Posted on 02/14/2015 12:48:33 PM PST by C19fan
3RD UPDATE, SATURDAY AM: If Fifty Shades Of Grey handcuffs Universals very early international weekend estimate of $158.3M, it will become the studios 2nd biggest offshore opening frame ever, just behind Fast & Furious 6s $160.3M. Outside sources whisper that it is likely to climax even higher than that for this five-day session. It is expected to be far-and-away the biggest opening weekend of all-time for an R-rated film overseas, whipping previous title holder The Matrix Revolutions at $117M.
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feminists in this country are NOT protesting it because they support any kind of perversion that lowers our society
Most movies drop 1/3 week to week. So really you’re just predicting this will run the normal cycle. Not a terribly exciting prediction.
I hope the author has a 110% tax rate
daughter of Don Johnson, who hooked up with underage actresses and should have went to jail with Ron Lowe and half of Hollyweird
Thanks for taking one for the FR team.
Thanks for your review. It reminds me of the ‘90’s opening of Sony’s remake of “Godzilla”, about which a TV reviewer (Roger Ebert??) commented that Sony’s decision to go ultrawide on the opening (2700 screens, huge for that time) was a signal that the executives thought that it would disappoint. They were right.
So I guess we can’t put you down for one of these?
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Yep. Get butts into seats on the opening weekend before word-of-mouth torpedoes the film. On this strategy, it worked. If not another soul sees FSG it will still have earned a nice profit. Sadly, enough to finance the two planned sequels.
Wouldn't be surprised if the studio went for a "reboot" and replaced Dornan and Johnson. Honestly, when it comes to the sequels, they need to replace everyone involved with this abomination. Maybe the lighting guy can keep his job.
Anyways, noticed the film is getting savaged by user reviews over at IMDB:
In the past, going back 15 years (it’s been that long already?!), user reviews have been a useful guide (and occasional warning, like now!), but more recently I’ve been paying attention to IMDB’s metacritic scores, which allowing for Hollywood biases (anything involving Robert Duvall or Mel Gibson, ee. g.), are usually an even better guide and can help “tune” the signal from the IMDB audience/mbr responses. It’s interesting to compare them.
Years ago I learned, speaking to critics’ bias, to deduct 1.5 “stars” from any Gene Siskel/Roger Ebert scoring of a foreign arthouse flick. :)
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