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An amazing hold for Blank Panther—under 50 percent coming off a $200M+ opening and a holiday weekend! February 23–25, 2018 Weekend Estimates: 1 (1) Black Panther $108,046,000 | 4,020 Theaters | $26,877 Avg. | $200M Budget | $400,000,422 2 (N) Game Night $16,600,000 | 3,488 Theaters | $4,759 Avg. | $37M Budget | $16,600,000 3 (2) Peter Rabbit $12,545,000 | 3,707 Theaters | $3,384 Avg. | $50M Budget | $71,290,702 4 (N) Annihilation $11,000,000 | 2,012 Theaters | $5,467 Avg. | $40M Budget | $11,000,000 5 (3) Fifty Shades Freed $6,915,000 | 3,265 Theaters | $2,118 Avg. | $55M Budget | $89,560,780 6 (4) Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle $5,650,000 | 2,519 Theaters | $2,243 Avg. | $90M Budget | $387,284,215 7 (5) The 15:17 to Paris $3,600,000 | 2,752 Theaters | $1,308 Avg. | $30M Budget | $32,257,752 8 (6) The Greatest Showman $3,400,000 | 1,601 Theaters | $2,124 Avg. | $84M Budget | $160,766,870 9 (N) Every Day $3,103,996 | 1,667 Theaters | $1,862 Avg. | $4.9M Budget | $3,103,996 10 (7) Early Man $1,700,000 | 2,494 Theaters | $682 Avg. | $50M Budget | $6,779,422 Best Picture Watch: Dunkirk $188,373,161 Get Out $176,040,665 The Post $78,848,001 The Shape of Water $55,300,844 Darkest Hour $54,492,842 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri $50,129,579 Lady Bird $47,277,450 Phantom Thread $18,748,094 Call Me by Your Name $15,793,051 Total Gross: $685,003,687 Average Gross: $76,111,521 International Box Office: JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE: $532.7M Overseas Total | $919.9M Global Total BLACK PANTHER: $304M Overseas Total | $704M Global Total THE GREATEST SHOWMAN: $200.5M Overseas Total | $361.2M Global Total FIFTY SHADES FREED: $230.8M Overseas Total | $320.3M Global Total MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE: $215.4M Overseas Total | $271.7M Global Total THE POST: $58M Overseas Total | $136.8M Global Total DARKEST HOUR: $81.2M Overseas Total | $135.6M Global Total THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI: $71M Overseas Total | $121.1M Global Total THE SHAPE OF WATER: $55.4M Overseas Total | $110.7M Global Total

Tell Jonah no thanks, Andi: she is too young for so much angst over a boy (have they ever even kissed?) plus they are all wrong for each other! However, I suspect this "um" cliffhanger will have a different outcome than the one with Bowie and Bex (loved them together in this ep). Andi should cut Jonah out of her life until she's really over him, and just be friends with Walker for now. I think she'd have an easier time around a guy she had things in common with, like art. Was that a bit of a double take from Cyrus, when Jonah was recounting how he told Andi he didn't like labels? I wondered if the writing there was intentional last week, because there are plenty of other ways to get across the same idea: "I don't want to be tied down", "Maybe we should have our freedom", "People our age who like each other just hang, this boyfriend/girlfriend stuff is so twentieh century," etc. You know, things that don't also overlap with a way of saying, "I'm not gay but I'm not exactly straight, either." I don't know if the show is ever going to go there with Jonah, and if they are, I don't think it would be something that he recognizes/acknowledges within himself yet. For now, it's just another thing or two to file away in the "Hmmm, That's Interesting" file. Jonah's panic attack was unexpected, though he didn't seem totally comfortable around the girls hanging around him earlier in the episode. I don't know if the writers planned it this way all along, but it makes you consider his relentlessly upbeat personality in a new light. It was good to see Cyrus's parental figures, finally. I was thinking the dad and stepdad looked really similar when Bowie made that comment. The fortune teller seems to be right about everything. Cyrus has been shown to have an interest in filmmaking, and many people in entertainment are products of the Ivy League but the top film schools are a different thing, generally. So. maybe his dropping out of an Ivy just means he's destined to be some wunderkind filmmaker who leaves school but is a big success in Hollywood. Not that we'll ever know, unless the series finale does some sort of postscript of how their lives all turn out.

During the marathon today, the House Hunter was fine--she was looking for a condo in Bergen County, NJ--but she had the most annoying friend! The BFF was desperate for her to buy a single family house because they were in their 30s and of course she'd want to find a husband and have babies! soon, because their kids were going to grow up together. The HHer was more career-minded, wanted a apartment because she traveled out of the country for her job at times, and besides was clearly not interested in the marriage/family track anytime soon, if ever. I was so rooting for her to finally just blurt out, "I'm a lesbian and got my tubes tied!" just so the friend would shut up, already.

