Box Office Report (January 1st-3rd)
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Jax said:Been looking for a better format to show results might just have to knick your way
Feel free... all I really do is copy and paste from Box Office Mojo into Word, make some slight adjustments where needed, and then copy and paste it here.
I tried copy n pasting from Box Office Mojo but always comes out 20ft high letters, never thought about using word first.
Movies are so expensive to see at the theater these days, you might as well just wait and blind buy the DVD. Same diff.
I only normally go to see a handful of movies a year and in 2009 I saw at the cinema...
STAR TREK (twice)
HARRY POTTER: THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE
THE DAMNED UNITED
AVATAR
Next year I only plan to see...
IRON MAN 2
TOY STORY 3
but even these are 100%...next year looks so dissapointing for movies.
The latter was great. One of my favorites of the year. I haven't seen A Serious Man yet, but it's out here this week, so I will soon.
I'm really shocked at how well Avatar is doing. It really is a phenomenon!
Cameron's contract with Satan must've been well thought out.
A billion dollar film every ten years, not that bad a deal if you ask me.
Though, Cameron has mentioned a few times that now that the tech is there he has a few other ideas to "play with it". Some ideas tossed out there he's connected (or rumored to be connected) with are Battle Angel, a remake of the fantastic voyage, a remake of forbidden planet, a live action heavy metal, and potentially terminator five.
Those have varying degrees of credibility.
Battle Angel, for example, is a lock. He's talked of it several times in conjunction with Avatar, it was mostly a question of which one of those two films he'd do first (since both would need the Avatar technology).
Fantastic Voyage has been greenlit though I'm not sure if he's attached to it (the tech is), there are rumours of Forbidden Planet and there's been an unrelated talk of a David Fincher, IIRC, Heavy Metal.
Which leaves Terminator. I read an offhand comment about Cameron wanting in on the franchise again, but I don't remember where.
This is all pretty good news, though. A Cameron-lead avalanche of shiny, epic sci-fi films about a dozen of which have at least pretty cool premises is something that sounds rather fun. I haven't been so excited about the potential for blockbuster goodness since, oh, 1999, and I was sort of disappointed that year.
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The new Heavy Metal in development is animated, not live action, and has a number of big-name directors attached to direct the various segments, including David Fincher, James Cameron, Zack Snyder, Gore Verbinski, and Guillermo del Toro. Fincher and Cameron are serving as Executive Producers.
A meaningful distinction in this post-Na'vi age?
But yeah, that's a pretty impressive line-up (to a point; Gore Verbinski I am not a big fan of). It'd be hard to imagine this not being the best Heavy Metal movie simply by virtue of considering how bad the previous two were.
