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September 25–27, 2015 Estimates: 1 (N) Hotel Transylvania 2 $47,500,000 | 3,754 Theaters | $12,653 Avg. | $47,500,000 2 (N) The Intern $18,225,000 | 3,305 Theaters | $5,514 Avg. | $18,225,000 3 (1) Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials $14,000,000 | 3,792 Theaters | $3,692 Avg. | $51,685,572 4 (5) Everest $13,091,130 | 3,006 Theaters | $4,355 Avg. | $23,130,935 5 (2) Black Mass $11,510,000 | 3,188 Theaters | $3,610 Avg. | $42,608,179 6 (3) The Visit $6,749,925 | 2,967 Theaters | $2,275 Avg. | $52,260,505 7 (4) The Perfect Guy $4,750,000 | 1,889 Theaters | $2,515 Avg. | $48,871,135 8 (6) War Room $4,275,000 | 1,920 Theaters | $2,227 Avg. | $55,999,681 9 (N) The Green Inferno $3,500,000 | 1,540 Theaters | $2,273 Avg. | $3,500,000 10 (25) Sicario $1,770,000 | 59 Theaters | $30,000 Avg. | $2,350,594 11 (7) A Walk in the Woods $1,090,000 | 1,370 Theaters | $796 Avg. | $27,310,374 12 (34) Pawn Sacrifice $1,020,979 | 781 Theaters | $1,307 Avg. | $1,316,097 13 (8) Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation $920,000 | 840 Theaters | $1,095 Avg. | $193,474,302 14 (10) Grandma $814,778 | 804 Theaters | $1,013 Avg. | $5,176,359 15 (20) Pixels $785,000 | 503 Theaters | $1,561 Avg. | $77,241,805 16 (9) Straight Outta Compton $679,035 | 609 Theaters | $1,115 Avg. | $160,227,165 17 (N) Lost in Hong Kong $558,900 | 27 Theaters | $20,700 Avg. | $558,900 18 (11) Captive $505,000 | 807 Theaters | $626 Avg. | $2,285,676 19 (15) Minions $443,625 | 507 Theaters | $875 Avg. | $333,526,830 20 (21) Jurassic World $386,905 | 347 Theaters | $1,115 Avg. | $650,439,195 Stonewall $112,414 | 129 Theaters | $871 Avg. | $112,414 99 Homes $32,807 | 2 Theaters | $16,404 Avg. | $32,807 Global Totals: JURASSIC WORLD: $1.012B Overseas Total | $1.662B Global Total MINIONS: $800.7M Overseas Total | $1.134B Global Total INSIDE OUT: $421M Overseas Total | $774.4M Global Total MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION: $480M Overseas Total | $673.4M Global Total ANT-MAN: $228.5M Overseas Total | $406.7M Global Total STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON: $33.4M Overseas Total | $193.6M Global Total MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS: $121.7M Overseas Total | $173.3M Global Total FANTASTIC FOUR: $109.4M Overseas Total | $165.2M Global Total EVEREST: $73.7M Overseas Total | $96.8M Global Total HITMAN: AGENT 47: $57.7M Overseas Total | $80M Global Total THE VISIT: $14M Overseas Total | $66.2M Global Total THE INTERN: $11.7M Overseas Total | $30M Global Total

I love that Annalise has her ex-girlfriend defending her ex-boyfriend for murdering her husband! This show... The camera definitely lingered on Wes (at the beginning) and Annalise (at the end) during the part of the voiceover that mentioned lovers. Perhaps a fake out, but with the dancing and her continued protectiveness, it feels like the show is headed in that direction. Or maybe she'll really turn out to be his birth mother. Maybe the story will go full Oedipal, for the OMGs!