A coworker told me about the photos before I saw them, and that was my first thought (Kate on her wedding day imagining that Jack could be there) until she mentioned Rebecca wearing white. Her dress doesn't look quite mother-of-the-bride to me (maybe because it's white, I can picture Kate being miffed), though if it's a fantasy, then it isn't necessarily what she would really wear. The way that Jack and Rebecca are both standing while everyone else in the pictures is seated makes it seem like it could be their wedding in old age. Of course it's two images out of a whole scene and may play out in an entirely different context. Maybe it's a flashback to Rebecca and Miguel's wedding, and one of the Big Three imagines it's Jack with her instead of their stepfather.

Can't link on my phone but the paps caught Mandy and Milo filming a scene together where they are both in old age makeup! She's wearing white and they are standing outdoors and before onlookers. Wedding dream sequence? Alternate universe vow renewal?!

Shea Hillenbrand, back already? He was on HH just last year, but maybe they were looking for a vacation home then. I guess it's not surprising that an ex-Major League player and his wife would have demands but they really did not come off well. Everything was too small, not spacious enough or the wrong color of white, and I'm pretty sure you can get an ice maker for less than a hundred bucks. Also, I've never been to Phoenix but I don't think it's overrun with French provincial style houses.

Those allegations against Franco didn't get published and gain steam until voting for the Oscars had already started, so I'm not sure he wasn't on his way to being snubbed regardless. I can picture a lot of Anonymous Oscar Ballot types dismissing the movie as a 90-minute SNL sketch. Speaking of, a few of those articles got released last week and the real doozy was the guy who said he was confused about Dunkirk taking place in France, yet he also watched Darkest Hour five times and totally loved it! Denzel has never needed a strong Best Picture contender to get nominated but this year he's got in with the straight up flop, so I'm wondering if he's approaching Meryl status, where he just gets in if he makes anything that's even kind of in Oscar's wheelhouse. Three Billboards seems like the frontrunner, but it lost at the PGAs, which also uses a preferential ballot like Best Picture, and missed in Director. There's a backlash, but IDK if it will be enough to stop it from winning, especially since it's not a two-horse race like in some other years. Plus, I think it's become a de-facto TimesUp nominee and the three billboards motif is being used in real-life political protests on both sides of the ocean, so the "importance" card might take it over the top. Or, it could be The Shape of Water, or Get Out!

I don't know why any director with options would sign on for Star Wars at this point. Kathleen Kennedy will try, I'm sure. Coogler's career trajectory so far is a bit like Christopher Nolan's and I hope he also ends up making more originals than not. A different studio would have put out a $200M estimate yesterday, the business would've justified it, but Disney doesn't really fudge these things.

Box Office: 'Black Panther' Crushes Conventional Wisdom With Record $218M Debut (Forbes): February 16–18, 2018 Estimates: 1 (N) Black Panther $192,023,000 | 4,020 Theaters | $47,767 Avg. | $200M Budget | $192,023,000 2 (2) Peter Rabbit $17,250,000 | 3,725 Theaters | $4,631 Avg. | $50M Budget | $48,222,542 3 (1) Fifty Shades Freed $16,940,000 | 3,768 Theaters | $4,496 Avg. | $55M Budget | $76,134,455 4 (4) Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle $7,945,000 | 2,800 Theaters | $2,838 Avg. | $90M Budget | $377,623,565 5 (3) The 15:17 to Paris $7,685,000 | 3,042 Theaters | $2,526 Avg. | $30M Budget | $25,432,717 6 (5) The Greatest Showman $5,100,000 | 1,936 Theaters | $2,634 Avg. | $84M Budget | $154,478,356 (higher than Les Miserables & La La Land) 7 (N) Early Man $3,150,000 | 2,494 Theaters | $1,263 Avg. | $50M Budget | $3,150,000 8 (6) Maze Runner: The Death Cure $2,525,000 | 1,892 Theaters | $1,335 Avg. | $62M Budget | $54,005,126 9 (7) Winchester $2,230,000 | 1,479 Theaters | $1,508 Avg. | $3.5M Budget | $21,860,179 10 (8) The Post $1,965,000 | 1,050 Theaters | $1,871 Avg. | $76,574,372 International Box Office: JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE: $527M Overseas Total | $904.6M Global Total BLACK PANTHER: $169.0M Overseas Total | $361.0M Global Total (3-Day) THE GREATEST SHOWMAN: $185.6M Overseas Total | $340.1M Global Total FIFTY SHADES FREED: $190.8M Overseas Total | $266.9M Global Total MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE: $205.2M Overseas Total | $259.2M Global Total

