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International Box Office: THOR: RAGNAROK: $525M Overseas Total | $816.4M Global Total JUSTICE LEAGUE: $370.1M Overseas Total | $567.4M Global Total COCO: $171.3M Overseas Total | $280M Global Total MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS: $126.2M Overseas Total | $210.9M Global Total GIRLS TRIP: $23M Overseas Total | $138.1M Global Total THE FOREIGNER: $103.5M Overseas Total | $135.5M Global Total DADDY’S HOME 2: $34M Overseas Total | $116.8M Global Total HAPPY DEATH DAY: $53.1M Overseas Total | $108.7M Global Total A BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS: $40M Overseas Total | $104.8M Global Total WONDER: $12.2M Overseas Total | $100.2M Global Total JIGSAW: $60.1M Overseas Total | $97.7M Global Total THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US: $27M Overseas Total | $55.6M Global Total THE SNOWMAN: $34.9M Overseas Total | $41.5M Global Total DARKEST HOUR: $1.8M Overseas Total | $2.2M Global Total
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The critics aren't AMPAS but Chalamet is doing so well with the Best Actor notices: could he actually win the Oscar? The stats are against very much against it, but I feel like Oldman as Winston Churchill might end up being one of those winning projects on paper that doesn't entirely pan out in real life. It's not a critical flop but comparable movies like Lincoln and The King's Speech were much better received overall (in reviews and box office). The televised awards often play out differently, but even there, Oldman is not a fan of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (those aren't his only anti-Golden Globes comments of record). If they award someone else, it could set the tone for the rest of the season. If The Disaster Artist does well beyond limited release, maybe James Franco? He's probably going to win Best Actor - Comedy, he directed the movie, too, and he's more in the age range of a typical Best Actor winner. It's almost equally wild to predict anyone winning an Oscar for playing Tommy Wiseau, though. Three Billboards is facing a bit of controversy due to its racial politics, at least in the thinkpiece realm. Sometimes Twitter backlashes can hurt in an awards race, sometimes they don't move beyond social media. A few days ago, I saw a couple of Oscar pundits have a Twitter exchange about Nolan not campaigning much, alluding to a possible snub. Sometimes pundits just get bored and overthink things or like to start controversies for clicks, but they do have connections.
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I saw some Youtubers saying they wanted the social experiment to be harder hitting in verbalizing the sorts of privilege that exist IRL (racism, sexism, etc.) but I only expect this show to go so far. "Should we be holding hands?" Awww, that's adorable, I remember so many middle school relationships that were about 90 percent posturing (though even 20 years ago, there were kids that age who got up to...stuff). I guess they might actually kiss for the season finale, if they don't break up first (such drama in the previews!). Andi wasn't wrong about the shack being in her life longer than Bex or Bowie, but ouch! My guess is that the house will stay in the family somehow, otherwise they'll have to change the credits. It would be more in character with this show, though, if the Macks moved and Andi just had to deal with it.
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December 1–3, 2017 Estimates: 1 (1) Coco $27,533,304 | 3,987 Theaters | $6,906 Avg. | $175-225M Budget | $110,108,708 2 (2) Justice League $16,651,104 | 3,820 Theaters | $4,359 Avg. | $300M Budget | $197,407,205 3 (3) Wonder $12,147,182 | 3,449 Theaters | $3,522 Avg. | $20M Budget | $87,679,805 4 (4) Thor: Ragnarok $9,885,936 | 3,148 Theaters | $3,140 Avg. | $180M Budget | $291,633,535 5 (5) Daddy's Home 2 $7,572,390 | 3,403 Theaters | $2,225 Avg. | $69M Budget | $82,886,836 6 (6) Murder on the Orient Express $6,767,002 | 3,201 Theaters | $2,114 Avg. | $55M Budget | $84,839,515 7 (10) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri $4,396,537 | 1,430 Theaters | $3,075 Avg. | $12M Budget | $13,537,057 8 (11) Lady Bird $4,291,590 | 1,194 Theaters | $3,594 Avg. | $10M Budget | $16,837,041 9 (7) The Star $4,078,423 | 2,822 Theaters | $1,445 Avg. | $20M Budget | $27,358,076 10 (8) A Bad Moms Christmas $3,385,484 | 2,251 Theaters | $1,504 Avg. | $28M Budget | $64,737,307 11 (9) Roman J. Israel, Esq. $1,958,702 | 1,669 Theaters | $1,174 Avg. | $22M Budget | $9,526,792 12 (N) The Disaster Artist $1,211,345 | 19 Theaters | $63,755 Avg. | $1,211,345 13 (12) The Man Who Invented Christmas $882,836 | 674 Theaters | $1,310 Avg. | $3,170,258 14 (N) Titanic (20th Anniversary) $438,602 | 87 Theaters | $5,041 Avg. | $200M Budget | $438,602 (Lifetime Gross: $659,261,379) 15 (13) Blade Runner 2049 $401,403 | 434 Theaters | $925 Avg. | $150M Budget | $90,785,165 Call Me By Your Name $295,561 | 4 Theaters | $73,890 Avg. | $3.5M Budget | $922,456 The Shape of Water $166,504 | 2 Theaters | $83,282 Avg. | $19.5M Budget | $166,504 Wonder Wheel $140,555 | 5 Theaters | $28,111 Avg. | $25M Budget | $140,555 Darkest Hour $108,372 | 4 Theaters | $27,003 Avg. | $411,853 Kingsman: The Golden Circle $67,167 | 163 Theaters | $412 Avg. | $104M Budget | $100,052,581
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Daniel Kaluuya has hit Best Actor with a few precursors, and Get Out is a strong Best Picture contender, so I think he has a chance. Two Best Actor nominees under 30 (along with Chalamet) does seem like a long shot but the Academy is changing...
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Page Six was one of Harvey Weinstein's go-to gossip outlets for years, though. I can't view them as some bastion of objectivity all of a sudden when it comes to sexual harassment. I can believe staffers knew some things (or talked themselves into seeing it that way), like he had affairs and a dirty/inappropriate sense of humor, but not necessarily the worst of the allegations. I do think that NBC's decision to pass on the Harvey Weinstein story now looks very, very bad.
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So apparently, many higher ups at NBC have the Supervillain Lair Button to lock their doors from the desk, but most just don't use it to be creeps. Good to know, I guess. Now, I'm just going to assume that every famous man rumored to hook up with younger women on the job, is actually some gross predator.
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And the NY Times probably wouldn't be doing one of those profiles about consensual workplace affairs. NBC wouldn't have fired him so suddenly either, they'd just have him take a vacation and send out a memo for people not to have affairs at work, this has to be Weinstein or Charlie Rose sort of allegations.
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Bugsy was the last movie that had two Supporting Actor nominees (though it's happened this decade in Supporting Actress). Stuhlbarg faces internal competition with Hammer, who has a bigger role in the movie and is sure to be more "visible" during the season (the HFPA members are apparently on his Christmas card list). I wouldn't be totally surprised to get a repeat of what happened last year with Aaron Taylor-Johnson vs. Michael Shannon with Nocturnal Animals—the former won the Golden Globe but got snubbed Oscar morning in favor of his co-star in the same category.
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Kim looks a lot younger, but still, it seems kind of sexist, I doubt they'd have never cast...IDK, Kadeem Hardison, as the dad here. I was thinking that maybe Jasmine could have played the boss with Jackée as the mom, but according to their reported ages, she is just 13 years older than Kim. It took a minute to place Dan Lauria.
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Originally, the movie was called Inner City but it got changed in June. Is it better for a movie title to be generic or confusing? It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September to meh reviews: The studio obviously didn't know quite what to do or how to sell it on any level, really.