I never understood how that worked (other than the writers wanting it to), and why people didn't just assume Fitz had more than one mistress, especially since it wasn't the first time an alleged other woman had been publicly named. Bill Clinton seems to exist in this universe (Olivia told Amanda Tanner she'd be another Monica Lewinsky) and the antics of JFK and LBJ make Clinton look like a Boy Scout in comparison. It's hard to see Amal...I mean, Emily, leaving behind her glittering human rights lawyer career for a relationship that seems to have fallen apart fairly quickly as far as royal marriages go, well before they'd brought the heir into the world, let alone the spare. William went out with Kate for years and years before proposing because, he says, he wanted her to be sure she was willing to take on royal life, and that's with a couple from the same country, who attended the same sorts of schools. I guess people stay in unhappy marriages all the time, even if they have options, while putting on a brave public face. Even the main characters suffer from inconsistent writing so you can't expect more from the guest stars in the case of the week. Fitz's tirades about Mellie are part of the show's Hillary & Jackie problem, in that the writers have wanted Mellie to be Hillary Clinton and Jacqueline Kennedy in the same person, when the two women couldn't be any less similar. The Jackie side of Mellie seems to get on Fitz's nerves, so when he's angry, he reduces her to being decorative and ceremonial and not bringing anything substantial to the table (not that I think the real Jackie was decorative and insubstantial, but she did not live and breathe politics by any stretch). However, since the writers have also made Mellie a Hillary type at times, it stretches incredulity when Fitz regards Mellie as some sort of overgrown debutante without her own accomplishments. Even if she all had done for him is dutfully smile and wave, it's done a good deal for his image and popularity in office. Also, he only got elected president the first time because of rigged polling machines, so he really shouldn't talk about someone else not earning it. I suspect Shonda is more from the pantser school of writing, which is great for OMG moments, and pesky things like logic or character consistency take a backseat to whatever a person feels like writing at the time. Also Who Shot JR? only came about because the network ordered an extra episode of Dallas pretty last minute, and the writers had to think up a season-ending cliffhanger, fast, and they'd have the whole summer to figure out the culprit. So, every TV writer probably has it in the back of their heads that they, too, will come up with something hugely successful on the fly.

"Luke Perry" has his hands full in new sneak preview

I saw that, too, something along the lines, "Oscar Winner Viola Davis Appears in 12 Minutes", like how they tease Santa "coming up" at the Macy's parade. She has already won Tonys and a SAG Award and was Oscar-nominated for The Help. Perhaps the person who writes the screen crawls was pissed about Meryl winning that year, lol. Finally, Jon Hamm! Even with Martin Sheen never winning for The West Wing (another Emmy travesty), it was awarded in other acting categories. I guess it's fitting that JH gets to be the first (and last) actor to win an Emmy for Mad Men.

Room wins big: Other recent TIFF People's Choice winners include The Imitation Game, Silver Linings Playbook and Precious. A24 is such a small, new studio that awards watchers wondered if one of its movies could contend with those from the more established players. A TIFF win doesn't mean a guaranteed Best Actress or Best Picture nomination, but it tends to show that a movie will appeal to the fall/winter prestige film audience.

September 18–20, 2015 Estimates: 1 (N) Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials $30,300,000 | 3,791 Theaters | $7,993 Avg. | $30,300,000 2 (N) Black Mass $23,360,000 | 3,188 Theaters | $7,327 Avg. | $23,360,000 3 (2) The Visit $11,348,540 | 3,148 Theaters | $3,605 Avg. | $42,346,860 4 (1) The Perfect Guy $9,655,000 | 2,230 Theaters | $4,330 Avg. | $41,365,472 5 (N) Everest $7,557,515 | 545 Theaters | $13,867 Avg. | $7,557,515 6 (3) War Room $6,320,000 | 1,945 Theaters | $3,249 Avg. | $49,158,662 7 (4) A Walk in the Woods $2,732,730 | 2,158 Theaters | $1,266 Avg. | $24,837,175 8 (5) Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation $2,250,000 | 2,202 Theaters | $1,022 Avg. | $191,732,210 9 (6) Straight Outta Compton $1,967,070 | 1,938 Theaters | $1,015 Avg. | $158,918,330 10 (22) Grandma $1,595,820 | 1,061 Theaters | $1,504 Avg. | $3,790,539 11 (N) Captive $1,400,000 | 806 Theaters | $1,737 Avg. | $1,400,000 12 (7) No Escape $1,017,000 | 2,054 Theaters | $495 Avg. | $26,237,002 13 (9) 90 Minutes in Heaven $1,005,082 | 899 Theaters | $1,118 Avg. | $3,747,377 14 (10) Un gallo con muchos huevos $1,000,000 | 606 Theaters | $1,650 Avg. | $8,204,356 15 (13) Inside Out $964,000 | 1,200 Theaters | $803 Avg. | $352,883,169 Sicario $390,000 | 6 Theaters | $65,000 Avg. | $390,000 Jeremy Scott: The People’s Designer $225,000 | 12 Theaters | $18,750 Avg. | $225,000 Pawn Sacrifice $206,879 | 33 Theaters | $6,269 Avg. | $222,812 Global Totals: JURASSIC WORLD: $1.009B Overseas Total | $1.656B Global Total MINIONS: $785.3M Overseas Total | $1.118B Global Total INSIDE OUT: $408.8M Overseas Total | $761.683M Global Total MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION: $464.7M Overseas Total | $656.432M Global Total KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE: $281.8M Overseas Total | $410.06M Global Total ANT-MAN: $223.8M Overseas Total | $401.387M Global Total TED 2: $129.5 Overseas Total | $210.8M Global Total STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON: $30.3M Overseas Total | $189.2M Global Total FANTASTIC FOUR: $108.3M Overseas Total | $164.02M Global Total MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS: $78.0M Overseas Total | $108.3M Global Total HITMAN: AGENT 47: $55.95M Overseas Total | $78.17M Global Total THE VISIT: $8.2M Overseas Total | $50.55M Global Total EVEREST: $28.2M Overseas Total | $35.8M Global Total