I was watching a recapper who called out Jonah for having about two emotional modes (smiling or looking like he's about to cry) and being an underwritten, underdeveloped character. She thought it was a writing issue and pointed out that we don't really know much about Jonah as a person at all. He likes Ultimate Frisbee and is mostly easygoing, hates conflict and is oblivious when it comes to girls (lol, though that probably comes down to being a middle school boy). What's his family like? I mean, we've never seen Cyrus' parents/step-parents but we know they're all therapists, which explains so much about his personality. Buffy's mom just made her first appearance but even her absence was written in a way that significantly shaped the competitiveness she has shown from the beginning. Maybe Jonah is just meant to be an ephemeral dreamboat, the sort of character who exists to be an object of attraction more than anything else. That dynamic works better if the character is kept at arm's length, though.

Given the star power involved, I think it could have made more, had it been a major rather than a minor Oscar player. Granted, 2012 was a different time even in terms of streaming (not to mention everything else when it comes to a movie set in the political world), but Lincoln made $182M domestically. Abe is an extremely popular figure in the US but it was still a 2.5 hour talky drama about legislation. The series has a core audience, but Universal was wise not to press their luck with a two-part finale. There are so many shocking (in a good way) box office stories with the 2017 movies. Horror had a banner year with IT, Split and Get Out, then a Jumanji sequel 20+ years later being such a bigger hit than the original version (even considering inflation). The Greatest Showman went from an opening weekend flop to Titanic-esque legs.

More likely than not, a band in the mid-aughts made up of members in the late teens/early twenties age range would have had a web presence with contact info, not only to get their music out there but to book gigs. Bowie's group so would have had a MySpace! If Bex or Ham tried reaching out to him and he never got the messages or he ignored them, that's another thing. But Bex stayed in the same town, had the baby, was the ostensible mother for the good part of a year and it never got back to him via the grapevine of Bex/Bowie's mutual friends (or their parents' friends)? It's just one of many aspects of this story that requires Handwavium Maximus to work. I get it, it's a kids' show, but I think glossing over the turmoil that would actually result in this situation is limiting Andi's story. If this were a teen show instead of a kid show, you could dig a little deeper, go places you can't touch because it's too much for third graders. Like, if the show could acknowledge that Bowie not being told about Andi for so long for...reasons, as a crappy but avoidable thing, maybe Bowie would have lingering resentment toward Bex and Andi would have to navigate that dynamic between her parents. If the family had good reasons to keep Bowie out of Andi's life when she was born (IDK, juvenile delinquent or substance abuse problems), maybe that explains why Celia was desperate to keep any "bad influences" away. How did he reform? If Andi didn't adjust amazingly well but had to see a counselor, it wouldn't have to be non-stop sob sessions (a good lesson for kids that therapy is nothing to stigmatize/fear). They could structure a few episodes around Andi talking out the "stuff" in her life and get creative with it.

Thst's such a children's story thing, where the kids have all the answers. Like in The Baby-Sitters Club: they got to travel across the country without their parents and go out with high schoolers and solve crimes as 13 year olds. It's not until you get older that you realize just how unrealistic these sorts of things are. I guess Celia and Ham wanted to protect young Andi from feeling abandoned? But even if Bex was a flake driven away by her mother, it was wrong for Bowie not to be told about his child for 13 years. The whole story of the grandparents pretending to be the parents, and the bio father not knowing for years because he left town, just seems like it's from another era where it could all be semi-plausible. Cyrus and TJ: well, that was unexpected! Definitely got a vibe there, and not so much with Buffy. He still looks old for middle school but has become more interesting now. Jonah isn't the one for Andi or Cyrus; at least they are really young and someday they'll be able to look back and laugh at all their angst about him. I wonder if having him star in the video was setting it up for him to be "discovered". The actor is in an upcoming DC Comics movie. Jonah becoming a star could be a way to write the character out, if they ever had to.

Ooh, I love this idea! In the mall episode, Kate described how she starved herself to fit into that dress and how she tried on a smaller size so she could go back to beating herself up some more. If Jack had lived, maybe she continues down a path to full blown anorexia and dies of that? Not only would Jack be destroyed, but he would probably blame Rebecca on some level, given her approach to Kate's weight throughout her childhood. Not all marriages survive the death of a child, either, so something like that could give Mandy and Milo and the rest of the teen cast great material. But I also like the idea of Kate weighing what she does in the present day, even without some major life tragedy in her past (not everyone who is morbidly obese or beyond had some childhood trauma "make" them that way), or Alternate Universe Kate being a size 16 or so but not feeling any happier about her size than she does now. Here's an interview Fogelman gave right after the series premiere that kind of spells out the ethos of the writers' room: Not lacking in confidence, are they? Still, Fogelman has been pretty up front about loving his story twists and being highly impressed with his abilities.