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November 24-26, 2017 Estimates: 1 (N) Coco $49,022,000 | 3,987 Theaters | $12,295 Avg. | $175M to $225M Budget | $71,195,000 2 (1) Justice League $40,730,000 | 4,051 Theaters | $10,054 Avg. | $300M Budget | $171,546,643 3 (2) Wonder $22,300,000 | 3,172 Theaters | $7,030 Avg. | $20M Budget | $69,440,202 4 (3) Thor: Ragnarok $16,791,000 | 3,281 Theaters | $5,118 Avg. | $180M Budget | $277,468,394 5 (4) Daddy's Home 2 $13,250,000 | 3,518 Theaters | $3,766 Avg. | $69M Budget | $72,662,166 6 (5) Murder on the Orient Express $13,000,000 | 3,152 Theaters | $4,124 Avg. | $55M Budget | $74,246,517 7 (6) The Star $6,875,000 | 2,837 Theaters | $2,423 Avg. | $20M Budget | $22,030,988 8 (7) A Bad Moms Christmas $5,010,000 | 2,306 Theaters | $2,173 Avg. | $28M Budget | $59,754,557 9 (37) Roman J. Israel, Esq. $4,515,000 | 1,669 Theaters | $2,705 Avg. | $22M Budget | $6,274,277 (will be Denzel's least attended in 10 or 20 years) 10 (9) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri $4,400,000 | 614 Theaters | $7,166 Avg. | $15M Budget | $7,624,070 Lady Bird $4,041,733 | 791 Theaters | $5,110 Avg. | $10M Budget | $10,702,821 The Man Who Invented Christmas $1,343,284 | 626 Theaters | $2,146 Avg. | $1,796,958 Call Me by Your Name $404,874 | 4 Theaters | $101,219 Avg. | $3.5M Budget | $404,874 (highest per-theater opening of 2017) The Florida Project $298,745 | 164 Theaters | $1,822 Avg. | $2M Budget | $4,743,560 Loving Vincent $263,123 | 147 Theaters | $1,790 Avg. | $5.5M Budget | $5,147,869 Darkest Hour $176,000 | 4 Theaters | $44,000 Avg. | $247,000 Explosion $63,000 | 33 Theaters | $1,909 Avg. | $63,000 International Box Office: THOR: RAGNAROK: $512.6M Overseas Total | $790.1M Global Total JUSTICE LEAGUE: $309.8M Overseas Total | $481.3M Global Total MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS: $122.6M Overseas Total | $196.8M Global Total COCO: $82.2M Overseas Total | $153.4M Global Total HAPPY DEATH DAY: $49.9M Overseas Total | $105.5M Global Total JIGSAW: $56.9M Overseas Total | $94.1M Global Total A BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS: $33.0M Overseas Total | $92.8M Global Total DADDY'S HOME 2: $15.0M Overseas Total | $87.6M Global Total VICTORIA & ABDUL: $40.9M Overseas Total | $62.8M Global Total THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US: $25.8M Overseas Total | $55.6M Global Total THE SNOWMAN: $32.9M Overseas Total | $39.6M Global Total
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I think being near her family was important, too, plus her sister and brother-in-law were saying they wanted to work from home more and ease back on their high-powered careers to spend more time with their daughter. Because of those things, it came across more like a gender-neutral life balance/quality of life sort of message than bashing women in the corporate world, unlike many holiday movies past. Enjoyed the movie, though seeing Jasmine Guy as Kim Fields' mother and married to "Geoffrey the Butler" was very disconcerting!
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Ugh, yes, the same light touch used for Emma Watson in Beauty and the Beast. Given that the Disney Channel likes to push the acting/singing/dancing triple threats (some of them are more "triple threats" but they are hyped, nevertheless), I'm surprised and impressed the network resisted the chance to make the Jonah character a singer who returns to his hometown school when he's not working.
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The Amber Redemption Tour hits a snag... I wonder where Iris was, this week? She seems like a really nice girl who isn't judgmental at all. Maybe she wasn't an option because their families know each other and would report back to Amber's parents. Anyway, Amber seemed to be having a good time until she saw the phone with Jonah calling Andi. Of course Amber is responsible for her own actions, but I thought her comment basically blaming the way she acted last season on her feelings for Jonah making her a bit crazy, was really interesting. Andi said something similar, that time she asked if they were ever really friends, and being in Jonah's presence is practically an out-of-body experience for Cyrus, even after all this time. Bex and Bowie looked very comfortable together, and not just in a co-parenting sort of way. Nice way to tie Bex's cosmetology school studies into the main plot of the week. Wasn't it just a couple episodes ago that she was thinking about going back to school? Now she seems well into the course. I guess she'll graduate before the season is over, land a better job and be able to afford the house if Celia and Ham still move out. They seem to have made up, Bex and Celia, but I still don't picture them living under the same roof all of the time. And production-wise, they can re-dress the apartment set as Celia and Ham's new place, if we ever see it. So, the team captain who obviously belongs in high school is just a sexist. Where is the coach in all of this? Next week it looks like the school is doing that lesson in discrimination/prejudice where students are divided into teams, with one group getting more privileges and better treatment than the other. During a commercial break, there was this music video with the actor who plays Jonah singing some Christmas song on an obvious street set, surrounded by a bunch of girls and fake snow. It was more "Disney Channel" than anything ever done on the actual show.