Taylor strikes me as incredibly ambitious, but also someone who thrives on being underestimated. Now that she's halfway to the EGOT, she's probably eyeing movies with female appeal that could be turned into musicals (if she wasn't already). I see that a Notebook musical was announced years ago, but it seems not to be going anywhere. If any sort of Broadway musical would it be in Taylor Swift's songwriting wheelhouse, it would be one based on a Nicholas Sparks novel/movie.

Taylor Swift writes her songs, though. Not "writes", by tacking her name on the credits for money, but she first got signed by a record label for her songwriting talents, not her voice. She has sole writing credit for all the songs on one of her albums: Red, I believe. Opinions obviously vary about her actual abilities in either singing or songwriting, of course. I figured if Swift won an Emmy, it would be the way Timberlake did, by writing a comedic song for SNL.

The Interactive Emmys were announced a couple of days before the ceremony and given out last Saturday, when she had a show in Minnesota. I'm sure if she'd postponed a concert that had been sold out for months to walk the red carpet and personally pick up a Creative Arts Emmy, that no one would have had anything negative to say about it...

Taylor Swift won an Emmy for "Original Interactive Program" (the app she did for the "Blank Space" video). Anyway, it was overnighted it to her.

Toni Braxton to star in autobiographical Lifetime movie: But will it be better than the Fantasia one?

With the teenage girls on the show, there's always this hue and cry about not her costumes not being too revealing, how are they going to do the rumba with an underage girl, and there's a general avoidance of talking up her looks, let alone sex appeal. At least viewers aren't okay with Carrie creeping on Hayes and are just as protective about teenage boys.

It does look like Nole will run away with 2016, but you never know with sports...maybe it will be the year Kyrgios breaks through to GS semis and finals, leading the crowds to finally, truly rally around Djokovic the way he so desperately craves.

Ant-Man hasn't been released in China yet (it opens in October), while Terminator: Genisys has made more than $100 million there.