February 9–11, 2018 Numbers: 1 (N) Fifty Shades Freed $38,560,195 | 3,768 Theaters | $10,234 Avg. | $55M Budget | $38,560,195 2 (N) Peter Rabbit $25,010,928 | 3,725 Theaters | $6,714 Avg. | $50M Budget | $25,010,928 3 (N) The 15:17 to Paris $12,554,286 | 3,042 Theaters | $4,127 Avg. | $30M Budget | $12,554,286 4 (1) Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle $10,023,344 | 3,136 Theaters | $3,196 Avg. | $90M Budget | $365,855,215 5 (4) The Greatest Showman $6,443,343 | 2,373 Theaters | $2,715 Avg. | $84M Budget | $146,579,213 6 (2) Maze Runner: The Death Cure $6,222,303 | 2,923 Theaters | $2,129 Avg. | $62M Budget | $49,240,432 7 (3) Winchester $5,211,217 | 2,480 Theaters | $2,101 Avg. | $17,338,575 8 (5) The Post $3,631,998 | 1,865 Theaters | $1,947 Avg. | $50M Budget | $72,968,518 9 (9) The Shape of Water $3,177,255 | 1,780 Theaters | $1,785 Avg. | $19.5M Budget | $49,942,946 10 (8) Den of Thieves $2,999,379 | 1,468 Theaters | $2,043 Avg. | $30M Budget | $41,070,702 11 (6) Hostiles $2,824,754 | 2,214 Theaters | $1,276 Avg. | $39M Budget | $26,022,222 12 (7) 12 Strong $2,743,248| 1,901 Theaters | $1,443 Avg. | $35M Budget | $42,013,427 13 (11) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri $2,302,015 | 1,273 Theaters | $1,808 Avg. | $12M Budget | $45,446,821 14 (12) I, Tonya $1,671,331 | 1,088 Theaters | $1,536 Avg. | $11M Budget | $25,348,356 15 (14) Darkest Hour $1,604,995 | 1,045 Theaters | $1,536 Avg. | $30M Budget | $51,485,087 La Boda de Valentina $1,147,073 | 331 Theaters | $3,465 Avg. | $1,147,073 Pad Man $740,326 | 152 Theaters | $4,871 Avg. | $740,326 The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018 $695,044 | 198 Theaters | $3,510 Avg. | $695,044 International Box Office: STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI: $706.1M Overseas Total | $1.322B Global Total JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE: $516.1M Oversesas Total | $881.8M Global Total THE GREATEST SHOWMAN: $167.7M Overseas Total | $314.2M Global Total MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE: $180.1M Overseas Total | $229.1M Global Total PADDINGTON: $167.1M Overseas Total | $205.5M Global Total FIFTY SHADES FREED: $98.1M Overseas Total | $136.9M Global Total (the franchise passes $1 billion in worldwide box office) DARKEST HOUR: $72.7M Overseas Total | $124.1M Global Total THE POST: $50.1M Overseas Total | $123M Global Total THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI: $55.5M Overseas Total | $100.8M Global Total THE COMMUTER: $57M Overseas Total | $92.5M Global Total THE SHAPE OF WATER: $24.5M Overseas Total | $74.3M Global Total THE 15:17 TO PARIS: $5.3M Overseas Total | $17.9M Global Total

If I had to choose between the writers doing another timeline where Jack lives vs. Jack having a secret kid who shows up, I would pick the alternate universe. I wonder how the show would handle Current Kate in an alternate universe storyline, though... The character's had weight issues as a kid but there's been the implication that Jack's death plays a not-minor role in her present size (of course, in real life there are a variety of factors to a person's weight). With Toby, the actor wears padding, but it's all Chrissy as Kate, so they can't really portray a physical transformation. They can posit that Kate would be the same size no matter what. She described starving herself as a teenager, and without Jack's death, she could have gone down a different path of disordered eating before ultimately arriving at the same place, 20 years later. I don't think they could cast another actress as Alternate Universe Kate without it being really controversial and also offending Chrissy. Getting way ahead of myself with the AU speculation...

