham city
sirens situation any worse but after the
overall top 10 mawana struggling
interestingly enough to get to 200
domestic after of strong opening based
remember all comparisons to frozen i was
making the box office comparisons to
frozen but it's just not materializing
but that 200 number if it doesn't get
too that would be very embarrassing the
last disney animated movie not to get
from Disney Animation property 200
million domestic his record Ralph now
it's still got a sequel but i must be
because it's doing very well on
streaming etc but tangled and big hero 6
just got into the 200 million range
literally for tangled but you totally
got to 341 domestic and frozen 404 those
of course what I'm to do a billion
dollars worldwide one of the worldwide
is only 280 she still has a lot of
countries to hit but this would make me
very nervous about lin-manuel Miranda as
i told you disney's invested quite a bit
in him but you know this was his first
chance to deliver he did quite a bit to
promote this film and to really link his
name to it and it did not deliver as
we've discussed no one's talking about
the soundtrack there's no videos to are
you know you know making a big deal
about it it's just not it's not part of
the it's only not a Hamilton if you want
to put it that way right so if I were
disney I'd be like mm uh-huh so but you
know just be so full of win right now I
hope that doesn't cause them to overlook
problems that could be developing right
under their noses
they're very distracted by recounting
all that body and also you'll see that
fantastic beasts is holding pretty well
number five will Doctor Strange is
almost out of the top 10 and
worldwide gap also continues to grow
with fantastic beasts 7718 that's very
good
fantastic beasts warner brothers should
be very happy with that there it's
really approaching Harry Potter proper
territory and this bodes very well for a
follow-up particularly since they're
going to dramatically up this you know
raise the stakes for the follow-up so
morning brothers I think she feel very
good about the future of their you know
wizarding world franchise as for dr.
strange at 652 i will be great if we
could get into the 705 made a doctor
strange is definitely a strong performer
a huge performer in fact but I you know
it's interesting to see it you know lose
a little bit of steam and fall back fall
behind in that way and then also you'll
see that manchester-by-the-sea and wall
and two big awards contenders it's those
two moonlight basically there in the big
three this year and they were in a photo
finish
but while their box office numbers were
closed their theater counts were not and
that's what made this a particularly big
deal manchester-by-the-sea what wyd this
weekend i said i thought it would wait
till the Golden Globes decided to go a
little early maybe went too early
because i think that there isn't enough
buzz about manchester-by-the-sea one of
the way there's a lot of buzz about lala
land also the wall and just as
advertises more commercially friendly
film actually really disliked it i will
review it tomorrow sorry i had to get
that make this a priority with them with
the ticket montage but i suspect that
I've suspected lala land will run into a
wall board of math when it tries to play
in the middle of the country i think
it'll obviously do quite well and in the
coastal cities and with cinephiles but i
think that it's not a crowd-pleaser so
we'll see how it's doing but right now
just two hundred theaters it's on fire
but then speaking of limited releases
fences hitches for theaters and did very
poorly
it's part of your average was just
32,000 it's really is not materializing
both is an awards contender I think it's
getting you know like respect for viola
davis and Denzel Washington nominations
but it's really not a strong contender
and i think its media campaign to the
general public was also pretty weak so I
don't know offenses just relying too
heavily on the names of Denzel
Washington Viola Davis but i think that
they just aren't doing enough to make it
seem like a must
see like i said it's something that
really needs to be seen in theaters
right now or be voted for right now so
it's a shame because it's supposed to be
so good the Tony you know the Broadway
performance couple of years ago when a
bunch of Tony's so I you know you should
never take your your audience for
granted because they didn't show up but
it's gonna go wide on christmas day so
we'll see what happens there then
overseas in China wide world one open
today because a little movie called the
great wall opened this weekend and China
and that's the matt damon movie the big
star from legendary which is owned of
course by wanda group and this is a very
big gamble for wanda group through
legendary and this is the first major
film to be a co-production true
co-production between China and the
United States and they really want this
to work out and you know the Chinese
government is very supportive of chinese
companies so road one did not open this
weekend there and said the Great Wall
did and did very well it did 67.4
million and China the fourth biggest
debut of the year behind the mermaid
civil war and war craft which
interestingly enough is also from
legendary owned by wanda group so that's
one audience down one to go this movie
needed to do well in China and so far so
good but also need to do well in the
United States that's the whole point of
the movie that place to both audiences
but it's a movie from china and opens
here on februari 17th we'll see how it
does i'm we'll see how it continues to
do in china it was just a big splashy
opening weekend or if it has some legs
there as well but as for this coming
weekend we get our early onslaught of
christmas movies in fact there's no big
mainstream releases on Christmas of day
there'll be some movies expanding but
you know on wednesday just the day after
tomorrow we're gonna get sing passengers
and assassins creed and as you can see
saying is supposed to dominate the
weekend that's crazy i don't think that
Sony paid jennifer lawrence and chris
pratt all that money to come in second
to singing animals right although that
just shows the strength of animation
Assassin's Creed as you can see far
behind but not quite as far behind is
why him which doesn't open until friday
and i guess i think the real question is
why bryan cranston do you make continue
to make movies like this
I don't know what's going on with his
career he's like he's just a bon vivant
who has so much money from breaking bad
you can just do whatever he wants even
if it makes no sense
alright so that's this week's movie math
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