Two unexpectedly strong openings for the post-Labor Day frame lead to a close race for the top spot. September 11–13, 2015 Estimates: 1 (N) The Perfect Guy $26,700,000 | 2,221 Theaters | $12,022 Avg. | $26,700,000 2 (N) The Visit $25,687,530 | 3,069 Theaters | $8,370 Avg. | $25,687,530 3 (1) War Room $7,400,000 | 1,617 Theaters | $4,576 Avg. | $39,188,327 4 (3) A Walk in the Woods $4,620,099 | 2,139 Theaters | $2,160 Avg. | $19,886,783 5 (5) Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation $4,150,000 | 2,649 Theaters | $1,567 Avg. | $188,172,518 6 (2) Straight Outta Compton $4,091,460 | 2,812 Theaters | $1,455 Avg. | $155,714,060 7 (6) No Escape $2,879,000 | 3,022 Theaters | $953 Avg. | $24,155,935 8 (4) The Transporter Refueled $2,700,000 | 3,434 Theaters | $786 Avg. | $13,343,496 9 (N) 90 Minutes in Heaven $2,160,911 | 878 Theaters | $2,461 Avg. | $2,160,911 10 (9) Un gallo con muchos huevos $1,900,000 | 616 Theaters | $3,084 Avg. | $6,667,352 11 (7) The Man From U.N.C.L.E. $1,875,000 | 1,656 Theaters | $1,132 Avg. | $43,105,454 12 (12) Ant-Man $1,613,000 | 1,354 Theaters | $1,191 Avg. | $176,140,121 13 (11) Minions $1,561,225 | 1,585 Theaters | $985 Avg. | $331,634,420 14 (10) Inside Out $1,464,000 | 2,002 Theaters | $731 Avg. | $351,460,363 15 (14) The Gift $1,432,000 | 1,389 Theaters | $1,031 Avg. | $42,421,737 16 (8) Sinister 2 $1,222,000 | 2,048 Theaters | $597 Avg. | $26,450,663 17 (13) Jurassic World $1,204,070 | 1,169 Theaters | $1,030 Avg. | $648,932,265 18 (16) Pixels $1,100,000 | 1,040 Theaters | $1,058 Avg. | $75,310,193 19 (17) Trainwreck $966,780 | 738 Theaters | $1,310 Avg. | $108,768,300 20 (32) Learning to Drive $758,153 | 277 Theaters | $2,737 Avg. | $1,599,263 Grandma $738,617 | 130 Theaters | $5,682 Avg. | $2,061,076 Phoenix $293,000 | 198 Theaters | $1,480 Avg. | $2,547,612 Sleeping with Other People $103,000 | 5 Theaters | $20,600 Avg. | $103,000 Meet the Patels $75,597 | 5 Theaters | $15,119 Avg. | $75,597 Global Totals: JURASSIC WORLD: $1.007B Overseas Total | $1.656B Global Total MINIONS: $748.5M Overseas Total | $1.080B Global Total INSIDE OUT: $395.9M Overseas Total | $747.361M Global Total MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION: $424.8M Overseas Total | $612.973M Global Total TERMINATOR: GENISYS: $350.4M Overseas Total | $440.13M Global Total KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE: $280.04M Overseas Total | $408.3M Global Total ANT-MAN: $218.6M Overseas Total | $394.741M Global Total TED 2: $126.2M Overseas Total | $207.5M Global Total STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON: $25.0M Overseas Total | $180.7M Global Total FANTASTIC FOUR: $105.4M Overseas Total | $160.77M Global Total TRAINWRECK: $27.4M Overseas Total | $136.2M Global Total THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.: $51.6M Overseas Total | $94.705M Global Total PAPER TOWNS: $52.53M Overseas Total | $84.25M Global Total HITMAN: AGENT 47: $52.5M Overseas Total | $74.0M Global Total THE VISIT: $3.8M Overseas Total | $29.5M Global Total MAZE RUNNER: THE SCORCH TRIALS: $26.8M Overseas Total | $26.8M Global Total

When did women in TV news abandon the suit? It was a uniform for years and years, but at some point, it became the thing for female anchors to wear sleeveless shifts or dress like they were going to some sort of ladies' lunch or tea, even in the dead of winter. Fair or not, I think it makes the women seem more decorative and frivolous, less likely to be taken seriously.

Heh, the internet is blaming Drake for Serena losing. Usually, it's the fans of a male athlete calling his famous wife/girlfriend a jinx after a disappointing loss, so...progress?

I don't know if that's going to fool the non-book readers into forgetting Allegiant is a Part 1 movie, but given the documented box office woes of Part 1s in general, they might as well try it. Maybe calling Allegiant Part 2 something else will give hope to book fans that they changed the ending, at least for the opening weekend...or so the studio hopes.

Sam Smith drops major hint about singing the Spectre theme.

Some stars burn brightly for a long time, and others flame out, but IMO there's no easy formula or science to it. Leonardo DiCaprio and Denzel Washington have been A-listers for years. Will Smith went away as a headliner, but only annoyed people more since he spent the time trying to push his kids as stars. If he'd just stuck to making crowdpleasers the past five years, I think general audiences would've kept turning out to see his films. Sandra Bullock had a few lean years in the mid-2000s, but it's not like she set out to star in middling box office performers and then just knew she could turn things around. She only got The Blind Side and The Proposal after Julia Roberts passed, and was not the first (or second) choice for Gravity: Angelina Jolie walked away from the project and Alfonso Cuaron's second choice Natalie Portman didn't take the role either (her pregnancy overlapped with filming). If those roles hadn't fallen to Bullock, there's no guarantee she would've found other projects to make her a multiple Oscar nominee garnering the biggest box office of her career, in her forties and beyond.

I'm watching Casino Royale right now and Tobias Menzes plays the lackey to whom Judi Dench frequently rants about Daniel Craig's various incidents and scrapes.