Current Rebecca reminds me of a relative of mine who was widowed about five years ago and in the same age range. It's not like you'll never see her laugh or smile but there's just this...sadness now, that hangs over her and their adult children (as in, we will never celebrate Fathers' Day again even though we're fathers of young children ourselves, because Dad Is Gone, for one example, and no, he didn't die on Fathers' Day). Her sister was widowed a few years earlier in similar circumstances (a spouse with health issues but a sudden death) and grieved of course, but is much more vibrant and active in the community and with friends. She doesn't mind going to social events or even traveling alone, while her sister can't possibly as She Doesn't Have a Husband Anymore. Counseling is just...not going to happen, alas. Some people recover emotionally from tragedy and some people don't. I think we see that with the Pearsons overall. So, I don't look at Rebecca's demeanor now as the writers saying all women in their late sixties or widows are like that. If we ever get to see another widow in the same age range or other friends, they might have very different personalities from her. I do wonder if they want to limit having Old Rebecca around people who are that age in real life. This was the first episode where I noticed Middle Aged Rebecca has some wrinkles under the eyes. That's probably been there the entire time she's played that age, but I watched a scene on my phone and maybe the different resolution helped me spot it more easily.

Now I'm remembering all those times my parents dragged us along to the car dealership and I was bored out of my mind and wished I could have stayed home--we were being used as bargaining chips! :) Rewatched and definitely saw a person who seemed to be Teen Sophie with Kevin after the funeral. Has she ever had any lines?

I didn't notice her absence during the show, but excellent point-Allison was there and she's been dating Randall for five minutes, in comparison. My only guess is that Sophie's parents refused to let her go as a punishment for having sneaked out of the house with Kevin. Or, they got into some sort of as-yet-to-be-seen fight between the death and funeral, or her parents made her break up with him. Aaaaand, it seems she was at the cemetery/reception after all, so never mind with this speculation!

There's no "Cast in Other Roles" thread so I guess it would go here... I saw the actor who plays Bowie in a commercial for the upcoming ABC sitcom Splitting Up Together. Definitely not for children!

I just heard about this as I got off of work and sports radio was full of theories: 1. Maybe McDaniels just doesn't believe in Andrew Luck/the organization. The comparison the hosts used was like a bride or groom getting cold feet at the altar. 2. Kraft offered McDaniels the head coaching job after Belichick retires, which a) secures the succession (so to speak) and b) screws over the Colts, in revenge for Deflate-gate. 3. Maybe Belichick is ready to move on sooner rather than later, given how differently he acted before the Super Bowl as opposed to all the other ones (smiling during media day, going to a basketball game during the week, wearing a fedora, etc). 4. Maybe Kraft is eager to see the end of Belichick, because many inside the halls of Foxboro are still pissed about the game time decision to not play Malcolm Butler on defense and will always wonder if it cost them the game. 5. It was pointed out that Belichick did a similar thing to the Jets once upon a time and it was ultimately the right decision, for him anyway. Personally, I'm all here for the Patriots turning into Game of Thrones because it's hilarious to me how worked up people get about them.

I would want the show to limit portrayals of the future because the world can change so much, and in ways that are impossible to predict, so they are bound to get something wrong if they spend too much time there. Especially in retrospect, if you're watching the show 10-20 years later, it would be really distracting. I don't mind it in sci-fi, that's kind of the point many times, but in a show more grounded in reality like this, I'm not a major fan. Even before the flash forwards, I thought the show might kill off Rebecca before it's over, and we'll get to see the difference with grief of a parent you lost suddenly at a young age versus an older parent who dies of more natural causes (not that she's old enough to die of old age yet).

She looks enough like Meghan for a quickly-thrown together TV movie and Lifetime has done worse than Vancouver (presumably) standing in for Toronto. For Harry, hopefully the dye job is subtle.

When the Hermione stage casting came along, the FB series was getting slammed for being overwhelmingly white despite its setting, and by that point, HP itself was being re-examined and critiqued in some circles for relegating the characters of color to supporting roles. For the nineties that was diverse enough (especially the interracial dating!), but IMO a children's/YA fantasy series starting out in the 2010s would be more inclusive, with at least one of the Trio or a Snape/Dumbledore-level figure being not white, and you'd probably have out characters, too, unless that was a taboo thing in the universe, but it would be in the story itself, that everyone was not straight. So, anyway, Stage Hermione being cast with a black actress around this time got viewed by the less charitably inclined toward JKR as a strategic move to quell brewing criticism of the universe and the racial politics of its creators. I feel like the wizarding world JKR presented in the HP books did not seem like a society where it was perfectly fine to be out and proud, but post-books she's trying to claim it is, so it got people's hopes up, only for the FB-verse to (seemingly) shy away from that aspect.