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Weekend Box Office Collapses to 16 Year Low
Brietbart ^ | December 8, 2014 | John Nolte

Posted on 12/08/2014 1:15:59 PM PST by Zakeet

Despite the best efforts of Jennifer Lawrence, two big family films, some horrible bosses, and The Mighty Christopher Nolan, according to Deadline, the weekend's box office collapsed to a 16-year-low.

Box Office Mojo reports the weekend earned just $70.4 million, which Deadline says is the worst post-Thanksgiving weekend, going all the way back to 1998. Mojo adds that this weekend was the second-worst of the year and somewhere around a 20% drop over this same weekend last year.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: boxoffice; economy; hollywood
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To: RayChuang88
I'm a recent TV convert after hearing about it for years. People would talk about all of these shows, and I'd never be in the loop, considered myself a "movie guy".

But House of Cards changed it all for me. Gone through Sons of Anarchy (final episode tomorrow night!), Homeland, Black Sails, Da Vinci's Demons, Penny Dreadful, Sherlock (UK version with Cumberbatch), The Americans, and trying to find some time to buckle down and start Game of Thrones, and have started watching Peaky Blinders.

I think the production values of television really started to skyrocket after 24. From then on, TV shows have been shot, edited, acted in, and produced like movies.

Gone are the days when everything looked like a glorified soap opera.

61 posted on 12/08/2014 3:04:31 PM PST by GunRunner
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To: Cecily

I have to disagree with you on Gravity. I think it is gripping adventure with solid acting. Interstellar was a disappointment


62 posted on 12/08/2014 3:04:43 PM PST by bjcoop
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To: napscoordinator
Really?

Welcome to the smarmy unisex Marie Antoinette Club...

63 posted on 12/08/2014 3:04:53 PM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: RayChuang88
I almost forgot True Detective. That was one I ran through in just two sittings after the kids and wife had gone to bed.
64 posted on 12/08/2014 3:06:23 PM PST by GunRunner
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To: Zakeet

Gone Girl was a decently made movie——if you can get over that Ben Affleck is the star.


65 posted on 12/08/2014 3:06:44 PM PST by bjcoop
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To: Zakeet

I am planning to go see Into The Woods, over Christmas break.


66 posted on 12/08/2014 3:07:05 PM PST by mware
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To: napscoordinator

I can’t wait to see Unbroken (Angelina Directed movie).


67 posted on 12/08/2014 3:09:36 PM PST by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: napscoordinator

You should report him to John Robinson.


68 posted on 12/08/2014 3:10:34 PM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: RinaseaofDs
From what I heard they are kind of light on the God part and more on the scientific explanation to all of God's works.
69 posted on 12/08/2014 3:10:45 PM PST by mware
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To: Zathras
Probably the most technically accurate movie done on the subject.

This is debatable. Lawrence Krauss said that the science is terrible, and Phil Plait wrote a whole review where he agreed:

What Interstellar gets wrong and really wrong about black holes, relativity, plot, and dialogue.

It treated time dilation as more of a gimmick than a true plot mechanism.

70 posted on 12/08/2014 3:11:14 PM PST by GunRunner
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To: Future Snake Eater

Isn’t “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians,” deliciously bad.


71 posted on 12/08/2014 3:15:21 PM PST by mware
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To: Zakeet

Follywood movies are so boring and political that I quit watching them.
I quit Netflix a couple years ago and only pick an occasional one off Amazon.


72 posted on 12/08/2014 3:18:24 PM PST by dforest
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To: ExGeeEye
loudracket.com

73 posted on 12/08/2014 3:22:29 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: Zakeet

I haven’t been to a movie theater in over 10 years. I have no intention of ever going to one again.


74 posted on 12/08/2014 3:28:14 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: GunRunner

As a rule both TV and movies today turn me off. If a TV show or movie doesn’t sicken me, it bores me—or both.


75 posted on 12/08/2014 3:41:33 PM PST by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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To: aomagrat
I haven’t been to a theater this century.

I was just about to post the same thing. I was last in a movie theater in 1999.

A little effort and some smart shopping and one can create a truly enjoyable home theater and even save money in the long run.
76 posted on 12/08/2014 3:42:57 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: publius911

Haha my thoughts exactly.


77 posted on 12/08/2014 4:05:36 PM PST by autumnraine
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To: Future Snake Eater

The Rifftrax version has the whole uncut and badly out of sync movie.


78 posted on 12/08/2014 4:11:31 PM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: nascarnation

Answer—Make better movies—Not special effects junk. Make movies people want to see not Leftist propaganda. Some suggestions:Drop the Obama movie Project!
make a good movie about Iraq. US soldiers as heros.
How about something about Civil war or the American Revolution. What about a comedy more like Marx Brothers than cheech and chong?


79 posted on 12/08/2014 4:42:41 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

Well said!


80 posted on 12/08/2014 4:43:46 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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