Inside Out did nearly quadruple its theater count from last week, but the failure of We Are Your Friends is a good example of how you can show a movie all you want, but that doesn't mean people will want to see it. The Shaun the Sheep Movie looks like last real kids thing that's been released since Minions, but it's based on a British children's show and stop-motion has a limited appeal compared to CG animation. Joel Edgerton directed it and wrote the script (he's written a few others) so even more than whatever salary or compensation he took home for the film, its success should really help him get funding for future efforts behind the camera.

There's always the risk that Hollywood will forget about you altogether and you won't have a career to come back to, after a long time off. Most actors also wouldn't consider themselves set for life and could actually use the money that steady work provides. Of course, Anne never would have said she's losing roles to just one 24-year-old actress in particular and named Jennifer Lawrence, because then the media plays that as Anne being jealous and pits them into some sort of catfight/feud, with people not-so-kindly pointing out that maybe it's not ageism, but JLaw being a bigger star than her. And I'm trying to figure out which roles for fiftysomethings that she ended up getting in her twenties...definitely not The Devil Wears Prada, Brokeback Mountain or Bride Wars. Get Smart? That could have gone to someone closer in age to Steve Carell.

September 4–6, 2015 Estimates: 1 (2) War Room $9,345,000 | 1,526 Theaters | $6,124 Avg. | $24,658,458 2 (1) Straight Outta Compton $8,848,840 | 3,094 Theaters | $2,860 Avg. | $147,784,545 3 (N) A Walk in the Woods $8,168,499 | 1,960 Theaters | $4,168 Avg. | $10,200,499 4 (3) Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation $7,150,000 | 2,849 Theaters | $2,510 Avg. | $180,386,692 5 (N) The Transporter Refueled $7,100,000 | 3,434 Theaters | $2,068 Avg. | $7,100,000 6 (4) No Escape $5,445,000 | 3,415 Theaters | $1,594 Avg. | $18,446,079 7 (6) The Man From U.N.C.L.E. $3,445,000 | 2,102 Theaters | $1,639 Avg. | $39,379,148 8 (N) Un gallo con muchos huevos $3,400,000 | 395 Theaters | $8,608 Avg. | $3,400,000 9 (5) Sinister 2 $3,377,000 | 2,651 Theaters | $1,274 Avg. | $23,716,893 10 (19) Inside Out $3,146,000 | 2,967 Theaters | $1,060 Avg. | $348,219,280 11 (8) Ant-Man $2,887,000 | 1,527 Theaters | $1,891 Avg. | $173,189,700 12 (11) Minions $2,717,070 | 1,927 Theaters | $1,410 Avg. | $328,588,530 13 (10) The Gift $2,617,000 | 1,591 Theaters | $1,645 Avg. | $39,635,012 14 (9) Jurassic World $2,600,005 | 1,571 Theaters | $1,655 Avg. | $646,643,645 15 (7) Hitman: Agent 47 $2,175,000 | 2,191 Theaters | $993 Avg. | $19,723,787 Fantastic Four $1,125,000 | 1,135 Theaters | $991 Avg. | $54,445,511 (still not $56M) We Are Your Friends $640,000 | 2,333 Theaters | $274 Avg. | $3,160,318 (next week's drop will be epic) Grandma $491,020 | 52 Theaters | $9,443 Avg. | $1,063,034 The Black Panthers: Vanguards of the Revolution $20,215 | 1 Theater | $20,215 Avg. | $28,580 Global Totals: JURASSIC WORLD: $1.003B Overseas Total | $1.650B Global Total MINIONS: $714.2M Overseas Total | $1.043B Global Total INSIDE OUT: $386.2M Overseas Total | $734.419M Global Total MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION: $328.7M Overseas Total | $511.87M Global Total TERMINATOR: GENISYS: $346.3M Overseas Total | $435.92M Global Total ANT-MAN: $210.5M Overseas Total | $383.69M Global Total TED 2: $120.0M Overseas Total | $201.3M Global Total STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON: $18.1M Overseas Total | $168.27M Global Total FANTASTIC FOUR: $101.17M Overseas Total | $155.62M Global Total TRAINWRECK: $26.1M Overseas Total | $133.61M Global Total VACATION: $34.1M Overseas Total | $90.75M Global Total PAPER TOWNS: $50.4M Overseas Total | $81.9M Global Total THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.: $46.0M Overseas Total | $84.38M Global Total HITMAN: AGENT 47: $43.22M Overseas Total | $62.95M Global Total