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Ham respected Bex's wishes on how to be addressed while Celia was probably the type who found nicknames terribly informal, if not downright disrespectful. I suppose Andi is only Andi (as opposed to, IDK, Andrea) because Bex was around to name her. I have known a Celia type or two who wouldn't have been averse to changing the child's name to something more "suitable" once the mother was out of the picture. My friend's kid called everyone "Dadda" to start, but this. Though even the child acting on this show was a bit rough in the early days, so with actual babies, forget it, we probably saw the best take out of ten for the limited amount of time Baby Andi was onscreen.
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I think it's a case of once bitten, twice shy. Being better than Batman v Superman may not have been enough for anyone who thought BvS was just awful. The publicity about concealing Justice League's Rotten Tomatoes score until Thursday couldn't have helped persuade moviegoers on the fence (WB owns a 30 percent stake in RT, but RT maintains the Tomatometer score was only held back from the site so it could exclusively debut on their new web show). There was a lot of industry unhappiness expressed about the influence of Rotten Tomatoes this past summer and why it was to blame about the weak attendance. This weekend probably won't help the case for limiting reviews until the last minute. The Justice League estimates were a bit optimistic; the final weekend number was more than $2 million lower at $93,842,239. That's a big fall in attendance compared to Batman v Superman making $81,558,505 on its opening day alone, just last year.
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At the point where Bex decided Andi would be moving out, and Celia acted like she could do nothing to stop it from happening...it would seem so? Of course it's a nitpick. I acknowledged as much? It's not really surprising the show is glossing over boring life details. To bring the discussion back to the actual show, I hope Buffy's jerk teammate gets kicked off the team and Marty gets his spot. Some of those guys are looking a bit long in the tooth for middle school, though!
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Amazing that we're at the point of a $96 million opening weekend being disastrous, but the latest DC Extended Universe team-up is way down from the opening of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ($166M), which itself wasn't up to the opening weekends of Marvel's The Avengers ($207.4M) or Avengers: Age of Ultron ($191.2M). November 17–19, 2017 Estimates: 1 (N) Justice League $96,000,000 | 4,051 Theaters | $23,698 Avg. | $300M Budget | $96,000,000 2 (N) Wonder $27,050,000 | 3,096 Theaters | $8,737 Avg. | $20M Budget | $27,050,000 3 (1) Thor: Ragnarok $21,786,000 | 4,080 Theaters | $5,340 Avg. | $180M Budget | $247,382,170 4 (2) Daddy's Home 2 $14,800,000 | 3,575 Theaters | $4,140 Avg. | $69M Budget | $50,576,447 5 (3) Murder on the Orient Express $13,800,000 | 3,354 Theaters | $4,114 Avg. | $55M Budget | $51,728,362 6 (N) The Star $10,000,000 | 2,837 Theaters | $3,525 Avg. | $20M Budget | $10,000,000 7 (4) A Bad Moms Christmas $6,890,000 | 2,948 Theaters | $2,337 Avg. | $28M Budget | $50,912,155 8 (10) Lady Bird $2,529,915 | 238 Theaters | $10,630 Avg. | $10M Budget | $4,702,390 9 (27) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri $1,115,000 | 53 Theaters | $21,038 Avg. | $1,549,225 10 (5) Jigsaw $1,070,000 | 1,201 Theaters | $891 Avg. | $10M Budget | $36,450,233 Loving Vincent $393,248 | 212 Theaters | $1,855 Avg. | $5.5M Budget | $4,630,863 The Florida Project $326,325 | 217 Theaters | $1,504 Avg. | $2M Budget | $4,333,417 Roman J. Israel, Esq. $65,000 | 4 Theaters | $16,250 Avg. | $22M Budget | $65,000 The Breadwinner $19,530 | 3 Theaters | $6,510 Avg. | $10M Budget | $19,530 International Box Office: THOR: RAGNAROK: $490.7M Overseas Total | $738.1M Global Total JUSTICE LEAGUE: $185.5M Overseas Total | $281.5M Global Total GEOSTORM: $172.5M Overseas Total | $204.7M Global Total MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS: $96.5M Overseas Total | $148.2M Global Total A BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS: $26.6M Overseas Total | $77.5M Global Total HAPPY DEATH DAY: $43.6M Overseas Total | $99M Global Total VICTORIA & ABDUL: $39.3M Overseas Total | $61.5M Global Total COCO: $48.4M Overseas & Global Total PADDINGTON 2: $22M Overseas & Global Total
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I wasn't questioning that Celia and Ham could have been granted legal custody of Andi--of course, they were the natural candidates. It's just that in situations where the biological parent chooses not to...well, parent for 12 years, there's a bit more to resuming that role than coming back home and declaring, "I'm the mother now!" With Celia being so dead-set against Andi learning the truth or anything changing about the arrangement at first, and thinking Bex was such an immature flake... A legal guardian probably would have some recourse to say, "Not so fast!" and make a court weigh in about Bex being a responsible adult first. And with their relationship being presented as extremely difficult, it's not like Celia never would have considered it. Instead, Bex came back out of the blue to reclaim Andi, and Celia just got into arguments with Bex, stress excersised and cried about it all. That's what got people wondering if there ever was an adoption/guardianship/custody agreement/etc., or if it ws all just done informally, and that's how Bex so easily came back and in no time flat, completely took over Andi's care in a legal sense. A "We'll see what our lawyer has to say!" from Celia here (though having a change of heart before the credits), a pizza celebration there after Bex's parental rights are restored, and you've paid lip service to the technicalities without bogging the story down in drama.
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The doctor isn't the one filing the insurance paperwork... Great, now I'm wondering how Celia and Ham got Andi medical coverage, if there was never any sort of formal custody arrangement and in legal terms, they were grandparents, not parents/legal guardians. Companies these days (and schools) expect people to prove the children they claim as theirs, actually are, and it's much harder to sidestep/fake than in decades past. If there had been a legal agreement, surely, it would have come up at some point when Bex showed up after such a long time and started overruling Celia's parenting decisions? After one of Bex's "I'm her mother!" declarations, Celia would've retorted, "That's not what the state says!" Their arguments have been plenty cutting/nasty at times (shockingly so, for the Disney Channel), so clearly, Celia didn't have that card to throw. It's also awfully convenient that Bowie never heard from any mutual friends about Bex's pregnancy or the new baby in the Mack family. He left town and there were no smartphones or Instagram in 2004, but there was still email...and Myspace. You know his band had one! I know, the answer to everything is that it's a TV show, often light in tone and one for tweens at that, so things like logistics and legalities are beside the point. :)
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The easiest storyline would have had Bex living somewhere else when Andi was born, so that no one in town ever knew about her having a baby. The young daughter being shut up inside to conceal her pregnancy as the mother fakes one and passes off the grandchild as her own, seems very old fashioned for 2004. I guess we're supposed to believe that the extended family and neighbors all minded their p's and q's enough for the truth not to slip out years earlier. Given what we've seen of Aunt Mei for one, it seems rather unlikely. More Disney magic, I suppose...
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Bex left when Andi's first word was "Mama"...said to Celia! Ouch. And Celia's first instinct was to be completely thrilled, while Ham at least considered how hurtful it would be to Bex. My inner nitpicker still wonders how Celia and Ham sidestepped all the paperwork/identification issues in the 21st century wiithout a formal adoption, but I know I have to handwave all that as Disney Magic. Another kid show handwavium thing is the lack of parents at the hospital for Cyrus. Even if he only broke his thumb, I'm sure that IRL at least one of his for parents/stepparents would have been at the hospital and not let him out of their sight. I wonder whether or not we'll see a big Bar Mitzvah bash for him onscreen. Buffy got a nice lesson in the pitfalls of being too competitive. Looks like Andi gets in trouble next week. Maybe she learns about the house being sold and rebels. I think the previews are making it look like Amber set her up, but I'm guessing that's not what will really happen.
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And wasn't one of the last photos ever of Prince taken outside of a Walgreens? In general, though, the show probably underplays how much assistance a star of caliber would have on a day-to-day basis. When the books were on progress, Rowling wasn't really like the TIU writers...people would ask if Harry lives or why these characters got together, and she'd say in a general sense, that she'd left hints along the way. With a book series, each book can be like a season of a TV show. They're different mediums, but in a way, what you're getting from this show is kind of the equivalent of a novelist publishing one chapter at a time, then giving interviews about their process, what it all means, what ultimately got left out, and what's coming next. Some people would love the extra details, but others would find week after week of it entirely too much, like the writer is a bit in love with the sound of their own voice.